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10 Years will begin 2016 with a co-headlining tour alongside reggae rock outfit P.O.D. The North American trek will see Australian prog-rock stalwarts Dead Letter Circus, as well as War Of Ages for support. A current list of tour dates can be found below, with more to be announced soon.

TOUR DATES:

1/24 – Pinellas Park, FL – England Brothers Park
1/28 – Winston-Salem, NC – Ziggy’s
1/29 – Wilmington, NC – Ziggy’s by the Sea
1/30 – Fredericksburg, VA – Hard Times Cafe
2/1 – Destin, FL – Club LA
2/2 – Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
2/3 – Corpus Christi, TX – Brewster Street Ice House
2/6 – Abilene, TX – Abilene Civic Center
2/8 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
2/9 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Royal Bar
2/11 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
2/13 – Las Vegas, NV – Vinyl
2/14 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
2/16 – West Hollywood, CA – Whisky A Go Go
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BATTLECROSS will be heading back out on the road next month for more than two dozen headlining dates through North America. Dubbed the Winter Warriors tour, the trek will kick off on November 26th in Grand Rapids, Michigan and conclude on December 30th in Worcester, Massachusetts. Support will come from Wretched and War Of Ages.

In honor of the US Armed Forces, this Veterans Day BATTLECROSS will make a limited number of tickets available to VET TIX so that local members of the military may attend a show in their city at no cost. The band will also be donating a portion of the funds generated from sales of a limited edition tour shirt to a local veteran's charity, and choose a veteran in each market for a VIP experience. On Veteran's Day (November 11th) fans can nominate a friend or family member who has served our country and share their story and photo, with a member of the military being chosen to win a guitar and more at the end of the tour. On the same day, the band will also bring back merchandise from their first Metal Blade album, Pursuit Of Honor, in their official merch store HERE, with a portion of the proceeds being set aside to benefit the Wounded Warriors Project, a veterans service organization that offers a variety of programs, services and events to wounded veterans of the military following the events of September 11th, 2001.

To learn more about honoring a veteran through the tour or to help underwrite tickets for veterans, click HERE. Members of the military can inquire about free admission to the tour at www.vettix.org.

Guitarist Hiran Deraniyagala adds: "We won't let a cancelled tour stop BATTLECROSS from performing for our fans and the Winter Warriors Tour with Wretched and War Of Ages is the perfect way to remind our fans that you keep moving forward when challenges come up in life. Who knows perseverance more than those who bravely serve our country and we are honored to dedicate this tour to them. We are a band that stands for ideals such as loyalty, honor, sacrifice and perseverance through our lyrics and how we conduct ourselves, and hope the tour will be a fitting tribute to every service member who attends. We look forward to raging with our fans who serve or have served in the US Armed Forces and thank them again for their service."

TOUR DATES:

11/26/2014 The Stache @ The Intersection - Grand Rapids, MI
11/28/2014 BT Theater - Erie, PA
11/29/2014 Rockstar Pro Arena - Dayton, OH
11/30/2014 The Firebird - St. Louis, MO
12/02/2014 The Vanguard - Tulsa, OK
12/03/2014 Warehouse Live Studio - Houston, TX
12/04/2014 Gas Monkey Bar N Grill - Dallas, TX
12/05/2014 Dirty Dog Bar - Austin, TX
12/06/2014 Backstage - Lubbock, TX
12/07/2014 Launchpad - Albuquerque, NM
12/08/2014 Club Red - Mesa, AZ
12/09/2014 Whisky A Go-Go - West Hollywood, CA
12/10/2014 DNA Lounge - San Fancisco, CA
12/11/2014 Chain Reaction - Anaheim, CA
12/12/2014 Adrenaline Sports Lounge - Las Vegas, NV
12/13/2014 The Alley - Sparks, NV
12/15/2014 Marquis Theater - Denver, CO
12/16/2014 Aftershock - Merriam, KS
12/17/2014 The Nether Bar - Minneapolis, MN
12/18/2014 Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, IA
12/19/2014 Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL
12/20/2014 The Token Lounge - Westland, MI
12/26/2014 Opera House - Toronto, ON
12/27/2014 Dingbatz - Clifton, NJ
12/28/2014 Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
12/29/2014 Saint Vitus - Brooklyn, NY
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Metal band War Of Ages will headlining the “More Than Sound Tour” this year presented by Facedown Records. In support of the band will be Those Who Fear, Phinehas and Colossus. This tour will showcase Facedown’s More Than Sound program that raises money and awareness for our good friends at Know Think Act who are working to break the cycle of poverty in Uganda and Kenya. Tour will kick off November 1st in Linthicum, Maryland.

TOUR DATES:

 November 1st- LHUMC- Linthicum, Maryland
November 2nd- Schoolhouse Venue- Madison Heights, Virginia
November 3rd- The Warehouse- Chattanooga, Tennessee
November 4th- 7 Venue- Douglasville, Georgia
November 5th- Blind Tiger- Greensboro, North Carolina
November 6th- Club Relevant- Virginia Beach, Virginia
November 8th- Murray Hill Theatre- Jacksonville, Florida
November 9th- The Cypress- Metaire, Louisiana
November 10th- Tomcats West- Fort Worth, Texas
November 12th- Walters- Houston, Texas
November 13th- The White Rabbit- San Antonio, Texas
November 16th- More than Sound Festival- Chino, California
November 17th- The Gate- Bakersfield, California
November 22nd- Ultra Violet Studios- Las Vegas, Nevada
November 24th- Museum of Hearts- Wichita, Kansas
November 25th- Solace Venue- Joplin, Missouri
November 26th- The Hatch- Evansville, Indiana
November 27th- The Coup- Clarksville, Tennessee
November 29th- The Refuge 2- Goshen, Indiana
November 30th- Columbia Theatre- Muncie, Indiana
December 1st- Thompson House- Newport, Kentucky
December 2nd- Championship- Lemoyne, Pennsylvania
December 3rd- Basement Transmissions- Erie, Pennsylvania
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Spirituality, Christianity, religion it all has a place a name and a meaning behind it but through the eyes of War Of Ages who's been around for over 10 years they take their beliefs to the heart and soul of what they love to do. Having released six albums and being signed to Facedown Records frontman Leroy Hamp discusses with me his band's musical influences, beliefs, lyrical writing, and what it took for “Return To Life” to be what it has become. It in the end it doesn’t matter what it is or what it was its just all music in the end.

1. For those who aren't familiar with War Of Ages can you give us a brief summary?

Leroy: A brief summary of War Of Ages well we’ve been a band for over 10 years, we’re signed to Facedown Records, we have 6 albums, 5 members of metal and love the lord and that’s pretty much it.

2. When did you start writing for this album? How was the songwriting process different/similar to previous War Of Ages albums?

Leroy: Well we definitely did some new things for this album writing-wise. We brought in a new writing style on Eternal whereas Steve and I would comprise vocal melodies and riffs together, kind of find out a structure of a song and started that process about a year before Eternal came out. Then we mixed it with the old style where we’d get together in a practice room and just jam together where we mixed those together.

Now with this new album Return To Life Steve and I just would put songs together finding flow building songs it allowed us from being not as tired. So we just figured it out from there and did it that way. Lyrically I wrote about how I was feeling I have a new addition to the family a new daughter so I wrote more uplifting and what we went with.

We started the record a year before we recorded it so we could see how it turns out and have enough time with it so that’s pretty much how we did it this time.


3. What are your songs about? What specific themes do they cover?

Leroy: We wrote about different topics I had spent the last year and a half studying the bible and still am studying it because it’s pretty long but among other things I was going verse by verse using the internet and other sources on what I was being taught.

So when writing this album a more personal foundation came out and a lot of the people and friends can turn to a faith and live their life and everything will be fine but in reality a boat will be rocked at times. So that’s when you need to firm it up for who you are and who you believe in.

The first song “Immortal” is about this and we’re shooting a video for another song “Silent Night” so that’s about how your world is and how you will stand your ground so that the whole concept is wrapped around the album that way and it’s how I went with it.

4. Who are your musical influences?

Leroy: That’s such a broad spectrum you have Steve who’s into Swedish and American metal like Iron Maiden, Soilwork. While Alex and I are into the aggressive metal me personally love Rage Against The Machine and love his honesty through his lyrics and same goes for P.O.D.s lyrics. If you’ve seen a War Of Ages live show then you know what type of presents I can bring which is like Hatebreed, Madball, and Terror’s style.

5. Did the band have any definitive goals they were shooting for before the recording process began for this album?

Leroy: Well we just wanted to be honest and write what we feel. We just hope that what we bring to the table and people will understand what we say we want kids to understand what we mean and what we believe in and who we are by doing it through our music. I don’t say a lot on stage but I think our music speaks directly and be honest through each of our albums and what we focus on.

6. How would you describe the overall sound of the new album? How does it compare to Eternal?

Leroy: We definitely went way more rhythmic with this release and wanted to create something different and challenge ourselves. It’s definitely a headbanging album it’s definitely along the lines of P.O.D. and Rage Against the Machine lyrically. Musically filled with solos and very pedal to the metal to go with the lyrics, I tried to mix different things like Darkness Hour meets Comeback Kid add some different modes for music than my usual screams I wanted to add on to that. Steve did a great job of rapping instrumentally with what I had wrote lyrically so he wrote riffs to go with it and it worked out well.

7. Did you feel any pressure for a follow-up?

Leroy: I would say no. Every album is its own it doesn’t matter to us we wanted to try this or that with previous albums but to us it’s just a new chapter to this one book. We don’t really care and hope each album is different enough and every album will be better because we’re maturing and hope the music does too.

8. What’s your favorite song on the new record?

Leroy: It’s hard to say because each song has a different delivery like “Immortal” is more hardcore and like “Silent Night” would be my personal favorite because its different vocally, it opens up with a Rage Against The Machine vocal line and goes into a gang chant that’s very emotional and why we’re doing a video for it. It has a lot of mean to it and visually it’s a strong song with the music and gets our point across. I love all of the songs on this album because each one is so different it would just depend on what I’m feeling at the time really.

9. Do you think talking about spirituality in music is becoming more popular and accepted in mainstream music?

Leroy: Yeah I think it’s becoming way more accepted than 10 years ago but with that there does come negative influence when we first started it wasn’t as popular so we got away with stuff and did what we did and getting those bigger tours didn’t even happen but nowadays it’s not a big deal.


Ten years ago it was insane but it’s definitely more popular but with that there is stigma and most people are like yeah you see it once you see it hear all. That always comes but everybody has a point of getting things across so yeah.

10. Does the band ever get criticized for not being Christian enough? How do you respond to those people?

Leroy: I tried to focus on what’s eternal at the end of the day I’m never going to do it right. It’s never going to be enough or be right so I just am going to be who I am being strong and firm with my beliefs. If you don’t accept me then you don’t know who I am. We wanted to focus more on that than anything else. I try not to focus on anything else then who I am as a personal and it will never be enough for every single person out there.

11. Anything else you'd like to say or add?

Leroy: Something to add at the end of this, stay strong and hope to see you at a War Of Ages show be blessed for who those are struggling and there’s always light at the end of the tunnel and for us it was Jesus Christ just continue to look up and head forward with your personal lives.
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War of Ages has just released the first full song from their upcoming album Return to Life. You can see the lyric video for "Redeemer" HERE. You can also pre-order a copy of Return to Life and be entered to win one of 6 prizes awarded weekly. Prizes include a custom Truth snare drum and an ESP guitar. Return to Life will be out on April 24.
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War of Ages have been hard at work writing and recording for their upcoming album "Return To Life".

"Return To Life" was recorded with Zeuss at Planet Z Studios (Shadows Fall, Chimaira, Hatebreed), and is the band's finest accomplishment to date. Releasing on April 24, Return To Life features some of War of Ages' most personal material, and continues with their unique brand of Warrior Metal for which the band has become infamous.

War of Ages has toured with As I Lay Dying, Demon Hunter, Soilwork, Norma Jean, Between the Buried and Me, and more, and will be headlining this year's Facedown Fest on April 7 in Pomona, Ca.

From the band:

We are extremely excited about our "Return To Life" release in every way. Musically, we stuck to our roots, brought back the heavy rhythmic style and mixed it with the maturity of having 4 previous albums under our belts. We also joined forces with producer Zeuss who boasts a catalog with names like Terror, Emmure, Hatebreed, etc... Not only is this album instrumentally rhythmic, it is also vocally rhythmic. Leroy stepped out of his comfort zone and ventured into the realms of Rage Against The Machine, Comback Kid, and Darkest Hour, and mixed each with his own style. "I don't think I broke any new ground vocally or created something new entirely, but it is new for War of Ages and a step in the right direction for me personally." We plan to continue in this direction lyrically, vocally, and musically for our future albums.

Return To Life will be released on April 24 on CD, LP and digital formats, but you'll be able to pre-order the album as well as hear sneak peek audio clips next Friday, March 9th. Also, the band hasn't released the cover art for Return To Life to the public yet, so here's just a taste of what's coming.
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After annihilating the masses on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest all summer long Southern California's purveyors of pain, WINDS OF PLAGUE, return to further spread their carnage across North America this winter on the “December Decimation” headlining tour. This stellar bill, presented by Merch Warehouse and Fight Magazine, is jammed packed with cutting edge brutality that makes this the must see event of the winter for metalheads across the nation. The trek, which kicks off on Nov. 26th and wraps up on Dec. 23rd at the third annual December Decimation Fest at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA, also features After The Burial, Carnifex, War of Ages and Upon A Burning Body.

WINDS OF PLAGUE is currently holed up in Los Angeles with renowned producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Hatebreed) tracking what is easily going to be their career defining opus. This is the band's most cohesive and focused offering yet and is currently set for an early 2011 release through Century Media Records. Stay tuned over the coming weeks to the band's MySpace page for an in-depth webisode series giving a very candid, sneak peek into the recording process.

Johnny Plague (vocals) further states: “Coming off of Mayhem (the biggest tour of our career) was inspiring to say the least. Literally, the day after Mayhem Fest ended we were in the studio hard at work on new material. Fast forward a few weeks and we are now into week one of the recording process for our new album (yet to be named). We set out with producer Matt Hyde to raise the bar for WINDS OF PLAGUE both as a band and as musicians. We put a lot of our writing focus into the energy and the structure of the songs and everything else just seemed to fall into place naturally."

“Although it is early in the recording process I can confidently say this will be our best offering yet. Both fans of Decimate The Weak and The Great Stone War will be pleased for we haven’t altered the formula or strayed from our roots, but injected them with rage and fury. The game certainly will change in 2011. See you all on the road soon.”

WINDS OF PLAGUE has changed the landscape of heavy music upon release of their highly acclaimed, vicious new album, The Great Stone War, which made an impressive debut in its first week landing at #73 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The offering quickly propelled the band to the forefront of the American metal scene and serve as a much needed wake up call to the genre.
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An interview with Leroy Hamp:

Please introduce yourself, tell me what you do in War Of Ages and how long the band has been together and got started?

This is Leroy Hamp lead vocalist of War Of Ages. War Of Ages was formed in 2003 though our line up has changed a little here and there. We initially got started because I met Steve, our lead guitarist, at Wal-Mart where we both worked. I wanted someone to play music with and he shared the same passion.

What is the band currently up to?

We just got off the Live Dominance Tour, with Hatebreed, a few days ago. We're now taking some well-deserved time off to recoup from being out on the road since late January.

Where is the band from and what is the metal scene like there?

We're from Erie, Pennsylvania and there really isn't much of a metal scene here in Erie. I think for the most part we're it, haha!

Is there any story or concept behind your CD title "Arise & Conquer"?

Absolutely. Quit pissing and moaning about your life and how your past screwed you up. Most people complain about how bad they've had it or have it. They're stuck in a hole in the middle of a storm screaming for help, yet they fail to see the rope sitting next to them. Why don't they climb out? What's their excuse? Maybe it's due to pride, anger, or seeking attention, etc. It's different for everyone, however one thing remains the same they all end in fear though not one of them will admit it. Let me sum this up in one sentence: Get off your poop ring and fight for your life!

Who did the artwork on the new CD and how much input did you have on it?

Dave Quiggle designed our artwork on this album as well as the past three prior albums. They've all followed the same basic concept: a warrior fighting through adversity. I wish I could say it was my idea, however this was all Dave's idea. He knows what kind of guys we are and felt like it would fit with us musically and lyrically. Can we say good call?!

Is MySpace the great Satan of the 21st Century?

MySpace has been a great help with bands allowing free and equal promotion. In theory it's great, however people have abused it. Some may have gained status due to lying on their MySpace. It all comes around in the end. So I feel it can be bittersweet depending on how you use it.

What do you think of this year's presidential election? Do you like any of the candidates?

WOW! This is a loaded question. It's hard to say right now. I always like to wait for the debates before deciding on a candidate. It's not just about policies or dirt from the past, lets face it we all have dirt in our past, none of us are clean. Call me old fashioned, but there's just something about taking your gloves off and saying "now what" that I like. Ask me after the debates.

What would you compare your music too, out of the varitey of bands out there?

I'd have to say Unearth meets In Flames with a dash of Hatebreed.

What bands have you toured with? Are there any that you would definitely want to tour with?

We've toured with a number of different bands in different genres of music, Hatebreed, Bleeding Through, Soilwork, Throwdown, Terror, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, and Full Blown Chaos to name a few. We'd love to tour with As I Lay Dying, In Flames, Slayer, and Children Of Bodom someday.

Describe your music to an elderly church lady.

Hummm! Pissed off Christians screaming angry and loud aggressive music! Enjoy!

When you look back on when War Of Ages first started out, what do you think of you guys now?

When we first started we were boys looking for acceptance or fans who enjoyed our music. Now we're men playing to glorify our creator and we only care about His acceptance.

What do you know and think of Romania?

To be honest I don't know much about it, however I'd love to see it someday.

Any other thoughts or comments you'd like to make to your fans?

Stay strong and don't use your past as an excuse to destroy yourself. Instead use it to strengthen you and find how you fit into this world. We hope to see you all very soon!

http://www.facedownrecords.com/
http://www.myspace.com/warofages
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