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Neurosis on 30 Years of Finding ‘New Ways of Being Heavy’

By Kory Grow

Neurosis have been a band for more than 30 years. They’ve put out 12 albums, including one with former Swans singer Jarboe. They’ve curated their own Beyond the Pale festival and formed their own label. Yet for these achievements, it can be difficult to describe their unique mix of metal, punk, sludge and avant-garde experiments.

“It’s sort of like a Windham Hill record meets Swans or Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed,” Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil says.

“Dawn in the black forest,” offers Jarboe. “Rebirth out of apocalypse.”

“They’re dudes who were into metal and crusty shit who followed their muse and invented a kind of corroded and raging psychedelic hard rock with apocalyptic moments where they pry open the door to madness and stare it down,” offers Shellac frontman and frequent Neurosis audio engineer Steve Albini. “Plus crows.”

The band’s own Steve Von Till, who has played guitar and howled on Neurosis LPs since 1989, has his own poetic description, specifically for the band’s breakthrough 1996 album, Through Silver in Blood : “a fucking railroad through hell.”

No matter how you label it, though, Neurosis’ expressionism has never been one for the mainstream – they’ve never cracked the Billboard 200 and have never received a gold album – yet it’s enabled them to amass a dedicated following that allows them to sell out concerts whenever they feel like touring. The band – Von Till, guitarist-vocalist Scott Kelly, bassist Dave Edwardson, keyboardist Noah Landis and drummer Jason Roeder – has run its own label, Neurot Recordings, since 2000. Outside of booking tours and scheduling press, the group has existed as a DIY operation for the better part of the last two decades, sort of like metal’s equivalent to Fugazi or Black Flag. Everything about Neurosis, from their extended drum etudes to the Pink Floyd–like visuals they hauled on the road with them for years, has been about bowing to their own artistic whims.

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Their 11th and latest release, this year’s Fires Within Fires , showcases the best aspects of the Neurosis experience: downtuned Sabbath-influenced riffs, pounding tribal drumming, fleeting moments of elegance and caustic vocals recounting personal apocalypses. “The end is endless and washing over me,” Kelly sings in the LP’s slow-building opening cut “Bending Light.” Elsewhere, on “Broken Ground” – a metal dirge whose main guitar riff writhes uncomfortably throughout the nearly nine-minute track – Von Till sings, “Trouble sleeps where dead men stare.” They’re the sort of existential proclamations only a nihilist like Sartre might find uplifting, and Neurosis will be bringing those messages with them on the road at some rare gigs this month and next on the West Coast.

The reason they make such few appearances is because they’ve settled into surprisingly normal private lives in recent years. Von Till, 47, teaches fourth grade in northwestern Idaho, while Kelly, 49, runs sound and works at a repertory theater in southwestern Oregon. Both are dads, and both play folk music as solo artists on the side. The others avoid doing interviews but live in California. Ferocity has become a part-time gig, but it hasn’t become any less meaningful to the band members.

“Following Neurosis’ career is like following the Melvins,” says Thayil, who discovered the group via Kelly’s Shrinebuilder side project. “You like the band and the attitude. You like the spirit and vision they have and you grow with them. Neurosis was a hardcore band, like how Metallica used to be really fast. With Melvins or Metallica or Neurosis, you grow with them and you learn to love the risks they take and you’re willing to give it a chance and appreciate it.

“Neurosis’ later releases are more attractive to me than the earlier work,” he continues. “The way Neurosis grew paralleled my taste swinging more toward the doom and ambient elements of what our band has done for years.” Soundgarden has since begun using former Neurosis visual artist Josh Graham – who was considered a member of the band during his period with them – to create their artwork.

“We’ve always been on the same wavelength, part of the same tribe,” says Jarboe, who collaborated with the group in 2003 on an album titled Neurosis & Jarboe . “Years ago, I was driving late at night and this college radio station was playing a song that got my attention. I felt an alignment to it with what Michael [Gira] and I were doing at the time with Swans. I called the station and learned it was Neurosis. Michael and I went to see them, and we talked about music. I remember there was talk a few years later of Neurosis doing a tour with us as Swans members, with me and Michael, and they’d do their own set as Neurosis. Of course, that never happened, but I did go on to work with them. When we did, it was like a ‘coming home’ for me since Swans had ended then and the massive decibel level and power of the Neurosis live stage was familiar and comforting.”

Von Till likens Neurosis’ creative process, especially on Fires Within Fires , as “turning off the brain.” He pauses before explaining. “This is gonna sound like some kind of fucking transcendental meditation commercial, but it’s about being in the moment with the sound,” he says. “It’s having the instrument in your hands and feeling what resonates and chasing down that channel like you’re following the curves of a river.

“We always try to push ourselves to the limit, so we’re not afraid of going in uncomfortable territory,” he says. “There’s some interesting vocal harmonies and different ways of approaching melodies on the new album, which is new territory for us. It’s new ways of being heavy. We’re just trying to find the sounds we want to hear that are going to blow our minds.”

“The new album is concise, but I felt like we told the story,” Kelly says. “The emotional arc is there like we want it.” When asked about the particularly heavy riff that ends Fires Within Fires’ “Reach,” he says, “Riffs like that are our strong suit. The least challenging thing we do is knee people in the face repeatedly with a riff. It’s more about showing restraint and expanding around it in order to create the context so that those riffs have the most impact, as opposed to just constantly bludgeoning people.”

“A key thing that separates them from the metal genre is their affect,” Albini says. “Metal is usually emotionally dry, but Neurosis at full tilt is like being hit by a gale drenching you in the blood of your enemies.”

When Kelly looks back on the group’s discography, his least favorite record is Souls at Zero , but not for the songs. “All I can hear is how brutal it was to make that record, ’cause we really didn’t know what we were doing when it came to recording with the keyboards,” he says. For Von Till, it’s his first with the group, The Word as Law . “It sounds like growing pains, like we didn’t know where we were heading,” he says. Both name the band’s latest, Fires Within Fires , as their favorite because it captures their current headspace, though Kelly says he can still appreciate Neurosis & Jarboe “because my voice is barely on it.”

To support Through Silver in Blood , they signed on to a second-stage slot on the nascent Ozzfest, but it was still a difficult time playing the music live. “There was just a lot of things in personal lives coming to a head,” Von Till says. “We were tapping into some pretty dark and aggressive stuff to find that catharsis, and we didn’t have an audience so we were touring our asses off. That music was particularly physically and spiritually very difficult to deliver. We learned a lesson early on that the music has to be delivered with 100 percent honesty and intensity or it felt completely fake and disingenuous. We needed to embody the spirit of the music and it took a toll on our bodies and well-being.”

During this period in the band’s life, thanks to Ozzfest, a tour with Pantera and the indie-music frenzy Nirvana had kick-started, major labels began courting Neurosis. “It was the time when arena rock met the underground,” Von Till says. “The conversations we had with labels were disgusting. It was all these sports-team references or like fucking Pink Floyd, ‘Have a Cigar.'” He laughs. “It was like, ‘We’ll give you enough rope to hang yourselves. We’ll all be together as a team.’ So we gave them lists of bizarre shit that we wanted – like to make an art film and a book and a magazine, putting Neurosis at the core of some sort of fucked-up art movement – and they were like, ‘Whoa. Nah.’ They didn’t know what the hell to do with that and we thought that they were cheesy, so it’s probably good that we avoided that. We dodged a bullet.”

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“We felt like signing to a major label weakened you as an artist,” Kelly says. “The perpetual ass-kissing, and everything is so cushy that you lose your edge. If the offer we asked for came though, we probably would have signed it. But nothing ever came close. They wanted to edit our songs and our artwork. It would have killed us to do that.”

Neurosis had a manager through about 1999 but eventually started the Neurot label and embraced the DIY lifestyle. They booked their own tours and set up their own press in house for a number of years but have since gone back to working with booking agents and publicists. “I got overwhelmed and we finally asked some old friends to take it over,” Von Till says. “We don’t work with any powerful agencies or PR companies. They’re all my friends and peers and coworkers.”

Albini, who runs a mostly DIY setup with Shellac, applauds Neurosis’ commitment to personal independence. “The fewer people you have siphoning money out of the relationship you have with your audience, the more there is left to do awesome projects with,” he says. “It’s a lot easier now with all the online and internet resources available for communication and distribution, but they’ve been thinking like this for decades. I consider them comrades in a fight we’re both committed to, and I’m regularly inspired and impressed by what they’ve done.”

“I think Neurosis see themselves as being the stewards or custodians of not just the Neurosis brand but that attitude,” Thayil says. “A lot like Melvins, and I think I’ve heard a reference to Fugazi or Minor Threat, you can definitely see that they feel a sense of responsibility or at least accountability to what they do and to the audience with what they’re presenting. There’s a lot to maintain when you’re making creative changes and shifts over your career to be attentive to your role in the community that you help build. That’s one of the impressive things about the band.”

Earlier this year, Neurosis celebrated the 30th anniversary of their band and the community of fans that they inspired with concerts in San Francisco and at the Netherlands’ Roadburn Festival. It’s a milestone that means a lot to the group, and Von Till says he has no regrets about the journey that got him to this point. “We’ve been through births, deaths, divorces, people battling mental illness issues, but I’ve had nothing to complain about,” he says. “I wouldn’t trade any of the adventure or the experience that we’ve had because everything that has happened has made us what we are today. It’s like the time-machine paradox: You change one thing and all of it’s different.”

When Kelly pauses to think about the anniversary, he says he’s grateful. “We always had every intention of surviving,” he says. “The fact that we did is pretty fucking amazing. The fact that we literally, physically survived that long is kind of stunning. A lot of people have come and gone. We started this thing when I was 18. I’ll be 50 next year. It’s crazy.”

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That Tour Was Awesome: Neurosis/Voivod/Today Is the Day (1999)

No one ever said that creating art on the level of Today Is the Day , Voivod , or Neurosis was going to be easy. And this 1999 European tour was proof of that. No doubt a meeting of some of the most innovative and expressive minds in extreme metal at the time, it was also a meeting of broken bones and worn-out road dogs, of bands suffering for their passion in the most genuine of ways.

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So read on, and find out what happened when these three bands hit the road for a couple months, while Voivod was on the verge of falling apart, while Today Is the Day barely held on, and while Neurosis just kept on being the unstoppable machine that is Neurosis. We proudly submit to you our latest instalment of That Tour Was Awesome , a look at the October/November 1999 European tour that brought together Neurosis (touring Times of Grace ), Voivod (still supporting Phobos , and, for the real diehards, Kronik ), and Today is The Day (high off of In the Eyes of God ), as remembered by Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Scott Kelly, Voivod drummer Michel “Away” Langevin, and Today Is the Day guitarist/vocalist Steve Austin.

What do you recall about how this tour came to be?

Scott Kelly: The main thing I remember is what an honor it was to get to know the guys in Voivod; they were such pioneers and heroes to all of us. And witnessing the camaraderie between them as they cared for Eric Forrest, their bass player. They had been in a serious van accident a few months previous to the tour and he was touring with a broken back. Literally. With open wounds that had to be changed and taken care of constantly, he was so fucking tough and Michel [Langevin, Voivod drummer] and Piggy [Denis D’Amour, guitarist] were so there for him.

Michel Langevin: I met the Neurosis in the mid-’90s in Montreal, where Scott told me that Voivod had given him some kind of direction, musically, and how he was a big fan, and I had a great chat with him. Then they invited us to play with them in New York City in ’96, and it was a strange circumstance, where we were told by the promoter that band gear would be supplied and we’d use the opener drum kit, and then we showed up and the opener was some kind of techno-industrial-metal band with a beatbox (laughs). I had to go ask Neurosis in their van, they had this bus they had converted into a touring bus, and they were all having a nap (laughs), so I wake them up to ask them if I could use their gear, which was really awful. They were super chill, man, and super nice, every one of them. It went really well, then maybe a couple of years after we had a bad crash in Germany, where we took a year off, and Eric was seriously injured. When he came back in ’99 we had a short leg with Maiden, and then this long tour with Neurosis in Europe. Eric was a real warrior, he was still using a cane, so it was a very tough tour for him. It was a long tour, too. We shared a bus, it went really well. It was quite an impactful tour, and all around very successful. I remember in the bus a lot of stoner-riff music was playing, a lot of Led Zeppelin, and I was introduced to the first Captain Beyond album by Neurosis, so it was great fun. Also the tour was all over the place, so some places we went were a first for me, in Ireland, also we played in Glasgow in Scotland, where Eric’s family, all his relatives where there, so it was great. A highlight for me was in Budapest, Hungary, I was there for the first time with Neurosis, and we played with a cult band there, VHK, from Hungary, some kind of psychedelic hardcore punk band from the old days. Great times.

Steve Austin: I had the good fortune of touring with Neurosis throughout Enemy of the Sun and Through Silver in Blood . Neurosis was one of my absolute favorite bands. Through touring, we became very good friends. I really admired everything about Neurosis. Scott Kelly and [guitarist/vocalist] Steve Von Till’s guitar playing and singing, the song structures, the visuals; so cool and totally experimental. Neurosis and Today Is the Day shared the same booking agent. So, one day I got a call and our agent asked me if I would be into touring Europe with Neurosis and Voivod. To me, this was the dream tour. I always loved Voivod and Neurosis, so we accepted the tour.

This a very interesting mix of bands; how did the crowds react to it?

Kelly: As I remember, it went over really well.

Austin: The crowds were delighted to see the three bands. Most of the people arrived very early to see all three of the bands and every night was something that was very special to the audience, and me too. The three different bands had their own signature style, but we all represented the underground and experimental music.

Langevin: Somehow it was all really connected, somewhere, musically, and everybody went over very well. At this point, with Voivod, as a trio, we were in a heavy phase, with Negatron and Phobos , so it didn’t clash with the slow heaviness of Neurosis or the ultra speed of Today Is the Day. There was an intensity throughout the whole bill that connected everything. It was great for me to watch Brann [Dailor] on drums with Today is the Day, just insane. Both Bill [Kelliher, bassist] and Brann were super nice guys, very funny, all three of Today is the Day were really nice. Bill and Brann, we’d always ask them to sing Slayer a capella (laughs), and they’d sing songs from Slayer, very synchronized, like a two-headed metal dude; it was really funny. At one point, Steve had serious back problems and he had to leave the tour.

Austin: Near the end of the tour, my neck was killing me. I couldn’t sleep in any position, so I wound up “sleeping” sitting upright in the lounge at the back of the bus. This, coupled with two broken teeth that were infected, equaled going home a few days early.

Langevin: Bill and Brann asked us if they could stick around and set up our gear for the rest of the tour and we loved the guys so much that we said, yes, of course. I was very happy when I saw them joining Mastodon later; it made sense to me.

Where all did the tour go, and how long did it last?

Kelly: I’m horrible with stuff like that but my rough memory is that it went all over Europe in about six weeks. I do remember getting as far east as Poland and Hungary.

Langevin: A couple of months, all across Europe. When we came back we did the west coast of the USA with Neurosis in their homemade bus they had. I think with Candiria, maybe, as well. I’m not too sure.

Austin: The tour hit most of the major cities in Europe and the UK; about one month of shows. Very few off days and a show every night. We were playing bigger places that held 2,000-5,000 capacity. Most shows had around 2000-3500 people at them. Every day was a new experience and seeing old friends and meeting new fans was really great.

Do you have any particularly wild or interesting stories from this tour?

Kelly: No. And if I did I wouldn’t tell you anyway. It actually was pretty significant in terms of the history of heavy music. Steve Austin left the tour to go home and Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher, who were the rhythm section in Today Is the Day, stayed behind and decided to start a new band and that band became Mastodon.

Langevin: Wild, not necessarily, because what I liked about Neurosis is the fact that they have a lot of class. For example, there were a few shows were when we were soundchecking the power of the club would go off, shut down. After two or three soundchecks like that in different cities, I think it might have been in Vienna, Austria, the power shut down and never came back. All the guitar players and bass players had their amplifiers open on the stage trying to find out who was shorting the club, and the power never came back, and the place was full of people, so we had to cancel the show. Everybody was super bummed, and we were loading the gear out of the club, and a bunch of guys came out of the club and yelled, “Fucking stupid Americans,” and crossed the street. The guys from Neurosis and crew crossed the street to confront them (laughs), it was like, “Uh-oh.” I followed them, ready to use my Quebec skills to try to calm down the whole thing (laughs), but the guys in Neurosis proceeded to calmly tell the kids what happened and how bummed they were. At this point, the kids were terrified: we’re talking about Neurosis, a bunch of big tattooed guys, you know? But they stayed really calm and explained the whole thing, and the kids felt really embarrassed (laughs). What was wild was the pacing of the tour and all that, but aside from that, the guys were so chill. It’s always been a pleasure to see them after the tour, as well, because we became really close friends.

Austin: Well, all three bands were filled with pretty cerebral people. Not really a lot of debauchery or wild partying. We all worked really hard to put on a great show. Most of the “partying” was late, late at night on the bus in the lounge while we were traveling to the next show. We would all get together at the back of the tour bus and listen to music, drink… It was so cool getting to know the guys in Voivod. On the very first day of tour we rolled into a venue in Ireland and when I walked into the stage area, there was something going on. Voivod was attempting to do soundcheck and it appeared that the regular house sound man was not available. So, the club had asked a friend to man the mixer and controls. I walked up to him and asked him if everything was going okay. He said yes, but looked disturbed. Then I said, do you know how to run sound or engineer? He said no. So, I offered to help him. Five, ten minutes later, Voivod’s sound was all set and they sounded great. When I returned to the bus after soundcheck, Away and Piggy asked me if I would be interested in running sound for them for the rest of the tour. It was an honor and I did so without requesting to be paid. I loved Voivod and it was great mixing their amazing music.

How did the bands get along?

Kelly: It was a really, really fun tour.

Langevin: I can’t recall any bad vibe or anything like that. It was all great fun. We were listening to some early noise/drone music in the bus. In Paris, for the last show in Paris, I was outside chatting with some people and the place was way sold out, and there was a guy standing who looked really distressed because he couldn’t get in, and there was a record label representative with him who told me it was Merzbow. We had been listening to him a lot in the bus; there was nothing I could do at the door, so I went backstage and grabbed Steve from Neurosis and explained to him that Merzbow couldn’t get in (laughs) and was freaked out, and we were able to get him into the venue, which was great. He was very reserved, and barely said a word or anything. Also, the crew were fantastic; I’ve run into them many times since and we’re still friends.

Austin: Everyone was in it together. This was a big production in a lot of ways. So much gear, so much equipment. Everyone helped out and together we were able to get it all going and put on a great show for each band. Tensions were a bit high at times. My friends in Neurosis had been on tour for a long time. They had done Ozzfest, and loads of tours leading up to this very last tour for Times of Grace . You could tell they missed being home with their families, but regardless would throw down an amazing show every single night. Voivod was very happy to be on the tour, as we were. They had survived a terrible van accident in which Piggy and Eric Forrest were both injured. By this point, both of them had healed up, but my good friend Eric was still dealing with a back injury that was quite painful. I really felt for him, because you could tell he was in a world of pain and still got up there every night and played with all his heart. Me and my guys were just thankful to be a part of it all. We too had played quite a few tours leading up to this, and this was the first time that Brann and Bill had ever played Europe. So, it was cool seeing the spark of enthusiasm in their eyes, of new places they had never been to and new people. I was very happy for them.

What was the tour like behind the scenes?

Kelly: I don’t talk about behind-the-scenes stuff; that’s people’s private lives. It would be like me asking you what things are like in your home.

Langevin: When Steve had to leave the tour because of his back, that was a down moment for sure. For me, I really got along with everybody, actually.

Austin: Well, we played first on this tour. So, there was always a bit of waiting involved. Which was okay. It gave us time to check out things and get situated at the club we were playing that day. The roadies for Neurosis were quite a crew. They all were old-school punks; mohawks, etc. Pretty crass overall and rough around the edges. But, after the day was over and we were all on the bus, they would mellow out and just hang. We basically tried to stay out of their way, because we knew they had their hands full with all of the gear and things they were responsible for. The guys in Neurosis are cool dudes. A smile and a genuine laugh would always make things lighten up and remind us that this was something very cool that we were doing, and I will never forget all of the good times. Watching Neurosis every day was a huge deal for me. I would stand in the first row and sing along to every single song that they played. I connected so much with their music and what they were feeling and saying. I have to admit, I was a huge fan and I didn’t want to miss one second of their performance. I to this day feel that that tour was some stuff that legends are made of.

What was it like within your own band at this point?

Kelly: Neurosis was intense as always; we always grind. That’s a big part of what makes us who and what we are.

Langevin: It was pretty tough, because of the accident in ’98. We were on our way to Wacken in Germany and we crashed and rolled five times; Eric was thrown out of the van, so that’s why he was at the hospital for a year, and then took another year to really get back on his two feet without a cane and all that. So it was tough for Voivod. After that tour we did another one across Europe with Therion and then a smaller tour in Australia, and then we also demoed an album that we never released and at the end of 2000, Piggy and I sat down and decided to split the band. The accident in Germany really killed the momentum for us.

Austin: We were happy. Things were going our way. Temple of the Morning Star had put us in a good position. When In the Eyes of God came out, things were rolling. Brann was my very best friend. He lived at my recording studio and worked at our tattoo shop doing painting, anything that needed to be done. I told Brann soon after we met that he would be considered one of the greatest drummers of our time and I was right. We couldn’t find a bassist for a while, but Brann had mentioned that Bill, who had played guitar in Lethargy, would maybe want to jam. So, one night after finishing work with Lamb of God in the studio, I literally walked out in the control room, put my guitar on and we played the song “In the Eyes of God” from beginning to end with Bill as his tryout. Bill nailed it and I didn’t need to hear anything else. I could tell Bill kicked ass and would be a great addition with me and Brann. So, Bill moved into the studio with Brann and from there that line-up was solidified. It was hard coming from Rochester, NY to Clinton, MA. Clinton was a very small town. Everything closed early and there just wasn’t really that much stuff to do besides be at the studio and make music. The guys didn’t have a car, so they were basically stuck at the studio a lot of the time. Being away from home and stuck in a little town was hard. We all enjoyed the successes of things going on with TITD. We played our hearts out on the Neurosis/Voivod tour and I couldn’t have been more proud of Brann and Bill.

Any final thoughts looking back on this tour?

Kelly: I’m just so glad that it happened; getting to know the people in those bands created bonds that have lasted to this day and most of them are very strong. Having the opportunity to get to know Piggy a little bit before he passed away was such a gift. He fixed a problem in my guitar on that tour that has remained fixed; I still don’t really understand what he did, I just know it took him five minutes and he knew exactly what was wrong with it. He was a genius. Long live Captain Taco!

Langevin: The way that Scott told me in the mid-’90s about him finding a direction when he heard Voivod in the ’80s, they did the same to me with the projections they had live: it changed my visuals, the way I saw visuals live, and I started to work more with 3D animation and all that. It opened my mind as much as Scott says we opened his.

Austin: You know, I am just thankful to have been a part of it. I made so many friends and my band gained so many new fans. It was that feeling that we were doing something that people would never ever forget. I was plagued with health problems and that was pretty insane. Before leaving for the tour, my wife and I were hit in a car accident that did something to my neck. On top of that, I had two teeth that had gotten broken. They were infected and due to being on tour all of the time, I had no down time to address them. So, I left for this tour with a neck that was compromised and two teeth that were fucking killing me. But, I loved music so much there was no way that I could miss this. I have to say thanks to Scott Kelly and Neurosis and Voivod for all of the good times. To be able to play on a tour like this and run sound for Voivod is the stuff dreams are made of.

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Neurosis are a band hailing from Oakland, California, United States who formed in 1985. Since their debut, the band have released ten studio albums and are considered in some circles to be the most influential metal band since Metallica.

Coming together as a straight-up hardcore punk band in the same vein as bands like Amebix and Discharge, Neurosis was formed by Scott Kelly, Dave Edwardson and Jason Roeder, who had previously played together in the band Violent Coercion. After touring and recording for two years, the band released their debut album “Pain of Mind” in 1987, but the Neurosis that we know today wouldn't start to take shape until the release of their second album “The Word As Law” in 1990. The album was made after a second guitarist and a sample/synth player had been added in the form of Steve Von Till and Simon McIlroy respectively, and as a result, the band began to expand their sound.

This came to a head with the album “Souls At Zero”, whose mix of down-tempo, doom influenced riffing and lush, folk-indebted soundscapes arguably gave birth to post-metal single-handedly. The band's fourth album “Enemy Of The Sun” saw the band sign a record deal with Relapse Records, release their fifth album “Through Silver In Blood” and even play some high profile shows supporting the mighty Pantera. Ever since then, the band have remained one of the most fascinating, esoteric and unmissable metal bands of their generation, the kind of band that can claim to be influenced by Joy Division, Melvins and Phillip K. Dick and then have their records back them up on that. They're artists in the truest sense of the word, and for that, they come highly recommended.

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As the band tune up onstage, the crowd cheers and shouts, anticipating the awesome sound of Neurosis. The stage is black, only dimly lit, and the silhouettes of the band members are barely visible. Guitar chords can be heard, low and steady, through the darkness, and are soon accompanied by a deep electronic vibration. The haunting sound continues, until suddenly the stage explodes in light and sound. Simultaneously, strobe lights illuminate the band members and Scott Kelly opens with the lyrics to “Through Silver In Blood”. The crowd goes wild, jumping up and down, howling, and pumping their fists as Neurosis light up the stage both literally and figuratively with their cascading sound. Neurosis is a hardcore punk gone post-metal band from California. They formed in 1985, and released their first album, Pain of Mind, in 1987. They followed that with The Word As Law in 1990, and between 1992 and and 2012 produced eight other albums. They have also released five EPs. In the 2000s, Neurosis founded Neurot Recordings and released their music, as well as material from other artists, on that independent record label. As well as providing great music, Neurosis also have live visual effects at their concerts put on by visual artist Josh Graham. Their combination of visual and audible content make Neurosis concerts epic affairs not to be missed.

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Neurosis’ performance was something to behold. It was primal, visceral, and at times beautiful. For every song the stage would go black and tension would build from a certain noise or tape loop until the band erupted into loud and driving riffs or emerge into slow and trance-inducing grooves. From there, the songs with explosive beginnings would taper off into slower and more ambient segments and the songs that started off slow would build up into heavy and primordial waves of sound crashing into you. The band members didn’t interact with the crowd at all, but they didn’t need to for the performance to be enjoyable. Their music transported you into another dimension, full of chaos and destruction with shimmers of grace. Words really can’t describe the whole experience, so I implore you to go see Neurosis for yourself if you enjoy heavy music, music that creates an atmosphere, or just metal in general. Amazing performance. Amazing musicianship. Amazing concert.

You have to work pretty damn hard and attain a level of consistency to move from artist to influencer. Oakland post-metal outfit Neurosis are considered by many publications to be one of the most influential bands of the past two decades and countless emerging artists have cited their albums as hugely detrimental to their own sound.

Therefore you find Neurosis gigs are packed with the devoted and loyal and those who have heard about the band vicariously through those influenced. Either way everybody is receptive as soon as they step onstage and the guitars immediately cut through the hazy atmosphere. The crowd roars in approval and the atmosphere remains great for the remainder of the evening as the group whip through a setlist which lifts from nearly all of the records in their collection before arriving at the obvious finale of 'Stones from the Sky'. The applauses are almost as large as the riffs and rightly so.

Just an outstanding experience, my third time seeing Neurosis. The setlist was diverse and included several favourites, new songs from Fires Within Fires (Fire Is the End Lesson being especially crushing), and also Lost, Enemy of the Sun. I wish I could have stayed in London another night to see their second date, with Discharge and the Subhumans. I am very curious what songs will make it into their second set.

The performance was amazing. Morever, the two opening bands, bell witch and deadkids, were astonishing. I know understand when people complement Neurosis life performance. Venue was good too, the venue is bringing one of my favorite bands from Europe next month and I won't make it unfortunately. But my point is, it seems that it is a well connected venue.

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No crazy antics. Just very on point musicianship, blasting out a sonic landscape, beautiful and sinister. These guys just rock so damn hard, i'd love to see them again, and again.

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Neurosis is an American avant-garde metal band based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, but beginning with their third studio album Souls at Zero (1992) developed a unique style highly influential to the development of the post-metal and sludge metal genres. In total, Neurosis have released 12 studio albums, including a 2003 collaboration with Jarboe.

• Pain of Mind (1988)
• The Word as Law (1990)
• Souls at Zero (1992)
• Enemy of the Sun (1993)
• Through Silver in Blood (1996)
• Times of Grace (1999)
• A Sun That Never Sets (2001)
• The Eye of Every Storm (2004)
• Given to the Rising (2007)
• Honor Found in Decay (2012)
• Fires Within Fires (2016)

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Neurosis' Steve Von Till: "We Want To Sound Like The Entire Breadth And Depth Of The Human Experience"

We get deep with the Neurosis guitarist to talk human experience, influence and what it really means to be punk

It’s now 30 years since Steve Von Till joined Neurosis . The Oakland band had already built a reputation on the back of their live shows and 1987’s Pain Of Mind debut, but when Steve assumed joint vocal and guitar duties with founder Scott Kelly at the end of that decade, they took their first tentative steps away from the Bay Area punk scene and into a brave new world of sound.

Harnessing influences from across the spectrum of underground music, albums like Souls At Zero, Enemy Of The Sun and Through Silver In Blood established Neurosis as one of the most original and forward-thinking outfits of the 1990s. By the millennium, their influence on newer bands had become undeniable, most notably in the post-metal scene that coalesced around their original sonic blueprint.

A humble man who works as an elementary school teacher, Steve remains remarkably grounded for someone whose music has had such a lasting effect on the landscape of heavy music. There is, however, no hiding the passion with which he discusses his creative endeavours, whether his solo projects or the mystery and might of Neurosis.

Are people surprised that members of Neurosis still have to hold down day jobs? “No, that’s just how life is. It’s more surprising that people would expect that you can make a living off strange, underground music ( laughs) ? We’ve been more than fortunate to gain a certain popularity and respect, but it would become much less special, and it would compromise the art somewhat, to try to turn it into something fiscal as opposed to [being] a spiritual catharsis.”

Did you grow up in Oakland? “I’ve actually never lived in Oakland! I grew up in San Jose, California, about an hour south. I particularly liked going up to Oakland and Berkeley and the East Bay and seeing a lot of shows. Actually, Neurosis was one of my favourite bands at that time. So when I was 19 and they were looking for a replacement second guitarist before their second album, I was extremely honoured to be able to bring my ideas to what they were doing.”

What do you remember about the first show you played with Neurosis? “The first concert was a free outdoor show in Berkeley. This was a time when there was a lot of conflict between racist skinheads and the East Bay punks, and there was definitely an altercation that went down. I can’t remember all the details but it was pretty intense, and needless to say, the punks won. I think there were some fisticuffs ( laughs )!”

It’s funny looking back at that scene and seeing that you played with people like Green Day at Gilman Street. Do you think you’ll ever play a show with them again? “Well, we did do a festival with them in Sweden, but that’s kind of different. Looking back on that time, in many ways it was so much more open-minded as these things were forming. Things hadn’t gone to their separate corners. You’d go to shows and it would be way more diverse. It could be NOFX or Green Day , it could be some art performance or spoken word, could be a classic '70s punk band, could be a rockabilly band – it was all over the map and it wasn’t so pigeonholed.”

We were going to ask if you missed those mixed bills, but then you’re playing something like Supersonic which is varied in a different way. “Yeah, I really like that diversity of sound. That’s part of what we enjoy about some of those really big festivals in Europe that we get to play sometimes. If music is about communication and about reaching people through some sort of emotional honesty and authenticity, you need to have opportunities where you’re not just playing to your captive audience; where you have the chance for some young person to walk by unsuspecting, that didn’t know they were looking for that until they stumbled into it. That’s how we all initially discovered whatever got us to start collecting records and dive into music.”

So when you joined Neurosis, that was around the same time that the sound started to shift from hardcore punk to something that was more experimental. Was that your influence or was the band collectively heading in that direction anyway? “I think it was collective. Each of us brings something unique to the table, and I think what we were able to zero in on was a desire to push away from the trappings of just slashing away at traditional barre chords, and finding ways to have it sound larger than it was. On our second album (The Word As Law), the one we recorded shortly after I joined, we were grasping for something that we didn’t know how to reach. I don’t think we were really able to come into ourselves until the third album (Souls At Zero), when we realised that what we really wanted to sound like was the entire breadth and depth of the human experience, what it was like to be the monkey that was given the gift and the curse of self-reflection. Also what it means to be thinking and feeling human beings in this world, of what our relationships are to each other, to ourselves, to our minds, to our hearts, to nature. The entire ramifications of the evolution of our species.

"We started hearing sounds in our mind that were beyond what guitars and bass and drums could do. Lately I’ve been realising that it was not only our love for industrial music like Throbbing Gristle and Coil, but also things like Public Enemy’s use of the sampler that really opened our eyes. Like, ‘Holy shit, this music sounds like riots are happening in the streets right now!’ ( laughs ) Explosions can be instruments. We also learned how to make our guitars heavier, how to simplify our riffing – the power of channelling all of your intent into a single note. And slowing it down, learning how to breathe, learning when to bring the hammer down and when to let it rest. All of those things began that whole evolutionary path which we’re still on, and still exploring. We're still finding what we think is our true essence.”

It’s interesting that industrial music was a big influence, because your music sounds quite elemental, quite of the natural world. Is that something that you consciously channel? “Yeah, nothing is more powerful than Mother Nature. Nothing is more powerful than the wind, or the lightning, or the waves of the ocean, or fire and ice. All of that is super-elemental. We’ve very specifically channelled those energies and tried to find ways to represent them sonically.”

You’re a tremendously influential band. Were you aware at a certain point that there were bands coming through that were indebted to the sound you’d created? “That’s the highest form of a compliment. I mean, it’s a cliche and everybody says it, but it’s true. This music is a very self-centred activity. The audience is not ever a part of the equation in the creation; it’s not friendly music, it’s not made to give anybody any pleasure. It’s strictly our own, unique, strange way of finding some deeper self-expression while also channelling something greater than ourselves and surrendering to this muse that is the spirit of Neurosis and drives everything that we do.”

Having said that, it isn’t music written with the audience in mind, your gigs have a certain communal aspect that is important. “Yeah, I would agree with that, but we don’t really interact with an audience. We don’t speak or really engage. I think part of that comes from the fact that it is difficult music. It’s not difficult in that it’s always sonically disruptive or anything, but it’s not feel-good, party music. At our concerts, hundreds of people have solitary experiences with this intense music, including us. We have our collective experience, we also have our individual experiences, the way each of us is feeling while that music is moving through us. But I guess that is powerful, when you bring hundreds of people into the same room for what is normally a personal, private experience, and to really just surrender to that sound, as opposed to a party type situation or whatever.”

It would be pretty weird if you or Scott started trying to get the crowd to sing along. “( Laughs ) Yeah. That would sound interesting!”

What is your process for writing songs for your solo work, and how is it different from writing for Neurosis? “Well, Neurosis is very much a collective effort. There’s a million different ways a song can start. It can start with a guitar riff, a concept, a jam, a sample, a rhythm, sometimes something half-formed, sometimes just a series of disparate riffs in the same key looking for a home. It’s about trusting the process for all five of us, to bring our strengths, to challenge our weaknesses and to push each other. With the solo work under my own name, that’s songwriting. That’s where I’m trying to find my own unique folk music that comes from a lifetime of listening to Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, and just trying to craft little private moments that are uniquely my own and not part of a deep experience. This is the sound I want to make when the world is quiet enough for me to explore this. It’s a blend of poetry and guitar accompaniment, piano, wherever the inspiration comes from."

What about your Harvestman project? "That’s something totally different. It’s very much everything I can’t do in those other projects, thrown into a grinder. It really is an expression of my love for psychedelic music, home recording, lo-fi, tape loops, synthesisers, textural electric guitar, ambient music, meditating on sacred spaces. Although it’s not musically apparent in the style necessarily, as an approach I’ve always loved dub, in the sense that whatever the basic tracks were that went to the multi-track tape, that’s not the performance. The performance is the mix, and turning the whole studio into a living being.”

People look at Neurosis and see a bunch of serious dudes playing serious music. Is there a goofy side to the band that people don’t get to see? “Of course. I mean, we’re dead serious about this music, that’s pretty clear. But we laugh and joke, and whenever you stick 5-10 guys together on a bus for extended periods of time, things degrade into comic bullshit pretty quick ( laughs ). Nor do I think we take ourselves too seriously – I mean, the music is dead serious, but ourselves, not so much. We were gifted with this incredible music, but I don’t think any of us feel that we were natural born performers. We’re not one hundred per cent comfortable being entertainers; we like to keep to ourselves and let the music speak for itself. We don’t see ourselves as any sort of celebrity or anything of that nature, we’re just regular guys with jobs who get to do this amazing thing on the side where we come together and deliver this intense music. [It] has been incredibly important to our own lives and our own mental survival, and trying to find meaning in a world full of distraction.”

Do you still think of Neurosis as being a punk rock band at heart? “I do! I still hang on to the original meaning as I saw it, which was never about a style of music – it was about a movement outside of the commercial mainstream, outside of the club scene, outside of radio, outside of regular record labels. It was a movement of people who just had something different to say and something different to express. All of the people I knew growing up; you were either in a band, or you did a fanzine, or you tried to start a record label, or you tried to get a radio spot on a community or college radio station. Clubs weren’t booking this kind of stuff, so you were getting together with friends and putting on house parties or renting warehouse space and putting on gigs. It was all about providing something different and doing something as a community, and I took a lot of lessons from that. In my own mythology, in how I see myself and where I think Neurosis fit, it stems from being a product of that environment, and that’ll never leave us. It’s in our blood.”

The remastered version of Neurosis' 2003 collaboration album with Jarboe will be released on August 2 via Neurot Recordings. The band are currently on tour in Europe, playing in Birmingham, UK on July 19 and London on July 20.

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The Circular Otherness of Neurosis

By Jason Heller

“This circle was a temple which had been devoured by ancient fires, profaned by the miasmal jungle, and whose god no longer received the homage of men.” So wrote Jorge Luis Borges in his short story “The Circular Ruin.” In it, a man undertakes a quest to dream a new person into being. He sleeps for months in the ruins of a temple that once belonged to a deity of flame, using wizardry and his slumbering visions to conjure a full-grown son, organ by organ, into existence. But his quest comes with a price: a shattering realization about the nature of existence, and of otherness, that’s too terrible in its geometric perfection to sanely abide.

Neurosis are no strangers to circularity and otherness. The Oakland-based post-metal collective turns 30 this year, though when its members convened in the mid-’80s, there was only a hint that they’d become the entity capable of creating their 1996 masterpiece, Through Silver in Blood . Neurosis’ debut album, 1987’s Pain of Mind , was a vicious, breakneck amalgam of crust and hardcore with fuck-the-system songs like “United Sheep” and “ Life on Your Knees .” Pretty standard fare for the Reagan era, but it didn’t take long for the band to begin evolving—and rapidly. Each release, from 1990’s The Word as Law to 1992’s Souls at Zero to 1993’s Enemy of the Sun , progressed exponentially from the album before it. The addition, in 1989, of singer/guitarist Steve Von Till to the group’s core—singer/guitarist Scott Kelly , bassist Dave Edwardson, and drummer Jason Roeder—accelerated the band’s rate of experimentation. So did the recruitment of a full-time keyboardist and sample manipulator in 1990 (first Simon McIlroy, then Noah Landis, who has served since 1995), which proved that Neurosis’ hardcore chrysalis was something they were eager to shed.

The band’s ambition greatly stretched their canvas. After allowing metallic elements to creep into The Word as Law —an album released on Lookout! Records, which made Neurosis, oddly enough, labelmates with Green Day —a far more sprawling vision informed Souls at Zero and Enemy of the Sun . The three-minute salvos of Pain of Mind were gone; in their place were staggering opuses like “Cleanse,” which ends Enemy of the Sun on a 26-minute, Crash Worship-esque eruption of chants and tribal percussion. Lyrics no longer concerned themselves with middle fingers raised at modern society. Instead, a sense of pagan awe seeped into Neurosis, to the point where the straw-effigy cover art of Souls at Zero drew inspiration from the pagan horror film The Wicker Man . Tellingly, the final ten minutes of the album comprise a maddening, heavily effected vocal loop that bounces from speaker to speaker, a hint of the unsettling circularity of their next album: Through Silver in Blood .

In addition to the band celebrating its 30th anniversary, Through Silver in Blood turned 20 earlier this year. It’s an album of cyclical mystique. Like “The Circular Ruin” and so many other Borges stories, Through Silver oscillates like an intricate orrery of loops within loops, contained by even greater loops—elusive and extra-dimensional. Whether intentional or not, the album’s closing track, “Enclosure in Flame,” evokes “The Circular Ruin”: “I will open a door and bleed in your dreams,” go the words, howled over a churning, gargantuan guitar motif before concluding, “Silently praying for enclosure/Within the flame of origin.”

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By Nina Corcoran

“I’d say this record is more of an epic undertaking than the last one,” Dave Edwardson said in a 1996 interview , speaking about Through Silver . It might have been the understatement of the year. Neurosis’ fifth full-length isn’t just a proclamation; it’s a monolith. At the height of the CD age, when bands felt obliged to push the format’s data capacity to the limit, the album uncoils accordingly—a 70-minute odyssey into inhuman realms of weirdness. The title track is a layering of tidal sludge, depth-of-hell screams, and undulating lurches of riffage. “ Eye ” roils like a weaponized storm; “ Aeon ” lulls with a cello-and-violin-spiced, chamber-folk intro before going seismic.

Infamously, the scathing sheets of discordance that punctuate “ Purify ”—not to mention the bloodcurdling refrain of “sacrifice the flesh,” which sounds less like a commandment and more like an ecstatic release—give way to the most ethereal bagpipes ever committed to record. They’re made all the more arresting for their sonic and cognitive dissonance, sounding a bit like an ancient incantation reverberating through the centuries. On “Locust Star,” which remains a staple of Neurosis’ lives sets, the earthly corruption of religion is thrown on a bed of nails: “Your belief is scars.” In the hands of a younger Neurosis, it would’ve been just another hardcore screed; here it’s poetic and ambiguous, a probing of the theistic impulse with the tip of a dagger.

The pieces of each song are simple, if not downright elemental—but they’re locked together to form a complex apparatus of mud, bone, and stone. Synths, samples, effects, and amplification are bent toward a paradox. Unlike Radiohead ’s comparably vast and innovative OK Computer from the following year, technology isn’t used to comment on the alienating nature of technology; instead, technology is used to mask its own inherent coldness. Organic yet mechanistic, dense yet severe, Through Silver is industrial music as it might have been imagined by a preindustrial people.

It’s also trippy as hell. As Edwardson commented, “[ Through Silver ] is a very spiritual statement to us dealing with humanity’s place in the cosmos and dealing directly with alchemy and psychedelics.” The ability to hypnotize and transport is one of the album’s most powerful aspects, especially considering its mercilessly pummeling design. Like the extended creative nightmare that afflicts the unnamed protagonist of “The Circular Ruin,” Through Silver taps into various rhythms: circadian, seasonal, astronomical, and above all, ritualistic. Alchemy and psychedelics are uttered in the same breath for good reason: The album’s cover, which depicts two entwined snakes in one of the oldest alchemical symbols, emblematizes the idea of infinity through repetition. The riffs are synched to that waveform, even as the songs coalesce into a fugue state of doubt, fear, confusion, rage, and the quest for meaning in chaos.

Neurosis came from hardcore—as well as drawing plenty of dark matter from Swans , Godflesh , Amebix, Melvins , and Joy Division (whose “ Day of the Lords ” has been a favorite cover of theirs for decades)—but Through Silver was the point at which the metal scene finally began to embrace them. After the group’s stints on Lookout! as well as Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles, Through Silver landed at Relapse, which was then become one of metal’s most progressive labels. They were invited to play the inaugural Ozzfest in 1996; they also went on tour with Pantera at the height of the latter’s popularity.

“[Pantera] can play places that we really can’t,” Scott Kelly told an interviewer in early 1997. “We can’t play the smallest club in town because of our setup and the power constraints. On the other hand, we don’t sell enough records to play the bigger places.” By “setup and power constraints,” he meant the ever-growing stage spectacle that Neurosis needed to complement their huge sound. In addition to the massive amounts of equipment needed to replicate the lush, textured studio sound of Through Silver , they augmented their performance with a dizzying light show that helped make Neurosis shows feel like druidic rites.

These days, Neurosis concerts are a bit less immersive. The band still sounds as mighty as ever, but there’s less importance placed on ritual and mystery: They come out, they play the songs, and they’re devastating, simple as that. Their recorded legacy, though, is as mystifying as ever. Following Through Silver , they released 1999’s Times of Grace , an album as gaunt and ferociously focused as Through Silver is extravagant. Since then, their output has proceeded undiminished. From 2001’s A Sun That Never Sets to 2012’s Honor Found in Decay , they continually spiraled around their biomechanical core, a place where death and rebirth, destruction and construction are locked into a metaphysical rhythm. In the process, they’ve influenced countless bands, from Isis to Sleep to Russian Circles to Dead to a Dying World . The melding of so many genres—hardcore, metal, prog, folk, industrial, crust—has taken on an alchemical force of its own. At the same time, Neurosis inhabits their own hermetic sphere, a place where the mist-shrouded past and some dystopian future collide and resolve, over and over, infinitely.

Neurosis’ twelfth full-length arrives in a few weeks (September 23), and its title, Fires Within Fires , forges another parallel to Borges’ “The Circular Ruins.” At one point in the story, the temple’s fire god appears to guide to the protagonist as he crafts a man from the stuff of his dreams. But in a meta-narrative twist, the man discovers he’s as much of a dreamed creation as the new human he’s bringing into being. As it turns out, we’re all echoes, replicas, motifs in the pattern of spacetime, “for what had happened many centuries before was repeating itself.” Listening to the cosmic repetitiveness of Through Silver in Blood , it feels all too eerily possible.

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25/11/1986; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. Band Residency, earliest known w/ Phil on vocals. 26/11/1986; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 27/11/1986; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 28/11/1986; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 29/11/1986; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 30/11/1986; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 01/01/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 11/07/1987; Concert at The Rock Ranch, Munster, TX, USA. 12/07/1987; Concert at The Rock Ranch, Munster, TX, USA. 15/07/1987; Concert at Matley’s, Dallas, TX, USA. Band Residency. 16/07/1987; Concert at Matley’s, Dallas, TX, USA. 17/07/1987; Concert at Matley’s, Dallas, TX, USA. 18/07/1987; Concert at Matley’s, Dallas, TX, USA. 19/07/1987; Concert at Matley’s, Dallas, TX, USA. 20/07/1987; Concert at Matley’s, Dallas, TX, USA. 25/07/1987; Concert at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 26/07/1987; Concert at The Troubador, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 29/07/1987; Concert at Rocker’s, Phoenix, AZ, USA. Band residency. 30/07/1987; Concert at Rocker’s, Phoenix, AZ, USA. 31/07/1987; Concert at Rocker’s, Phoenix, AZ, USA. 01/08/1987; Concert at Rocker’s, Phoenix, AZ, USA. 02/08/1987; Concert at Rocker’s, Phoenix, AZ, USA. 03/08/1987; Concert at Rocker’s, Phoenix, AZ, USA. 12/08/1987; Concert at Saso’s, El Paso, TX, USA. Band residency. 13/08/1987; Concert at Saso’s, El Paso, TX, USA. 14/08/1987; Concert at Saso’s, El Paso, TX, USA. 15/08/1987; Concert at Saso’s, El Paso, TX, USA. 16/08/1987; Concert at Saso’s, El Paso, TX, USA. 02/09/1987; Concert at Cardi’s, Houston, TX, USA. Band residency. 03/09/1987; Concert at Cardi’s, Houston, TX, USA. 04/09/1987; Concert at Cardi’s, Houston, TX, USA. 05/09/1987; Concert at Cardi’s, Houston, TX, USA. 06/09/1987; Concert at Cardi’s, Houston, TX, USA. 12/09/1987; Concert at Circle In The Square, Shreveport, CA, USA. 13/09/1987; Concert at Circle In The Square, Shreveport, CA, USA. 16/09/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. Band residency. 17/09/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 18/09/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 19/09/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 20/09/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 21/09/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 03/10/1987; Concert at The Arcadia Theater, Dallas, TX, USA. 10/10/1987; Concert at The Arcadia Theater, Dallas, TX, USA. 25/11/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. Band residency. 26/11/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 27/11/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 28/11/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 29/11/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 30/11/1987; Concert at Savvy’s, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 10/12/1987; Concert at Metalworks, Arlington, TX, USA. 11/12/1987; Concert at Metalworks, Atlington, TX, USA. 12/12/1987; Concert at Metalworks, Arlington, TX, USA. 31/12/1987; Concert at Metalworks, Arlington, TX, USA. with Katt Daquiri. 01/01/1988; Concert at Metalworks, Arlington, TX, USA. with Katt Daquiri. 02/01/1988; Concert at Metalworks, Arlington, TX, USA. with Katt Daquiri. 24/06/1988; `Power Metal` album released. 1st album with Phil Anselmo. 02/07/1988; Concert at Arcadia Theatre, Dallas, TX, USA. 20/10/1988; Concert at Joe’s Garage, Ft. Worth, TX, USA. with Katt Daquiri. 20/12/1988; Concert at The Basement, Dallas, TX, USA. opening for Circus Of Power. 06/03/1989; Concert at The Cat Club, New York, NY, USA. 19/05/1989; Concert at Joe’s Garage, Fort Worth, TX, USA. with Kerry King as special guest. 01/06/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 02/06/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 03/06/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 16/06/1989; Concert at Joe’s Garage, Fort Worth, TX, USA. with Tailspin. 17/06/1989; Concert at Joe’s Garage, Fort Worth, TX, USA. with Tailspin. 01/07/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. with Katt Daiquiri. 14/07/1989; Concert at The Bear Creek Crossin’ Club, De Soto, TX, USA. 15/07/1989; Concert at The Bear Creek Crossin’ Club, De Soto, TX, USA. 17/07/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. with Hammerhead. 09/11/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 10/11/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 14/12/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 15/12/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 16/12/1989; Concert at City Limits, Dallas, TX, USA. 31/12/1989; Concert at The Basement, Dallas, TX, USA. 30/03/1990; Concert at L’Amour, Brooklyn, NY, USA. opening for Sanctuary & Fates Warning, with Dead-On. 25/05/1990; Concert at Backstage, ??, TX, USA. 02/06/1990; Concert at The Basement, Dallas, TX, USA. video shoot. 01/07/1990; Concert at The Basement, Dallas, TX, USA. video shoot. 13/07/1990; `Cowboys From Hell` album released. 21/07/1990; Concert at The Basement, Dallas, TX, USA. album release show. 26/07/1990; Concert at Kinetix, ??, CA, USA. with Forte. album release show. 18/08/1990; Concert at The Stone, San Francisco, CA, USA. opening for Suicidal Tendencies. 19/08/1990; Concert at The Bren Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 20/08/1990; Concert at After The Gold Rush, Phoenix, AZ, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 21/08/1990; Concert at ??, Tuscon, AZ, USA. 23/08/1990; Concert at ??, Denver, CO, USA. 25/08/1990; Concert at ??, Milwaukee, WI, USA. 26/08/1990; Concert at The Vic, Chicago, IL, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 27/08/1990; Concert at First Avenue, Minniapolis, MN, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 29/08/1990; Concert at Mississippi Nights, St. Louis, MD, USA. 30/08/1990; Concert at Bogarts, Cincinatti, OH, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 31/08/1990; Concert at The Agora, Cleveand, OH, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 01/09/1990; Concert at ??, Columbus, OH, USA. 02/09/1990; Concert at ??, Detroit, MI, USA. 04/09/1990; Concert at ??, Toronto, ON, Canada. 05/09/1990; Concert at The Spectrum, Montreal, QC, Canada. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 06/09/1990; Concert at Saratoga Winners, Albany, NY, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 07/09/1990; Concert at The Ritz, New York City, NY, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 08/09/1990; Concert at The Ritz, New York City, NY, USA. opening for Exodus & Suicidal Tendencies. 09/09/1990; Concert at ??, Boston, MA, USA. 10/09/1990; Concert at ??, Athens, NY, USA. 11/09/1990; Concert at ??, New Haven, CT, USA. 12/09/1990; Concert at ??, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 13/09/1990; Concert at Painters Mill Theater, Owings Mills, MY, USA. opening for Suicidal Tendencies & Exodus. 15/09/1990; Concert at The Concrete Foundations Forum, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 20/09/1990; Concert at ??, Providence, RI, USA. 21/09/1990; Concert at ??, Newark, NJ, USA. 22/09/1990; Concert at The Fastlane II, Astbury Park, NJ, USA. with Skitzo. 24/09/1990; Concert at ??, Boston, MA, USA. 25/09/1990; Concert at ??, Washington, DC, USA. 26/09/1990; Concert at ??, Pitsburgh, PA, USA. with Eviction & Solitude. 27/09/1990; Concert at ??, Rochester, NY, USA. 28/09/1990; Concert at ??, Brooklyn, NY, USA. 29/09/1990; Concert at ??, ??, NY, USA. 01/10/1990; Concert at ??, Baltimore, MD, USA. 03/10/1990; Concert at ??, Cleveland, OH, USA. 04/10/1990; Concert at ??, Toronto, ON, Canada. 05/10/1990; Concert at ??, Detroit, MI, USA. 06/10/1990; Concert at ??, Chicago, IL, USA. 07/10/1990; Concert at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 08/10/1990; Concert at ??, St. Paul, MN, USA. 10/10/1990; Concert at The Lone Star, Kansas City, MO, USA. 11/10/1990; Concert at The Diamond Ballroom, Chatanooga City, OK, USA. 12/10/1990; Concert at ??, Wichita, KS, USA. 13/10/1990; Concert at Cain`s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK, USA. with Forte & Klokworq. 16/10/1990; Concert at ??, Houston, TX, USA. 17/10/1990; Concert at ??, San Antonia, TX, USA. 18/10/1990; Concert at ??, Austin, TX, USA. 04/11/1990; Concert at ??, Orlando, FL, USA. 05/11/1990; Concert at ??, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA. 06/11/1990; Concert at ??, Jacksonville, FL, USA. 07/11/1990; Concert at The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA, USA. opening for Prong, with Mind Over Four. 08/11/1990; Concert at ??, Hickory, NC, USA. 09/11/1990; Concert at ??, Wilmington, NC, USA. 11/11/1990; Concert at ??, Hadley, MA, USA. 12/11/1990; Concert at ??, Provodence, RI, USA. 13/11/1990; Concert at ??, Boston, MA, USA. 14/11/1990; Concert at ??, New York City, NY, USA. 15/11/1990; Concert at ??, Albany, NY, USA. 17/11/1990; Concert at ??, Montreal, QC, Canada. 18/11/1990; Concert at The Diamond Club, Toronto, ON, Canada. opening for Prong. 19/11/1990; Concert at Peabody`s Downunder, Cleveland, OH, USA. opening for Prong, with Mind Over Four. 20/11/1990; Concert at ??, Cincinatti, OH, USA. opening for Prong, with Mind Over Four. 23/11/1990; Concert at ??, Columbus, OH, USA. 24/11/1990; Concert at ??, Detroit, MI, USA. 25/11/1990; Concert at ??, Chicago, IL, USA. 26/11/1990; Concert at First Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, USA. opening for Prong, with Mind Over Four. 27/11/1990; Concert at City Center Theater, Green Bay, WI, USA. 28/11/1990; Concert at ??, Minniapolis, MN, USA. 30/11/1990; Concert at ??, Des Moines, IA, USA. 01/12/1990; Concert at The Outhouse, Lawrence, KS, USA. opening for Prong, with Mind Over Four. 02/12/1990; Concert at The Diamond Ballroom, Omaha, NE, USA. opening for Exodus & Prong. 03/12/1990; Concert at ??, St. Louis, MD, USA. 04/12/1990; Concert at ??, Memphis, TN, USA. 05/12/1990; Concert at The Backroom, Houston, TX, USA. opening for Prong, with Mind Over Four. 07/12/1990; Concert at ??, Dallas, TX, USA. 08/12/1990; Concert at ??, Dallas, TX, USA. 11/12/1990; Concert at ??, Denver, CO, USA. 12/12/1990; Concert at ??, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 14/12/1990; Concert at The Quake, Reno, NV, USA. 15/12/1990; Concert at The Stone, San Francisco, CA, USA. with The Horde Of Torment. 16/12/1990; Concert at ??, Fresno, CA, USA. 17/12/1990; Concert at ??, Las Vegas, NV, USA. 19/12/1990; Concert at ??, Long Beach, CA, USA. 28/12/1990; Concert at ??, New Orleans, LA, USA. 29/12/1990; Concert at ??, Shreveport, LA, USA. 31/12/1990; Concert at ??, Houston, TX, USA. 20/01/1991; Concert at The Beachem Theatre, Orlando, FL, USA. opening for Morbid Angel, Deicide, Devastation & Fatal Sin. 31/02/1991; Concert at KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 01/02/1991; Concert at Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 02/02/1991; Concert at Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 04/02/1991; Concert at Jaahalli, Helsinki, Finland. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 06/02/1991; Concert at Rockerfeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 08/02/1991; Concert at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 09/02/1991; Concert at Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 11/02/1991; Concert at Eissporthalle, Berlin, Germany. opening for Annihilator. 12/02/1991; Concert at Eilenriedehalle, Hannover, Germany. opening for Annihilator. 14/02/1991; Concert at Saarlandhalle, Saarbrucken, Germany. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 15/02/1991; Concert at Oberschwabenhalle, Ravensburg, Germany. opening for Annihilator. 16/02/1991; Concert at Carl-Diem-Halle, Wurzberg, Germany. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 18/02/1991; Concert at Stadhalle, Offenbach, Germany. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 19/02/1991; Concert at Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 20/02/1991; Concert at Bank-Austria Zelt, Vienna, Austria. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 21/02/1991; Concert at Eisstadion Liebenau, Graz, Austria. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 23/02/1991; Concert at Festhalle, Lucerne, Switzerland. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 24/02/1991; Concert at Palasport Palaresa, Bolzano, Italy. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 25/02/1991; Concert at Hala Tivoli, Ljublijana, Slovenia. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 26/02/1991; Concert at Dom Sportova, Zagreb, Croatia. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 01/03/1991; Concert at Teatro Tendastrice, Rome, Italy. opening for Annihilator. 02/03/1991; Concert at Palasport, Brescia, Italy. opening for Annihilator. 04/03/1991; Concert at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany. opening for Annihilator. 05/03/1991; Concert at Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany . opening for Annihilator. 06/03/1991; Concert at Rhein-Mosel Halle, Keblenz, Germany. opening for Annihilator. 08/03/1991; Concert at The Bull Ring, Saragossa, Spain. opening for Annihilator. 09/03/1991; Concert at Velodromo De Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 10/03/1991; Concert at Palacio De Deportes, Madrid, Spain. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 12/03/1991; Concert at Transbordeur, Villeurbanne, France. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 13/03/1991; Concert at Sportivo De Cascais, Cascais, Portugal. opening for Annihilator. 15/03/1991; Concert at Rijnhal, Arnhem, The Netherlands. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 16/03/1991; Concert at Vorst National, Brussles, Belgium. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 17/03/1991; Concert at Le Zenith, Paris, France. opening for Judas Priest & Annihilator. 19/03/1991; Concert at The Marquee, London, England. with Slammer. 19/03/1991; In Store Appearance at Shades, London, England. 10/04/1991; Concert at Bogarts, Cincinatti, OH, USA. opening for Wrathchild America. 11/04/1991; Concert at The Alrosa, ??, ??, USA. opening for Wrathchild America. 13/04/1991; Concert at The Ritz, ??, ??, USA. opening for Wrathchild America. 14/04/1991; Concert at The Avalon Nightclub, Chicago, IL, USA. with Wrathchild America & Demeted Ted. 20/04/1991; Concert at Hammerjacks, Baltimore, MD, USA. opening for Wrathchild America, with Mystic Force. 24/04/1991; Concert at Center Stage, ??, ??, USA. with Wrathchild America. 25/04/1991; Concert at Andale Hall, Andale, ??, USA. opening for Wrathchild America. 28/04/1991; Concert at The Visage Nightclub, Orlando, FL, USA. with Wrathchild America. 30/04/1991; Concert at St. Bernard Civic Center, Chalmette, LA, USA. with Wrathchild America. 01/05/1991; Concert at ??, Shreveport, LA, USA. with Wrathchild America. 04/05/1991; Concert at The Arcadia Theater, Dallas, TX, USA. with Wrathchild America. 05/05/1991; Concert at The Showcase, San Antonio, TX, USA. with Wrathchild America & Byfist. 07/05/1991; Concert at The Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. with Wratchchild America. 12/05/1991; Concert at The Limelite, Grove Street, Reno, NV, USA. with Wrathchild America & Absolut. 14/05/1991; Concert at The Stone, San Francisco, CA, USA. with Wrathchild America, Panic & Oblivion. 15/05/1991; Concert at The Bandstand, Anaheim, CA, USA. with Wrathchild America & Kill Era. 16/05/1991; Concert at The Whiskey A-Go-Go, Hollywood, CA, USA. with Wrathchild America. 19/05/1991; Concert at Chandler Compadre Stadium, Chandler, AZ, USA. opening for Flotsam & Jetsam & Sacred Reich, with Wrathchild America etc. 21/05/1991; Concert at The Outhouse, Boston, MA, USA. with Wrathchild America & Kill Whitey. ​25/05/1991; Concert at The Newport Music Hall, ??, ??, USA. with Wrathchild America. 26/05/1991; Concert at Bogarts, Cincinatti, OH, USA. opening for Wrathchild America. 31/05/1991; Concert at Saratoga Winners, Albany, NY, USA. with Wrathchild America. 03/06/1991; Concert at Toad`s Place, New Haven. ??, USA. with Wrathchild America. 07/06/1991; Concert at The Airport Music Hall, Allentown, PA, USA. opening for Wratchild America, with Gothic Slam. 14/06/1991; Concert at The Ritz Music Hall, ??, ??, USA. with Wratchild America, Violent Demise & Cornucopia Of Death. 02/08/1991; Concert at Pink’s Garage, Honalulu, HI, USA. with B.Y.K. 28/09/1991; Concert at Tushino Airfield, Moscow, Russia. opening for AC/DC, Metallica, The Black Crowes. 23/11/1991; Concert at The Ritz Theatre, Tampa, FL, USA. 29/11/1991; Concert at The Vatican, Washington, DC, USA. 14/01/1992; Concert at The Roxy, Atlanta, GA, USA. 17/01/1992; Concert at Hammerjacks, Baltimore, MD, USA. 23/01/1992; Concert at ENT Hall, ??, ??, USA. opening for Skid Row. 25/01/1992; Concert at Club 1000, ??, ??, USA. 19/02/1992; Concert at Club 367, St. Louis, MO, USA. with Krazan. 21/02/1992; `Vulgar Display Of Power` album released. also released/advertised as 20/02/1992 in some territories. 22/02/1992; Concert at Harpo’s, Detroit, MI, USA. 23/02/1992; Concert at The Vic, Chicago, IL, USA. with Fates Warning & The Plague. 25/02/1992; Concert at McNichols Arena, ??, ??, USA. opening for Skid Row & Soundgarden. 08/03/1992; Concert at Henry J. Kaiser Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. opening for Skid Row. 09/03/1992; Concert at Sacremento Exhibit Hall, Sacremento, CA, USA. opening for Skid Row. 10/03/1992; Concert at The Event Centre, San Jose, CA, USA. opening for Skid Row. 20/03/1992; Concert at The Astro Arena, Houston, TX, USA. opening for Skid Row. 28/03/1992; Concert at Cains Ballroom, Tulsa, OK, USA. with My Sister`s Machine & Crowbar. 31/03/1992; Concert at The Mirage Nightclub, ??, MN, USA. with My Sister`s Machine & Crowbar. 01/04/1992; Concert at The Mirage Nightclub, ??, MN, USA. 12/04/1992; Concert at RPI Fieldhouse, ??, ??, USA. opening for Skid Row. 24/04/1992; Concert at The Paramount, ??, ??, USA. opening for Skid Row. 17/05/1992; Concert at The Riverfront, ??, ??, USA. opening for Skid Row. 27/05/1992; Concert at Fargo Civic Memorial Auditorium, ??, ??, USA. opening for Skid Row. 03/06/1992; Concert at The Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 04/06/1992; Concert at The Metropol, ??, ??, USA. 08/06/1992; Concert at The Auditorium De Verdun, Montreal, QC, Canada. opening for Skid Row. 12/06/1992; Concert at The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, NJ, USA. opening for Skid Row. 26/06/1992; Concert at The San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, USA. with White Zombie & Crowbar. 27/06/1992; Concert at The Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, USA. with White Zombie, Crowbar. 08/07/1992; Concert at Kanin Hoken Hall, Tokyo, Japan. with Outrage. 09/07/1992; Concert at Kohwan, Kaiken, Nagoya, Japan. with Outrage. 11/07/1992; Concert at Midoh Kaikan, Osaka, Japan. with Outrage. 13/07/1992; Concert at Club Citta Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. with Outrage. 14/07/1992; Concert at Nakano Sanplaza, Tokyo, Japan. with Outrage. 17/08/1992; Concert at The Pacific Amph., ??, ??, USA 18/08/1992; Concert at The Warfield, San Francisco, CA, USA. with White Zombie & Trouble. 19/08/1992; Concert at The Pioneer Centre, Reno, NV, USA. 23/08/1992; Concert at The Mirage Nightclub, ??, MN, USA. with Trouble & White Zombie. 26/08/1992; Concert at The Riviera, Chicago, IL, USA. 27/08/1992; Concert at The State Theatre, Detroit, MI, USA. 28/08/1992; Concert at The Exhibition Center, Cincinatti, OH, USA. with Trouble. 01/09/1992; Concert at The Spectrum, Montreal, QC, Canada. with White Zombie. 02/09/1992; Concert at E.M. Leow’s, Worcester, MA, USA. with White Zombie & Trouble. 04/09/1992; Concert at The Roseland, New York, NY, USA. 05/09/1992; Concert at The Boathouse, Norfolk, VA, USA. with White Zombie & Trouble. 12/09/1992; Concert at Aeroporto Di Reggio Emilia, Italy. opening for Iron Maiden etc. `Monsters Of Rock`. 14/09/1992; Concert at Plaza De Toros, Barcelona, Spain. opening for Iron Maiden etc. `Monsters Of Rock`. 17/09/1992; Concert at Velodromo De Anoete, San Sebastian, Spain. opening for Iron Maiden etc. `Monsters Of Rock`. 18/09/1992; Concert at Las Arenas Plaza De Toros, Madrid, Spain. opening for Iron Maiden etc. `Monsters Of Rock`. 19/09/1992; Concert at Municipal Tent, Madrid, Spain. opening for Iron Maiden etc. `Monsters Of Rock`. 22/09/1992; Concert at Le Zenith, Paris, France. opening for Megadeth, with Body Count. 24/09/1992; Concert at The Ulster Hall, Belfast, Ireland. opening for Megadeth. 27/09/1992; Concert at N.E.C. Arena, Birmingham, England. opening for Megadeth. 28/09/1992; Concert at The Pavillions, Plymouth, England. opening for Megadeth. 29/09/1992; Concert at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England. opening for Megadeth. 30/09/1992; Concert at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England. opening for Megadeth. 01/10/1992; Concert at Newport Centre, Newport, Wales. opening for Megadeth. 03/10/1992; Concert at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. opening for Megadeth. 04/10/1992; Concert at The City Hall, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England. opening for Megadeth. 05/10/1992; Concert at The Apollo, Manchester, England. opening for Megadeth. 06/10/1992; Concert at Wessex Hall, Poole, England. opening for Megadeth. 07/10/1992; Concert at The Corn Eschange, Cambridge, England. opening for Megadeth. 16/10/1992; Concert at Burghal, Genk, Belgium. opening for Megadeth. 17/10/1992; Concert at Festhalle, Sempach, Germany. opening for Megadeth. 20/10/1992; Concert at The Docks, Hamburg, Germany. opening for Megadeth. 23/10/1992; Concert at Philpshalle, Dortmund, Germany. opening for Megadeth. 24/10/1992; Concert at Rijhal, Arnhem, The Netherlands. opening for Megadeth. 06/11/1992; Concert at The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 07/11/1992; Concert at The Roseland Theater, Portland, OR, USA. with Trouble. 08/11/1992; Concert at The Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA, USA. 10/11/1992; Concert at Sacremento Exhibit Hall, Sacremento, CA, USA. with Trouble. 11/11/1992; Concert at Huntridge Perf. Arts, Las Vegas, NV, USA. cancelled. 11/11/1992; Concert at The Event Center, San Jose, CA, USA. with Trouble. 12/11/1992; Concert at The Wilson Theatre, Fresno, CA, USA. with Trouble. 14/11/1992; Concert at The Starlight Bowl, SanDiego, CA, USA. 15/11/1992; Concert at The Anaconda Theater, Isla Vista, CA, USA. 16/11/1992; Concert at The Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 17/11/1992; Concert at Club Rio, Tempe, AZ, USA. 18/11/1992; Concert at The Amigo Center, Tucson, AZ, USA. 20/11/1992; Concert at The Fair Park Coliseum, Lubbock, TX, USA. 22/11/1992; Concert at The Myriad Exhibition Hall, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. 23/11/1992; Concert at Rockwave, San Antonio, TX, USA. 24/11/1992; Concert at The Unicorn, Houston, TX, USA. 25/11/1992; Concert at The Unicorn, Houston, TX, USA. 30/11/1992; Concert at The Edge, Ft. Lauderdale, TX, USA. with White Zombie. 01/12/1992; Concert at The Ritz Theatre, Ybor City, FL, USA. with White Zombie. 04/12/1992; Concert at The International Ballroom, Atlanta, GA, USA. with White Zombie. 05/12/1992; Concert at The Performance Hall, Nashville, TN, USA. with White Zombie. 10/12/1992; Concert at The Ranch Bowl, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. with White Zombie. 20/01/1993; Concert at The Marquee, London, England. with The Wildhearts. 21/01/1993; Concert at Elysee-Montmartre, Paris, France. with M.O.D.. 22/01/1993; Concert at Vooruit, Gent, Belgium. 24/01/1993; Concert at The Aladin, Bremen, Germany. 25/01/1993; Concert at The Docks, Hamburg, Germany. 26/01/1993; Concert at Huxley`s Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany. 27/01/1993; Concert at The Music Hall, Hannover, Germany. 29/01/1993; Concert at Pumphuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. 30/01/1993; Concert at Rocks, Odense, Denmark. 01/02/1993; Concert at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 02/02/1993; Concert at Noorderligt, Tilburg, The Netherlands. 03/02/1993; Concert at Real, Nurnberg, Germany. 04/02/1993; Concert at The Music Hall, Frankfurt, Germany. 05/02/1993; Concert at PC69, Bielfeld, Germany. 07/02/1993; Concert at Palagesto?, Milan, Italy. 10/02/1993; Concert at Nottingham Rock City, Nottingham, England. with Gruntruck. 10/02/1993; In Store Appearance at Way Ahead Records in Nottingham. 11/02/1993; Concert at The Town & Country Club, London, England. with Gruntruck. 11/02/1993; In Store Appearance at Rock It! Records in Croydon. 12/02/1993; Concert at The Newport Center, Wales. with Gruntruck. 13/02/1993; Concert at The Wolverhampton Civic Center, Wolverhampton, England. with Gruntruck. 14/02/1993; Concert at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. with Gruntruck. 14/02/1993; In Store Appeareance at Tower Records in Glasgow. 15/02/1993; `Walk` single released. 16/02/1993; Concert at The SFX, Dublin, Ireland. with Gruntruck. (moved from 08/02). 04/03/1993; Concert at The Orpheum, Bostom, MA, USA. with Sacred Reich. 06/03/1993; Concert at The Concert Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada. with Sacred Reich. 07/03/1993; Concert at Le Spectrum, Montreal, QC, Canada. with Sacred Reich. 08/03/1993; Concert at Le Spectrum, Montreal, QC, Canada. with Sacred Reich. 09/03/1993; Concert at Ottowa Congress, Ottawa, ON, Canada. with Sacred Reich. 10/03/1993; Concert at Solide Rock, Quebec City, QC, Canada. with Sacred Reich. 12/03/1993; Concert at Palace Theatre, Albany, NY, USA. with Sacred Reich. 13/03/1993; Concert at Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA, USA. with Sacred Reich. 14/03/1993; Concert at The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, USA. with Sacred Reich. 15/03/1993; Concert at Michaels 8th Avenue, Glen Burnie, MD, USA. with Sacred Reich. 17/03/1993; Concert at Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY, USA. with Sacred Reich. 18/03/1993; Concert at Blind Melons, Cheektowaga, NY, USA. with Sacred Reich. 19/03/1993; Concert at The Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, USA. with Sacred Reich. 20/03/1993; Concert at The Palladium, Warwick, RI, USA. with Sacred Reich. 21/03/1993; Concert at The Sting, New Britain, CT, USA. with Sacred Reich. 23/03/1993; Concert at Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. with Sacred Reich. 25/03/1993; Concert at Hara Arena, Dayton OH, USA. with Sacred Reich. (moved to April). 26/03/1993; Concert at Veterans Memorial, Columbus, OH, USA. with Sacred Reich. 27/03/1993; Concert at State Theatre, Detroit, MI, USA. with Sacred Reich. 28/03/1993; Concert at The Aragon Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA. with Sacred Reich. 02/04/1993; Concert at The Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA. with Sacred Reich. 03/04/1993; Concert at The Sports Arena, Toledo, OH, USA. with Sacred Reich. 04/04/1993; Concert at Macauley Theatre, Louisville, KT, USA. with Sacred Reich. ??/04/1993; Concert at Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. with Sacred Reich. (moved from 25/03 and was the last date of the tour, several dates were cancelled). 01/07/1993; Concert at DTE Energy Music Center, Clarkston, IL, USA. opening for Megadeth, with White Zombie. 02/07/1993; Concert at Cleveland Public Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA. opening for Megadeth, with White Zombie. 03/07/1993; Concert at Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. opening for Megadeth, with White Zombie. 07/12/1993; Concert at Bilheteria Do Olympia, ??, Brazil. 08/12/1993; Concert at Bilheteria Do Olympia, ??, Brazil. 10/12/1993; Concert at Estacionamiento Del Poliedro, ??, ??. 07/03/1994; `I’m Broken` single released. 18/03/1994; `Far Beyond Driven` album released. also released/advertised as 21/03/1994 or 22/03/1994 in some territories. 25/03/1994; `Far Beyond Driven` album released in Japan. 25/03/1994; `Vulgar Video` released in Japan. 07/04/1994; Concert at The Tower Theater, ??, ??, USA. 10/04/1994; Concert at Fogel Sabourin, Montreal, QC, Canada. 13/04/1994; Concert at Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, USA. 15/04/1994; Concert at The Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH, USA. with Crowbar. 20/04/1994; Concert at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, USA. with Crowbar. 21/04/1994; Concert at The American Theatre, ??, ??, USA. with Crowbar. 22/04/1994; Concert at The Memorial Hall, ??, ??, USA. 26/04/1994; Concert at The Civic Plaza, ??, ??, USA. 28/04/1994; Concert at The Warfield, San Francisco, CA, USA. 30/04/1994; Concert at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, USA. with Crowbar. 10/05/1994; Concert at ??, Tokyo, Japan. with White Zombie. 11/05/1994; Concert at ??, Osaka, Japan. with White Zombie. 13/05/1994; Concert at ??, Tokyo, Japan. with White Zombie. 14/05/1994; Concert at ??, Tokyo, Japan. with White Zombie. 14/06/1994; Concert at Donington Park, Donington, England. with Aerosmith etc.. `Monsters Of Rock`. 19/06/1994; Concert at Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH, USA. 20/06/1994; Concert at Village Pantry, Deer Creek, ??, USA. 23/06/1994; Concert at The Coliseum, ??, ??, USA. 24/06/1994; Concert at The World Music Theatre, ??, ??, USA. with Sepultura & Biohazard. 29/06/1994; Concert at ??, ??, ??, USA. with Sepultura & Biohazard. 02/07/1994; Concert at Daytona Beach, Daytona, ??, USA. with Biohazard. 09/07/1994; Concert at PNE Forum, Vancouver, Canada. with Sepultura & Prong. 10/07/1994; Concert at Portland Meadows, Portland, OR, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 11/07/1994; Concert at ??, Seattle, WA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 14/07/1994; Concert at Arco Arena, Sacremento, CA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 15/07/1994; Concert at The Event Centre, San Jose, CA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 17/07/1994; Concert at Irvine Meadows Amph., Irvine, CA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 19/07/1994; Concert at San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 20/07/1994; Concert at Compton Terrace, Phoenix, AZ, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 22/07/1994; Concert at The County Coliseum, El Paso, TX, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 23/07/1994; Concert at The Convention Center, Abuquerque, NM, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 25/07/1994; Concert at Red Rock Amph., Morrison, CO, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 27/07/1994; Concert at Fair Park Coliseum, Lubbock, TX, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 29/07/1994; Concert at Starplex Amph., Dallas, TX, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 30/07/1994; Concert at South Park Meadows, Austin, TX, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 31/07/1994; Concert at Astro Arena, Houston, TX, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 03/08/1994; Concert at State Palace Theatre, New Orleans, LA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 05/08/1994; Concert at Lakewood Amph., Atlanta, GA, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 06/08/1994; Concert at Blockbuster Pavillion, Charlotte, NC, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 07/08/1994; Concert at Walnut Creek Amph., Raleigh, NC, USA. with Sepultura. 09/08/1994; Concert at Starwood Amph., Antioch, TN, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 10/08/1994; Concert at Mid South Coliseum, Memphis, TN, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 11/08/1994; Concert at Riverport Amph., St. Louis, MO, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 13/08/1994; Concert at Apple River Amph., Somerset, WI, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 14/08/1994; Concert at Alpine Valley, E. Troy, WI, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 16/08/1994; Concert at Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. with Sepultura & Prong. 17/08/1994; Concert at Polaris Amph., Columbus, OH, USA. with Sepultura. 19/08/1994; Concert at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, USA. with Prong. 20/08/1994; Concert at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 07/09/1994; Concert at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. with Downset. 08/09/1994; Concert at City Hall, Newcastle, England. with Downset. 10/09/1994; Concert at The Royal Court, Liverpool, England. with Downset. 11/09/1994; Concert at Newport Centre, Newport, Wales. with Downset. 12/09/1994; Concert at Brixton Academy, London, England. with Downset. 14/09/1994; Concert at Manchester Labatts Apollo, Manchester, England. with Downset. 15/09/1994; Concert at The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England. with Downset. 16/09/1994; Concert at The Pavillion, Plymnouth, England. with Downset. 24/09/1994; Concert at Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden. with Downset & The Almighty. 26/09/1994; Concert at Stadhalle 4, Bremen, Germany. 28/09/1994; Concert at Gross Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany. 29/09/1994; Concert at The Stadhalle, Offenbach, Germany. with Downset & The Almighty. October 1, 1994 at Boschhalle, Wels, Austria 03/10/1994; Concert at Congresszentrum, Stuttgart, Germany. with The Almighty & Downset. 05/10/1994; Concert at Kulturzelt, Leipzig, Germany. 06/10/1994; Concert at Rudi-Sedermayer-Halle, Munich, Germany. with The Almighty. 07/10/1994; Concert at Stadhalle, Furth, Germany. 08/10/1994; Concert at Die Halle, Berlin, Germany. with Downset & The Almighty. 10/10/1994; `Planet Caravan` single released. 10/10/1994; Concert at Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen, Germany. 11/10/1994; Concert at Music Hall, Hannover, Germany. 12/10/1994; Concert at De Vereeningen, Nijmengen, Holland. with The Almighty & Downset. 13/10/1994; Concert at Le Zenith, Paris, France. with The Almighty & Downset. 15/10/1994; Concert at Velodrome Anoeta, ??, ??. with The Almighty & Downset. 16/10/1994; Concert at Pabellon Del Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain. with The Almighty & Downset. 17/10/1994; Concert at Cascais, ??, ??. with Downset & The Almighty. 19/10/1994; Concert at Vall D`Hebron, ??, Spain. with The Almighty & Downset. 21/10/1994; Concert at The Forum, Milan, Italy. with The Almighty & Downset. 05/11/1994; Concert at Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. 06/11/1994; Concert at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealand. 08/11/1994; Concert at The Festival Hall, Brisbane, Australia. 09/11/1994; Concert at The Festival Hall, Brisbane, Australia. 11/11/1994; Concert at The Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, Australia. 12/11/1994; Concert at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia. 14/11/1994; Concert at The Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia. 15/11/1994; Concert at The Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia. 16/11/1994; Concert at The Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia. 18/11/1994; Concert at The Entertainment Centre, Perth, Australia. 20/01/1995; Concert at Memorial Coliseum, Winston Salem, NC, USA. with Type O Negative. 22/01/1995; Concert at Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN, USA. 24/01/1995; Concert at The University Of N. Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA. 25/01/1995; Concert at The Expo Hall, Tampa, FL, USA. 26/01/1995; Concert at West Pal Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL, USA. 28/01/1995; Concert at Edge Concert Field, Orlando, FL, USA. 31/01/1995; Concert at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport, LA, USA. 02/02/1995; Concert at The Expo Square Pavillion, Tulsa, OK, USA. with Type O Negative. 03/02/1995; Concert at Dallas Fair Park, Dallas, TX, USA. 05/02/1995; Concert at The Shrine Mosque, Springfield, MO, USA. 06/02/1995; Concert at The Memorial Hall, Kansas City, MO, USA. 07/02/1995; Concert at The Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE, USA. 09/02/1995; Concert at The Target Center, Minniapolis, MN, USA. with Type O Negative. 11/02/1995; Concert at Palmer Civic Center, Danville, IL, USA. with Type O Negative. 17/02/1995; Concert at The State Fair Coliseum, Detroit, MI, USA. with Type O Negative. 19/02/1995; Concert at Rhodes Arena, Akron, OH, USA. with Type O Negative. 21/02/1995; Concert at Ft. Wayne Coliseum Arena, ??, ??, USA. 22/02/1995; Concert at Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY, USA. 04/03/1995; Concert at Auditorium De Verdun, Montreal, QC, Canada. with Type O Negative. 06/03/1995; Concert at Nassau Coliseum, New York, NY, USA. with Type O Negative. 13/03/1995; Concert at ??, ??, USA. with Type O Negative. 17/03/1995; Concert at Jonnyland, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. with Type O Negative. 30/03/1995; Concert at The Event Centre, San Jose, CA, USA. with Type O Negative. 31/03/1995; Concert at The Wilson Theatre, ??, ??, USA. with Type O Negative. 21/04/1995; Concert at Estadio Ferrocarril Oeste, ??, Argentina. 31/12/1995; Concert at ??, ??, ??, USA. 28/06/1996; Concert at LJVM Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. with White Zombie. 29/06/1996; Concert at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA, USA. with White Zombie. 01/07/1996; Concert at The Fox, Louisville, KY, USA. with White Zombie. 02/07/1996; Concert at Starwood Amph., Nashville, TN, USA. with White Zombie. 03/07/1996; Concert at Oak Mountain Amph., Pelham, AL, USA. with White Zombie. 05/07/1996; Concert at Jacksonville Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL, USA. with White Zombie. 06/07/1996; Concert at Miami Arena, Miami, FL, USA. with White Zombie. 07/07/1996; Concert at Orlando Arena, Orlando, FL, USA. with White Zombie. 09/07/1996; Concert at The Civic Center, Savannah, GA, USA. with White Zombie. 11/07/1996; Concert at Kiefer Uno L`Front Arena, New Orleans, LA, USA. with White Zombie & Eyehategod. 12/07/1996; Concert at The Summit, Houston, TX, USA. with White Zombie. 13/07/1996; Concert at Starplex Ampitheater, Dallas, TX, USA. with White Zombie. 15/07/1996; Concert at Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX, USA. with White Zombie. 16/07/1996; Concert at Convention Centre Hall, Albuquerque, NM, USA. with White Zombie. 18/07/1996; Concert at Compton Terrace, Chandler, AZ, USA. with White Zombie. 19/07/1996; Concert at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, USA. with White Zombie. 20/07/1996; Concert at The Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, USA. with White Zombie & Eyehategod. 22/07/1996; Concert at The Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA, USA. with White Zombie & Eyehategod. 23/07/1996; Concert at The Arco Arena, Sacremento, CA, USA. with White Zombie. 25/07/1996; Concert at Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA. with White Zombie & Eyehategod. 26/07/1996; Concert at Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada. with White Zombie. 27/07/1996; Concert at The Gorge Amph., George, WA, USA. with White Zombie. 29/07/1996; Concert at Redrocks / Mcnichol, ??, ??, USA. with White Zombie. 01/08/1996; Concert at Kansas Coliseum, Valley Center, KS, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 02/08/1996; Concert at Riverport Amph., Maryland Heights, MO, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 03/08/1996; Concert at Sandstone Amph., Bonner Springs, KS, USA. with White Zombie. 05/08/1996; Concert at Target Center, Milliapolis, MN, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 06/08/1996; Concert at 5 Seasons Centre, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 07/08/1996; Concert at Marcus Amph., Milwaukee, WI, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 09/08/1996; Concert at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, IL, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 10/08/1996; Concert at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 11/08/1996; Concert at Deer Creek, Noblesville, IN, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 12/08/1996; Concert at Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 14/08/1996; Concert at Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. cancelled. 15/08/1996; Concert at Blossom Music Centre, Cleveland, OH, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 16/08/1996; Concert at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, Canada. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 18/08/1996; Concert at Star Lake Amph., Pittsburgh, PA, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 19/08/1996; Concert at Blockbuster Ent. Centre, Philadelphia, PA, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 22/08/1996; Concert at The Meadows, Hartford, CT, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 23/08/1996; Concert at Nissan Pavillion, Bristow, VA, Canada. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 24/08/1996; Concert at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 26/08/1996; Concert at The Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 27/08/1996; Concert at ??, Augusta, MA, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones. 28/08/1996; Concert at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, USA. with White Zombie & The Deftones 09/01/1997; Concert at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul, MN, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 10/01/1997; Concert at Bruce Hall, Milwaukee, WI, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 12/01/1997; Concert at Pepsi Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 14/01/1997; Concert at Wallace Civic Center, Fitchburg, MA, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 15/01/1997; Concert at The Strand, Providence, RI, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 16/01/1997; Concert at Metropolis, Montreal, QC, Canada. with Clutch & Neurosis. 18/01/1997; Concert at The Convention Center, Asbury Park, NJ, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 19/01/1997; Concert at The Roseland, New York City, NY, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 21/01/1997; Concert at Roberts Stadium, Evansville, IN, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 22/01/1997; Concert at Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 24/01/1997; Concert at Michigan State Fairground, Detroit, MI, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 25/01/1997; Concert at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 26/01/1997; Concert at Rhodes Arena, Akron, OH, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 28/01/1997; Concert at The American Theater, St. Louis, MO, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 30/01/1997; Concert at Mammoth Events Center, Denver, CO, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 01/02/1997; Concert at Salt Air, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 03/02/1997; Concert at Spokane Convention Centre, Spokane, WA, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 04/02/1997; Concert at Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 05/02/1997; Concert at Salem Armory, Salem, OR, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 07/02/1997; Concert at San Jose Events Center, San Jose, CA, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 08/02/1997; Concert at Orange Pavillion, San Bernadino, CA, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 09/02/1997; Concert at Mesa Amph., Mesa, AZ, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 13/02/1997; Concert at Villa Real Convention Center, Mc Allen, TX, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 14/02/1997; Concert at Live Oak Civic Centre, Live Oak, TX, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 15/02/1997; Concert at Fair Park Coliseum, Dallas, TX, USA. with Clutch & Neurosis. 14/03/1997; Concert at Estadio River Plate, Mexico City, Mexico. opening for Kiss. 24/05/1997; Concert at The Nissan Pavillion, Bristow, VA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. (May 24th – June 29th ‘The Ozzfest 1997’ tour). 26/05/1997; Concert at Coral Sky Pavillion, West Palm Beach, FL, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 28/05/1997; Concert at Blockbuster Pavillion, Charlotte, NC, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 31/05/1997; Concert at Alamodome, San Antonio, TX, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 01/06/1997; Concert at Starplex Arena, Dallas, TX, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 03/06/1997; Concert at Blossom Music Centre, Cuyahoga Falls, IO, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 04/06/1997; Concert at Deer Creek Music Centre, Noblesville, IN, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 07/06/1997; Concert at Star Lake Amph., Burgettstown, PN, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 08/06/1997; Concert at Blockbuster Entertainment Centre, Camden, NJ, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 10/06/1997; Concert at Riverport Amph., Maryland Heights, MS, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 12/06/1997; Concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston. MI, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 14/06/1997; Concert at Great Woods Theatre, Mannsfield MA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 15/06/1997; Concert at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 17/06/1997; Concert at Polaris Amph., Columbus, OH, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 19/06/1997; Concert at New World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 21/06/1997; Concert at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 22/06/1997; Concert at Metrodome, Minneapolis, MN, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 24/06/1997; Concert at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 26/06/1997; Concert at Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavillion, Phoenix, AZ, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 28/06/1997; Concert at Thomas & Mack Centre, Paradise, NV, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 29/06/1997; Concert at Glen Helen Blockbuster Amph., Devore, CA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath etc.. 17/07/1997; Concert at Palacio De Los Deportes, ??, Mexico. with Anthrax. 19/07/1997; Concert at Auditorio Coca Cola, ??, Mexico. 04/09/1997; Concert at ??, Nashville, TN, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 05/09/1997; Concert at LJVM Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 06/09/1997; Concert at Cumberland City Arena, Fayetteville, NC, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 07/09/1997; Concert at The International Ballroom, Atlanta, GA, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 09/09/1997; Concert at The Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 10/09/1997; Concert at The Roseland, New York City, NY, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 12/09/1997; Concert at The Meadows, Hartford, CT, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 13/09/1997; Concert at ??, Asbury Park, NJ, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 14/09/1997; Concert at ??, Wheeling, WV, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 16/09/1997; Concert at Nautica, Cleveland, OH, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 17/09/1997; Concert at ??, Toledo, OH, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 18/09/1997; Concert at Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 19/09/1997; Concert at ??, Detroit, MI, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 20/09/1997; Concert at Toledo Sports Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 21/09/1997; Concert at Riverbend Music Center, ??, ??, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 22/09/1997; Concert at ??, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. (possibly moved to 18th). 23/09/1997; Concert at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 24/09/1997; Concert at ??, Mineapolis, MN, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 26/09/1997; Concert at ??, Omaha, NE, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 27/09/1997; Concert at ??, Kansas City, KS, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 28/09/1997; Concert at Red Rocks, Springfield, MO, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 01/10/1997; Concert at The Sunken Gardens, San Antonio, TX, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 02/10/1997; Concert at Texas Sky, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. with Machine Head & Coal Chamber. 14/11/1997; Concert at The Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, USA. with Anthrax & Coal Chamber. 15/11/1997; Concert at State University, San Jose, CA, USA. 17/11/1997; Concert at The Memorial Auditorium, Sacremento, CA, USA. with Anthrax & Coal Chamber. 19/11/1997; Concert at Salem Armory, Salem, OR, USA. with Anthrax & Coal Chamber. 01/12/1997; Concert at Villa Real Convention Center, McAllen, TX, USA. with Anthrax, Coal Chamber & Pumb Jack. 03/12/1997; Concert at The UC Arena, Orlando, FL, USA. 05/12/1997; Concert at The Expo Hall, Tampa, FL, USA. 07/12/1997; Concert at Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MS, USA. with Anthrax, Coal Chamber & Soilent Green. 16/01/1998; Concert at Fort Wayne Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN, USA. 20/01/1998; Concert at Dayton Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. 24/01/1998; Concert at Worcester Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, ma, USA. 26/01/1998; Concert at Central Maine Civic Centre, Lewiston, ME, USA. with Anthrax. 28/01/1998; Concert at The Pavillion Bell, ??, QC, Canada. with Anthrax & Coal Chamber. 29/01/1998; Concert at The Warehouse, ??, ??, USA. 31/01/1998; Concert at The Auditorium, Milwaukee, WI, USA. 30/05/1998; Concert at Zenith, Paris, France. 03/06/1998; Concert at Kisstadion, Budapest, Hungary. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 04/06/1998; Concert at Wels Rock, Vienna, Austria. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 06/06/1998; Concert at Filaforum Assago, Milan, Italy. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 09/06/1998; Concert at Atleticky Stadion, Prague, Czech Republic. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 10/06/1998; Concert at Spodek, Katowice, Poland. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 13/06/1998; Concert at Festival, Hultsfred, Sweden. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 14/06/1998; Concert at Provinssirock Festival, Seinjaki, Finland. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 16/06/1998; Concert at Arena Auditorium, Valencia, France. with Stuck Mojo. 20/06/1998; Concert at The National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 22/06/1998; Concert at Football Stadium, San Sebastian, Spain. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 25/06/1998; Concert at Festival, Roskilde, Denmark. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 27/06/1998; Concert at Open Air Festival, St. Gallen, Switzerland. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 28/06/1998; Concert at The Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 30/06/1998; Concert at The Spectrum, Oslo, Norway. opening for Black Sabbath. `The Ozzfest `98`. 31/12/1998; Concert at Bankone Ballpark, Phoenix, AZ, USA. opening for Black Sabbath, with Megadeth, Slayer & asst. 02/01/1999; Concert at Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 05/01/1999; Concert at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 07/01/1999; Concert at The Pon, Anaheim, CA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 08/01/1999; Concert at San Jose Arena, San Jose, CA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath, with Incubus. 11/01/1999; Concert at Rose Garden, Portland, OR, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 12/01/1999; Concert at Key Arena, Seattle, WA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 14/01/1999; Concert at Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 15/01/1999; Concert at McNichols Arena, Denver, CO, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 17/01/1999; Concert at Target Center, Minniaplois, MN, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 19/01/1999; Concert at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, IL, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 22/01/1999; Concert at Alamodome, San Antonio, TX, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 24/01/1999; Concert at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 25/01/1999; Concert at Compaq Center, Houston, TX, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 28/01/1999; Concert at First Union Spectrum, Philaelphia, PA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 29/01/1999; Concert at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 01/02/1999; Concert at Bryce Jordan Center, State College, PA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 03/02/1999; Concert at Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 05/02/1999; Concert at Meadowlands, East Rutherford, NJ, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 06/02/1999; Concert at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 09/02/1999; Concert at Marine Midlan Arena, Buffalo, NY, USA. opening for Black Sabbath, with Deftones. 11/02/1999; Concert at Forum, Montreal, Canada. opening for Black Sabbath. 12/02/1999; Concert at ??, Toronto, Canada. opening for Black Sabbath. 14/02/1999; Concert at The Palace, Detroit, MI, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 15/02/1999; Concert at The Palace, Detroit, MI, USA. opening for Black Sabbath. 30/04/1999; Concert at Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico. opening for Metallica, with Monster Magnet. 18/03/2000; album release party at The Clubhouse, ??, ??, USA. 27/03/2000; `Reinventing The Steel` album released. also released/advertised as 21/03/2000 in some territories. 17/04/2000; Concert at Arenan, Stockholm, Sweden. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 18/04/2000; Concert at ??, Oslo, Norway. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 19/04/2000; Concert at KB-Hallen, Stockholm, Sweden. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 21/04/2000; Concert at Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 22/04/2000; Concert at E-Werk, Cologne, Germany. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 23/04/2000; Concert at Maaspoort, Den Bosche, The Netherlands. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 25/04/2000; Concert at Newport Centre, Newport, Wales. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 26/04/2000; Concert at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhapton, England. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 27/04/2000; Concert at The Apollo, Manchester, England. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 28/04/2000; Concert at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 30/04/2000; Concert at Brixton Academy, London, England. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 01/05/2000; Concert at Ancienne, Brussels, Belgium. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 03/05/2000; Concert at Filaforum, Milan, Italy. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 04/05/2000; Concert at Palas, Bologna, Italy. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 05/05/2000; Concert at ??, Geneva, Italy. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 06/05/2000; Concert at Colosseum, Munich, Germany. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 08/05/2000; Concert at Kodeljevo, Llubljana, Slovenia. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 10/05/2000; Concert at Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany. with Powerman 5000 & Satyricon. 12/05/2000; Concert at ??, Barcelona, Spain. 13/05/2000; Concert at ??, San Sebastian, Spain. 15/05/2000; Concert at ??, Villeurbanne, France. 16/05/2000; Concert at ??, Strasburg, Germany. 18/05/2000; Concert at ??, Paris, France. 18/06/2000; Concert at ??, Yokohama, Japan. 19/06/2000; Concert at ??, Tokyo, Japan. 22/06/2000; Concert at Umeda Heat Beat, Osaka, USA. 02/07/2000; Concert at Mars Music Amph., West Palm Beach, FL, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. (July 2nd – Sept. 2nd ‘The Ozzfest 2000’ tour). 04/07/2000; Concert at Lakewood Amph., Atlanta, GA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 06/07/2000; Concert at AmSouth Amph., Antioch, TN, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 08/07/2000; Concert at Blockbuster Pavillion, Charlotte, NC, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 10/07/2000; Concert at GTE Virginia Beach Amph., Virginia Beach, VA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 12/07/2000; Concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 14/07/2000; Concert at Nissan Pavillion, Bristow, VA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 16/07/2000; Concert at Post Gazzette Pavillion, Burgettstown, PN, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 18/07/2000; Concert at Polaris Amph., Columbus, OH, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 20/07/2000; Concert at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 22/07/2000; Concert at Blockbuster Sony Entertainment Center, Camden, NJ, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 24/07/2000; Concert at PNC Banks Art Center, Holmdel, NJ, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 26/07/2000; Concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 29/07/2000; Concert at Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 30/07/2000; Concert at Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 04/08/2000; Concert at New World Theatre, Tinley Park, IL, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 06/08/2000; Concert at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 08/08/2000; Concert at Riverbend Music Center, Cincinatti, OH, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 10/08/2000; Concert at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 12/08/2000; Concert at Float Rite Park Amph., Somerset, WI, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 14/08/2000; Concert at Riverport Amph., Maryland Heights, MS, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 16/08/2000; Concert at Sandstone Amph., Bonner Springs, KS, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 18/08/2000; Concert at Starplex Arena, Dallas, TX, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 20/08/2000; Concert at Houston Raceway Park, Houston, TX, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 24/08/2000; Concert at The Gorge Amph., George, WA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 26/08/2000; Concert at Shoreline Amph., Mountain View, CA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 28/08/2000; Concert at Sacremento Valley Amph., Marysville, CA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 30/08/2000; Concert at Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavillion, Phoenix, AZ, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 02/09/2000; Concert at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavillion, Devore, CA, USA. opening for Ozzy Osbourne etc.. 22/09/2000; Concert at Palacio De Los Deportes, ??, ??, ??. with Type O Negative & Puya. 07/11/2000; Concert at Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MS, USA. with Kittie. 08/11/2000; Concert at Boutwell Coliseum, Birmingham, AL, USA. with Kittie. 10/11/2000; Concert at Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL, USA. with Kittie. 11/11/2000; Concert at USF Sundome, Tampa, FL, USA. with Kittie & Morbid Angel. 13/11/2000; Concert at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA, USA. with Kittie. 14/11/2000; Concert at Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. with Kittie. 16/11/2000; Concert at Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA, USA. with Kittie. 17/11/2000; Concert at Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY, USA. with Kittie. 18/11/2000; Concert at First Union Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA. with Kittie. 20/11/2000; Concert at Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA. with Kittie. 21/11/2000; Concert at Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL, USA. with Kittie. 22/11/2000; Concert at US Cellular Arena, Milwaukee, WI, USA. with Kittie. 24/11/2000; Concert at The Pepsi Coliseum, Indianaplois, IN, USA. with Kittie. 25/11/2000; Concert at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI, USA. with Kittie. 27/11/2000; Concert at The Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA. with Kittie. 28/11/2000; Concert at The Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE, USA. with Kittie. 30/11/2000; Concert at The Memorial Coliseum, Fort Worth, TX, USA. with Kittie. 01/12/2000; Concert at The Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH, USA. with Kittie. 02/12/2000; Concert at Rhodes Arena, Akron, OH, USA. with Kittie. 03/12/2000; Concert at Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY, USA. with Kittie. 05/12/2000; Concert at The Myriad Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. with Kittie. 06/12/2000; Concert at The Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX, USA. with Kittie. 08/12/2000; Concert at The Astro Arena, Houston, TX, USA. with Kittie. 09/12/2000; Concert at Fair Park Coliseum, Dallas, TX, USA. with Kittie. 08/02/2001; Concert at The Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. (Feb. 8th – Apr. 2nd; `The Real Steel` tour). 09/02/2001; Concert at Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. 13/02/2001; Concert at Denver Coliseum, Denver, OH, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. 15/02/2001; Concert at The Family Arena, St. Charles, MO, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. 24/02/2001; Concert at The Delta Plex, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. 26/02/2001; Concert at Fort Wayne Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN, USA. 27/02/2001; Concert at Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH, USA. 13/03/2001; Concert at Mid Huson Civic Centre, Poughskeepsie, NY, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. 20/03/2001; Concert at Myriad Convention Centre, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. 29/03/2001; Concert at Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MI, USA. with Soulfly & Morbid Angel. 01/04/2001; Concert at Sunrise Musical Theatre, Miami, FL, USA. 02/04/2001; Concert at Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL, USA. 13/05/2001; Concert at The Festival Hall, ??, Australia. 17/05/2001; Concert at Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia. 25/06/2001; Concert at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, Canada. with Slayer, Morbid Angel & Static-X. (June 25th – July 26th; `Extreme Steel` tour). 29/06/2001; Concert at Van Andel Arena, ??, ??, USA. 01/07/2001; Concert at CSU Convocation Center, ??, ??, USA. 05/07/2001; Concert at Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN, USA. 09/07/2001; Concert at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, KS, USA. with Slayer, Morbid Angel & Static-X. 11/07/2001; Concert at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, USA. with Slayer, Morbid Angel & Static-X. 14/07/2001; Concert at Smirnoff Music Centre, ??, ??, USA. 17/07/2001; Concert at America West arena, ??, ??, USA. with Slayer, Morbid Angel, Static-X & Skrape. 18/07/2001; Concert at Thomas & Mack, Las vegas, NV, USA. with Slayer, Morbid Angel & Static-X. 19/07/2001; Concert at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA, USA. 21/07/2001; Concert at Cox Arena, San Diego, CA, USA. with Slayer, Morbid Angel & Static-X. 23/07/2001; Concert at Compaq Center, San Jose, CA, USA. 26/07/2001; Concert at Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada. with Slayer, Morbid Angel & Static-X. 25/08/2001; Concert at Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Japan. `Beast Feast` with Slayer etc.. Pantera`s final show. CANCELLED SHOWS: 13/09/2001; Concert at The Point, Dublin, Ireland. co-headline with Slayer. (Sept. 13th – Oct. 6th; `Tattoo The Planet` tour). Pantera cancels their appearances due to the Sept 11th attacks. 14/09/2001; Concert at The NIA, Birmingham, England. co-headline with Slayer. 15/09/2001; Concert at Wembley Arena, London, England. co-headline with Slayer. 16/09/2001; Concert at The SECC, Glasgow, Scotland. co-headline with Slayer. 18/09/2001; Concert at Brabanthal, Leuven, The Netherlands. co-headline with Slayer. 20/09/2001; Concert at Palavobis, Milan, Italy. co-headline with Slayer. 21/09/2001; Concert at Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece. co-headline with Slayer. 22/09/2001; Concert at Boblingen Sporthalle, Stuttgart, Germany. co-headline with Slayer. 23/09/2001; Concert at Philipshalle, Dusselsorf, Germany. co-headline with Slayer. 25/09/2001; Concert at Spodek, Katowice, Poland. co-headline with Slayer. 26/09/2001; Concert at Zenith, Munich, Germany. co-headline with Slayer. 28/09/2001; Concert at Bercy, Paris, France. co-headline with Slayer. 29/09/2001; Concert at Brabnthallen, Den Bosch, The Netherlands. co-headline with Slayer. 30/09/2001; Concert at Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany. co-headline with Slayer. 02/10/2001; Concert at Hovet, Stockholm, Sweden. co-headline with Slayer. 04/10/2001; Concert at The Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland. co-headline with Slayer. 06/10/2001; Concert at The Arena, Berlin, Germany. co-headline with Slayer.

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Ahead Of Juneteenth, Mayor Adams Announces Creation Of Interactive Audio Tour Exploring City’s Abolitionist History

June 6, 2024

‘More Than a Brook: Brooklyn Abolitionist Heritage Walk’ Explores Brooklyn’s Role in National Abolitionist Movement and Underground Railroad Across City Landmarks

Announcements Build on Adams Administration’s Investment Towards Racial Equity and Justice

NEW YORK – Ahead of Juneteenth, New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the creation of “ More Than a Brook: Brooklyn Abolitionist Heritage Walk ,” an interactive audio tour that explores Brooklyn’s history as a critical neighborhood for the National Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad. The audio tour can be accessed on a smartphone, tablet, or other device through the Landmark Preservation Commission’s (LPC) website . The interactive audio tour was commissioned by LPC and created by Kamau Studios and Black Gotham Experience . This project was supported by a grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation and financed in part with federal funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

“New Yorkers walk through Brooklyn every day, unaware of the history right under their feet and surrounding them,” said Mayor Adams . “This interactive audio tour allows all of us to celebrate the heroes who stood up against injustice, risked their lives, and fought for the freedom they deserved. To build a better future, we must first examine and understand our past. This Juneteenth, our city recommits to reckoning and recognizing our role in the historic fight for racial equity and justice.”

“I congratulate the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s collaboration with Kamau Ware Studios and the Black Gotham Experience for shining a light on Brooklyn’s abolitionist heritage, and the city’s role in fighting against slavery,” said  Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Maria Torres-Springer . “I also thank New York State’s Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation for funding this worthy project.”

“New York City’s designated landmark sites and historic districts tell our shared story, and Brooklyn is home to an incredible collection of historic landmark buildings that connect us to our past and highlight the central role New Yorkers played in the fight against slavery,” said  LPC Chair Sarah Carroll . “This immersive audio tour lifts up their stories, honoring the memory of those who suffered and fought for justice and freedom. This Juneteenth is a reminder that the fight for equity is part of our collective heritage as New Yorkers and we must work to create a more just and fairer city for future generations to come.” 

“Juneteenth provides us the opportunity to reflect on the wrongs of the past while honoring the resiliency of those that came before us and sacrificed so much,” said  New York City Chief Equity Officer and New York City Mayor's Office of Equity & Racial Justice Commissioner Sideya Sherman . “We commend the Landmarks Preservation Commission and partners Kamau Ware Studio and the Black Gotham Experience for reconciling our past with our present and showcasing our city’s pivotal role in the national abolitionist movement. Through this interactive heritage walk, New Yorkers can learn from and examine our past while fully immersed in the city we all know and love.”

“Our public spaces are where New Yorkers connect — not just with their neighbors and with the great outdoors, but also with our history,” said  New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Sue Donoghue . “Thanks to this creative collaboration, New Yorkers will discover Brooklyn’s rich abolitionist heritage while experiencing our historic buildings and treasured greenspaces in a brand-new way. With Juneteenth around the corner, this audio tour is an important contribution to our ongoing efforts to uplift Black history and ensure our city is equitable and just for all New Yorkers.”

New York City played an important role in the effort to abolish slavery nationwide and assist those seeking to escape it. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Ferry, Downtown Brooklyn, and Fort Greene contain a walkable concentration of important historic landmark sites associated with New York City’s abolitionist history, the Underground Railroad, and the larger anti-slavery movement before the Civil War through political and religious activism.

The three-part audio experience guides participants through Brooklyn's rich abolitionist history, incorporating 19 stops and highlighting the many landmark sites along a 4.5-mile walkable path, including the residences of abolitionist Lewis Tappan and Harriet and Thomas Truesdell, and religious spaces, including Plymouth Church, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the Friends Meeting House. The audio tour also introduces important local historic figures in the abolition movement, including businesswoman Elizabeth Gloucester, pioneering sisters Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward and educator Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet, and Plymouth Church preacher Henry Ward Beecher, highlighting all their stories to illuminate the multiple ways people and institutions engaged with the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War and the continued fight for freedom afterward.

The “More Than a Brook: Brooklyn Abolitionist Heritage Walk” reflects LPC’s ongoing commitment to equity and inclusion in all their work as part of the agency’s Equity Framework ; its efforts to preserve places that tell the story of all New Yorkers and reflect their collective heritage, making the significant history embodied in landmarks more accessible; and expanding educational outreach efforts to reach new and diverse audiences. Additional resources can be found on LPC’s website, including LPC’s interactive story maps, “ New York City and the Path to Freedom ,” which explores New York City’s abolitionist history across all five boroughs through designated landmarks that embody it and “ Preserving Significant Places of Black History ,” which highlights and explores buildings, sites, and historic districts significant to Black history throughout New York City.

Mayor Adams announced new economic data showing that the  unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers has significantly decreased  since the start of the administration. Between January 1, 2022, and April 1, 2024, the Black unemployment rate in the five boroughs decreased from 10.7 percent to 7.9 percent — a 26 percent decrease. This marks the first time since 2019 that the Black unemployment rate in New York City has been below 8 percent.

“With Juneteenth upon us, I am proud that we are launching this Heritage Walk to tell the world about New York City’s abolitionist history,” said New York State Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar . “This interactive walking tour will bring to life the integral role Brooklyn played in the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement. People from all over the world will learn what New Yorkers did to stamp out the moral blight of slavery, and Brooklynites will take pride in their neighborhood knowing this rich history. This exemplifies our goal to uplift all communities and share everyone’s history in our Gorgeous Mosaic.”

“As we approach Juneteenth, it's essential to remember and honor New York City's pivotal role in the fight against slavery,” said  New York State Senator James Sanders Jr . “This interactive audio tour highlights the courageous efforts of those who fought for freedom in our nation and is crucial to understanding our past and inspiring our future!”

“Brooklyn has a rich abolitionist history, and the echoes of that fight for freedom and justice can be felt at historic sites around the borough, including at many in the neighborhoods I have the honor to represent,” said  New York   State Senator Andrew Gounardes .   “This audio tour is a way to uplift and celebrate this history, and to help New Yorkers learn about the many people and institutions engaged in the fight against the evils of slavery. As we approach Juneteenth, this audio tour is an opportunity to learn from the past while charting a course toward a future of true freedom, liberty and justice for all.”

“The abolitionists’ fight for freedom in New York cannot become forgotten history as we continue to tackle discrimination to this day,” said  New York State Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn . “I applaud Mayor Eric Adams for launching an innovative program highlighting and teaching Brooklyn's history as a crucial launchpad for the National Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad as we keep advancing equality.”

“I want to thank Mayor Adams for shedding light on the history of the Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad here in New York City,” said  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson . “With this initiative, he is ensuring residents and visitors alike can immerse themselves in our city`s past and our contributions to the fight for racial justice and equity.”

“‘More Than a Brook’ brings Brooklyn's rich abolitionist history to broad audiences and offers a glimpse into who we are as a borough and a people,” said  Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso . “Oral history is the perfect tradition and vehicle to reckon with the past and honor the ongoing fight for a more equitable future based in racial and social justice. Thank you to Mayor Adams for expanding access to the stories that helped build our city and free our ancestors from slavery.”

“I'm thrilled to see the launch of the 'More Than a Brook: Brooklyn Abolitionist Heritage Walk' just in time for Juneteenth,” said  New York City Councilmember Kamilah Hanks . “This interactive audio tour is a powerful tool that will bring to life Brooklyn's rich history in the National Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad. By making this history accessible on smartphones and tablets, we are ensuring that the stories of those who fought for freedom and justice are preserved and shared with future generations. I commend Mayor Adams, the Landmark Preservation Commission, Kamau Studios, and Black Gotham Experience for their incredible work on this project.”

“Brooklyn Bridge Park is thrilled to be a stop on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Brooklyn Abolitionist Heritage Walk and audio tour,” said Brooklyn Bridge Park President Eric Landau . “By retracing the steps of abolitionists and amplifying their stories, we not only honor their legacy, but also reaffirm Brooklyn’s commitment to justice and equality. This tour sheds light on Brooklyn Bridge Park's role in a crucial piece of this city’s history and will bring us towards a more compassionate and equitable future.”

“More Than A Brook is a walk through Brooklyn that connects historic locations to illustrate a portrait of 19th century communities resisting the institution of slavery. The concentration of characters that walked the docks onto city streets is significant to the history of New York State and the United States,” said Black Gotham Experience, founder, Kamau Ware . “It is commendable that the Landmarks Preservation Commission is opening up the layers behind these historic buildings and the liminal spaces between. It has been an honor to work in the community, inspired by the disparate Brooklyn abolitionists that created a rising tide, challenging the presence of slavery in America.”

“Congratulations on the launch of this remarkable project,” said New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation Daniel Mackay . “More Than a Brook showcases Brooklyn’s abolitionist history through an immersive exploration of local historic landmarks. Bringing this history to life takes creativity, collaboration, and resources — the very ingredients that New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission used to make this audio tour possible. This project is a great example of how certified local government grants through the New York State Historic Preservation Office bring federal funds back into communities each year to support preservation programs and explore history in dynamic and engaging ways.”

“For nearly 200 years, New York University has been inextricably tied to New York and its history, said New York University Vice President of Government Relations and Community Engagement Kyle Kimball . “We are proud that Wunsch Hall, formerly the Bridge Street Methodist Church, the first independent Black church in Brooklyn and a stop on the Underground Railroad, is a part of the exciting, new abolitionist heritage walk that the Landmarks Preservation Commission is launching. We congratulate them on this important effort to remind New Yorkers of the vital role our city has played in our nation's history.”

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San Antonio to Salado: 5 cool history day trips that won't take you too far from Austin

When you fantasize about summertime day trips in Central Texas, dreams likely transport you to pools, lakes and swimming holes. Places to cool off.

There's another kind of day trip that can tickle the mind while soothing the body, if you know how do it right.

Of the dozens of day trip destinations within fairly easy reach of Austin, we picked these five historic spots to get your motors started.

Monument Hill in La Grange

(Round-trip drive time: 2 hours)

Perhaps you've noticed this high point while driving past La Grange on Texas 71. To the south rises a hill above the Colorado River that stands out like no other. Head there.

A Texas State Historic Site, elegiac Monument Hill is shaded by trees that are, at times, monuments in themselves.

The first order of business, then, might be a refreshing repast taken at one of the many discreetly spaced picnic tables. For my last visit, I picked up an enormous "Back Porch Sandwich" from  Back Porch BBQ , located at the crossroads of Texas 71 and U.S. 77.

One can find plenty of history and nature in this park. Recognized as a meditative spot early on, it was selected in 1848 as a cemetery for the Texans who died in the Dawson Massacre (1842), along with the dead of the Texan Santa Fe (1841) and Mier (1842) expeditions, and those captured during Gen. Adrián Woll's raid on San Antonio (1842).

You see, the 1840s was an unsettled decade for the new republic, as Mexico and Texas asserted their territorial claims without engaging in decisive battles. A soaring art-deco slab, decorated with some low-relief figures, was added to the renovated tomb for the dead of these conflicts in 1936 during the Texas Centennial.

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To find out how the disputes were settled during the Mexican American War in the late 1840s, visit the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum for its current exhibit on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo .

The hill hides some other historical treasures: A few dozen yards away, one finds the solidly built Kreische House, furnished and decorated with pieces that reflect how its residents lived during the mid-19th century.

In a low spot below the house sits the extensive remains of the Kreische Brewery, which can be seen from an elevated viewing point or fairly close-up, although with restrictions. (414 Texas 92 Spur, La Grange, thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/monument-hill )

Courthouse Square in Mason

(Round-trip drive time: 4 hours)

Mason is one of those Hill Country towns that has — so far — not been spoiled by overly curious tourists. The round-trip drive time — to and from this county seat — is longer than the other excursions recommended here, but the route through the rugged countryside is a treat in itself.

The chief magnet these days is the Mason County Courthouse , completely rebuilt in 2023 after an arsonist set the structure afire in 2021. For me, one of the reporting thrills of the past few years was to watch as a new dome was hoisted atop the courthouse, while practically the whole town cheered on all four sides of the long square, many of them protected from the elements by the generous shade structures positioned in front of older buildings.

More: Texas history: Loading up on the state’s past in the Hill Country town of Mason

This is not the only courthouse Mason County lost in a fire. The first, which stood on the northeast side of the courthouse grounds, also burned down.

"The first one burned on Jan. 21, 1877, during the Hoodoo War," said local historian Fran Hoerster in 2023. The extended conflict, sometimes called the Mason County War, was really a series of feuds and lynchings related to cattle rustling that sometimes pitted German Americans against Anglo Americans. "People rushed in to grab the land records. Got most of them. But we lost brand records, marriage records, probate records. We had to start all over again," Hoerster said.

"There was a second courthouse somewhere over there (pointing toward the western side of the courthouse grounds), but we don't know exactly where, from 1879 to 1909. It was torn down. This one was finished in 1910."

Mason supports two historical museums, one on the square, which displays one of the county's famous topazes. Another is a magnificent old rock schoolhouse; a pre-Civil War fort; a fine modern library with a permanent exhibit on  "Old Yeller" author Fred Gipson , a local; and a good deal of art.

There's plenty to eat and drink around the courthouse square. If you get a chance, visit the ornate Seaquist House; check for tour times and dates in advance.

Main Street in Bastrop

(Round-trip drive time: 1 hour)

Bastrop is not just an Austin suburb. That's a relatively recent role for this town that is older than Austin and fell a just few votes short of becoming the capital of Texas.

Not long ago, I explored the historic districts alongside Ken Kesselus, a Bastrop native, former mayor, retired Episcopalian pastor and community historian. Among the places we visited were Bastrop County African American Cultural Center, Bastrop Casino (an old German gathering place) and Calvary Episcopal Church.

More: Elgin bound: There's more than barbecue and bricks in this Texas town

The Museum and Visitors Center of the Bastrop County Historical Society (904 Main St.) is a good place to start. I wrote this about the excellent small museum: "Each display is clear, properly lighted and historically accurate, as far as I could surmise. Among others, two excellent exhibits cover the local coal industry, which I knew almost nothing about, and the cotton boom, which includes a map of the county's freedom colonies, with background about slavery and emancipation."

Kesselus and I shared a meal on the town's historic Main Street, which comes alive, especially on weekends in fair weather, and many buildings offer awnings or other shade devices. Several  newcomers have opened shops and restaurants  along this main stem. We lunched al fresco at Paw-Paw's Catfish House, which serves a fried, breaded catfish that is light as air and tender as a mother's love.

Stagecoach Inn in Salado

If you grew up in Texas, you remember this old landmark, now situated along Interstate 35 north of Austin, as an inn and eatery suspended in amber. For decades, nothing changed. Recently, it has undergone a series of improvements that make it 1) a luxury resort of sorts, 2) a gateway to the revived Salado arts and crafts district, 3) an even more authentic expression, to me, of its ancient origins.

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I wrote this recently about the place: "Part of the existing complex above Salado Creek goes back to the 1860s, when it was a true stagecoach stop known as the Shady Villa Hotel. Its restaurant was founded in the 1940s and was known for its unchanging menu and staff. A nearby modernist motel rose next to the interregional highway during the 1950s; it, too, seemed trapped in amber. The next layer was laid down during the past decade: a  winningly reinvented restaurant  and a luxury hotel complex that tempts one to stay the night."

Note that the restaurant, which is surrounded by cooling greenery, has gone through a series of temporary name changes, but it will always be the Stagecoach Inn.

Pearl District in San Antonio

(Round-trip drive time: 3 hours)

I know, I know, Interstate 35. How do you get around that monster of a freeway that becomes a psychological barrier to visiting the other half of our quickly merging "mega-metro"? If you leave early on a weekend morning, at least the trip to SA is less stressful.

Once there, many of the historical attractions are readily at hand. One cluster of attractions downtown includes the Alamo campus, including the new Ralston Family Collections Center, the main plaza, with the San Fernando Cathedral and the Governor's Palace, along with, of course, the magical Riverwalk and its several historical destinations.

Another San Antonio historical jaunt requires a car in the summer, unless you were recently trained by the French Foreign Legion (see the 1999 movie "Beau Travail"): The Mission Trail south of downtown, which includes the other four 18th-century Spanish church complexes, each with its own discrete history. If you don't do it this time, do it later.

More: Meet me in San Austin: It's time to explore the idea of an Austin-San Antonio 'mega-metro'

To fully combine history and refreshment, perhaps head north of downtown to the Pearl District .

The centerpiece of the Pearl District these days is the luxury Hotel Emma embedded in the1894 building that once housed the San Antonio Brewers Association, which produced Pearl Beer. Opened in 2015, the hotel includes an elaborate lobby bar filled with elements of the structure's former industrial role, as well as carefully selected local eateries on the ground level. (Try any of them!)

Bundled around the plaza are an indoor food market, a thriving bookstore, new condos, a music venue situated in a round building that once served as a stable, a riverside amphitheater, and several more restaurants, one of them associated with the San Antonio base of the Culinary Institute of America.

Still sweating? Duck into one of these oases for a long siesta, or stroll down the extended Riverwalk to the old Lone Star brewery that became, in 1981, the stunning — and air-conditioned — San Antonio Museum of Art.

Pre-Juneteenth walking tour highlights Haddonfield's Black history

HADDONFIELD – The borough has a rich Black history that some may not know about, but if a local group has its way, that heritage will be well known.

The Preserving Black Haddonfield Historic Project’s goal is to celebrate “once overlooked residents” and a once thriving African American community that existed there and educate others about that history.

It will have its second Pre-Juneteenth Walking Tour on June 14 to highlight a dozen important sites in the borough that were significant in Black history. These include two churches, sites that were once segregated schools, a former grocery store, a barber shop, baseball fields and more.

They were key locations in what was a predominately Black neighborhood called The Point.

C. Adrienne Rhodes, co-founder of The Preserving Black Haddonfield History Project, grew up in Haddonfield, and says her family has been in the borough for six generations. She still has a family home there.

“One of the things that really has come across in the anthologies that we have, the oral history collections that we have put together, that was our first foray into this area, a lot of the people who grew up there have a strong sense of social responsibility,” said Rhodes, a former vice president and director of communications/media relations at the New York Daily News and former communications director for the United Negro College Fund.

“I feel an obligation to give back to the community from which I come and one of the important things to do at this time... is to do what I can to bring people together across racial lines to create a better understanding and to hopefully create more harmony. So, it was important for people to understand that this Black community existed and what the contributions of the people from that community have been. You are less likely to treat someone without dignity if you understand their humanity.”

Historic Black history markers coming to Haddonfield

The PBHHP’s four-pronged education program includes: An anthology of oral histories from 10 elders from Haddonfield’s African American community; a docuseries; a walking tour, digital map and website; and an historic markers program.

The borough’s Historic Preservation Commission approved applications for marker installations at the former Lincoln School, which is now Tarditi Commons, as well as Mount Olivet Baptist Church.

The PBHHP, which has about a dozen members and is a subcommittee of the Haddonfield Alumni Society, hopes to have a groundbreaking ceremony for those marker installations in conjunction with the walking tour.

“It’s the first time it’s ever happening in Haddonfield that there will be markers commemorating the Black experience here,” Rhodes said.

Additionally, the PBHHP submitted an application for The Point to be part of the first wave of the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail and it was among 11 South Jersey sites and 32 overall sites in New Jersey selected. The sites on that trail will all get official historic markers.

Historic trail These 11 South Jersey sites are part of the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail

The Point has two meanings in the borough.

It is the intersection of Ellis and Potter, and was also the neighborhood where African Americans had homes and businesses, shopped, worked and attended schoool.

It was a thriving and bustling area that included portions of Lincoln Avenue, Ellis Street, Potter Street, Douglass Avenue and East Park Avenue, Rhodes said. The marker for the historic heritage trail will go at the intersection of Ellis and Potter.

“I was very happy when Gov. Murphy created the legislation last year that will create the trail,” Rhodes said.

“When the opportunity was presented to apply for and be included in the inaugural round, we went for it. It was a very difficult, challenging application process. But history is very often told by the victors. Here’s our chance to tell our own history, so we rolled up our sleeves and did the work.”

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At 15 years old, Miles Russell is set to make his PGA Tour debut at Rocket Mortgage Classic

A 15-year-old will be making his PGA Tour debut this month.

Miles Russell will compete in his first tour event when he joins the playing field at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on June 27-30 at Detroit Golf Club, the tournament announced Monday .

already among the most decorated junior golfers in the country, the teen from Jacksonville, Florida received a sponsor exemption to play in the tournament. Even though he is a freshman in high school, he became the youngest player to make the cut in the Korn Ferry Tour, when he finished 20th in the LECOM Suncoast Classic in April.

In 2023, he as named the American Junior Golf Association Player of the Year, becoming the youngest player to win the award after Tiger Woods held the record.

Last year, he also won the Junior PGA Championship and the Junior Players Championship, and he earned a spot on the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team.

"I am thankful to Rocket Mortgage for giving me the opportunity to make my PGA TOUR debut at the Rocket Mortgage Classic," Russell said in a statement. "Ever since I first started playing golf, my dream has been to compete on the PGA TOUR and test my game against the best players, and I’m looking forward to making the most of the experience later this month."

Even though he'll be in the tournament, he'll need a ride to get there. Russell's father is scheduled to drive his son in the courtesy car to the club during the tournament, Rocket Mortgage Classic director Jason Langwell said.

Youngest golfers in PGA Tour history

It may sound ridiculous for a 15-year-old to be playing among the best golfers in the world, but it isn't uncommon.

Russell will actually be the third teenager to debut on the PGA Tour this year, along with Kris Kim and Blades Brown, who are both 16. Kim also became the fifth-youngest player to make the cut in a PGA Tour event at THE CJ Cup Byron Nelson in May, and a week later, Brown finished tied-26th in the Myrtle Beach Classic.

The youngest player to ever play in the PGA Tour is Michelle Wie West, who played in the 2004 Sony Open at the age of 14 years, three months and four days, while she was also the fourth woman to play a PGA Tour event. Other 14-year-olds to play on the tour include Lorens Chan in 2009, Andy Zhang in 2012 and Guan Tianlang in 2013.

Russell will be the fifth 15-year-old to play in the PGA Tour, along with Bob Pasanik in 1957, Tadd Fujikawa in 2006, John Oda in 2012 and Oliver Betschart in 2023.

  Contributing: Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press