Sepultura + Death Angel Announce New Zealand Tour

Brazillian metal icons Sepultura have announced they will be returning to Aotearoa in 2018, bringing old school Californian thrashers Death Angel with them in tow. The three-date tour will see the influential bands playing Auckland and Wellington, as well as making it to metal-mecca of the South, Christchurch. Sepultura last visited our shores back in 2014, no doubt they will be treating fans to a slew of classic material, as well as tunes from their most recent opus Metal Messaiah. Check out details below…

Sepultura + Death Angel New Zealand Tour

Friday 11th May, The Studio, Auckland
Saturday 12th May, San Fran, Wellington
Sunday 13th May, The Foundary, Christchurch

Tickets on sale 9:00am Wednesday 22nd November from HERE at UTR and the venue/Ticketmaster for Christchurch.

Here’s Sepultura playing their groundbreaking tune 'Roots Bloody Roots’ live at Wacken Open Air in 2012, complete with a raucous percussion section…

Here’s 'Phantom Self’ from Metal Messiah…

Check out the video for ‘Dethroned’ by Death Angel…

Press release:

SEPULTURA – NEW ZEALAND 2018

With special guests DEATH ANGEL

The Sepulnation is alive and well! Following their crushingly successful 2014 New Zealand/ Australian Tour, Brazilian Metal Icons SEPULTURA unleash a heavy metal hurricane upon the Sepulnation in May 2018.

“One of my absolute favourite shows; one that I only wish I could relive time and time again” - Metal Obsession (Melbourne Review 2014)

Armed with their finest album in decades ‘Machine Messiah’, SEPULTURA emerge into a troubled world with extraordinary songs guaranteed to lift the spirits of any loyal metalhead. SEPULTURA are legends and are responsible for the existence of several of your favourite thrash metal bands today!

‘’Sepultura deserve all the respect’’ – Metal Rules

The band’s total command of the stage is cemented in place by blistering live performances that have remained a constant threat to all contemporaries. It’s a forgone conclusion that audiences will to erupt to Roots Bloody Roots, Territory, Refuse/Resist, Arise, Attitude, Ratamahatta and so many more! Just reading those song titles paint a picture of you losing your shit in a circle pit – this is the power of SEPULTURA!

‘The quartet turns a metal crowd into a mass of headbanging maniacs’ - Heavy Metal Bands Info (Brisbane Review 2014)

Joining Sepultura in this headlong rush into mayhem are one of the most influential Thrash Metal bands ever - DEATH ANGEL. A peek through a time portal to the Bay Area Scene in the 80s would reveal Metallica’s Cliff Burton at the front of the stage at Ruthie’s Inn banging his head to Death Angel’s inventive style, and speedy, complex arrangements. But who needs HG Wells when you can see the real thing here and now at a venue half an hour from home Buzzsaw speed riffs, double kick drum bedlam, and scorching vocals are just a few of the elements which define the uncompromising urgency that is DEATH ANGEL. Three decades into their celebrated career, DEATH ANGEL remain as hungry as ever.

With the critically acclaimed double barrel blast to the system delivered by SEPULTURA and DEATH ANGEL, metal fans will be electrified with horns in the air euphoria. We kid you not. This is the shit!

Sepultura with Death Angel

Friday 11th May – Auckland – The Studio Saturday 12th May – Wellington – San Fran Sunday 13th May - Christchurch - The Foundary

 

Tickets from UTR and Ticketmaster + venue for Christchurch.