Wednesday 13 has announced he will be touring Australia to perform a full set of Murderdolls classics in February.
The tour will see the current Wednesday 13 band lineup (which includes fellow former Murderdolls Roman Surman and Jack Tankersley) rip through a full set of Murderdolls songs lifted from the band's iconic 2002 debut record Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls and their 2010 return Women And Children Last.
Hitting Australia in early February 2024, the tour will kick off in Brisbane on February 2nd before heading to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in a run consisting of five shows in six days. Tickets for all shows on the tour, which is being presented by The Phoenix, go on sale on Thursday, July 27th at 9.00 am local time.
Commenting on the tour, Wednesday 13 states "After 21 years since its release, and the recent sad and premature passing of Joey, it only feels right to go out and celebrate these songs. We made two amazing albums that I was very proud of, and unfortunately, much of the world didn’t get a chance to hear the songs live. In 2018, we all got together at Joey’s house and discussed plans and possibilities for the future, but we both had other immediate plans, we will be performing tracks from both Murderdolls albums on this upcoming tour and celebrating the legacy of the band.”
Amid a 2002 musical landscape full of baggy pants, backwards caps and tracksuit pants rose a metallic glam-punk band that defied the prevailing trends and brought back hard and fast rock ’n roll. Murderdolls dug up the corpse of rock, defiled it and injected pure unadulterated undead life back into it. And it was glorious!
'Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls’ and its successor, 'Women and Children Last' were like nothing else. Fast and dirty, raw and macabre. Drawing lyrical inspiration from classic horror, each track is full of tongue-in-cheek horror done to perfection. Led by horror-punk icon, Wednesday 13 and the late great Joey Jordison, Murderdolls slithered their way to the top of the horrendous heights of rock amassing a colossal cult following along the way.
With the sinister, sneering vocals, huge hooks, gang vocal choruses, pounding rhythms and some of the best riffs ever penned, the Murderdolls wrote songs for arenas and played them in theatres, making their adrenaline-fuelled odes to the darkness that much more thrilling.
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