Multi platinum selling artists
Filter and
P.O.D are to return to the UK in early 2009 for a co-headline tour. The UK shows are part of a 31 date tour that will take the bands all over Europe. This will be P.O.D’s first shows in the UK for 5 years and marks a welcome return to Filter who toured Europe this summer which included sell out shows in London and triumphant appearances at Rock am Ring and Rock am Park in Germany.
After a 5-year hiatus,
Filter returned to the music scene in 2008 with their brilliant and emotional new album –
“Anthems For The Damned”. Founder and front-man,
Richard Patrick calls the album his “howl in the night,” a harsh indictment of civilization that doesn’t exclude himself from its vision of a world falling apart.
Filter achieved huge success in the late 90’s / 2000’s with their multi-platinum selling albums “Short Bus”, “Title of Record” and “The Amalgamut”. The critically acclaimed albums spawned the chart topping singles “Hey Man, Nice Shot”, “Take A Picture” and “Where Do We Go From Here?”
Their latest offering, “
Anthems For The Damned” features such collaborators as guitarist/songwriter John 5 (Marilyn Manson), legendary drummer Josh Freese and guitarist Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit). Pointed and passionate, the new album traces Patricks’s own anger and shame with the state of the world, from the intense alternative industrial blast of “The Take,” “What’s Next” and “Hatred is Contagious,” the ultimate resignation of “Kill the Day” and “Lie After Lie” to the tentative hope expressed by “Only You” and the ambient soundscape of the closing “Can Stop This.”
Filter have been touring extensively in the US for the best part of 2008, and recently previewed tracks from “
Anthems For The Damned”, including the hit single “Soldiers Of Misfortune” alongside such
Filter classics as “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” “Take a Picture” and others when they performed for the troops alongside Disturbed, The Pussycat Dolls and Jessica Simpson at the Operation MySpace show in Kuwait.
With an impressive seven studio albums and over seven million album sales under their belt, not to mention multiple platinum successes with 1999’s The Fundamental Elements of Southtown and 2001’s triple-platinum Satellite, which featured the hit singles “Youth of a Nation”, “Alive” and “Boom”,
P.O.D. are back to reclaim their place atop the rock scene in the reunited incarnation of the quartet (original guitarist Marcos Curiel returning to the fold after a 4 year absence).
The quartet’s renewed vigor is evident throughout new album “
When Angels and Serpents Dance”, from the searing guitar line of “Shine With Me”, to the monumental, “End Of The World” complete with gospel choir, to the album’s most ferocious track, the savage “God Forbid”. The band also display a softer side on the bluesy hard rock feel at the start of “Rain Everyday”, a song with clever vignettes in the bridges, the almost poppy chorus in the infectious “Shine With Me”, and on the poignant, politically charged ballad “Tell Me Why,” in which Sonny asks in the chorus, “Why must we fight, why must we kill in the name of what we think is right?”
Produced by Jay Baumgardner, the album features a number of guest appearances - legendary punk rock singer, Mike Muir of
Suicidal Tendencies guests on the track “
Kaliforn-Eye-A”,
The Marley Sisters, who lend their vocal prowess to what frontman Sonny calls “Our reggae track (I’ll Be Ready),” and
Helmet’s Page Hamilton on “God Forbid,” which Sonny describes as “probably our heaviest song.”
To coincide with the dates, P.O.D. will be releasing a
digital download single,
Addicted (out Feb 9th on Cooking Vinyl), which will also feature an exclusive track,
Ridin’ With You.
The full UK dates are as follows: February :
11th Birmingham, Academy 2 0844 477 2000
13th Oxford, Academy 2 0844 477 2000
14th Manchester, Academy 3 0161 832 1111
15th Glasgow, Garage 08444 999 990
17th Nottingham, Rescue Rooms 0871 310 0000
18th London Astoria 0871 231 0821
Tickets are £15 regional / £17 London
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