As previously announced, U.S. progressive metal icons FATES WARNING will be returning to Europe for a headlining tour in March 2012 and also a first-ever visit to South America (as special guests for Queensryche in São Paulo / Brazil on April 14th), before resuming songwriting work on a new studio album effort.
FATES WARNING have now confirmed that Mike Portnoy (Adrenaline Mob / Transatlantic, ex Dream Theater / Avenged Sevenfold) will be once again joining the band as stand-in drummer on their show in Brazil, commenting the news as follows:
"We're pleased and excited to announce that Mike Portnoy will be our special guest drummer for our April 14th show in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We had a great time playing with Mike back in 2005 at the Headway festival in Holland and we're happy that he's able to help us out again. We'd also like to make it clear that Bobby Jarzombek is still the drummer for Fates and will be with us for our European shows in March as well as on the new record we're currently working on. Unfortunately, Bobby committed to another gig on the same day (ironically, in the same city) before this show was planned.
Here is also an update on the upcoming European headlining dates:
FATES WARNING ' European Tour 2012:
March 5 - Verviers (Belgium) - Spirit '66
March 6 - Pratteln (Switzerland) - Z7
March 7 - Paris (France) - Nouveau Casino
March 9 - Uden (The Netherlands) - De Pul
March 10 - Reichenbach (Germany) - Bergkeller
March 11 - Aschaffenburg (Germany) - Colos Saal
March 12 - Bochum (Germany) - Matrix
March 14 - Munich (Germany) - Backstage *
March 15 - Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Orto Bar
March 17 - Bratislava (Slovakia) - MMC
March 18 - Prague (Czech Republic) - Exit-Us
March 19 - Budapest (Hungary) - A38
March 21 - Bucharest (Romania) - Jukebox Club
March 22 ' Sofia (Bulgaria) - Mixtape 5 Club
March 24 - Moscow (Russia) – KKZ
