What started in late 2010 as a project by Paradise Lost guitarist Greg Mackintosh became a real band. The 2011 debut album "A Fragile King" was hailed as one of the best Death Metal albums of the year and the band took it even further in doom, death and crust realms with the latest album "Splinters" that was recorded and produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge, Black Breath, Beastmilk, etc.) in Salem, Massachusetts.
So far Greg, Scoot (Doom), Hamish Glencross (ex-My Dying Bride) and Adrian Erlandsson (At The Gates, Paradise Lost, The Haunted) only played a handful of selected shows. But now it's time to present "Splinters" on a full tour across Europe. The tour starts with their old mates Bolt Thrower and label mates Morgoth, and moves on to their own headlining shows.
Greg Mackintosh: "The upcoming shows will be something new for us as a band. So far we have only done one club gig in Finland and that was our first ever show. Every other show we have played has been as part of a festival so this will be our first proper club tour together. With equal parts excitement and trepidation we will venture into the unknown and spread some unspeakable filth over Europe."
Press on "Splinters":
"It's masterful melding of Hellhammer / Celtic Frost, Nihilist / Entombed, Autopsy, Discharge and various other influences deliver a rare treat for lovers of old-school death metal and crustpunk." Metal Hammer UK, 8 points review
"Vallenfyre squelch their way through fetid piles of deathly riffs and growls with more genuine morbidity than most of the young pups who weren't born when Gregor was first hacking up these sorts of riffs." Kerrang, 4k review
Get your copy of "Splinters" (just about 100 vinyls left!) or the previous album "A Fragile King" here: https://smarturl.it/vallenfyrecmd
Vallenfyre with Bolt Thrower & Morgoth
30.09.2014 Le Trabendo , Paris, France
01.10.2014 Garage, Saarbruecken, Germany
02.10.2014 Hellraiser, Leipzig, Germany
03.10.2014 LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany
04.10.2014 JUZ, Andernach, Germany
05.10.2014 Muziekodroom, Hasselt, Belgium
Vallenfyre + support
06.10.2014 Merleyn, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
07.10.2014 Baroeg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
09.10.2014 Turock, Essen, Germany
10.10.2014 MTC, Cologne, Germany
11.10.2014 Kranhalle, Muenchen, Germany
12.10.2014 Räucherkammer, Wiesbaden, Germany
13.10.2014 Magnet, Berlin, Germany
15.10.2014 Exchange, Bristol, UK
16.10.2014 Talking Heads, Southampton, UK
18.10.2014 Best Buy Theater, New York, USA*
20.10.2014 Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton, UK
21.10.2014 The Dome, London, UK
* Decibel 10th Anniversary Show w/ Amon Amarth & Sabaton
Festivals 2015:
19.-21.02.2015 Blastfest, Bergen, Norway
More to be announced soon.
