Kerry King will launch his first headline tour with his new solo band—drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), bassist Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah), guitarist Phil Demmel (Machine Head) and vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel)—in early 2025. The North American tour, in support of King’s debut solo album “From Hell I Rise,” will feature support from Municipal Waste and Alien Weaponry.
Tickets go on sale here at 10 a.m. local time Friday, Oct. 4.
“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King said. “I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band—in the U.K. and Europe, and then in America with Lamb of God and Mastodon—were all total blasts. We’ll be headlining on this next tour, so we’re playing a longer set than we did with Lamb of God and Mastodon. We’ve got a little bit of a learning curve, so will start rehearsing the first week of November. And we might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two.”
King also has released a music video for the album track “Where I Reign.” Shot in black and white, the video was directed by Jim Louvau, who also directed King’s videos for “Residue” and “Toxic.”
“I wanted to capture the fury and the energy of the band in a live setting,” Louvau said , “an intensity that is matched from a visual standpoint that matches the intensity of the song and the energy that the band brings each and every night on tour, and I think we were able to do that. There are some still photos in the video that also show motion and energy, and I was really just trying to bring that energy to life in a live setting that is different from the other two videos that were done in the studio and were a little more in a controlled environment. So this video was definitely the guys’ being themselves and just showcasing what the band provides in a live setting.”
Kerry King 2025 tour dates:
January
15th The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
17th Spokane Live Casino, Spokane, WA
18th Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
19th Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
20th Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC CANADA
22nd The Palace Theatre, Calgary, AB CANADA
23rd Midway Music Hall, Edmonton, AB CANADA
25th Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB CANADA
26th The Fillmore, Minneapolis, MN
28th The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
30th The Majestic Theater, Detroit, MI
31st House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
February
1st Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON CANADA
2nd L’Olympia, Montreal, QC CANADA
4th Royale, Boston, MA
5th Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
7th Irving Plaza, New York, NY
8th Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD
10th Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
11th Jannus Live, St. Petersburg, FL
13th House of Blues, Houston, TX
14th Emo’s, Austin, TX
15th The Studio at the Factory, Dallas, TX
17th Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
18th Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM
19th The Nile Theater, Phoenix, AZ
21st House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
22nd The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
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