San Antonio’s masters of blackened death/thrash HOD are gearing up for one hellaciously brutal summer with a series of live dates that will see the band join forces with Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust and many more as they devastate parts of the US and Canada with their relentless brand of extreme metal. All of this is coming in anticipation of the band’s follow up to their critically-acclaimed debut, Serpent, which Zero Tolerance called a “venomous explosion of black, death, and thrash metal fury” and Terrorizer called “non-commercialized, uncompromising and slightly unhinged death metal.” The new material is expected to see the light of day in the coming months. HOD guitarist Carl “Lord Necron” Snyder comments on the upcoming tour and new album,”The name of the new album has been chosen – Book of the Worm. We shall unleash this album sometime later this year. We have worked on the music for this album for quite some time. We hope to announce the producer soon for this album, we just need to nail the down who we want to mix it. Expect an announcement soon. Also we will be hitting the road this summer with Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil and Panzerfaust. This is one brutal lineup. We will also play the Goregrowler’s Ball this year; hitting the stage with Suffocation, Exhumed, Aborted, Gravehill, Cardiac Arrest and many more. We have a busy end of the year ahead of us. So we hope to see the legions of metalheads out there this year. We will be announcing soon even more live dates too. Just need to confirm them. We will keep you posted. One last thing, coming up this Saturday, April 16, we will take the stage with legends Exhorder and Rigor Mortis. We really look forward to sharing the stage with these guys. It’s an overdose of metal! We hope to see all you Texas bastards out in Austin for this show. Who knows when a lineup like this will happen again.”
Serpent is currently available through the Ibex Moon Records Webstore.
HOD Live Dates:
4/16 @ Emo’s w/ Exhorder, Rigor Mortis and more
-Austin, TX
4/22 @ tba w/ Blaspherian, Butchered Saint, Engaged in Mutilating
– San Antonio, TX
5/17 @ Dirty Dog w/ Destruction, Heathen, Warbeast, Nocturnal(GER), Witchaven, Birth A.D. – Austin, TX
5/29 @The Café Campus w/ Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust
– Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
5/30 @ The Annex Wreckroom w/ Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust
– Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
5/31 @ Reggie’s Rock Club w/ Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust
-Chicago, IL
6/1 @ I-Rock Nightclub w/ Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust
– Detroit, MI
6/2 @ Peabody’s w/ Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust
– Cleavland, OH
6/3 @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg w/ Marduk, Aura Noir, Black Anvil, Panzerfaust
– Brooklyn, NY
6/4 @ Dingbatz NJ w/ Panzerfaust
– Clifton, NJ
6/5 @ tba w/ Panzerfaust
– Rochester, NY
6/6 @ tba w/ Panzerfaust
– Cambridge, CANADA
6/7 @ tba w/ Maax
– Indianapolis, Indiana
6/8 @ tba
– New Orleans, LA
6/25 @ Ten Eleven w/ Spellcaster, Split Heaven, 1 tba
– San Antonio, TX
11/11 @ Goregrowlers’s Ball
– San Antonio, TX
For those who doubt the sheer ferocity of Hod’s live set, check out this video of the band performing “Apocalyptic Death Whore” live in Houston, TX.
For more on Hod visit the band’s official Myspace page or join them on Facebook.
