Sounds Of The Underground: Special Guest Announcement

Tickets for the Hot Topic Presents Sounds Of The Underground Tour are now available through a special pre-sale! Fans can preorder tickets now via Artist Arena at a discounted price for a limited time. A portion of the proceeds generated from the pre-sale will be donated to Cure Autism Now. Buy your tickets now at this location.

In addition to the previously announced stellar lineup, which includes headliners GWAR, Chimaira, Every Time I Die, and Job For A Cowboy the third annual Sounds of the Underground summer touring fest will feature additional bands in select cities. Hot Topic Presents proudly announces the following special guests on this year's outing.

Thrash metal veterans Testament will play before GWAR at the Starland Ballroom on July 14 in New Jersey.

Mushroomhead will close the show in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio on July 21 and will also perform as special guests in Columbus on July 22, Chicago on July 23, and Minneapolis on July 24.

The legendary Suicidal Tendencies will close shows in San Jose, California on August 3, Irvine, California on August 4, and Mesa, Arizona on August 5.

Modern thrash titans Lamb Of God will headline a recently added date on August 11 in Louisville, Kentucky and will be joined by special guests Hatebreed and Behemoth.

The regular lineup for Hot Topic Presents Sounds Of The Underground includes headliner Gwar, with co-headliners Chimaira, Every Time I Die and a band to be announced soon rotating set times throughout the tour. The lineup will be rounded out by Job For a Cowboy, Necro, Darkest Hour, Amon Amarth, The Acacia Strain, The Devil Wears Prada, Heavy Heavy Low Low, The Number Twelve Looks Like You Goatwhore, This Is Hell, and 2 Cents.

Oderus Urungus, lead throat-thing of GWAR, rulers of Earth, when told of the addition of the various guests, responded, "I give my personal seal of filthy approval to this excellent selection of bands. Suicidal in particular played one of the first GWAR shows ever. Tonight I shall burn a baby upon the Altar of Eternal Syphillis." After this he grew to five times his normal size and farted himself into near-orbit.

Oderus was on his way from a super-secret meeting held at the Slave Pit in Lower Antarctica, where details of the new GWAR show were discussed. When asked to provide details, Oderus replied "No."

The organizers for this year's Hot Topic Presents Sounds Of The Underground Tour, Paul Conroy and Carl Severson of Ferret Music, Tim Borror of The Agency Group, Larry Mazer of Entertainment Services, tour producer Live Nation along with partners Metal Blade Records, Prosthetic Records, Trustkill Records and The Syndicate, and tour sponsors Music Choice, Ibanez, Tama, Purevolume, AOL Radio, Revolver Magazine, and Lambgoat are excited to embark on this third year of mayhem!

SOTU is proud to announce the addition of Rockstar Games MANHUNT 2 as a tour sponsor. MANHUNT 2 is the follow up to 2005's Smash Hit MANHUNT and hits stores summer 2007!

Comments

[Aidsteen]

Aww I wish Suicidal Tendencies stayed on through the whole tour...

[RockMusicFan]

^ Yeah that would be sick.

[_zac_]

Oderus Urungus, lead throat-thing of GWAR, rulers of Earth, when told of the addition of the various guests, responded, "I give my personal seal of filthy approval to this excellent selection of bands. Suicidal in particular played one of the first GWAR shows ever. Tonight I shall burn a baby upon the Altar of Eternal Syphillis." After this he grew to five times his normal size and farted himself into near-orbit.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAAHHAHA
not a big fan of these bands, cant remember which year it was, but the one with Strapping Young Lad and Devildriver was sweet (Ive got the DVD)

but again... HAHAHAHA

[ZeRaTuL HeLiOs]

number 12 is sick

[ready2breakdown]

not 100% crazy about the lineup throughout the tour, but the guest are real nice bonuses. especially for the towns they are actually playing in. I wish they would have gotten bfmv or someone, there was tons of bands they could have gotten instead of the grindcore/screamo stuff.

I'm definitely glad to see GWAR, Chimaira, and 2 Cents. To me there's better list of guest than there is for the tour lineup. Oh well, I would still probably go regardless!