According to Blabbermouth.net, california's Otep has scheduled the following tour dates:
03/30 - Farmington, NM - Gator's
03/31 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Outer Rim
04/01 - Denver, CO - Cervantes Ballroom
04/02 - Colorado Spings, CO - Black Sheep
04/04 - Minneapolis, MN - The Rock
04/05 - Cedar Falls, IA - The Reverb
04/07 - Mokena, IL - The Pearl Room
04/08 - Michigan Center, MI - Motorhead's Bar + Grill
04/10 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
04/11 - Columbus, OH - Al Rose Villa
04/12 - Detroit, MI - Harpo's
04/13 - Toronto, ONT - The Opera House
04/18 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
04/21 - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
"
Confrontation", the new video from
Otep, can be viewed
here. The track comes off the group's new album, "
The_Ascension", which sold 10,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release back in November to debut at position No. 81 on The Billboard 200 chart.
Produced by Dave Fortman (Mudvayne, Evanescence), "The_Ascension" sees the band challenging itself to avoid clichГ©s and classifications and finding a new landscape of sound and vision. "We said 'genre limits and music fads be damned, let's write music that is important to us and that motivates us," explained Shamaya. "I wanted to write songs we believe in and let nothing stop us from building the album we want to make."
