The concert will also include a small set from Ozzy Osbourne himself, and will be closed by the iconic band. The lineup also includes musicians from around the world will also be on hand to pay tribute, including Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), David Draiman (Disturbed), Duff McKagan & Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Frank Bello (Anthrax), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit), Jake E Lee, Jonathan Davis (Korn), K.K. Downing, Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Rudy Sarzo, Sammy Hagar, Scott Ian (Anthrax), II (Sleep Token), Papa V Perpetua (Ghost), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Wolfgang Van Halen, and Zakk Wylde.

Because the concert, which is already sold out, will draw an extensive amount of people to Birmingham, Birmingham Live reports that hotels near Villa Park, where the legendary metal band will perform their final show on July 5, have increased their rates by as much as 725%.

The article offers a comparison of The Apollo Hotel on Hagley Road, which is a prime example of this surge. A ‘superior’ double room without breakfast was listed at £619 for the night of the concert on Hotels.com. In contrast, the same room for the previous Saturday, booked through the same platform, was priced at just £75.

Birmingham Live also notes a Travelodge at Broadway Plaza, 14 minutes from the venue, where a room priced at £53.99 on June 28 surges to £319.99 on July 5. Likewise, in Yardley, a 22-minute drive from Villa Park, a Travelodge room that costs £47.99 the week before Back to the Beginning will rise to £303.99 on the night of the event.

Beartooth will be playing shows in Germany, Austria and France before heading into the UK at the 02 Academy in Birmingham for two nights on October 21^st and 22^nd. The band will then head to Manchester’s 02 Victoria Warehouse for two nights on October 24^th and 25^th before rounding out the UK portion of their tour with a show at London’s Alexandra Palace on October 26^th.

The band toured the UK earlier this year in March, even relocating their scheduled show at Brixton Academy to Wembley Arena in the wake of Brixton Academy losing their live music license due to the unfortunate deaths at an Asake show.

Founding band member Caleb Shomo said: “It has been so long since we have done a headliner in Europe. I can’t wait to show everybody what we’ve been working on for the last 18 months, they will be some of the biggest shows of our career to date and will be some of the best shows we have ever played in our lives!”

Beartooth are currently gearing up to release their upcoming album, The Surface, which is set for release next Friday (October 13^th) – following up 2021’s Below.

Caleb Shomo has previously talked about the album, as a couple of months ago he said: “I just want it to be completely different than anything else I’ve done before. Making this record, truly, it’s just something I never thought was going to happen in my life, candidly. I’ve talked about it in other albums, I’ve talked about it pretty openly in interviews, the dark side of what I deal with sometimes, I felt like has always been at the forefront and been the most powerful energy in my life.”

Previously about the new album, he has said: “This album is the story of my beginnings in the new world I’ve created for myself. One focused on health, self-love, positivity, understanding, hard work, and most of all second chances. At the end of the day, life is short for all of us. We can’t escape the end, so why not make friends with it and live in a world focused on living a personally fulfilling life?”

Tour Dates:

10/10/2024 – Columbiahalle – Berlin, Germany
11/10 – Palladium – Cologne, Germany
12/10 – Palladium – Cologne, Germany
15/10 – Gasometer – Vienna, Austria
16/10 – Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, Germany
17/10 – Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, Germany
18/10 – Zenith – Munich, Germany
19/10 – Le Bataclan – Paris, France
21/10 – 02 Academy – Birmingham, UK
22/10 – 02 Academy – Birmingham, UK
24/10 – 02 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester, UK
25/10 – 02 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester, UK
26/10 – Alexandra Palace – London, UK
28/10 – AB – Brussels, Belgium
29/10 – AB – Brussels, Belgium
31/10 – 013 – Tilberg, Netherlands
01/11 – 013 – Tilberg, Netherlands
02/11 – Sporthalle Hamburg – Hamburg, Germany

Our new album ‘House of Sand’ is out now!

“Beautifully foreboding”
“Dreamy, luscious but with a dark undercurrent”
“There is no band that sound like Dawnwalker ”

Check it out now!https://t.co/RVzEi1bUrN

DW x#postmetal #prog #postrock #metal

— (@dawnwalkeruk) August 19, 2022

Addressing the mercurial nature of their process, the band said in the press release for the album: “House of Sand marks a significant change away from the post and folk metal influences of Dawnwalker’s last LP Ages for something darker and more difficult to pin down”. Watch the video for the first track off the album, “R.I.P“, below.

Addressing the pastoral album cover, they continued: ”As pictured on Mitchell Nolte’s cover painting, the album is set against a backdrop of idyllic suburbs and the darkness that may be lurking beneath”. References to the darker side of the human psyche and of human nature run throughout the album. Talking about, “Demon of Noontide”, the second song of the album, they say once it is “contracted gradually destroys all in its path”.

Pink Floyd, Radiohead, and Mansun’s 1998 prog opera “Six” are just a few examples of musical touchstones from the British indie and progressive rock canon, yet these influences are combined with a contemporary heavy sensibility to create a distinctive sound all of its own. The band saying, “It might be thought of as something akin to the lovechild of Opeth and Kate Bush”.

Coming in with a run time of 43 minutes, this is their shortest album by a long way, but that doesn’t mean that each of the thirteen songs isn’t packed with the band’s usual flair for inventiveness.

Talking about the sound they wanted for the new album, the band revealed in the statement: “Together with Joe Clayton of No Studio, they wanted to get away from the overproduced sound of modern metal and computer-generated artifice. As such, no click tracks or synthesized instruments were used at all on the album. Instead, an ensemble of eight musicians wielding acoustic guitars, piano, violins and four vocalist performed whole takes live in the room, choosing to make a feature of their imperfections rather than airbrush them away. The end result is Dawnwalker’s darkest but most human and affecting album to date”.

Metal Injection gave the album 8.5 stars saying: “House of Sand is a mesmerizing journey brimming with countryside chaos and literary meditations…There’s a classiness and scholarliness to it all that keeps you coming back for more, allowing the group to sustain their place amongst the top acts in their field”.

Dawnwalker are:
Chris J. Allan – Drums
Matteo Bianciotto – Guitars, Vocals
Dane Cross – Vocals
Mina Jackson – Piano
Robin Melinda Koob – Violin
Mark Norgate – Vocals, Guitars
Roisin O’Toole – Vocals
and featuring Alastair Mitchell as “The Master”

And it sounds like they deliver on this promise, with “high-voltage non-stop masterclass of neck-snapping thrash that’d be the ideal soundtrack for high-speed car chases and backyard steel cage matches” being just some of the phrases used to describe the record.

Our massively-anticipated 7th studio album #ElectrifiedBrain drops July 1st via @NuclearBlast.

Cover artwork: @JamesBousema

LISTEN TO “GRAVE DIVE”https://t.co/7nmBw5GUeG

PRE-ORDER ALBUMhttps://t.co/JHuKsxwf3P

PRE-SAVE ALBUMhttps://t.co/DRPbTUhskI#MunicipalWaste pic.twitter.com/uywOsWeHbH

— Municipal Waste (@MUNICIPALWASTE) April 1, 2022

As for their latest single, “Grave Dive“, Foresta describes it as “an inspirational song for our fans to cause bodily harm to themselves, but in a loud and healthy way, of course.“

The quintet (which is made up of Foresta on vocals, Ryan Waste/Nick Poulos on guitar, Philip Hall on bass and Dave Witte on drums) have been together since 2001 and have been making this fact known about town ever since. Among some of the accolades they’ve received include a place on Decibel’s Hall of Fame for their The Art of Partying (2007), an album which Loudwire declared “The Best Thrash Album of 2007”.

If you want to pre-order the new album, you can look here. The tracklist for Electrified Brain can be seen below. As for seeing them live, a tour supporting the new album has already begun in America, and they’ll be reaching us in September (as can be seen below). Tickets can be gotten here.

Electrified Brain Tracklist

1. “Electrified Brain”
2. “Demoralizer”
3. “Last Crawl”
4. “Grave Dive”
5. “The Bite”
6. “High Speed Steel”
7. “Thermonuclear Protection”
8. “Blood Vessel – Boat Jail”
9. “Crank The Heat”
10. “Restless and Wicked”
11. “Ten Cent Beer Night”
12. “Barreled Rage”
13. “Putting On Errors”
14. “Paranormal Janitor”

Municipal Waste UK Tour Dates

27/09/2022 – Birmingham – O2 Academy
29/09 – Manchester – Manchester Academy
30/09 – Glasgow – O2 Academy
01/10 – Newcastle – O2 City Hall
03/10 – Leeds – O2 Academy
04/10 – Nottingham – Rock City
06/10 – Bristol – O2 Academy
08/10 – London – Brixton Academy