Exmortus, Vektor Announce Winter Mayhem Tour Dates

Heavy Artillery Records labelmates Exmortus and Vektor are teaming up to spread their brand of progressive thrash metal across the United States with the Winter Mayhem Tour. The tour kicks off December 18th in Mesa, Arizona, and finishes up a month later on January 16th in LA.

Los Angeles based neo-classical death unit Exmortus unleashed their debut album "In Hatred's Flames" last year to much critical fanfare and will be set to record the follow up in the first half 2010. Exmortus are an entity amongst themselves and their music, both complex and thoroughly hook-laden, refuses to lend itself to easy categorization. From the technical death-thrash riffage and surgically precise drumming to their neo-classical, twin virtuoso lead guitar attack Exmortus has garnered interest from fans of death metal, thrash, prog metal, traditional heavy metal and all true metal sub-genres.

"Black Future," the debut album from Phoenix, AZ futuristic thrashers Vektor was recently released. Locked, loaded and heavily armed, Vektor are excited to take their show on the road to unsuspecting metal heads across the US for the very first time. Vektor employs an array of intricacy, virtuosity and a wholly unique sound that has set them apart from the growing legions of color-by-numbers thrash bands. Black Future is a seventy minute epic of diabolical space metal that stimulates the senses and challenges any preconceived limits to what a metal album can be.

• Fri Dec 18th Mesa Arizona, AZ @ UBs
• Sat Dec 19th Albuquerque, NM @ The Compound
• Sun Dec 20th Amarillo Texas, TX @ The War Legion
• Mon Dec 21st Oklahoma City, OK, @ The Conservatory
• Tues Dec 22nd Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room
• Wed Dec 23rd Chicago, IL @ The Beat Kitchen
• Thu Dec 24th Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
• Sat Dec 26th Allentown, PA @ The Sterling Hotel
• Sun Dec 27th Montclair, NJ @ The Meat-locker
• Mon Dec 28th Boston, MA @ TBA
• Tue Dec 29th Baltimore, MD @ TBA
• Wed Dec 30th Charlotte, NC @ The Charlotte Underground
• Thu Dec 31st Atlanta, GA @ The Warehouse
• Fri Jan 1st Jacksonville, FL @ Doozer's Pub
• Sat Jan 2nd Orlando, FL @ The Haven
• Sun Jan 3rd Tampa, FL @ TBA
• Tue Jan 5th Miami, FL @ Churchill's Pub
• Wed Jan 6th Panama City, FL @ Newby's Too
• Fri Jan 8th Houston Texas, TX @ The Jet Lounge
• Sat Jan 9th San Antonio, TX @ The Ten Eleven
• Sun Jan 10th Forth Worth, TX @ The Alamo
• Tue Jan 12th Lubbock, TX @ Whiskey Dix
• Wd Jan 13th Las Cruces, NM @ TBA
• Thu Jan 14th Tuscon, AZ @ The Vaudeville
• Fri Jan 15th San Deigo, CA @ TBA
• Sat Jan 16th Los Angeles, CA @ TBA