High Country Tour

The High Country Tour is an ongoing concert tour by American heavy metal band The Sword. Staged in support of the band's 2015 fifth studio album High Country, the tour is scheduled to visit venues worldwide in 2015 and 2016. Currently comprising three legs and 75 shows, the tour began in Trondheim, Norway at the Pstereo Festival on August 21, 2015 and the latest scheduled show is on December 19, 2015 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

High Country Tour
Promotional tour by The Sword
Location
Associated albumHigh Country
Start dateAugust 21, 2015 (2015-08-21)
End dateDecember 19, 2015 (2015-12-19)
Legs3
No. of shows75
The Sword concert chronology

Background

The opening European leg of the High Country Tour was detailed in tandem with the official announcement of the album on June 2, 2015, with the news also stating that the band would continue touring throughout 2015 and 2016.[1] A few days before the release of the album and the beginning of the tour, two legs of North American dates were added starting on October 9, 2015 in Dallas, including appearances at the festivals Knotfest and Aftershock; support acts were announced as Kadavar and All Them Witches for the first leg, and Royal Thunder for the second.[2]

Set list

The following is the set list from a number of early shows on the tour.[3][4]

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue Other act(s)
Europe
August 21, 2015 Trondheim Norway Marinen Various (Pstereo Festival)
August 22, 2015 Oslo Parkteatret Black Temple
August 23, 2015 Gothenburg Sweden Sticky Fingers
August 25, 2015 Helsinki Finland Tavastia Club
August 27, 2015 Stockholm Sweden Debaser Strand
August 28, 2015 Malmö Kulturbolaget
August 29, 2015 Copenhagen Denmark Lille Vega
August 30, 2015 Hamburg Germany Rock Café St Pauli
August 31, 2015 Berlin Magnet Club
September 2, 2015 Vienna Austria Vienna Arena The Iron Heel
Communication Killer
September 3, 2015 Munich Germany Backstage Mosh36
Suffocation
Nile
September 4, 2015 Milan Italy Legend Club
September 5, 2015 Salzburg Austria Rockhouse
September 6, 2015 Winterthur Switzerland Salzhaus
September 7, 2015 Stuttgart Germany Universum
September 9, 2015 Antwerp Belgium Trix Club
September 10, 2015 Tilburg Netherlands Extase
September 11, 2015 Cologne Germany Luxor
September 12, 2015 Paris France La Boule Noire
September 14, 2015 Nottingham England Rock City Basement Hark
September 15, 2015 Glasgow Scotland King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
September 16, 2015 Manchester England Academy 3 Hang the Bastard
September 17, 2015 Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
September 18, 2015 London Camden Underworld Hang the Bastard
September 19, 2015 Bristol The Thekla
North America
October 9, 2015 Dallas United States Gas Monkey Live! Kadavar
All Them Witches
October 10, 2015 Austin The Mohawk
October 11, 2015 Houston Fitzgerald's
October 13, 2015 Lawrence Granada Theater
October 14, 2015 Madison Majestic Theatre
October 15, 2015 Iowa City Gabe's Oasis
October 16, 2015 Minneapolis Mill City Nights
October 17, 2015 Omaha The Waiting Room Lounge
October 18, 2015 Tulsa Cain's Ballroom
October 20, 2015 Mesa Club Red
October 21, 2015 Las Vegas Vinyl
October 22, 2015 San Diego Belly Up
October 23, 2015 San Francisco Slim's
October 24, 2015 San Bernardino San Manuel Amphitheater Various (Knotfest)
October 25, 2015 Sacramento Gibson Ranch Park Various (Aftershock Festival)
October 27, 2015 Seattle Neumos Kadavar
All Them Witches
October 28, 2015 Vancouver Canada Rickshaw Theatre
October 29, 2015 Portland United States Wonder Ballroom
October 30, 2015 Boise Neurolux All Them Witches
October 31, 2015 Salt Lake City Club Sound
November 2, 2015 Denver Gothic Theatre
November 3, 2015 Albuquerque Launchpad
November 4, 2015 Lubbock Jake's Backroom
North America
November 18, 2015 New Orleans United States One Eyed Jacks Royal Thunder
November 19, 2015 Atlanta The Masquerade
November 20, 2015 St. Petersburg State Theatre
November 21, 2015 Jacksonville Beach Freebird Live
November 23, 2015 Birmingham Saturn
November 24, 2015 Nashville Exit/In
November 25, 2015 Asheville The Orange Peel
November 27, 2015 Carrboro Cat's Cradle
November 28, 2015 Charlotte Neighbourhood Theatre
November 29, 2015 Washington, D.C. Rock & Roll Hotel
December 1, 2015 New York City Webster Hall
December 2, 2015 Cambridge The Sinclair
December 3, 2015 Albany Northern Lights
December 4, 2015 Philadelphia Trocadero Theatre
December 5, 2015 Buffalo Town Ballroom
December 6, 2015 Toronto Canada The Opera House
December 8, 2015 Pittsburgh United States Mr. Small's Theatre
December 9, 2015 Cleveland Agora Theatre and Ballroom
December 10, 2015 Ann Arbor Blind Pig
December 11, 2015 Grand Rapids Pyramid Scheme
December 12, 2015 Chicago Thalia Hall
December 13, 2015 St. Louis The Ready Room
December 15, 2015 Memphis 1884 Lounge
December 16, 2015 Little Rock Juanita's Cantina and Ballroom
December 17, 2015 Oklahoma City ACM
December 18, 2015 San Antonio Paper Tiger
December 19, 2015 Corpus Christi House of Rock

References

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