{"id":3442,"date":"2013-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/13\/saxon-and-fozzy-announce-north-american-sacrfice-and-sin-tour\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T00:00:00","slug":"saxon-and-fozzy-announce-north-american-sacrfice-and-sin-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/08\/13\/saxon-and-fozzy-announce-north-american-sacrfice-and-sin-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"SAXON AND FOZZY ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN \u201cSACRFICE AND SIN TOUR\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saxon747.com\/en\/images\/stories\/gallery\/15_hamburg_2011\/saxon_live_110610_004_SWC6411.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"104\" \/><br \/>British metal legends SAXON announce a North American tour which will run<br \/>September 12th- October 10th. The tour is a rare treat for SAXON fans as it hits<br \/>many markets that the band has not visited in some time. The group are touring<br \/>in support of their critically acclaimed new album Sacrifice but promise to play<br \/>all of the fan favourites from their 30+ year catalogue, including tracks like<br \/>\u201cDenim &amp; Leather\u201d, \u201cWheels Of Steel\u201d, \u201cRide Like The Wind\u201d, \u201cMotorcycle Man\u201d and<br \/>\u201cHeavy Metal Thunder\u201d all of which have cemented the band\u2019s legendary status.  <!--more-->  <br \/>All vids have over 8 million collective clicks on youtube and the band has sold<br \/>over 12 million albums.\u00a0 Joining the trek will be FOZZY. Following the band\u2019s<br \/>highly successful appearance in last year\u2019s UPROAR tour, FOZZY are touring on<br \/>their most successful album yet, SIN AND BONES, which debuted at #1 on the<br \/>Billboard Heatseekers chart upon release. The album contains the track<br \/>\u201cSandpaper\u201d, whose video has already surpassed an amazing 500,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>SAXON\u2019s Biff Byford comments, \u201cWe\u2019re really glad to anounce a new tour of North<br \/>America and Canada with the Sacrifice world tour! The album has done fantastic<br \/>around the world! We can&#8217;t wait hit your shores with the Saxon invasion with<br \/>very special guest Fozzy. It should be a fantastic tour for all metal heads.<\/p>\n<p>We have been friends with Chris Jericho for years so there has never been a<br \/>better time to hook up with FOZZY for a tour that will take us from the east<br \/>coast to the west coast and finally winding up in the Great White North\u201d.<br \/>FOZZY\u2019s Chris Jericho adds, \u201cAfter our highly successful US tour last summer on<br \/>UPROAR, we&#8217;ve been chomping at the bit for the right opportunity to return to<br \/>North America &#8230;and now it has arrived! To tour with the legendary SAXON is a<br \/>metal dream come true and the perfect way to satisfy all of our AMAZING fans in<br \/>the US and Canada and to make tons of new ones in the process. Get ready for<br \/>Sacrifice and Sin&#8230;we&#8217;re gonna tear your heads off and leave u screaming FOZZY,<br \/>FOZZY, FOZZY!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>North American Saxon fans will also have the option for a rare opportunity to<br \/>meet and greet with the band, a limited number of VIP packages are available<br \/>at www.Saxon747.com &#8211; http:\/\/www.saxon747.com<\/p>\n<p>Opening support on the tour will be Halcyon Way.<\/p>\n<p>SAXON\/ FOZZY tour dates:<\/p>\n<p>Sept 12- Patchogue, NY @ The Emporium<br \/>Sept 13- New York, NY @ BB King\u2019s<br \/>Sept 14- Montreal, QUE @ Corona Theater<br \/>Sept 15- Toronto, ONT @ The Phoenix<br \/>Sept 17- Reading, PA @ Reverb<br \/>Sept 18- Cleveland, OH @ Peabody\u2019s<br \/>Sept 19- Dayton, OH @ McGuffy\u2019s<br \/>Sept 20- Flint, MI @ Machine Shop<br \/>Sept 21- Joliet, IL @ Mojoe\u2019s<br \/>Sept 22- Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave<br \/>Sept 26- Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues<br \/>Sept 27- San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live<br \/>Sept 28- Houston, TX @ House Of Blues<br \/>Oct 01- Tempe, AZ @ Club Red<br \/>Oct 02- Long Beach, CA @ Gaslamp<br \/>Oct 03- Ramona, CA @ Ramona MainStage<br \/>Oct 04- Los Angeles, CA @ House Of Blues<br \/>Oct 05- Corona, CA @ M15<br \/>Oct 06- San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge<br \/>Oct 08- Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven<br \/>Oct 09- Portland, OR @ Mt Tabor<br \/>Oct 10- Vancouver, BC @ The Venue<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>SAXON: http:\/\/www.saxon747.com<br \/>FOZZY: http:\/\/www.fozzyrock.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British metal legends SAXON announce a North American tour which will runSeptember 12th- October 10th&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}