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A festival bringing  the best and brightest acts of the hardcore, metal, and punk realms to audiences all over Europe. Now they’re flexing their muscles in both extreme, chest-pounding metal with a stellar package tour dubbed: BONECRUSHER FEST.

Acts from all over the world with brutal metal as their common thread. Armed with a new album on Metal Blade Records, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER require no introduction. The five-piece have several albums under their belt and have helped elevate death metal to the masses in part to their relentless worldwide touring.  3 INCHES OF BLOOD have help represent a more thrashy, old-school metal style complete with a new record on Century Media Records, bang your head and raise the horns!

The veterans of the tour are undoubtedly Sweden’s NECROPHOBIC, who have been devastating since 1989 and still going strong – complete with a newly released album on Regain Records showcasing their unique mixture of black metal and death metal. Following the path of death metal giants such as Cynic, Nile and Cannibal Corpse, THE FACELESS take no prisoners by converting their formula of brutal metallic rage combined with outstanding technique and spacey hooks. Bringing more metal veterans onto the bill is Relapse Record’s OBSCURA. With members playing previously in Necrophagist, Spawn Of Possession and Pestilence their pedigree of death metal is through the roof with technical deathmetal heaviness.

CARNIFEX haven’t let their relative newness in the metal scene stop from them from touring relentlessly around the globe in support of their Victory Records debut. Don’t miss this bludgeoning act in their element: the live setting. Opening up the tour is INGESTED. Hailing from the UK, these guys dish out slamming deathmetal packed with blastbeats to spare, don’t miss this act whose debut album has earned high praise from all over.

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER's singer Trevor Strnad has this to say: We are very excited to be the drunken hosts of the Bonecrusher tour.  In cooperation with the wonderful Avocado, we have assembled quite a brutal line up for all tastes of the extreme.  We are to be joined in this merciless campaign by our bearded brethren in 3 Inches Of Blood, personal favorites Necrophobic, Carnifex, Obscura, The Faceless and one of the UK's finest, Ingested.  You'd be a fool to miss such a killer line up!  Come out to the show and leave in an urn... bones crushed!!!

The bill is comprised of:
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
3 INCHES OF BLOOD
NECROPHOBIC
OBSCURA (rotating slot)
THE FACELESS (rotating slot)
CARNIFEX (rotating slot)
INGESTED

presented by Metal Hammer, Fuze, Legacy, Metal.de, Close Up 
08.01.10 Germany Wiesbaden Schlachthof 
09.01.10 Germany Oberhausen  Turbinenhalle  
10.01.10 Germany Hamburg Markthalle 
11.01.10 Sweden Malmö KB 
12.01.10 Denmark Aarhus Voxhall 
13.01.10 Germany Berlin Columbia Club  
14.01.10 Czech Rep Prague Abaton 
15.01.10 Germany Nürnberg Hirsch 
16.01.10 Germany Dresden  Reithalle 
17.01.10 Austria Wien Arena 
18.01.10 Hungary Budapest Diesel 
19.01.10 Slovenia Ljubljana Kino Siska 
20.01.10 Germany München Backstage Werk 
21.01.10 Italy Bologna Estragon 
22.01.10 Italy Milan Magazzini Generali  
23.01.10 Switzerland Erstfeld Transilvania Live Club 
24.01.10 Luxembourg Esch-Alzette Kulturfabrik 
25.01.10 Day Off     
26.01.10 Spain Barcelona Salamandra 1 
27.01.10 Spain Madrid Joy Eslava 
28.01.10 Portugal Porto Cine Teatro Júlio Diniz 
29.01.10 Spain Durango  Plateruena  
30.01.10 France Paris Trabendo  
31.01.10 Belgium Hasselt Muziekodroom  
01.02.10 UK Bristol  Academy  
02.02.10 UK Leeds Rios 
03.02.10 UK Glasgow  Garage 
04.02.10 UK Birmingham Academy 
05.02.10 UK London ULU 
06.02.10 Holland Utrecht Tivoli