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Sorry about that. We just got really excited about the fact that Pelican are on the Taste of Chaos tour this year. THE TASTE OF MOTHERFUCKING CHAOS, PEOPLE!!!! The post-instru-art-metal Chicagoans will hit sheds and arenas across country starting tonight in Dayton, Ohio. They'll be opening for Deftones, Thrice, Dredge, and As I Lay Dying.

That popping sound you hear is every single Decibel magazine subscriber spontaneously combusting at the same time.

After hording all the free Rockstar energy drink they can fit in their van, Pelican will set out on a much smaller-scale trek with the Life and Times and Mono. Not nearly as face-rocking, but just as mind-melting.

March to the sea:

03-17 Dayton, OH - Hara Arena *
03-18 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom *
03-19 St. Paul, MN - Roy Wilkins Auditorium *
03-21 Fargo, ND - Civic Memorial Auditorium *
03-22 Lincoln, NE - Pershing Center *
03-23 Kansas City, MO - Kemper Arena *
03-25 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium *
03-27 Fresno, CA - Selland Arena *
03-28 San Jose, CA - Event Center at San Jose State University *
03-29 Sacramento, CA - Arco Arena *
03-30 Long Beach, CA - Long Beach Arena *
04-01 Salem, OR - The Pavilion at Oregon State Fair *
04-02 Everett, WA - Everett Events Center *
04-04 Billings, MT - Casey's Golden Pheasant
04-05 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
05-08 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place #$
05-09 New York, NY - Avalon #%&
05-10 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #%
05-11 Washington DC - Black Cat #%
05-13 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle #%
05-14 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #%
05-15 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #%
05-17 Orlando, FL - The Social #%
05-19 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds #%
05-21 Houston, TX - Walters #%
05-27 San Diego, CA - Casbah %^
05-29 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour %^
05-31 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall %^

* with Deftones, Thrice, Dredg, As I Lay Dying
# with The Life and Times
$ with Russian Circles
% with Mono
& with MGR
^ with Tarentel

Pelican drummer Larry Herweg's doooooom metal band Lair of the Minotaur will release their second full-length, The Ultimate Destroyer on Southern Lord on April 4. Here is the highly entertaining tracklist:

01 Juggernaut of Metal
02 Behead the Gorgon
03 The Ultimate Destroyer
04 Lord of Butchery
05 Grisly Hound of the Pit
06 Cannibal Massacre
07 Horror
08 Engorged With Unborn Gore
09 The Hydra Coils Upon This Wicked Mountain

Lair of the Minotaur will massacre the East Coast this May on tour with Unearthly Trance. Get killed here:

04-15 Bowling Green, OH - Howards Club H
04-17 Washington, DC - DC9 *#
04-18 Richmond, VA - McCormack's Irish Pub *$ Wednesday
04-19 Baltimore, MD - Talking Head *&
04-20 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber *
04-21 Hamden, CT - Hamden Plains United Church *
04-22 New York, NY - Ace of Clubs ^
04-23 Boston, MA - The Middle East *@
04-24 Providence, RI - AS220 *
04-25 Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase *
04-27 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place *
04-28 Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks *

* with Unearthly Trance
# with Drugs of Faith
$ with Battlemaster, Cough
& with Flowers in the Attic, Doomsday 1999
^ with Grief, Reservoir, Agnosis
@ with Watchmaker