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The countdown to Armageddon is on, doombabies. Boris will wrangle in the moonlight this evening when they launch their two-legged, September/October journey through the States tonight in Birmingham, Alabama. Philly's Pearls & Brass will lend support for the first leg.

Several dates on the tour are sponsored by the Zig-Zag cigarette company as part of their "Zig-Zag Live" tour. What is up with all these lame tobacco tours recently? Phoenix/French Kicks, the Roots, now this. Sorry, folks, but it doesn't matter how much money you throw at cool bands, we're still going to think that smoking sucks.

Following up the tour comes the previously reported Boris/Sunn 0))) collaboration Altar, due via Southern Lord on-- surprise, surprise-- Halloween.

Boris aren't stopping there: Important Records will issue the exquisitely-packaged, two-years-in-the-making, vinyl-only Boris release Vein later this month.

Dates:

09-05 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree *
09-06 Athens, GA - Calendonia Lounge *
09-07 Atlanta, GA - Earl *#
09-08 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
09-09 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
09-10 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
09-11 Brooklyn, NY - Northsix *
09-12 New York, NY - Knitting Factory *
09-13 Boston, MA - Middle East
10-08 Tokyo, Japan - Shimokitazawa Shelter (Wizard's Convention) ^
10-12 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
10-13 Olympia, WA - Manium
10-14 Portland, OR - Satyricon
10-15 Eugene, OR - TBA
10-18 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
10-19 Visalia, CA - Howie & Sons
10-20 Los Angeles, CA - EchoPlex (Arthur Nights Festival)

* with Pearls and Brass
# with Zoroaster
^ with Greenmachine, Stupid Babies Go Mad, Barebones