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A few months back, we mentioned that ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were seeking a drummer for a forthcoming European tour, with "exact dates coming soon."

Soon has become now, and the terror-inciting trailblazers will set off early next month (following a lone date in Brooklyn) with a stranger temporary filling in on the skins. (No, we don't know who it is yet.)

As TOD frontman Conrad Keely put it in a recent post on the band's website, his confidence in the new dude's rhythm isn't exactly rock-solid. "It's not easy replacing a Doni [Schroader]," he laments. "Doni was developed for us in a laboratory by a scientist named Max Brenner. Max has since gone into retirement, so we are faced with the challenge of having to replace Doni with a human being. I hope that those who see our upcoming shows in Europe in August will be sympathetic to the fact that we will be playing with a human who might not exhibit all the precision and skill that we have all come to rely upon with the Doni computer version 2.9, and forgive any straying from our previous standards of performance due to this."

So long as you still yell a lot and smash all your stuff at the end, you'll pull it off.

Trail of Dates:

08-02 Brooklyn, NY - Luna Lounge
08-05 Zambujeira do Mar, Portugal - Sudoeste Festival
08-07 Barcelona, Spain - La[2]
08-09 Gothenburg, Sweden - TBA
08-10 Oslo, Norway - Øyafestival
08-11 Mikkeli, Finland - Jurassic Rock Festival
08-13 Warsaw, Poland - Hard Rock Cafe
08-14 Prague, Czech Republic - Roxy
08-15 Salzburg, Germany - Frequency Festival
08-16 Nuremburg, Germany - K4
08-17 Erfurt, Germany - Highland Festival
08-18 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08-20 Sheffield, England - Leadmill
08-21 London, England - Islington Academy
08-22 Brighton, England - Concorde 2
08-24 Püttlingen, Germany - Rocco del Schlacko
08-25 Horb am Neckar, Germany - Minirock Festival
08-26 Lüdinghausen, Germany - Area 4 Festival
08-28 Mannheim, Germany - Alte Feuerwache
08-29 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Doornroosje
08-30 Haarlem, Netherlands - Patronaat
09-01 Basel, Switzerland - JKF Festival
09-02 Bologna, Italy - Independent Days Festival
09-03 Lucerne, Switzerland - Konzerthaus Schuur