DESPISED ICON Begins Recording New Album, Prepares To Hit The Road

January 4, 2007

Montreal-based deathcore six-piece DESPISED ICON has entered the studio to start laying down tracks for its third full-length album, tentatively due late spring/early summer via Century Media Records. The CD is being produced by the group's former guitarist, Yannick St-Amand, and will be mixed by Andy Sneap (ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, MEGADETH) at his Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, England.

DESPISED ICON will hit the road in Europe with UNEARTH and JOB FOR A COWBOY beginning late March. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Mar. 20 - Lemon Grove - Exeter (UK)
Mar. 21 - Rock City - Nottingham (UK)
Mar. 22 - Academy 2 - Manchester (UK)
Mar. 23 - Wulfrun Hall - Wolverhampton (UK)
Mar. 24 - Mean Fiddler - London (UK)
Mar. 26 - Zodiac - Oxford (UK)
Mar. 27 - Garage - Glasgow (UK)
Mar. 28 - Sugarmill - Stoke (UK)
Mar. 29 - Wedgewood Rooms - Portsmouth (UK)
Mar. 30 - TJ's - Newport (UK)
Apr. 01 - Hof Ter Lo - Antwerp (B)
Apr. 03 - Live Music Hall - Cologne (D)
Apr. 04 - Matrix - Bochum (D)
Apr. 05 - Grünspan - Hamburg (D)
Apr. 06 - Kato/Columbia Club - Berlin (D)
Apr. 08 - Ajztalschock - Chemnitz (D)
Apr. 09 - Colos-Saal - Aschaffenburg (D)
Apr. 10 - Backstage - Munich, D
Apr. 11 - Planet Music - Vienna (A)
Apr. 12 - Rockhouse - Salzburg (A)
Apr. 13 - Estragon - Bologna (I)
Apr. 15 - Rohstofflager - Zurich (CH)
Apr. 16 - La Laiterie - Strasbourg (F)

DESPISED ICON's recently completed Monsters of Mayhem tour with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, FIRST BLOOD, NAPALM DEATH, EXODUS and HATEBREED was the band's sixth trek in support of its highly acclaimed album, "The Healing Process", which is a relentless slab of sheer aggression matched with impeccable time changes that quickly raised the bar for their peers. They completed a very successful run last spring on the Monsters of Chaos tour with MORBID ANGEL and labelmates BEHEMOTH and KRISIUN.

DESPISED ICON shot a video for the track "The Sunset Will Never Charm Us" with acclaimed director Jean-Philippe Bernier (A PERFECT MURDER) and you can check it out at this location.

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).