SEVENDUST: More Headlining Dates Announced

Now that their run with MUDVAYNE as part of "The Masters of Horror Tour" is coming to a close, SEVENDUST are gearing up to embark on their own headlining tour in 2006. After taking a much-deserved break for the holidays (except for one show in Orlando, FL at the House of Blues on New Year's Eve),the band will criss-cross the U.S. starting January 18 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at Revolution in support of their current studio album, "Next" (WineDark/7Bros Records, distributed by Fontana Distribution, a division of Universal Music and Video Distribution). NONPOINT, SOCIALBURN, WICKED WISDOM and ONE will accompany SEVENDUST on the trek. The band will be on the road throughout the year and they'll eventually venture outside the U.S. for shows in Canada and Europe.

SEVENDUST are ecstatic to be performing shows for their fans again after spending the past couple of months making promo appearances at various radio station events. The band has been chronicling their experiences on the road in a tour diary on Billboard.com. As guitarist Sonny Mayo and drummer Morgan Rose chimed in after the first week, "This tour has been the most fun for us in years!!! The response has been unreal and we can't thank our friends as well as the MUDVAYNE fans enough for making us feel welcome!!! After playing some of the hottest shows in recent memory the first three shows we finally got the temperature below a hundred and fifty degrees when we hit Chicago. You guys amaze us with your stamina to handle the heat!!! So far, every night after the show, we've been kickin' it with the guys in MUDVAYNE. It's like being on tour with family. Some of the guys from 10 YEARS and BOBAFLEX stop in too. Our bus seems to be the official gathering place for 'after-show festivities.' It's been a long time since SEVENDUST opened for someone and we have to admit, it's nice to be able to have time to hang with everybody and not have to leave 20 minutes after the show."

Here are the current tour dates, with more to be announced in the coming weeks:

Jan. 18 - Ft Lauderdale, FL Revolution
Jan. 19 - Tallahassee, FL The Moon
Jan. 20 - Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Jan. 21 - Norfolk, VA Norva *
Jan. 23 - Toronto, ONT. Phoenix Concert Theater *
Jan. 24 - Montreal, QUE. Spectrum
Jan. 26 - New Haven, CT Toads Place
Jan. 27 - Worcester, MA The Palladium
Jan. 28 - Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Jan. 31 - Cleveland, OH House of Blues
Feb. 02 - Ft. Wayne, IN Piere's
Feb. 04 - Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
Feb. 05 - Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
Feb. 09 - Springfield, IL The Warehouse
Feb. 10 - Wausaw, WI K.O.S. Events Center
Feb. 11 - Appleton, WI The Checkered Flag
Feb. 12 - Milwaukee, WI The Rave
Feb. 14 - Denver, CO Gothic Theatre

* SOCIALBURN will not be on these dates

SEVENDUST will release "Greatest Hits (Chapter One)" on December 27. The collection will feature "Black", "Angel's Son", "Enemy", two unreleased tracks, collaborations with STAIND's Aaron Lewis (on the track "Follow") and the DEFTONES' Chino Moreno ("Bender"),as well as two covers — MARVIN GAYE's "Inner City Blues" and ALICE COOPER's "School's Out".

SEVENDUST's newly-released fifth album, "Next" (WineDark/7Bros Records, distributed by Fontana Distribution, a division of Universal Music and Video Distribution),debuted on The Billboard 200 chart at No. 20 and has sold 98,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.