Good news for Acid Bath fans in California! The band, who are back together after almost 28 years, have just announced a show in Oakland. They’ll be playing at the Fox Theater on June 14th. Joining them will be High On Fire, the Grammy-winning sludge metal band, as the main support. We don’t know who the opening band will be yet.
This Oakland show is just one of several that Acid Bath has lined up for their reunion tour.
Here’s a list of all the shows they have planned right now:
- April 25th – New Orleans, LA at The Fillmore (with Eyehategod)
- April 30th – New Orleans, LA at The Fillmore (with Exhorder)
- May 8th-11th – Columbus, OH at Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival
- May 15th-18th – Daytona Beach, FL at Welcome To Rockville
- June 6th – Des Moines, IA at Val Air Ballroom (with High On Fire & Exhorder)
- June 21st – Redmond, WA at Marymoor Park (with High On Fire, YOB & Witch Mountain)
- June 14th – Oakland, CA at Fox Theater (with High On Fire)
- June 28th – St. Petersburg, FL at Jannus Live (with Weedeater & Rwake)
- July 11th – Brooklyn, NY at Brooklyn Paramount (with Eyehategod & Wailin Storms)
- July 18th-20th – Mansfield, OH at Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival
- July 25th – Brooklyn, NY at Brooklyn Paramount (with Pentagram)
- August 22nd – Los Angeles, CA at Hollywood Palladium (with High On Fire & Windhand)
- August 28th – Los Angeles, CA at Hollywood Palladium (with Pig Destroyer & The Obssesed)
- September 18th-21st – Louisville, KY at Louder Than Life
- October 2nd – Sacramento, CA at Discovery Park (‘Aftershock Festival’)
- December 5th-6th – Denver, CO at Fillmore Auditorium (‘Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver’)
- December 12th – Chicago, IL at Salt Shed (with High On Fire & Weedeater)
In November last year, Sammy Duet, guitarist for Acid Bath and Goatwhore, has opened up about what sparked band’s long-awaited reunion after nearly 30 years. He said at the time (as transcribed by ThePRP): “What happened was ‘Sick New World’ contacted, my… well, Goatwhore booking agent, Dan Rozenblum, and was like, ‘So what would it take to make this happen?’ And we had recently had a passing of a very good friend of ours that was playing keyboards for us on the ‘Pagan Terrorism Tactics‘ tour.”
He continued: “His name was Tommy Viator — better known as Tomas. And I think that had a big role to play in the situation, to where, you know, a lot of us aren’t going to be around forever, right?”
“So… I had spoken to Dax about this, when we were talking about getting it back together, and I was like, you know, we need to do this before…. I didn’t put it that way, but I just kind of hinted. And he was like, ‘maybe it’s time.’ And that’s how this whole thing kind of came into play.”, Sammy concluded.
