Metal Church tease 11th album

Metal Church have released a teaser video for their upcoming 11th album.

XI will be out on March 25 and marks the band’s first record with singer Mike Howe since 1993’s Hanging In The Balance.

The trailer also features album opener Reset. View it below.

Guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof said: “Mike’s voice sounds the same as it did two decades ago when we were writing The Human Factor – and the band is about as tight as you can possibly get.”

Metal Church are currently on tour across the US. They’ll return to the Europe in May in support of the album.

Metal Church XI tracklist

  1. Reset
  2. Killing Your Time
  3. No Tomorrow
  4. Signal Path
  5. Sky Falls In
  6. Needle And Suture
  7. Shadow
  8. Blow Your Mind
  9. Soul Eating Machine
  10. It Waits
  11. Suffer Fools

Metal Church 2016 tour dates

Feb 19: Aberdeen D&R Theatre, WA
Feb 20: Fife Louie G’s, WA
Feb 22: Miami Monsters Of Rock (East), FL
Mar 24: Portland The Asylum, ME
Mar 25: Manchester Club Jewel, NH
Mar 26: Hartford The Webster, CT
Mar 28: New York B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, NY
Mar 29: Pittsburgh Altar Bar, PA
Mar 30: Westland The Token Lounge, MI
Apr 01: Ringle Q And Z Expo Center, WI
Apr 02: Cudahy The Metal Grill, WI
Apr 03: Des Moines Vaudeville Mews, IA
Apr 04: Chicago Reggie’s Rock Club, IL
Apr 06: Cleveland Agora Theatre, OH
Apr 07: Columbus O’Shecky’s, OH
Apr 08: Poughkeepsie The Chance, NY
Apr 09: Rochester The Montage Music Hall, NY
May 06: Hamburg Klubsen, Germany
May 08: Saarbrucken Garage, Germany
May 10: London The Underworld, UK
May 12: Pratteln Z7, Switzerland
May 13: Obertraubling Airport Obertraubling, Germany
May 14: Gelsenkirchen Rock Hard Festival, Germany
May 15: Berlin Columbia Theater, Germany
Jul 15: Baligen Bang Your Head Festival, Germany
Jul 16: Eindhoven Dynamo Metalfest, Netherlands
Aug 05: Pori Porispere Festival, Finland
Aug 06: Wacken Open Air, Germany
Aug 13: Kortrijk Alcatraz Metal Fest, Belgium

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