Still bummed out by this piece of shit tour? Read on, friend.

Kip Wingerschmidt does a really funny impression of Dark Tranquillity frontman Mikael Stanne’s signature stage move. It’s like a little shimmy where he rotates his head 360 degrees around on his neck while still facing forward. If you’ve seen DT live surely you know I mean.

Cool story bro, why don’t you tell it again?

I jest, of course, because we love Dark Tranquillity, and they’ll be heading out this coming winter with epic Finnish melo-doomsters Omnium Gatherum — who I believe will be playing the U.S. for the first time? hooray! — and Exmortus, a really talented thrash band from California who don’t seem to tour all that often.

Completely unrelated but also cool: neo-doomsters Inter Arma will head out with Northeastern black metallers Woe on a short two-week jaunt in September. For whatever reason I keep missing Woe whenever they come to NYC so I’m excited to see them again after several years (now with Krallice’s Lev Weinstein on drums!), and the only time I saw Inter Arma was at the horrible-sounding, airplane-hangar-esque Kent 285, so I’m ready for a proper Inter Arma show as well.

Dates for everything below:

Dark Tranquillity, Omnium Gatherum, Exmortus:

1-Feb Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade

2-Feb Baltimore, MD – Soundstage

3-Feb New York City, NY – Stage 48

4-Feb Worcester, MA – The Palladium

5-Feb Montreal, QU – FouFounes

6-Feb Quebec City, QU – Dagobert

7-Feb Ottawa, ON – Mavericks

8-Feb Toronto, ON – Opera House

9-Feb London, ON – London Concert Theater

10-Feb Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s

11-Feb Columbus, OH – Shrunken Head

12-Feb Joliet, IL – Mojoes

13-Feb Lawrence, KS – Granada

14-Feb Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater

15-Feb Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue

17-Feb Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater

18-Feb Seattle, WA – El Corazon

19-Feb Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater

21-Feb San Fransisco, CA – DNA Lounge

22-Feb West Hollywood, CA – House of Blues

23-Feb Tempe, AZ – Club Red

25-Feb Dallas, TX – Trees

26-Feb Houston, TX – Scout Bar

28-Feb Louisville, KY – Diamond Pub and Billiards

1-Mar Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar

2-Mar Philadelphia, PA – The Trocadero

Woe, Inter Arma:

9/6: Richmond, VA- Fall Line Fest

9/7: Charlotte, NC – Milestone Club***

9/8: Columbia, SC – Brookland Tavern

9/9: Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade: Purgatory

9/10: Athens, GA – Caledonia

9/11: Asheville, NC – TBA

9/12: Nashville, TN – Stone Fox

9/13: Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light

9/14: West Virginia – TBA

9/15: Fort Wayne, IN – The Brass Rail

9/16: Milwaukee, WI – Frank’s Power Plant

9/17: Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle

9/18: Columbus, OH – Ace Of Cups

9/19: Cincinatti, OH- Oberlin College

9/20: Detroit, MI – Corktown Tavern***

9/21: Syracuse, NY – Gorham Brothers Music***

9/22: New York, NY – Saint Vitus***

*** Woe only