The Eighth Plague Tour was a concert tour by American heavy metal band

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.
Supports in the first leg of Europe was come from the bands

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and Darkest Hour.

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made a statement saying that: "This will no doubt be the heaviest show you're going to see this year. A lot of the greatest shows of our last touring cycle were in Europe and the UK, so the prospect of this lineup combined with these crowds has us extremely stoked to get out there and tear it up! New material, great venues, killer fans... we absolutely cannot wait!" The tour continued through North America, with

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, Darkest Hour and

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, which began on January 15, 2012 in

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. Machine Head was playing on the 2012's Australian Soundwave Festival. On January 29, 2012 in

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Machine Head invited a 13-year-old fan onstage to play the song

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, from ''

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'' album. Anthony Potenza was holding a sign that read "Let This 13-Year-Old Play 'Aesthetics of Hate' With You", and the band took him up on it. In the summer of 2012, the band was playing at music festivals and headline shows in Europe.

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supported the band on their two Irish dates. Besides those dates, Machine Head was the opening act for

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, on several European dates. In August, the band was playing for the first ever

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's music festival

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. On August 11, 2012 the band played and Headlined Bloodstock Open Air in England for the first time. The band played a special set commemorating the 20th anniversary of the band's first ever live performance so the fans chose 5 songs from their debut album ''

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'' On September 10, 2012, the band announced a second leg of North American dates. The trek kicked off on October 24 with a "warm up show" in

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, 2 massive radio festivals in

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and

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, and then with

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on October 30 at The Norva in

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and will hit 33 cities before wrapping on December 8 in

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. For the third time in a row, the corporate powers behind

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Properties pressured promoter

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into cancelling Machine Head's performance at a House of Blues venue on Disney property, which was the December 4th show in Orlando, Florida. The band said in a statement: "While no one is willing to provide evidence that would prove unfavorable to Disney, sources close to events have suggested that Machine Head remains on a "banned list", and while Dethklok, All That Remains and Black Dahlia Murder will still be allowed to play, the corporate powers at Disney have refused to allow Machine Head to perform." On November 13, 2012, Machine Head exited their North American tour with Dethklok, All That Remains and Black Dahlia Murder due to matters completely beyond their control. Frontman Robb Flynn needed emergency surgery. Flynn had planned to go under the knife in January after completing the tour as he has been playing through the pain of a double inguinal hernia since the tour started in October. He had hoped to continue the tour despite extreme discomfort, but it became too difficult to continue on. Flynn underwent surgery on Wednesday, November 14 in Minneapolis before returning home to California to recover, rest and recuperate. Machine Head rejoined the tour in Portland, Oregon. This tour was the last with

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Tour dates

* A ^ Headline shows, non Soundwave festival dates. * B ^ Opening for

. ;Canceled and rescheduled dates

Setlist

Personnel

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rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

* Dave McClain –

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Support acts

(November 1–December 6, 2011) *

(November 1–December 6, 2011) * Darkest Hour (November 1, 2011–February 18, 2012) *

(January 15–February 18, 2012) *

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(February 28–29, 2012) *

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(February 28–29, 2012) * Times of Grace (February 28–29, 2012) *Dead Label (May 28–30, 2012) *

(May 28–30, 2012) * Engel (June 14, 2012) * All That Remains (October 30–December 8, 2012) * The Black Dahlia Murder (October 30–December 8, 2012) *

o-headliner(October 30–December 8, 2012)

References

External links

Official MH site
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