Duel Announce First-Ever Japan Tour
If you want to be technical about it — and who doesn’t? — I suppose Austin, Texas, bull-in-the-china-shop-of-riffs heavy rockers Duel will go on their first Japanese tour still supporting 2024’s Breakfast With Death (review here) on Heavy Psych Sounds, but really, as a band from the States, I think you tour Japan whenever you get the chance not just to promote a record, but because it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. To wit, they haven’t even done it yet and when I look at the list of shows to come — including two nights at Tokyo Doom Fest — my first thought is ‘congratulations.’
Of course, this isn’t coming out of nowhere. First of all, if you’ve never seen them, the band are incendiary live, and second, they do it all the time. That is Duel announcing a tour isn’t a surprise, it’s just a question of where they’re headed. They’ve heralded Breakfast With Death across multiple continents already, and that continues a years-long momentum they’ve maintained the hard way: by getting out and doing the work on stage. Will they have a new record by May? It’s not impossible, but this tour is its own excuse for being, and they’ll probably have more live activity before it as well, as they always do something for SXSW in their hometown each March, up to and including the Heavy Metal Parking Lot/Stoner Jam, in which they’re directly involved.
The dates were posted on socials:
🔥 BIG NEWS BUCKAROOS 🔥 dates for our tour of Japan in May/June are up!! Our good friends from Italy @tonsofweed666 and JPN doom rockers @hebikatana will be with us @heavypsychsounds_records
5/27 Osaka – Sengoku Daitoryo
5/28 Gifu – King Biscuit
5/29 Nagoya – Huck Finn
5/30 and 5/31 Tokyo Doom Fest – Ryogoku sunrize (2 nights 2 sets)
6/1 Yokohama – El puente
6/2 Koenji Kiraku
6/3 Hatsudai – Wall
6/4 Nakano – Moonstep
DUEL is
Tom Frank – lead vocals & guitar
Jeff Henson – lead guitar & backing vocals
Patrick “Scooch” Pascucci – Drums
Drew Potter – bass & backing vocals
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