Abbath: Dread Reaver Europe 2024 tour starts this week with Toxic Holocaust and Hellripper

The return of the undisputed icon of Norwegian black metal Abbath to the stage is closer than ever. The former member of Immortal has joined forces with two greats of the genre such as Toxic Holocaust and Hellripper to offer thirty dates throughout the European continent to review the three albums that are part of his solo career as well as Immortal’s most iconic songs.

The long-awaited tour will begin this Saturday, January 6 at the Swiss festival Meh Suff! Winter Festival and will end in mid-February in Truku (Finland), more specifically at the Nordic Metal Cruise winter festival. The promoters Doomstar Bookings and Revelations Music have teamed up on this occasion to take this black metal legend throughout the continent. Accompanying Abbath we will have the always effective Toxic Holocaust led by Joel Grind – who released their most recent studio album Primal Future: 2019 in the now distant 2019 – and the British black/speed project of multi-instrumentalist James McBain known as Hellripper who last year released his last studio album to date, Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (2023, Peaceville Records), one of our favourite albums released in 2023.

Below you can see the list of dates for the Dread Reaver Europe 2024 tour:

January 6 – Meh Suff! Winter-Festival, Hüttikon (Switzerland)
January 7 – Slaughter Club, Milan (Italy)
January 9 – Salamandra, Barcelona (Spain)
January 10 – Sala Mon, Madrid (Spain)
January 11 – Sala Garaje, Murcia (Spain)
January 12 – Fanatic, Sevilla (Spain)
January 13 – RCA Club, Lisbon (Portugal)
January 14 – Hard Club, Porto (Portugal)
January 16 – Santana 27, Bilbao (Spain)
January 17 – Victoire 2, Montpellier (France)
January 18 – La Rayonne, Lyon (France)
January 19 – Trabendo, Paris (France)
January 20 – Halle02, Heidelberg (Deutschland)
January 21 – De Pul, Uden (Netherlands)
January 23 – Junkyard, Dortmund (Deutschland)
January 24 – De Casino, Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)
January 25 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (Netherlands)

January 26 – Iduna, Drachten (Netherlands)
January 27 – Kultur Palast, Hamburg (Deutschland)
January 28 – Astra, Berlin (Deutschland)
January 30 – Drizzly Grizzly, Gdansk (Poland)
January 31 – Proxima, Warsaw (Poland)-
February 1 – Kamienna 12, Krakow (Poland)
February 2 – Hellraiser, Leipzig (Deutschland)
February 3 – Palac Akropolis, Prague (Czech Republic)
February 4 – Barba Negra, Budapest (Hungary)
February 5 – Szene, Vienna (Austria)
February 6 – Backstage Halle, Munich (Deutschland)
February 8 – Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (Denmark)
February 9 – Trädgårn, Gothenburg (Sweden)
February 10 – Nordic Metal Cruise, Truku (Finland)

Abbath began his solo career in 2015, debuting with his self-titled album in 2016. His first album garnered good reviews and in 2019 he released his second studio album, Outstrider, released in July of that same year via Season Of Mist. Their third album, Dread Reaver, was released in March 2022 again under the same label as their two previous albums, Season Of Mist.

Toxic Holocaust was formed in 1999 as a one-man project led by Joel Grind, although in 2011 it became officially formed by bassist Phil Gnaast and drummer Nikki Bellmore, a formation that gave life to the band’s fourth studio album , Conjure And Command (2011, Relapse Records). Joel Grind decides to return to the initial formula by making Toxic Holocaust a project formed solely by him and this is how in 2019 his latest studio album to date, Primal Future: 2019 (2019, eOne) comes to light. The band has five albums under their belt, thirteen splits, one EP, four demos, three compilation albums and eight singles.

Hellripper was born in Aberdeen, Scotland sometime in 2014 when multi-instrumentalist James McBain (ex-Lord Rot, ex-Rats of Reality, Lock Howl) decided to make a project similar to Toxic Holocaust or Midnight, mixing black and speed metal to shape his three studio albums that he has published up to this moment: Coagulating Darkness (2017, Independent), The Affair Of The Poisons (2020, Peaceville Records) and the most recent Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (2023, Peaceville Records). Meanwhile, Hellripper has released two EPs, five splits and four singles.