Canada’s biggest arena rock tour of the Fall kicked off to raging crowds with massive shows in Abbotsford, BC, Penticton, BC, and a sold-out performance in Calgary, AB this past weekend. Co-headliners, Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach, blew fans away with their crowd-pleasing sets, including hits and timeless favorites from their extensive catalogues which collectively, between both bands have over 3 Billion streams.
Sixx:A.M. wowed fans with their latest hit and title track from their album ”Prayers for the Damned” (currently Top 30 on the Rock Radio charts in the US and Canada). Their fifth studio album, Vol. 2, Prayers For The Blessed, is set for release on November 18th via Eleven Seven Music. Sixx:A.M. will shoot the video for their next single at the show in Edmonton at Rexall Place on September 17th.
The bands brought along up-and-coming opening act, From Ashes To New, whose debut album Day One includes the lead singles “Through It All” and “Lost and Alone”.
Check out show highlights here: Highlights from Five Finger Death Punch + Papa Roach w/special guests Sixx:A.M. and support From Ashes To New
Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach involved their fans in choosing which 14 cities to visit on the tour via an exclusive “demand campaign”. Over 90,000 votes were cast by fans across Canada. The bands are donating $1 from each ticket sold on the tour to the Canadian Red Cross for Disaster Relief Management. Fans who wish to contribute to this worthy cause are urged to text TOUR to 45678 to make a $5 donation to the Canadian Red Cross. Tickets are still available for a few shows on the tour. Get your tickets now before they sell out. Don’t miss the biggest Canadian arena rock tour of the fall!
Edmonton will also be the site of a massive autograph session presented by HMV with Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach and Sixx:A.M. at West Edmonton Mall’s Newcap Radio Stage, and will include a special performance by From Ashes To New.
Sixx:A.M. will be signing autographs from 11:00am-11:45am, Papa Roach from 12:30pm-1:15pm, and Five Finger Death Punch from 1:45pm-2:30pm (local time). The performance by From Ashes To New will take place from 12:00pm-12:20pm.
Five Finger Death Punch’s new single “I Apologize” is currently #11 on the US and #51 on the Canadian Rock Radio charts. It’s the fourth single from their highly acclaimed sixth album, Got Your Six. It hit new sales heights for the band around the world with its September 2015 debut, amongst them a #3 debut in Canada. In the U.S., it claimed the #1 spot on the Top Album chart, #1 on the Overall Digital Album chart, and #1 on the Hard Music Album chart, as well as #2 on the Billboard Top 200, and sold 115K in the first week of release. This was the first #1 Album for the Las Vegas hard-rockers. Impressive chart numbers also rolled in from Australia, Germany, Sweden (#5) and the UK (#6), to name a few. Five Finger Death Punch have grown exponentially in just a few years, racking up 16 consecutive US top 10 hits, five #1 hits, four gold and one platinum album. With the release of 2013’s The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1 (recently certified gold) and Volume 2, the band created continuous new content with which they outsold the majority of bands in their genre, selling 2 million albums over the past three years in North America alone. The band is currently taking Got Your Six around the world touring throughout 2017.
Papa Roach released their 8th studio album F.E.A.R. in January of 2015 which featured the #1 single, “Face Everything And Rise”, and the Top 5 single “Gravity” featuring Maria Brink of In This Moment. In June, the band headed back into the studio to create their 9th studio album, reinvigorated by F.E.A.R.’s success and the incredible tour cycle that followed, and eager to bring fans more music. “Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix is the human equivalent of an energy drink. He is a firecracker who also happens to be keenly self-aware, candid to a near-fault … but he hasn’t lost any of the spark that helped propel Papa Roach to multi-platinum status…” says Alternative Press. 2015 marked the 15th Anniversary of Infest, the band’s breakthrough album, which has sold over 8 million albums to date.
Sixx:A.M. is Nikki Sixx, Dj Ashba, and James Michael. Their current album, Prayers For The Damned, Vol. 1, debuted at #1 on the US Independent Album Chart, #2 on the US Rock Albums Chart, #7 on Canada’s Billboard Top 200 Chart, and in the Top 5 Album Chart around the globe. The band has spent most of 2016 on the road playing major U.S. and European festivals during which they initiated a surprise call-to-action for fans to gather somewhere near the venue for an intimate impromptu acoustic set, using the hashtag #sixxamhitandrun across their social media platforms for location details. Canadian fans can expect the band to continue this tradition on the tour.
From Ashes To New come fresh off their debut Better Noise Records release, Day One, which is a modern take on alternative music that integrates rapping seamlessly. From Ashes To New have been on the road since their inception, traveling with bands including Hollywood Undead, Papa Roach, In This Moment, Five Finger Death Punch, All Time Low, and PVRIS to name a few. Their hit-single, “Through It All”, spent multiple weeks at #1 on Sirius XM Octane, climbed to the Top 10 at Rock Radio, and amassed over 4.5 million individual streams, making them a clear contender in the rock scene today. Prior to this highly-anticipated tour, the band brought Day One to the masses all summer long on Vans Warped Tour 2016. Best summarized by Alternative Press, “From Ashes To New bring nukes to a genre where everyone is playing with firecrackers.”
CANADA 2016
Five Finger Death Punch / Papa Roach
Sixx:A.M.
From Ashes To New
9/9 Abbotsford, BC Abbotsford Centre
9/10 Penticton, BC South Okanagan Centre
9/11 Calgary, BC Grey Eagle Casino
9/13 Lethbridge, AB Enmax Centre
9/14 Regina, SK Brandt Centre
9/16 Medicine Hat, AB Canalta Centre
9/17 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
9/18 Saskatoon, SK Sasktel Centre
9/20 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
9/23 Oshawa, ON GM Centre
9/24 London, ON Budweiser Gardens
9/26 Quebec City, QC Videotron Centre
9/27 Moncton, NB Moncton Coliseum
9/28 Halifax, NS Scotia Bank Centre
ONLINE
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