Avenged Sevenfold announce North American tour

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Avenged Sevenfold announce the first run of dates on their 2018 The Stage World Tour - with Breaking Benjamin and Bullet For My Valentine

The tour poster

Avenged Sevenfold have announced that they’ll tour across North America starting early next year.

The band have revealed the first run of US shows that will take place in January and February 2018 on their The Stage World Tour, with Canadian dates to be released next week.

They’ll be joined on the road by special guests Breaking Benjamin and Bullet For My Valentine. Tickets for the shows will go on sale from this Friday (October 6) from 10am local time.

To mark the announcement, Avenged Sevenfold have released a short video which can be seen below.

The band have been drip feeding new material to add to their latest album The Stage over recent months.

So far, A7X have launched reworkings of Mr Bungle’s Retrovertigo, Del Shannon’s Runaway, the Mexican folk song Malagueña Salerosa, Beach Boys’ 1966 hit God Only Knows and the Rolling Stones track As Tears Go By.

Find a list of announced tour dates below.

Avenged Sevenfold The Stage World Tour confirmed shows

Jan 12: Nashville Bridgestone Arena, TN
Jan 14: Grand Rapids The Van Andel Arena, MI
Jan 16: Reading Santander Arena, PA
Jan 17: State College Bryce Jordan Center, PA
Jan 24: Green Bay Resch Center, WI
Jan 25: Peoria Civic Center, IL
Jan 27: Sioux Falls Denny Sandford Premier Center, SD
Jan 31: Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum, MS
Feb 02: North Little Rock Verizon Center, AR
Feb 03: Evansville Ford Center, IN
Feb 06: Wichita Intrust Bank Arena, KS
Feb 08: Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena, NE
Feb 09: Cedar Rapids US Cellular Center, IA
Feb 11: Fargo Fargodome, ND

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.