Heavy Chicago is elated to announce Pelican have joined the line-up. Pelican recently posted on Instagram “Elated to say we have finished tracking our upcoming 7th album, our first with founding guitarist Laurent Lebec since 2009. Now begins the long process of mixing, mastering, & manufacturing, but we can safely say it’ll be worth the wait.” Regarding their appearance at Heavy Chicago on Friday, November 1st Pelican says “We’re very psyched to close out our year among such illustrious company at Heavy Chicago. Looking forward to sharing some new music with folks on our home turf.”
Legions of Doom plays Chicago for the first time with the new record in hand which comes out September 13th on Tee Pee Records. Ron Holzner, The Skull, Legions of Doom says “The Skull is something we want to keep going forward in a limited fashion. Lothar Keller and I wrote some good songs with the late Eric Wagner and would like to keep playing them. We will still include a song or two in the Legions Of Doom sets, but a Skull set would feature mostly material from our two records with Trouble songs sprinkled in. It’s a tribute and our way of honoring our time together making music with Wagner. Karl Agell rocks these songs vocally and they are fun to still play with the legacy living on.”
Chicago’s Hellraisers Earthburner are set to scorch the earth at Heavy Chicago and guitarist, Jeremy Wagner says, “Earthburner is super chuffed to be returning to Chicago—this time to play the mighty Heavy Chicago Festival! Chicago is our homebase and to have Earthburner play in our backyard with an absolutely killer lineup couldn’t be a more perfect way to prepare for our album’s release that same month! And for everyone seeing Earthburner at Heavy Chicago, you’re in for a treat: Earthburner will be selling both CDS and vinyl copies of our new album, Permanent Dawn exclusively at Heavy Chicago—that’s 6 days before the actual release date! Thank you to the Heavy Chicago crew for having us! See you all in November and we shall all be burning the earth.”
The festival closes with Florida’s progressive metal legends Cynic, the world’s first death metal jazz fusion band. Paul Masvidal of Cynic shares“We’re absolutely stoked to be part of Heavy Chicago. It’s great to see such a diverse range of bands on the roster. Cynic will be debuting a set of material that will have its stateside premiere at the fest. Chicago always brings such a raw and genuine energy, and we can’t wait to be back and connect with the fans. It’s gonna be a night to remember. See you all there!”
There are three levels of 3 day ticketing, a limit of 50 tickets at each level. When the first level $99 all in pricing tickets sell out, the next level tickets kicks in. The second level 3 day ticketing price is $109 and when that sells out, the third level price of $125 kicks in. Take advantage of the advance purchase discount and get your tickets early.
First level for 3 day tickets are $99 all fees and taxes included.
2 day tickets start at $89 all fees and taxes included.
Single day tickets: Friday $40 plus fees – Saturday & Sunday $50 plus fees
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