It Dies Today

It Dies Today will be hitting the road this week with Atreyu and Haste the Day! The tour is starting almost immediately following their tour with Kittie, and the band is excited to be playing two very large, but very different tours back to back, tells vocalist Jason Wood. "The tour with Kittie just started, but I can tell it's going to be great. The bands are super nice and it's great to be on tour with a band that we grew up listening to." Click here for all tour dates and info.

It Dies Today is similarly psyched for the Atreyu tour because, as Wood tells, "This is the first tour we have done in over a year with a band within our genre of metalcore! We have been on so many diverse tours recently, and we're excited to play to our home scene." The largest diverse tour the band was on recently was this summer's Warped Tour, and Wood summarizes it as an interesting experience, to say the least. "Warped Tour was nothing short of ridiculous. It felt almost like punk rock summer camp, where you are active outside all day with people of your general age range. These people happened to be bands who we ended up bonding with, especially with Bayside and Anberlin, who we are all fans of but would have never toured with normally! And then it was like summer camp when it was over, we were all so sad to be leaving!" The tour went well with one slight hitch in Cleveland due to Mother Nature. "In Cleveland we witnessed the most insane lightning storm I have ever seen in my entire life. We all thought we were going to die, literally. There were 70 mile an hour wind storms, 5 inches of rain in 45 minutes, and 145 strikes of lightning. I saw lightning strike the ground 100 yards from me, and then I saw the Myspace tent fly away." The band survived to tell the tale, and had much success on Warped, including their summer long raffle to benefit the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. The raffle prizes include Fernandez Guitars and Burton Snowboards gear, as well as It Dies Today merch and limited edition T-shirts.

All dates with Atreyu and Haste the Day:

September 12, 2007 Fargo, ND @ The Venue at Playmakers

September 13, 2007 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews

September 14, 2007 Milwaukee, WI @ The Eagles Club

September 15, 2007 Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room

September 16, 2007 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues - Cleveland

September 18, 2007 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's

September 19, 2007 Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom

September 20, 2007 South Hackensack, NJ @ School Of Rock

September 21, 2007 Reading, PA @ Silo

September 22, 2007 Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club

September 23, 2007 Winston-Salem, NC @ Ziggy's

September 24, 2007 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall

September 25, 2007 North Myrtle Beach, SC @ House Of Blues - Myrtle Beach

September 26, 2007 Jacksonville, FL @ Plush

September 27, 2007 Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House Of Blues

September 28, 2007 Jacksonville, FL @ Plush

September 29, 2007 Nashville, TN @ Rocketown

September 30, 2007 New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues

October 2, 2007 Odessa, TX @ Dos Amigos

October 3, 2007 El Paso, TX @ Club 101

October 4, 2007 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre

October 6, 2007 Amarillo, TX @ Epicenter

October 7, 2007 Oklahoma City, OK @ Conservatory, So They Say

October 8, 2007 Wichita, KS @ Eagles Lodge North

October 10, 2007 Fayetteville, AR @ The Music Hall

October 11, 2007 Cordova, TN @ Memphis Skate Park

October 12, 2007 Lexington, KY @ University Of Kentucky