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Job For A Cowboy Announces Spring North American Headlining Tour Print E-mail
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Written by aa   
Sunday, 21 March 2010
NEW RECORD "RUINATION" NAMED "BEST EXTREME METAL ALBUM" IN GUITAR WORLD READER's POLL Glendale, AZ heavy music powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY (JFAC) has announced a spring North American tour in support of its critically acclaimed sophomore album, Ruination. The electrifying group will launch a massive 27 city headlining run on April 21 in Newport, KY. The scheduled five week trek is slated to run through late May. Support on the JFAC tour will come from Tennessee's Whitechapel and California's Cattle Decapitation with Salt Lake City's Gaza (April 21 – May 5) and Boston's Revocation (May 15 – 27) as openers. Ticket pre-sales will be available for purchase via Artist Arena beginning Wednesday, March 3 (at 3:00 PM local time) at this location. The tour's official admat is available for viewing here. In additional breaking JOB FOR A COWBOY news, the band's critically acclaimed new album Ruination has been named "Best Extreme Metal Album" by the readers of Guitar World. JFAC, which has been called "The new wave of extreme" by the long-running publication, secures the coveted award while besting efforts by giants such as Behemoth, Immortal and Cannibal Corpse. The full results of Guitar World's 16th Annual Readers Poll can be found in the magazine's March, 2010 issue which is on newsstands now. In the time since the release of the band's full length debut, JOB FOR A COWBOY has progressed from "the band with the different name" to one of the leading lights for heavy music in the 21st century. The quintet has toured the world to out-and-out acclaim, highlighted by main stage appearances at distinguished music jubilees such as the UK's Download Festival and Germany's Wacken Open Air and a North American tour with Slayer and Marilyn Manson as part of the 2009 "ROCKSTAR Energy Mayhem Festival", where the group was called "one of the tour's shining highlights." The quintet's latest release, Ruination skyrocketed to #42 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart in its first week of release and has met to scads of critical acclaim for its astounding dexterity, scorching attack, sleek arrangement and thundering musical muscle. JOB FOR A COWBOY features front man Jonny Davy, guitarists Bobby Thompson and Al Glassman, bassist Brent Riggs and drummer Jon "The Charn" Rice. "technical proficiency…straightforwardly brutal…the band could become pretty noteworthy" - ROLLING STONE "an Arizona band with a guttural, brute-force sound descended (indirectly) from hard-core punk." - THE NEW YORK TIMES "blindsiding…mighty impressive" - POPMATTERS "The new wave of extreme" - GUITAR WORLD JOB FOR A COWBOY 04/21 Newport, KY The Historic Southgate House w/ Cattle Decapitation, Gaza 04/23 S. Hackensack, NJ School of Rock w/ Disembodied , Gaza 04/24 Worcester, MA The Palladium New England Metal and Hardcore Fest Tour w/ Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Gaza 04/25 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place 04/26 Columbus, OH Skully's 04/27 Baltimore, MD Otto Bar 04/28 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock 04/29 Millvale, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre 04/30 Montréal, QC La Tulipe 05/01 Toronto, ON Opera House 05/02 Detroit, MI Magic Stick 05/03 Madison, WI Orpheum Stage Door 05/04 Elgin, IL Mad Maggies 05/05 Sauget, IL Pop's 05/15 Pomona, CA California Metal Festival w/Fear Factory, Whitechapel, more Tour w/ Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Revocation 05/16 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk 05/17 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre 05/18 Seattle, WA El Corazon 05/19 Pocatello, ID ICON 05/20 Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue 05/21 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep 05/22 Lawrence, KS Bottleneck 05/23 Wichita Falls, TX The Hanger 05/24 Austin, TX Emo's Inside 05/25 Odessa, TX Dos Amigos 05/26 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad 05/27 Tempe, AZ The Clubhouse Music Venue http://www.jfacmetal.com http://www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy http://www.youtube.com/jfactv http://www.facebook.com/jobforacowboy
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