KAMELOT have announced a second European leg behind "Dark Asylum", their fourteenth album, released August 28 via Napalm Records. Twelve dates run through March 2027, from Osnabrück on the 5th to Brno on the 20th, with Sweden's CYHRA in direct support. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 25.
KAMELOT 2027 "Dark Asylum Europe Part II":
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 05 | Osnabrück, DE | Hyde Park |
| Mar 06 | Groningen, NL | De Oosterpoort |
| Mar 07 | Antwerp, BE | Trix |
| Mar 09 | Aarhus, DK | VoxHall |
| Mar 11 | Malmö, SE | Slagthuset Saluhallen |
| Mar 12 | Gothenburg, SE | Filmstudion |
| Mar 13 | Stockholm, SE | Fållan |
| Mar 14 | Oslo, NO | Sentrum Scene |
| Mar 17 | Cologne, DE | Carlswerk Victoria |
| Mar 18 | Hamburg, DE | Grünspan |
| Mar 19 | Regensburg, DE | Eventhall Airport |
| Mar 20 | Brno, CZ | Sono Centrum |
Announcing a second leg at all is worth noting in a year when plenty of bands have been quietly folding the first one. Thomas Youngblood addressed that in a recent conversation with Chris Akin of The CMS Metal Show — specifically the phenomenon that has been nicknamed "blue dot fever", after the wash of unsold seats visible on ticketing maps, and the fact that bands almost never name poor sales as the reason a tour disappears.
"It comes off of your track record, the previous tours, really, where the promoters kind of gauge what room they're gonna put you in, these kind of things," the guitarist said. "I have to say for this [North American] tour, the pre-sales have been fantastic. But I don't know. I'm not the typical kind of concertgoer. I go to concerts, but, yeah, I don't know what the psychology is now with buying tickets. I mean, the fact that people wait till it's closer to the show kind of makes sense, I guess."
Then the part that reads like a quiet challenge to the rest of the touring circuit: "But we've never canceled a tour except for 15 years ago when someone quit the whole band and we had to cancel a tour. But that's the first time and it's the last time we've ever had to do that. And people can trust when KAMELOT's coming."
"Dark Asylum" runs fifteen interconnected pieces that extend the RavenHill storyline, moving between orchestral passages, guitar-led heaviness, atmosphere and character writing. Longtime producer Sascha Paeth returned to helm it, with Jacob Hansen mixing and mastering; "Ashen World" and "Godlike Alchemy" preceded the album, and "Sanctuary" closed the campaign out.
Formed in Florida in the early 1990s, KAMELOT became one of the defining names in modern symphonic and progressive power metal across "The Fourth Legacy", "Karma", "Epica", "The Black Halo", "Ghost Opera", "Silverthorn" and "The Awakening" — thirty-odd years of conceptual storytelling and ambitious staging, now fourteen albums deep.