10 Dream Heavy Metal Tour Line-Ups

While every other entry up to this point has proposed collaborative treks designed to elevate both the headliner and their more underground support, this one is just a good old-fashioned fight: an unruly war between British and American death metal, with the battleground being the stages of the world.

In one corner, representing the Yanks, would stand the always-reliable Obituary. As children of the original, game-changing death metal scene of 1980s Florida, John Tardy and co. would arrive armed with over thirty years of brutality, alongside a back-catalogue of ten utterly indomitable albums.

Their hardy opponents from the other side of the pond would be Memoriam, who, despite having only existed for two years, formed out of the ashes of the UK’s premier extreme metal pioneers, Bolt Thrower. Helmed by former Bolt Thrower yeller Karl Willetts, the resurrected newcomers were able to release two guttural albums within their first three years of existence, and show no sign of rust whatsoever.

Finally, opening up this immense battle of veteran titans would be the youthful supergroup Extremity, who stole headlines this summer with their debut album Coffin Birth: a primal masterpiece that serves as a raucous callback to the halcyon days of Enslaved and early Death.