POSSESSED replaces DEICIDE on EXODUS's 'Swarm Of Horror' tour
20-03-2025
POSSESSED has replaced DEICIDE on the billing of this spring’s “Swarm Of Horror” U.S. tour headlined by San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal pioneers EXODUS. Also appearing on the bill will be MISFIRE.
Beginning directly after EXODUS‘s “Bonded By Blood” 40th-anniversary shows, the tour will start in Phoenix, Arizona on April 27 and visit several markets across the central U.S., ending in Asheville, North Carolina on May 13.
“Swarm Of Horror” 2025 tour dates:
April 27 – Phoenix, AZ – Nile
April 29 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
April 30 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater
May 01 – Little Rock, AR – The Hall
May 02 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
May 04 – Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe @ Old National
May 06 – Flint, MI – Machine Shop
May 08 – Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s
May 09 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Festival *
May 11 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay
May 13 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
May 15 – Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome to Rockville *
May 17 – Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee Metal Fest *
* EXODUS only
Earlier this week, DEICIDE pulled out of the EXODUS tour due to “scheduling conflicts.”
POSSESSED originally split in 1987, leaving behind a short but highly influential legacy, most notably 1985’s “Seven Churches” album. Internal tensions after the release of 1987’s “The Eyes Of Horror” EP led to the band’s dissolution, with guitarist Larry Lalonde joining Bay Area tech-thrashers BLIND ILLUSION, then PRIMUS, while Becerra, guitarist Mike Torrao and drummer Mike Sus each going separate directions.
Two years after POSSESSED‘s split, Becerra was the victim of a failed armed robbery attempt, leaving him partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound and sending him into a spiral of drug and alcohol abuse. POSSESSED was reactivated by Torrao in 1990 with a completely different lineup, but only released two demos before dissolving in 1993. Becerra then reformed POSSESSED in 2007 with his own lineup, which released its first studio album in 33 years, the aforementioned “Revelations Of Oblivion”.
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