The High Country Tour was an

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by American heavy metal band

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. Staged in support of the band's 2015 fifth studio album '' High Country'', the tour visited venues worldwide in 2015 and 2016. Comprising six legs and 111 shows, the tour began in

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at the Pstereo Festival on August 21, 2015 and concluded on May 28, 2016 in

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Background

The opening European leg of the High Country Tour was detailed in tandem with the official announcement of the album on June 2, 2015, with the news also stating that the band would continue touring throughout 2015 and 2016. A few days before the release of the album and the beginning of the tour, two legs of North American dates were added starting on October 9, 2015 in

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, including appearances at the festivals

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and

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; support acts were announced as

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and All Them Witches for the first leg, and

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for the second. In December 2015, a leg of eight concerts in Australia and New Zealand in February 2016 with the support acts American Sharks and

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was announced. The two final legs of the tour, both taking place in North America in Spring 2016, were announced in late January 2016. Royal Thunder returned as the support act for the first leg while the Sword was supported by

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for the second leg.

Set list

The following is the set list from a number of early shows on the tour. #"Empty Temples" #"Tres Brujas" #"Cloak of Feathers" #"High Country" #"Tears Like Diamonds" #"Mist & Shadow" #"Seven Sisters" #"Freya" #

"The Horned Goddess" #"The Dreamthieves" #"Lawless Lands" #"Buzzards" #"Dying Earth" ;Encore #

"Suffer No Fools" #"Maiden, Mother & Crone"

Tour dates

References

External links

The Sword tour dates
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