MORTIIS Announces Dates In Holland, Belgium

MORTIIS will be unleashing their collective demons on Holland and Belgium during a four-show jaunt to continental Europe.

"We're all looking forward to going back to Holland," said band frontman and namesake Mortiis. "We haven't played there in a long time and we always had a great time there. We're also doing a couple of towns there we haven't played before, so that will be interesting as well."

Following the three Dutch shows, the band will head to Belgium for the Hermes Project Event, where they will play with CLAN OF XYMOX.

MORTIIS has been putting the finishing touches on "The Great Deceiver", the group's long-awaited follow-up to 2005's "The Grudge".

"We're gearing up to release 'The Great Deceiver' at long last, and it felt like it would make sense to do a few shows before 2009 comes to an end," Mortiis said. "Shake the dust off and get back into the 'live mode,' so to speak. We obviously plan on coming back to Holland/Belgium and as many other countries as possible during 2010."

The dates are as follows:

Dec. 16 - Zaandam - Kade, Holland
Dec. 17 - Basement - Watt, Holland
Dec. 18 - Leeuwarden - Gloppe, Holland
Dec. 19 - Hermes Project Event, O C DeVonke - Heule, Belgium

In a recent interview with FEARnet, Mortiis stated about "The Great Deceiver", "In a sense, it is heavier. If nothing else, a lot more focused. Where 'The Grudge' was in many ways a virgin experiment — on a lot of levels, resulting in sometimes chaotic and dense music — 'The Great Deceiver' is more mature, in the sense that the noise, the anger, etc. is more musically focused; it's all pulling in the same direction. Like, it has one pulse, and not ten the way 'The Grudge' sometimes had, if that makes sense. It just pulses and moves along as a solid entity. It's very compact and big-sounding most of the time, occasionally breaking into this ominous sounding soundscape. It's probably more guitar-heavy than before, but it's a far cry from an ordinary 'metal record.' We use guitars as a part of the sound; a lot of times the guitars are super-processed post-recording, other times they're guitars... whatever the song demands, or whatever we come up with after experimenting."