NEWS: Animals As Leaders and Tesseract set dates for European tour.

As Prog goes from strength to strength, the prog tour of the year so far gets announced with instrumental geniuses Animals As Leaders set to hit the UK with British favourites Tesseract in October.

Tosin Abasi’s tech metal fans wet dream wowed the crowd supporting Deftones last summer, and on their current run of shows with Djent pioneers Meshuggah. Their latest album ‘Weightless’ is also pretty special.

Joining them on this epic tour, Tesseract are on the verge of making it. With Elliot Coleman settling in nicely, a new EP which sounds incredible, and being consistently hailed as one of the best live acts around, they will continue their dominance of the UK prog scene here.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for the following shows:

October 2012

23 London Scala
24 Manchester Moho Live
25 Glasgow Cat House
26 O2 Birmingham Academy 3
27 Sheffield Corporation
28 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
29 Bristol Fleece
30 Southampton The Cellar

Remind yourself of the brilliance of Animals As Leaders below: