The band will then join the Vans Warped Tour from June 24-July 18th.

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Enter Shikari's latest release, Common Dreads (which debuted at #7 in the UK) is the follow-up to the gold-certified debut Take To The Skies - which also debuted in the UK top 10, earning the band headlining gigs and regular spots on the major worldwide festival circuit. The band's most recent UK headline tour culminated with a triumphant show in front of over 5000 fans at the Hammersmith Apollo.

Common Dreads is available digitally in the United States via the band's own imprint Ambush Reality in partnership with DGC/Interscope Records. The physical release will be available in all Hot Topic stores beginning April 13th. Fans can also purchase the album at all shows as well as from the band's merch store.

For the latest album, the group headed to the isolated Isle Of Wight and holed-up at Arreton Manor studio for three months with veteran producer Andy Gray (U2, Tori Amos, Korn, Gary Numan). Common Dreads is a 15-song soundtrack for an entire generation on a mission to define the era in which it was born: one of recession, paranoia, state control and the fallout of decades of accelerated capitalism; and on the other side, an era of hope, creativity, humanity, hedonism, irreverence and fun.

"Politics are unavoidable," explains lead vocalist ROU REYNOLDS. "We just can't write sappy music. Our first album was cryptic and metaphor-heavy, this one is more direct. Since we gained popularity, we realized, whether we like it or not, we have the ability to influence people - and with that is a responsibility to speak our minds."

Common Dreads is destined to unite the tribes, divide the critics and thoroughly satisfy anyone who has witnessed the mad live spectacle that is Enter Shikari.

Enter Shikari is: Rou Reynolds (vocals / electronics) Rory Clewlow (guitar / backing vocals) Chris Batten (bass / vocals) Rob Rolfe (drums).

Catch Enter Shikari on the TourSick Tour with A Day To Remember, August Burns Red, Silverstein and more.

2010 tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

March 2010

March 31- Ft Lauderdale, FL - Revolution

April 2010

April 1- Tampa, FL- Ritz
April 2- Atlanta, GA- Masquerade
April 3- Atlanta, GA- Masquerade
April 4- Charlotte, NC- Amos
April 5- Norfolk, VA- Norva
April 6- Baltimore, MD Sonar (SOLD OUT)
April 7- Philadelphia, PA- Electric Factory (SOLD OUT)
April 8- Sayreville,NJ- Starland Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
April 9- New York, NY- Nokia Theatre (SOLD OUT)
April 10- New York, NY- Nokia Theatre (SOLD OUT)
April 12- Boston, MA- House of Blues
April 13- Montreal, Quebec- Metropolis
April 14- Toronto, Ontario- Sound Academy
April15- Detroit, MI- Royal Oak
April 16- Cleveland, OH- House of Blues
April 17- Cincinnati, OH- Bogart’s (SOLD OUT)
April 18- Chicago, IL- House of Blues
April 19- Chicago, IL- House of Blues
April 20- Minneapolis, MN- First Ave.
April 21- Winnipeg, Manitoba- Garrick Events Centre
April 23- Edmonton, Alberta – Starlite
April 24- Calgary, Alberta- Macewan Hall
April 26- Spokane, WA- Knitting Factory
April 27- Seattle, WA- Showbox SoDo
April 28- Portland, OR- Roseland
April 29- San Francisco, CA- Grand Ballroom
April 30- Los Angeles, CA- The Wiltern

May 2010

May 1- San Diego, CA- SOMA
May 2- Pomona, CA- Fox Theatre
May 3- Fresno, CA- Rainbow Ballroom
May 5- Phoenix, AZ- Marquee Theatre
May 6- Las Vegas, NV- Rock The Block
May 7- Salt Lake City, UT- Salt Air
May 8- Denver, CO- Gothic
May 10- Tulsa, Oklahoma- Cain's
May 11- Dallas, TX- Palladium
May 12- San Antonio, TX- Sunset Station
May 13- Houston, TX- Warehouse Live
May 14- New Orleans, LA- House of Blues
May 16- Orlando, FL- House of Blues

On Vans Warped Tour 2010:

June 24-July 18

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Watch the video for "Lightspeed", shot in the Salton Sea in the California desert:

The track itself, according to frontman Sam McTrusty, is "about unity and self belief but also understanding the importance of friendship. Being in a band and getting to travel the world with my best friends made me realise this so I wrote a song about it. The video has a great vibe as it was a really natural approach by Sean Stiegemeier (the director) and we got to visit exploded meth labs, see a fish massacre graveyard and hang out with a guy who felt a connection with some religious overtones...so he painted a hillside to look like the brain of a child."

A previously announced headline tour has seen some changes, as a result of the band's late inclusion on the Enter Shikari European tour, some dates have been rescheduled (below).

Speaking of the Enter Shikari news, bassist Ross McNae said, "it's really exciting to be playing in so many countries we haven't played in before. We're looking forward to the next few weeks with Enter Shikari and the rest of the year ahead!"

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Twin Atlantic 2010 tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

February 2010

Feb 1 SHEFFIELD Academy 2
Feb 2 LEEDS, Cockpit
Feb 3 MANCHESTER, Night & Day
Feb 4 NEWCASTLE, Digital
Feb 6 GLASGOW, ABC
Feb 8 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Feb 9 BIRMINGHAM Academy 3
Feb 10 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
Feb 12 CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach

March 2010

March 3 LONDON Borderline

Their massive hometown show at Glasgow's ABC has sold out all 1250 tickets already.

Sam McTrusty said, "I think being a band for two and half years and selling 1250 tickets 3 weeks before the show speaks volumes. The future of this band is very exciting right now and this is just the beginning."

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The recently shot video directed by Bob Harlow and produced by Stitchthat was created with an extremely small budget and showcases the band at their finest.

Check out the video here and head over to the bands official site to stay up to date on the latest Enter Shikari news.

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THE BIGGEST names, and the LOUDEST tracks - it could only mean one thing... KERRANG! THE ALBUM is back... and with a who’s who of rock, punk and metal for 2009 it’s ready to show the compilation world of Dance and R&B exactly what an album should sound like!

Spanning 2 explosive CDs, CD 1 focuses on the rock and punk and includes the huge "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day, Billy Talents new single "Rusted From The Rain" and the rawkus "Juggernauts" by Enter Shikari.

CD 2 hones in on the world of metal and features the monster "Sulfur" by Download headliners Slipknot as well as the epic "Heroes Of Our Time" by Dragonforce (as featured on Rock Band). Put simply, no other album comes close.

Kerrang! Editor Paul Brannigan had to say of the album:

"Kerrang! has changed the lives of three generations of rock fans across the globe... but we’re not about to wallow in nostalgia. We believe that our world has never been more alive, that right now it’s exploding with bands who make music that sparkles with energy, imagination and colour, music that pushes boundaries, kick-starts hearts and makes life worth living. Kerrang! The Album '09 is the new soundtrack to your life." - Paul Brannigan

With exclusive tracks from established acts such as My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory, Alexisonfire, Marilyn Manson, Gallows and a showcasing of the new breed with the likes of Ghost Of A Thousand, Outcry Collective and Rolo Tomassi, Kerrang! The Album '09 really is the biggest, and the BEST compilation you could rock out to this year!

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Tracklisting:

CD1

1. Green Day – Know Your Enemy
2. Billy Talent - Rusted From The Rain
3. My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
4. Paramore - Misery Business
5. You Me At Six - Save It For The Bedroom
6. The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
7. New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends
8. Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
9. Theory Of A Deadman - Hate My Life
10. Spinnerette - Rebellious Palpitations
11.Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
12. The Blackout - STFUppercut
13. Madina Lake - Let’s Get Outta Here
14. Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
15. The King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl
16. Swound! - We Are A Danger
17. Chiodos - Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With A Monkey Face)
18. Cobra Starship - Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We’re Famous
19. Metro Station - Shake It
20. Enter Shikari - Juggernauts
21. The Prodigy - Omen

CD2

1. Slipknot - Sulfur
2. Dragonforce - Heroes Of Our Time
3. Killswitch Engage - Starting Over
4. Mastodon - Divinations
5. Marilyn Manson - We’re From America
6. Gallows - London Is The Reason
7. Ghost Of A Thousand - Bright Lights
8. In Case Of Fire - Enemies
9. Disturbed - The Night
10. DevilDriver - Pray For Villains
11. Shinedown - Sound Of Madness
12. Papa Roach - Lifeline
13. Fightstar - Mercury Summer
14. Static-X - Stingwray
15. Lamb Of God - Set To Fail
16. Cancer Bats - Engine Skull
17. Blakfish - Economics
18. Outcry Collective - Dead in The Water
10. The Dead Formats – Dirty White Shoes
20. Rolo Tomassi - I Love Turbulence
21. Bring Me The Horizon - Football Season Is Over

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The follow up to the band's critically acclaimed, 'Take To The Skies', was released worldwide on June 16th and digitally in the United States.

Watch "Juggernauts" video:

The Andy Gray (U2, Korn) produced 'Common Dreads' has been touted by Absolute Punk as "an outlet of mammoth proportions" and by the BBC as an album "packed with anthems."

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Enter Shikari is currently in the States on a headlining tour with August Burns Red, Bless The Fall and I Wrestled A Bear Once and have announced they will join The Bled and Alesana on a full U.S. tour this fall.

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On Oatmeal TV, fresh off the heels of covering SXSW, Russ and Tom bring to your attention the 'Horror Episode'...which is literally full to the brim with hauntingly accurate recreations of your favourite horror movies like Psycho, Blair Witch Project and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Amid Tom being killed with a chainsaw and becoming a zombie, though, there's the more serious stuff of the boys having some crazy times with your favourite artists, so they've been terrorising the Camden Crawl to bring you the finest music interviews from across the land - Jonathan Ross eat your heart out.

Amongst the action you can see Sam Sparro talking about getting hot and sweaty at his gig at the Electric Ballroom, Soulja Boy dissecting the meanings of his latest hit "Yaaah!", Cage The Elephant talking about exploding pants on microphone stands and The Hives about working with some music tech bloke called Pharell.

There's plenty of other stuff as well - Russ at home with The Metros, Noah and the Whale discussing getting mud in their furry shoes, and Enter Shikari indulging in some gentlemans lunges - basically more entertaining things than you can shake a stick at. You can even check out Bono practically begging Russ for a slice of the action over the phone. Nuff said...

Whilst the world's being taken over by zombies, we can take comfort from the fact that Oatmeal TV is getting some fantastic press. The website's been featured in the Sun and the Guardian in the last couple of weeks, as well as in Esquire magazine in March - hell, even the Daily Mail want a piece of the action!

"The presenters are hotter than a roast chicken. And that is f**king hot" - TV PLUS SUPPLEMENT - DAILY MAIL Tues 19th Feb 2008.

"Oatmeal TV is a spicy televisual feast. Full of hot sharp rock and dark musical pepper. Sheer healthy golden magic." - ESQUIRE MAGAZINE March 2008

"The shows are slick and well-edited, and if nothing else, you've got to admire their cheek - after all, they do manage to slap Josh Homme on camera" - THE SUN Friday 2nd May 2008

Oatmeal TV won't rest on its laurels, though. Like the bang-up-to-date type of concept it is, Oatmeal's now got some new 'Extra Bits', where you can check out the best bits of previous episodes, such as Lightspeed Champion giving an impromptu acoustic performance.

For more information and to watch episodes, go to:

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Despite mounting pressure to make their lives easy with all of the desirable lunches and dinners A&R expense accounts bought Enter Shikari, in November 2006 this band from St. Albans, England took it upon themselves to make the (possibly reckless) decision NOT to sign to a major label. Instead, they took a loan from their distributor, Vital/Integral, and announced they would be releasing their debut album on their own Ambush Reality label.

Enter Shikari's debut album 'Take To The Skies' was released in the UK, Europe and Japan in March 2007 and quickly slammed into the Number 3 spot on the UK album charts - not to mention two singles hitting the number one spot.

Then, in true punk form, Enter Shikari rejected US label options and partnered with label imprint Tiny Evil Records (Jimmy Eat World, Brand New, AFI) for the October 30th, 2007 stateside release of 'Take To The Skies.' The main benefits of this route are that Enter Shikari has never had to listen to anyone else's advice but their own. They have taken themselves from 'one man and his dog' to capacity crowds. All without ever having to wait for a 'tastemaker' deem them this afternoon's 'next big thing'. Not bad for a bunch of St. Albans lads.

Edges that were once rough (and would surely have been smoothed over and dulled by advice from those with an interest in shifting product) have instead been sharpened by the road, turning Enter Shikari into one of the most exciting, brutal and explosive live bands on Britain's screamo / post-hardcore / whatthefu**ever 'scene' to this date.

After playing a packed to rafter tent at 2006's Download Festival and then opening up for My Chemical Romance, the loyal "Army of Shikari" was steadily growing at a rapid pace. Validating all their hard work, perseverance and a no compromise attitude, the lads went on to sell out the London Astoria, being the second band ever in the world to achieve such a feat without a record deal or album out.

How do they feel about being asked to play [the Give it a Name Tour]?

"We're very excited about playing. And it's some massive venues, with like seventeen thousand people. It's a crazy line-up. I mean, we're above Senses Fail, which is just incredible because we love them...I'm looking forward to seeing bands like Thursday and Brand New...AFI...HIM" - Big Cheese

When the late and greatly missed Tony Wilson walked into the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Show town hall one evening back in June 1976, he stumbled across a little known band called Sex Pistols, playing to a half empty room consisting of a bunch unenthused northern union workers and overeager junior industry folk. At that very moment Wilson knew he'd just discovered a band so utterly groundbreaking, exciting and ultimately inspiring upon that stage. A band that had credible music critics baffled and scratching their heads, ranting what a joke they were. Yet soon became genre defining icons, symbolic of a subculture that still resonates in various forms to this very day.

Last summer Tony Wilson himself, was ranting away to many about another band he'd also found in the UK in the summer of 2006. In came Enter Shikari...

Two parts post-hardcore, the other half synth-rock trance. With obvious nods to the 90's UK rave scene along with another to punk and hardcore, they've managed to rally up even the most stoic of fans to mosh like madmen and wave their hands in the air like the most dedicated of ravers!

Enter Shikari has been called everything from punk to trancecore, trance emo to flat out screamo. UK Press labeling aside, what we have here is another groundbreaking and genre defying band. They're the only band who walked away with 2 prestigious Kerrang Magazine Music Awards this year for Best British Band, and The Spirit of Independence Awards.

In true Keith Moon fashion, Rolfe is quite possibly the wildest member in the band, he is blatantly unable to physically stay behind his drum kit through out the set, continually moving stage front during (the) synthesized parts of songs - he's a key element into what gets the crowd excited and what makes this band so utterly unique in their performances.

"Rou Reynolds's snarled verses give way to choruses that are literally choral-unison vocals whose sustained notes and purity of tone uplift the spirit like sunlight pouring through stained glass". - Blender

"We want to do things differently", says Reynolds, "we always have. We want to do things ourselves and we want to take responsibility for the things we do. We want to make something that's personal, because otherwise how can people be expected to relate to it? How can they be expected to like us?"

Watch video - Enter Shikari "Mothership" Live at Reading Festival:

Finally bowing to pressure from the fans they've collected online, this past spring they embarked on their first ever US tour. This was without any label behind them, they managed to wow the crowds in North America all on their own, with a short run of dates in Anaheim, Pomona, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, Worcester and New Jersey to start.

When they recently played in NYC at an all ages Bowery Show, over 300 kids who moshed and raved, then broke out the windmills, oozing the angst so familiar to audiences who went to see the Pistols back in the late 70's. The enthusiasm of the Bowery crowd is a testament to Enter Shikari's loyal fan base and, importantly, their ability to put on a kick-ass live show. The live performance this band delivers is supreme - complete with glow sticks and a heart-felt rapport with the audience.

In December 2007 they embark on a West Coast tour from Portland to San Diego to celebrate the long-anticipated release of 'Take To The Skies'. But if this tour is anything like their previous New York show, fans will be screaming every lyric back at the band, despite an official album release duration of only one month.

Enter Shikari formed while still in school in 2003. As soon as the summer came around, they climbed in the van and hit the road. They've pretty much never come home since. It seems nothing will stop them and they have no plans of doing such a thing. Catch the intensity and infamous notoriety that is, Enter Shikari.

Read what some people are saying about Enter Shikari:

"Genuine musical phenomena" - The Guardian (UK)

"Enter Shikari bring a fresh twist to the frequently botched dream of rocktronica. Where the Prodigy merged rave dynamics with cartoon punk tantrums, Shikari mesh hacking guitar riffs with serenely celestial synth-ripples...As fervent about dance culture's hands-in-the-air rituals as punk and metai's moshing and stage-diving...Shikari are all about the release of constructive aggression." - Blender

"An immeasurably thrilling proposition, tonight Enter Shikari ruled - in front of their own crowd they're going to slay" - NME

"Enter Shikari...have become the figureheads of a new anything-goes generation...Their marriage of both types of hardcore (techno and punk) and a flirtation with the trappings of rave culture have resulted in a unique combination that fuses the hard-hitting wide-eyed delivery of the Prodigy with the proto-screamo dynamics of Refused..." - Alternative Press

"One of the most inventive UK bands in years" - Uncut Magazine

"It's as if the Prodigy got eaten by Muse's crazy younger brother" - Observer Music Monthly

Winter 2007 North American Tour Dates:

Dates could change! Go to Enter Shikari's Official Website for the latest tour dates and information.

November 30th - Portland, Oregon - Satyricon
December 1 - Vancouver, Canada - Plaza Club
December 2 - Seattle, Washington - Chop Suey
December 4 - San Francisco, California - Bottom Of The Hill
December 5 - Los Angeles - Troubadour
December 6 - Anaheim - Chain Reaction
December 7 - San Diego - Soma

Watch Enter Shikari "Sorry You're Not A Winner" video

"Britain's hottest band" - Sunday Times Culture

"Sounds like Pantera getting off their nut at Manumission...Euphoric House forcibly buggered by teenage screamo tykes" - NME

Band Members:

Rou Reynolds - Vocals/Electronics
Chris Batten - Bass/Vocals
Rory Clewlow - Guitar/backing Vocals
Rob Rolfe - Drums

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