The Poisoned Ascendency Tour will celebrate anniversaries of two landmark albums
After a successful run across Europe and the UK, Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are bringing their Poisoned Ascendency Tour to North America next year. The run will see both bands playing landmark albums in full; Bullet for My Valentine’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy, which turn 20-years old in 2025. Each album will be performed in their entirety.
Check out the full tour itinerary below.
“We are super excited to announce we are coming back to the USA in 2025 with our friends Trivium, to bring you the ‘Poisoned Ascendancy Tour,'” says Bullet For My Valentine. “We’re going to be celebrating 20 years of our debut album The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy. It’s the metal tour of 2025, so don’t miss out.”
“This is a celebration for the old fans that were there at 9am at Ozzfest to catch a couple songs from a band in Iron Maiden shirts,” says Trivium. “It’s for the new fans that have been listening to the deep cuts but never caught them on a recent tour. And lastly, it’s for both Bullet For My Valentine and us to take a moment to reflect on how amazing these 20 years have been, how fast they’ve gone, and how important these albums are for the both of our bands. Having August Burns Red, Bleed From Within, and Sylosis joining us only makes this more special. We can’’t wait to play Ascendancy for you!”
Tickets will be available starting with artist presales beginning Tuesday, September 17. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning Friday, September 20 at local time. Limited VIP packages are available from both artists which including a Meet and Greet.
Trivium’s critically acclaimed tenth album, In The Court Of The Dragon, arrived in 2021. The band and album were praised by and featured in mainstream outlets like The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Billboard, TechCrunch, and Kotaku, as well as Guitar World, Revolver, Alternative Press, and more. They released the now-canonical album Ascendancy in 2005. It was recognized as Kerrang!’s “Album of the Year,” achieved a gold certification in the UK, and eclipsed sales of 500,000 worldwide. Metal Hammer placed it in the Top 15 of “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the 21st Century.” It ignited a string of six consecutive Top 25 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 and five straight Top 3 debuts on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, culminating on 2017’s benchmark The Sin And The Sentence. That album elevated the group’s total stream tally past a quarter-of-a-billion. Additionally, “Betrayer” received a GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Metal Performance.”
Unanimous acclaim followed from Decibel, Loudwire, Ultimate Guitar, MetalSucks, and Metal Hammer, who dubbed them, “quite simply one of the best bands in modern metal.” 2020 brought What The Dead Men Say. The album was produced by Trivium and Josh Wilbur and debuted at #35 on the Billboard Top 200; at #2 on the Top Current Albums Chart, and at #3 on both the Hard Rock Albums Chart and Top Rock Albums Chart. They have performed alongside Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and many others and graced the main stages of Download, Bloodstock, Knotfest, and beyond.
Bullet For My Valentine has been a mainstay, not just in the metal community, but within British music as a whole since their inception. From experiencing early success with Fever and Scream Aim Fire to continuing to encapsulate audiences with Gravity and 2021’s self-titled album, the band has consistently gone from strength to strength, amassing over 3.5 million album sales to date whilst playing sold-out shows across the globe. It’s the band’s first album, however; 2005’s The Poison, that propelled them to unimaginable heights. That year saw the Welsh metallers graduate from supporting Funeral For A Friend on their UK run in the summer, ending the year headlining the very same venues just months later.
Dropping in October 2005, The Poison hit No. 21 in the UK album charts, becoming a late contender in end of year polls, placing at number seven on Kerrang!’s “Albums Of The Year” list, and since achieving gold status. Therefore in 2025, Bullet will be celebrating 20 years of The Poison by partnering with fellow heavy metal contemporaries Trivium and bringing The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour to life, where both acts will perform their iconic debut albums, playing them in full for the last time to audiences worldwide.
March 30 — Vancouver, BC — PNE Forum#&
April 1 — Seattle, WA — Paramount Theatre#&
April 3 — San Francisco, CA — The Masonic#&
April 4 – Wheatland, CA — Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sacramento — Hard Rock Live#&
April 5 — Reno, NV — Grand Sierra Resort*#&
April 8 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium#&
April 10 — Las Vegas, NV — Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort#&
April 11 — Inglewood, CA — YouTube Theatre#
April 12 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre#&
April 15 — Dallas, TX – Gilley’s — South Side Ballroom#&
April 16 — San Antonio, TX — Boeing Center at Tech Port#&
April 17 — Houston, TX — Bayou Music Center#&
April 19 — St. Louis, MO — The Factory#^
April 20 — Omaha, NE — Steelhouse Omaha#^
April 22 — Ashwaubenon, WI — EPIC Event Center*#^
April 23 — Grand Rapids, MI — GLC Live at 20 Monroe#^
April 25 — Prior Lake, MN — Mystic Lake Casino Hotel- Showroom*#
April 26 — Chicago, IL — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom#^
April 27 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit#^
April 29 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE*#^
April 30 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore Philadelphia#^
May 2 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway#^
May 3 — Laval, QC — Place Bell#^
May 4 — Toronto, ON — Great Canadian Resort Theatre#^
May 6 — Washington, D.C. — The Anthem#^
May 7 — New York, NY — The Rooftop at Pier 17#^
May 9 — Bethlehem, PA — Wind Creek Bethlehem — Wind Creek Event Center#^
May 11 — Nashville, TN — The Pinnacle*#^
May 13 — Corbin, KY — Corbin Arena*#^
May 14 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre#^
May 17 — Charlotte, NC — Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre#^
May 18 — Raleigh, NC — Red Hat Amphitheater#^
*Not a Live Nation Date
#with August Burns Red
&with Sylosis
^with Bleed From Within
Tickets will be available here, VIP Packages will be available here