Event takes place Aug 27th
Tattoo the Earth returns with Anthrax, Black Label Society, Hatebreed, At The Gates, Municipal Waste, Enforced and others. The event will be held on Saturday, August 27th at The Palladium Outdoors in Worcester, MA.
Tattoo the Earth will feature two stages of live music, a tattoo village hosted by Zaza Ink — one of the leading tattoo shops in Massachusetts — and a festival village, which will include piercing, body painting, art events, contests, and more. Food trucks and a Bacon & Bourbon tent will also be on site.
Pre-sale tickets with code “TTE2022” go on sale on Wednesday, April 27th at 10 am ET via See Tickets. Tickets to the general public are on sale Friday, April 29th at 10 am ET.
The original tour, featuring Slayer, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, Sevendust, Hatebreed, and Sepultura, among others, had quite the history.
It ran through the summer of 2000 and was somewhere between a kick-in-the-balls to the establishment — both society and the music agency business — and a trainwreck. It stayed on course and played fairgrounds, racetracks, and even Giants Stadium in New Jersey, joining forces with a Metallica gig. The Massachusetts play at Suffolks Downs racetrack in Boston was one of the highlights, both musically and attendance-wise, with over 12,000 tickets sold. Even though tattooing was ironically illegal in Massachusetts, the show happened, but was subsequently “banned from Boston for life,” due to neighborhood complaints of foul language.
Over 20 years later, tattooing has long since been legalized in the state, and both that and metal are firmly embedded in popular culture.
