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News : Twelve Foot Ninja announce national tour

By on February 7, 2014

Thanks to the overwhelming success of their much anticipated crowd funded video campaign, Twelve Foot Ninja have announced a national tour this March/April with special guests, The Algorithm.

Friday March 21 – The Zoo, Brisbane
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.oztix.com.au

Saturday March 22 –  Miami Tavern, Shark Bar Gold Coast
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.ticketmaster.com.au

Thursday March 27 – ANU Bar, Canberra
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com

Friday March 28 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.bigtix.com.au

Saturday March 29 – Manning Bar, Sydney
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.oztix.com.au

Friday April 4 – 170 Russell, Melbourne
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.170russell.com / Corner Box Office Ph: 1300 724 867 info@cornerboxoffice.com.au

Friday April 11 – The Gov, Adelaide (ALL AGES)
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.oztix.com.au

Saturday April 19 – Rosemount Hotel, Perth
Tix from www.twelvefootninja.com / www.oztix.com.au / www.heatseeker.com.au

After breaking the world record for the most amount of money successfully raised from a crowd funded campaign ($45,000 to be exact), Twelve Foot Ninja released “Ain’t That a Bitch” this week, the fourth single off the band’s debut album, ‘Silent Machine’.

The music video contains references to classic 80’s action films Bloodsport, Rocky and The Karate Kid, plus a crap tonne of boob, violence and masturbating internet trolls.

The Troll Burger Tour

Twelve Foot Ninja broke crowd funding records when they raised $52,600 to make their new video clip – successfully crowd funding the highest financial target for a music video. As the controversial anti-cyber bullying video spreads like wildfire online, the band have announced an Australian headline tour aptly named ‘The Troll Burger’ tour in March/April, before making their grand return to the U.S. for a handful of festivals including Rock On The Range and Carolina Rebellion. 

The Australian ‘Troll Burger Tour’ will take place in QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, SA & WA . Joining Twelve Foot Ninja for the tour  is explosive French electronic/metal outfit The Algorithm – the brainchild of talented DJ/Producer Remi Gallego, flanked by Monuments’drummer Mike Malytan. The duo will be returning to Australia fresh off their standout performances on the 2014 Big Day Out tour.

With the promise to create an action-packed and gory tale of retribution against an internet troll,  Twelve Foot Ninja  turned to fans in an effort to crowd fund $45,000 for the making of their latest video – and true to their form of outstanding music videos, Twelve Foot Ninja delivered the goods.

The band pulled out all of the stops for their highly anticipated video, calling on a prosthetics make-up artist who worked on the film The Hobbit, a 7ft Alaskan brown bear and Penthouse Magazine “Pet” Madison Rhys. Also appearing in the video are members of American metal band Periphery.

Twelve Foot Ninja’s debut album Silent Machine received its official North American release in October 2013, and crept into the Top 20 of Loud Rock music charts. SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal quickly jumped on board, and their listeners awarded Twelve Foot Ninja the titles Best Artist Discovery of 2013 and Best Song Discovery for the album’s opening track Coming For You. 2013 also saw Twelve Foot Ninja embark on their first ever tour of North America as support to Periphery, Born of Osiris and Dead Letter Circus. “Twelve Foot Ninja are basically one of the best live bands I have ever seen in my life,” proclaimed Periphery’s Misha Mansoor. In addition to the Periphery seal of approval, other notable U.S. endorsers include Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater/Avenged Sevenfold), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory), Chris Broderick (Megadeth) and Wolf Van Halen (Van Halen/Tremonti).

For more information head to: www.facebook.com/twelvefootninja

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Anwar is the editor-in-chief of Metal Obsession.net. When Anwar isn't busy promoting tours, interviewing bands and reviewing awesome music, he loves to collect metal vinyl and play video games. Follow Metal Obsession on Twitter and Facebook