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W.A.S.P. Announces The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023

ARMORED SAINT TO JOIN ACROSS ALL DATES  

Tickets available starting today with artist presale  , general on sale begins friday, april 14 at 10 am local at waspnation.com  .

Today,  W.A.S.P.  announced  The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023 . Produced by Live Nation, the 33-city run kicks off on Friday, August 4 at the Fremont Theatre in San Luis Obispo, CA, with stops across North America in Vancouver, BC, Omaha, NE, New York, NY, Memphis, TN and more before wrapping up on Saturday, September 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA. Special guest  Armored Saint  will join the band across all dates of the tour.

The 2023 North American tour comes following the band’s first U.S. tour in 10 years wrapping up in 2022, ending with 18 sold-out shows. The tour was selected by Metal Edge as one of the 10 Best Hard Rock and Metal Tours of 2022 and one of the 22 Memorable Rock Tours of 2022 by Ultimate Classic Rock. BraveWords writers listed the tour as the Top Concert of 2022 and selected by the Detroit radio station WRIF as one of the Top Concerts of 2022. 

W.A.S.P. is currently playing off their massive European leg of the 2022 40th Anniversary World Tour, with upcoming shows taking place in Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and more before wrapping on May 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports Hall.  

TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with the Artist presale beginning today at 12 PM ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week with all presales ending Thursday, April 13 at 10 PM local time. The general on sale will begin Friday, April 14 at 10 AM local time at WASPnation.com . 

VIP: Blackie Lawless VIP meet and greet tickets will also be available at WASPnation.com . 

THE 40TH NEVER STOPS WORLD TOUR 2023 DATES:  

Fri Aug 04 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theatre * 

Sat Aug 05 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento 

Mon Aug 07 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater 

Tue Aug 08 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre * 

Thu Aug 10 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre 

Fri Aug 11 – Spokane, WA – The Podium 

Sat Aug 12 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House and Event Center 

Sun Aug 13 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot 

Tue Aug 15 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha 

Wed Aug 16 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus 

Thurs Aug 17 – Moline, IL – The Rust Belt * 

Fri Aug 18 – Eau Claire, WI – RCU Theater * 

Sat Aug 19 – Clive, IA – Horizon Events Center * 

Sun Aug 20 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana 

Tue Aug 22 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live @ 20 Monroe 

Wed Aug 23 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre 

Thu Aug 24 – Wheeling, WV – Capitol Theatre * 

Fri Aug 25 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater * 

Sat Aug 26 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom 

Sun Aug 27 – Hampton, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 

Tue Aug 29 – Wallingford, CT – The Dome At Oakdale Theatre 

Wed Aug 30 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia 

Thu Aug 31 – Warren, OH – Packard Music Hall * 

Fri Sep 01 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall 

Sun Sep 03 – Montreal, QC – Mtelus 

Tue Sep 05 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center 

Thu Sep 07 – Memphis, TN – The Soundstage at Graceland 

Fri Sep 08 – Little Rock, AR – The Hall 

Sat Sep 09 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom 

Sun Sep 10 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion 

Wed Sep 13 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre * 

Thu Sep 14 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues 

Sat Sep 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium 

*Not a Live Nation Date 

Ladies and gentlemen, that is most certainly how you put on a rock show. – Backseat Mafia  

W.A.S.P. are here to provide a good time and to celebrate their legacy, and they do both of these things in spades tonight. – Metal Talk  

“When you’re putting on a show as enjoyable as this, it’s no surprise why people keep coming back.” – Moshville  

About W.A.S.P. [Text Wrapping Break]Few Bands in the history of Rock N’ Roll have ever incited the love, the hate, the raw emotional effect this Band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the Band’s unique style of Shock and Rock caused Religious organizations, Local City Councils, Parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played. 

The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold out shows across the globe for 4 decades. 

Joined by bassist Mike Duda and guitarist Doug Blair, whose tenures in the band span 26 and 18 years respectively, along with drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester, will take the Band and the Fans back to where it all started. Complete with the stage show extravaganza that many fans never saw live. 

Witness Live the Winged Assassins spectacle of “SHOCK and ROLL” as they take you Back…Back to the Beginning! 

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W.A.S.P. Announces “The 40th Never Stops” Summer 2023 North American Tour

W.A.S.P. has announced the North American leg of “The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023” . Produced by Live Nation , the 33-city run kicks off on Saturday, August 5 in Wheatland, California, making stops across North America in Vancouver, British Columbia; Omaha, Nebraska; New York City; Memphis, Tennessee and more before wrapping up on Saturday, September 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. Special guest ARMORED SAINT will join the band across all dates of the tour.

W.A.S.P. . is currently playing off their massive European leg of the 2022 40th Anniversary World Tour , with upcoming shows taking place in Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and more before wrapping on May 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports Hall.

Tickets will be available starting with the Artist pre-sale beginning today at 12 PM ET. Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week with all pre-sales ending Thursday, April 13 at 10 PM local time. The general on sale will begin Friday, April 14 at 10 AM local time at WASPnation.com .

“The 40th Never Stops” 2023 North American Tour Dates:

Blackie Lawless VIP meet-and-greet tickets will also be available at WASPnation.com .

Aug. 04 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theatre * Aug. 05 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento Aug. 07 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater Aug. 08 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre * Aug. 10 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre Aug. 11 – Spokane, WA – The Podium Aug. 12 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House and Event Center Aug. 13 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot Aug. 15 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha Aug. 16 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus Aug. 17 – Moline, IL – The Rust Belt * Aug. 18 – Eau Claire, WI – RCU Theater * Aug. 19 – Clive, IA – Horizon Events Center * Aug. 20 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana Aug. 22 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live @ 20 Monroe Aug. 23 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre Aug. 24 – Wheeling, WV – Capitol Theatre * Aug. 25 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater * Aug. 26 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom Aug. 27 – Hampton, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Aug. 29 – Wallingford, CT – The Dome At Oakdale Theatre Aug. 30 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia Aug. 31 – Warren, OH – Packard Music Hall * Sep. 01 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall Sep. 03 – Montreal, QC – Mtelus Sep. 05 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center Sep. 07 – Memphis, TN – The Soundstage at Graceland Sep. 08 – Little Rock, AR – The Hall Sep. 09 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom Sep. 10 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion Sep. 13 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre * Sep. 14 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues Sep. 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium

* Not a Live Nation date

W.A.S.P. wrapped up its first U.S. tour in 10 years with a sold-out show on December 11 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. This marked the 18th sold-out shows for the U.S. tour, which kicked off in late October. W.A.S.P. ‘s performances included the return of the band’s classic song “Animal (f**k Like a Beast)” , which hadn’t been played live in over 15 years.

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W.A.S.P. Announce The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023 With Special Guests ARMORED SAINT; Exclusive BraveWords Presale Code Available

April 11, 2023, a year ago

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Today, W.A.S.P. announces The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023. Produced by Live Nation, the 33-city run kicks off on Friday, August 4th in San Luis Abispo, CA, making stops across North America in Vancouver, BC, Omaha, NE, New York, NY, Memphis, TN and more before wrapping up on Saturday, September 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA. Special guest Armored Saint will join the band across all dates of the tour.

The 2023 North American tour comes following the band's first US tour in 10 years wrapping up in 2022, ending with 18 sold-out shows. The tour was selected by Metal Edge as one of the 10 Best Hard Rock and Metal Tours of 2022 and one of the 22 Memorable Rock Tours of 2022 by Ultimate Classic Rock. BraveWords writers listed the tour as the Top Concert of 2022 and selected by the Detroit radio station WRIF as one of the Top Concerts of 2022.

W.A.S.P. is currently playing off their massive European leg of the 2022 40th Anniversary World Tour, with upcoming shows taking place in Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and more before wrapping on May 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports Hall.

Tickets will be available starting with the Artist presale beginning today at 12 PM, ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week with all pre-sales ending Thursday, April 13 at 10 PM, local time.

Use the exclusive BraveWords presale code "BlindInTexas" for early access to tickets.

The general on sale will begin Friday, April 14 at 10 AM, local time at WASPnation.com .

VIP: Blackie Lawless VIP meet and greet tickets will also be available at WASPnation.com .

Tour dates:

August 4 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Fremont Theatre * 5 - Wheatland, CA - Hard Rock Live Sacramento 7 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater 8 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre * 10 - Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre 11 - Spokane, WA - The Podium 12 - Garden City, ID - Revolution Concert House and Event Center 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot 15 - Omaha, NE - Steelhouse Omaha 16 - Minneapolis, MN - The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus 17 - Moline, IL - The Rust Belt * 18 - Eau Claire, WI - RCU Theater * 19 - Clive, IA - Horizon Events Center *  20 - Gary, IN - Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana 22 - Grand Rapids, MI - GLC Live @ 20 Monroe  23 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre 24 - Wheeling, WV - Capitol Theatre * 25 - Stroudsburg, PA - Sherman Theater * 26 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom 27 - Hampton, NH - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 29 - Wallingford, CT - The Dome At Oakdale Theatre 30 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore Philadelphia 31 - Warren, OH - Packard Music Hall *

September 1 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall 3 - Montreal, QC - Mtelus 5 - Cincinnati, OH - The Andrew J Brady Music Center 7 - Memphis, TN - The Soundstage at Graceland 8 - Little Rock, AR - The Hall 9 - Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom 10 - Oklahoma City, OK - The Criterion 13 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre * 14 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium

* not a Live Nation Date

Few bands in the history of rock n' roll have ever incited the love, the hate, the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, Local City Councils, Parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.

The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold out shows across the globe for 4 decades.

Joined by bassist Mike Duda and guitarist Doug Blair, whose tenures in the band span 26 and 18 years respectively, along with drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester, will take the Band and the Fans back to where it all started. Complete with the stage show extravaganza that many fans never saw live.

Witness live the Winged Assassins spectacle of "Shock And Roll" as they take you back… back to the beginning!

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WASP is set to embark on their ambitious 33-city tour this summer of 2023!

The beloved heavy metal band just announced that they are setting the road for the "40th Never Stops World Tour 2023."

The second leg of the trek came on the heels after the band finished their concert tour last year, their first one in decades.

Not only will they be touring the United States, but they will also be threading into Canada and even a string of European shows.

They will also be joined by Armored Saints along the road in all of their tours.

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WASP Tour Dates 2023: '40th Never Stops' Concert Venues

• Aug. 04, 2023, in San Luis Obispo, Calif., at the Fremont Theatre
• Aug. 05, 2023, in Wheatland, Calif., at the Hard Rock Live Sacramento
• Aug. 07, 2023, in Portland, Ore., at the Roseland Theater
• Aug. 08, 2023, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Vogue Theatre
• Aug. 10, 2023, in Seattle, Wash., at the Moore Theatre
• Aug. 11, 2023, in Spokane, Wash., at The Podium
• Aug. 12, 2023, in Garden City, Idaho, at Revolution Concert House and Event Center
• Aug. 13, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at The Depot
• Aug. 15, 2023, in Omaha, Neb., at the Steelhouse Omaha
• Aug. 16, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minn., at The Fillmore Minneapolis
• Aug. 17, 2023 - Moline, Ill., at The Rust Belt
• Aug. 18, 2023, in Eau Claire, Wis., at the RCU Theater
• Aug. 19, 2023, in Clive, Iowa, at the Horizon Events Center
• Aug. 20, 2023, in Gary, Ind., at the Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana
• Aug. 22, 2023, in Grand Rapids, Mich., at the GLC Live, at the 20 Monroe
• Aug. 23, 2023, in Indianapolis, Ind., at the Egyptian Room at the Old National Centre
• Aug. 24, 2023, in Wheeling, W.V. , at the Capitol Theatre
• Aug. 25, 2023, in Stroudsburg, Pa., at the Sherman Theater
• Aug. 26, 2023, in New York, N.Y. , at the Hammerstein Ballroom
• Aug. 27, 2023, in Hampton, N.H. , at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
• Aug. 29, 2023, in Wallingford, Ct., at The Dome At Oakdale Theatre
• Aug. 30, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pa., at The Fillmore Philadelphia
• Aug. 31, 2023, in Warren, Ohio, at the Packard Music Hall
• Sept. 01, 2023, in Toronto, Ontario, at the Danforth Music Hall
• Sept. 03, 2023, in Montreal, Quebec, at the Mtelus
• Sept. 05, 2023, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at The Andrew J Brady Music Center
• Sept. 07, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., at The Soundstage at Graceland
• Sept. 08, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark., at The Hall
• Sept. 09, 2023, in Dallas, Texas, at the South Side Ballroom
• Sept. 10, 2023, in Oklahoma City, Okla., at The Criterion
• Sept. 13, 2023, in Tucson, Ariz., at the Rialto Theatre
• Sept. 14, 2023, in San Diego, Calif., at the House of Blues
• Sept. 16, 2023, in Los Angeles, Calif., at the Hollywood Palladium

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A general sale for the public will also be made available on Apr. 14, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. local time via the band's website .

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W.A.S.P. Cancel 2023 North American Tour, Blackie Lawless Issues Statement

UPDATE (July 21, 2023): W.A.S.P. have officially canceled their scheduled summer tour due to ongoing back injuries suffered by frontman Blackie Lawless. Read a statement from Lawless further down the page.

W.A.S.P. are back and ready to rock you're world with a 33-city run this summer. The band just announced dates for the "40th Never Stops World Tour 2023," kicking off Saturday, Aug. 5 in Wheatland, California.

The trek will also feature special guests Armored Saint , as the two bands venture across the country and dip into Canada for some shows as well before wrapping up the run Saturday, Sept. 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

W.A.S.P. are currently riding a wave of momentum coming off their first U.S. tour in a decade that took place last year. The band is also playing European shows this spring, wrapping up May 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Tickets for the run will be available through an artist pre-sale starting today (April 11) at 12N ET. Additional pre-sales will follow throughout the week, with the general public on-sale starting this Friday (April 14) at 10AM local time via WASPnation.com . You can also look into Blackie Lawless VIP meet-and-greet packages via the band's website as well.

See all of the cities, dates and venues listed below.

CANCELED: W.A.S.P. / Armored Saint "The 40th Never Stops" North American Tour Leg 2023

A statement from Blackie Lawless published July 21 on the W.A.S.P. website reads,

The extent of the trauma I endured on the 2023 European Tour was far greater than originally diagnosed and surgery will now be needed to correct the problem. In addition to the original herniated disc, as that tour continued, a 2nd disc became herniated. Upon returning home a 2nd MRI also revealed a broken vertebrae to my lower back. I've been fortunate to work with the best specialists in the U.S. and I've been in intensive rehab since we got home. It's going well but the damage was pretty extensive and all the Dr.'s agree moving the tour a few months back will be the safest thing. It's all been as the result of an injury that happened several years ago. I'm working my butt off to get ready and I'll be up riding on Elvis... bigger and badder than ever. If the Torture Never Stops, then the 40th Never Stops!

Aug. 04 – San Luis Obispo, Calif. @ Fremont Theatre * Aug. 05 – Wheatland, Calif. @ Hard Rock Live Sacramento Aug. 07 – Portland, Ore. @ Roseland Theater Aug. 08 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Vogue Theatre * Aug. 10 – Seattle, Wash. @ Moore Theatre Aug. 11 – Spokane, Wash. @ The Podium Aug. 12 – Garden City, Idaho @ Revolution Concert House and Event Center Aug. 13 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ The Depot Aug. 15 – Omaha, Neb. @ Steelhouse Omaha Aug. 16 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus Aug. 17 - Moline, Ill. @ The Rust Belt * Aug. 18 – Eau Claire, Wis. @ RCU Theater * Aug. 19 – Clive, Iowa @ Horizon Events Center * Aug. 20 – Gary, Ind. @ Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana Aug. 22 – Grand Rapids, Mich. @ GLC Live @ 20 Monroe Aug. 23 – Indianapolis, Ind. @ Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre Aug. 24 – Wheeling, W.V.  @ Capitol Theatre * Aug. 25 – Stroudsburg, Pa. @ Sherman Theater * Aug. 26 – New York, N.Y.  @ Hammerstein Ballroom Aug. 27 – Hampton, N.H.  @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Aug. 29 – Wallingford, Ct. @ The Dome At Oakdale Theatre Aug. 30 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Fillmore Philadelphia Aug. 31 – Warren, Ohio @ Packard Music Hall * Sept. 01 – Toronto, Ontario @ Danforth Music Hall Sept. 03 – Montreal, Quebec @ Mtelus Sept. 05 – Cincinnati, Ohio @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center Sept. 07 – Memphis, Tenn. @ The Soundstage at Graceland Sept. 08 – Little Rock, Ark. @ The Hall Sept. 09 – Dallas, Texas @ South Side Ballroom Sept. 10 – Oklahoma City, Okla. @ The Criterion Sept. 13 – Tucson, Ariz. @ Rialto Theatre * Sept. 14 – San Diego, Calif. @ House of Blues Sept. 16 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hollywood Palladium

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W.A.S.P. Cancels 2023 U.S. Tour Due To BLACKIE LAWLESS's 'Extensive Back Injuries'

Because of the extensive back injuries suffered by Blackie Lawless during the European leg of W.A.S.P. 's 40th-anniversary tour, the band's previously announced 2023 U.S. tour has been canceled and will be rescheduled for spring 2024. Tickets and VIP packages can be refunded at the point of purchase.

Lawless comments: "The extent of the trauma I endured on the 2023 European tour was far greater than originally diagnosed and surgery will now be needed to correct the problem. In addition to the original herniated disc, as that tour continued, a second disc became herniated. Upon returning home, a second MRI also revealed a broken vertebrae to my lower back.

"I've been fortunate to work with the best specialists in the U.S. and I've been in intensive rehab since we got home. It's going well but the damage was pretty extensive and all the doctors agree moving the tour a few months back will be the safest thing. It's all been as the result of an injury that happened several years ago. I'm working my butt off to get ready and I'll be up riding on [my mic stand nicknamed] Elvis ... bigger and badder than ever. If the Torture Never Stops, then the 40th Never Stops!"

During a May 25 appearance on SiriusXM 's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" , Lawless spoke about completing W.A.S.P. 's recent European tour while seated after suffering a herniated disc in his back. He said: "This past Monday was my 10-year anniversary from when I broke my right femur. And it's a long, complicated story, but what's been going on with my back is a direct reflection of what happened with that femur being broken. Because I wore a lift for nine years, and come to find out I did not need that lift. And that was only determined last summer, so the lift was taken out. But the spine had adjusted to me walking with that lift. And when we took it out, then that's when the problems started. And it actually started at the beginning of the U.S. tour. And I was able to get through the U.S. tour okay, and we thought it had settled into place, but when we got to Europe, we quickly discovered, about two weeks into the tour, that was not the case. And what was happening is that the vertebrae were compressing some of the disks. I ended up rupturing a disk, and then that starts leaking out a gelatin that then wraps itself around the nerves coming out of the spinal cord. And that then creates this thing called nerve pain. And I don't know if people understand what that is, because I had heard of it but I had never experienced it before. And it is pain that you cannot imagine. It is unlike anything you've ever experienced before."

The 66-year-old guitarist/vocalist, whose real name is Steven Duren , continued: "I had to go to Berlin four times to get treatment. I received eight epidurals throughout the tour. That was the only way I was getting through it, because the pain is literally off the charts. And the doctors there told me, they said, 'This thing can become so intense, people commit suicide from it.' And I can see why people would do that.

"The first time I had to go in, you have to go into a surgical center because it's not something that can be done in a regular doctor's office. So we were in a hospital in Berlin. So they take me into the surgical room, or the operating room. And he told me, he said, 'Now I'm gonna inject this needle or insert this needle into you and I'm gonna touch your spinal cord with it.' He said, 'I want you to get ready for this.' Now, I didn't know what that meant — until he did it. And when he did it — I really don't have accurate words to describe what that feels like. The closest way I can explain it is it felt like an explosion, like a bomb went off inside my legs. And he said, 'I'm gonna have to do this one more time.' And I swear to you, I grabbed the table with both hands.

"You see these movies about mafia and things like that, where they're pulling guys' fingernails off with pliers. You don't need that," Lawless added. "You just show somebody a needle — they'll give up their kids. I'm here to tell you — there's nothing like it. I mean, you cannot fathom it unless you've been through it.

"So, anyway, they were able to keep me running, but they were afraid that I was gonna do further damage. So the deal was halfway during the tour that I would pull back about 50 percent of the movement that I was doing. But it started getting worse and worse. And we got to Zurich about two and a half weeks ago, and something happened during the show, and I knew something wasn't right. And that's when we went to sitting after that.

"We got home this past Saturday, and I went straight to the doctor's office. And they looked at me, and we said, 'Okay, let's do new pictures.' So we did new pictures this past Monday.

"I have a thing, and they determined this in Berlin — it's called mechanical compression," Blackie revealed. "And what that means is you get vertebrae that start pushing against each other, but they grind against each other at the same time because they start to cramp. Well, when we were doing the show in Zurich, it was cramping really bad and I couldn't get it to stop. And I was literally , literally hanging on to [my mic stand] Elvis while I was trying to sing and play at the same time.

"So we did the new pictures on Monday, and I have a cracked vertebra now in my spine. But as bad as that sounds, it's not the first time it happened," Lawless said. "It happened the first time in '92 on 'The Crimson Idol' tour. I got a little too close to the edge of the stage one night and some of the fans pulled me off the stage into the audience, and I ended up upside down in the crowd and they fell on top of me, and I broke a vertebra then. So this is the second time I've been through this. So it'll heal on its own. I start therapy tomorrow — it's a swimming pool thing that I'm gonna have to do to start first. But they say they're gonna have me up to speed in eight weeks to start the tour. So I'll be ready to go."

Fan-filmed video of one of the first shows of Lawless performing while seated, from the May 15 concert at Sono Music Club in Brno, Czech Republic, can be seen below. Lawless 's chair was built into his custom mic stand.

W.A.S.P. 's massive European leg of the 40th-anniversary world tour wrapped on May 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports Hall.

Produced by Live Nation , the North American leg of W.A.S.P. 's "The 40th Never Stops World Tour 2023" was scheduled to kick off on Friday, August 4 at the Fremont Theatre in San Luis Obispo, California, making stops across North America in Vancouver, British Columbia; Omaha, Nebraska; New York City; Memphis, Tennessee and more before wrapping up on Saturday, September 16 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. Special guest ARMORED SAINT was supposed join the band across all 33 dates of the tour.

W.A.S.P. wrapped up its first U.S. tour in 10 years with a sold-out show on December 11, 2022 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. This marked the 18th sold-out shows for the U.S. tour, which kicked off in late October 2022. W.A.S.P. 's performances included the return of the band's classic song "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" , which hadn't been played live in over 15 years.

Lawless has led W.A.S.P. as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for four decades. He is joined by bassist Mike Duda and guitarist Doug Blair , whose tenures in the band span 28 and 17 years respectively, along with drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester .

W.A.S.P. 's latest release was "ReIdolized (The Soundtrack To The Crimson Idol)" , which came out in February 2018. It was a new version of the band's classic 1992 album "The Crimson Idol" , which was re-recorded to accompany the movie of the same name to mark the 25th anniversary of the original LP's release. The re-recorded version also features four songs missing from the original album.

W.A.S.P. 's most recent studio album of all-new original material was 2015's "Golgotha" .

W.A.S.P. 's first live performance since December 2019 took place on July 23, 2022 at Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Film academy invites 487 to join including duncan crabtree-ireland, lily gladstone, chris silbermann and celine song.

This is the highest number of invitations issued by the Academy since 2020, when 819 went out.

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Four hundred and eighty-seven members of the global film community — among them Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone , Past Lives filmmaker Celine Song , CAA managing partner Chris Silbermann , and SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland  — are receiving invitations on Tuesday to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the organization announced this morning.

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Invitees who wish to accept, as the vast majority tend to, will join the specific branch of the Academy that invited them. Eight were invited by more than one branch —  Michael Andrews (film editors and short films/feature animation), Bahram Beyzaêi (directors and writers), Ilker Çatak (directors and writers), Nadim Cheikhrouha (documentary and producers), Cord Jefferson (directors and writers), Celine Song (directors and writers), Justine Triet (directors and writers) and Christine Turner (documentary and short films/feature animation) — and will have to pick one.

Among this year’s invitees are 19 Academy Award winners, several of whom were presented with a statuette at the 96th Oscars earlier this year: best supporting actress ( The Holdovers ’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph ), original screenplay ( Anatomy of a Fall ’s Triet and Arthur Harari ), adapted screenplay ( American Fiction ’s Jefferson), documentary feature ( 20 Days in Mariupol ’s Mstyslav Chernov ), international feature ( The Zone of Interest ’s James Wilson ), animated short ( War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko ’s Brad Booker ), sound ( The Zone of Interest ’s Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers ), production design ( Poor Things ’ Shona Heath , Zsuzsa Mihalek and James Price ), costume design ( Poor Things ’ Holly Waddington ) and visual effects ( Godzilla Minus One ’s Tatsuji Nojima , Kiyoko Shibuya , Masaki Takahashi and Takashi Yamazaki ).

Prominent executives who were tapped include Sasha Bühler (Netflix director of international films), Michelle Byrd (the Producers Guild of America’s national executive director, formerly of IFP), Iris Knobloch (the Cannes Film Festival’s current and first female president), Tim League (founder of the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain), Harvey Mason Jr. (the Recording Academy’s CEO), Ben Roberts (the British Film Institute’s CEO), Peter Safran (DC Studios’ co-chair and co-CEO), Cooper Samuelson (Blumhouse Productions’ president of feature films), Ellen Stutzman (Writers Guild of America — West executive director) and Kim Yutani (the Sundance Institute’s director of programming).

And, as the Academy increasingly embraces artists’ representatives (agents, managers and lawyers), good news came to the likes of John Carrabino ( Renée Zellweger ’s longtime manager), Jay Gassner (co-head of talent at UTA), Roger Green (co-head of motion picture literary at WME), Laurent Grégoire ( Marion Cotillard ’s longtime French agent), Linda Lichter (a veteran entertainment lawyer), Doug Lucterhand (co-head of talent at WME), Evelyn O’Neill ( Greta Gerwig ’s longtime manager and Lady Bird producer), Cynthia Lee Pett (co-CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners), Maggie Pisacane (co-head of WME’s documentary group) and Douglas Urbanski ( Gary Oldman ’s longtime manager and Darkest Hour producer).

Lest anyone think the Academy is no longer prioritizing inclusion, the organization provided statistics about this year’s list that demonstrate it is still top of mind: Of this year’s invitees, 44 percent identify as women (up from 40 percent in 2023), 41 percent are non-white (up from 34 percent in 2023), and 56 percent are from countries or territories outside of the United States (up from 52 percent in 2023).

Moreover, six branches invited more women than men (actors, casting directors, costume designers, documentary, executives and makeup artists/hairstylists), four invited more non-white people than white people (actors, directors, documentary and writers) and 14 invited more non-Americans than Americans (actors, casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, documentary, film editing, makeup/hairstylists, music, producers, production design, short films/feature animation, visual effects and writers).

If all of those who received invitations this year accept, the overall membership of the Academy will be 35 percent women, 20 percent non-white and 20 percent non-American. And the total membership (including emeritus members) will grow to 10,910, while the number of voting members will be 9,934.

Here is a full list of the artists and executives who are being invited to join the Academy this year (*denotes someone who has been invited to join more than one branch).

Casting Directors (15) Dixie Chassay – “Dune: Part Two,” “Poor Things” Kharmel Cochrane – “Saltburn,” “The Northman” Angela Demo – “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” Jennifer Euston – “American Fiction,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” Rene Haynes – “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Revenant” Gayle Keller – “Bros,” “The King of Staten Island” Moira Miller – “A Fantastic Woman,” “The Green Inferno” Masunobu Motokawa – “Perfect Days,” “The Wandering Moon” Ulrike Müller – “Ghost Trail,” “Scorched Earth” Elsa Pharaon – “A Silence,” “Holy Motors” Alejandro Reza – “Noche de Bodas,” “Gringo” Luis Rosales – “Cassandro,” “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” Limor Shmila – “The Vanishing Soldier,” “The Stronghold” Rebecca van Unen – “Sweet Dreams,” “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Chamutal Zerem – “Karaoke,” “Foxtrot”

Costume Designers (17) Dave Crossman – “Napoleon,” “1917” Mario D’Avignon – “Midway,” “Hochelaga, Land of Souls” Anne Dixon – “The Marsh King’s Daughter,” “The Song of Names” Jürgen Doering – “Personal Shopper,” “Clouds of Sils Maria” Leesa Evans – “Always Be My Maybe,” “Bridesmaids” Gabriela Fernández – “I’m No Longer Here,” “Cantinflas” Małgorzata Karpiuk – “The Zone of Interest,” “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Kazuko Kurosawa – “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai,” “Silk” Ann Maskrey – “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Mona May – “Enchanted,” “Clueless” Rama Rajamouli – “RRR,” “Baahubali: The Beginning” Sheetal Sharma – “Gangubai Kathiawadi,” “Kesari” Preeyanan “Lin” Suwannathada – “The Creator,” “Buffalo Boys” Jill Taylor – “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” “My Week with Marilyn” Mónica Toschi – “A Ravaging Wind,” “Argentina, 1985” Holly Waddington – “Poor Things,” “Lady Macbeth” Khadija Zeggaï – “Passages,” “Love Crime”

Executives (32) Salma Abdalla Cate Adams Maya Amsellem Lenora del Pilar Ferrero Blanco Sasha Bühler Michelle Byrd Elaine Chin Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Paolo Del Brocco Gina Duncan Dan Friedkin Poppy Hanks Kate Hurwitz Iris Knobloch Tim League Sasha Lloyd Harvey Mason Jr. Daniela Michel Brittany Morrissey Brianna Oh Lejo Pet Areli Quirarte Matthew Reilly Chris Rice Ben Roberts Peter Safran Couper Samuelson Ellen Stutzman Fumiko Takagi Graham Taylor Emily Woodburne Kim Yutani

Makeup Artists/Hairstylists (4) Ana Bulajić Črček – “Illyricvm,” “Number 55” Hildegard Haide – “Run to Ground,” “Extinction” Karen Hartley Thomas – “Golda,” “The Personal History of David Copperfield” Frédéric Lainé – “The Animal Kingdom,” “Benedetta”

Marketing/Public Relations (25) Michele Abitbol-Lasry Matt Johnson Apice Austin Barker Neil Bhatt Darnell Brisco Nasim Cambron Holly Connors Mauricio Azael Duran Ortega Stephen Garrett Christopher Gonzalez Andrea Grau Blair Green Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez Lisa Zaks Markowitz David Ninh Julien Noble Gitesh Pandya Michelle Paris Elaine Patterson Lonnie Snell Ray Subers Caren Quinn Thompson Jessica Thurber Hemingway Vilija Vitartas Stephanie Wenborn

Production/Technology (25) Deva Anderson Keir Beck Nicholas Bergh Geoff Burdick Larry Chernoff Man-Nang Chong George Cottle Eddie Drake Shauna Duggins Jonathan Eusebio Clay Donahue Fontenot Kyle Gardiner Barrie Hemsley Joel C. High Susan Jacobs Renard T. Jenkins Joshua Levinson Larry McConkey David James McKimmie Samantha Jo “Mandy” Moore Kenny Ortega Prem Rakshith Chad Stahelski David Webb Woo-Ping Yuen

Sound (22) Gina R. Alfano – “Baby Ruby,” “You Hurt My Feelings” Manfred Banach – “Home Sweet Home – Where Evil Lives,” “John Wick: Chapter 4” Stephanie Brown – “Haunted Mansion,” “The Marvels” Johnnie Burn – “The Zone of Interest,” “Poor Things” Alexandra Fehrman – “American Fiction,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Linda Forsén – “Love Lies Bleeding,” “A House Made of Splinters” Lee Gilmore – “Dune: Part Two,” “The Batman” Glynna Grimala – “End of the Road,” “Father Stu” Loveday Harding – “Heart of Stone,” “The Batman” Brent Kiser – “The Lionheart,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Frédéric Le Louêt – “Only 3 Days Left,” “Alibi.com 2” Steven A. Levy – “Oppenheimer,” “Tenet” Kate Morath – “The Boys in the Boat,” “Belfast” Mark Purcell – “Maestro,” “Dune” Alejandro Quevedo – “Murder City,” “Radical” David M. Roberts – “The Killer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” Shelley Roden – “Elemental,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Jay Rubin – “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” “Master Gardener” Ian Voigt – “The Creator,” “The Hustle” Laura Wiest – “The Boogeyman,” “Sanctuary” Tarn Willers – “The Zone of Interest,” “Starve Acre” Linda Yeaney – “The Beekeeper,” “Interstellar”

Artist Representatives (31) Laura Berwick Eryn Brown John Carrabino Hillary Cook Tim Curtis Brian Dobbins Frank Frattaroli Jay Gassner Roger Green Laurent Gregoire Jermaine Johnson Theresa Kang Becca Kovacik Linda Lichter Douglas Lucterhand Devin Mann Gregory McKnight Evelyn O’Neill David Park Cynthia Lee Pett Valarie Phillips Maggie Pisacane Lindsay Porter Gretchen Rush Jodi Shields Chris Silbermann Carolyn Sivitz Gary Ungar Douglas Urbanski Steve Warren Alex Yarosh

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