Switzerland's finest purveyors of heaviness, Paleface Swiss have today announced an extensive US headline tour for March and April 2025. Tickets for the run will go on-sale at 11am ET on Wednesday, July 31st from www.palefaceswiss.com/tour
Following several, mostly sold-out US runs and incendiary performances at Sick New World festival and Big Texas Metal Festival earlier this year, Paleface Swiss are excited to unleash their most extensive headline run to date. Speaking on the announcement, frontman Marc 'Zelli' Zellweger shares:
"We can’t wait to return for a bigger US headlining tour... I am so happy and excited that we can finally make this happen. I would love to be sitting on the tour bus tomorrow. But like the cheese Switzerland is famous for, this also has to mature well first hahaha!"
Since dropping their second full-length album ‘Fear & Dagger’ in 2022, Paleface Swiss have earned international reverence for their technical, groove-laden, beatdown-filled metal. Setting themselves apart with a combination of multiple genre elements and the distinctive, lightning-fast, rap-inspired vocals of commanding frontman Marc "Zelli" Zellwegger, the band have been at the forefront of the modern 'nu' and 'deathcore' movements.
Standalone singles released last year - “Please End Me”, “Best Before Death” and "The Gallow" sustained their buzz, while a nearly sold-out US tour cemented the Swiss Boys' explosive live reputation. They returned stateside for the massive Sick New World Festival in Las Vegas in April this year, along with a US tour with The Ghost Inside and a performance at Big Texas Metal Festival.
With an ever-growing army of devoted fans, critical acclaim, sold-out headline shows and stellar festival performances garnering new fans wherever they go, Paleface Swiss now have their sights set on worldwide domination.
PALEFACE SWISS
NORTH AMERICA 2025 HEADLINE TOUR
3/20 Detroit, MI, St. Andrews Hall
3/21 Toronto, ON, Lees Palace
3/22 Montreal, QC, Club Soda
3/23 Worcester, MA Palladium (Upstairs)
3/26 Albany, NY, Empire Live
3/27 Baltimore, MD, Soundstage
3/28 Pittsburgh, PA , Roxian Theatre
3/29 Greensboro, NC, Hangar 1819
3/30 Tampa, FL, Orpheum
04/01 Orlando, FL, The Abbey
04/02 Atlanta, GA, Masquerade (Hell)
04/03 Nashville, TN, Eastside Bowl
04/04 Louisville, KY, Mercury Ballroom
04/05 St. Louis, MO, Red Flag
04/06 Wichita, KS, Wave (Indoors)
04/08 San Antonio, TX, Vibes Underground
04/09 Dallas, TX, Southside Music Hall
4/10 Albuquerque, NM, Sunshine Theater
4/11 Mesa, AZ, Nile
4/12 Los Angeles, CA, The Regent
4/13 Roseville, CA, Goldfields
4/15 Portland, OR, Dante's
4/16 Vancouver, BC, Rickshaw Theatre
4/17 Seattle, WA, El Corazon
4/18 Spokane, WA, The Knitting Factory
4/19 Salt Lake City, UT, Metro Music Hall
4/20 Denver, CO, Summit
4/22 Omaha, NE, The Waiting Room
4/23 Iowa City, IA, Wildwood
4/24 Minneapolis, MN, Varsity Theater
4/25 Milwaukee, WI, The Rave II
4/26 Chicago, IL, Thalia Hall
ABOUT PALEFACE SWISS
Since the release of their first album, 'Chapter 3: The Last Selection', independent outfit, PALEFACE SWISS have gained international recognition throughout the Deathcore and Beatdown Community. Known for their huge, aggressive riffs, brutally bombastic rhythm section, frontman, Zelli's outstanding vocals and a pinch of humor. This is Switzerland’s finest heavy music. Across their catalog, the band have gained 50 million streams, 19.4 million YouTube views on their own channel, and recently peaked at 1 million Spotify monthly listeners.
PALEFACE SWISS was formed in Zurich, Switzerland in 2017 by vocalist Marc Zellweger (Zelli) and drummer Colin Hammond (CJ) having met through a mutual friend in 2016. After bonding over a shared love of beatdowns and hardcore, Zelli and CJ shook hands at a concert in 2017 and promised they would create the craziest beatdown band ever together. They released their debut ‘Chapter 1: From The Gallows’ in 2018 and played their first show in October 2018 and quickly grew in popularity with the song “Deprivation Method”.
In early 2019, Paleface started writing ‘Chapter 2: Witch King’ and started working on the final installment of the dark story they’d created with Chapters 1 & 2. ‘Chapter 3: The Last Selection’ was released on October 30th 2020, spawning four music huge tracks “Curse Us”, “The Rats”, "Lights Out" and “Skalpell” which quickly ranked high in the beatdown/hardcore charts and saw the band become cover stars on Spotify’s Heavy Beatdown playlist.
In 2022 the band released their most ambitious and brutal album yet, 'Fear & Dagger'. The album was widely considered a huge step up for the band as plaudits began to roll in for frontman Zelli's vocal ability, Metal Injection accurately summed it up in their review by saying, "It's fun to get caught up in Paleface's unrelenting instrumentals, but Zelli's really the star of Paleface. This is largely because he treats his screams like rap bars." The album shot the band into the upper echelons of the "deathcore renaissance" and spawned singles "The Orphan", "Deathtouch", "Dead Man's Diary" feat. LANDMVRKS frontman Florent Salfati and most recently, fan favourite and stylistic curveball, "My Grave / Lay with Me". The album focuses on more mature and critical topics related to the fears and struggles young people have to contend with in the 21st century, most importantly, the topic of mental health.
The album's technical proficiency and no-holds-barred brutality, coupled with Zelli's unique delivery and highly emotional lyrics struck a chord with fans worldwide. It was released to much acclaim with New Transcendence stating "Paleface have created one of the most emotionally relevant and intriguing beatdown releases to date" and Wall of Sound calling it "an unashamedly brutal and angry album".
As Metal Injection so astutely put it in their review of 'Fear & Dagger' - "Stop pretending to be cultured, and get down with the beatdown.".
PALEFACE SWISS Are:
Vox: Marc “Zelli” Zellweger
Guitar: Yannick Lehmann
Bass: Tommy-Lee Abt
Drums: Cassiano Toma
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