Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes: Animals as Leaders Aussie tour and color vinyl Weightless

Groundbreaking progressive instrumentalist act ANIMALS AS LEADERS will support Between the Buried and Me -- with whom they have previously toured in both America and Europe -- on their upcoming international tour. Beginning Nov. 13, the bands will play five major cities in Australia and then head to New Zealand. Before heading Down Under, the band will also headline the Rock Party Festival in Long Beach, Calif. on Sept. 29. Full dates can be found below.



ANIMALS AS LEADERS guitarist Tosin Abasi was recently seen featured on the cover of Guitar World alongside the legendary guitar hero Steve Vai, who has called the band "the future of heavy creative virtuoso guitar." Their latest critically acclaimed release, "Weightless," reached #92 on the Billboard Top 200 and was praised by Alternative Press for its "intricate picking, lurching chords, and searing melodic leads." You can get a repressing of "Weightless" or the band's self-titled 2009 debut on various colors of vinyl for a limited time through the Prosthetic web store http://www.indiemerch.com/prostheticrecords/item/15166. The 180-gram black wax variants are also available at select retail outlets around the world.