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...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (and Our Bread) recently revealed the dates of their Adult Swim-sponsored tour of colleges with "Metalocalypse" band Dethklok. And they've also revealed a healthy portion of small club shows to accompany the tour, and those shows have already begun.

TOD's next show is in Nashville tomorrow, October 23, and the Adult Swim tour begins in Albuquerque on October 29.

Exciting in a different sort of way: Trail of Dead have parted ways Interscope Records-- or "prison," as the press release on the matter colorfully refers to it-- and they plan to re-enter the studio early next year to get to work on their sixth LP and So Divided follow-up. Producer Mike McCarthy (Spoon, So Divided) will be at the helm.

What's more, the band is planning a "Not So Greatest Hits" collection (aka (s)HITS), and frontman Conrad Keeley has taken his artistic muse for a spin: he will be selling ballpoint pen sketches from his Blue Series and other works during another, to-be-announced spring TOD tour.

So animated:

10-23 Nashville, TN - Cannery
10-24 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
10-26 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
10-27 Austin, TX - Emo's
10-29 Albuquerque, NM - University of New Mexico *
10-30 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
10-31 Las Vegas, NV - UNLV *
11-01 Los Angeles, CA - UCLA *
11-02 Berkeley, CA - UC Berkeley *
11-05 Fort Collins, CO - Colorado State University *
11-07 Minneapolis, MN - University of Minnesota *
11-08 Vermillian, SD - University of South Dakota *
11-09 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club
11-10 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
11-11 Boulder, CO - CU-Boulder *
11-13 Carbondale, IL - SIU Carbondale *
11-15 Norman, OK - University of Oklahoma *
11-16 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone
11-17 Lawrence, KS - University of Kansas *
11-18 Chicago, IL - Northwestern University *
11-19 Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Ballroom
11-20 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
11-21 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
11-23 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

* with Dethklok (Adult Swim tour)