SiriusXM Presents The Octane Accelerator Tour featuring Ice Nine Kills, Fit For A King, Light The Torch, & Awake At Last, stormed the TLA in Philly on November 11, 2019. The trek brought four emerging Octane bands together as they carve dtheir way through the U.S. to share their brand of horror metal and hard rock music!
The tour offered listeners the chance to see the type of new and emerging hard rock bands featured regularly on SiriusXM’s Octane.
SiriusXM’s Octane is committed to finding and exposing the new artists pushing the sound of Hard Rock music forward. “Octane Accelerators” is a feature that introduces North America to new artists that have Octane’s stamp of approval. SiriusXM’s Octane was the first in the world to play ICE NINE KILLS’ “A Grave Mistake”, on September 14, 2018 and was named an “Octane Accelerator” a week later. Additionally, SiriusXM selected ICE NINE KILLS as a “Future Five” artist of 2019. The “Future Five” for 2019 consists of five new artists that SiriusXM predicts will breakthrough in 2019.
“Ice Nine Kills immediately connected with the Octane listeners. Spending 9 months on the Big Uns countdown and 5 weeks at #1,” says SiriusXM Octane Program Director Vincent Usuriello, “We are excited to team up with Ice Nine Kills on this tour to continue to connect the Octane nation with the emerging Hard Rock bands they discover on Octane.”