Helloween Announce North American Tour Dates with Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen

Last year, when Helloween announced that they were reuniting with Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen, I promised that “If enough of you bug us about it, we’ll post the [reunion] tour’s full itinerary whenever it’s announced.”

None have you bugged us about this yet, but I’m pre-emptively posting the dates anyway because it takes but a second to cut and paste them from Metal Insider:

9/07/18 – Las Vegas, NV
9/08/18 – Los Angeles, CA
9/10/18 – Chicago, IL
9/12/18 – Montreal, QC
9/14/18 – Worcester, MA
9/15/18 – New York City, NY

Apparently there will be a pre-sale starting later today (details here). Do people really need to buy tickets for this a year in advance? Are Helloween that big of a deal? My knowledge of this band continues to be minimal. Don’t bother trying to educate me, I don’t especially care. If you go, have a good time. Yay for you.