HELLYEAH begins a summer-long tour schedule this Sunday, May 20, 2007 in Baltimore. Dates, cities and venues for the band’s headline “FIRE IT UP” tour follow below. The band will be featured on the main stage at the Download Festival  in Donington Park in North West Leicestershire, U.K. on June 9,  followed by the 30-city Family Values Tour back in the States. Their self-titled CD is out now, having had the highest  debut chart position for a new hard rock artist, entering Billboard's  Top 200 charts at #9 and Billboard's Rock Chart at #3.

For Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell to morph from the indispensable members of the legendary, hard hitting Texas band Pantera, to the indisputable twin forces behind the new band Damgeplan, they had to reach down inside and find a “New Found Power”!!  The phrase became not only the new band’s mantra, but also one of the more ferocious songs on the 14-song disk.  It became such a big part of the Damgeplan lexicon; they blessed it as the album’s title track.

“We didn’t want to forget our mission,” says Vinnie Paul.  “We had accomplished a lot with Pantera.  We’ve always been known for straight up ass kickin’, but now we want to keep that and do some branching out, too.”  Never known for mincing words, Dime puts his own “Dime-bonics” spin on it: “When people ask me about the spectrum of this album, I say what kind of fu**ing ass kickin’ do you want?  Right in the nose?  One in the gut, maybe? Or how ‘bout the Chinese fu**ing torture treatment?  It’s all fu**in’ there.  This gave us the opportunity to do something fresh and diverse and bring it to our loyal and die hard fans.  Why paint the same fu**ing picture 15 million times?”