OTEP will play South America for the first time in late January/early February. Confirmed dates are as follows:
Jan. 30 - Santiago, Chile - Teatro Novedades
Jan. 31 - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Mello Tenis Club
Feb. 01 - São Paulo, Brazil - Santana Hall
On August 25, 2008,
OTEP performed at the 2008
Democratic National Convention held in Denver, Colorado after winning the "MySpace Voter Registration Contest". They generated 532 new voter registrations in two days.
The group's new album,
"The_Ascension", sold 10,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release back in November 2007 to debut at position No. 81 on The Billboard 200 chart. Produced by
Dave Fortman (
MUDVAYNE,
EVANESCENCE),
"The_Ascension" sees the band challenging itself to avoid clichés and classifications and finding a new landscape of sound and vision. "We said 'genre limits and music fads be damned, let's write music that is important to us and that motivates us," frontwoman
Otep Shamaya previously stated. "I wanted to write songs we believe in and let nothing stop us from building the album we want to make."
