The band kicks things off the last week of September with a series of shows in the U.K. (Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Cardiff, Nottingham, London, Norwich, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Belfast) and Ireland (Dublin and Cork).

Next it’s off to Japan for a stop at the Loud Park Festival in Saitama-shi and then Australia for a handful of dates in Freemantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sidney.

Dragonforce’s six-week North American trek launches November 1 at Pipeline Café in Honolulu and wraps December 19 at the Croatian Cultural Centre in Vancouver.

Highlights include The Warfield in San Francisco (November 5), Marquee in Phoenix (November 10), Ogden Theatre in Denver (November 14), Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin (November 19), Roseland Ballroom in New York City (November 25), Electric Factory in Philadelphia (November 30), Kool Haus in Toronto (December 5), Congress Theater in Chicago (December 10) and McEwan Hall in Calgary (December 16).

Complete details on presale tickets and fan club packages are available at Dragonforce.com.

Dragonforce will also launch a major European run in January, with scheduled stops in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Ultra Beatdown, the band’s latest album, was released August 26.