After taking a year off, the SnoCore [ tickets ] Tour is back with hard-rock headliners Static-X [ tickets ] and Saliva [ tickets ].

In its 13th year, the traveling festival--which began as a winter tour that focused its route on ski-friendly locales--will literally heat up with a springtime schedule that gets under way April 1 in Albuquerque, NM. The trek, which also features Burn Halo and The Flood, is set to hit nearly 30 US cities from coast-to-coast, currently wrapping with a May 9 gig in Reno, NV. Details are listed below.

SnoCore will give Static-X a chance to showcase material from its sixth studio effort, "Cult of Static," which is due March 17. Frontman Wayne Static said the band put everything it had into recording the new album.

"This is the most epic record we've ever made, it has the most crushing guitar tone I've ever had, and we even got Dave Mustaine of Megadeth to play a guitar solo on a new version of the song 'Lunatic,'" Static said in a blog posting on the Chicago-based rockers' MySpace page.

The new set follows 2007's "Cannibal," which broke into the Top 40 on the US album chart and spawned the mainstream-rock hit "Destroyer." Last October, Static-X also released its first full-length live DVD, "Cannibal Killers Live," which captures a summer 2007 concert in Spokane, WA.

Memphis-bred rockers Saliva are supporting their fifth studio album, "Cinco Diablo," which arrived in December. The set's lead single, "Family Reunion," is holding steady at No. 15 on Billboard's mainstream-rock chart after 17 weeks. The new record follows 2007's "Blood Stained Love Story," which produced the hits "Ladies & Gentlemen," "King of the Stereo" and "Broken Sunday."

The last SnoCore Tour, which crossed the US in January and February of 2007, featured headliners Army of Anyone and Hurt.