Following a European festival run that kicks off next week, British metal rockers Motorhead [ tickets ] will swing through a handful of North American cities behind last summer's "Motorizer."

The Stateside portion of the summer outing, which begins Aug. 28 in Minneapolis, continues for about a month, visiting theaters in 16 major markets, including two Canadian stops: Sept. 2 in Toronto, Ontario, and Sept. 3 in Montreal, Quebec. The heavy-metal outfit will wrap with a Sept. 20 show in Austin, TX. Details are included below.

Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy will provide opening support for the late-summer trek.

"Motorizer," the band's 19th studio set, hit shelves last August and peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and No. 82 on The Billboard 200. The effort followed up the Cameron Webb-produced "Kiss of Death," which surfaced in 2006.

Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister is working on a solo album, according to a recent interview with Spin magazine.

"I've got tracks with the Damned, Reverend Horton Heat, Dave Grohl, Joan Jett," Kilmister told the magazine. "I also have a band called the Head Cat with [Stray Cats drummer] Slim Jim Phantom and Danny B. Harvey, who used to be in the Rockats. We play all the old music that inspired us, a lot of Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly."

No word yet on when the solo effort will make it to retailers.