Set Your Alarms for Friday
Tuesday decided to act like a Friday. Three tours announced in a single day, all three route through SoCal, and every one of them goes on sale the same morning — Friday, June 12, 10AM local. Set your alarms.
Nekrogoblikon — 20 Years of Nekrogoblikon
with Aborted · Signs of the Swarm · Party Cannon
Twenty years of goblin metal is not a sentence I expected to type, but here we are, and Nekrogoblikon outlasting half the bands that took themselves seriously says everything. The supporting bill is genuinely unhinged in the best way: Aborted bringing two-plus decades of Belgian death metal, Signs of the Swarm bringing the deathcore, and Party Cannon bringing the inflatables. The run wraps November 15 at the Belasco — closing night of an anniversary tour is exactly the show you want to be at, and Ventura Theater the night before if DTLA isn’t your thing. The new EP The Boiling Sea (produced by Jason Suecof) dropped in April, and the dual-vocal lineup has the band sounding meaner than a goblin band has any right to.
- 10/16 — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren
- 10/17 — Albuquerque, NM — Sunshine
- 10/19 — San Antonio, TX — Vibes Event Center
- 10/20 — Dallas, TX — The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
- 10/21 — Houston, TX — House of Blues
- 10/23 — Orlando, FL — Beacham
- 10/24 — Tampa, FL — Ritz Ybor
- 10/25 — Atlanta, GA — Buckhead Theatre
- 10/26 — Myrtle Beach, SC — House of Blues
- 10/28 — Philadelphia, PA — Brooklyn Bowl
- 10/29 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Bowl
- 10/30 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club
- 10/31 — Norwalk, CT — District Music Hall
- 11/01 — Toronto, ON — The Opera House
- 11/03 — Detroit, MI — St. Andrew’s Hall
- 11/04 — Cleveland, OH — House of Blues
- 11/05 — Indianapolis, IN — Deluxe @ Old National Centre
- 11/07 — Denver, CO — Oriental Theater
- 11/08 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Depot
- 11/10 — Spokane, WA — Knitting Factory
- 11/11 — Portland, OR — Crystal Ballroom
- 11/12 — Seattle, WA — The Crocodile
- 11/14 — Ventura, CA — Ventura Theater
- 11/15 — Los Angeles, CA — The Belasco
Wage War — Emergency Broadcast Tour
with We Came As Romans · Varials · Cane Hill
Wage War on Halloween night is a smart booking, and Riverside Municipal Auditorium is a great room for it. They’re touring on It Calls Me By My Name, the EP that dropped in April, and the package is a full metalcore lineage in one night — We Came As Romans on direct support, Varials and Cane Hill opening. Presale is live now with code BLINDFOLD if you don’t want to roll the dice Friday morning.
- 10/25 — San Antonio, TX — The Aztec Theatre
- 10/26 — Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall
- 10/29 — Las Vegas, NV — House of Blues
- 10/30 — Tempe, AZ — Marquee Theatre
- 10/31 — Riverside, CA — Riverside Municipal Auditorium
- 11/02 — Albuquerque, NM — Revel Entertainment Center
- 11/03 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom
- 11/04 — Kansas City, MO — Uptown Theater
- 11/06 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee
- 11/07 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant
- 11/08 — Columbus, OH — KEMBA Live!
- 11/10 — Indianapolis, IN — Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
- 11/11 — Cincinnati, OH — The Andrew J Brady Music Center
- 11/13 — Wallingford, CT — The Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre
- 11/14 — Sayreville, NJ — Starland Ballroom
- 11/16 — Toronto, ON — HISTORY
- 11/17 — Buffalo, NY — Buffalo RiverWorks
- 11/18 — Huntington, NY — The Paramount
- 11/20 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore
- 11/21 — Philadelphia, PA — Franklin Music Hall
- 11/22 — Norfolk, VA — The NorVa
- 11/24 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works
- 11/25 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore
- 11/27 — Orlando, FL — Hard Rock Live
Crown Magnetar + To The Grave — The Sawed Off Suffering Tour
with Face Yourself · rotating support from Backbiter, Tracheotomy, Squelching, I Declare War & Ameonna
The heaviest package of the day. Crown Magnetar and To The Grave co-headlining with a rotating cast of openers per leg — LA gets I Declare War at the Echoplex on October 10. Crown Magnetar also just added Rob Maramonte (ex-Zenith Passage, ex-Fallujah) on guitar, which is a serious pickup for a band already this precise. If the other two tours on this page are too clean for you, this is your show.
- 09/17 — Chicago, IL — Subterranean
- 09/18 — Detroit, MI — Catacombs at The Sanctuary
- 09/19 — Cleveland, OH — Mahall’s
- 09/20 — Pittsburgh, PA — Preserving Underground
- 09/22 — Toronto, ON — Lee’s Palace
- 09/23 — Montreal, QC — Foufounes Électriques
- 09/24 — Hartford, CT — Webster Underground
- 09/25 — Brooklyn, NY — The Meadows
- 09/26 — Harrisburg, PA — Capital City Music Hall
- 09/27 — Worcester, MA — The Palladium
- 09/28 — Baltimore, MD — Metro Gallery
- 09/30 — Asheville, NC — Revival
- 10/01 — Nashville, TN — The End
- 10/02 — Atlanta, GA — The Masquerade (Purgatory)
- 10/03 — Jacksonville, FL — The Albatross
- 10/04 — West Palm Beach, FL — The Banyan Live
- 10/06 — Dallas, TX — Club Dada
- 10/07 — Austin, TX — Come and Take It Live
- 10/09 — Mesa, AZ — Rosetta Room
- 10/10 — Los Angeles, CA — Echoplex
- 10/11 — Roseville, CA — Goldfield Trading Post
- 10/13 — Portland, OR — The Hawthorne Theatre
- 10/14 — Seattle, WA — El Corazon
- 10/16 — Salt Lake City, UT — Soundwell
- 10/17 — Denver, CO — HQ
Three tours, one on-sale, three SoCal dates between October 10 and November 15. Friday morning is going to be expensive.