DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCE THEIR BIGGEST AUSTRALIAN TOUR
American black-metal trailblazers Deafheaven announce their biggest Australian tour to date. Presented by Destroy All Lines, the tour will see them headline some of the country’s most prominent venues across Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane, joined by special guests Nothing and SPY.
Formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, Deafheaven have spent the past decade and a half pushing at the emotional and sonic boundaries of modern metal. From their debut, Roads to Judah, to the genre-defining breakthrough, Sunbather, and subsequent records like New Bermuda, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, and Infinite Granite, Deafheaven have continually redefined the boundaries of heavy music while confronting themes of alienation, addiction, family history, and self-perseverance.
The tour follows the release of their 2025 album Lonely People With Power. Their sixth album and first for Roadrunner Records arrived as both a culmination and a reckoning - an album that embraces the band’s full identity after years of evolution. Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck’s go-to bassist and producer of Infinite Granite), the record captures Deafheaven’s innate ability to mix and merge melody with brutality, and pain with poetry. Through reflections on masculinity, inherited trauma, family, and self-perception, the album grapples with the idea that while we can’t fully escape our past or our nature, we can choose how we move forward. Ultimately, Lonely People with Power stands as one of Deafheaven’s most expansive and human statements - an album about confronting isolation while searching for connection, growth, and the possibility of redefining one’s destiny.
The album, which was praised by the likes of Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Line Of Best Fit, Kerrang and more, also features Interpol’s Paul Banks and Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews.
Revered for their transcendental live shows, Deafheaven have toured the world over performing at festivals such as Coachella and Primavera Sound, while sharing stages with everyone from Slipknot and Knocked Loose to Chelsea Wolfe and Mono. They received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal Performance and sold out the Odeon in Hobart for Dark Mofo 2023 on their last visit to Australia.
They’ll be joined by American shoegaze renegades Nothing, who have just released A Short History of Decay, a “fresh and exciting” (Pitchfork) new record from the genre’s pioneers. Nothing’s fifth solo album and first for Run For Cover Records, widens that aperture even further, providing the most hi-def rendering of Nothing to date.
Openers SPY were formed in Oakland and have carved out their own niche in the modern hardcore landscape. They recorded their most recent EP, Seen Enough, with Jack Shirley at Oakland's Atomic Garden and have fostered a reputation for a ferocious live show.
Deafheaven return to Australia at their most expansive and unrelenting. Don’t miss the chance to witness one of heavy music’s most boundary-pushing bands at full force. Tickets on sale 9:00 AM local Friday 27 March, with pre-sale available from 9:00AM AEDT Thursday 26 March.
DEAFHEAVEN AUS/NZ 26 WITH NOTHING AND SPY
Thursday, July 2, San Fan, Wellington NZ*
Friday, July 3 - Powerstation, Auckland NZ*
Sunday, July 5 - The Rechabite, Perth
Wednesday July 8 - The Gov, Adelaide
Thursday July 9 - Forum, Melbourne
Friday, July 10 - Liberty Hall, Sydney
Saturday, July 11 - Hamilton Station, Newcastle
Sunday, July 12 - Princess Theatre, Brisbane
*without SPY
Tickets on sale via Destroy All Lines
Pre Sale: 9:00 AM AEDT Thursday 26 March
General On-Sale: 9:00 AM local Friday 27 March
