The Perth prog titans are taking their long-awaited number one album on the road this July, joined by TesseracT and Car Bomb across five capital city shows.
Thirteen years is a long time between albums. Karnivool have announced they’re hitting the road this July to take their critically lauded, chart-topping record In Verses on its first Australian tour, and they’ve assembled an exceptional supporting cast to match the occasion.
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The run opens at the Ice Cream Factory in Perth on July 18, before the band works its way through four more capital cities. These are the biggest headline shows of the band’s career.
- 18 July: Ice Cream Factory, Perth
- 21 July: AEC Theatre, Adelaide
- 23 July: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
- 24 July: Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne
- 25 July: Riverstage, Brisbane
Special guests TesseracT make the trip from the UK, bringing the kind of off-kilter riffs, soaring melodies and disorientating atmospherics that have made them one of heavy music’s most influential acts. Australian fans last saw them in 2024 on their War of Being tour. Completing the line-up is New York’s Car Bomb, making their long-overdue Australian debut. Twenty-five years into a deliberately lean discography, they’ve built a sound on evolving polyrhythms, shifting tempos and guitars designed to physically overwhelm – and this will be the first chance local audiences have to experience that in person.
In Verses arrived 13 years after its predecessor, debuted at #1 on the ARIA Chart and became the first local album to reach that position in 2026. Metal Hammer put it succinctly: “The bar for progressive metal in 2026 has been set, and it’s hard to think of another band who can raise it.” Kerrang! declared it returns “Karnivool to the top of the prog-metal mountain,” while Wall of Sound landed on “a monumental work of art.”
With its swelling bagpipes, the album’s closer Salva has already become a communal moment for fans online, a triumphant payoff after a 13-year wait. Hearing it live, alongside a career-spanning set, is a prospect that’s difficult not to get excited about.
Tickets are on sale now via destroyalllines.com.
