Excitement is building for BEHEMOTH's "The Godless IV" North American tour, which many are calling one of the heaviest tour packages of 2026 — and possibly of the entire decade. The twenty-four-date trek features an extreme metal dream bill: DEICIDE, ROTTING CHRIST, and IMMOLATION alongside Nergal's Polish blackened death metal titans. Launching April 14 in San Diego and wrapping May 21 in Los Angeles, the tour touches every major market on the continent.
The lineup represents a rare convergence of extreme metal's most storied traditions. BEHEMOTH have evolved from raw black metal beginnings into one of the genre's most theatrical and musically ambitious acts, with Nergal's vision pushing boundaries on albums like "The Satanist" and "Opvs Contra Natvram." DEICIDE, led by the inimitable Glen Benton, remain death metal's most blasphemous and uncompromising force after more than three decades. Greece's ROTTING CHRIST bring a unique Mediterranean darkness rooted in black metal but expanded into epic, almost cinematic territory. And IMMOLATION, hailing from Yonkers, New York, are widely regarded as one of the most technically innovative death metal bands in history.
Tickets go on sale Friday, January 16, and given the caliber of the bill, early sellouts are expected in several markets. The tour follows BEHEMOTH's "The Shit Ov God" album cycle and coincides with Nergal's separate announcement of a special performance of BEHEMOTH's 1995 debut "Sventevith" at Beyond the Gates 2026 in Bergen, Norway.
For fans of extreme music, "The Godless IV" is shaping up to be a must-attend event that spans black, death, and blackened death metal traditions in a single devastating evening. The combination of Nergal's commanding stage presence, Benton's primal ferocity, the atmospheric ritual of ROTTING CHRIST, and IMMOLATION's dissonant onslaught makes this perhaps the most complete extreme metal package ever assembled for a North American run. The production alone is expected to be extraordinary, with BEHEMOTH's penchant for elaborate stage design and pyrotechnics setting the tone for an evening of total sensory devastation.