MESHUGGAH will mark their 40th anniversary with "The Forty-Year Anomaly", a North American tour running from February to May 2027. TESTAMENT and BLOOD INCANTATION come along as special guests. The Swedes will make their Red Rocks Amphitheatre debut on April 21 and also play Oakland's Fox Theater and the Brooklyn Paramount.
The tour comes in two legs. The first opens on February 12 in Toronto and works through the Midwest and the East Coast to Boston on March 6. The second starts on April 15 in Vancouver, heads down the West Coast and through Texas and the South, and closes with festival slots at Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple and Milwaukee Metal Fest in May. We already reported that MESHUGGAH are on the Sonic Temple 2027 bill.
Tickets go on general sale on Friday, October 30, at 10 a.m. local time via meshuggah.net/tour. An artist presale started today, October 27.
It is hard to overstate how much the Umeå band changed the language of heavy music. From Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere to Nothing, their polyrhythmic, dissonant, brutally physical sound shaped generations of players across progressive and technical metal, while the band itself never quite fit any of the scenes it inspired. We gave obZen a 9.5/10 back in 2008. "Clockworks" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 2018, and 2022's Immutable topped the U.K. Rock & Metal Albums chart and Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums chart.
The bill is a heavyweight one in its own right: Bay Area thrash veterans TESTAMENT and Denver's cosmic death metal explorers BLOOD INCANTATION.
"The Forty-Year Anomaly" 2027 dates:
- February 12 — Toronto, ON — Coca-Cola Coliseum
- February 13 — Laval, QC — Place Bell
- February 16 — Detroit, MI — The Masonic Temple Theatre
- February 17 — Chicago, IL — The Salt Shed
- February 19 — Minneapolis, MN — The Armory
- February 20 — Kansas City, MO — The Midland Theatre
- February 21 — Omaha, NE — Steelhouse
- February 23 — Chesterfield, MO — The Factory
- February 24 — Nashville, TN — The Truth
- February 26 — Virginia Beach, VA — The Dome by Rutter Mills
- February 27 — Baltimore, MD — The Paramount
- February 28 — Pittsburgh, PA — Citizens Live at The Wylie
- March 2 — Philadelphia, PA — The Met
- March 3 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
- March 5 — New Haven, CT — College Street Music Hall
- March 6 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway
- April 15 — Vancouver, BC — PNE Forum
- April 16 — Portland, OR — Theater of the Clouds
- April 17 — Seattle, WA — Paramount Theatre
- April 19 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union Event Center
- April 21 — Morrison, CO — Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- April 24 — Oakland, CA — The Fox Theater
- April 25 — Inglewood, CA — YouTube Theater
- April 27 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre
- April 30 — Houston, TX — Bayou Music Center
- May 1 — San Antonio, TX — Boeing Center at Tech Port
- May 2 — Oklahoma City, OK — The Criterion
- May 4 — Irving, TX — Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
- May 6 — New Orleans, LA — The Fillmore
- May 7 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy
- May 8 — Daytona Beach, FL — Welcome To Rockville
- May 9 — Fort Lauderdale, FL — War Memorial
- May 11 — Greensboro, NC — Greensboro Event Center
- May 13 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple
- May 14 — Milwaukee, WI — Milwaukee Metal Fest
MESHUGGAH are Jens Kidman (vocals), Fredrik Thordendal (guitar), Mårten Hagström (guitar), Dick Lövgren (bass) and Tomas Haake (drums).