Karnivool Plot Massive Australian Tour, Tease New Music

Karnivool have just announced a major tour of Australia and shared a tasty teaser about their long-awaited new music.

In case you missed it, the Perth progressive metal band returned to the studio in December. Whatever comes next will follow the release of their 2021 single All It Takes, which came eight years after their last album, 2013’s Asymmetry.

Last February, drummer Steve Judd sparked fan curiosity and conversation by sharing a photo of his setup, tagging drum companies Zildjian, Remo, Pearl Drums, and Vic Firth.

In the caption, Judd tagged producer Forrester Savell, who produced the Karnivool albums Themata (2005) and Sound Awake (2009). In addition to his Karnivool credits, Savell has worked with Aussie progressive metal and metalcore legends Sunk Loto, Make Them Suffer, The Omnific, Twelve Foot Ninja, and many more.

Now, it seems, those trips to the studio have amounted to new music.

According to a press release, Karnivool have been in a Perth studio for “the better part of five months.” Across the 13 shows on their upcoming Ad Complementum Australian tour, the band will showcase “new material, road-tested for the first time,” while older songs will be “bent into new shapes.”

This tour will allow Australian fans to “get a taste of the next chapter of Karnivool before the rest of the world.”

The tour begins at Hobart’s Odeon Theatre on Wednesday, 16 July, and continues on the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Newcastle, Wollongong, Sydney, Canberra, Barwon Heads, Frankston, Adelaide, and wraps up with a hometown show in Perth on Thursday, 17 October. You can find all the dates and venues below.

Pre-sale tickets will be available this Friday, 23 May, at 10 am AEST ahead of the general sale beginning on Monday, 26 May, at 10 am AEST. You can find tickets via Karnivool’s website.

Frontman Ian Kenny said of the tour and the band’s new music, “We can’t bloody wait to get out there and share what’s been brewing in the Karnivool riff pot, and show folks what they have to look forward to.”

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AD COMPLEMENTUM AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Wednesday 16 July – Odeon Theatre, Hobart

Friday 18 July – SOPO, Gold Coast

Saturday 19 July – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane

Sunday 20 July – The Station, Sunshine Coast

Wednesday 24 July – Bar on the Hill, Newcastle

Thursday 25 July – UOW Unibar, Wollongong

Friday 26 July – Enmore Theatre, Sydney

Monday 29 July – The Baso, Canberra

Wednesday 31 July – Barwon Heads Hotel, Barwon Heads

Thursday 1 August – Pier Bandroom, Frankston

Friday 2 August – PICA, Melbourne

Saturday 3 August – Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide

Thursday 17 October – Metropolis Fremantle, Perth