Deafheaven announce biggest Australian tour to date

March 25, 2026

San Francisco’s Deafheaven are heading back to Australian shores this July for their most extensive headline run yet, bringing six cities a bill loaded with some of the finest names in heavy music, Philadelphia’s Nothing and Oakland hardcore outfit SPY.

Since emerging from the Bay Area in 2010, Deafheaven have made a habit of defying easy categorisation. Their unique metalgaze intensity, soaring melody and raw emotional weight across a string of landmark records from the watershed Sunbather to their latest, Lonely People With Power has garnered them a devoted fanbase. Their reputation as a live force is well established: festival appearances at Coachella and Primavera Sound, a Grammy nod for Best Metal Performance, and a sold-out Dark Mofo slot in 2023 all speak to a band operating at the peak of their powers.

Joining them are Nothing, the Philadelphia outfit who have spent years dismantling shoegaze’s delicate reputation and rebuilding it as something far grittier and more visceral.

Their fifth album A Short History of Decay, out now on Run For Cover Records, is their most ambitious and emotionally unflinching work yet.

Rounding out the bill are SPY, the Oakland hardcore band who draw their inspiration from the raw power of Bad Brains and Poison Idea rather than the polished sound of contemporary metal-adjacent hardcore.

Road-hardened from runs alongside Full of Hell, Ceremony, and Municipal Waste, and appearances at flagship festivals Sound and Fury and Outbreak, SPY arrive with a reputation that precedes them.

TOUR DATES – PRESENTED BY DESTROY ALL LINES

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

Tickets on sale 9:00 AM local Friday 27 March, with pre-sale available from 9:00 AM AEDT Thursday 26 March.

Sign up for presale and purchase tickets HERE.