THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Meshuggah are calling the 40th anniversary run "The Forty-Year Anomaly," which is a fitting name for a band that invented a language metal is still copying while refusing to join the scene it spawned *, †. The European leg hits autumn 2027 in the biggest rooms they have ever headlined, with Periphery and Vildhjarta on every single night †, ‡.
THE DETAILS
- Twenty European dates, opening 29 September 2027 at KB Hallen in Copenhagen and closing 30 October at OVO Arena Wembley *, ‡
- North America goes first: 35 shows starting February 2027 †
- Artist and O2 pre-sales opened 3 November, venue and promoter pre-sales 4 November, general on-sale 6 November, all 11am GMT †
- The 1987 Umeå lineup core remains: Jens Kidman, Mårten Hagström, Fredrik Thordendal, Dick Lövgren, Tomas Haake *
- Latest album "Immutable" (2022) topped Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums and the UK Rock & Metal chart *
- "We aren't part of any movement. What we do is unique to us," Haake said back in 2012 †
SUPPORT
Periphery and Vildhjarta open all European dates, Testament and Blood Incantation handle North America *, †.
WHY IT MATTERS
ANNIVERSARY: forty years of polymetric punishment earned these arenas the hard way, one impossible riff at a time *. The surprise is the support bill, a band Meshuggah directly inspired opening for them rather than a safe legacy package.