Beartooth, the Ohio heavyweights have announced their biggest Australian headline tour to date for January 2027, alongside news of their sixth studio album of the same name, due 28 August via Fearless Records.
Opening with absurdly heavy riffs forged alongside Misha Mansoor before expanding into something sharper and more emotionally exposed with Jordan Fish, the title track “Pure Ecstasy” feels deliberately overwhelming. Frontman Caleb Shomo throws himself fully into the chaos, treating emotional whiplash less like something to escape and more like something to document in real time. The result is huge, bruised and strangely triumphant all at once.
Following the success of 2023’s The Surface, which pushed BEARTOOTH into an even bigger commercial orbit, Pure Ecstasy appears determined to stretch the band beyond their usual formula. Early single “Free” hinted at that shift earlier this year, pairing towering hooks with some of Shomo’s most direct songwriting to date. Across the new record, collaboration becomes part of the DNA rather than an afterthought, with contributions from Skyler Accord alongside larger creative input from the full touring lineup.
That expansion feels mirrored in the scale of the upcoming Australian run. Kicking off in Adelaide on January 26 before moving through Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, the tour arrives stacked with support from Texas metalcore wrecking ball Fit for a King and Los Angeles prog-metal bruisers Volumes. Between BEARTOOTH’s arena-sized choruses, FIT FOR A KING’s blunt-force heaviness and VOLUMES’ jagged rhythmic assault, these shows look set to lean fully into sensory overload.
For years, BEARTOOTH built their reputation turning anxiety, anger and self-destruction into modern rock anthems shouted back by thousands. Pure Ecstasy sounds like the next stage of that evolution. Not clean resolution, not peace exactly, but the messy rush that comes from finally stepping into the light after spending years clawing around in the dark.
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