Ocean Grove are bringing the Oddworld back home. After several years spent tearing through Europe, supporting arena-sized tours and steadily mutating into one of Australian heavy music’s most unpredictable forces, the Melbourne collective have announced their Oddworld Underground Australian Tour for August 2026, joined by returning US chaos merchants Cane Hill alongside rising local heavy acts Deficit and Blinder.
Kicking off in Perth on August 13 before moving through Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane, the tour arrives at a moment where Ocean Grove have spent the better part of a decade fusing nu metal, hardcore, alternative rock and glitchy left turns into what they’ve long dubbed “Oddworld Music”: a sound equally indebted to Korn, Faith No More and N.E.R.D while refusing to stay still long enough to be pinned to any of them.
Their momentum over the past eighteen months has only intensified. Fresh from winning Most Performed Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Work at the 2026 APRA Music Awards for RAINDROP, Ocean Grove have spent much of the past year ricocheting between continents supporting Poppy and Thornhill across Australia, the UK and Europe. Yet despite the increasingly global scale of the project, the Oddworld still feels rooted in the sweaty unpredictability of Australian heavy music culture rather than polished arena metal.
The addition of Cane Hill only sharpens the volatility. Returning to Australia for the first time since touring nationally with Bullet for My Valentine nearly a decade ago, the New Orleans outfit arrive armed with the bruised emotional heaviness that has defined albums like Smile and 2024’s A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find. Their blend of crushing riffs, grunge abrasion and lyrical self-destruction makes them a fitting companion for Ocean Grove’s own genre-collapse instincts.
Further down the bill, Western Sydney’s Deficit continue their rapid ascent through Australia’s hardcore underground, bringing the blunt-force aggression of recent single ONLY GOD KNOWS, while Adelaide’s Blinder pull shoegaze textures through a haze of heaviness that nods toward Deftones and Loathe without feeling trapped by either.
OCEAN GROVE ODDWORLD UNDERGROUND AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2026 WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CANE HILL (USA) DEFICIT + BLINDER
TOUR DATES:
THURSDAY 13 AUGUST – AMPLIFIER BAR, PERTH 18+ **
FRIDAY 14 AUGUST – THE GOV, ADELAIDE LIC AA
SATURDAY 15 AUGUST – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE 18+
THURSDAY 20 AUGUST – FACTORY THEATRE, SYDNEY LIC AA
FRIDAY 21 AUGUST – HAMILTON STATION HOTEL, NEWCASTLE 18+
SATURDAY 22 AUGUST – PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE LIC AA
** Deficit & blinder not appearing
General tickets on sale: Friday 29 May @ 11am local time
Tickets HERE
