Meshuggah will celebrate their 40th anniversary with The Forty-Year Anomaly, an extensive North American tour in 2027 with special guests Testament and Blood Incantation. The run includes the Swedish band’s first ever show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, along with stops at Oakland’s Fox Theater and the Brooklyn Paramount.
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 30 at 10am local time at meshuggah.net/tour.
An artist pre-sale started today at 10am Pacific (1pm Eastern), and Citi cardmembers in the US also have pre-sale access through the Citi Entertainment program. The tour is produced by Live Nation, and the band promises a career-spanning setlist.
The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour Dates
- February 12: Toronto, ON, Coca-Cola Coliseum
- February 13: Laval, QC, Place Bell
- February 16: Detroit, MI, The Masonic Temple Theatre
- February 17: Chicago, IL, The Salt Shed
- February 19: Minneapolis, MN, The Armory
- February 20: Kansas City, MO, The Midland Theatre
- February 21: Omaha, NE, Steelhouse
- February 23: Chesterfield, MO, The Factory
- February 24: Nashville, TN, The Truth
- February 26: Virginia Beach, VA, The Dome by Rutter Mills
- February 27: Baltimore, MD, The Paramount
- February 28: Pittsburgh, PA, Citizens Live at The Wylie
- March 2: Philadelphia, PA, The Met
- March 3: Brooklyn, NY, The Brooklyn Paramount
- March 5: New Haven, CT, College Street Music Hall
- March 6: Boston, MA, MGM Music Hall at Fenway
- April 15: Vancouver, BC, PNE Forum
- April 16: Portland, OR, Theater of the Clouds
- April 17: Seattle, WA, Paramount Theatre
- April 19: Salt Lake City, UT, The Union Event Center
- April 21: Morrison, CO, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- April 24: Oakland, CA, The Fox Theater
- April 25: Inglewood, CA, YouTube Theater
- April 27: Phoenix, AZ, Arizona Financial Theatre
- April 30: Houston, TX, Bayou Music Center
- May 1: San Antonio, TX, Boeing Center at Tech Port
- May 2: Oklahoma City, OK, The Criterion
- May 4: Irving, TX, Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
- May 6: New Orleans, LA, The Fillmore
- May 7: Atlanta, GA, Coca-Cola Roxy
- May 8: Daytona Beach, FL, Welcome to Rockville
- May 9: Fort Lauderdale, FL, War Memorial
- May 11: Greensboro, NC, Greensboro Event Center
- May 13: Columbus, OH, Sonic Temple
- May 14: Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metal Fest
Forty Years of Rewriting Metal
Few bands have changed the vocabulary of heavy music as deeply as Meshuggah. Formed in Umeå, Sweden, in the late 80s, they built a sound on complex polyrhythms, dissonance, hypnotic repetition and crushing physical weight. Albums such as Destroy Erase Improve, Chaosphere and Nothing redefined what metal could be, and songs like “Future Breed Machine,” “Rational Gaze” and “Bleed” became touchstones for generations of players. Their influence runs through progressive and technical metal, and the entire djent movement traces back to them. “Clockworks” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 2018, and their latest album, 2022’s Immutable, topped both the UK Rock & Metal Albums chart and Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart.
The current lineup is Jens Kidman (vocals), Fredrik Thordendal (guitar), Mårten Hagström (guitar), Tomas Haake (drums) and Dick Lövgren (bass).
Our Take
This is one of the strongest metal packages of 2027. Thrash veterans Testament and cosmic death metal favorites Blood Incantation make a perfect bridge between metal’s past and future, with Meshuggah in the middle as the band that changed the rules. A Meshuggah show at Red Rocks should be something special.
