Lorna Shore will return to Australia in October 2026 for what the band is calling its biggest headline run down under to date, and it will also play New Zealand for the first time. The seven-date stretch starts in Melbourne on Friday 16 October and ends with two nights in Auckland on Wednesday 28 October and Thursday 29 October.
Whitechapel will join the Australian leg, while The Acacia Strain is set to support the entire tour. Organectomy will open the Auckland and Wellington dates, giving the first-ever New Zealand shows an additional local draw. For a band that has spent the past 15 years reshaping the modern deathcore landscape, the routing marks another step up in scale for lorna shore across the region.
The run begins at John Cain Arena in Melbourne before heading to Adelaide’s AEC Theatre on Saturday 17 October, Metro City in Perth on Monday 19 October, Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Wednesday 21 October, and Riverstage in Brisbane on Friday 23 October. It then crosses the Tasman for Wellington’s Shed6 on Monday 26 October before closing at Auckland’s Powerstation over back-to-back nights.
The announcement lands after Lorna Shore built a strong Australian following through a completely sold-out headline run in early 2025 and a return appearance at Good Things Festival later that year. Those dates established the band as a major live draw in the market, and this new itinerary extends that momentum into a larger and more ambitious circuit.
The support bill also underscores how far the touring package reaches. Whitechapel, formed in Knoxville in 2006, arrives behind Hymns in Dissonance, released in 2025, while The Acacia Strain brings more than 20 years of sonic devastation and its 2025 album You Are Safe From God Here. Between them, the three acts turn the October 2026 run into one of the heaviest bills announced for the region next year.
For Lorna Shore, the timing matters because the band’s latest record, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me, keeps its name in circulation while the live schedule expands beyond the same Australian circuit it has already conquered. The New Zealand dates are the clearest sign yet that the group’s draw is no longer confined to one market, and the two Auckland shows suggest demand was strong enough to warrant a rare double-night finish.
That is the real story of this announcement: not just another tour, but a regional leap. After a sold-out Australian headline run, a festival return and now the first New Zealand dates in the band’s history, Lorna Shore is moving from breakthrough touring act to a marquee booking across both sides of the Tasman.
