Evanescence has announced a full run through Australia and New Zealand in March 2027, with the tour opening in Perth on March 5 and ending in Auckland on March 20. The band will back new album Sanctuary on the trip, giving fans in five Australian cities and New Zealand a long-awaited chance to see the group on its own terms.
The announcement lands now because Sanctuary arrived on Friday, and Amy Lee is treating it as a release built for the stage. “This album is over three years in the making,” she said, adding that hearing it all together was “overwhelming” and that she is “dying for the fans to hear this.”
The route is straightforward and familiar to anyone who has followed the band’s rise. Evanescence broke through in 2003 with Fallen, which reached number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, and the group has since collected two Grammy Awards. Perth’s RAC Arena comes first on Friday, March 5, followed by Adelaide’s AEC Arena on Sunday, March 7, Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday, March 9, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Friday, March 12, Brisbane’s Entertainment Centre on Tuesday, March 16 and Spark Arena in Auckland on Saturday, March 20.
That tidy schedule sits alongside a small contradiction in the rollout. Sanctuary is being billed as the band’s first album in five years, yet Lee said it took more than three years to make. Both things can be true, but they tell different parts of the story: a long gestation, then a long gap between records. Evanescence had only recently supported Metallica on the Australian leg of the M72 World Tour, and the new dates now shift them from support slot back to headline mode.
Presales begin on Tuesday, June 9, with multiple windows opening through Thursday, June 11, before general tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. local time on Friday, June 12. For fans in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland, that is the next moment that matters; the only unanswered question is whether the band will decide to add anything beyond the six-city run already on the books.
