2027 will bring pure ecstasy for Australian BEARTOOTH fans, with the prolific rockers today announcing their biggest Australian headline tour ever next January, joined by special guests FIT FOR A KING and VOLUMES.
Kicking off in Adelaide on Tuesday 26 January next year, BEARTOOTH will head to Melbourne and Sydney before closing out proceedings on Sunday 31 January in Brisbane.
BEARTOOTH has also announced that their new album, Pure Ecstasy, will be released on August 28 via their new label home, Fearless Records. Marking the band’s sixth album and first release with the label, Pure Ecstasy finds frontman Caleb Shomo pushing BEARTOOTH further than ever before across 11 massive tracks that channel both the chaos and clarity of hard-won personal growth.
The band has dropped the album’s opening title-track where Shomo lays everything bare from the first note. It’s a raw, disorienting entry point - where extremes of emotion blur together - setting the tone for an album built on confronting every high and low without flinching. “Song one is always a crucial part of an album to me. It’s gotta lock you into the vibe out of the gate,” says Shomo. “‘Pure Ecstasy’ was birthed in a studio with Misha Mansoor, ridiculous loudspeakers, and the dumbest heaviest chugs we could chug. Once it was brought home and expanded on with Jordan Fish, there was no question it was the album opener. Play loud and kick ass.”
Listen/share Pure Ecstasy here and watch the video, directed by Zebulon Griffin, here:
Following the chart-dominating success of 2023’s The Surface - which debuted at No.1 on Billboard’s Alternative and Hard Music charts and produced the No.1 rock radio hits Might Love Myself and I Was Alive - BEARTOOTH entered a new creative and commercial stratosphere. Pure Ecstasy builds on that momentum while expanding the band into even more ambitious territory, capturing Shomo reckoning with both the darkest and brightest parts of himself in real time.
The album’s first single Free, released earlier this year, introduced this next chapter of BEARTOOTH with towering hooks and radical self-examination. Shomo cites the song as “the most honest depiction of my soul I will most likely ever make.”
That honesty has always been the foundation of BEARTOOTH. Since emerging from Shomo’s Ohio basement in 2013, the band has transformed anxiety, depression, anger, and self-destruction into cathartic modern rock anthems that resonate with millions worldwide. From the gold-certified Hated and platinum In Between to over 1.3 billion streams globally, sold-out tours, and a recent run supporting Bad Omens on their arena tour, BEARTOOTH’s rise has mirrored the growing mainstream dominance of modern heavy music itself.
But Pure Ecstasy represents something different. Bigger and more collaborative than any previous BEARTOOTH album, the record finds Shomo stretching himself toward a new level of vulnerability - and for the first time he didn’t do it alone. Early songwriting contributions from Skyler Accord (Issues, Twenty One Pilots, Bilmuri) helped shape early tracks. Meanwhile, working alongside Fish (Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Architects) cracked Caleb fully open, pushing a rawer examination than ever before. The collaborative spirit continued throughout the recording process as well: bassist Oshie Bichar, guitarists Zach Huston and Will Deely, and drummer Connor Denis - who have evolved into a formidable live unit around Shomo — all played larger roles than ever before. Pure Ecstasy also marks the first BEARTOOTH album where Shomo did not perform every instrument himself, with Denis performing drums across the record during sessions at NRG Recording Studios.
For years, BEARTOOTH turned pain into anthems shouted back at the world. Pure Ecstasy captures what happens on the other side of that fight: not perfection or peace, but the possibility of freedom.
Unsurprisingly, BEARTOOTH's live shows are as cathartic and immersive as the band's beloved back catalogue, routinely praised as one of the top-tier modern bands on the scene, complete with intensity, theatrical flourishes, a healthy balance of new and classic favourites, and a personal connection that transcends barriers and expectations. Helmed by Shomo's raw and passionate stylings, BEARTOOTH's return to Australia in 2027 will build on the band's previous live adventures down under, with their most recent co-headline run with Pierce The Veil in 2023 resoundingly praised.
Erupting out of Texas in 2011, FIT FOR A KING swiftly carved out a name for themselves with a blistering style rooted in metal and hardcore, while also balancing out their raucous tendencies with plenty of hypnotic hooks and searing honesty for good measure. Releasing their breakout album in 2013, Creation/Destruction which debuted at #6 on the Hard Rock Chart, FIT FOR A KING have gone on to command multiple Top 5 debuts on the Billboard Charts, generate millions of streams, including fan-favourite tracks like When Everything Means Nothing, The Price of Agony and Breaking the Mirror, and have extensively toured the globe with Killswitch Engage, Motionless In White, I Prevail, Parkway Drive, The Devil Wears Prada and The Plot In You. Most recently the group released their eighth studio album, 2025's Lonely God scored critical acclaim for its balance of heavy breakdowns, atmospheric elements, and emotionally driven songwriting.
15 years into their career, VOLUMES have weathered ups, downs, time, trends, and everything else life could throw at them only to come out stronger on the other side. With over 167 million streams in the United States alone, widespread acclaim, and sold-out shows, they loudly carved out their own corner of heavy music with an inimitable hybrid of head-crushing polyrhythmic prog-spiked metal, hardcore spirit, and unbridled attitude. They have assuredly levelled up over the course of albums such as Via [2011], No Sleep [2014], Different Animals [2017], and Happier? [2021] and fifth release, Mirror Touch released in 2025 via Fearless Records. They've shared stages with everyone from Ice Nine Kills and Born of Osiris to Dance Gavin Dance and Counterparts. The Los Angeles group continues to fortify a full-on sensory assault with thick riffing, chilling soundscapes, and the venomous bite of its incomparable two-headed vocal hydra.
Start your 2027 off revelling in wall-to-wall ecstasy when BEARTOOTH make their triumphant return with FIT FOR A KING and VOLUMES, tickets will absolutely not last long!
