Bad Omens announce 2025 Australian tour dates with support from Poppy and House Of Protection

27 October, 2024

Bad Omens. Credit: Jonathan Weiner

Bad Omens have announced a run of Australian tour dates for January 2025, where they will be joined by Poppy and House Of Protection.

The Richmond metalcore group will kick off the tour with two dates at Melbourne’s Festival Hall on January 22 and 23, before heading on to Brisbane’s Riverstage two nights later. The run will then conclude with two nights at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on January 28 and 29. Find your tickets here.

“goodbye, friend,” the band posted on their X account on Monday (October 21), which appears to be the name of the mini-tour.

Poppy previously joined Bad Omens on the road around Europe at the start of the year, where they regularly played their collaborative song ‘V.A.N.’ together.

House Of Protection, meanwhile, is the group comprised of former Fever 333 members Aric Improta and Stephen “Stevis” Harrison. They dropped their debut EP ‘Galore’ last month, which saw them teaming up with ex-Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish as producer.

In May, Bad Omens announced they had cancelled all of their summer tour dates in the UK and Europe due to “extreme burnout”.

“While all the touring and work that we’ve put into this album cycle the last several years has been so rewarding and gratifying, it has also pushed me to the limits of my mental bandwidth,” wrote frontman Noah Sebastian. “Putting my mind and body in conflict with one another in ways that are becoming detrimental to my health on the road.”

“This decision is in the best interest of my health and wellbeing, and of the long term sustainability of Bad Omens. We need to protect and restore all of the energy that will be demanded of us again soon as we transition into the next chapter.”

The metalcore band released the soundtrack to their ‘Concrete Jungle’ comic book on May 31, described as an experimental extension of their 2022 album ‘The Death Of Peace Of Mind’.

Bad Omens spoke with NME last year, where Sebastian opened up about his work ethic on ‘The Death of Peace of Mind’. “I feel like I really came into my own over the last year and a half,” he said. “During the pandemic, [I] really wanted to improve my voice because I’m always very hyper-critical of myself. [It was] a combination of that and getting in better shape and being healthier, sleeping better, eating better.”

“Because of what I’ve been able to do with my vocals, that’s why this record is so vocal-focused. The production is built around nuances in the vocal takes, and the lyrics, the subject matter and the emotion that you can deliver in a vocal,” he added.

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