HEAVENSGATE Australian Tour 2026 with special guests Mélancolia & Irken Armada

<p><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">After a huge year of conquering the world, Melbourne metalcore standouts&nbsp;<strong>HEAVENSGATE</strong> are finally coming home with&nbsp;<strong>The Angel Hymns Australian Tour</strong> this October and November. Joined by&nbsp;<strong>Greyscale Records</strong> label mates&nbsp;<strong>M&eacute;lancolia</strong> and rising Sydney outfit&nbsp;<strong>Irken Armada</strong>, the five-date run will see HEAVENSGATE bring their internationally renowned live show back to Australian stages. <br><br>The Angel Hymns Tour arrives&nbsp;off the back of a stack of milestone&nbsp;achievements, including last week&#39;s single release that saw them join forces with&nbsp;<strong>We Came As Romans</strong> for a reimagined version of&nbsp;<em>&quot;</em><strong><em>red smoke</em></strong><em>&quot;</em>, featured on WCAR&rsquo;s upcoming special release<em>&nbsp;All Is Beautiful...Because We&rsquo;re Doomed: Circularity&nbsp;</em>via&nbsp;SharpTone Records.<br><br>At the heart of HEAVENSGATE&rsquo;s rise is their latest EP,<strong><em>&nbsp;A HEART IS A HEAVY BURDEN</em></strong>, a release that pooled the band&#39;s collective experiences into a sonically raging yet deeply personal take on modern metalcore that proved to resonate&nbsp;deeply with&nbsp;listeners. Building on the foundations laid by their 2022 debut EP&nbsp;<strong><em>AND ALL I LOVED, I LOVED ALONE</em></strong>, the record further cemented HEAVENSGATE as a vital new force in heavy music.<br><br>The Angel Hymns Australian Tour will land in between a North American run supporting&nbsp;156/Silence&nbsp;and&nbsp;Aviana throughout September, followed by a European and UK tour alongside&nbsp;thrown,&nbsp;Counterparts&nbsp;and&nbsp;No Cure&nbsp;across November and December.<br><br>Joining HEAVENSGATE across Australia&nbsp;is M&eacute;lancolia, who have quickly established themselves as one of kind within Australia&rsquo;s metal community. Since emerging in 2022, the band have released two critically acclaimed albums,&nbsp;<strong><em>HissThroughRottenTeeth&nbsp;</em></strong>and&nbsp;<strong><em>random.access.misery</em></strong>, via Greyscale Records and&nbsp;Nuclear Blast, and shared stages with&nbsp;Thy Art Is Murder, To The Grave, Fallujah, Cattle Decapitation, Ingested, Vulvodynia,&nbsp;Suffocation&nbsp;and more. Following multiple Australian tours and two European/UK runs, M&eacute;lancolia have well and truly made their mark beyond home soil, and were coined&nbsp;one of&nbsp;</span><strong><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-outlook-id="fe36373c-558c-4246-b302-32bb578bcc6b" href="https://bigmouthpr.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3b087888224e105457f0a7cac&id=72a3cdc55f&e=e12196ed06" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://bigmouthpr.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3b087888224e105457f0a7cac&id=72a3cdc55f&e=e12196ed06">Metal Hammer</a></strong>&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>&quot;brilliant new metal bands you need to hear&quot;</em>.<br><br>Opening the shows will be Sydney metalcore five-piece Irken Armada, who have been steadily carving a name for themselves with a sound that nods to the genre&rsquo;s mid-2000s heyday. Drawing influence from the likes of Underoath and Every Time I Die, the band blend nostalgia with a modern metalcore edge. &nbsp;</p>