The summer concert season is officially in full swing. Which means now we’re looking ahead to filling up our fall calendars with shows featuring every genre and subgenre of rock music under the sun. Enter: Imminence.
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The Swedish metalcore band just announced a massive 2026 tour trekking across the country, hitting 22 cities along the way. Kicking off Nov. 13 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the band is making stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Sacramento, and more. Their final show is set for Dec. 13 in Montreal, Canada.
Speaking with Wall of Sound about their approach to live shows, lead vocalist and violinist Eddie Berg said the band puts the music first, no matter what.
“It’s just us going up on the stage with minimum equipment and nothing else,” he said. “It always takes you back a little bit and makes you feel like you shouldn’t take anything for granted. It’s always the music first.”
Dying Wish, a melodic metalcore band from Portland, Oregon, and Gaerea, a Portuguese extreme and black metal band, will be on hand for the entire tour, which will see Imminence perform their 2024 album, The Black.
Presale began today, June 17, and the general sale starts Friday, June 19, at 10 a.m. local time. Reminders and tickets are here.
Founded in 2009, the Swedish metalcore band with Berg and guitarist Harald Barrett at the helm, along with bassist Christian Höijer and lead guitarist Alex Arnoldsson, has a signature sound that blends classical strings with heavy metal.
“Few bands become drenched in fanfare in quite the way Imminence have,” WOS writes. “Imminence have long captivated audiences with their alluring mysteriousness, often encased in an ethereal and otherworldly capsule – both musically and aesthetically.
“In recent years, this traction has only grown, with many people not just adoring their lyrical depth and emotional grasp, but instrumental diversity. Colloquially donning the title of ‘violincore,’ Imminence are in a league of their own.”
The “violincore” rockers made their debut with I in 2014. Since then, they have released five full-length albums including The Black, Turn the Light On, andThe Reclamation of I, a 10th-anniversary re-recording of their debut album.
Most recently, the band released “The Sword That Never Bends,” a standalone single accompanied by a music video offering, per a press release, the “first glimpse into a larger visual world the band has been building behind the scenes.”
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