Avatar Announce Spring 2026 Headline Tour

The heavy metal visionaries collectively known as Avatar — vocalist Johannes Eckerström, guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — unleashed their latest masterwork, Don’t Go in the Forest, last year on Halloween — how fitting!

Avatar then hit the road for their massive North American headline run. And that was just the beginning of their Herculean international touring schedule. Avatar will spend the foreseeable future (if not forever) on the road.

Today, the band announces a Spring 2026 headline tour of North America. It kicks off on April 16th in Sacramento and runs through May 20th in Hampton Beach, NH. It includes stops at Welcome to Rockville and Sonic Temple. Fleshgod Apocalypse and Frozen Soul will serve as support. Tickets go on sale on Friday, January 16th, at 10 am local time.

Regarding their return to the States, Eckerström offers:

“USA. It started off innocently enough. Hiking along on a trail. Sunny. Pleasant. Safe. Then night came, and the trail slowly faded. You can’t go back, as you don’t know where you came from. You don’t even dare to turn around, as you can feel someone, or something, watching. What you were, all the way back in the warm embrace of civilization, doesn’t matter. Here. It’s just you and the trees.”

Tour Dates (w/ Fleshgod Apocalypse, Frozen Soul):

04/16 – Sacramento, CA — Channel 24
04/17 – Los Angeles, CA — Novo
04/19 – Tucson, AZ — Rialto Theater
04/20 – Albuquerque, NM — Revel
04/22 – San Antonio, TX — Aztec
04/23 – Oklahoma City, OK — Criterion
04/25 – Omaha, NE — Steelhouse Omaha
04/26 – Des Moines, IA — Val Air
04/28 – Lawrence, KS — Liberty Hall
04/29 – Moline, IL — The Rust Belt
04/30 – Grand Rapids, MI — GLC Live at 20 Monroe
05/01 – Milwaukee, WI — Eagles Club Stage
05/02 – Fort Wayne, IN — The Clyde
05/04 – Huntsville, AL — VBC Mars Music Hall
05/05 – Atlanta, GA — Tabernacle
05/06 – Knoxville, TN — Mill & Mine
05/07 – Myrtle Beach, SC — House of Blues
05/09 – Daytona Beach, FL — Welcome to Rockville*
05/10 – Raleigh, NC — The Ritz
05/12 – Richmond, VA — The National
05/13 – Philadelphia, PA — Franklin Music Hall
05/15 – New York, NY — Palladium Times Square
05/16 – Buffalo, NY — Buffalo Riverworks
05/17 – Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple Weekend*
05/19 – Wallingford, CT — The Dome
05/20 – Hampton Beach, NH — Hampton Beach Casino
*= Festival

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