Brand New Announce 16-Date Tour Celebrating The Devil and God's 20th Anniversary

Brand New are bringing The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me back out on the road for a full 20th anniversary tour this fall, and the routing on this one is no joke.

The band just dropped 16 dates spanning late September through mid-November, covering arenas and historic venues across the US and Canada. If you were around in 2006 when this album dropped, you already know what it meant. If you discovered it later, you still know. The Devil and God is one of those records that completely rewired how people thought about emo and indie rock. Twenty years later, songs like Jesus Christ, Degausser, Limousine, and Sowing Season still hit just as hard.

This isn't the first time they've given this album the anniversary treatment. Back in 2016, they ran a 10th anniversary tour with Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms as support. No openers have been announced yet for the 2026 dates, but that's worth keeping an eye on.

The Album That Changed Everything

For anyone who needs the refresher, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me was Brand New's third album, released through Interscope Records in 2006. It was the record where they fully left behind the pop punk energy of Your Favorite Weapon and dove headfirst into something darker and more ambitious. Critics compared it to Radiohead. Pitchfork, Spin, The Los Angeles Times, Alternative Press. Everyone was saying the same thing: this record was operating on a completely different level.

It moved nearly 60,000 copies in its first week. Jesus Christ became their highest-charting single, peaking at number 30 on the Alternative Songs chart. The album dug into existentialism, death, depression, religion. It was heavy in every sense of the word. And its legacy has only grown since then. It's widely considered one of the most important emo records ever made.

The Comeback Arc

Brand New's return has been a slow build. It started with a private charity event at the Eastside Bowl in Nashville back in December 2024, supporting Make Life Skate Life. Then Jesse Lacey played a public solo show in Nashville on March 2, 2025, where he debuted new material. Just a day later, the band announced three public shows, their first since going inactive. They hit the stage on March 26 at The Bomb Factory in Dallas, the same venue where they last played before stepping away.

From there, it escalated quickly. A 24-date US tour was announced on March 31, 2025, including hometown shows at UBS Arena and Prudential Center in the New York area, plus a UK tour for November 2025. That reunion run kicked off May 30 at WAMU Theater in Seattle. Now, the 2026 dates are the next chapter.

All 16 Tour Dates

The tour kicks off September 29 in Nashville and wraps November 14 in Phoenix. Here's the full routing:

09/29 Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle

10/03 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom

10/06 Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre

10/09 Toronto, ON @ Coca-Cola Coliseum

10/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center

10/16 Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann

10/18 Boston, MA @ Roadrunner

10/22 Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre

10/25 Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live

10/28 Independence, MO @ Cable Dahmer Arena

10/30 Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre

11/02 Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom

11/06 Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas

11/07 Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center

11/11 San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

11/14 Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre

Some Big Rooms on This One

I'll be real, this routing is impressive. Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Honda Center in Anaheim. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. These are arena-level rooms, and the fact that Brand New is filling them on the strength of an album that came out two decades ago says everything about what this record means to people. Mix in rooms like Mission Ballroom in Denver and Roadrunner in Boston, and you've got a tour that covers all sizes and all corners of the country.

For context, Brand New's catalog runs five albums deep: Your Favorite Weapon (2001), Déjà Entendu (2003), The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006), Daisy (2009), and Science Fiction (2017). Every single one of those records has its own devoted following, but The Devil and God is the one that consistently gets called their masterpiece. Hearing it performed in full, in rooms like these, is going to be something else.

Get Tickets

Tickets are available now. You can grab them through Ticketmaster or check the band's official site at fightoffyourdemons.com for direct links. If the 2025 reunion tour was any indication, these will move fast. Don't sit on this one.

Cover photo courtesy of Ticketmaster