Whitechapel Celebrates 20 Years With Massive Fall Headlining Tour
Whitechapel just dropped one of the heaviest announcements of the year. The Knoxville deathcore titans are celebrating 20 years as a band with a full-blown North American headlining tour this fall, and they're pulling out songs from every single album in their catalog. No albums left out. If that doesn't get you moving, I don't know what will.
The 20th Anniversary Tour kicks off November 11 in Atlanta at the Tabernacle and runs 26 dates through December 18 at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee. That last stop is fitting, right near their home base of Knoxville. This is being billed as their largest headline tour to date, playing the biggest rooms they've ever headlined. Presented by Live Nation, the whole run looks stacked from top to bottom.
Guitarist Alex Wade put it best: "We would have never believed we would have made it 20 years after we started this band in 2006, but here we are celebrating it, and we are proud that we are undertaking our largest headline tour to date to commemorate that."
The Support
The lineup backing Whitechapel on this one is no joke. Chelsea Grin, now fronted by Tom Barber, have been a staple in the deathcore circuit for years. They've been staying busy on the road and Barber continues to bring a vicious energy to everything he touches. The Acacia Strain are riding the momentum of their 2025 album You Are Safe from God Here on Rise Records and have been tearing it up on the road in 2026 already. Vincent Bennett and company always bring a devastating live show.
Then there's Netherwalker, who Wade himself called "deathcore up and comers." This Florida-based act dropped their debut album Odyssey of Respair in November 2025, a concept record blending brutal deathcore with medieval fantasy storytelling. It's wild stuff and this is going to be a huge opportunity for them on a national stage. Worth noting that Netherwalker won't be on the Montreal (Nov. 22) or Toronto (Nov. 24) dates.
Full Tour Dates
Nov. 11 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
Nov. 13 – House of Blues – Buena Vista, FL
Nov. 14 – House of Blues – North Myrtle Beach, SC
Nov. 16 – The Fillmore Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
Nov. 17 – Roxian Theatre – McKees Rocks, PA
Nov. 19 – Nevermore Hall – Baltimore, MD
Nov. 20 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
Nov. 21 – The Palladium – Worcester, MA
Nov. 22 – MTELUS – Montreal, QC *
Nov. 24 – HISTORY – Toronto, ON *
Nov. 25 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI
Nov. 28 – Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL
Nov. 29 – The Fillmore – Minneapolis, MN
Dec. 01 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
Dec. 03 – The Union Event Center – Salt Lake City, UT
Dec. 04 – Treefort Music Hall – Boise, ID
Dec. 05 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
Dec. 07 – Channel 24 – Sacramento, CA
Dec. 08 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA
Dec. 09 – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
Dec. 11 – The Aztec Theatre – San Antonio, TX
Dec. 12 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
Dec. 13 – House of Blues – Houston, TX
Dec. 14 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX
Dec. 16 – The Andrew J. Brady Music Center – Cincinnati, OH
Dec. 18 – The Caverns – Pelham, TN
* No Netherwalker on these dates
Twenty Years of Brutality
I'll be real, 20 years in deathcore is almost unheard of with a lineup this stable. Whitechapel formed in 2006 and the core roster of Phil Bozeman, Ben Savage, Zach Householder, Alex Wade, and Gabe Crisp has been intact since 2007. Drummer Brandon Zackey joined in 2022 and has locked in seamlessly. That kind of continuity is rare in any genre, let alone one this punishing.
The band's ninth studio album, Hymns in Dissonance, dropped in March 2025 through Metal Blade Records and hit hard. It landed at No. 2 on Billboard's Current Hard Rock Albums chart and No. 4 on the Current Rock Albums chart. Critics were unanimous that the band had tapped back into the raw ferocity of their earlier work while still pushing forward. The album served as a thematic sequel to This Is Exile and was notably the first Whitechapel record produced entirely in-house by guitarist Zach Householder.
The promise of songs from the entire discography is what makes this tour special. We're talking everything from The Somatic Defilement through Hymns in Dissonance, with stops at This Is Exile, Our Endless War, The Valley, Kin, and everything in between. Wade said it'll be their longest set ever. That's a lot of devastation in one night.
Tickets and VIP
Limited artist presale tickets and VIP packages are available now through Sound Rink starting today, June 9, at 2:00 p.m. local time. VIP packages include a general admission ticket, meet-and-greet with a photo, early venue entry, merch access, a Whitechapel foam hand, signed poster, and a VIP laminate with lanyard. General on-sale begins Friday, June 12 at 10:00 a.m. local time.
Honestly, if you've been waiting for the right time to see Whitechapel live, this is it. Twenty years of material, the biggest venues they've ever headlined, and a support lineup that's going to level every room before they even hit the stage. Don't sleep on this one.
Cover photo courtesy of Ticketmaster