American deathcore band Whitechapel and UK metal powerhouse Sylosis announce huge co-headline Academy, Dublin show for Tuesday, 26th January 2027. Joining them are very special guests 200 Stab Wounds & Tribal Gaze.
Whitechapel, who formed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2006, has seen the core lineup—vocalist Phill Bozeman; guitarists Ben Savage, Zach Householder and Alex Wade; bassist Gabe Crisp—intact since 2007, with the exception of the drummer Brandon Zackey, who has been playing with the band since 2022. While Hymns in Dissonance follows 2021’s Kin chronologically, the new albumis actually somewhat of a sequel to This is Exile thematically, the three-word title Hymns in Dissonance representing that correlation.
Whitechapel started writing for the new album at Householder’s studio in June of 2023, following the band’s headlining tour for The Valley. Whitechapel stuck to a strict weekday schedule, the structure allowing formaximum creativity and minimum burnout. Householder produced Hymns in Dissonance, which allowed the musicians to seamlessly switch gears from preproduction to recording the full album without skipping a beat.The guitarist shadowed producer Mark Lewis a lot over the last five Whitechapel albums and bringing that influence inside the band is a “full circle moment for Householder and Whitechapel. “It’s cool that we can be self-sufficient and produce a record of this magnitude ourselves; not a lot of bands can say that.”
Longtime fans will detect hints of the past within the brutality. To wit: the riff-tastic “Hate Cult Ritual” is the only song on the album with Drop A tuning, the tuning the first three Whitechapel albums used. Additionally, the Hymns in Dissonance chapter in Bozeman’s life finds the frontman living through his “past times,” or as he states, “the music that brought me here. Brutal, dark, aggressive, heavy music. Death metal, black metal, speed metal, etc. I truly believe that your roots call you back at some point in your life and this is that point in my life.”
At this stage in the game, the name Whitechapelcommands the ultimate respect. Already sitting on one of the most enviable catalogs in contemporary metal, in 2019 they dropped The Valley, highlighting a confident evolution in their sound and standing as a true landmark release that sets a new standard for the genre. With Bozeman exploring childhood trauma on 2019’s The Valley, it was their darkest release to-date. But with its2021 successor, Kin, the story was darker still.
UK metal powerhouse Sylosis will be unleashing their most ambitious outing yet; a 31-date headline tour, hitting major venues and cities across the UK and Europe in early 2026.
Fueled by their growing catalogue of crushing riffs and relentless live energy, Sylosis are set to dominate stages from Helsinki to Barcelona. The run will feature their two biggest UK headline shows to-date, at the O2 Forum Kentish Town, London (20/02) and O2 Ritz, Manchester (21/02).
“This is it. 5 years of building towards a UK/EU headline tour with a bill that we are truly proud of. We’ve been touring hard for the last few years and never been stronger as a unit. This is our time to step it up and show everyone what a Sylosis show is all about.
Revocation are true legends of the genre and it’s an honour to have them as a part of this. Distant are one of the hardest working heavy bands out there and rounding off the bill is one of our favourite bands to emerge out of the US in recent years, Life Cycles.
We love heavy music and have put together a true showcase of modern metal. If you consider yourself a fan of all things heavy, this is a tour that you simply cannot miss. We’ll see you next year.”
Sylosis are one of the UK’s most formidable modern metal acts – an unrelenting force known for their razor-sharp thrash riffs, soaring melodic passages, and progressive songwriting. Emerging from Reading in the early 2000s, the band quickly earned a reputation as scene heavy-weights, fueling a career spanning over two decades.
Featuring Josh Middleton (lead guitar & vocals), Ali Richardson (drums), Conor Marshall (guitar), and Ben Thomas (bass), Sylosis have earned their place as a vital, uncompromising voice in modern heavy music. With countless tours, festival appearances and consistently fierce new material under their belts, the future is theirs.
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WHITECHAPEL & SYLOSIS
Plus Special Guests
200 STAB WOUNDS & TRIBAL GAZE
Tuesday, 26th January 2027
The Academy, Dublin
Doors 6pm | 18’s+
Tickets from €43.50 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale Thursday, 12th March @ 10am.
Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50)