The Texan wrecking crew KUBLAI KHAN TX is about to turn your local venue into a mosh pit demolition site this fall. They’re dragging along their buddies DRAIN (you know, the Santa Cruz crew who’ll make you stage-dive even if you’re scared of heights), GIDEON (Alabama’s finest purveyors of riffs that hit harder than a southern summer), and GUILT TRIP (UK hardcore with a side of “hold my beer”). The chaos starts September 18 at Louder Than Life in Louisville—because what’s better than kicking things off at a festival?—and wraps October 26 at LA’s Hollywood Palladium, where THROWDOWN will crash the party for one last hurrah. Fun fact: THROWDOWN’s 2003 album Haymaker basically invented the phrase “breakdowns for breakfast.”
Frontman Matt Honeycutt ain’t mincing words: “Time to do it bigger and badder than ever on this headliner with our friends in DRAIN, GIDEON and GUILT TRIP. See y’all soon. P.S. Don’t forget about THROWDOWN in L.A. too.” (Translation: Wear sturdy shoes.)
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Tour dates (aka your fall itinerary):
Sep. 18 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life
Sep. 20 – Worcester, MA – New England Metal & Hardcore Festival
Sep. 21 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
Sep. 23 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo RiverWorks
Sep. 24 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring
Sep. 28 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
Sep. 30 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
Oct. 01 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
Oct. 03 – Birmingham, AL – Furnace Fest
Oct. 04 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
Oct. 05 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House Of Blues
Oct. 07 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Oct. 08 – St Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live
Oct. 10 – San Antonio, TX – Vibes Event Center
Oct. 11 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
Oct. 12 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum
Oct. 14 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
Oct. 15 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium
Oct. 16 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
Oct. 17 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
Oct. 18 – Las Vegas, NV – When We Were Young
Oct. 19 – Las Vegas, NV – When We Were Young
Oct. 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell at The Complex
Oct. 21 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
Oct. 23 – Sacramento, CA – Ace Of Spades
Oct. 24 – San Jose, CA – San Jose Civic
Oct. 26 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
In bittersweet news, longtime guitarist Nolan Ashley just dipped after 13 years. Dude had spinal surgery in 2023 and, as he put it, his hands “noped out” on guitar duty. Stepping in is Nicholas Adams from JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED (Australian deathcore legends who’ve probably haunted your nightmares).
Ashley’s farewell speech: “Since my disc replacement surgery […] I can no longer play the songs I helped write live. It’s a difficult goodbye—not the one I ever imagined.” (Cue the world’s heaviest violin solo.)
The tour’s fueling up on their latest album “Exhibition Of Prowess”—a.k.a. “13 tracks to make your neighbors hate you”—released last year via Rise Records. Honeycutt told New Noise Magazine: “We don’t chase trends. We just write what’s real.” (Translation: They’re still gonna make you crowd-kill.)
