Crown Magnetar 2026 Co-headline Tour with To The Grave
Crown Magnetar are bringing the brutal back. Many rising deathcore bands are inspired by and approximate a revival of the genre’s early creators. However, these brutes go to what inspired those OGs: the kind of heavy-focused knuckle-dragging that inspired the death-portion of the equation.
Early brutal death metal like Suffocation and Dying Fetus slam as much as they shred, and it’s between these whiplashing realities that Colorado’s Crown Magnetar blast through third LP, The Hollowing of Godflesh, out September 25th, 2026 via Unique Leader Records.
“I’ve always been into brutal death metal, but over the years it’s become more and more what I listen to,” exclaims vocalist Dan Tucker, citing Putridity, Brodequein, and Defeated Sanity, in addition to the breakneck deathcore bands on which Crown Magnetar based their riff-heavy sound: The Red Shore, I Declare War, and Thy Art Is Murder.
The influences bleed all over the album, which apparently does little to sate the prolific band’s bloodthirst. They continue their streak of one release each year, with the noteworthy difference on LP3 that it marks the recorded debut of guitarist Rob Maramonte. His time in both The Zenith Passage and Fallujah is reflected in the tech death bend, while stints filling in for Thy Art Is Murder and All Shall Perish ensured his right-hand chugs were just as deadly.
“I’ve spent time in a lot of great bands, but this is the first time I’ve felt a gelling of my vision with that of the band,” reveals Maramonte. “Crown is based on relentless brutality and raw power, and it’s an honor they’ve allowed me to sharpen that into the most deadly version yet.”
Calling it the most complete version of their (brutal tech) deathcore isn’t just hearsay, it’s proven. “Desecrate Infinite” was the best-streaming song the band ever released, besting even 2025’s monolithic Punishment EP. Live performances of it (and follow-up “Impaled Genesis”) even won over fans of Archspire and Undeath on a monstrous North American tour.
So, yes, the death metal is ratcheted up on The Hollowing of Godflesh, with songs like “Godkiller,” “Sculptures of Suffering,” and the title track leading the way. That’s not to say breakdowns have been left behind, though, as album closing “Dead Crown” ends with one of Crown Magnetar‘s most crushing ones, while “Shut Up and Bleed” takes rhythmic bludgeoning through its groovy runtime.
Behind the grooves is, once again, producer-turned-bassist Michael Sahm, who’s been behind the desk for all the band’s releases. That includes plenty of firsts: first release The Prophet of Disgust and first LP The Codex of Flesh. Firsts look good on Crown Magnetar, such as their first major tour in 2021, on which they supported Lorna Shore on the back of the titans’ viral success with “To the Hellfire.” Since then, releases (Alone In Death EP and Everything Bleeds LP) and tours (with the likes of Dying Fetus, Archspire, Chelsea Grin, Signs of the Swarm, Aborted, Spite, and more) have grown in lockstep with Crown Magnetar‘s increasingly maximalist deathcore.
It will be hard to miss Crown Magnetar on the road, unmercifully joined behind the kit by Matt Kilner (Nithing, Iniquitous Deeds, ex-Gorgasm, ex-Vitriol), as they treat their hustle like their music: extreme. An upcoming co-headliner with To The Grave (also releasing a new album) ends under-a-week before they serve as direct support to Archspire in Europe. Slammed between those tech kings and The Zenith Passage, Crown Magnetar will have to play at the apex of that intensity. Not that it will be a problem; that’s how Crown Magnetar have been running this band since 2016, so what’s another 10 years?
The Sawed Off Suffering 2026 US Tour Dates feat, Crown Magnetar and To the Grave w/ Face Yourself, I Declare War, Ameonna (ex-Chelsea Grin), Tracheotomy, Backbiter, and Squelching:
9/17/26: Chicago, IL @ Subterranean *
9/18/26: Detroit, MI @ Catacombs at The Sanctuary *
9/19/26: Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s *
9/20/26: Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground *
9/22/26: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
9/23/26: Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Électriques *
9/24/26: Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground *
9/25/26: Brooklyn, NY @ The Meadows *
9/26/26: Harrisburg, PA @ Capital City Music Hall *
9/27/26: Worcester, MA @ The Palladium *
9/28/26: Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery ^
9/30/26: Asheville, NC @ Revival ^
10/1/26: Nashville, TN @ The End ^
10/2/26: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory) ^
10/3/26: Jacksonville, FL @ The Albatross ^
10/4/26: West Palm Beach, FL @ The Banyan Live ^
10/6/26: Dallas, TX @ Club Dada $
10/7/26: Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live $
10/9/26: Mesa, AZ @ Rosetta Room
10/10/26: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex +
10/11/26: Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post +
10/13/26: Portland, OR @ The Hawthorne Theatre +
10/14/26: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon +
10/16/26: Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell ~
10/17/26: Denver, CO @ HQ ~
* = w/ Backbiter
^ = w/ Tracheotomy
$ = w/ Squelching
+ = w/ I Declare War
~ = w/ Ameonna
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Line-up:
Vocals: Dan Tucker
Guitar: Rob Maramonte
Bass: Michael Sahm
Drums (Live): Matt Kilner
