Christian Death Announce 2026 US Tour Dates
After almost 50 years, Christian Death are still frightening the very fabric of society. The founding fathers of American goth rock are touring the US. next month. Valor Kand and Maitri will lead the Baby Bat Parade across more than 20 US cities. They’ll be joined by Gene Loves Jezebel, Descartes a Kant, and Black Season Witch. Get tickets here.
Christian Death on The Baby Bats Parade 2026 US Tour Dates with Gene Loves Jezebel, Descartes a Kant, and Black Season Witch:
6/3/26: St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag
6/4/26: Milwaukee, WI @ X Ray Arcade
6/5/26: Madison, WI @ Crucible
6/6/26: Detroit, MI @ Harpo’s
6/7/26: Cincinnati, OH @ Woodward Theatre
6/8/26: Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
6/9/26: Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard
6/10/26: Austin, TX @ Come & Take It
6/11/26: San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box
6/12/26: Dallas, TX @ RBC
6/13/26: Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
6/14/26: Atlanta, GA @ Culture Shock
6/16/26: Newark, NJ @ QXT
6/18/26: Hartford, CT @ Webster Theater
6/19/26: Manchester, NH @ Jewel
6/20/26: Pawtucket, RI @ Acruz Events
6/21/26: Chicago, IL @ WC Social Club
6/24/26: Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle
6/25/26: Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Hall
6/26 26: Akron, OH @ The Vortex
6/27/26: Worcester, MA @ Electric Haze
Don’t miss Christian Death in November at this year’s Darker Waves festival on Saturday, November 14 in Huntington Beach, California. Get your tickets here.
Since signing with Season of Mist, Christian Death have reissued several of their albums, including Only Theatre of Pain and Ashes. Order your copy here, and stream it here.
Evil Becomes Rule Tracklist:
1. The Alpha and The Omega
2. New Messiah
3. Elegant Sleeping
4. Blood Moon
5. Abraxas We Are
6. The Warning
7. Beautiful
8. Rise and Shine
9. Evil Becomes Rule
10. Who Am I (Part 1)
11. Who Am I (Part 2)
About Christian Death:
There has been a ridiculously huge revolving door of membership in the Los Angeles band known as Christian Death. In the beginning, not long after the local California release of the first album, Only Theatre of Pain, the band irrevocably and formally broke up. This left Rozz Williams at home with his overtly religious parents in Pomona, CA to contemplate his insufferable boredom, his only relief being found on the pages of his lyrics. After being invited to the record release party for Pompeii 99, a band already enjoying success in LA, Rozz met band leader, singer and guitarist Valor Kand. Before long, they were inseparable friends and Rozz was invited to join Pompeii 99. Together as Pompeii 99, while rehearsing for a planned European tour, the head of a French record label that Valor had been negotiating with, proposed the notion of renaming his band Christian Death. Neither Valor nor Rozz wanted to entertain this, however, the incentives proposed by the label eventually prevailed, and thus Pompeii 99 was reborn as Christian Death. The second Christian Death album, Catastrophe Ballet, which resulted from this deal, was recorded in Wales (UK) (a place where several future Christian Death albums were also to be born). A month before the release of Catastrophe Ballet, the French label head released a compilation which he called Deathwish, comprised of previously recorded, unreleased outtakes and single tracks he had licensed.
Recording the second album was followed by the very first Christian Death tour, which began in Paris and on to most European countries. The emotional stress of this first tour was hard on Rozz causing him to return to Los Angeles months before the other members, who remained in Europe. Upon Valor’s return to Los Angeles, work began immediately on the third album, Ashes. Meanwhile, the release of a live album, called The Decomposition of Violets, recorded in Hollywood, was also released.
After the release of Ashes, plans were underway for the second European tour when Rozz, just weeks before the first scheduled date in Italy, announced his plans to quit the band. With no intention of cancelling the tour, Valor returned to lead vocals, the bass player became the guitarist, and the guitar tech became the bass player; the tour proceeded as planned, but without Rozz.
Now fronted by Valor, the band relocated from California and settled in London, which they used as a base to tour Europe relentlessly in the midst of controversy, riots, bomb threats and protests by extremist Christian groups. Many concerts were canceled as a result of direct pressure by influential religious organizations.
From England, the band release nine more studio albums and four live albums in the territories of England, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, and the US, with each release in each territory having different artwork, configurations, and bonus tracks. Among these releases was the critically acclaimed album Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ, which depicted a controversial image of Jesus shooting heroin. The single, “Church Of No Return,” went to No.12 in the UK charts and ultimately landed the band numerous spots on MTV, VH1, Super Channel, BBC, and countless other Euro television and radio shows. Meanwhile, in the USA, Christian organizations began burning their albums in public and on Christian Television networks.
Once again based in the US, it was possible to do full North American tours, of which there were many, which also included Mexico, where the live album Amen was recorded at the first ever show in Mexico City for Century Media. Later to be followed by the studio album: Pornographic Messiah, which was also recorded in Mexico, then mixed in Holland.
In response to the post 9/11 period, the album American Inquisition was recorded and released with Season of Mist. The tours for this album included new territories for the band: Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador. Australia, and New Zealand. Around this time, Christian Death released multitrack versions of several songs for the “Rock Band” video game series. At that time, bootleg figurines of both Rozz and Valor began to appear.
In 2012, Maitri released the second Lover of Sin album, Horny Beast, which featured members of Nile, Morbid Angel, and other popular death metal bands. The following year, the band kicked off a full tour of the Americas that extended into 2014, with a full back catalogue digital global release. The year culminated with the band’s performance at Hellfest Open Air Festival, in which they supported Kiss, Rob Zombie, and Limp Bizkit.
With the 2015 release of The Root of All Evilution, the band hit the road again that autumn in Europe, which continued into North America in 2016. The band again returned to Europe and drew the final curtain in Israel. The song “Between Youth” was re-released in 2017 and featured in the Vice TV series on HBO, Balls Deep. Later, in Autumn 2017, Christian Death completed the longest North America Tour to date. The tour package included Lords of Acid, Combichrist, En Esch, and Night Club.
From 2018 onward, the band continued to dominate the world and perform throughout Europe and the United States, which included and appearance at the Cloak and Dagger festival in Los Angeles, CA as well as pulling off a mini-tour in 2021, despite a global pandemic. That same year, the band formed their union with Season of Mist and started to roll out the vinyl and CD reissues of all 16 studio albums, which included all new special editions and certain bonus features.
With the release of their 17th studio album, Evil Becomes Rule, Christian Death shows no signs of faltering or slowing down. The godfathers of death rock have simultaneously perfected and redefined their signature sound, which has served as a core inspiration for many bands of both the past and present, such as Danzig, Celtic Frost, and Type O Negative, to name just a few. Evil Becomes Rule isn’t merely a musical endeavor, but an artistic expression that blends elements of gothic rock, post-punk, and dark pop, cultivating a poetic aesthetic that is certain to continue to influence the next wave of gothic rock.
