Armored Saint Join Metal Church on 2026 Co-Headlining Tour

Armored Saint will join Metal Church for a North American co-headlining tour this Fall! The Metal Saint Tour 2026 will commence on November 2nd in San Juan Capistrano, California and runs through November 21st in Agoura Hills, California. Additional support will be provided by LiveKill.

Comments Armored Saint vocalist John Bush, “Two classic metal bands from the ’80s on tour together doing headline sets and both with brand new awesome records out [Armored Saint with Emotion Factory Reset and Metal Church with Dead To Rights]. If you call yourself a metalhead and you don’t come to this show when we roll into your town, you better have a damn good excuse. AS and MC. Let’s do this!”

Comments Metal Church guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof, “It’s incredibly exciting to be getting back on the road with our friends and an honor to be sharing the stage with one of America’s finest metal bands! Definitely a show you won’t want to miss!”

Tickets are available here. See all confirmed dates below.

Armored Saint 2026 North American Tour Dates w/ Metal Church, and LiveKill:
11/2/26: Coach House – San Juan Capistrano, CA
11/3/26: The Glass House – Pomona, CA
11/4/26: The Nile – Phoenix, AZ
11/6/26: Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
11/7/26: Sunshine Studios – Colorado Springs, CO
11/8/26: The Federal – Denver, CO
11/10/26: Neurolux – Boise, ID
11/11/26: The Newberry – Great Falls, MT
11/13/26: Dantes – Portland, OR
11/14/26: Redwood Theater – Bremerton, WA
11/15/26: Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, BC
11/17/26: Great America Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
11/18/26: Goldfield Trading Post – Roseville, CA
11/19/26: The Whisky – Los Angeles, CA
11/20/26: Observatory North San Diego – San Diego, CA
11/21/26: Canyon Club – Agoura Hills, CA

Emotion Factory Reset, Armored Saint’s ninth studio album since 1984’s March Of The Saint, is a resurrection of sorts, a tearing down and a rebuilding in eleven songs of diverse musicality and lyrical themes. Produced, as were the previous four albums, by bassist Joey Vera and mixed by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour), the record finds the quintet challenging themselves. Songs like “Close To The Bone,” “Hit A Moonshot,” and “Every Man-Any Man” have Armored Saint honoring their past as one of the most respected and recognizable bands in heavy music while making forward-thinking music rooted in the present.

Emotion Factory Reset was recorded across several studios including 606 Studios, Secret Hand Studios, Skullseven Studios, Constantine Studios, and Bridge Recording, engineered by Oliver Roman, Bill Metoyer, Joey Vera, and Jason Constantine, and features cover art by DDKing.

The record is available now on CD digipack (w/ 20-page booklet) and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:
• Amber Marble (US)
• Orange and Red Marble (US)
• Citron Smoke (US – Brutal Panda Exclusive)
• 180g Black (EU)
• Beige Gray Marbled (EU)
• Clear Black Gold Smoke (EU – Ltd. 500)
• Metallic Gold Black Dust (EU – Ltd. 300)
• Clear Gold Splatter (EU – Ltd. 200)

Preview/purchase the record here.