Revocation announce 2026 tour with Defeated Sanity, and Fuming Mouth
Revocation will commemorate their 20th anniversary with a special month-long North American headlining trek this Fall! The 20 Years Of Torment tour runs from September 10th through October 10th and will find the band performing tracks from across their entire catalog. Support will be provided by Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, and Weeping. The journey follows the band’s European tour this August which includes festival performances, headlining shows, and more.
Comments vocalist/guitarist Dave Davidson, “20 Years Of Torment… and we’re bringing some truly sick bands with us to celebrate. We’ll be playing material that spans every record on this one, reaching back into the REVO Repository, plus new material from our latest album, live for the first time. See you in the pit!”
Revocation at El Corazon Seattle, WA May 2025 | Photo by Samantha Jones
Fresh from crushing, packed crowds during last month’s headline tour of the United States, Defeated Sanity are announcing their first North American tour since the release of Chronicles of Lunacy. This 27-date fall run includes the band’s first shows in Canada since 2023. They will perform songs off their latest Billboard-crushing album, along with other favorites from their three-decades long discography, as direct support for Revocation, who are celebrating their 20th-anniversary. Fuming Mouth and Weeping are also joining in support.
“We are thrilled and humbled to join the legendary Revocation in celebrating their 20th anniversary this coming fall,” Defeated Sanity guitarist Vaughn Stoffey says. “We’ll be playing a fresh set of DS classics for all of the true sickos across North America.”
Massachusetts metal powerhouse Fuming Mouth has announced their highly anticipated new full-length album, The Ringing Bell, due out July 17th via Triple B Records. The album marks the first Fuming Mouth recording to feature drummer Jay Weinberg alongside vocalist/guitarist Mark Whelan, guitarist Pat Merson, and bassist Chris Berg. Recorded at GodCity Studio with Kurt Ballou, The Ringing Bell finds the band pushing their trademark fusion of death metal and hardcore to new extremes, delivering the most powerful and fully realized release of their career.
The band also unveil the album’s lead single and music video, “A Blaze of Nihilism,” offering the first glimpse into the relentless intensity and sharpened songwriting that define the record. Stream “A Blaze of Nihilism” and pre-order The Ringing Bell here.
In support of The Ringing Bell, Fuming Mouth will join Six Feet Under in August, followed by a tour with Revocation, Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, and Weeping in September and October. Tickets for The 20 Years Of Torment Tour are on sale here. See all confirmed dates below.
Revocation’s 20 Years Of Torment 2026 North American Tour Dates w/ Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, and Weeping:
9/10/26: The Palladium – Worcester, MA
9/11/26: Fou Founes – Montreal, QC
9/12/26: Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON
9/13/26: Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
9/15/26: Amsterdam Bar – St. Paul, MN
9/16/26: Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MB
9/17/26: The Exchange – Regina, SK
9/18/26: Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB
9/19/26: Dickens – Calgary, AB
9/20/26: The Revelry – Kelowna, BC
9/22/26: Rickshaw – Vancouver, BC
9/23/26: El Corazon – Seattle, WA
9/24/26: Dante’s – Portland, OR
9/25/26: The Ritz – San Jose, CA
9/26/26: 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
9/27/26: Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
9/28/26: Backstage Bar – Las Vegas, NV
9/30/26: HQ – Denver, CO
10/1/26: The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
10/2/26: Reggies – Chicago, IL
10/3/26: Ace of Cups – Columbus, OH
10/4/26: Preserving Underground – Pittsburgh, PA
10/6/26: Exit/In – Nashville, TN
10/7/26: Eulogy – Asheville, NC
10/8/26: The Canal Club – Richmond, VA
10/9/26: Music Hall Of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
10/10/26: Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA
About Revocation:
Revocation released their acclaimed New Gods, New Masters full-length last year via Metal Blade Records. On New Gods, New Masters, Revocation conjures nine potent and portentous songs of brutal lyrical and musical significance. New Gods, New Masters was produced by Davidson and mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (The Haunted, Spiritbox) with artwork by Paolo Girardi (Bell Witch, Mother Of Graves, Black Breath, Cryptopsy). The record includes guest appearances by Jonny Davy of Job For A Cowboy, Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation, Luc Lemay of Gorguts, and jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman.
Preview/purchase New Gods, New Masters here.
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About Defeated Sanity:
Defeated Sanity is unequivocally one of the most unique, boundary-pushing and crucial bands in the history of extreme death metal. Their music is as technically coherent as it is mind-bending and memorable. Endlessly replay-able and full of discovery, their maze of riffs and musical passages is inspired by infamous classic bands in the extreme metal genre, while also heavily steeped in jazz and progressive classical elements.
The band consists of four members. They’re led by drummer Lille Gruber, who’s the son of deceased co-founding member Wolfgang Teske. Gruber is joined by bandmates Jacob Schmidt (bass), Josh Welshman (vocals), and Vaughn Stoffey (guitar). As well as being the drummer of Defeated Sanity, Gruber is the multi- instrumental, songwriting mastermind behind the band’s deep and compelling catalogue of songs and compositions. He possesses a bag of tricks seen nowhere else in the genre, and a musical prowess which is on full display throughout their new album, Chronicles of Lunacy.
“We love experimenting”, explains drummer and founding member Lille Gruber. “But we realized that some of our oldest fans might have gotten lost after our last couple of albums. With the new one, we wanted to focus more on neck-snapping brutality”.
Chronicles of Lunacy punches you right in the face. Press play and “Amputationsdrang” already has you pinned to the mat beneath its non-stop blasts. Get comfortable, too, because Defeated Sanity don’t let the album up for air until the very end of Track 4. But turns out, acting like knuckle-dragging cavemen isn’t so easy for a band that has a Mensa-level maestro like Gruber at the controls.
At the tender age of six, Lille Gruber picked up heavy guitar and drums. Inspired by killer American BDM bands like Disgorge, Monstrosity, and Brodequin, the German wunderkind recorded the band’s first demo alongside his father, Wolfgang Teske. Since Wolfgang’s passing in 2010, Gruber has taken on the bulk of the composing for Defeated Sanity. Whether he’s hammering his snare, pinging between cymbals, or riding a colossal groove, The Chronicles of Lunacy flows like a never-ending stream of filth.
“Lille’s drumming is just ridiculous”, Jacob Schmidt says. Schmidt – who toured with Obscura behind Cosmogenesis – joined as the other half of Defeated Sanity’s chaotic rhythm section for the band’s beloved second album. His nimble, belching bass give the new album’s lead single “The Odour of Sanctity” a dizzying bounce. “He’s the face of the franchise, so we’re never going to abandon those head-scratching moments that set Defeated Sanity apart.”
Defeated Sanity at El Corazon Seattle, WA April 2026 | Photo by Samantha Jones
Indeed, Chronicles of Lunacy isn’t Defeated Sanity for dummies. Heck, the lyrics are wrapped up in the twisted ways that delusions can rot the human psyche. This heady concept was made flesh by none other than Jon Zig. Drawn in painstaking detail by his wicked right hand, the album’s cover shows that the birth of some ideas look an awful lot like a gory and sex-crazed nativity scene.
“Each song on Chronicles deals with a different form of mental corruption,” Josh Welshman says. “Odor” stinks of religious fanaticism. “A Patriarchy Perverse” cracks open the mind of co-ed killer Ed Kemper, while “Extrinsically Enraged” practically foams at the mouth with squealing hammer-ons. “That one’s more literal,” says Welshman with a hearty laugh. “It’s about contracting rabies.” If it weren’t for Disposal of the Dead / Dharmata, then Defeated Sanity would’ve chewed through as many vocalists as they have albums, but after a brutal showing on their last one, Welshman is back with more guttural vengeance. His growls ooze from the pit of his gut on “Temporal Disintegration,” stomped out like the innards of a cockroach by the gravity-defying slams.
While it still hits from every odd angle, Chronicles of Lunacy does draw a jagged red line back to Defeated Sanity’s brutal origins. After all, the band now share a label with their namesake. In true, DS fashion, the first song written for this album was “Heredity Violated,” a headbanging grand finale that never stops chugging. “This album isn’t as tough on the brain as the last two,” says new guitarist Vaughn Stoffey, whose chunky riffs whip “Accelerating the Rot” into the fastest song in the band’s canon. “It’s rawer and more straightforward, which gets back to what fans love about Psalms of the Moribund.“
To dig up the sheer brutality that long-time fans have come to crave, Defeated Sanity returned to Thousand Cave Studios. New York City’s most vile underground hotspot also served as the excavation site for the Billboard-charting The Sanguinary Impetus, which shoveled a fresh layer of dirt over the “polished” production of Passages into Deformity. But the band encouraged producer Colin Marston to get down and dirty with Chronicles of Lunacy. “We still wanted some of the high fidelity that you hear on modern death metal records,” Schmidt says, “but this album has the same crushing low-end as Psalms or Chapters of Repugnance“.
The band execute this two-headed approach to monstrous effect on “Condemned to Vascular Famine.” At just under six minutes, the song delivers the longest ass beating on Chronicles of Lunacy. At times, all four members sound like they’re climbing up the walls in separate asylums, but after slipping in a brief nod to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the band come slamming down into the album’s ugliest breakdown.
“That’s one of our favorites,” the band says. “It lands at a crossroad of the DS sound that we ended up with on Chronicles of Lunacy. Even though it gets pretty fucking weird at times, there’s still an emphasis on heavy, straight-up slamming.”
None of their albums are ever going to follow a straight line, but on Chronicles of Lunacy, Defeated Sanity return to sheer brutality.
Chronicles of Lunacy Tracklist:
1. Amputationsdrang
2. The Odour Of Sanctity
3. Accelerating The Rot
4. Temporal Disintegration
5. Extrinsically Enraged
6. A Patriarchy Perverse
7. Condemned to Vascular Famine
8. Heredity Violated
Lineup
Josh Welshman – Vocals
Vaughn Stoffey – Guitars
Jacob Schmidt – Bass
Lille Gruber – Drums
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About Fuming Mouth:
For centuries, the ringing of a bell has signified moments of consequence — warning of danger, marking celebration, calling communities together, or signaling the completion of a difficult journey. The symbolism resonates deeply throughout The Ringing Bell, an album forged through perseverance, transformation, and an unwavering commitment to moving forward.
Since emerging from New England’s underground more than a decade ago, Fuming Mouth have steadily established themselves as one of heavy music’s most respected and uncompromising bands. What began as a passion project, led by Mark Whelan, evolved into a globally recognized force through a string of acclaimed releases, relentless touring, and an ever-expanding reputation for combining crushing heaviness with genuine emotional weight.
The Ringing Bell Tracklist:
1. Cheat Death
2. Self-Exhumed
3. Finally Fearless
4. A Blaze of Nihilism
5. After Oblivion
6. Hidden in the Moor
7. Vivid Revelations
8. Flourishing Flesh
9. The Ringing Bell
10. Barbarian Scourge
11. Respect Mortality
Across The Ringing Bell, the band refine every aspect of their sound. Towering riffs, punishing rhythms, bleak atmosphere, and memorable songwriting collide with a newfound sense of focus and urgency. Weinberg’s explosive performance behind the kit injects fresh energy into the material, while Whelan’s unmistakable vocal ferocity and guitar work drive the album forward with uncompromising intensity. Watch “A Blaze of Nihilsm” music video here.
The result is a record that feels both deeply personal and universally cathartic — an album born from struggle, perseverance, and the determination to emerge stronger from adversity.
Fuming Mouth at Big Night Live Boston, MA June 2024 | Photo by Daniel Nyman
