Katatonia reveal dates for their Waking State Of North America 2026 tour

Swedish band Katatonia announces dates for their “Waking State Of North America 2026 tour”. The trek will run as follow.

2/9 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Café & Music Hall
2/27 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
2/28 – Los Angeles, CA – Regent Theater
3/1 – Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater
3/3 – Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
3/5 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Hell)
3/6 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
3/7 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
3/8 – Towson, MD – The Recher
3/10 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club
3/11 – Montreal, QC – Le Studio TD
3/12 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (The Hall)

Pre-sale starts TODAY @ 12pm ET – use code Thrice3 https://katatonia.com/#dates

General on sale starts Friday, November 7 @ 10am local time

‘Stagnation’ is not a word in the Katatonia dictionary. Since breaking through as masters of death/doom, Stockholm’s freethinkers have transcended genre, consolidating goth, shoegaze and prog into bleak, melodic songs. Now, after three decades of invention and reinvention, Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State marks another bold leap – not to mention singer, founder and lead songwriter Jonas Renkse’s most personal effort to date.

Following the immediate anthem-making of City Burials (2020) and Sky Void of Stars (2023), Katatonia’s 13th album gets more experimental and more metal without holding back on catchiness. The dark hooks and tender vocals remain, yet the band also drive in unpredictable directions while delivering their hardest riffs in years. It’s an indelible introduction to new guitarists Nico Elgstrand and Sebastian Svalland, who replace longtime member Roger Öjersson and co-founder Anders Nyström.

“Nightmares… is a very riff-based and very guitar-heavy album,” says Jonas. “When I was writing it, I knew that we would have a couple of new guitar players coming in. And, if you have two guitarists joining, you don’t want to present them with songs that are 60 percent keyboards. Maybe I subconsciously felt that I had to come up with some cool riffs so that they’d still want to join the band!”