The Official 2025 Tour Rumor Thread

Zen23

I honestly don't want to be a smartass, but on the European mainland we had a Dark Matter Spanish tour. Consisting of two concerts in Barcelona. If you add the two festivals, that makes a Dark Matter Iberian Peninsula tour at most.

DE4173

Put Walmart AMP in Rogers, AR before or after ACL and Vegas Sphere this fall.



*wish, not a rumor

BF25394

darwinstheory said:

kmcmanus said:

Lost In Ohio said:

drfox said:

My instinct is that there’s no more shows or just a few in South America. The merch for these Spring shows is all labelled as “Dark Matter 2025 Tour”. If more shows I would have guessed it would be labelled Spring Tour or US Tour.

My instinct is they are taking a full year off after May and will be back next for Europe in June/July next year.

This. If there were more shows planned and they were just in the "maybe possibly if things work out" stage, I'm sure the merch would be as you said.

I think Ohana is the last holdout...but that might just be EV solo (with or without the Earthlings).

If things were looking hopeful, they'd probably at least say "US 2025" or "Spring 2025".

I've had the "2018/2019" feeling for a while now...enjoy these shows. These could be it for a while. OTOH, when they re-emerge after Pittsburgh (could be a while), the possibility for new music is definitely higher than 1%, given we know they recorded in Australia.

ON THE OTHER HAND... I'd be surprised as all hell if they took the entirety of 2026 off.

What was:
2013 - Lightning Bolt and tour through 2016.
2017 - Relatively quiet year
2018 - South America, announced album and Home/Away Tour 
2019 - Break year
2020 - Gigaton released and COVID craziness.
2021 - Beach Shows
2022 - Tour
2023 - Small tour
2024 - Dark Matter

What could have been:
2013 - Album
2018 - Album and tour
2019 - Tour
2020 - Tour? Album?
2021 - Album?
2022 -

2018-2022 really screwed the band's cycle up. The good news? We're past that now.

They sat on DM for over a year. I don’t expect new music until 27 or 28 no matter when it’s finished. They seem to be trying to stretch things out. 

Imagine having something so good and just not releasing it. Crazy yo! 

I'm sure it's frustrating for them to know that after all the work that goes into making a new album and releasing it, a good chunk of their audience will not give it the time of day no matter how good it is. You'd have to think that dynamic limits their output to a degree.