Today, TO THE GRAVE, the world’s preeminent vegan deathcore band, officially announce their signing to BLKIIBLK. To mark the new chapter, the band unleash “EYESTALK ABLATIONS,” their first new music since mid-2025, alongside a shocking music video, available below.
The track marks their first release for BLKIIBLK, while their recently announced North American tour (tickets on sale Friday, June 12 HERE) sees the band return to the continent for the first time since 2024, when they toured with Oceano.
On their signing, Mike Gitter, Global Head of A&R for Frontiers Label Group andBLKIIBLK Label Head, shares:
“BLKIIBLK is proud to be working with Australia’s TO THE GRAVE. From ethic to execution, they are hard-working and completely uncompromising. TO THE GRAVEmusically assaults, but they also inform with a message that fights for pro-human and pro-animal rights in a desensitized world. A call for direct action, brutal sounds, and a key addition to the BLKIIBLK roster.”
Vocalist Dane Evans comments on the signing:
“Being signed to BLKIIBLK is another clean, exciting gear in the meatgrinder and we couldn’t be more stoked to be working with the team there. Can’t overstate how cool it is to be locked in with the legends there, alongside some bands and names we’ve looked up to most of our lives. Lots of big bullets loaded into this thing, very excited to see the damage they’re capable of.”
Stream / Listen to “EYESTALK ABLATIONS” HERE
About “EYESTALK ABLATIONS” and it’s accompanying video, Dane Evans chimes:
“‘EYESTALK ABLATIONS’ is a shotgun blast to the face: claustrophobic, heavy from front to back and not a second wasted on room to breathe. This track feels like the old version of TTG got dragged out the back and shot, then someone bagged up the bits and made a monster out of it with some parts of Lamb Of God and Cerebral Bore to make up what’s missing.”
He continues, “The video might be the most fun we’ve ever had filming and it’s the first one I wasn’t the one covered in fake blood, for once everyone else got to be that guy. It was a blast. Massive thank you to Colin Jeffs for pulling no punches on a really cool concept and QLD police for not being able to find the place.”
Like with the new music, the tour lineup ramps up the intensity; Crown Magnetar will co-headline the run, supported on the whole thing by Face Yourself and on select dates by the likes of I Declare War, Tracheotomy, Backbiter, Squelching and Ameonna (the new band featuring former Chelsea Grin members Alex Koehler, Jake Harmond and Pablo Viveros, making their live debut). For a full list of dates, please see below.
On their upcoming tours, bassist Matt Clarke exclaims:
“These are the heaviest lineups we’ve ever put together, and we can’t wait for these shows across North America and at home in Aus. For North America, all these bands have a different approach but the one thing that brings it all together is intensity! We’re stoked to be teaming up with Crown Magnetar for this run, and having Face Yourself on the package just makes it more crushing. We’re very excited that we get to play with OG Chelsea Grin members back on-stage for the first time in Ameonna, and I Declare Warhopping on for some shows is awesome! Backbiter, Tracheotomy and Squelching will all be bring their own brands of brutality to the tour. No matter what show you’re hitting, you’re in for a treat.”
TO THE GRAVE Live:
Australia w/ No Cure, Algor Mortis, Bloodmouth
Sept 2 – Perth, AU @ Amplifier Bar *
Sept 3 – Adelaide, AU @ Lion Arts Factory *
Sept 4 – Frankston, AU @ Singing Bird
Sept 5 – Melbourne, AU @ Max Watts
Sept 6 – Canberra, AU @ The Baso ^
Sept 10 – Sydney, AU @ Crowbar
Sept 11 – Newcastle, AU @ Hamilton Station
Sept 12 – Brisbane, AU @ The Triffid
* no Bloodmouth
^ no Algor Mortis
North America w/ Crown Magnetar, Face Yourself
Sept 17 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean *
Sept 18 – Detroit, MI @ Catacombs at The Sanctuary *
Sept 19 – Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s *
Sept 20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground *
Sept 22 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
Sept 23 – Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Électriques *
Sept 24 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground *
Sept 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Meadows *
Sept 26 – Harrisburg, PA @ Capital City Music Hall *
Sept 27 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium *
Sept 28 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery ^
Sept 30 – Asheville, NC @ Revival ^
Oct 1 – Nashville, TN @ The End ^
Oct 2 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory) ^
Oct 3 – Jacksonville, FL @ The Albatross ^
Oct 4 – West Palm Beach, FL @ The Banyan Live ^
Oct 6 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada $
Oct 7 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live $
Oct 9 – Mesa, AZ @ Rosetta Room
Oct 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex +
Oct 11 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post +
Oct 13 – Portland, OR @ The Hawthorne Theatre +
Oct 14 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon +
Oct 16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell ~
Oct 17 – Denver, CO @ HQ ~
*w/ Backbiter
^w/ Tracheotomy
$w/ Squelching
+w/ I Declare War
~w/ Ameonna
More Dates TBA!
Militant vegan deathcore crew TO THE GRAVE are one of Australia’s most uncompromising bands, going so far in their convictions to declare ‘Everyone’s a Murderer’ with their 2024 album of the same name.
It’s a proclamation they’ve been making since 2010, albeit less directly, with anti-human slabs like 2023’s ‘Director’s Cuts’ (and the companion EP, ‘Offcuts’) and 2021’s ‘Epilogue,’ itself an expansion of 2019’s ‘Global Warning’ with now-classic ragers added.
And rage they do, with Revolver declaring them “one of the country’s heaviest exports.”They make good on that both back home and the world over, via relentless tours with the likes of Lorna Shore, Thy Art Is Murder, Shadow of Intent, Signs of the Swarm, Carnifex, I Killed the Prom Queen and Oceano.
Through all that globe trotting, the band have earned positive media attention, described in the press as “one of the most intense, enthralling bands the genre can offer” by Distorted Sound.
Aussie tastemakers Wall of Sound take it one step further with a declaration that TO THE GRAVE “are destined for greatness. The future of Australian deathcore is here.”
