Animals As Leaders ANNOUNCE Australian Tour! 'The Joy of Motion' LIVE + Car Bomb!

Animals As Leaders Celebrate 10 Years of The Joy of Motion with Massive Australian Tour

Get ready, Australia. One of heavy music’s most mind-bending, genre-defying juggernauts is heading our way this September. Washington D.C.’s own Animals As Leaders are bringing their seismic sound to our shores for a full-blown national tour, celebrating the 10th anniversary of their game-changing album, The Joy of Motion.

Back in 2014, The Joy of Motion didn’t just turn heads — it blew them clean off. Fusing technical wizardry with pure emotional firepower, tracks like "Kascade" and "The Woven Web" have racked up over 10 million streams each, while "Physical Education" is barrelling towards a staggering 22 million. Not too shabby for a band that refuses to play by anyone’s rules but their own.

For this monumental tour, Animals As Leaders are performing The Joy of Motion in full. Yep, you heard that right — every mind-melting riff, every groove-laden breakdown, every pulse-racing moment, live and loud. And if that wasn’t enough to make you salivate, they’re bringing along Long Island’s sonic wrecking ball Car Bomb to obliterate your senses before the main event even begins.

Armed with 8-string axes, thunderous grooves, and enough polyrhythmic chaos to scramble your brain (in the best way possible), Animals As Leaders have spent the last decade evolving from prog-metal disruptors to full-blown global icons. They’ve smashed through the walls of genre, tossing metal, jazz fusion, and electronic madness into a sonic blender to craft something truly untouchable. Even without a vocalist, their music speaks volumes — intimate, mythic, and endlessly electrifying.

When The Joy of Motion dropped, it landed straight at #23 on the US Billboard 200, shifting over 50,000 units in the States alone. Add to that praise from the likes of Guitar World, Rolling Stone, and Modern Drummer, and you’ve got a band that doesn’t just meet expectations — they steamroll them.

Car Bomb. Photo Credit: Who-The Fuck-Knows.

And then there’s Car Bomb. If you know, you know. These New Yorkers have carved out a ferocious cult following thanks to their jaw-snapping riffs, shape-shifting time signatures, and pure sonic chaos. Having shared stages with Meshuggah, Gojira, and The Dillinger Escape Plan, Car Bomb are the perfect volatile cocktail to light the fuse before Animals As Leaders ignite the main event.

Look, we could wax lyrical about Animals As Leaders all day, but let’s be real — words don’t do them justice. You need to experience this live. No ifs, no buts. Tickets are going to vanish faster than your brain cells in the pit, so move fast or miss out.

Prepare for a night where technical mastery and raw emotional power collide. Animals As Leaders and Car Bomb are here to melt faces and redefine what heavy music can be. Don’t sleep on this.

Tour Dates

• Friday, September 12: Hindley Music Hall, Adelaide

• Sunday, September 14: The Tivoli, Brisbane

• Thursday, September 18: The Forum, Melbourne

• Friday, September 19: Enmore Theatre, Sydney

• Sunday, September 21: Magnet House, Perth

Presale: Tuesday, April 15 @ 9am local

General On sale: Thursday, April 17 @ 9am local

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