DRAIN are coming back to Australia in February 2027, with the Santa Cruz hardcore wrecking crew locking in a four date headline run through Nambour, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Anyone who caught DRAIN at New Bloom Fest in 2025 already knows the deal.
Stage dives, flying bodies, gang vocals and riffs built for rooms where the line between band and audience disappears within about thirty seconds.
Now they’re bringing it back, the 2027 Australian tour will see DRAIN hit Black Box in Nambour on Tuesday, February 23rd before heading south through Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
The run arrives with the band still riding the momentum of their 2025 album …IS YOUR FRIEND, another release that doubled down on the collision of hardcore, punk and thrash that has fuelled their rise.
DRAIN Australian Tour 2027
- Tuesday, February 23rd – Nambour, Black Box
- Wednesday, February 24th – Brisbane, The Triffid
- Friday, February 26th – Sydney, Metro Theatre
- Saturday, February 27th – Melbourne, 170 Russell
Tickets
Destroy All Lines pre-sale begins Thursday, September 3rd at 12pm AEST.
General tickets go on sale Friday, September 4th at 11am local time.
Tickets are priced between $69.90 and $74.90.
From Santa Cruz DIY to global stages
DRAIN formed in 2014, emerging from a Santa Cruz scene the band effectively helped create around themselves.
Frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro was booking shows at a local coffee shop before DRAIN’s own profile exploded, building the kind of grassroots community that still sits at the centre of the band’s identity.
Their 2020 debut California Cursed arrived at just about the worst possible moment for a live band, landing as the world shut down. Once shows returned, though, DRAIN hit the accelerator hard.
By 2022 they were headlining the opening night of Sound and Fury in front of thousands, and 2023’s Living Proof pushed their sound even further into the crossover territory where thrash, hardcore and punk start throwing elbows at one another.
DRAIN ‘Scared Of Everything And Nothing’
Since then, DRAIN have toured relentlessly, moving from DIY rooms to major festivals and even arena runs alongside Blink-182 without sanding down what made them interesting in the first place.
For all the bigger stages, the appeal is still brutally simple.
DRAIN shows feel less like performances and more like a room collectively losing its mind.
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