Cage The Elephant announce their 2027 ‘Dying In Reverse’ UK and European tour, tied to new music and their seventh album
Cage The Elephant are coming back to Europe, and they are not arriving empty-handed. On September 7, the Kentucky six-piece announced their 2027 Dying In Reverse tour, a run across the UK and continent that marks their first shows in the region since 2025, when they sold out two nights at London’s Brixton Academy. This time they return mid-reinvention, riding the momentum of new music and an as-yet-unannounced seventh album.
The trek opens at Berlin’s Tempodrom on Monday, February 8, before winding through Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and France across the month. The UK leg begins at Depot in Cardiff on February 22, hits Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Manchester, and culminates in a career-scale statement on Monday, March 1, at London’s Alexandra Palace. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 11, at 10 a.m. local time, with presales starting Wednesday, September 9.
A Band Reborn
For frontman Matt Shultz, the enthusiasm is unforced. “We’re so excited to return to Europe and the UK on this tour,” he said. “The audiences over there have always embraced us, and we can’t wait to come back and play the new songs.” Those new songs matter, because the last few years reframed everything about this band.
The tour takes its name from a forthcoming single, “Dying In Reverse,” due Thursday, September 10, and the second taste of the band’s next record after August’s “Beaches In Tennessee,” their first new music in two years. That comeback single, whose video Shultz directed himself, is a fictionalized account of the mental health crisis that nearly ended him. In 2023, Shultz was detained in a hotel for carrying firearms licensed only in Kentucky and Tennessee, an arrest a court later attributed to psychotic delusions triggered as a side effect of prescribed medication.
Shultz has been unflinching about what followed. “The arrest, without a doubt, was a miracle,” he told NME in 2024. “It saved my life. Following the arrest I was hospitalised for two months. Then I had six months of outpatient therapy afterwards and I feel completely recovered. But obviously, with recovery, it’s a lifelong thing. You don’t experience something like that and not deal with the scars for the rest of your life.”
From Oasis to a New Chapter
That survival story now feeds directly into the music. The band’s sixth album, 2024’s Neon Pill, earned another Grammy nomination in the Alternative category and sent the title track to the top of Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. Rather than coast, the band decamped to Los Angeles to work with producers Justin Raisen and Jeremiah Raisen (known as SADPONY) on what will become their first full-length for Big Loud Rock.
Shultz frames all of it as a deliberate rebirth. “Musically, we always want to reinvent Cage The Elephant,” he said. “We’ve discovered a whole new side to our band, how we look at things, and how we make art. I do feel like we’re making the best music we’ve ever made. If anything, it’s definitely the most inspired.”
A crucial spark came from unexpected company. Last year the band completed a run as special guests on Oasis’ Live ’25 reunion tour, then went straight back into the studio. “The Oasis tour really reignited our fire to dream and continue to dream,” Shultz said. “I think we realised there’s still room to evolve and push ourselves, especially in the live realm. When it was over, we decided not to take a break. We pretty much went straight into the studio to start making music.”
For a band that has never sat still for long, from the ubiquity of “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” to Grammy-winning albums like Tell Me I’m Pretty and Social Cues, Dying In Reverse reads less like a victory lap than a fresh start. The scars stay, but so does the drive. In 2027, Cage The Elephant plan to show Europe exactly what recovery sounds like turned all the way up.
