Parkway Drive Announces Killing Horizons Australia Tour 2026

Parkway Drive Australia 2026: Two Albums, Two Nights, Five Cities

Parkway Drive will tour Australia in August 2026, and the format is the point. The Parkway Drive Australia 2026 run, titled Killing Horizons, gives the Byron Bay band's first two albums a night each: Killing With a Smile on night one, Horizons on night two, in every city. Both records run front to back. It is a back-catalogue exercise the band has skipped at home until now, having spent recent tours building towards pyrotechnics and orchestras rather than the breakdowns that started them.

Tickets go on sale Thursday 25 June at 12pm local time through Live Nation. Prices had not been published when the tour was announced. The tour name is a portmanteau of the two album titles, which tells you most of what you need about the pitch: the early-era material, played in sequence, for people who were there the first time or wish they had been.

Parkway Drive Tour Dates 2026

Ten shows run from 1 to 16 August, two in each of Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Live Nation lists a 7pm start; door and set times are subject to change. The Melbourne shows carry an 18+ restriction; age limits are set per venue, so check the listing for your city before buying.

Tickets and On-Sale

General tickets go on sale Thursday 25 June at 12pm local time through Live Nation at livenation.com.au. There is a four-ticket limit per transaction.

Prices were not listed at announcement. Treat any figure circulating before the on-sale as unconfirmed. Live Nation has published a general on-sale only; no separate presale window had been announced at the time of writing, which is a short turnaround from the reveal and worth noting if you were counting on a presale to get in early.

Live Nation is the authorised seller. Tickets bought through unauthorised resale sites carry no validity guarantee, and the rooms here are small enough that some nights may sell out. If that happens, face-value resale platforms such as Tixel or Face Value Exchange are the lower-risk route; they cap resale at the original price and avoid the scalper markups that follow a sold-out metal show.

The Two Albums: Killing With a Smile and Horizons

Killing With a Smile (2005) was the debut. Parkway Drive recorded it in Massachusetts with Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz in about two weeks, and it took them out of the Byron Bay hardcore circuit and onto overseas tours. Eleven tracks across roughly 40 minutes, and the source of live staples like "Romance Is Dead" and "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em".

Horizons (2007) did the heavier commercial lifting. Dutkiewicz produced again; the album debuted at No. 6 on the ARIA chart and later went gold in Australia. "Boneyards" was the lead single and "Carrion" its closest thing to a ballad, and both have stayed in the live set across later tours.

The pair predate the turn the band took from Ire (2015) onward, when clean vocals, bigger choruses and elaborate staging arrived. These two nights sit before all of that. Playing each album in sequence also forces the deeper cuts into the set, the tracks a standard headline show skips. The band has flagged that some of these songs have not been played live in over a decade, and that a few have never been performed at all. The singles have stayed in rotation, so read that as a nod to the album cuts rather than a confirmed setlist; the format makes it credible either way.

For wider context, Parkway Drive marked 20 years in 2023, the cycle that produced Darker Still, their third consecutive No. 1 ARIA album and the 2023 ARIA winner for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album. They have since released "Sacred", their first single since Darker Still, and flagged a concert film and live album, HOME, for 2026. They are also booked for their own Park Waves festival dates in Australia earlier in the year. Killing Horizons is the back-catalogue counterweight to that forward motion: no new record to sell, just the first two albums and rooms small enough to feel them in.

What to Expect at a Parkway Drive Concert in Australia

The venues are theatres and halls rather than arenas: Metro City, Hindley Street Music Hall, The Forum, Enmore Theatre and The Fortitude Music Hall. That is a step down in size from the September 2024 national run, the band's largest Australian headline tour to date, which filled arenas around the country. Smaller rooms mean fewer tickets and a closer view, and a louder argument for moving quickly when the on-sale opens.

Set length is the open question. Each album runs around 40 minutes, the listing names no support act, and the band has not said whether additional songs or an opener will fill out each night. Treat the running time as unconfirmed until closer to the shows. Production has not been detailed either; early-album sets in rooms this size tend to favour the band-and-crowd exchange over the staging of recent tours, though that is an expectation rather than anything confirmed.

Practical Tips

Two albums means two tickets. The nights are sold separately, so hearing both records is two shows, not one. Budget accordingly if you want the full set rather than a single night.

Several dates fall midweek: Adelaide on the Tuesday and Wednesday, the second Melbourne show on a Monday, and both Sydney shows on a Wednesday and Thursday. Check the last train, tram or bus before you commit, particularly for the weeknight dates when services thin out after a late finish.

If you are travelling interstate, the Perth and Adelaide shows sit early in the run, while Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane cluster between 9 and 16 August, the tighter window for stringing cities together.

For the on-sale, log in to Live Nation before noon, have payment details ready, and note the four-ticket cap. Bring flat-attenuation earplugs for an early-era Parkway set, and photo ID if your show is 18+.

If you are going alone, Muse connects people heading to the same show who share music taste; the Music Persona Quiz at /quiz is where it starts.