Ocean Grove Announce Massive ‘Oddworld Underground’ Australian Tour

May 25, 2026

The Oddworld is officially reopening.

Fresh off a monster couple of years touring with the likes of Poppy and Thornhill, Melbourne chaos merchants Ocean Grove have today announced their Oddworld Underground Australian Tour for August 2026 and the lineup is an absolute nu-metal kid fever dream.

Ocean Grove – ‘SOWHAT1999’

Joining them on the run are returning New Orleans heavy hitters Cane Hill, making their long-awaited first Australian appearance in nearly a decade, alongside Western Sydney pit-starters Deficit and Adelaide nu-gaze risers Blinder.

It’s a lineup that feels scientifically engineered to make venues smell like sweat and Monster Energy.

Kicking off in Perth on August 13, the tour will hit Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane, with Ocean Grove once again bringing their gloriously unhinged “Oddworld Music” universe back to Aussie stages.

And at this point, the band really do exist in a lane entirely their own. Ever since detonating onto the scene with 2017’s The Rhapsody Tapes, Ocean Grove have spent the better part of a decade mutating nu metal, hardcore, alternative rock and pure internet-era weirdness into something that somehow feels both nostalgic and completely alien at the same time..

Their most recent album ODDWORLD only pushed things further, while recent tours across the UK, Europe and Australia – including support runs with Poppy and Thornhill – have cemented the band as one of Australia’s most inventive heavy exports.

And following their recent APRA Award win for RAINDROP, it feels like Ocean Grove are hitting another major level right now.

Meanwhile, Cane Hill’s inclusion on the bill marks a pretty huge moment for longtime heavy fans too.

The Louisiana outfit haven’t toured Australia since 2016, when they first visited supporting Bullet For My Valentine, and have spent the years since diving deeper into their bleak, genre-warping blend of metalcore, grunge and alternative heaviness.

Add in Deficit’s increasingly feral live reputation and Blinder’s dreamy-yet-crushing shoegaze textures, and this genuinely feels like one of the coolest heavy lineups announced locally in a hot minute.

Suss the details down below.