Killswitch Engage have added a second Melbourne show to their 2026 Australian and New Zealand tour after the first date sold out in under two weeks — the latest sign that demand for the Massachusetts metalcore veterans is as strong as ever in a region they haven’t headlined since 2018.

The new show at the Forum falls on Monday, Nov. 9 — the night before the already-sold-out Nov. 10 date. Tickets for the added show and all remaining tour dates are available now via SBM Presents.

The run marks Killswitch Engage’s first headline tour of Australia and New Zealand since 2018 and their first visit to the region since September 2024, when they opened for Iron Maiden. British metal outfit Sylosis join as special guests across all dates — the Reading, England act made their Australian debut at Soundwave in 2013, returned for their first headline tour of the country in 2025, and arrive this time on the back of their latest album The New Flesh, released in February 2026.

The tour supports This Consequence, Killswitch Engage’s ninth studio album, released in February 2025 and their first since Atonement in 2019. Its lead single “I Believe” became the band’s first song to crack the top 10 of the U.S. Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, peaking at No. 4 and marking a commercial milestone for a group whose fanbase has remained loyal across more than two decades without ever fully crossing into mainstream radio territory.

Formed in Westfield, Massachusetts in 1999, Killswitch Engage are widely credited as one of the architects of modern metalcore — a genre that has since spawned generations of bands and remains one of the most commercially viable corners of heavy music. Their 2002 debut Alive or Just Breathing, recorded with then-vocalist Jesse Leach, is still considered a genre landmark. The End of Heartache (2004) — recorded with Howard Jones, who had replaced Leach — debuted at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. Disarm the Descent (2013) — their first album with Leach back on vocals after Jones departed in 2012 — debuted at No. 7, and Incarnate (2016) reached No. 6, their career-best Billboard 200 position to date. Across their career they have earned three Grammy nominations for Best Metal Performance — in 2005, 2014 and 2019 — and accumulated billions of streams, while sharing stages with Iron Maiden, Slayer, Slipknot, Mastodon, My Chemical Romance and Parkway Drive.

The Melbourne sellout continues a strong run of momentum for the band in Australia, where metalcore has long maintained a dedicated and vocal live following. With one Forum show already gone and the second expected to move quickly, fans in other cities are advised to secure tickets soon.

Killswitch Engage — Australia & New Zealand 2026 (with Sylosis)

Oct. 31 — Auckland, NZ — Powerstation

Nov. 1 — Wellington, NZ — Meow Nui

Nov. 3 — Brisbane, AUS — Fortitude Music Hall

Nov. 6 — Sydney, AUS — Enmore Theatre

Nov. 7 — Wollongong, AUS — Waves

Nov. 9 — Melbourne, AUS — Forum (new show)

Nov. 10 — Melbourne, AUS — Forum (sold out)

Nov. 12 — Adelaide, AUS — Hindley Street Music Hall

Nov. 14 — Fremantle, AUS — Metropolis Fremantle

Brandon Lake was a double winner at the 2026 K-LOVE Fan Awards, which premiered on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and the TBN+ app on Friday (May 29). (An encore showing is scheduled for Friday June 5).

Lake, 35, won both artist of the year and male artist of the year. Gospel legend CeCe Winans, 61, took the award for female artist of the year.

MercyMe, which formed 32 years ago, won group of the year.

The K-LOVE Fan Awards, now in their 13th year, honors artists, songs and performances in Christian music, as well as recognizing achievements in television, film, books, sports and digital media. This year’s show was taped at Nashville’s Opry House on May 24. It was co-hosted by Sadie Robertson Huff and Lauren Daigle. Robertson won the podcast impact award for Whoa That’s Good. Daigle was shut out despite three nominations.

Other artists who received three nominations but didn’t win this year were Jeremy Camp, Josiah Queen and Elevation Worship.

Jamie MacDonald won song of the year for “Left It in the River,” which reached No. 5 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart. Phil Wickham won worship song for “Homesick for Heaven,” which reached No. 8 on that chart.

Here’s the complete list of nominees for the 2026 K-LOVE Fan Awards, with winners marked.

Artist of the year

WINNER: Brandon Lake
CeCe Winans
Elevation Worship
Jamie MacDonald
Jeremy Camp
Josiah Queen
Lauren Daigle
MercyMe
Phil Wickham
TobyMac

Male artist of the year

Ben Fuller
WINNER: Brandon Lake
Chris Tomlin
Jeremy Camp
Jon Reddick
Josiah Queen
Matthew West
Phil Wickham
Seph Schlueter
Tauren Wells

Female artist of the year

Anne Wilson
Blanca
WINNER: CeCe Winans
Emerson Day
Hope Darst
Jamie MacDonald
Katy Nichole
Lauren Daigle
Leanna Crawford
Terrian

Group of the year

CAIN
Caleb & John
Elevation Rhythm
Elevation Worship
for King & Country
WINNER: MercyMe
Passion
We the Kingdom

Song of the year

“Can’t Steal My Joy”– Josiah Queen/Brandon Lake
“Get Behind Me”– Emerson Day
“Heaven On My Mind”– TobyMac
WINNER: “Left It In the River”– Jamie MacDonald
“Let It Be a Hallelujah”– Lauren Daigle
“Make It Well”– MercyMe
“No Fear”– Jon Reddick
“No Survivors”– Jeremy Camp
“The Love I Have For You” – Colton Dixon
“Wait For Me” – Zach Williams
“What an Awesome God”– Phil Wickham
“Won’t Start Now”– Seph Schlueter

Worship song

“Alleluia”– Elevation Worship
WINNER: “Homesick for Heaven”– Phil Wickham
“How Good It Is”– Chris Tomlin
“Mighty Name of Jesus”– Hope Darst & Josh Baldwin
“The Lord Will Provide”– Passion
“Washed”– Elevation Rhythm

Breakout single

“All Joy”– Natalie Layne
WINNER: “Get Behind Me”– Emerson Day
“I Need You”– Jet Trouble
“Somebody’s Praying”– Bay Turner
“Stay”– Zahriya Zachary
“Where Would I Be”– Peter Burton
“Why Should I Worry”– Carly Anne Taylor

Film impact

David
WINNER: I Can Only Imagine 2
Light of the World
Sarah’s Oil
Soul on Fire
The King of Kings
The Last Rodeo
Truth & Treason

TV/Streaming impact

Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey
WINNER: House of David: Season 2Miracle
Testament
The Chosen Adventures
The Promised Land
Virgin Birth

Podcast impact

Back Porch Theology – Lisa Harper
Girls Gone Bible – Angela Halili & Arielle Reitsma
Hey! It’s the Lusko’s – Levi & Jennie Lusko
Livin’ the Bream – Shannon Bream
The Bible Recap –Tara-Leigh Cobble
The Bryce Crawford Podcast – Bryce Crawford
There Is More Podcast – Karen McAdams & Rachel Faulkner Brown
WINNER: Whoa That’s Good – Sadie Robertson Huff

Book impact

And She Got Up – Courtney Pray Duke
Beloved – Francis Chan
Blessed Are the Spiraling – Levi Lusko
WINNER: Hey Girl – Anne Wilson
Jesus Shaped Life – Lisa Harper
Joy Bomb – Tauren Wells
Tame Your Thoughts – Max Lucado
We’re So Blessed – CAIN

Sports impact

WINNER: Robert Anthony Cruz “Coach RAC”- Savannah Bananas

BABYMETAL have released “from me to u (Jordan Fish Remix),” the second preview from their forthcoming METAL FORTH (DELUXE EDITION), due June 26 via Capitol Records.

Fish — keyboardist and producer best known for his decade-long tenure with Bring Me The Horizon — delivers the latest reworking of “from me to u (feat. Poppy),” following a Major Lazer remix released last month.

The deluxe edition expands the original METAL FORTH with three live performances and both remixes, and will be available digitally and on a limited zoetrope vinyl pressing that brings ten album icons to life in motion.

The release arrives alongside news of BABYMETAL’s 2026 World Tour, spanning North America and Latin America. The North American leg launches on Aug. 30 in San Diego, where the band will open for My Chemical Romance, before headlining their own run with support from Halestorm and Violent Vira. In Latin America, the band will play their first-ever stadium show in Mexico City, supported by I Prevail and Bilmuri. Tickets are on sale now.

METAL FORTH debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 upon its release last year, marking the group’s first U.S. top 10 album and the first time in history that an all-Japanese fronted act has broken into that tier of the chart. The album moved 36,000 equivalent album units in its first week — of which 33,500 were pure album sales — amassed over 200 million global streams, debuted at No. 10 on Spotify’s Top Albums Debut U.S. chart, and landed at No. 2 on the U.S. iTunes Download Album chart.

Internationally, it reached the top 10 in Germany — a career-best, improving on No. 24 for THE OTHER ONE and No. 18 for METAL GALAXY — and broke the top 20 in the U.K., with career-high positions also recorded in the Netherlands and France.

Formed in Tokyo in 2010, BABYMETAL — fronted by SU-METAL, MOAMETAL and MOMOMETAL — built their following through explosive live shows before breaking internationally, opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn and Lady Gaga en route to becoming one of the most distinctive and widely followed acts in global metal.

Stream “from me to u (Jordan Fish Remix)” below.

It looks like Shaboozey is a Summer House fan.

The Grammy winner — who’s getting ready to release his fourth studio album, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales, in July — has revealed the release date for his upcoming single “Cowgirl,” while teasing that Bravo star Ciara Miller will join him in the music video.

He shared a short preview on social media, offering a glimpse of the video’s Western-inspired aesthetic while the song’s chorus played in the background. In the clip, he and Miller dance together, dressed in coordinated cowboy and cowgirl attire.

“They say behind every outlaw is a cowgirl twice as dangerous. ‘Cowgirl’ out 6/5,” reads the caption on Shaboozey’s Instagram and X posts. On Instagram, he collaborated on the post with Miller, who later shared it to her Stories and confirmed the news with the simple message: “I’m the cowgirl.”

The video perfectly fits the theme for Shaboozey’s upcoming The Outlaw Cherie Lee album, which comes out July 31 and is the follow-up to his breakout 2024 project Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going. Over the past two years, he’s delivered a string of hits, starting with his monster single “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which set a new benchmark by spending more time at No. 1 on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart than any song before it and spending 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. The success of “A Bar Song” also cemented Shaboozey’s place in music history, making him the first performer to reach the top 10 simultaneously on Country Airplay, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay, and Rhythmic Airplay charts. Additionally, it became only the second song by a Black artist to lead both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs chart.

Miller has also been making recent headlines, as her Summer House castmates Amanda Batula and West Wilson confessed back in March to having a secret relationship behind the backs of West’s ex-girlfriend (and Amanda’s alleged best friend) Ciara and Amanda’s ex-husband Kyle Cooke. The illicit relationship drew the ire of Summer House fans and loud support for Miller, with HAIM’s Alana Haim even appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live wearing a “Team Ciara” T-shirt last month.

Watch Shaboozey and Miller dance to “Cowgirl” together below:

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