Beartooth Announce Leg 2 of “The Surface” Tour For Summer 2024 + New Single “I Was Alive” Lands at No. 1 At Radio

SUMMER 2024 RUN KICKS OFF JULY 5 IN LAS VEGAS AND RUNS THROUGH AUGUST 3 IN FAYETTEVILLE WITH CURRENTS, BOUNDARIES, + NEVERTEL TO SUPPORT

LATEST SINGLE “I WAS ALIVE” LANDS AT NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD MAINSTREAM AIRPLAY CHART + IS NO. 1 FOR SECOND WEEK AT MEDIABASE ACTIVE ROCK RADIO CHART, MARKING THE BAND’S SECOND CONSECUTIVE NO. 1 AT RADIO SINCE ALBUM RELEASE

Hot on the heels of the fully sold out, 2024 North American leg of “The Surface Tour,” which sold a career-record 78,000 tickets across 40+ shows, Gold-selling and billion-streaming Columbus rock band Beartooth — Caleb Shomo, vocals; Zach Huston, guitars; Will Deely, guitars; Oshie Bichar, bass; andConnor Denis, drums — will be hitting the road again this summer.

The next leg kicks off on July 5 in Las Vegas and runs through August 3 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Currents, Boundaries, and Nevertel will serve as support. All dates are below, and tickets go on sale Friday, May 10, with various pre-sales happening now. Get tickets here.

“We’ve all been working harder than ever to create the best show we’ve ever put on and will stop at nothing to make sure it’s worth every penny and then some,” says Shomo. “We can’t wait to get back out and rock with all of you!”

Beartooth’s fifth studio album, The Surface, released in October on Red Bull Records. With 160 million streams to date, it debuted at #1 on Billboard Hard Rock Albums, Luminate Alternative Albums, and Luminate Record Label Independent Current Albums, as well as #5 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales. The band has so far earned nominations at this year’s Libera Awards for “Best Heavy Record” and the Heavy Music Awards for “Best International Artist.” Stream, download, and purchase it along with merchandise, here.

In other Beartooth news, their latest single “I Was Alive” landed at No. 1 on both the Billboard Mainstream Airplay Chart and the US Mediabase Active Rock radio chart — it landed on the latter chart for the week of April 27 and has stayed there for two weeks. The single marks the band’s second No. 1 in six months, following their previous single, “Might Love Myself,” which was the band’s first-ever No. 1 at the format. Beartooth achieving back-to-back, chart-topping singles at radio is a testament to their decade of growth and the power of The Surface.

BEARTOOTH ON TOUR
WITH CURRENTS, BOUNDARIES, + NEVERTEL:
7/5 — Las Vegas, NV — The Theater at Virgin Hotels
7/6 — Fresno, CA — Tioga-Seqoia Brewery
7/7 — Reno, NV — Virginia Street Brewhouse
7/9 — Billings, MT — Pub Station Ballroom
7/11 — Wichita, KS — Cotillion Ballroom
7/13 — Hammond, IN — Horseshoe Hammond
7/14 — Council Bluffs, IA — Harrah’s Stir Cove
7/16 — Kansas City, MO — The Midland
7/18 —  Dubuque, IA — Back Waters Stage
7/19 — Cadott, WI — Rock Fest
7/20 — Grand Rapids, MI — Upheaval Festival
7/22 — Buffalo, NY — Town Ballroom
7/23 — Buffalo, NY — Town Ballroom
7/24 — Albany, NY — Empire Live
7/26 — Worcester, MA — Palladium Outdoors
7/27 — Grantville, PA — Hollywood Casino at Penns National
7/29 — Lexington, KY — Manchester Music Hall
7/30 — Columbia, SC — The Senate
8/1 — Chattanooga, TN — The Signal
8/2 — Little Rock, AR — The Hall
8/3 — Fayetteville, AR — JJ’s Live

Beartooth began as a living document, a diary, a journal of repressed rage and depression. Alone in his basement studio, screaming and singing, playing all the instruments, and self-producing a batch of furious but melodic songs filled with reflection and confession, the Ohio native stared into the abyss, initially with no intention of returning to the heavy music world that burned him as a teen. A decade later, the different pieces of his body of work connect in title, sound, and spirit. As the frontman hits 30, Beartooth’s 2023-released fifth album, The Surface, completes this era. It kicked off a new chapter filled with surprising optimism and just as honest. Depression is a sick, disgusting, aggressive disease below the surface. Shomo stands ready to bask in the light.

Like Nine Inch Nails, Beartooth remains a one-person band in the studio. On the heels of the introductory Sick EP (2013), Disgusting (2014) produced the band’s first Gold single, “In Between.” Aggressive (2016) and Disease (2018) expanded on the desperation and pain, each a step closer to a balance between the blood and tears of classic recordings and the shimmer of modernity.

Rolling Stone heralded Beartooth as one of 10 Artists You Need to Know. The rabid response to Shomo’s music demonstrated how many people related to his struggle for self-acceptance. Below (2021) topped the Rock and Alternative charts and several Best Rock/Metal Albums of the Year lists. As of 2024, the Beartooth catalog boasts more than one billion streams across all platforms.

Beartooth began as both bomb and balm, an outright refusal to suffer in silence, weaponizing radio-ready bombast, delivering raw emotion mixed with noise-rock chaos. Other bands play the “devastating riffs and catchy hooks” game, but this music is the difference between life and death, and now, a sort of life after death while still here. The band Forbes sees “inching towards a tipping point of becoming the latest arena headliner” is now one step closer.