{"id":660029,"date":"2026-05-09T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:25:13","slug":"evanescences-2026-australian-tour-appears-to-have-leaked-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660029\/","title":{"rendered":"Evanescence\u2019s 2026 Australian Tour Appears To Have Leaked Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A listing on Australian merch retailer Merch Jungle appears to reference a forthcoming Evanescence Australia and New Zealand tour before any official announcement has been made.<\/p>\n<p>Evanescence may be heading back to Australia sooner than expected, with what appears to be an early tour reveal surfacing through an Australian merch retailer.<\/p>\n<p>As first spotted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocknMetalMusicNewsAustralia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rock \u2018n\u2019 Metal Music News Australia Facebook page<\/a>, the band\u2019s new album pre-order campaign on <a href=\"https:\/\/merchjungle.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merch Jungle<\/a> includes wording offering Australian and New Zealand fans early access to tickets for a \u201cforthcoming (to be announced) Australia &amp; New Zealand tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message appears directly on listings for Evanescence\u2019s upcoming album \u2018Sanctuary\u2019, stating:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia\/New Zealand: Pre-order the new album \u2018Sanctuary\u2019 (in any configuration) by June 5 to receive early access to tickets for the bands forthcoming (to be announced) Australia &amp; New Zealand tour!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, this isn\u2019t appearing through some random reseller or unofficial retailer. Merch Jungle is a Sydney-based Australian merch company connected to Jungle Merchandise, which has operated within Australia\u2019s touring and artist merchandise space for years.<\/p>\n<p>That makes this feel less like vague placeholder text and more like genuine tour pre-sale infrastructure surfacing ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The wording itself also reads operational rather than promotional. Album bundles tied to ticket pre-sale access are standard rollout mechanics typically used once touring plans are already in motion internally.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, the run would mark Evanescence\u2019s first proper Australian headline tour since their 2023 \u2018Fallen\u2019 anniversary shows, which saw the band play arena dates around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The band did return to <a href=\"https:\/\/bluntmag.com.au\/news\/metallica-2025-australian-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia in 2025 as part of Metallica\u2019s M72 stadium tour<\/a>, alongside a small number of intimate headline sideshows. However, those dates were attached to the Metallica run rather than a full standalone Evanescence headline tour cycle.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, neither Evanescence nor any Australian promoter has officially announced 2026 tour dates.<\/p>\n<p>Still, between the geo-targeted Australia\/New Zealand wording, the ticket pre-sale language, and the fact it surfaced through an established Australian merch partner, this strongly suggests an announcement could be imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A listing on Australian merch retailer Merch Jungle appears to reference a forthcoming Evanescence Australia and New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-660029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}