{"id":565300,"date":"2026-03-27T22:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:43:10","slug":"and-you-will-know-us-by-the-trail-of-dead-no-longer-able-to-play-prepare-the-ground-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565300\/","title":{"rendered":"…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead no longer able to play Prepare The Ground 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately \u2026And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are no longer able to perform at this year upcoming Prepare The Ground Festival. Originally scheduled to perform Source Tags & Codes + Secret of Elena’s Tomb on Friday, May 29th.<\/p>\n

Stepping into their slow will be North American black metal unit, Yellow Eyes.<\/p>\n

Prepare the Ground spans May 29th\u201331st, 2026 and multiple downtown Toronto locations, including Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, Lee’s Palace, The Cave, and Transac, alongside an outdoor arts market and a dedicated theater space for film scores and related programming.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Festival organizers shared the following:<\/p>\n

We are truly sad to say that …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead will no longer be able to play Prepare the Ground.<\/p>\n

In their stead on Friday, May 29 we are honoured to welcome back one of the most important bands in North American Black Metal, Yellow Eyes. Their 2025 masterpiece Confusion Gate is wholly unique and truly special. We know they will bring a sonic and emotional heightening you’ve come to expect, and maybe even experienced at the first Prepare the Ground.<\/p>\n

“After performing at the inaugural Prepare The Ground in 2024, we’re looking forward to returning this May and being part of the festival’s continued evolution. This will be our only performance in Canada this year.” – Will, Yellow Eyes<\/p>\n

With so many moving parts and artists there are bound to be changes here and there, and we are thrilled to have such a great band step in on short notice.<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to see you all in two short months, ticket supply is getting low. Join us!<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday, May 29th:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Amenra
Yellow Eyes
Blood Ceremony
Blood Vulture
Conjurer
Final Gasp
Indian Handcrafts
Lowheaven
Minsk
Mizmor
Pretty
UUGGHH
Witch Club Satan<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 30th:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Amenra
Burner
Cease
Dear Evangeline
dogwhistle
Malevich
Habak
Oathbreaker (performing Rheia in full)
Oranssi Pazuzu
Pallbearer (performing Foundations of Burden in full)
Portrayal of Guilt
Svalbard (first and last North American show)
T\u00f3mar\u00fam
Wayfarer<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 31st:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

HELL
Hell is Other People
Kathryn Mohr
The Keening
Sara Sloan
Stygian Bough
Tribunal
Torche
Unholy Altar
Unwell
Wiegedood
William Basinski
Wrekmeister Harmonies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unfortunately \u2026And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are no longer able to perform at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,2526,2525,2527,341,44,217949],"class_list":["post-565300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news","tag-prepare-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}