Anciients announce Canadian summer tour dates; European/UK tour kicks off in September!

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Hot off a giant coast-to-coast Canadian tour with Cancer Bats, Anciients are hitting the country’s coasts hard this summer. The heavy, heady and heartfelt progressive metal band are playing shows in Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec City around headlining Mosh the Rock and their appearance at Progstorm. Joining the Vancouver natives for this run are Unreqvited, Dawn of Ouroboros, Exist and Grey Lotus.

In September, Anciients are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of »Voice Of The Void« with a special show at the Rickshaw Theatre presented by The Invisible Orange. The band’s second album won the 2018 JUNO Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. Their most recent album, 2025’s »Beyond The Reach Of The Sun«, won in the same category.

“We are thrilled to announce a short run of shows around our summer festival performances,” Anciients says. “We’re also very excited to announce our first hometown headline show in nearly two years to celebrate 10 years of »Voice Of The Void«.”

Anciients 2026 Canadian Summer Tour Dates:

August 9 – Sooke, BC @ Mosh the Rock
August 20 – Toronto, ON @ Garrison*
August 21 – Ottawa, ON @ Rainbow Bistro*
August 22 – Montreal, QC @ ProgStorm
August 23 – Quebec City, QC @ L’Anti Bar & Spectacles^
September 12 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre#

*with Unreqvited & Dawn of Ouroboros
^with Unreqvited, Exist & Grey Lotus
# with Tribunal, Worse, Franklin

Read Anciients’ vocalist and guitarist Kenny Cook’s new interview with Absolute Underground HERE.

Following their Canadian summer tour, for the first time in more than a decade, Anciients are touring Europe and the United Kingdom this fall.

Anciients 2026 Ascent Of The Fallen Ones European/UK Tour:

September 26 – Leeuwarden, NL @ Into The Void
September 27 – Cologne, DE @ Euroblast
September 29 – Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade
October 1 – London, UK @ The Black Heart
October 2 – Nottingham, UK @ The Mist Rolling Inn
October 3 – Manchester, UK @ The Lodge
October 4 – Bristol, UK @ The Croft
October 6 – Southampton, UK @ Joiners
October 7 – Brighton, UK @ Dust
October 10 – Nijmegen, NL @ Soulcrusher
October 13 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz 3
October 14 – Madrid, ES @ Rockville
October 15 – Bragança, PT @ JP Rock Cafe

Get your tickets HERE.

Anciients’ award-winning discography is available now on Season Of Mist. Order & stream HERE.

Line-up:
Kenny Cook – Guitar, Vocals
Brock MacInnes – Guitar
Rory O’Brien – Bass
Mike Hannay – Drums

Courtesy of Season Of Mist

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well