Polaris Australia Tour 2027

Polaris have not announced any 2027 concerts in Australia or New Zealand. As of 9 October 2026 there is no headline tour, no festival booking and no one-off show on sale for the Sydney metalcore band, and no date has been published for either country. What has been announced is new music: on 2 September 2026 the band released "Without You", the first single from their upcoming fourth studio album.

That single matters for anyone waiting on tickets. Polaris have built their home-country touring around album cycles: The Mortal Coil, The Death of Me and Fatalism were each followed by a national run, and the Fatalism Tour of September 2023 started barely a week after the record went to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. A new album normally brings a new tour, but until the band confirms cities and venues, any 2027 date you see quoted is a guess, not a fact.

The band's most recent Australian shows were also their biggest. In March 2026 Polaris were special guests for Linkin Park on the Australian leg of the From Zero world tour, playing Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and two nights at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. This page collects what is known about Polaris in Australia and New Zealand — every show in the archive, the songs they play, the regional towns they have reached — and it will be updated the moment a 2027 tour is announced.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about a Polaris tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. The band's own schedule for 2026 has been split between support slots and studio work: they opened for Electric Callboy on the North American dates of the Tanzneid World Tour alongside Scene Queen, played Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach and Sonic Temple in May 2026, and spent the rest of the year finishing the record that "Without You" introduces.

In April 2026 drummer Daniel Furnari said the new album would push the band's sound into "new territory", with some of the least metal moments they have recorded alongside some of the heaviest. Between 24 August and early September 2026 the band teased the release with a series of graphics spelling out the phrase "The Dark Grows Near Without You Here", and confirmed the single to fans by email on 28 August. An album title and release date had not been published by 9 October 2026, and neither had any touring plans tied to it.

History gives some idea of what a home run usually looks like, without promising anything. The Fatalism Tour of 2023 covered Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle, Brisbane and Sydney in ten days, with August Burns Red, Kublai Khan TX and Currents on the bill. The 2024 Australis Tour went the other way, taking the band to more than twenty regional towns from Cairns to Hobart. Whether a 2027 tour would favour capital-city theatres, arenas or the regions has not been said.

New Zealand is the bigger unknown. The setlist archive shows only one Polaris visit across the Tasman: Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in August 2019. Nothing has been announced for New Zealand since, so fans there should treat any 2027 listing with particular caution until the band confirms it.

Before the Polaris Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

The earliest Polaris shows in the setlist archive outside Australia are also their only New Zealand dates. In August 2019, during the run-up to The Death of Me, the band played the Whammy Bar in Auckland on Thursday 22 August, Valhalla in Wellington on 23 August and The Club Tavern in Christchurch on Saturday 24 August. The 13-song set leaned on The Mortal Coil, opening with "Lucid" and "Relapse" and including "Sonder", "Frailty", "In Somnus Veritas", "Hypermania", "The Remedy", "Casualty" and "Consume", and finishing with "Regress".

The pandemic delayed the touring cycle for The Death of Me, and the archive picks up again in autumn 2022. In late April the band played showground dates at Maitland Showground, Exhibition Park in Canberra and the Prince of Wales Showgrounds in Bendigo, with a short set built around "Vagabond", "Hypermania", "The Remedy" and "Masochist" and a cover of Eskimo Joe's "Black Fingernails, Red Wine". In May came The Vagabond Tour, a run of club and pub rooms: two nights at the Bridgeway Hotel in Adelaide on 19 and 20 May, Penrith Panthers Leagues Club, the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle, the UniBar in Wollongong and the Roundhouse in Sydney on Saturday 28 May.

In early March 2023 the band marked ten years together with an anniversary tour, supported by Void of Vision and Pridelands. It opened at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Friday 3 March and continued to The Triffid in Brisbane, the Uni Bar in Hobart, 170 Russell in Melbourne, the Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide and Magnet House in Perth on 12 March. The set was a career retrospective, opening with "Summit" and "Aspirations" from the Dichotomy EP, working through "Unfamiliar" and "Hold You Under", and ending with "Inhumane", which was not released as a single until May that year.

The Fatalism Tour followed in September 2023, only weeks after the death of guitarist Ryan Siew. It began at Metro City Concert Club in Perth on Thursday 7 September and went to Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on 9 September, Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide, the University of Canberra Refectory, Bar on the Hill in Newcastle and Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, ending at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Saturday 16 September. At 16 songs, opening with "Harbinger" and "Nightmare" and closing with "Pray for Rain" and "The Remedy", it is the longest Polaris set in the archive.

Between 27 June and 28 July 2024 the band took Fatalism to regional Australia on the Australis Tour with Ocean Grove, Bloom and Inertia. The archive lists The Union Jack in Cairns, the Uni Bar in Townsville, Magnums Hotel in Airlie Beach, Harvey Road Tavern in Gladstone, Venue 114 in Bokarina, The Powerhouse in Toowoomba, SOPO on the Gold Coast, C.ex Coffs in Coffs Harbour, West Tamworth Leagues Club, the EVAN Theatre in Penrith, Waves in Wollongong, Drifter's Wharf in Gosford, Beer Deluxe in Albury, the Prince of Wales Hotel in Bunbury, Shelter Brewing Co. in Busselton, LOOP in Perth, the Bridgeway Hotel in Adelaide, Ballarat Civic Hall, the Odeon Theatre in Hobart, the Bridge Hotel in Forth, The Wool Exchange in Geelong and finally the Pier Bandroom in Melbourne on Sunday 28 July.

Since then Polaris have mostly played other people's bills. Knotfest's 2025 Australian festival took them to Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday 28 February, Brisbane Showgrounds on 2 March and Centennial Park in Sydney on Saturday 8 March 2025. The archive also lists Pineapple Fields in Woombye on 1 November 2025, Perth HPC on 24 January 2026, Adelaide Showground on 31 January 2026 and the Riviera Beach Club in Elwood on 14 February 2026. The latest entries are the six Linkin Park arena dates of March 2026: Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 3 and 5 March, Rod Laver Arena on 8 and 10 March, and Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March.

The table below lists 63 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Polaris between 2019 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (7), Melbourne (7), Brisbane (6), Adelaide (6), Perth (4), Hobart (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Polaris Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (25 July 2024 to 15 March 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. All of This Is Fleeting — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Dissipate — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Hypermania — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Inhumane — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Masochist — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Nightmare — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. The Remedy — played at 15 of 15 shows
8. Lucid — played at 11 of 15 shows
9. Overflow — played at 8 of 15 shows
10. With Regards — played at 8 of 15 shows
11. Consume — played at 6 of 15 shows
12. Landmine — played at 5 of 15 shows
13. Above My Head — played at 3 of 15 shows
14. All In Vain — played at 3 of 15 shows

Before the Polaris Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• The Australis Tour (2024): 22 Australia/NZ shows — Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Gladstone, Bokarina, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Tamworth, Penrith, Wollongong, Gosford….
• Fatalism Tour (2023): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle, Brisbane, Sydney.
• The Vagabond Tour (2022): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Penrith, Newcastle, Wollongong.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Polaris are regulars on Australia's heavy-music festival circuit. The best documented booking is Knotfest's 2025 Australian edition, announced on 16 October 2024, which the setlist archive records at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Brisbane Showgrounds and Centennial Park in Sydney between 28 February and 8 March 2025. The band played a 12-song set built around Fatalism, from "Nightmare" and "Landmine" through to "Lucid" and "Inhumane".

Other outdoor dates in the archive include the April 2022 showground run at Maitland, Canberra's Exhibition Park and Bendigo, three stage-numbered sets in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on 2, 3 and 4 December 2022, and Perth HPC and Adelaide Showground in January 2026. No Polaris festival booking for 2027 had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Polaris formed in Sydney in 2012, when drummer Daniel Furnari and Jake Steinhauser met at a high-school battle of the bands. Rick Schneider and vocalist Jamie Hails joined soon after; Steinhauser moved from guitar to bass to concentrate on singing, and in November 2013 the band recruited a 15-year-old guitarist, Ryan Siew. The Dichotomy EP came out independently at the end of that month.

The second EP, The Guilt & The Grief, recorded on the North Coast of New South Wales and mixed in Pennsylvania, was released on 29 January 2016 and reached No. 34 on the ARIA chart. The debut album, The Mortal Coil, followed on 3 November 2017 through Resist Records and SharpTone Records; it was nominated for the 2018 ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album and for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards. The Death of Me, released on 21 February 2020, earned a second ARIA nomination.

Fatalism was announced in May 2023 with "Inhumane", which premiered on Triple J. A month later, on 19 June 2023, Ryan Siew died, and the band withdrew from its European festival dates. After talking with Siew's family they decided to release the album and tour it in his honour, describing it as the last set of complete songs they wrote together. Fatalism came out on 1 September 2023 and debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, the band's first chart-topping record, with Jesse Crofts stepping in as touring guitarist.

Since then Polaris have widened their reach without losing their Australian base: a European Fatalism tour in 2024, Knotfest Australia in 2025, an instrumental edition of Fatalism in September 2025, arena support for Linkin Park at home in March 2026 and North American dates with Electric Callboy. Jamie Hails guested on August Burns Red's "Sonic Salvation" in April 2026, and "Without You" opened the campaign for a fourth album in September 2026.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: what the new album could mean

Every Polaris album so far has been followed by a run of Australian shows, and the gap between record and tour has been short: the Fatalism Tour opened in Perth six days after the album was released. With "Without You" out since 2 September 2026, a fourth album is clearly on the way, but no title, release date or tour had been announced by 9 October 2026.

Until the band publishes dates, there is no way to know whether a home tour would fall in 2027, which cities it would include or who would support. This page will be updated as soon as anything is confirmed, and the alert below is the simplest way to hear about it first.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: touring the regions

Few Australian heavy bands have covered as much of the map as Polaris did in mid-2024. The Australis Tour ran for a month and reached places that capital-city tours skip entirely: Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Gladstone, Toowoomba, Coffs Harbour, Tamworth, Gosford, Albury, Bunbury, Busselton, Ballarat, Hobart, Forth in north-west Tasmania and Geelong.

The set barely changed from town to town. Most nights opened with "The Crossfire" and "All of This Is Fleeting", included "Above My Head", "Sonder" and "With Regards", and ended with "All In Vain", "Nightmare" and "Inhumane". It was the same production fans in the capitals had seen, scaled to pubs, leagues clubs and civic halls.

The 2022 Vagabond Tour had a similar spirit on a smaller scale, with the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle, the UniBar in Wollongong and Penrith Panthers alongside Adelaide and Sydney. Whether the next tour returns to the regions is one of the open questions for 2027.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: from the Roundhouse to Rod Laver Arena

The archive tracks a steady climb in venue size. In 2022 Polaris were playing the Roundhouse in Sydney and two nights at the Bridgeway Hotel in Adelaide. By March 2023 they headlined the Metro Theatre and 170 Russell, and in September 2023 they played Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.

In March 2026 they reached the country's biggest indoor rooms as Linkin Park's special guests: Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Rod Laver Arena and Qudos Bank Arena. The support set was short, eight songs from "Nightmare" to "Inhumane", but it put the band in front of the biggest crowds of their career at home.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

New Zealand fans have had little chance to see Polaris. The only visit in the setlist archive is the three-date run of August 2019: the Whammy Bar in Auckland, Valhalla in Wellington and The Club Tavern in Christchurch, all small rooms and all before The Death of Me was released.

No New Zealand date has been announced for 2027 or for any time since. If the band does add Auckland or other cities to a future tour, it will be their first headline shows there in years.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A full Polaris headline set runs to about 13 to 16 songs. On the Fatalism Tour in September 2023 the band opened with "Harbinger" and "Nightmare", moved through "Hypermania", "With Regards", "Lucid", "All of This Is Fleeting", "Landmine", "Overflow", "Martyr (Waves)" and "Parasites", and finished with "Consume", "Dissipate", "Masochist", "Inhumane", "Pray for Rain" and "The Remedy".

Festival and support sets are shorter. At Knotfest 2025 and at Perth HPC and Adelaide Showground in January 2026 the band played 12 songs, opening with "Nightmare" and "Landmine" and closing with "Hypermania", "Lucid" and "Inhumane". The Linkin Park arena shows of March 2026 trimmed that to eight: "Nightmare", "Dissipate", "The Remedy", "Hypermania", "Masochist", "All of This Is Fleeting", "Lucid" and "Inhumane".

Across the archive, "The Remedy", "Hypermania", "Masochist" and "All of This Is Fleeting" are near-permanent fixtures, and "Inhumane" has closed most sets since 2023. New songs from the fourth album, starting with "Without You", would be the obvious change for any future tour.

Polaris Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Polaris tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any website listing seats or offering a "presale code" for a 2027 Polaris tour is not official.

When the band does announce dates, buy only from the official outlet named in the announcement, the venue's own box office or the band's fan presale, if there is one. Many Australian tours now use name-locked mobile tickets, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name. Use the official resale option of the ticket seller if you need to sell or buy a spare.

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Polaris Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are Polaris touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing has been announced as of 9 October 2026. The band released the single "Without You" on 2 September 2026 ahead of a fourth album, but no tour dates have been published.

Are Polaris playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand dates have been announced. Their only visit in the setlist archive was in August 2019: Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

When did Polaris last play in Australia?

On Sunday 15 March 2026 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, as special guests of Linkin Park on the From Zero world tour.

When was the last Polaris headline tour of Australia?

The Australis Tour, a regional run from 27 June to 28 July 2024 with Ocean Grove, Bloom and Inertia, which ended at the Pier Bandroom in Melbourne.

When did Polaris last headline Sydney?

At the Hordern Pavilion on Saturday 16 September 2023, the final night of the Fatalism Tour.

What is the latest Polaris album?

Fatalism, released on 1 September 2023, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. A fourth album has been previewed with "Without You".

Did Polaris play Knotfest Australia?

Yes, in 2025: Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on 28 February, Brisbane Showgrounds on 2 March and Centennial Park in Sydney on 8 March.

How long is a Polaris concert?

A headline set is usually 13 to 16 songs; festival sets are around 12 and the 2026 Linkin Park support sets were eight songs.

Who is in Polaris?

Vocalist Jamie Hails, guitarist Rick Schneider, bassist and vocalist Jake Steinhauser and drummer Daniel Furnari, with Jesse Crofts as touring guitarist.