DevilDriver rolls into Houston on Thursday, August 20 — third stop on a four-city Texas run that has already moved through San Antonio and Austin, with Dallas two days out. That routing isn’t casual. The band knows this geography, and this leg is built to work it without a soft night in the sequence.
The occasion is Strike and Kill, DevilDriver’s 11th studio album, out July 10 on Napalm Records. Lead single “Dig Your Own Grave” — a groove-driven track built around aggressive dual-guitar riffing from Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold, synthesizers threading through the breakdown, Dez Fafara’s vocals landing like they always have — sets the record’s temperature early. Fafara on the concept: “One wrong decision, one wrong move can see your whole world turned upside down.” The band debuted it live at Welcome to Rockville in May. The tour is the full road test.
Worth flagging about this particular lineup: founding bassist Jon Miller is back after more than ten years away. The Santa Barbara groove metal outfit — Fafara up front, Lee and Mangold on dual guitars, Davier Ortega Perez on drums — has ten previous full-length albums behind it and a career’s worth of world tours logged. Strike and Kill sounds, based on the single, like a band that hasn’t run out of things to be furious about.
The support bill is stacked. Upon A Burning Body — Texas groove metal and deathcore outfit — opens, which is about as close to a hometown booking as this tour gets for them. Ov Sulfur, the Las Vegas blackened deathcore collective featuring ex-Suffokate vocalist Ricky Hoover, rounds out the three-act night. Six o’clock start time. If that seems early, three full sets will account for it.
House of Blues Houston at 1204 Caroline Street holds 1,800 — exactly the right tier for a touring metal headliner who has spent two-plus decades earning this floor. Not a small club, not an amphitheater. A working room for a working band. More shows hitting the Houston concerts calendar all summer.
Tickets are available via the link below. Show date: Thursday, August 20, 2026. Doors at 6:00 PM.