SiM have 110 million Spotify streams on a single track — “The Rumbling,” the Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 2 theme that hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs in 2022 — and they’re coming to Dallas to play a 1,000-capacity room. That’s not a criticism. That’s the whole story of a Japanese band building a North American footprint the old-fashioned way: one honest-sized show at a time.
The Shonan-bred nü-metal/reggae/punk hybrid — self-described as “Reggae PUNX from Japan” — lands at The Echo Lounge & Music Hall on Tuesday, November 17, the 21st stop of a 23-date North American run supporting their seventh full-length, HOOMAN AFTER ALL, which drops September 2 via UNFD. By the time they reach Dallas, they’ll have already played Houston on November 15 — a hard-run Texas stretch near the close of a coast-to-coast push that started October 15 in San Francisco.
Frontman MAH describes the new record as “a full-on tribute to the prime era of rock from the late ’90s to early 2000s” — which, for a band that blends nü-metal, hardcore, reggae, and ska into something that sounds like nothing else currently doing it, lands as a plausible origin story rather than a marketing line. The lead single “BLiNDEYES” features Yukina from HANABIE; the album also brings in Masato from coldrain and ska collective HEY-SMITH. Their previous album, PLAYDEAD (2023), included “RED,” the Netflix Kengan Ashura theme — another example of SiM finding their audience through anime tie-ins before bringing that audience into the room.
The band — MAH (vocals), SHOW-HATE (guitar), SiN (bass), and GODRi (drums) — have sold out Nippon Budokan and a 17,000-capacity arena in Japan, and they first played the States at Knotfest Meets Ozzfest in 2016. They host their own annual Dead Pop Festival, which draws 15,000 daily attendees. In DFW and across North America, they’re still working the club circuit a decade into US touring, and The Echo’s 1,000-capacity room is exactly the right fit for a band with a genuine streaming footprint that hasn’t yet converted to arena-level draws on this side of the Pacific.
No support acts have been announced for the Dallas date.
The Echo Lounge & Music Hall is located at 1323 N Stemmons Fwy, Dallas, TX 75207. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster; VIP Meet & Greet packages are also on sale.