Essex-natives BEYOND EXTINCTION and Canadian exports SALEM TRIALS are two of the most exciting downtempo deathcore bands in the international scene today.
From live shows with the biggest names in the genre (Humanity’s Last Breath, Signs of the Swarm, Brand of Sacrifice + more) to releases tallying hundreds of thousands of streams, these two acts push the boundary of how low, slow and vile deathcore can truly get. In March 2027 the UK will be the site of 10 shows jam-packed with ferocity and live energy, with co-headline sets from each band that will throttle audiences nationwide. New music from both groups will be showcased on stages across Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Chesterfield, Stoke On Trent, Essex, Bournemouth, Bristol, London, and Brighton.
CROSS-ATLANTIC DEATH UK TOUR
BEYOND EXTINCTION (co-headline w/ Salem Trials)
Fri 19th Mar – GLASGOW Ivory Blacks
Sat 20th Mar – NEWCASTLE The Lubber Fiend
Sun 21st Mar – LEEDS The Lending Rooms
Mon 22nd Mar – CHESTERFIELD Real Time Live
Tue 23rd Mar – STOKE ON TRENT Riff Factory
Wed 24th Mar – ESSEX Secret Show TBA
Thu 25th Mar – BOURNEMOUTH The Anvil
Fri 26th Mar – BRISTOL The Louisianna
Sat 27th Mar – LONDON Beyond The Grave Festival
Sun 28th Mar – BRIGHTON Daltons
Get your tickets now: https://beyondextinction.online/.
On the marriage of UK/Canadian deathcore, BEYOND EXTINCTION guitarist Danny Russel shares:
“We’re grateful to be touring with Salem Trials around the UK in March 2027, they’re a very heavy band coming all the way from Canada growing their audience like us and we’re excited to have the boys here in the UK. We’ve been sat on some new material for a minute now so I’m excited to play these new songs live on this run.”
SALEM TRIALS‘ drummer Zack Bray continues:
“Salem Trials and Beyond Extinction touring the UK in 2027 is a step in the right direction for a group of Canadian musicians like us. Performing in the UK with a serious band such as BE is the logical next step for us to help solidify our career as international touring musicians and we hope that all the fans who listen to our music come out and enjoy it with us.”
If March 2027 is far too long for you to wait to get your head kicked in by the Essex four-piece, then you can catch them on their upcoming run of autumn and winter shows supporting Burner, plus a handful of other headline dates.
Sat 12th Sep – COLCHESTER Essex Deathfest+
Sat 26th Sep – LONDON The Lower Third*
Thu 29th Oct – BIRMINGHAM The Flapper*
Fri 30th Oct – SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners*
Sat 31st Oct – BRISTOL The Croft*
Sun 1st Nov – BRIGHTON Green Door Store*
Thu 31st Dec – SOUTHEND-ON-SEA The Fickle Pickle+
+ Headliner
* Supporting Burner
Get your tickets now: https://beyondextinction.online/.
n September 2025, Essex’s resident death metallers BEYOND EXTINCTION released their cataclysmically anthropic debut album “Where They Gather”, which was crowned #46 in Metal Hammer’s Top 50 Albums of 2025 and labelled as “a deathcore record so feral and untamed it has the potential to become a scene standout.”
Creating a visually compelling backdrop to their music is a constant element in BEYOND EXTINCTION’s song-writing, embossing their lyrics and ambient soundscapes with personal horrors and realisations. Dense and asphyxiatingly heavy, “Where They Gather” offers a hazed vision of pain and loss, introspection and anthropy, and hindsight and foresight into a world that was not built for us.
2025 was not only the year that saw the fruits of their labour come into fruition in the form of BEYOND EXTINCTION‘s long-awaited anticipated debut album, “Where They Gather”, but they’d also hit the road and performed an array of select headline dates and three successful “I was there!” co-headline shows with blackened deathcore southerners To Obey A Tyrant, Gutrectomy and Kanine, as well as an opening slot at London’s Underworld with straightedge Australians To The Grave and long-time northern savage besties Osiah.
“Where They Gather” – Track Listing
- Bodies At The Gates
- Where They Gather
- Traitors To The Ropes
- Tyranny (Ft. Alex Teyen – Black Tongue)
- Scorched Earth
- Apache (Ft. Josh Davies – Ingested)
- Seven Spires
- Throne Of Atrophy
- Winter Sun
- Mansions Burning On Bleak Horizons
- Earthmurk
- The Mines
It’s not been an easy journey for the Essex based four-piece, with a long and difficult recovery for the band after losing founding member and lead guitarist Zach Scott in 2023 at just 20 years old. 2024 saw the childhood school friends put together a memorial show, titled Never Forget Your Own, a moniker Zach had tattooed on him, at London’s Underworld in celebration of a life well-lived. The stellar line-up of bands, of which Zach had been involved with in one form or another, consisted of headliners Osiah, Beyond Extinction, Godeater, Bitterwood, Existentialist, Dygora, Glower, and How Long You Been Driving. All proceeds were split and donated to three mental health and suicide prevention charities: Help Musicians, Young Minds, and Campaign Against Living Miserably.
In the aftermath and through sheer determination, passion, and the addition of guitarist Danny Russel, who joins Jasper Harmer [vocals], Jude Bennett [guitars], and Niall Ali [drums], death metallers BEYOND EXTINCTION have risen to the challenge. After countless UK tours, festival appearances, two stellar EPs – The Fatal Flaws of Humankind [2021] and Nothing More Wretched [2023] – and their first full length which arrived last autumn, Where They Gather [2025].
