Punk Rap Duo Ho99o9 Join The Dillinger Escape Plan On 2025 Australian Tour
The LA-based act counts Corey Taylor, Travis Barker and more as fans.
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If you’re unfamiliar with LA-based punk rap duo Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror), that’s all about to change with the enigmatic act announced as tour support for The Dillinger Escape Plan’s hotly anticipated Australian tour.
Formed in 2012 in Newark, New Jersey, by theOGM and Yeti Bones, Ho99o9 moved to LA two years later and quickly became a cult favourite in the underground hardcore scene.
Compared to the likes of Death Grips, Black Flag, Big Black and Bad Brains, Ho99o9 combine rap, punk, industrial metal, horrorcore and more, creating a uniquely artistic sound Loud & Quiet described as a “seething collision of anarchic hardcore punk rock and industrial charged death rap”.
Counting Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Blink-182’s Travis Barker as fans, Ho99o9’s live performances are just as chaotic and demonic as their music.
This isn’t the first time Ho99o9 and The Dillinger Escape Plan have toured together. The last time they shared the stage led to The Chronicle declaring, “Only one band can, or indeed would dare, follow that incredibly powerful and volatile spectacle that was Ho99o9 live on stage. Fortunately for the audience tonight, that band is The Dillinger Escape Plan!”
The tour beings at Perth’s Metropolis Fremantle on Sunday, August 10 and conitnues when The Dillinger Escape Plan and Ho99o9 hit Adelaide’s The Gov on Tuesday, August 12, Melbourne’s Northcore Theatre on Wednesday, August 13 (sold out) and Thursday, August 14, and Sydney’s The Enmore on Saturday, August 16, before finishing up at Brisbane’s The Tivoli on Sunday, August 17.
Tickets are on sale now via thephoenix.au.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan arrived on the scene with their critically acclaimed 1999 debut album, Calculating Infinity. A metalcore masterpiece, it’s the only album to feature original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, who quit the band in 2001 before rejoining in 2023.
Calculating Infinity was called an “instant classic” by Pitchfork, who also said the album inspired “a new generation of mathcore bands.”
The current lineup of original members Dimitri Minakakis (lead vocals) and Ben Weinman (lead guitar/keyboards/piano/backing vocals), alongside James Love (rhythm guitar), Liam Wilson (bass) and Billy Rymer (drums), are ready to incite mosh pits across the nation during their six-date tour with fellow revellers Ho99o9.
Catch The Dillinger Escape Plan and Ho99o9 at The Gov on Tuesday, August 12. Tickets on sale now via thephoenix.au.
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN 2025 Australian Tour Dates
with special guests Ho99o9
Sunday, August 10 – Metropolis Fremantle, Perth
Tuesday, August 12 – The Gov, Adelaide
Wednesday, August 13 – Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
Thursday, August 14 – Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
Saturday, August 16 – The Enmore, Sydney
Sunday, August 17 – The Tivoli, Brisbane
