Distant open their Into Despair USA Tour at The Secret Group on Nov. 17

The deathcore band starts a 20-date U.S. run in Houston on Tuesday night, with Heavy//Hitter and Torn Open on a $20-$25 bill.

Every tour has a first night, and on this one it belongs to Houston. Distant open their U.S. run at The Secret Group on Tuesday, Nov. 17, with Heavy//Hitter and Torn Open on the bill. Music starts at 7 p.m., and tickets are $20 to $25 through See Tickets.

Houston is the first of 20 dates listed for the tour, which means the room at The Secret Group gets the band before anyone else in the country does: fresh setlist, nothing worn in yet, and a crowd that gets to be first.

The run is billed as the Into Despair USA Tour 2026, as listings like El Corazón's show, and it's tied to new music. When the tour was announced in August, Lambgoat reported that Distant's new album, Into Despair, was set for release Nov. 6, with Heavy//Hitter, Katywentmissing, Torn Open and Squelching named as support across the run. For Houston, that puts the show less than two weeks after the record's release date.

Houston gets the band before anyone else in the country does: fresh setlist, nothing worn in yet.

The band has been building up to it all year with a run of singles and heavy-hitting guests. Metal Injection and Lambgoat have tracked releases including "All Will Be (N)one," featuring Suffocation's Ricky Myers, and "Flesh and Nails," with Bodysnatcher's Kyle Medina. Those collaborations tell you where Distant sit: deathcore pulling in guests from across the extreme-music world, and players from those scenes are happy to show up on the records.

Houston has been good to Distant before; in our records, the band has played here more than any other market. That history gives Tuesday's opener a little extra weight. This isn't a band testing an unknown room on night one; it's a band starting where it has a crowd.

The room is small. The Secret Group holds 350, and with three heavy bands on the bill, that's close quarters for a genre built on breakdowns. If you like your deathcore in a room where you can see every member of the band and feel the low end in your chest, this is the format.

After Houston, the tour heads west, with stops in Orange County on Nov. 21, Sacramento on Nov. 22, Portland on Nov. 24 and Seattle on Nov. 25, then on to Denver on Nov. 28 and Kansas City on Nov. 29.

Before you go: 7 p.m. is the listed start, and with Torn Open and Heavy//Hitter opening, getting there early is how you see the whole bill. Tickets at $20 to $25 are about as fair as touring metal gets, so buy through the official See Tickets link rather than resale, and check the ticket page for the age policy before you head out. It's a Tuesday; plan for a late one anyway.

A first night, a small room, and a new record. That's a good Tuesday in Houston.

Sources: Distant announce US tour with Heavy//Hitter, Katywentmissing, Torn Open and Squelching (Lambgoat) (lambgoat.com); Distant - Into Despair USA Tour 2026 (El Corazón) (elcorazonseattle.com); Distant (Metal Injection tag) (metalinjection.net); Distant (Lambgoat) (lambgoat.com); Distant at The Secret Group (See Tickets) (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us); Distant at The Secret Group (JamBase) (jambase.com)