Meshuggah bring their 40th-anniversary tour, with Testament and Blood Incantation, to The Factory

"The Forty-Year Anomaly" stops in Chesterfield on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2027, with one of the heaviest bills St. Louis will see next year.

Three bands, three different ideas of what heavy means, one Tuesday night in Chesterfield. Meshuggah's 40th-anniversary tour is coming to The Factory, and it's bringing a support bill that would headline most rooms on its own.

Meshuggah play The Factory in Chesterfield on Tuesday, February 23, 2027, at 7pm, with Testament and Blood Incantation. The date was announced Oct. 27. Tickets are through Ticketmaster.

The tour is called The Forty-Year Anomaly, and it marks Meshuggah's 40th anniversary. According to Loudwire, the run launches Feb. 12 in Toronto and is booked through May 14 in Milwaukee; Blabbermouth and mxdwn both covered the announcement. Reports put the general on-sale at Friday, Oct. 30, at 10am local time, so tickets are already available. The band's official tour page is at meshuggah.net/tour.

That puts St. Louis less than two weeks into a long spring run — early enough that everyone on the bill is fresh, late enough that the production is dialed in.

Then there's the undercard. Testament are the veteran Bay Area thrash band — decades into a career that predates a lot of the bands they influenced. Blood Incantation are the Colorado death-metal group known for an experimental approach that has made them one of the more talked-about heavy bands of recent years. Put them in front of Meshuggah and the night moves from classic thrash, to adventurous death metal, to the precision-engineered polyrhythms Meshuggah built a four-decade career on.

A support bill that would headline most rooms on its own.

It's an unusually generous lineup for a weeknight. Testament could fill The Factory on their own name; Blood Incantation are a band a lot of younger metal fans would travel to see. For St. Louis heavy-music fans, the value is obvious: this is three shows for the price of one ticket.

The Factory holds 3,000, a strong size for a bill this heavy — big enough for the production a 40th-anniversary tour deserves, but still a room, not an arena. A 7pm start on a Tuesday means doors earlier, and with three bands, getting there on time matters. Don't plan to wander in for the headliner and call it a night; the openers here are part of the point.

St. Louis-area metal fans may also recognize the venue from another heavy announcement this month: Metal Injection reports The Plot In You will kick off their own spring headlining tour at The Factory on March 12. Between the two, Chesterfield is having a good season on the heavy calendar.

February is a long way off, but anniversary tours with bills like this one rarely get easier to get into as the date approaches. Pick up a ticket, take the afternoon of the 23rd seriously, and bring earplugs. You'll want to hear all three bands clearly.

Sources: Meshuggah 2027 tour with Testament and Blood Incantation (Loudwire) (loudwire.com); MESHUGGAH Announces 'The Forty-Year Anomaly' 2027 North American Tour With TESTAMENT And BLOOD INCANTATION (Blabbermouth) (blabbermouth.net); Meshuggah Announce Spring 2027 North American Tour Dates With Testament & Blood Incantation (mxdwn) (music.mxdwn.com); Meshuggah announces 40th anniversary tour featuring Testament and Blood Incantation (Metal Injection) (metalinjection.net); The Plot In You announce 2027 North American headlining tour (Metal Injection) (metalinjection.net); Meshuggah: The Forty-Year Anomaly w/ Testament, Blood Incantation (Live Nation) (livenation.com); Meshuggah tickets – Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.evyy.net)