TesseracT returns to the Nile Theater with Entheos and Sunborn

The UK prog-metal band's January run brings them back to the same Mesa room they played in November 2023, on Friday, January 22.

Downtown Mesa's Main Street goes quiet early on most winter nights. On Friday, January 22, 2027, the block around 105 West Main Street will be anything but, when TesseracT headlines the Nile Theater at 8 p.m. with Entheos and Sunborn in support.

It's a return to a familiar stage. The band's last Valley date was here at the Nile, on November 4, 2023, and that's more than three years without them in the East Valley. Tickets are $44.70 through Ticketmaster, where the general on-sale opened October 9, so this one has been on sale for a few weeks already.

The Mesa date sits inside an 18-date North American run that, per the tour listings, opens January 7 at Irving Plaza in New York and goes through Boston, Montreal and Toronto before heading south and west, wrapping at the end of the month in Denver. Live Nation's routing places Mesa between the Texas dates and Los Angeles, so Arizona gets them on a Friday, right before the band reaches the coast.

The Nile holds about 850, close enough to see the guitar work up close.

The support bill is a real reason to show up early rather than an afterthought. Entheos is a progressive deathcore band, heavy and technical enough to feel at home on a TesseracT bill, and Sunborn arrive as recent signees to Solid State Records, which makes this one of the first chances to see them in a room this size before the label puts real weight behind them. All three are progressive in some sense, from the extreme end to TesseracT's own cleaner, more atmospheric take, so the night has a clear shape from first band to last.

TesseracT's most recent full-length is War of Being, released in September 2023 on Kscope, the record that was new the last time they played the Nile. They haven't announced a follow-up, so expect the set to lean on that album and the back catalog rather than to preview anything new.

The Nile is the right size for this. It holds about 850 and is an old downtown theater. A Friday booking means the out-of-town contingent from Tucson and Flagstaff can make a night of it without burning a weekday.

Three years is long enough that a few people in that crowd will be seeing them for the first time. The rest will be checking whether the Nile still shakes the way it did in 2023.

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