Spotlight: Highly Suspect 'As Above, So Below' New Zealand Tour

Selling out venues across Aotearoa when they visited here last year, Highly Suspect are bounding back our way for a triple date arena tour starting in late November. The Cape Cod, Massachusetts rock collective of Johnny Stevens, twin brothers Rich Meyer and Ryan Meyer, Matt Kofos, and Mark Schwartz unleashed their fifth studio album As Above, So Below in July — envisaged by Stevens as a back-to-basics opus, "strip(ping) back all of the bullshit" sonically and emotionally to reveal the group's riff-powered core. Having already achieved staggering success in the streaming realm, Billboard charts (multiple singles have hit number one on the US Rock chart) and with five Grammy nominations so far, best move fast to catch Highly Suspect's mighty return to local stages — playing headline dates at Auckland's Spark Arena, Wellington's TSB Arena and Christchurch's Wolfbrook Arena...

Highly Suspect - As Above, So Below New Zealand Tour 2024

Wednesday 27th November - Wolfbrook Arena, Christchurch
Friday 29th November - TSB Arena, Wellington
Sunday 1st December - Spark Arena, Auckland

Tickets on sale now at highlysuspect.net

Sing along with the official lyric video for 'Summertime Voodoo' from As Above, So Below...

Press release:

Rock fans rejoice. Multi-grammy award-nominated and gold certified band HIGHLY SUSPECT are returning for one massive Arena tour of Aotearoa. Kicking off the tour in Christchurch at Wolfbrook Arena on Wednesday, 27 November 2024, the band then head to Wellington’s TSB Arena on Friday , 29 November, before wrapping up the tour in Auckland, at Spark Arena on Sunday, 1 December.

Never content to follow, HIGHLY SUSPECT push rock music forward by trusting their instincts and raising a middle finger to everything else. The multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated and gold-certified band - Johnny Stevens [vocals, guitar], Ryan Meyer [drums, vocals], Rich Meyer [bass, vocals], Matt Kofos [guitar] and Mark Schwartz [keyboards/guitars] - don’t just talk about burning the rules and breaking the mold; they actually do so.


The band’s chemically imbalanced mix of gritty guitars, haunting piano, off-kilter synths, hip-hop production, cinematic vision, and beautifully possessed vocals transformed them into a phenomenon beloved by a diehard global fanbase known as “MCID” [My Crew Is Dope]. After grinding it out as an underground curiosity, they scraped a path to mainstream infamousness with their 2015 full-length debut, Mister Asylum. It earned a GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Rock Album” as the single ‘Lydia’ received a nomination for “Best Rock Song” was certified gold by the RIAA.


The 2016 follow-up The Boy Who Died Wolf roared to life with the gold-selling “My Name Is Human,” which catapulted to #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and garnered a GRAMMY® Nomination for “Best Rock Song.” 2019’s MCID affirmed them as the rare outfit who could collaborate with Young Thug and Gojira on the same album. Loudwire hailed the latter among the “50 Best Rock Albums of 2019.”

With hundreds of millions of streams and sold out shows on multiple continents, Highly Suspect charged ahead of the pack again on 2022’s The Midnight Demon Club with no compromises and no apologies as they challenged rock to be dangerous and maybe even life-changing again. Now in 2024, they are celebrating the release of their latest opus, As Above, So Below, via Roadrunner/300/Elektra.