Albany-raised pop-punk band State Champs have announced a 13-date tour across the Europe and UK in Winter 2025.
The shows will start in Germany and finish at London’s prestigious O2 Forum on 28th February.
Support acts are: The Home Team and Broadside.
European & UK Tour Dates 2025:
11 Feb 2025 Die Kantin, Cologne,Germany
12 Feb 2025 Übel & Gefährlich Hamburg, Germany
13 Feb 2025 Hole 44, Berlin, Germany
15 Feb 2025 Dynamo, Eindhoven,Netherlands
16 Feb 2025 Zappa JC Antwerp, Belgium
18 Feb 2025 Engine Rooms, Southampton, United Kingdom
19 Feb 2025 O2 Academy, Bristol, United Kingdom
21 Feb 2025 Project House, Leeds, United Kingdom
22 Feb 2025 O2 Ritz Manchester, United Kingdom
23 Feb 2025 SWG3 Galvanizers, Glasgow, United Kingdom
25 Feb 2025 NX, Newcastle, United Kingdom
26 Feb 2025 O2 Institute, Birmingham United Kingdom
28 Feb 2025 O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom
Tickets will be available on Firday 20th, here.
These releases come after the band announced their fifth studio album and self-titled record, “State Champs”, to be released on 8th November, 2024, via Pure Noise Records. Pre-order the album here.
Produced by Anton DeLost (Mayday Parade, Hawthorne Heights), State Champs will showcase some of the best edgy, high-energy tracks that have defined their career thus far, making it the exact right time to debut their self-titled album.
“We found our way, through the ups and downs within us, personally and as a band, and wanted to express that”, explains frontman Derek DiScanio. “This is the right time to showcase it”. Bassist Ryan Scott Graham agrees, “When we stepped back and looked at the songs, sonically and thematically, it’s a great vision of who we are. Every era of State Champs exists within this record”.
Nearly 15 years after the band’s formation, lead singer Derek DiScanio, bassist Ryan Scott Graham, guitarist Tyler Szalkowski, and drummer Evan Ambrosio, found themselves at different points in their personal lives — marriage, kids, and relocations across the country made for a new kind of relationship dynamic.
Comprised of 12 tracks, the songs on this record explode with passionate and smartly constructed precision. While big, bold, and slick, the production nevertheless sounds like a band in a room together or decimating the stage. It’s a perfect example of how the band has become a major player in the pop-punk scene, championing the genre over the past decade.
Starting in bedrooms and basements in 2010, State Champs quickly ascended as leaders of a new scene owing as much to early Fall Out Boy and Green Day as latter-day Warped Tour bands. They have become one of the most recognizable names in pop-punk over the last decade and have helped to define the genre for a new generation of fans. They are experts at building authentic connections with audiences through smart and uplifting songcraft and passionate performances.
Over the course of their career, State Champs has received accolades from the likes of Rolling Stone, MTV, Kerrang!, Upset, Alternative Press, and Rock Sound, among others. Their sophomore album, Around the World and Back, entered the Billboard Current Rock Albums chart at No. 3 and made Rock Sound’s Top 10 Albums of the Year. Living Proof followed in 2018, and that same year Billboard called them “modern-day pop-punk torchbearers”. The band has also collaborated with some of pop-punk’s heaviest hitters, co-writing songs with Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low and Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 on their latest album Kings of the New Age.
On “State Champs”, they cement themselves as an outfit that can and will stand the test of time.
Line-up:
Derek DiScanio – Vocals
Tyler Szalkowski – Guitar
Evan Ambrosio – Drums
Ryan Scott Graham – Bass
