Iconic American metal band announces Australian tour in 2026
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Famed US rockers Love/Hate are heading to Australia in January for their first ever tour.

The cult favourites, who are much loved by fans of heavy metal, will be celebrating their 1990 debut Blackout in a Red Room on their tour Down Under.

Fronted by founding member Jizzy Pearl, 67, the band will kick off the tour at the Prince in Melbourne’s St. Kilda on January 15.

A show at Sydney’s Crowbar will follow, before wrapping up the tour in Brisbane on January 17.

Formed in Los Angeles, Love/Hate were seen as groundbreakers forging a new sound that fused metal, glam and ‘sleaze’ rock.

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Famed US rockers Love/Hate are heading to Australia in January for their first ever tour. Pictured: Frontman and singer Jizzy Pearl

Famed US rockers Love/Hate are heading to Australia in January for their first ever tour. Pictured: Frontman and singer Jizzy Pearl

The cult favourites, who are much loved by fans of heavy metal, will be celebrating their 1990 debut Blackout in a Red Room on their tour Down Under

The cult favourites, who are much loved by fans of heavy metal, will be celebrating their 1990 debut Blackout in a Red Room on their tour Down Under

And fans Down Under can look forward to hearing searing live versions of favourite tunes from the band’s landmark debut LP which will be played in full.

Jizzy, real name James Wilkinson, formed Love/Hate in Los Angeles in 1985 after experimenting with a series of looks and different sounds including ‘goth’ and electronica.

The original lineup of Love/Hate comprised of Jizzy and Jon E. Love, Skid Rose, and Joey Gold.

This iteration of the group gained some interest when their song Frauline was used in the horror film Critters 2 in 1987.

A year later another Love/Hate tune, She’s an Angel was used on the soundtrack of A Nightmare on elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

They recorded Blackout in a Red Room in 1989, and though it quickly gained them a following it was never big enough to help the group crack the charts in any major way.

The album managed to make only no. 154 on the US Billboard Top 200 in 1990.

Jizzy, is the only remaining member of the original lineup and over the last forty years has played under the Love/Hate banner, after the band formally split in 1997.

Jizzy, is the only remaining member of the original lineup who formed in 1985 and over the last forty years has played under the Love/Hate banner, after the band formally split in 1997

Jizzy, is the only remaining member of the original lineup who formed in 1985 and over the last forty years has played under the Love/Hate banner, after the band formally split in 1997

‘To all intents and purposes, I’m Love/ Hate now,’ the rocker told Louder magazine on Saturday.

‘All the other old guys have retired. The bass player, Skid, lives in the Philippines, he doesn’t do music any more.

‘The drummer, Joey, has a really amazing job and doesn’t do music any more either.

‘But there’s been a pantheon of Love/Hate music coming out, whether it’s solo Jizzy, Jizzy’s Love/Hate or Love/Hate. They really are interchangeable.’

Fans can book tickets here.

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