Heart Attack Man Set 'Joyride The U.S. & Toronto & Also Vancouver' Tour

Rising punk band Heart Attack Man has announced Joyride The U.S. & Toronto & Also Vancouver tour. The North American Headline tour features special guests The Dirty Nil, carpool, and Dear Seattle. Shows kick off on June 4 in Pittsburgh, with stops to follow in Boston, Brooklyn, Orlando, Nashville, Chicago, Denver, Portland, Los Angeles, and more. Tickets are set to go on sale this Friday, February 28th at 12pm ET and will be available here.

Heart Attack Man recently announced their forth studio album Joyride The Pale Horse, set to be released on April 25, 2025. Pre-orders for the new album, including two exclusive vinyl variants and exclusive merch, are available now here. Fans can stream two new singles – “Laughing Without Smiling” and “Spit” – now.

Ahead of their North American headline run, Heart Attack Man will be on the road this spring in Australia as well as the UK, including performances at Slam Dunk Music Festival. A full list of upcoming shows can be found below.

Upcoming International Tour Dates:

5/8 – North Perth, AUS @ Rosemount Hotel

5/9 – Thornbury, AUS @ The Croxton Bandroom

5/10 – Adelaide, AUS @ Jive

5/15 – Newcastle, AUS @ King Street Hotel

5/16 – Camperdown, AUS @ Manning Bar

5/17 – Brisbane, AUS @ The Triffid

5/24 – Hatfield, UK @ Slam Dunk Festival – South

5/25 – Leeds, UK @ Slam Dunk Festival – North

Upcoming North American Tour Dates:

6/4 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird Café & Music Hall

6/5 – Buffalo, NY @ Rec Room

6/7 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground **

6/8 – Albany, NY @ Empire Underground

6/10 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

6/11 – Amityville, NY @ Amityville Music Hall

6/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Meadows

6/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at The Fillmore

6/16 – Allentown, PA @ Archer Music Hall

6/17 – Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club

6/19 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall

6/20 – Greenville, SC @ The Radio Room

6/21 – Orlando, FL @ The Social

6/22 – Miami, FL @ Gramps

6/24 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft

6/25 – Nashville, TN @ Eastside Bowl

6/27 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall

6/28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi

6/29 – Lexington, KY @ Manchester Music Hall

7/8 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter

7/9 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium

7/10 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge

7/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line **

About Heart Attack Man

Exploring our existential fate, Heart Attack Man ponder not just death, but life in between the crunch of palm-muted pop-punk guitar chords and snappy hooks you just can’t shake. As such, the Cleveland, OH trio—Eric Egan [vocals, guitar], Adam Paduch [drums], and Ty Sickels [guitar]—stare down fate with an ear-to-ear smile on their fourth full-length LP, Joyride the Pale Horse [Many Hats Distribution].

Since emerging in 2014, Heart Attack Man have consistently sharpened their signature style to knife-point precision with clever lyrics as incisive as their airtight songcraft. This sound naturally progressed across Acid Rain EP, The Manson Family, Fake Blood, Thoughts & Prayerz EP, and Freak of Nature. Of the latter, Cleveland Magazine urged, “expect to find the high-energy, simmering pop-punk stylings that the band has established in the past few years — just, with more input and new flair.” Brooklyn Vegan christened them “a rare band who feel catchy enough for arenas and punk enough for basements all at once,” and OnesToWatch applauded their “enigmatic instrumentation and cutting lyrics.” Along the way, ceaseless touring shored up a devout audience behind them, and they amassed millions of streams.

In 2024, the guys opted to reunite with producer Brett Romnes at The Barbershop studio in New Jersey. Musically, they nodded to inspirations as diverse as Hum and Failure as well as Type O Negative, Quicksand, and Unwritten Law. Pushing boundaries, they incorporated different time signatures and coated the soundscape with a thick dose of nineties fuzz.

The group’s mastery of dynamics shines on the single “Laughing Without Smiling.” Creaky acoustic guitar slips into the undertow of a power chord-driven chorus, “And I see you going through the motions of your life and it looks a lot like laughing without smiling.”

The trudging stomp of “Spit” opens with a self-effacing request, “Kill me and replace me with a hologram. No one will ever know the difference, much less even give a damn.” Eric’s scream takes hold on the hook, “The world you’re living in will soon be faded into memory. Spit in the face of humanity,” dissolving into an uneasy guitar lead.

“It gets into A.I.,” he reveals. “What does A.I. mean for the creative process? Is it the end of human creativity? ‘Spit’ is a tongue-in-cheek sarcastic confrontation. I don’t like the idea of everyone relying on robots more and more. It’s my snarky pushback.”

The alternately rumbling and swaggering groove of “The Gallows” mirrors the s-eating grin of Eric’s delivery, “Happy graduation from the gallows! You made it.”

The trip concludes with the title track. His sunny refrain belies the heavy subject matter as a morbidly sweet refrain shines, “Joyride the pale horse, I’ve got a secret handshake with Elvis.”

“It encapsulates the album,” Eric remarks. “In a way, it’s the most abstract tune. ‘Joyriding the pale horse’ sounds biblical. I’m making all of these different allusions to death, but I’m not referencing it outright.”

In the end, Heart Attack Man sound as alive as ever. “When it comes to this band, it feels like everything we’ve done prepared us for this moment,” he leaves off. “We know what we want to do and who we are. We don’t want to know what life looks like without playing music.”

Photo Credit: Sam Skapin

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