Nu-metal greats Orgy announce joint milestone Australian tour with Cold

Not since the addition of chocolate to milk has there been a collaboration so delicious.

It’s rare that two heavyweights this side of the nu-metal divide can celebrate career milestones, but the stars have aligned, not just for icons of the industrial movement, Orgy, their hard rock counterpart Cold – but for their Australian fans too – with both bands joining forces for an Australian tour marking two unique career moments respectively.

Orgy, who you may know from such speaker-blowing hits such as 1998’s ‘Blue Monday’ cover and 2000’s ‘Opticon’, will be heading down under, holding high above their heads their seminal album, Candyass. The primordial ooze from which ‘death pop’ would emerge, Candyass has hit the silver jubilee with its 25th anniversary. Easily one of the groups – and genres – most celebrated moments, Candyass hit the dizzy end of charts, moving a whopping 1.2m units sold, and scoring both Platinum and Gold accolades.

It’s safe to say, they don’t make them like this anymore and Orgy knows this all too well. The album would become the foundation of considerable ups (and regretful downs) leading all the way to the band’s latest single, 2023’s ‘Ghost’ and ‘Empty’.

Of all the four-letter alt-rock bands to score a legacy, few did so with as much impact as Cold and for proof, you needn’t look further than their formative record Year of the Spider, which turns 20 this year, prompting the band to celebrate accordingly. Though it wasn’t their debut album, which tends to be the biggest for their peers, Spider was Cold’s third, pointing to a staying power that wasn’t always a sure thing in this world. The album was a chart and fan favourite, immortalised with a Gold certification.

Key tracks ‘Stupid Girl’ and ‘Suffocate’ should immediately awaken something in you with both songs copping well-earned rotation at the time, and quite consistently since then. Cold kept the heat on since then, releasing keeping a strong presence through to 2019’s The Things We Can’t Stop.

Now, with their powers combined, Australian fans can brace for a hurricane of time-tested alt-rock with a high chance of some new wears being aired. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest show.