In 2026, the Oddworld returns to home soil, with OCEAN GROVE announcing their Oddworld Underground Australian Tour this August, joined by special guests CANE HILL (USA), who will return to Australia for the first time in a decade, as well as DEFICIT and BLINDER.
Commencing on Thursday 13 August in Perth, OCEAN GROVE will unleash captivating chaos with audiences in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle, before closing out proceedings on Saturday 22 August in Brisbane.
New Orleans metalcore act CANE HILL inject towering riffs, soaring melodies and raw heaviness into their unique and compelling sonic DNA. Drawing from metal, alternative and grunge hues, the group seamlessly straddles vulnerability with brutality, lacing their sound with themes of identity, addiction and self-destruction. With three full-length albums in their wake, spanning 2016’s Smile, 2018’s Too Far Gone and 2024’s A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find, CANE HILL remain in constant pursuit of pushing themselves into darker and more experimental territory; a fact seen most vividly on full display with their gripping live performance that has seen them tour alongside The Plot In You, Sevendust, Killswitch Engage.
Ahead of the tour, Cane Hill vocalist Elijah Witt reveals his five favourite songs to play live and why.
DROWNING THERAPY
ELIJAH: Drowning Therapy is definitely a favourite. It’s new, I get to run my falsetto like crazy, and people sing it back. That’s the one that people have told me is relatable, apparently. Didn’t think it would be. So hell yeah, that’s nice.
POWER OF THE HIGH
ELIJAH: I like Power of the High because it’s just a ripper. It’s fast and trippy and weird. And I get to go all over the place and occasionally throw in some of my dumber screams. Some of my stupider shit.
I ALWAYS KNEW WE WERE DOOMED
ELIJAH: I Always Knew We Were Doomed is cool too. It’s a change of pace. I get the crowd to go “ahh!” and it’s just bloody lovely. Crowd involvement. I actually hate it. But realistically, my eyes are closed the whole time. My eyes are closed for like 30 to 45 minutes straight, I don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Until the song is over, my eyes are closed, and then they’re open to find a water bottle and make a joke and then back to it! What if I make eye contact? I don’t want to do that (laughs).
Whatever vibes I feel are in my head, it’s usually “you’re crushing this”, and that’s enough for me. Then I mess up, and then I say “oh, fuck”. It’s like an endless cycle: “you’re crushing this”, then “you messed up”, then “oh, you’re crushing it again”, then “you messed up”. And then my eyes open, the show’s over, and I’m cooling down. “Thank you, I think? I hope you liked it. Sounded like you did?”.
PERMANENCE IN SLEEP
ELIJAH: Another one I’ll say is Permanence in Sleep. It’s bouncy, so people bounce to it, or so I assume!
THE MIDNIGHT SUN
ELIJAH: The Midnight Sun is another one as well. No old songs, really. If anybody was looking for old songs, joke’s on them- we don’t play them! I even said, “We have to play the old songs; it’s been 10 years since we’ve been to Australia!” And my band looked at me like I was brain-dead. I was like, “That’s fair. I don’t care; I like the new songs!”
