A 15-Year Celebration Featuring a Full-Catalog Set and Their Most Ambitious Production to Date
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Phoenix, AZ – After a week of widespread speculation sparked by a cryptic yellow brick road teaser reading simply “Summer 2026”, Zeds Dead have officially revealed their next chapter: Journey of a Lifetime, the largest and most ambitious headlining tour of their 15-year career: a full-scale amphitheater and major market run across the U.S. and Canada celebrating the complete arc of Zeds Dead, including a stop in Mesa, Arizona on September 18 and 19.
Journey of a Lifetime is designed as a career-spanning live experience – a full-catalog set drawing from their earliest MySpace releases and Bassmentality-era edits through platinum-certified records, festival-defining anthems, and their most recent cinematic work. It will feature the most expansive production design the duo has ever toured, incorporating evolved visual storytelling inspired by the television and space-travel motifs introduced in the Return to the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness era.
Journey of a Lifetime is designed as a career-spanning live experience – a full-catalog set drawing from their earliest MySpace releases and Bassmentality-era edits through platinum-certified records, festival-defining anthems, and their most recent cinematic work. It will feature the most expansive production design the duo has ever toured, incorporating evolved visual storytelling inspired by the television and space-travel motifs introduced in the Return to the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness era.
Quote from Zeds Dead:
“Journey of a Lifetime is one of the first tracks we uploaded to the World Wide Web as Zeds Dead way back in 2009. 17 years later, it feels like it was a prophecy. We might not have realized it at the time, but we were in fact blasting off into space and leaving behind life as we knew it. This journey is your journey with us as well. We’ve grown up together and celebrated life. We’ve created a world together, and the Journey of a Lifetime tour aims to be our most thorough exploration of it. This will be our biggest tour yet, as it’s taking place in large outdoor venues, and we’re going to make it the best show we can make. It will be the grand finale of everything we’ve been working on. It’s not the end, though. To quote something we sampled in a beat once, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” We’ll be taking some time off in 2027, so we’re going all out on production, new music, and stage design to bring you a new show that will take you on a magical journey. A journey of a lifetime. See you there.“
Since emerging from Toronto’s underground scene in 2009, Dylan Mamid (DC) and Zachary Rapp-Rovan (Hooks) have built one of electronic music’s most loyal and enduring fanbases. What began as DIY weekly parties under the Bassmentality banner evolved into global touring, platinum records, and the launch of their influential independent label, Deadbeats, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year.
Their annual Deadrocks residency at Red Rocks Amphitheatre has sold out every year since 2014, becoming a pilgrimage moment for fans and a cornerstone of North American dance culture. Over time, Zeds Dead shifted away from exhaustive touring toward intentional, multi-night anchor events – treating live performance as a curated ritual rather than a standard run of shows.
The tour will hit 15 dates across major amphitheaters and iconic venues, including two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a return to Toronto, major New York and Los Angeles plays, and select Canadian stops – marking some of their most significant routing in years.
A rotating cast of forward-thinking support will join the run, including ALLEYCVT, Daily Bread, Deathpact, Dr. Fresch, IMANU, Ivy Lab, Mary Droppinz, Moody Good, and Whethan. The lineup will vary across markets, reflecting the genre-fluid ecosystem Zeds Dead have cultivated through both their touring history and the Deadbeats label.
The Arizona stop, produced by Relentless Beats and Low End Lab, along this ‘Journey of a Lifetime’ will take place on Friday, September 18, and Saturday, September 19, at Mesa Amphitheatre. Support for this stop includes IMANU and Ivy Lab, respectively. Further details available here.
Journey of a Lifetime is more than a tour – it’s a reflection point. A celebration of 15 years of genre-defying output, from hip-hop-infused dubstep beginnings to cinematic, cross-genre spectacle. It is both retrospective and forward-looking, reinforcing Zeds Dead’s position as touring architects and cultural mainstays within electronic music.
Tickets for Zeds Dead Journey of a Lifetime Tour go on sale Wednesday, March 11, at 10 a.m. MT. Zeds Dead has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket supports organizations expanding access to music education and other creative opportunities, such as providing instruments, software, and related resources. www.plus1.org.
Visit www.relentlessbeats.com for the most up-to-date information on all Relentless Beats events. Stay connected on Instagram and X at @RelentlessBeats and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/relentlessbeats. Connect with Zeds Dead on Instagram and X at @ZedsDead, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/zedsdead, and through their official site, www.zedsdead.net.
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