For better or worse, shock rock has never really gone away — it’s just been waiting for the right moment to crawl back onto amphitheater stages at full volume. That moment arrives summer 2026, when Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson reunite for a sprawling North American Freaks on Parade co-headlining tour, joined by The Hu and Orgy on all dates.
The 21-date run kicks off August 20 in West Palm Beach, Florida, and stretches coast to coast before wrapping September 20 in Concord, California. Tickets roll out via a Citi presale starting Tuesday, January 20, followed by artist presales, with the general onsale Friday, January 23 at 10am local via Live Nation. (The Live Nation announcement includes the full routing and presale breakdown.)
Rob Zombie enters the tour riding a late-career creative high — the rare rock lifer whose brand of horror-show maximalism has remained strangely durable. Across his solo run, he’s refined a formula that fuses grindhouse aesthetics, industrial-metal crunch, and stadium-sized hooks. And with a new album, The Great Satan, positioned as a grime-and-gasoline callback to old-school punk grit (per the tour announcement), Zombie’s side of this package reads like business as usual: loud, cartoonishly theatrical, and engineered to land the same way it always has — like a practical effects explosion.
Manson’s return to large-scale touring, however, arrives with far more baggage.
Since early 2021, Manson (born Brian Warner) has faced multiple allegations of abuse from former partners, most prominently actor Evan Rachel Wood. Following the public allegations, Manson was dropped by his record label, and a wave of industry distancing followed.
The legal timeline has been messy and highly public. In 2022, Manson filed a lawsuit against Wood; in November 2024, he agreed to drop the lawsuit and pay roughly $327,000 in her attorney fees (as reported by the Associated Press). Separately, on January 24, 2025, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced it would not file criminal charges after a four-year investigation, citing legal and evidentiary constraints.
All of that context matters here, because this tour doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Manson’s music has always traded in provocation — but in 2026, the question isn’t whether the show will be shocking. It’s whether audiences and promoters treat “shock” as theater, history, or something that still carries consequences.
The presence of The Hu and Orgy adds to the tour’s lineup. The Hu’s throat-singing-fueled metal has crossed borders and playlists, while Orgy’s sleek, late-’90s industrial gloss is pure era-specific adrenaline. Together, the undercard sketches a lineage of heavy music that values spectacle, identity, and image as much as volume.
The Complicated Legacy of Shock Rock in 2026
Freaks on Parade arrives at a moment when the culture is more fluent in power dynamics than it was when shock rock ruled MTV after midnight. Zombie’s camp-horror world feels largely insulated from that reckoning. Manson’s presence, by contrast, guarantees friction — between nostalgia and scrutiny, between the mythology of transgression and the reality of what’s been alleged, litigated, and debated in public view.
Whether fans show up for catharsis, controversy, or sheer volume, one thing is certain: this tour will be talked about as much as it’s heard.