Location: Progresja Club, Warsaw
Date: 16/11/2025
Organizer: Live Nation PolskaLong-time followers know the climb. After years of DIY releases and van tours, Nothing More broke into the mainstream with 2017’s “The Stories We Tell Ourselves”. Its lead single “Go to War” topped Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart and earned the group three Grammy nominations – Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance – placing them shoulder-to-shoulder with Foo Fighters and Metallica at the 60th Grammy Awards. That moment confirmed the band’s instinct that heavy music could be both technically ambitious and emotionally candid. Subsequent tours with giants such as Disturbed, Asking Alexandria, and In This Moment cemented their reputation as one of modern rock’s most vital live acts.
Nothing More have always thrived in the spaces between genres, welding the muscle of alternative metal to the adventurous twists of prog and the hook–craft of arena rock. Front-man Jonny Hawkins delivers lyrics that wrestle with identity, trauma, and modern malaise while the band – Mark Vollelunga (guitar), Daniel Oliver (bass), and Ben Anderson (drums) – builds towering, emotional arrangements around him. As the San Antonio quartet gear up for a new run of dates in 2025, they carry with them a record that crystallizes everything they have learned so far: “Carnal”, the most daring chapter in their catalogue.
Released on 28 June 2024 via Better Noise Music, “Carnal” takes the swagger of 2014’s self-titled “Nothing More” and the introspection of 2022’s “Spirits”, fusing them into a widescreen narrative about desire, damage, and recovery. The album has already spun off three No. 1 U.S. Active Rock singles: “Angel Song” (with David Draiman of Disturbed), the bruising anthem “If It Doesn’t Hurt”, and, most recently, “House on Sand” featuring Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail. Collectively, those tracks have driven “Carnal” past the 100-million-stream mark and showcased Nothing More’s gift for pairing razor-edged riffs with choruses built to echo across festival fields.
The momentum continues in 2025 with a deluxe edition of “Carnal”, landing digitally on 28 March and on CD/vinyl 16 May. The expanded set includes new artwork, three acoustic reinterpretations, and the brand-new single “We’re All Gonna Die”, a nervy, electronic-tinged anthem written in the shadow of AI anxiety and planetary overshoot. Where the original album oscillates between fury and release, the deluxe version lingers on aftermath – proof that Nothing More refuse to let success blunt their appetite for risk.
That sense of forward motion defines the forthcoming “Carnal Tour.” Set-lists will lean heavily on the new record – expect Hawkins to prowl the stage banging his homemade Scorpion Tail percussion rig during “If It Doesn’t Hurt” – but deep cuts such as “Jenny”, “Fade In / Fade Out”, and the Grammy-nominated “Go to War” remain staples. Early routing includes headline plays at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Footprint Center in Phoenix, and MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, before the band crosses the Atlantic for summer festivals. In typical Nothing More fashion, every night is designed as an emotional arc: anger erupts, wounds are examined, catharsis arrives, and the audience leaves lighter than they came.
Nothing More’s appeal lies in that balance – music technical enough for musicians, melodic enough for mainstream radio, and honest enough to feel necessary. “Carnal” is both a summation and a springboard, proof that after two decades the band’s creative engine is still revving high. Catch them on tour to witness a group that continues to redraw the borders of contemporary rock – and invites you to scream along while they do it.
