Melrose Avenue are back with another big track, extending their 2026 hot streak, and it finds them toying with the macabre.
Titled ‘Cemetery Friend’, it finds them blending curiously dark tones with frantic pop-rock melodies and metalcore leaning intensity. It further showcases just how chameleon-like the band are, able to master whatever sound or style is put before them, whilst also managing to make it completely their own.
The track also serves as a collaboration with The Funeral Portrait, of which vocalist Vlado Saric explains how they met:
“We met The Funeral Portrait last year whilst out on tour with Ice Nine Kills and there was just an immediate connection that saw us all radiate towards each other. They have this awesome ability to make darkness feel theatrical and when we wrote Cemetery Friend we immediately knew that was what it needed, We essentially wanted this song to feel like a car crash between the 2 acts and we are pretty sure that’s what we’ve achieved here!”
The tune follows on from the previously released ‘Bad Guy’, which sounds like this:
The band are due to take over Europe at the start of 2027 with an extensive tour across the continent. Here are all the dates:
JANUARY
27 – DUBLIN Academy
28 – BELFAST Limelight 2
30 – GLASGOW The Garage
31 – LEEDS The Key Club
FEBRUARY
01 – MANCHESTER Club Academy
03 – BIRMINGHAM Institute2
04 – LONDON Electric Ballroom
06 – UTRECHT TivoliVredenburg Pandora
07 – ANTWERP Kavka Zappa
09 – PARIS Trabendo
10 – COLOGNE Live Music Hall
11 – HAMBURG Gruenspan
12 – COPENHAGEN Hotel Cecil
13 – OSLO John Dee
14 – STOCKHOLM Kollektivet Livet
16 – HELSINKI Tavastia
17 – TAMPERE Olympia
18 – TALLINN Paavli Kultuurivabrik
19 – RIGA Palladium
21 – WARSAW Proxima
22 – BERLIN Columbia Theater
24 – PRAGUE Rock Café
25 – VIENNA Flex
26 – BUDAPEST Analog Music Hall
27 – BOLOGNA Locomotiv Club
MARCH
01 – ZURICH Dynamo
02 – MUNICH Technikum
03 – BARCELONA Razzmatazz 3
05 – MADRID Revilive
07 – LISBON República da Música
