Staind and Breaking Benjamin Announce 2025 Tour Dates

2024-12-03

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Staind and Breaking Benjamin are teaming up for a handful of 2025 tour dates, and they’re bringing Wage War and Lakeview along. – Author: Cat Badra, Photo via Steve Thrasher

Staind and Breaking Benjamin are two of the biggest bands out of the late-1990s and early-2000s post-grunge world. Now, the two are joining up for a lengthy 2025 tour.

Considering these two bands have heaps of active rock radio hits between them, this should come as positive news for fans of modern rock radio.

Staind and Breaking Benjamin Set April Through June Tour Stops

Staind and Breaking Benjamin have announced a co-headlining 2025 U.S. tour with support from Wage War and Lakeview. The trek, called the the Awaken the Fallen Tour, follows the bands’ tour this fall, which was also a co-headlining run with Staind and Breaking Benjamin but had support from Daughtry and Lakeview.

The tour will encompass 20 cities, setting off on April 26 in Mississippi and running through a June 1 date in Missouri. The tour also includes two rescheduled dates in Florida.

Staind are touring in support of their 2023 album, “Confessions of the Fallen,” which marked a return for them after years of Lewis pursuing his solo work and guitarist Mike Mushok playing in other projects, such as Saint Asonia. Breaking Benjamin have been working on new music as of late and released a new single, the top-charting “Awaken,” in October.

Wage War are touring behind their latest album, June’s “STIGMA,” while Lakeview are promoting their self-titled debut album, which dropped in September.

Tickets for the tour go on sale to the general public in Friday, December 6, at 10 a.m. local venue time. View the full tally of tour dates below and on Staind’s website.

Staind Guitarist Mike Mushok Reflects on ’14 Shades of Grey’

While 2000’s “Break the Cycle” was the album that really, well, broke Staind, 2003’s “14 Shades of Grey” put them in the mainstream sphere. In particular, the ballad “So Far Away” of “14 Shades of Grey” got the guys on pop radio at the time.

Speaking with Audio Ink Radio around the 20th anniversary of “14 Shades of Grey,” Mushok said there was pressure to deliver on that album, following the massive success of “Break the Cycle” and that album’s ballad, “It’s Been a While.”

“You go and make your first record, and honestly everybody left us alone. Nobody cared,” he said. “Then, you make the second one, and it sold a million copies. Now, people start to care, and they’re a little bit more involved. Then, after ‘Break the Cycle,’ it was a like, ‘You’ve got to try to duplicate that. We’re like, ‘I don’t know if that’s going to happen but we’ll do our best!'”

In a separate interview with Audio Ink Radio, Mushok also talked about “Break the Cycle” and his first moment hearing the album.

“If I go back to when we did it, I kind of talk about how I remember when the album was done, we were all listening to it, and I felt like we had accomplished what we wanted, and I was really proud of it,” he said, adding that he couldn’t really predict that it would be so huge, though. “There are things that I thought would do great but haven’t, so you don’t really know. So, we’re just very thankful for what that record did and how it helped set up our careers.”

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