Lamb of God's 'Into Oblivion' Tour Leaves Reading, PA In Ruins
- Apr 20
- 5 min read
Sanguisugabogg, Kublai Khan TX, and Fit For An Autopsy stacked the bill — and the Santander Arena crowd gave it all back
Saturday night at the Santander Arena in Reading, PA didn't feel like a four-band bill so much as a controlled demolition on a stopwatch. Lamb of God pulled into town on their Into Oblivion Tour with a supporting cast that almost anywhere else would headline in its own right — Sanguisugabogg, Kublai Khan TX, and Fit For An Autopsy — and the near-sellout crowd in Central PA showed up ready to match them.
The tour's marketing materials have been calling this "the heaviest tour of 2026." After Saturday, we're not inclined to argue.
Oh — and at some point during the night, the unofficial MVP award had to go to whoever showed up in a full Spider-Man costume and spent half the evening being passed over the barricade. We'll get to him.
Sanguisugabogg — no easing into anything
Openers usually walk out to a half-full room. Sanguisugabogg did not.
The Columbus, Ohio death metal crew stepped on stage and the floor opened up like someone yanked a drain plug. The mosh/circle pit they got going in the first three songs matched what plenty of headliners pull out of a crowd on a good night. For an opening band on a Saturday before most people have finished their first beer, that's not normal. They've been building this kind of momentum for a while now, and Saturday was clear evidence it's landing.
Pit security earned every dollar during their set — the crowd surfers came in nonstop, rolling waves, like the fans were going for some kind of undocumented record.
What's going on with them right now: Sanguisugabogg are riding their third full-length, Hideous Aftermath, out since October 2025 on Century Media Records and produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge. After wrapping the Lamb of God dates on April 26 in Boston, they fly straight into Europe for a headlining run, then over to Australia and New Zealand in June (most of those dates are already sold out) with PeelingFlesh supporting. Basically — catch them while you still can on a small stage.
Setlist via setlist.fm:
Face Ripped Off
Felony Abuse of a Corpse
Abhorrent Contraception
Dead as Shit
Fit For An Autopsy — the tightest thirty-something minutes of the night
The middle slot can be a weird one — too early for the main event, too late to catch anyone by surprise. Fit For An Autopsy ignored the memo and just went to work. Joe Badolato is a monster behind a mic, and the Jersey six-piece play like a band that knows exactly how much real estate they have and plans to use every inch of it. The pits during their set did not give an inch either.
By the time they wrapped, the building was already at a fever pitch — which is exactly where Kublai Khan TX took the handoff.
What's going on with them right now: Their seventh studio album The Nothing That Is (Nuclear Blast, October 2024) is still in rotation, and they dropped a standalone single, The Wretch, in early 2026. This summer they head to Europe for a run that hits Wacken Open Air, Bloodstock, Brutal Assault, and Motocultor, plus select co-headline dates with Lamb of God and Thy Art Is Murder.
Setlist via setlist.fm:
It Comes for You
The Wretch
Hostage
Warfare
Pandora
Far From Heaven
Kublai Khan TX — Texas throws its weight around
The Sherman, Texas metallic hardcore bruisers pulled direct support and made the case that they belong at the top of any bill they want. If Sanguisugabogg's set was a sprint and Fit For An Autopsy's was a clinic, Kublai Khan TX's was a series of right hooks. Frontman Matt Honeycutt does not need to say much — the band locks in, the breakdowns land where they should, and the whole room nods along in unison.
The crowd-surfer count did not slow down. If anything, it picked up right before the lights went down for Lamb of God.
What's going on with them right now: Their fifth record, Exhibition of Prowess (Rise Records, September 2024), is still the one shaping most of the current set, and they dropped a new single, The Mountain of Corsicana, in September 2025 — a song they've described as a monument to the final man. After the Lamb of God run, they'll be back on the road stateside through the rest of 2026, with a mid-September return at Louder Than Life in Louisville leading into another North American swing.
Setlist via setlist.fm:
Darwinism
Supreme Ruler
Boomslang
Antpile
Self-Destruct
The Hammer
The Mountain of Corsicana
Antpile 2
Theory of Mind
Lamb of God — the whole reason everyone was there
By the time the lights dropped for Lamb of God, autographed vinyl was already wiped out at every merch stand in the building. That was an hour before the headliners hit the stage. It tells you everything about the room's temperature.
The Virginia groove metal architects are touring behind Into Oblivion, which dropped March 13, 2026 — their first full-length since 2022, and the setlist reflects the new era. They opened with "Ruin" and went straight into "Laid to Rest," which is about as close to a pit-opening formal invitation as it gets. From there, the new material slotted in right alongside the old — "Into Oblivion," "Parasocial Christ," and "Sepsis" from the new record held up next to warhorses like "Walk With Me in Hell," "11th Hour," and "Omerta."
Randy Blythe still owns a stage like a guy who has been doing this for twenty-plus years and still genuinely wants to be there. Mark Morton and Willie Adler's chemistry is doing its thing. Art Cruz and John Campbell are the foundation the whole thing sits on.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, Spider-Man went by again. Still unclear if it was the same guy. Pretty sure everyone hopes it was.
They closed with "Redneck," which — honestly — what else would you close with.
Setlist via setlist.fm:
Ruin
Laid to Rest
Into Oblivion
Resurrection Man
512
Omerta
11th Hour
Parasocial Christ
Desolation
Walk With Me in Hell
Sepsis
Redneck
What's going on with them right now: Beyond the current North American run wrapping April 26 in Boston, Lamb of God head to Welcome to Rockville on May 9 and Sonic Temple on May 17, then off to a European leg in late July and August hitting Wacken Open Air, Bloodstock, and headlining shows in Istanbul, Leipzig, and Copenhagen. The Headbangers Boat returns at the end of October.
The bottom line
Central PA got everything it showed up for on Saturday night. Four heavy bands, four distinct flavors of it, one of the most relentlessly active crowds we've covered at Santander in recent memory, and enough crowd surfers to populate a small suburb. The Into Oblivion Tour is exactly what it said on the tin.
If any of these bands are still coming anywhere near you before the tour wraps next weekend — go. You already know what you're getting.
Photos by Scott Kucharski for Three From The Pit. See full galleries linked above.
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