For a band that started carving out an audience on the underground circuit out of Scranton in the mid-2000s, headlining a 17,500-seat arena is a particular kind of data point. Motionless In White brings The Sweat And Blood Tour’s second leg to MVP Arena on Sunday, November 15 — one of the closing dates on a fourteen-city run that has taken them through comparable rooms in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Newark. Twenty years in, this is where the band lives now.
About Motionless In White
The quintet — Chris Motionless on vocals, Ricky Olson and Ryan Sitkowski on guitars, Vinny Mauro on drums, and Justin Morrow on bass — will be touring in support of Decades, their seventh full-length, which releases July 17 via Roadrunner Records. By November, the album will have been out four months, long enough for the live versions to have settled into shape. Their previous record, Scoring The End of the World (2022), debuted at the top of the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums chart and reached the upper tier of the Billboard 200 — a commercial footing that made the arena-level headliner less a gamble than a progression. “This band has not only lasted two decades, but we’ve also outlasted all of the obstacles we’ve faced,” Chris Motionless has said. The booking confirms it.
Decades is built for the room. Corey Taylor of Slipknot appears on “Playing God,” Skylar Grey contributes to “R.I.P.,” and Dark Divine’s Anthony Martinez joins on “Blood Rave.” The album was recorded in part in Upstate New York — a detail that gives the Albany stop a particular resonance — alongside sessions in Los Angeles, with co-producers Drew Fulk and Justin “JD” deBlieck. “Decades is definitely heavier than some of our past albums,” Chris Motionless has noted. “Our current world bred more aggressive energy, anger, and resistance.” Supporting the headliner: Dayseeker, The Devil Wears Prada, and Dark Divine — a strong cross-section of the modern metalcore landscape.
About MVP Arena
MVP Arena, at 51 South Pearl Street in downtown Albany, is the Capital District’s principal indoor venue and holds 17,500 for concerts of this scale. It is the room where major touring acts land when they come through the region, and Motionless In White fits that tier.
Tickets & Show Details
Tickets go on general sale June 5, 2026 at 10 AM local time. Doors at 6:30 PM. Get tickets via Ticketmaster.