Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith open their February West Coast tour at San Diego’s Che Cafe on Friday, Feb. 19, 2027. The 10-date run, reported by Lambgoat on Nov. 13, pairs the goregrind band with the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia death metal group through Feb. 28 at The Cobalt in Vancouver. Acephalix joins the last three dates in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver.
San Diego is the first night, not a mid-tour add-on. The routing is 10 straight dates, Feb. 19 through 28, with no dark night in between. If you want Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith in a small room before the run heads up the coast, this is the date. Ticket prices, an on-sale, set times and local openers have not been announced.
Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith West Coast dates
Lambgoat and Metal Newswire published the same routing. The dates are:
- Feb. 19 — San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
- Feb. 20 — Los Angeles, CA @ Unfair Oaks
- Feb. 21 — Long Beach, CA @ Que Sera
- Feb. 22 — San Luis Obispo, CA @ Humdingers
- Feb. 23 — Oakland, CA @ Stork Club
- Feb. 24 — Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial
- Feb. 25 — Eureka, CA @ Savage Henry
- Feb. 26 — Portland, OR @ High Water Mark (with Acephalix)
- Feb. 27 — Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge (with Acephalix)
- Feb. 28 — Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt (with Acephalix)
After the Che Cafe opener, Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith play two more Southern California rooms on consecutive nights in Los Angeles and Long Beach, then work north through San Luis Obispo, Oakland, Sacramento and Eureka before the Pacific Northwest close. Vancouver is the only date outside the United States. No other support has been named for the first seven shows, and neither announcement listed door times or ticket links.
Blood Monolith and the Che Cafe stop
Blood Monolith released its debut, The Calling of Fire, in May 2025 on Profound Lore Records. The band’s lineup includes current and former members of Nails, Undeath, Ulthar and Genocide Pact. You can find the record and the rest of the group’s releases on Blood Monolith’s official Bandcamp. Lambgoat’s report is the source for that membership and for the May 2025 Profound Lore release date; it does not name individual members or a more specific street date, and it does not give Sulfuric Cautery a hometown.
The Che Cafe is a volunteer-run DIY room on the UC San Diego campus, and it already has a place in our guide to San Diego metal venues. Our Che Cafe venue page is the listing to watch until a Feb. 19 event page goes up. We don’t have that event in the calendar yet, so there’s no show listing to link here. We’ll add it once it’s posted.
If death metal in a small room is the draw, San Diego already has a long-running example in our Pathology band spotlight. Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith are a different bill, but the Che Cafe date is the same idea: a heavy touring act in a room built for the underground, not a seated theater. The announcements also don’t say whether this is an all-ages show, only that it is at the Che Cafe.
What still isn’t public is as important as the routing. Neither Lambgoat nor Metal Newswire listed ticket prices, an on-sale date, set times or who, if anyone, opens in San Diego. Until those details are out, the only confirmed facts for Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith are the 10 dates, the Che Cafe opener, and Acephalix on the last three nights. We’ll update this post if tickets or local openers are posted before Sulfuric Cautery and Blood Monolith reach San Diego.
