Counterculture Rekindles My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult —New Tour for 2026

Sunday, April 12, 2026 — still ahead on the calendar — carries the promise of a night that feels like a flashpoint. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult’s Delicate Terror Tour Part 2 arrives at Paper Tiger under Twin Productions, a fitting home for a group whose legacy intertwines with club culture, industrial theater, and the fringe lanes of American nightlife. Their recent run has been documented as a kind of revival-in-motion, with coverage noting the sustained appetite for their era-defining approach even when paired with other scene giants in cities like Toronto. The San Antonio date now extends that momentum to an audience that keeps asking for it.

The show’s framework leans on a rare contemporary structure: a deep bill built for discovery. Light Asylum’s involvement puts a sharper edge on the night; their catalog remains a benchmark for dark synth intensity. Devora, Heavy Halo, and Die Sexual round out the support, each adding a different lens into modern darkwave, industrial, and electronic mutation. Earlier coverage surrounding the band’s Part 1 routing underscored how these tours work in phases, each reshaped by the current wave of underground acts who orbit the band’s influence. This next San Antonio chapter continues that pattern — part showcase, part séance for a subculture that resists easy definition.

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Paper Tiger continues to serve as a hub for contrasting scenes, aligning with Twin Productions’ consistent strategy of threading legacy artists through a rising class of electronic and post-punk experimenters. This particular lineup reflects that shift. Rather than recreating an earlier version of the Kult, the night positions them among successors who’ve inherited and reinterpreted their blueprint. It’s a reminder that the band’s catalog doesn’t sit still; it gains new function alongside each younger act that steps into the same space.

As the tour approaches, interest has concentrated on how this second installment differs from the earlier run, particularly in how the staging and pacing adjust to expanded lineups and new rooms. If the previous leg’s reception is any indication, San Antonio’s date appears poised to draw both longtime Kult faithful and younger listeners who’ve found the band through club sets, archival revivals, or renewed media attention. The convergence mirrors the way other alternative tours have recently operated — not as retrospectives, but as multi-generational gatherings.

The night ultimately promises a rare intersection: a veteran act in a continued state of reinvention, a slate of support artists at various break-through stages, and a venue calibrated for collision rather than preservation. Paper Tiger has hosted its share of genre outliers, but this one reads differently — a deliberate layering of time, influence, and subculture. If the past few years of coverage around Thrill Kill Kult are any indication, this tour isn’t about revival; it’s about recalibration.

LINEUP

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

Light Asylum

Die Sexual

Devora

Heavy Halo

VENUE

Paper Tiger, San Antonio TX