3 October 2026 – Enter Shikari Announce a 2027 Dormancy, but They Are Very Specifically Not Calling It a Break-Up

St Albans group Enter Shikari have announced that the band will become dormant as a recording and performing entity after December 31, 2027, ending more than two decades of almost continuous activity while carefully avoiding the words everybody immediately expects: break-up. The group say they do not know whether the dormancy will eventually end in renewed activity or become permanent, but stress that they do not currently consider themselves finished.

The decision comes as Enter Shikari approach the twentieth anniversary of debut album Take To The Skies and reflect on a musical partnership that began when the members were teenagers. They cite changing priorities, the personal cost of maintaining a professional band for decades and recent health difficulties experienced by frontman Rou Reynolds, although discussions about the future had begun before his illness.

Importantly, there is still considerable activity ahead. New music is being worked on, another filmed project has already been completed, and the band hope to revisit favourite places during the next fourteen months without packaging the shows as a conventional farewell tour. For a group that has spent its career gleefully refusing straightforward genre labels, even its hiatus apparently requires unusually precise terminology. Dormant, then. Not extinct. Check back after the volcano has had some sleep.