The Aristocrats The Duck Tour 2025

“More fun than fusion has any right to be.”–Rhythm Magazine (UK)Over the past12 years, The Aristocrats–guitarist Guthrie Govan (Steven Wilson, Hans Zimmer, Asia/GPS), bassist Bryan Beller(Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Dethklok), and drummer Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Steve Hackett)–have established themselves as one of the most musically original, refreshingly irreverent, and astoundingly entertaining instrumental rock-fusion acts on the planet. Anyone who’s witnessed their live musical high-wire act–employing random amounts of rock, jazz, pop, metal, country, and anything in between–feels the spirit of a true band, one whose improvisational soul allows for anything to happen onstage at any moment…including the occasional Frank Zappa-influenced wink and nod at the audience.

In 2024the band released their fifth and most ambitious studio work to date–a concept album. Duck is the story of a web-footed Antarctic Island native fleeing a penguin policeman all the way to New York City…where considerable misadventure and danger await. The album takes The Aristocrats’ collective artistry to a whole new mind blowing–albeit ridiculous–level.  With a successful Duck world tour launch across North America in summer 2024 under their belts, the band returns to the United States in 2025 for more musical mayhem.