Festivals

Gods of Chaos, a one-night Halloween event blending metal, hip-hop, horror, and rage, hits Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on October 31, 2025. Presale tickets go live Tuesday, July 29 at 10 a.m. CT, with general on-sale Wednesday, July 30 at 10 a.m. CT. Headliner Three 6 Mafia will […]

Dark Days Bright Nights, the 3-day Richmond, VA-based music festival, will be headlined by Industrial metal act Uniform, hometown post-hardcore outfit City of Caterpillar, and a rare appearance by reunited Tampa hardcore band Reversal of Man. This will mark the second reunion show by Reversal of Man in 25 years. […]

DEFTONES have announced the 2025 installment of their music festival, Dia De Los Deftones. The event, which returned in 2022 for the first time since 2019, will take place on November 1, 2025 at Petco Park in San Diego. Joining the influential alt-metal outfit at this year’s event will be CLIPSE, 2HOLLIS, RICO NASTY, DEAFHEAVEN, REGULO CARO, ECCA […]

Converge have announced their own curated festival, Saddest Day Festival, set to take place December 13 at Roadrunner in Boston, MA. The lineup is stacked with heavy hitters across hardcore and metal, including Touché Amoré, Coalesce, The Hope Conspiracy, and Converge themselves. One slot beneath The Hope Conspiracy is listed […]

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver is tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as this year’s home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 5-6th, 2025. And now the full can-crushing band and brewery lineup can finally be revealed! Freshly reunited sludge/doom legends Acid Bath make […]

Earlier this week, Denver hardcore band Destiny Bond raised concerns about Punk In The Park‘s ties to President Donald Trump, citing a past campaign donation from festival owner Cameron Collins of Brew Ha Ha Productions. Those concerns ultimately led Destiny Bond to drop off the lineup. Now, another local band, […]

📅 September 5–6, 2025📍 The Historic Brass Mug — Tampa, FLPresented by: Tampa Bay Metal Scene Two nights. Twenty bands. Zero mercy.The underground returns to the surface for the seventh annual eruption of sweat, speed, and sonic slaughter. 💀 FRIDAY — SEPTEMBER 5th🧠 LEISHMANIASIS (🇨🇴 Colombia) — Deathgrind sickness from […]

🔥💀 VEGAS GOES UNALIVE 💀🔥#UnAliveFest2026 | March 20–21, 2026📍 The Usual Place, 100 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas21+ ONLY | TICKETS ON SALE OCT. 31 Brace your necks and prep your pit gear — the heaviest weekend in Sin City history is coming. Toe Tag Ent. and Pro Party Productions […]

German progressive metal band, Vanden Plas, have cancelled their ProgPower USA 2025 festival appearance. Festival promoter, Glenn Harveston, has issued the following statement: “In my 24 years as a promoter, I have never come close to experiencing the challenges of this year. Honestly, if this type of year would have […]

The inaugural Unhinged Fest, originally scheduled to take place at The National Western Stockyards in Denver on July 26 and 27, has officially been canceled in its current form. However, organizers have announced that the event will live on in a revised format, now split into two separate shows happening […]