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Post-hardcore/mathcore bands awakebutstillinbed and For Your Health have announced a summer U.S. tour. The announcement follows For Your Health’s recent album news, while awakebutstillinbed’s last release was 2023’s chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger. 06/14 Bowling Green, OH @ Fauxchella 8* 06/18 Columbus, OH @ Dirty Dungarees* […]

Kansas City-based band Young Medicine will begin its latest tour in Columbus this week, complete with its signature synthesizers and visually dynamic light design. The synthwave-metal group — comprised of drummer Michael McEvoy, lead guitarist and vocalist Josh Hurst and keyboardist and vocalist Bret Liber — will play the first […]

Get ready, metalheads! Toronto’s Inertia Entertainment has got an epic update for you: It’s a Heavy Metal Movie Night, baby! They’re screening “Murder In the Front Row – A Documentary Film” all about the rise of the Bay Area Thrash Scene, featuring interviews and footage from the big cheeses like […]

Hold onto your spandex, America! British glam-rock clowns-turned-legends THE DARKNESS are crashing back into North America for a two-part tour that’s longer than Justin Hawkins’ falsetto notes. First leg? Kicking off August 29 at Rocklahoma (because what’s more rock ‘n’ roll than Pryor Creek, Oklahoma?) and rolling through September like […]

This fall the OG shock rock boogeyman ALICE COOPER and leather-clad metal titans JUDAS PRIEST are hitting the road together for a tour that’ll make your parents’ inner headbangers proud. Brought to you by the concert wizards at LIVE NATION, this 22-city chaos parade kicks off September 16 in Biloxi, […]

MICHAEL SCHENKER is taking his legendary guitar skills to Japan in January, and he’s bringing along keyboard wizard DEREK SHERINIAN for the ride! They’ll be making a stop at the iconic Budokan, and fans are surely going to lose their minds. It all started in 2021 when SCHENKER invited SHERINIAN […]

Fresh off the press: Sweden’s favorite purveyors of violin-infused metalcore (yes, violins) are touring south of the equator to hype their 2024 album The Black. Because nothing says “Nordic gloom” like playing Mexico City during hurricane season. Fun fact: IMMINENCE frontman Eddie Berg does vocals AND violin simultaneously during live […]

So here’s the deal: Rich Hall, the big kahuna of one-person booking outfit 1000 Knives and absolute godfather of NYC’s metal scene, sadly kicked the bucket this January. Dude basically welded the scene together with pure grit and probably a few too many energy drinks. His wife Carrie Whitney-Hall dropped […]

Metal Madness Alert! GOJIRA & Loathe: Because One Show with KORN Just Isn’t Enough! French progressive metal titans GOJIRA (yes, the ones with four GRAMMY Award nominations and one win – talk about a nice consolation prize, btw) are teaming up with UK’s alternative metal rising stars LOATHE for a […]

Sleuths Unite! Over the weekend, eagle-eyed fans spotted mysterious posters popping up around NYC, and now the cat’s outta the bag: TURNSTILE is set to shred Under The K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, NY on June 05th! This explosive show is conveniently timed to whet your appetite for their brand […]