Legendary Swedish Death Medal quintet The Crown have announced their intention to hang up their boots at the end of 2026 after thirty five years in the game. Before that happens the band have announced a farewell tour that includes a number of festival stops to celebrate everything they have achieved in career spanning sets.
It seems CKY related bands simply can’t let the residents of Skull Island rest with their former vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller bringing 96 Bitter Beings to our shores for no less than nine February shows. The news appears on the eve of the bands “Synergy Restored Winter Tour 2025” in North America that runs
East Coast Hardcore Punks Cold World have announced a trio of shows in the United Kingdom in January. They will be joined by High Vis and Cannonball across all three shows with Despize, Wits End and Dynamite filling in the gaps. For those not in the know, Cold World feature in their ranks the legendary studio
Desert Storm duo, the brothers Ryan and Elliot Cole will take their instrumental Stoner Progressive Stoner Sludge Metal project Wall on the road again in April and May next year. They will be providing direct support to Gnome on their UK tour, the road to Takedown Festival, minus two shows as follows:
After Live Nation announced the UK shows ahead of time, Oakland Californians Machine Head have now blown the bloody doors off by announcing the full UK and European tour. All shows will be in the “Evening With” style, meaning no support bands, just two career spanning sets from the headliners, comprising three hours of “molten
Live Nation have got in ahead of Oakland Californians Machine Head and announced a run of “Evening With” shows for last year’s Bloodstock Open Air Festival headliners in the United Kingdom in May. Given the dates it doesn’t appear to be the complete list with further shows expected in Europe, but it breaks down as
Curiously the Viking Metal horde that is Amon Amarth have announced a European run dubbed “The Allfarther Awakens Tour” with the tag line “a new album awaits“. The shows will find them marching alongside Swedish Melodic Death Metal heroes Orbit Culture and Soilwork, raiding cities from Manchester to Lisbon in Autumn 2026. Something wicked this
Kansas City, Missouri Mathcore pioneers Coalesce have announced an April European tour with San Francisco, California Sludge fueled Post Metal act Kowloon Walled City. The shows follow the bands performance at Roadburn Festival in Holland with the run finishing just 24 hours before Relapse Records do a vinyl reissue with some new merch on 26th
Joining the a total wave of European tour treks being announced for 2026 at the moment is a co-headlining run that will see Japanese Metalcore merchants Crystal Lake and Americans Miss May I go head to head from Utrecht to Birmingham. They’ll be joined by Great American Ghost and Diesect for the purpose…
Century Media signings and Progressive Death Metal overlords Cryptosis have announced that they will be providing support to Voivod and Midnight on their UK and Ireland tour in the summer of 2026. The shows will take the bands from London to Limerick over nine nights with the suspicion that more dates will be added for
