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New Rock and Metal Tours Announced This Week


Key Takeaways

  • Tour announcements: This week features 15 new rock and metal tours, including significant anniversaries.
  • Daughtry’s tour: The band is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special acoustic tour.
  • Final shows: The Dillinger Escape Plan has announced the last shows of their reunion tour.
  • Festival news: Converge’s Saddest Day Festival lineup has been revealed, featuring notable acts.

It was a rather light week for new rock and metal tour announcements, but you are getting some significant new tours in this latest wave of announcements.

Among the 15 new tours this week, we’ve got a special 20th anniversary tour for Daughtry in which the singer and his band will be playing acoustic shows.

All good things must come to an end and The Dillinger Escape Plan’s reunion with Calculating Infinity singer Dimitri Minakakis has seen the last batch of shows revealed.

This past week also saw Danzig finalizing a fall run of dates and another leg for Sleeping With Sirens.

Elsewhere, this week brought us the lineup reveal for Converge’s Saddest Day Festival and P.O.D. have joined the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally performance lineup.

See all the big touring news from the past week below.

A Killer’s Confession

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Tour Dates: Nov. 4 – Dec. 5
Support Acts: Disasterpiece, Dead Things
Ticketing Info

Brand New

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Tour Dates: Sept. 29 – Nov. 14
Support Acts: None Listed
Notes: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Ticketing Info

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Ceremony

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Tour Dates: Sept. 9 – Nov. 20
Support Acts: None Listed.
Ticketing Info

Danzig

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Tour Dates: Sept. 11 – 26
Support Acts: Twin Temple, Burning Witches, ANA
Ticketing Info

Daughtry

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Tour Dates: Oct. 12 – Nov. 14
Support Acts: Ryan Perdz
Notes: 20th Anniversary Acoustic Tour
Ticketing Info

The Dillinger Escape Plan

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dimitri minakakis of the dillinger escape plan in 2024

Tour Dates: Oct. 16 – Nov. 3
Support Acts: Johnny Booth, Many Eyes, XCOMM, Frontierer, Squid Pisser
Notes: Final shows of Calculating Infinity reunion tour.
Ticketing Info

GWAR

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Tour Dates: Sept. 17 – 23
Support Acts: Weedeater, BRAT
Ticketing Info

Imminence

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Tour Dates:
Nov. 13 – Dec. 13
Support Acts:
Dying Wish, Gaerea
Ticketing Info

In the Company of Serpents

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Tour Dates:
July 15 – 23
Support Acts:
None Listed
Ticketing Info

Polyphia

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Tour Dates:
Sept. 5 – Oct. 18
Support Acts:
Ladrones, Intervals, Plini
Ticketing Info

The Record Company

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the record company in 2026

Tour Dates:
Sept. 9 – Nov. 22
Support Acts:
None Listed
Ticketing Info

Sleep

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Emma McIntyre, Getty Images

Tour Dates:
Sept. 8 -29; Nov.4 -17
Support Acts:
None Listed.
Ticketing Info

Sleeping With Sirens

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Tour Dates: Oct. 3 – Nov.14
Support Acts: Rain City Drive, Shyeye
Ticketing Info

Thunderchief

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Tour Dates : July6-Aug .1
SupportActs : Hatchet , PikeorMorningStar
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We Came as Romans

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Tour Dates : Oct.20 -24
SupportActs : Varials , CaneHill
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New Rock + Metal Festivals + Special Shows Announced This Past Week

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* Converge’s Saddest Day festival is locked in for Dec.12–13 at Roadrunner in Boston. Converge will co-headline both nights. They’ll be joined by Cave In, Emma Ruth Rundle, Pig Pen, Deaf Club and Final Gasp on the first night, with Chat Pile, Baroness, Agriculture, Reversal of Man, Habak and Fuming Mouth playing the second day. The second day also finds Converge revisiting their Jane Doe alert live for its25thanniversary.
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* There’s a new multi-market festivalon their horizon called the Dial Up Festival that will feature ‘90s rapper Nelly and ‘90s alt-rock heroes Sugar Ray at each stop.Additional acts taking part include Lit , Smash Mouth , Buckcherry , Warren G., Alien Ant Farm and more.Datesand venues are setfor Nov.7inCastaic (Los Angeles),California , Nov.21inChandler (Phoenix),Arizona and Dec.12inFort Worth , Texas.
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* P.O.D.havejoinedtheperformance lineupfor theSturgisMotorcycleRally.They’llplaytheBuffaloChiponAug.10ahead ofSkillet.
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* Acid Bathhaveadded yetanotherdateto their2o26touring,taking overNewYork’sRooftop atPier17for anAug.21datewithObituaryandThou.
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Please see other rockandmetalbandstouringin2o26inthe gallerybelow.

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The biggestrockandmetaltourshappeningin2o26sofar,includ ingMetallica,IronMaiden , MyChemicalRomanceandmore.

GalleryCredit : LaurynSchaffner



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