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
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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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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Tour Dates:
Sept. 9 – Nov. 22 Support Acts:
None Listed Ticketing Info
Sleep
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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. TicketingInfo strong > p >
* 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. TicketingInfo strong > p >
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* P.O.D.havejoinedtheperformance lineupfor theSturgisMotorcycleRally.They’llplaytheBuffaloChiponAug.10ahead ofSkillet. TicketingInfo strong > p >
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