New Tours: This week features 15 new rock and metal tours announced.
Major Acts: Quicksand and Fucked Up will tour together in September and October.
Festival Dates: The 2027 Inkcarceration Festival dates have been revealed.
Upcoming Shows: Sparta will perform in November with support from Public Opinion.
It was a pretty active week for smaller rock and metal tours. We’ve got 15 new tours to reveal along with details on when the next Inkcarceration Festival will be held.
Leading the way this week, we’ve got a killer double bill featuring Quicksand and Fucked Up. The two veteran acts will hit the road in mid-September carrying over into early October.
Jim Ward will be front and center with Sparta for a series of November shows that will feature support from Public Opinion.
Meanwhile guitar great Jared James Nichols is getting in a short post-Thanksgiving run that carries over into early December.
As previously stated, this week brought the reveal of the 2027 Inkcarceration Festival dates and pre-sale info. Plus we got news on the Fall 2026 Vegas Rocks Awards. See all the big tour announcements from the past week below.
The Allman Betts Band
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Tour Dates: Nov. 28 – Dec. 20 Support Acts: None listed. Notes: 10th Anniversary dates. Ticketing Info
Big Ass Truck I.E.
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Tour Dates: Oct. 10 – Nov. 25 Support Acts: Chamber, Mugshot, Load tha Nine, Restrictor Plate, Surfaced, Lie Ticketing Info
Tour Dates: Sept. 21 – Oct. 25 Support Acts: Chloe Moriondo Ticketing Info
Distant
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Tour Dates: Nov. 16 – Dec. 17 Support Acts: Heavy//Hitter, Katywentmissing, Torn Open, Squelching Ticketing Info
Evil Island
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Tour Dates: Aug. 29 – Dec. 18 Support Acts: None listed. Notes: Supergroup with members of Blood Brothers, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, OFF! and Glassjaw. Ticketing Info
Failsafe
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Tour Dates: Aug. 20 – 22 Support Acts: None listed. Ticketing Info
Havok
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Tour Dates: Oct. 21 – Nov. 20 Support Acts: Hellripper, Slackjaw, Xoth Ticketing Info
Many Eyes
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Tour Dates: Sept. 17 – 21 Support Acts: None listed. Ticketing Info
Andrew McMahon
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Tour Dates: Jan. 16 – Feb. 19, May 7 Support Acts: None listed. Notes: “Strings Attached” symphony shows Ticketing Info
Misfire
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Tour Dates: Aug. 24 – 30 Support Acts: Raider Ticketing Info
Michael Monroe
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Tour Dates: April 29 – May 11 Support Acts: None listed. Ticketing Info
Jared James Nichols
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Tour Dates: Nov. 27 – Dec. 5 Support Acts: None listed. Ticketing Info
Quicksand / Fucked Up
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Tour Dates: Sept. 22 – Oct. 4 Support Acts: None listed. Ticketing Info
Sparta
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Tour Dates: Nov. 3 – 21 Support Acts: Public Opinion, Tribes Ticketing Info
Static Dress
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Tour Dates:
Nov. 4 – Dec. 6
Support Acts:
I Promised the World, Car Underwater, septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou, Sherane, Concealer
Ticketing Info
New Rock + Metal Festivals + Special Shows Announced This Past Week
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* The Inkcarceration Tattoo + Music Festival will return to the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio the weekend of July 16–18, 2027. Pre-sales start today (Aug. 21) at 12N ET. Ticketing Info
READ MORE:
2026 Rock + Metal Festival + Cruise Guide
* The 8th Annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards will take place Sept. 20 at the Orleans Showroom in the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Among those honored will be Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Michael Anthony, Mitch Malloy, DJ Ashba, Chris Kael, Craig Gass, Eddie Trunk, Franky Perez, Gilby Clarke, Zowie Bowie, Armored Saint, Heroine Honey and Pure Sport. Sammy Hagar is also set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Ticketing Info
* EvilDead have announced a pair of SoCal shows. The group will play 1720 in Los Angeles Aug. 28 with Whiplash, Fueled By Fire and High Command. That will be followed by an Aug. 29 date with Whiplash at The Observatory / Constellation Room in Santa Ana, Calif. Ticketing Info
* Below see other big rock and metal bands touring in 2026.
2026 Rock + Metal Tour Guide
These are the biggest rock and metal tours happening in 2026 so far including Metallica, Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance and more.
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