All the latest major tour announcements from Australia and around the world.
Swedish industrial metal titans, PAIN, will tour Australia for the first time ever in May 2018 in support of their eighth studio album, Coming Home (Nuclear Blast) Led by one of the most iconic and […]
HEAVY SCOTLAND will return with a bang in 2018 with a new date, extending the festival to three days from Friday 31 August to Sunday 02 September, returning to Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange. Exclusively playing in […]
TOOL tribute act, “THIRD EYE” from Melbourne, Australia have been praised for not only the musical likeness of TOOL, but also for their re-creation of TOOL’s live show. The band incorporates breathtaking lighting and […]
Beloved US alt-rockers THE LEMONHEADS will bring their cult live show back to our shores in February and March 2018, thanks to Handsome Tours. Having graced us with his ‘Baby I’m Bored’ LP reissue […]
L.A. GUNS was formed in 1982 by guitar player Tracii Guns and, then unknown singer, Axl Rose on lead vocals. The “classic lineup” of Guns, former Girl singer Phil Lewis, drummer Steve Riley, guitar […]
The gritty underground scene of Northside Dublin in the 1980s, the social unrest of the time…THE COMMITMENTS was a film which captured many a phenomena, though none more resounding than the talents of ANDREW […]
Due to popular demand, rock icon ROGER WATERS has added two new dates to his critically acclaimed US + THEM Australian tour in February 2018, with second and final dates added for Sydney on […]
The Sepulnation is alive and well! Following their crushingly successful 2014 Australian Tour, Brazilian Metal Icons SEPULTURA unleash a heavy metal hurricane upon the Sepulnation in May 2018. Armed with their finest album in […]
Perth’s best boutique all-ages festival is back in 2018 with a huge line-up of scorching hot local and national talent. HyperFest is set to take over Midland Oval once again on Saturday 24 February […]
Venom Inc. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA! The formidable Abaddon, Mantas and Demolition Man descend on Aussie shores for their Avé Australis Tour in February 2018. Formed as Venom in 1979 in Newcastle […]
2018 is set to kick off in the most sensational way. Brand new summer festival, Under the Southern Stars is bringing together the best of Aussie Rock with an international touch. Headlined by the […]
Cursed Earth have announced they will pummel their way through Australia one last time in 2017 this December. Kicking off in Brisbane, the band will headline shows around the nation with support from Shackles. […]
As the dust settles from the huge launch of Sydney’s newest one-day festival Sydney City Limits, the inevitable question of sideshows was bound to arise. It’s an understandable query, as the team behind Splendour […]
Prophets of the rampant 90’s Modern Rock movement SALIVA will be bringing their show to Australian stages for the first time ever. Fans can expect a crushing cross-section of the bands entire catalogue guaranteed […]
Metal United World Wide (MUWW) is a project which brings together metal bands, fans, show organisers, media and other supporters for one big event. The idea is to have metal shows all over the […]
Britain’s rocking roots trio Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are bringing their infectious energy and nostalgia-soaked fusion of rockabilly, vintage country and first-generation rhythm and blues to Sydney and Melbourne in February 2018. Delivering their […]
DESERTFEST LONDON are thrilled to reveal the next 8 acts for the 2018 edition of the festival, who will be joining the likes of MONSTER MAGNET, EYEHATEGOD, NEBULA & JEX THOTH to bring a battering ram […]
Adelaide mainstays GRENADIERS are stoked to release their third LP ‘Find Something You Love And Let It Kill You’ today. So stoked, in fact, that they’ve unveiled a chunk of headline dates to spruik it to the […]
Seminal Glaswegian rock heavyweights MOGWAI announce their return to Australia, playing Sydney and Melbourne headline shows through March, alongside appearances at Perth Festival and Golden Plains. Staggeringly prolific musicians, Mogwai have over the past […]
The world’s premiere rock and metal event is set to hit Australia for the first time with a tsunami of international and local acts flooding Melbourne this coming March. Fifteen mammoth years in Donington UK, […]
Iconic dream-pop/post-punk outfit THE CHAMELEONS (UK) have announced their First Ever Australian headline dates. Fronted by founding member, vocalist and bassist Mark Burgess, the tour will showcase the band’s genre-defining body of work, instigated […]
Handsome Tours proudly presents enigmatic post-rock outfit Godspeed You! Black Emperor, returning to Sydney in January 2018, to perform at The Metro Theatre. The tour follows the release of their sixth album ‘Luciferian Towers’. Godspeed You! Black […]
International rock superstars PARAMORE are making their highly anticipated return to Australia for their first headline shows in four years, bringing Tour Four to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena and Brisbane’s […]
Grammy winning guitar legend & Johnny Winter protege Paul Nelson will be touring the US in support of his critically acclaimed latest album “Badass Generation.” For Paul Nelson, a new musical chapter beckons… Nelson […]
Since forming in 2015 Perth natives Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have had a head spinningly busy 18 months. Not only have the psyche rockers dropped two head rattling LP’s, ‘High Visceral’ Part One and Part […]
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