Dark Angel

Dark Angel Plus Special Guests Wednesday, 11TH June 2025 The Academy, Dublin Doors 7pm 18+ Tickets on sale Monday 24th February @ 10am   American Thrash Metal legends Dark Angel defined by their over-the-top style earned them the nickname “The L.A. Caffeine Machine”. Despite never achieving mainstream success, the band is often credited as one […]

Vader

Polish death metal legends Vader have returned with their 16th studio album, Solitude in Madness. Never one to rest or relax, Vader have done it all over the course of their 37-year history. From plying super-aggressive thrash under the watchful eye of Communist Poland and signing a worldwide deal with popular UK indie Earache Records to touring the globe—after the dissolution […]

Earthtone9

Genre-bending legends earthtone9 celebrate 25th anniversary of ArcTanGent with special tour Playing iconic ArcTanGent album in full across the UK and Ireland Final run of In Resonance Nexus live dates happening this spring  “I love the ArcTanGent album so much that I named a festival after it. It really is a seminal album in UK heavy music and I can’t wait […]

Primordial

Tickets on sale Friday 7th February at 10am   Primordial Plus Special Guests SOAR The Academy, Dublin Saturday 18th October 2025 Doors: 5pm 18+   Having lasted 32 years, the Irish extreme metal band Primordial blend both the sounds of Death Metal and Celtic sounds. Making it clear they are a primal force who consistently […]

Combichrist

Tickets on sale Monday February 3rd at 10am “Combichrist, a Norwegian / American aggrotech and industrial metal band, continues to evolve and make significant strides in the music industry. In 2024, they released their tenth studio album, CMBCRST, showcasing their dynamic range and commitment to pushing genre boundaries.  The current live band is founder and […]

TERRORVISION

Over a quarter of a century since they last graced the shores of the Emerald Isle, Bradford rockers TERRORVISION will finally return for gigs in Belfast and Dublin on 16/17 May. Bassist Leigh Marklew says, “I can’t believe it’s been that long! Kinda scary how time flies, but also massively exciting for us to be […]

Hanabie

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W.A.S.P. “Album One Alive 2025”

Tickets on sale NOW American heavy metal band W.A.S.P. have announced details of their latest tour ‘Album One Alive 2025’, which will bring them to Dublin’s National Stadium on 22nd July 2025 & Telegraph Building, Belfast on 23rd July 2025. The tour will see W.A.S.P. play their self-titled debut album in full, as well as […]

LORD OF THE LOST

Tickets on sale 24th January at 10am LORD OF THE LOST – A name that over the past 15 years has embedded itself into the top tier of dark and heavy music. Without stagnation the genre-fluid band from Germany continues to explore their facets while showing everyone that boundaries are only meant to be broken. […]

Gama Bomb

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Dopethrone

Tickets on sale WEDNESDAY at 10am Dopethrone is a three piece band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Active since 2008, this DIY band encompasses the bleakness of black metal, the steadfastness of New Orleans-style sludge, and a heavier-than-thou doom mentality. The riffs are thick, punishing, suffocating and destructive, with lyrics based in self-destruction, murder, cannabis and […]

Make Them Suffer

Tickets on sale Friday at 10am Growth, and the desire for eternal forward motion have been the concepts that have defined Make Them Suffer since the very beginning; and have been the foundations that led them from the world’s most remote capital city Perth Australia, to becoming a household name on stages around the world. […]

Cancer

Tickets on sale now Featuring a setlist celebrating 35 years of ‘To The Gory End’ and other classics along with tracks from the forthcoming brand new album. Plus Special Guests: Abaddon Incarnate & Zealot Cult. Cancer are a British extreme metal band formed in Ironbridge, Shropshire, in 1988. Over the course of their career, they […]

ALAIN JOHANNES & EARL OF HELL TOUR 2025

Tickets on sale now RED CRUST PROUDLY PRESENTS ALAIN JOHANNES & EARL OF HELL UK TOUR 2025 The success of the UK tour in 2024 made it a no brainer for a return in 2025 and this time performing twice the amount of dates as the previous year! The list of musicians that Alain Johannes […]

Biohazard and Life of Agony

Tickets on sale Friday 15th November at 9am For the first time ever, Biohazard and Life of Agony will share the stage on a monumental international co-headlining tour. Two of the heaviest bands to ever call Brooklyn, NY home, the metal titans launch the 24-city tour on February 25, 2025 in Nottingham, England, and will […]

Future Palace

Tickets on sale now February 26th 2025 The Grand Social, Dublin Future Palace from Berlin have been proving for years that post-hardcore doesn’t have to be a label with limits, but is a space full of possibilities. In the music of singer Maria Lessing, guitarist Manuel Kohlert and drummer Johannes Früchtenicht, the angriest outbursts of […]

Raging Speedhorn

Plus special guests: Kill The Lights Raging Speedhorn were forged in 1998, in the steel town of Corby, Northamptonshire.  The band brought together members of Box and Soulcellar. The music they wrote was influenced by Iron Monkey, Black Sabbath and bands that ranged from the heavy rock of the 70s through to the metal, punk […]

Rivers of Nihil

Tickets on sale Friday 25th October 2025 at 10am Rivers of Nihil have never fit neatly into a box, but with 2018’s Where Owls Know My Name, they transcended all labels applied to them. Returning in 2021 with The Work, they forged further into new territory, once again upending any expectations fans had placed on […]

VIO-LENCE + SPECIAL GUESTS EXHORDER

Formed in the Bay Area in 1985, Oakland thrashers VIO-LENCE helped define and refine what came to be known as the Bay Area sound. They instilled themselves as groundbreakers of the second wave of thrash with their revered 1988 debut album “Eternal Nightmare”. Throughout ’88 and ’89, VIO-LENCE toured the album to great success alongside thrash comrades like Testament, […]

Falling in Reverse

The Popular Monstour II:World Domination + Special guests: Asking Alexandria, Our Last Night, Tech N9ne Tickets on sale now from www.ticketmaster.ie BAND DROPS “PREQUEL” VIDEO — WATCH HERE FALLING IN REVERSE’s new album POPULAR MONSTER is out now via Epitaph Records. The album, which was produced by Radke and Tyler Smyth, is the band’s first full-length since […]

Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons celebrate 50 years of Motörhead

Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons celebrate 50 years of Motörhead Whelans, Dublin April 19th 2025

Shaman’s Harvest & Blacktop Mojo

A DME & MCD presentation by arrangement with Satellite Touring Shaman’s Harvest & Blacktop Mojo Tickets on sale Friday oct 11th at 10am March 20th 2025 The Academy, Dublin

SLOMOSA

SLOMOSA Tickets on sale NOW Expansive mountains constitute nearly two-thirds of Norway. This breathtaking grandeur gives the country a sense of natural splendor and mystique as if its topography has held secrets for millennia. Hailing from the city of Bergen, Norway, Slomosa channel the sprawl of their surroundings through a sweeping signature hybrid of revved-up […]

Iron Maiden

‘RUN FOR YOUR LIVES’ WORLD TOUR MALAHIDE CASTLE 25TH JUNE 2025 FEATURING A SET LIST DRAWN FROM THEIR CAREER DEFINING EARLY DECADES AND PROMISING THEIR GREATEST SHOW EVER! MARKING 50 YEARS FROM THE BAND FORMING IN 1975 IRON MAIDEN have announced their RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR for Dublin’s Malahide Castle on 25th June […]

Zeal and Ardor

Tickets on sale Friday at 10am. Zeal & Ardor isn’t just a band; it’s a living and breathing entity. Like any other sentient being, it consumes, evolves, and transforms from one season to the next. Its shape may change though its spirit remains the same. Founded and fronted by Manuel Gagneux, it has only sharpened […]

Obscura

OBSCURA Announces February 2025 European Tour German progressive death metal masters OBSCURA are excited to announce their highly anticipated European tour, set to kick off in February 2025. Known for their technical precision and groundbreaking sound, the band will bring their signature blend of crushing riffs and intricate melodies to fans across the continent. Joining OBSCURA on tour will […]

Napalm Death

‘Campaign For Musical Destruction’ 2025 Special Guests: Crowbar, Full Of Hell & The Brat There aren’t many tours that survive for decades and are still just as interesting as before…like the Campaign For Musical Destruction Tour 2025. This successful and extraordinary Tour has been leading Napalm Death through the World for already over 30 Years. […]

Winterfylleth

Winterfylleth Plus Guests The Grand Social 31st January, 2025 7pm

Aborted

Aborted  Plus Special Guests: Crypta, The Zenith Passage & Organectomy 23rd May 2025 The Academy

Gloryhammer

Gloryhammer Plus special guests: Dominum & Fellowship THU, 6 February 2025 The Academy, Dublin