Nekrogoblikon announced headline Academy, Dublin show for Wednesday, 24 September 2025. Posted: April 23, 2025

Tickets on sale Friday @ 10am The self-proclaimed “Kings of Goblin Metal,” Los Angeles, California’s Nekrogoblikon are melodic hard rock pranksters who deploy gnarly death metal earworms filled with crafty hooks, claw-pumping choruses, lightning-fast riffs, and over the top, EDM-style keyboard flourishes. With their ostentatious goblin hypeman John Goblikon, the band takes cues from hyperbolic […]

Orange Goblin Posted: April 22, 2025

Orange Goblin END OF TRANSMISSION TOUR Special guests Grand Magus & Urne Tickets €44.20 (inc booking fee) from Ticketmaster.ie Bookings Subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (Max €10.50) 

Make Them Suffer *Venue Upgrade Due to Demand* Posted: April 15, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW! Australian metalcore band Make Them Suffer have just announced a venue upgrade due to demand for their headline Dublin show now set for The Academy, May 14th 2025, alongside very special guests Resolve, Conjurer & If Not For Me. Tickets from €27.50 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale now!. Bookings subject to 12.5% service […]

Better Lovers Posted: April 14, 2025

Tickets €32.65 (inc booking fee) from Ticketmaster.ie Bookings Subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (Max €10.50)​​​​​​​ By challenging each other to progress, Better Lovers challenge heavy music to move forward along with them. Driven by the same restless spirit and clear intention, this cohort of longtime musicians have rallied around a shared vision of creative […]

Portal Posted: April 11, 2025

Tickets €35 Available From: whelanslive.com // (Wav) 1890 200 078 • Ticketmaster.ie *Inc Booking Fee. Bookings Subject To 12.5% Service Charge Per Ticket (Max €10.50)

Those Damn Crows Posted: April 09, 2025

Tickets €23.50 (inc booking fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale NOW Bookings Subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (Max €10.50) There’s a song on God Shaped Hole, the fourth album from powerhouse UK rock band Those Damn Crows, that sums up everything about them. The track is called No Surrender and it pulses with defiance […]

DROWNING POOL & SPINESHANK Posted: April 07, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW! Drowning Pool & Spineshank announces a co-headline headline show set for later this year at The Academy, Dublin on Thursday 13th November 2025 with support from nu metal band Hed PE!  Tickets from €38.50 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie on sale Wednesday 9th April 2025 @ 10am. Bookings subject to […]

Swallow The Sun Posted: March 27, 2025

Tickets €30 (inc booking fee) from Ticketmaster.ie Bookings Subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (Max €10.50) More than two decades of despair, beauty, and heartache have not only shaped but fueled Finnish melancholy torchbearers, the chart-topping and two-time Finnish Grammy nominated Swallow The Sun. Formed in Jyväskylä in 2000, the quintet has enjoyed numerous fan-lauded […]

thrown Posted: March 27, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW Since forming in 2021, Swedish heavy weights thrown have been mesmerising the metal world with their signature blend of aural violence, live intensity and enigmatic performances. thrown are undoubtedly the most listened to new metal artist right now, having already amassed over 105 million streams worldwide since the release of their […]

I Am Mobid Posted: March 11, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW! Tickets from €35.65 (inc booking fee) from Ticketmaster.ie. Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50) American death metal band I Am Morbid formed in late 2016, by former members of Morbid Angel. feat. David Vincent, Pete Sandoval, Bill Hudson, Richie Brown. announce a headline Academy, Dublin show for Tuesday, August 5th […]

Pentagram Posted: March 10, 2025

Tickets €33.65 incl. booking fees on sale Wednesday at 10am You can try if you want – you wouldn’t be the first – but Pentagram are undeniable. More than 50 years on from the first incarnation of the band, through decades of tumult, hard wins and tough losses, the band has cast an influence across […]

Dark Angel Posted: February 21, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW! 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 of the leaders of the second wave of the 1980s thrash metal movement, and as one of the progenitors of […]

Vader Posted: February 18, 2025

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 Posted: February 05, 2025

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 Posted: February 05, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW!   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 lay it all on the line. Primordial have just announced their headline gig in The Academy, Dublin on Saturday 18th […]

Combichrist Posted: January 30, 2025

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 Posted: January 29, 2025

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 Posted: January 29, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW! Tokyo-based all-girl rock band Hanabie has been making waves since 2015, when YUKINA, MATSURI, and HETTSU came together for a high school club activity. With the addition of CHIKA in May 2023, the band has evolved into a force to be reckoned with. Hanabie have just announced their headline gig in The Academy, Dublin on Tuesday […]

W.A.S.P. “Album One Alive 2025” Posted: January 29, 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 Posted: January 21, 2025

Tickets on sale NOW! 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. Juggling elements of […]

Gama Bomb Posted: January 16, 2025

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Dopethrone Posted: December 16, 2024

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 Posted: December 10, 2024

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 Posted: November 21, 2024

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 Posted: November 20, 2024

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 Posted: November 13, 2024

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 Posted: November 08, 2024

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 Posted: November 01, 2024

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 Posted: October 23, 2024

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 Posted: October 15, 2024

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, […]

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