– postpone European co-headline tour with BEYOND THE BLACK! The die is cast: 2021 won’t be the year, AMARANTHE and BEYOND THE BLACK will unleash their monster of a tour to take Europe by storm. The European Co-Headline tour of the Swedish Modern Metal Heroes and Germany’s Melodic Metal icons will be postponed to…
Festival/Tour News
Sweden’s greatest rock stars strike a united blow against the COVID darkness during Lucia!
Sweden, one of the world’s most prominent countries for hard rock and metal music wants to shine a light for the rest of the world through a collective live show. This country has produced internationally successful rock artists and bands since the beginning, such as Europe, Hammerfall and more. Together…
Speed Metal Party: Prestige A.R.G Tullikamarin Klubi Tampere Finland
Speed Metal Party is coming again! The Speed Metal Party will be hold in Tampere Finland on the 2nd of January 2021. The event will take a place at the Tullikamari Club. The thrashing event will feature the legendary reindeer thrash metallers A.R.G., new material released by Tampere-based speed/thrash pioneers…
Brutal Assault confirms the line-up for 2021
As Brutal Assault had to be inevitably postponed to 2021 lots of you have been curious about the line-up. With great pleasure we can announce that the vast majority of the original line-up (90 %) is now confirmed for the next year! If you can’t find any of your bands…
NIGHTWISH – postpone their European tour
During these most peculiar and challenging times we’ve been forced to reschedule our shows, and that’s now also the case with the European leg of the Human. :II: Nature. World Tour. Please check the new dates below. 01.05.21 – 🇬🇧 UK – Birmingham 02.05.21 – 🇬🇧 UK – London 03.05.21…
CIRROSIS (AKA CRS) participate in the largest festival in the history of Mexican metal. MOSHFEST
After 20 years without performing live, CIRROSIS (AKA CRS) returns to participate in the largest festival in the history of Mexican metal: MOSHFEST. After the successful release of their second album The Collector of Truths, which has received excellent reviews in the international press, legendary Mexican tech death band CRS…
Tribulation announces new album, ‘Where the Gloom Becomes Sound’, and European Tour
Sweden’s Tribulation return in the spotlight with a much-anticipated new album entitled Where the Gloom Becomes Sound, to be released via Metal Blade Records (in North America) // Century Media Records (worldwide excluding North America) in January 2021. Having most recently toured comprehensively across Europe with Ghost in support of…
HELLOWEEN – Postpone UNITED ALIVE PART 2 European Tour 2020
With a heavy heart we herewith announce that we are forced to postpone our UNITED ALIVE PART II European Tour 2020. Initially scheduled to take place from the end of September until mid of November 2020, we now rescheduled the tour from April to June 2021. Tickets will remain valid,…
ProgPower USA XXI has been postponed until 2021
Due to ongoing restrictions regarding social gathering amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ProgPower USA XXI has been postponed. The festival will return to Center Stage in Atlanta, September 8-11, 2021. Refunds for all four days will be available for the next thirty (30) days. Tickets will automatically transfer to the new…
Gefle Metal Festival is postponed until 2021
We are very sad to have to inform you that Gefle Metal Festival won’t take place this year. We were hoping that the effects of the Corona virus would be over in July but we realize that this won’t be the case. The most important is the safety for the…
Sabaton Open Air 2020 postponed to 2021
After closely following the development around Covid-19 during the spring and analyzing the current situation in both Sweden and other countries, it is now time to take the very hard decision to postpone this year’s festival. This would have been our 13th festival since the start in 2008. The last…
SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL 2020 CANCELLED
In the last few weeks we have been working hard investigating the possibilities to reschedule the 2020 festival from June to the end of the summer. For a while it looked doable, as we received a very positive response to the plan from artists, suppliers and collaborators. However, due to…
Graspop Metal Meeting 2020 postponed to 2021
The Belgian government has just announced new measures: there are to be no mass gatherings in Belgium until the end of August 2020. We have done everything we could to make sure that Graspop Metal Meeting could go ahead this year, so it is with deep regret that we inform…
Wacken Open Air 2020 Cancelled
THIS YEAR’S WACKEN OPEN AIR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Dear Metalheads, yesterday, the German government decided that due to the Coronavirus pandemic, no mass gatherings will be allowed until August, 31st 2020. We are facing an unprecented situation in our 30 years: It is with heavy hearts that we have to…
COPENHELL 2020 – CANCELLED
COPENHELL WILL NOT TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR The eleventh edition of COPENHELL will unfortunately not take place this year. We were really looking forward to four great days with you this June, but due to the unprecedented situation it is impossible to proceed. The safety of our artists, guests, staff…