British Metalcore titans Bury Tomorrow have announced their return to Australia September 2026 in support of their latest album Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience. They will be headlining across the country with support from Alabama thrashers, Gideon.

BABYMETAL are set to tour Australian arenas next March joined by Indian metal behemoths BLOODYWOOD. Opening on Thursday 12 March in Perth, BABYMETAL will blaze their way through Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, before concluding their headline run on Sunday 22 March in Brisbane.

Time to dig up the studded belt and dust off the eyeliner — Destroy All Lines presents An Emo Extravaganza, hitting Australia in February 2026. Featuring Anberlin, Cartel, Hot Chelle Rae, Broadside, and This Wild Life.

Fresh off their explosive sold out European arena tour and with over 75 million streams on Spotify fueling their meteoric rise, unstoppable Swedish rock juggernauts, SELF DECEPTION are inbound for their first-ever headline tour of Australia.

Wednesday 13 returns with ‘Mid Death Crisis’, a wild blend of humour, darkness and truth. “Actually, that’s where the title for the album came from. I was complaining after a gig that I was getting old and my guitarist walked past me and said, ‘Oh…mid death crisis’.” Catch him touring Australia with Kim Dracula.

Beloved Ohio emo veterans Hawthorne Heights will return to Australia in April 2026 to celebrate 20 years of their seminal album 'If Only You Were Lonely'. They'll bring with them New Jersey post-hardcore legends Armor For Sleep for a long-awaited headline run celebrating the golden age of emo.

From local talent to international heavyweights, the Big Pineapple Music Festival’s 10th anniversary delivered a wild mix of genres, unpredictable weather, and unforgettable performances. Despite storms, the energy never faded as Betty Taylor, Polaris, The Cat Empire and Hilltop Hoods made it a day of pure live music magic and festival spirit.

Shadow Work by Canadian deathcore legends Despised Icon is a scorched-earth assault of guttural roars, bone-crushing riffs, and machine-gun drumming. Featuring guests from Kublai Khan, Carnifex, Tom Barber of Chelsea Grin, and Misstiq, it’s pure chaos and adrenaline from start to finish, the perfect soundtrack to the zombie apocalypse.

Kalandra will bring their haunting Nordic sound to Australia this November, joined by Australia-born artist Portair. Known for their cinematic blend of folk and rock, the band also unveils their new EP Mørketid, a stirring collection of dark, reimagined songs capturing the beauty and stillness of the northern winter.

Bernth & Charles Berthoud took their online wizardry to the stage with support from The Omnific, kicking off the tour in Brisbane.

Southern California alt-metal powerhouse OF MICE & MEN return in May, as fierce as ever with their legendary live show and Japan’s metalcore prodigies CRYSTAL LAKE. “Australia holds a special place in our heart,” says frontman Aaron Pauley. “We’re stoked to return with a new show and tear the roof off once again. Get ready for the pits!”

UK alt-rock legends Maxïmo Park return to Australia for the first time since 2009 to celebrate 20 years of A Certain Trigger. In April 2026, the band will perform the Mercury Prize-nominated debut in full, alongside fan favourites from their eight-album catalogue.

Today, subversive performance artist and GRAMMY®-nominated metal singer-songwriter Poppy, announces her Constantly Nowhere headline Australian tour for January 2026.

Prepare to step into a spectacular new chapter for melodic hardcore act BLOOM, with the Sydney five-piece set to release their eagerly-anticipated sophomore album this Friday, alongside the announcement today of a national Australian headline tour to officially launch the album on home soil next February, joined by special guests AVOID (USA). 

(HED) P.E. return to shake Australia to its very foundations and they are bringing NONPOINT with them. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their landmark album Broke, the band will deliver a full-throttle set packed with fan favourites like Bartender, Killing Time, and Feel Good;  which featured none other than Serj Tankian (System of a Down) and Morgan Lander (Kittie) on the album.

Polish death metal legends VADER return to celebrate 25 years of Reign Forever World and Litany. Since 1983, they’ve forged one of the most consistent and crushing legacies in European death metal, blending speed, precision and unrelenting aggression. Catch them live as they storm Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Having amassed multiple platinum selling albums across Europe, sold out tours worldwide, shared stages with Sabaton and Nightwish (who have covered a Battle Beast song live); and collaborated with Amaranthe, Battle Beast are thrilled to announce their long-awaited debut Australian tour fresh off the electrifying release of their seventh studio album Steelbound.

“We can do whatever the hell we want,” said Eero Sipilä. ‘Steelbound’ dares to go into sounds outside the traditional heavy metal pantheon, blending classic metal with Broadway tunes, Latin melodies, and cinematic synths. It’s music that makes people happy, an escape from a world that feels like a horror movie.

After a decade away, cosmic doom titans YOB return to Australia in February 2026. The Oregon trio will unleash their monumental, soul-rending sound in a rare series of shows, joined by Australia’s own Mountain Wizard Death Cult.

After a 14-year absence, I See Stars lit up The Triffid with their first-ever Australian headline show. Devin Oliver “took total control of the crowd”, shifting “effortlessly between melodic clarity and guttural intensity” as “massive pit circles” erupted. A “top class” performance that proved the wait was worth it, and Brisbane was in I See Stars heaven.

Bullet For My Valentine brought The Poison’s 20th anniversary tour to Australia with While She Sleeps and The Devil Wears Prada. The tour wrapped up at Brisbane Riverstage, and we were there. Check out the gallery.

Australia, get hyped! German electronicore titans ELECTRIC CALLBOY are thrilled to announce their hotly-anticipated return down under in 2026, with a massive arena headline run locked in next September.

All Time Low have delivered in ‘Everyone’s Talking!’ an album of songs fixed in lived experience that sound like the journey has been painful. The melancholy running through the songs is brilliantly written and expressed through metaphor, imagery and wonderful contrasts.

From the chanting monks of ‘Templars’ to Gustav Vasa’s stand in ‘Till Seger’, Legends pushes history through thunderous riffs and brooding synths. Sabaton move across centuries with tales of Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vlad the Impaler. This is history told as only Sabaton can, fierce, melodic and larger than life.

Post-hardcore trailblazers Thrice return to Australia and New Zealand in 2026, bringing their powerful live show and new album Horizons/West. Fans will experience the new songs live for the very first time, alongside classic tracks from the band’s rich catalogue.

We are about to witness three decades of an uncompromising artistic vision condensed into one spectacularly vicious evening of apocalyptic heresy. A blistering live experience that blends unrelenting ferocity, theatrical grandeur and their signature blackened death metal sound as BEHEMOTH perform tracks from their storied discography alongside new material.

There Is No Memory is an album steeped in life (and lives) lived, in recollections of the past, in the absence of what once was, in the lacuna brought on by the memories of what had been. Jorgensen knew he wanted to write an album about memories, and while demoing tracks, something happened that felt connected.

Shadow Work by Canadian deathcore legends Despised Icon is a scorched-earth assault of guttural roars, bone-crushing riffs, and machine-gun drumming. Featuring guests from Kublai Khan, Carnifex, Tom Barber of Chelsea Grin, and Misstiq, it’s pure chaos and adrenaline from start to finish, the perfect soundtrack to the zombie apocalypse.

“ALL THAT FOLLOWS marks the end of The Death We Seek and the start of a new chapter. These songs reflect our independence, experimentation and collaboration like never before. We explore disillusionment, inequality, betrayal and life’s ambiguity, pouring every experience into our music. It is rarely a happy story but always a cathartic one,” says Wille.

Speaking about the EP, Taylor said: “Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas started as just one song, but the moment we got into the studio, it took on a life of its own. There was so much emotion, nostalgia and chaos wrapped up in it that it didn’t feel right to leave it standing alone. To really honor it, I needed to build a whole world around it.”

Brisbane nu-metal provocateurs Headwreck have dropped their electrifying new EP 'Attitude Adjustment', and share the video for new single "Razor". Headwreck are poised to make a loud, unapologetic statement in the alternative metal scene.

From releasing three brand-new tracks to touring across their own country with the title in blind sight, Japanese band coldrain have kept anticipation high. Now, the quintet has finally unveiled their new EP “OPTIMIZE ”

The Light We Chase exposes darkness and finds clarity in pain. Bloom wrestles with loss, self-worth, and time itself, creating an album that burns with honesty and reflection.

This album is hauntingly beautiful but it still rocks hard with synths, guitar riffs and brutal breakdowns. Even in its hope that experimenting with raising “the dead with miracles” might be a thing, the album is about how the unstoppable road in life unfolds into the horror of time passing and leads inexorably to the grave.

‘Simulacra’ lands as Bad Juju’s darkest, most polished release yet — all bite and distortion with a pulse you can feel in your teeth. It’s big, cinematic, and uncomfortably human. It’s the sound of someone clawing through the static to find something real. The EP’s a mirror cracked wide open, and we’re all staring into the reflection.

The wait is over: superhero metal warriors GRAILKNIGHTS have officially unleashed their brand-new studio album Forever. Packed with anthemic choruses, powerful riffs, and the band’s trademark mix of heroism and humour, Forever marks the Knights’ most dynamic and unifying chapter yet.

Digging into themes of isolation, guilt, anger and that space between feeling everything and feeling nothing, Pincer+'s upcoming album is about what's left when the noise stops and you're stuck with yourself. "It's about losing control, pulling yourself apart, and trying to figure out who you are," says the band.

With Poster Child, Taylor Acorn continues to shape her own lane in pop-punk. Across twelve tracks, she moves through love, self-doubt, and reflection. From the raw emotion of ‘Hangman’ to the nostalgia of ‘Home Videos’, each song shows her growth as a singer and songwriter.

All Time Low have delivered in ‘Everyone’s Talking!’ an album of songs fixed in lived experience that sound like the journey has been painful. The melancholy running through the songs is brilliantly written and expressed through metaphor, imagery and wonderful contrasts.

From the chanting monks of ‘Templars’ to Gustav Vasa’s stand in ‘Till Seger’, Legends pushes history through thunderous riffs and brooding synths. Sabaton move across centuries with tales of Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vlad the Impaler. This is history told as only Sabaton can, fierce, melodic and larger than life.

Para Bellum brings together Testament’s classic heavy sound with moments of experimentation, blending thrash, groove, and melody that revisit different parts of their history while keeping things fresh. It’s a varied and adventurous mix that shows the band still has plenty of fire left, delivering a solid and well-crafted album that plays to their strengths.

Perturbator’s ‘Age Of Aquarius’ is a darkly cinematic fusion of synthwave, rock, and electronica. With collaborations from Ulver, Author & Punisher, and Alcest, the album explores humanity’s self-destructive path through war, fascism, and despair, balancing haunting instrumentals with moments of fragile beauty. A dystopian soundtrack for our times.

“The album isn't about heartbreak over an individual — some of it is — but it's from the state of the world. That's what it is. It's about heartbreak over the loss of childhood and the imagined future that you might have had when you were young, because that doesn't exist. It's actively been taken away from all of us and everything is being stripped before our very eyes, constantly, every single day," says Levinson.

For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band has made it a point to evolve with every album – sometimes dramatically so – never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels.

Deaf Havana’s ‘We’re Never Getting Out’ is an indie-rock soundtrack to existential dread. Across 12 songs, the Veck-Gilodi brothers explore ageing, break-ups, regret and wasted time, wrapping heavy themes in shimmering melodies. It’s devastating yet relatable, balancing heartbreak with fearless songwriting and sonic shifts that keep the band’s sound both fresh and brutally honest.