Swedish melodic hard rock powerhouses H.E.A.T are set to return to Australian stages in a few weeks, bringing their electrifying live show back down under for their first headline tour since 2022. Following their standout performances at 2024’s Glam Fest, the band will hit the east coast armed with their new album ‘Welcome To The Future’ and fan favourites.

Seeing is believing when it comes to tribute acts, but when you factor in members from DragonForce, Anti-Nowhere League, Sinsaenum and Tigertailz, the pedigree is there. Chop Suey have been mesmerising audiences worldwide, while Slip-Not are quickly establishing themselves as a class act in their own right.

Beloved Ohio emo veterans Hawthorne Heights have announced local supports for their return to Australia next month to celebrate 20 years of their seminal album 'IfOnly You Were Lonely'. Alternative rockers Heaven // Alone will open festivities in Perth, before passing the baton to post-hardcore band Tapestry, who will warm crowds in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Las Vegas post-hardcore heavyweights Escape The Fate will make their long overdue return to Australia this June, bringing with them US metalcore mainstays The Word Alive - taking in every capital city and a couple of regional ones too!

Sunk Loto return to the stage in August, hitting the Crowbars and the Corner with new single Dead Shadows front and centre. After coming roaring back in 2022, it was like they never went away. Intimate rooms, no barriers. Just the band, the crowd and the music.

28 Days has turned into 30 years! One of Australia’s longest-running and most respected punk bands, 28 Days, will hit the road this June to celebrate three decades of doing things their own way.

Australia… you thought they forgot! They did not. They waited. They sharpened their claws. They let the forest grow wilder, darker, hungrier. Three years is a blink in eternity, yet long enough for the trees to learn your secrets. Now they return not as visitors, but as conquerors. Bring your torches. Bring your madness. Bring your soul laid bare.

American black-metal trailblazers Deafheaven announce their biggest Australian tour to date. Presented by Destroy All Lines, the tour will see them headline some of the country’s most prominent venues across Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane, joined by special guests Nothing and SPY.

New York punk and indie rock acts Prince Daddy & the Hyena and Macseal will make their Australian debut this July, joining forces for an eight-date co-headlining tour. Tickets go on sale Wednesday 25 March at 11am local time via Destroy All Lines.

SOILENT GREEN from New Orleans, USA, are well known as one of the world's premiere Grindcore/Sludge Metal bands. The band's 1990s and early-2000s albums are regarded as trendsetting for the Grindcore genre, with a Rolling Stone article listing Soilent Green as one of the "ten most important hard and heavy bands" of the late 1990s.

Live Nation has announced that American rock band A Perfect Circle will return to Australia and New Zealand this December for their first tour of the region in over a decade. Formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan of Tool, the band last toured Australia in 2013 and have not played New Zealand in more than 20 years.

For the first time ever, Swedish epic doom metal pioneers CANDLEMASS will bring their monumental sound to Australian shores this September and October for a long-awaited debut tour in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

Southern California deathcore wrecking crew Spite will return to Australia in April 2026 for their first-ever Australian headline tour, bringing with them Pennsylvania’s Varials and local heavyweights DIESECT. Today the band reveal the full lineup of local supports joining them across the run.

Australia and New Zealand, get ready! Two indisputable rock icons will join forces in 2026, with American chart-toppers SHINEDOWN and British alternative legends BUSH teaming up for a massive co-headline tour this September, with the tour also marking SHINEDOWN's first performances down under in over 15 years.

This August, Tasmania's finest export, extreme metal pioneers, Psycroptic join like-minded-and-saxophone-wielding US progressive death wizards Rivers of Nihil for a co-headline tour that brings together two elite bands operating at the highest tier of modern death metal. 

Australia, prepare for spectacular sonic annihilation this June, with Michigan juggernauts I PREVAIL set to make their return down under. In what will be their biggest ever Australian tour, I PREVAIL announce today a national headline arena run joined by special guests IMMINENCE and INVENT ANIMATE.

UK pop icon KIM WILDE has thrilled fans across the globe with her infectious hits and exciting live performances. Kim returns in 2026 to thrill Australian fans with The KIM WILDE - CLOSER TOUR.

Texas modern melodic rockers Catch Your Breath have announced their long-awaited debut Australian headline tour this May, bringing with them a catalogue that has already amassed over 360 million global streams and counting.