Self-described as a “bald and bearded, metal-headed, hill hiking, dopamine dealing, loud sounding man”, Seattle-based comedian LUKE SEVEREID has made a name for himself around the globe, fusing comedy with a love for heavy metal music and unique insights on life and the world swirling around him.

In 2026, the Oddworld returns to home soil, with OCEAN GROVE today announcing their Oddworld Underground Australian Tour this August, joined by special guests CANE HILL (USA), who will return to Australia for the first time in a decade this year, as well as DEFICIT and BLINDER.

Dead of Winter Festival 2026 is proud to announce the addition of SYDONIA to this year’s Resurrection lineup - marking the band’s first Brisbane performance in over 10 years.

UK dark rock icons The Sisters of Mercy will return to Australia at the end of 2026, bringing their acclaimed live show back across the country, including a stop in Hobart!

Fresh off the back of the release of their powerful and defiant new single and video, ‘Break The Cycle’ and news of their signing to BMG Australia & New Zealand Rise Records US, regional Victorian metalcore four-piece Ocean Sleeper are unstoppable – today revealing details for their biggest Australian national tour to date, setting stages alight this September.

The distinctive look, sound and feel of Linkin Park isn’t easy to replicate. Hybrid Theory are the only Linkin Park Tribute that do the band they respect and admire complete justice and its obvious to everyone who has seen them in concert that they truly love what they do.

Welsh rock trio Holding Absence have announced Brisbane emo trailblazers, Stepson, as national opening supports for their first ever Australian headline tour this August, alongside California metalcore outfit Kingdom of Giants.

TSIM have agreed to headline their FIRST NATIONAL TOUR IN OVER 30 YEARS. Because TSIM wants all your money, they will entice you to come to EVERY show on the tour by playing a RADICALLY DIFFERENT selection of fan favourites each night. Plus all the other weird shit that goes on at a TSIM show.

Legends of modern heavy music, Killswitch Engage return to Australia and New Zealand in 2026, bringing more than two decades of genre-defining metal to the stage with their biggest Antipodean headline shows yet, joined by special guests, British heavyweights, Sylosis.

2027 will bring pure ecstasy for Australian BEARTOOTH fans, with the prolific rockers today announcing their biggest Australian headline tour ever next January, joined by special guests FIT FOR A KING and VOLUMES.

Direct from Spain, THE BUZZ LOVERS are the Best Nirvana tribute in the Universe. Performing the Best of Nirvana including ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, ‘Come As You Are’, ‘Heart Shaped Box’ and more, their authentic and raw energy is so spot on it’s insane, “you will literally think it’s Nirvana”.

For the first time ever down under, US thrash metal legends Flotsam and Jetsam will join forces with Australian thrash pioneers Mortal Sin for a devastating co-headline tour across Australia this September and October.

Australia, get set to step into oblivion and mosh until the world goes cold this October when GRAMMY Award-nominated metal pioneers LAMB OF GOD team up with fellow modern metal lords TRIVIUM for a mammoth national co-headline run, joined by special guests BLEED FROM WITHIN.

Ferocious and uncompromising in their execution, CARCASS’s ability to intricately dissect the innards of death metal, and display them for us to sonically understand has been their point of excellence for nearly four decades.

‘’To all our fans in Australia, unfortunately our airline has cancelled all of our return flights due to the routing through the Middle East. We booked these flights back in December, but due to the current conflict, all our flights have been cancelled.”

Black metal force GAEREA will make their long-awaited Australian debut this July, bringing their immersive and emotionally-charged live ritual across the country. Joined by Ironstone and a stacked lineup of local supports, the tour promises an intense collision of atmosphere, technicality and raw extremity.

US power-pop legends Enuff Z’Nuff and Sunset Strip icons Pretty Boy Floyd have teamed up for a double assault on Australia this November with the ‘RU PRETTY ENUFF’ Tour. A full-blown celebration of hooks, hairspray, melody and unapologetic rock ’n’ roll excess.

RBD2K26 is set to take over Mansfield Tavern with a stacked lineup packed full of heavy hitters, all united to raise funds and awareness for mental health.