41 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced This Past Week

Happy holidays! We’e got a flurry of touring activity centering over the U.S. and Canada with a whopping 41 new rock and metal tours announced over the last week. And we haven’t even mentioned the 10 additional festival and special show announcements from this past week.

Leading the pack is the killer co-headline run featuring old pals Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte booked for next summer. We’ve also got a late spring run from AFI, new spring dates for Rise Against and an early year run from Sebastian Bach.

There’s also another great co-headliner with Clutch and Corrosion of Conformity, a powerful pairing of Amon Amarth with Dethklok, a Slaughter to Prevail headline trek, the return of Kreator to the road and new Cradle of Filth dates.

And, as previously mentioned, the festival circuit was busy this week. Creed announced the Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival, the first names dropped for the Upheaveal Festival and we got the full bill from the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival. Plus, it’s looking like an amazing turnout for the annual Ronnie Montrose Remembered tribute taking place at NAMM early in 2026.

See all the major touring announcements from the past week with ticketing info for each listed below.

AFI

Tour Dates: April 15 – May 2
Support Acts: Choir Boy
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Amon Amarth / Dethklok

Tour Dates: April 15 – May 21
Support Acts: Castle Rat
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Arm’s Length

Tour Dates: April 21 – May 24
Support Acts: The Callous Daoboys, Harrison Gordon, Super Sometimes
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Atoll

Tour Dates: Jan. 30 – Feb. 7
Support Acts: Truckstop Dickpill, Squelching
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Avenged Sevenfold / Good Charlotte

Tour Dates: July 25 – Aug. 27
Support Acts: None Listed
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Sebastian Bach

Tour Dates: Feb. 26 – April 10
Support Acts: Stitched Up Heart
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Bilmuri

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 17
Support Acts: The Home Team, Gang!
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Bloodywood

Tour Dates: April 10 – May 17
Support Acts: The Pretty Wild, Ladrones, Ankor
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Brass Against

Tour Dates: Jan. 23 – March 8
Support Acts: None Listed
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Bright Eyes

Tour Dates: May 6 – June 6
Support Acts: Tilly and the Wall, The Moldy Peaches, Built to Spill
Notes: Celebrating 21st Anniversaries of I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.
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Clutch / Corrosion of Conformity

Tour Dates: April 9 – May 3
Support Acts: JD Pinkus
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Collective Soul

Tour Dates: Jan. 29 – July 25
Support Acts: None Listed
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Cradle of Filth

Tour Dates: April 30 – May 23
Support Acts: Suffocation, Ghost Bath, Cultus Black
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Defeated Sanity

Tour Dates: April 16 – May 16
Support Acts: Vulvodynia and Organectomy + Excrescence, Scasm and Horrific Vision
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Deraps

Tour Dates: Feb. 4 – 27
Support Acts: None Listed
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Devo

Tour Dates: April 3 – 17
Support Acts: None Listed
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Filter

Tour Dates: March 5 – April 1
Support Acts: Finger Eleven, Local H
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Goo Goo Dolls

Tour Dates: July 24 – Sept. 6
Support Acts: Neon Trees
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Gov’t Mule / Joe Bonamassa

Tour Dates: July 29 – Aug. 16
Support Acts: None Listed
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Hammerfall

Tour Dates: Sept. 11 – Oct. 8
Support Acts: Evergrey, Elevenking
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Nick Hexum

Tour Dates: Jan. 30 – April 5
Support Acts: Water Tower
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Jeris Johnson

Tour Dates: feb. 8 – March 19
Support Acts: Butcher Babies, Eva Under Fire, Lylvc
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Kreator

Tour Dates: May 7 – 23
Support Acts: None Listed
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Leftover Crack

Tour Dates: Jan. 5 – 17
Support Acts: Pobreska
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The Maine

Tour Dates: March 24 – May 2
Support Acts: None Listed
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Phil Manzanera

Tour Dates: Feb. 11 – 19; May 14
Support Acts: None Listed
Notes: An Evening Of Words And Music With Roxy Musics Phil Manzanera in support of “Revolucion to Roxy” memoir
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Our Lady Peace

Tour Dates: March 5 – April 4
Support Acts: The Verve Pipe
Notes: 30th Anniversary Tour
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Robert Plant With Saving Grace and Suzi Dian

Tour Dates: March 14 – April 7
Support Acts: None Listed
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Rise Against

Tour Dates: March 3 – April 4
Support Acts: Destroy Boys
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Rilo Kiley

Tour Dates: May 25 – 29
Support Acts: None Listed
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Des Rocs

Tour Dates: March 17 – April 22
Support Acts: None Listed
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Rodrigo y Gabriela

Tour Dates: May 6 – 15
Support Acts: None Listed
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Joe Satriani / Steve Vai

Tour Dates: April 1 – May 30
Support Acts: Animals as Leaders
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Slaughter to Prevail

Tour Dates: March 21 – April 22
Support Acts: Whitechapel, Attila
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Slomosa

Tour Dates: March 26 – May 1
Support Acts: None listed.
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Triumph

Tour Dates: April 22 – June 6
Support Acts: None Listed
Notes: 50th Anniversary Tour
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UADA / Mortiis

Tour Dates: April 10 – May 16
Support Acts: Jerome Reuter’s ROME, Wraith Knight
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Vana

Tour Dates: April 17 – June 1
Support Acts: Cloudyfield, Deadlands, RedHook
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Voivod

Tour Dates: March 20 – 27
Support Acts: Bat
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Yellowcard

Tour Dates: May 6 – June 17
Support Acts: New Found Glory, Plain White T’s
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ZZ Top

Tour Dates: March 21 – May 23
Support Acts: None Listed
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Rock + Metal Festival or Special Show News

* Creed’s Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival is returning for 2026 with Limp Bizkit as the other co-headliner. The festival will take place July 18 and 19 at the Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Ill., with support sets from Bush, Cypress Hill, Mammoth, Sevendust, Candlebox, Kittie, Hoobastank, Puddle of Mudd, Sleep Theory, Magnolia Park, Big Wreck, The Pretty Wild, The Verve Pipe, Slay Squad and Ashes of Billy.
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* Speaking of Creed, they along with Three Days Grace will headline Rockin’ Thunder Fest July 11-12 at the Exhibition Lands Racetrack in Edmonton, Alberta.
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* The Upheaval Festival has begun revealing acts for their 2026 festival, which is set for July 17 and 18 at Belknap Park in Grand Rapids, Mich. Among the first reveals are Papa Roach, Bilmuri, Jinjer, Zero 9:36 and Silly Goose.
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* Tom Keifer and Queensryche will co-headline the 2026 M3 Rock Festival May 2 and Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. Buckcherry, Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room, White Lion, Faster Pussycat, Trixter and more have also been announced.
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* Pig Destroyer, Weekend Nachose, Scalp, Year of the Knife, Atomic Rule, See You Next Tuesday, Motherless and more will play the 2026 Forever Deaf Fest April 10-11 at Chicago’s Sleeping Village and Avondale Music Hall.
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READ MORE: 2026 Rock + Metal Festival + Cruise Guide

* The 2026 Minnesota Yacht Club Festival will feature headliners The Strokes, Matchbox Twenty and The Lumineers. Also set to play will be The Black Keys, Mt. Joy, Lord Huron, Geese, Cage the Elephant, Atmosphere, Dashboard Confessional, The All-American Rejects, Semisonic and Die Spitz among others. The music weekend will take place July 17-19 at the Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul, Minn.
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* Earthless, Dead Meadow, John Garcia, Acid King and Nick Oliveri’s Death Acoustic are among the top billed acts at the 2026 Mojave Experience Festival taking place March 20-21 in Joshua Tree, Calif.
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* Power Trip, Casket Robbery, Weekend Nachos and more have signed on for the 2026 Milwaukee Metal Fest June 5-7 at The Rave / Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee.
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* Blood for Blood, Nails, Negative Approach, Angel Dust, Bane, Kickback and more have signed on the play the 2026 Tied Down Detroit taking place May 30-31 at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit.
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* The Ronnie Montrose Remembered concert will return to NAMM in 2026. Members of Montrose, Guns n Roses, Whitesnake, Night Ranger, Dio, LA Guns, Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, Megadeth, Dokken, Ozzy Osbourne, Mr. Big, The Winery Dogs, Winger, Alice Cooper, Ace Frehley, Y & T, Slaughter, Great White, Lynch Mob, Last In Line, Kingdom Come, The Edgar Winter Group, Sweet, Rod Stewart, Lady Gaga, Robbie Krieger Band, Bullet Boys, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and more will play Jan. 24 at the Grand Theater Anaheim Event Center in Anaheim.
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