25 New Rock + Metal Tours + Five Festivals Announced This Week


We’ve got 25 new rock and metal tours and an additional five big festival announcements this week.

With the weather starting to get nicer, the touring season is ramping up and there were several major tours announced this past week. Hatebreed and High on Fire will keep metalheads rocking, while A Day to Remember and The Used promise plenty of energy when they hit the concert stage. Plus, you’ve got rock vets Godsmack announcing more shows and Stone Temple Pilots and Live are teaming up for a run.

It was also a big week on the festival front with the Lollapalooza festival reveal. Meanwhile, Quebec’s Festival d’ete Quebec and Milwaukee’s Summerfest finalized their plans for 2024 as well.

What’s got your attention? Which concerts and festivals will you be seeing? See what was just announced this past week below.

A Day to Remember

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PHOTO CREDIT: JAMES HARTLEY

Dates: May 11 – July 28
Support Acts: The Story So Far, Four Year Strong, Militarie Gun, Pain of Truth, Scowl
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Advent Horizon

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Royal Avenue Media

Dates: April 19 – May 19
Support Acts: None Listed
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Brat

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Photographer credit: Vanessa Valadez

Dates: March 23 – May 21
Support Acts: Bonginator, D.I.
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Roger Daltrey

The Who’s Roger Daltrey

Kevin Winter, Getty Images

Dates: June 12 – 29
Support Acts: KT Tunstall, Dan Bern
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The Dead Daisies

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Chipster PR

Dates: June 6 – 22
Support Acts: None Listed
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Dixie Dregs

dixie dregs, steve mores, andy west

Theo Wargo, Getty Images

Dates: April 18 – 27
Support Acts: Steve Morse Band
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Dripping Decay

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Photo by Rhea DeCaro

Dates: April 18 – 25
Support Acts: Cartilage
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Gaslight Anthem

Neilson Barnard, Getty Images

Neilson Barnard, Getty Images

Dates: July 26 – Sept. 1
Support Acts: Joyce Manor, Pinkshift, The Dirty Nil
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Godsmack

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Chris Bradshaw

Dates: July 19 – 26
Support Acts: Nothing More, Flat Back
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READ MORE: Sully Erna Says ‘Never Say Never’ About New Godsmack Music

Hatebreed

hatebreed press photo

PHOTO: Danielle Dombrowski

Dates: Sept. 26 – Oct. 27
Support Acts: Carcass, Harm’s Way, Cyrpta
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(Hed) P.E.

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Kerosene Media

Dates: April 20 – May 22
Support Acts: Dropout Kings, Stitched Up Heart
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He Is Legend

he is legend, schuylar croom, white bat

YouTube: HeIsLegendVEVO

Dates: May 3 – June 8
Support Acts: Codeseven, Johnny Booth, The Seafloor Cinema
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High on Fire

high on fire press photo

credit: James Rexroad

Dates: May 4 – 18
Support Acts: Zeta, High Command
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO

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Carsten Windhorst

Dates: Aug. 24 – Oct. 25
Support Acts: None Listed
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Kansas

Kansasband.com / Emily Butler Photography

Kansasband.com / Emily Butler Photography

Dates: Sept. 24 – Dec. 11
Support Acts: None Listed
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Messer

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O’Donnell Media Group

Dates: April 19 – May 4
Support Acts: Keith Wallen, Through Fire
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Northlane

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Atom Splitter PR

Dates: June 21 – Aug. 27
Support Acts: Invent Animate, Thornhill and Windwaker
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Pallbearer

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Photo credit: Dan Almasy

Dates: June 6 – Aug. 3
Support Acts: RWAKE, The Keening, REZN, Inter Arma
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Pentagram

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Suspiria PR

Dates: April 24 – 26
Support Acts: Relentless Spirit, All Hell, Rip Van Ripper
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The Pineapple Thief

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Photo by Tina Korhonen

Dates: Nov. 14 – Dec. 5
Support Acts: None Listed
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Pulp

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Kevin Winter, Getty Images

Dates: Sept. 8 – 19
Support Acts: Escapism
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Simon Says

simon says

O’Donnell Media Group

Dates: March 22 – Aug. 10
Support Acts: Oceans on Other Planets
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Stone Temple Pilots / Live

Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo, Live’s Ed Kowalczyk both onstage

Alex Kluft Photography / Terry Wyatt, Stringer/Getty Images

Dates: Aug. 16 – Sept. 15
Support Acts: Our Lady Peace, Soul Asylum
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The Used

the used press photo

Photo Credit: Anthony Tran

Dates: June 20 – July 13
Support Acts: Story of the Year, Amira Elfeky
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Vicious Rumors

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Takumi Nakajima

Dates: March 22 – May 4
Support Acts: Raven
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Also of Note:

Daniel Berehulak, Getty Images

Daniel Berehulak, Getty Images

* Blink-182 and The Killers are among the headliners, with Deftones, In This Moment and more set to play Lollapalooza this summer. Returning to Chicago’s Grant Park, the annual festival event is set for the weekend of Aug. 1-4.
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* Milwaukee’s Summerfest has filled out its 2024 lineup, with some of the top acts set to play this year including Motley Crue, Seether, Buckcherry, Drowning Pool, Taking Back Sunday, Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, REO Speedwagon, Sleater-Kinney, Boys Like Girls, Metric, The Afghan Whigs, The Church, Hawthorne Heights, Anberlin, the Dandy Warhols, Tracy Bonham, Cold War Kids, Sleeping With Sirens, The Wallflowers, Extreme, Set It Off, Living Colour, Cracker, Oxymorrons, Tim Montana and more. Summerfest takes place over three weekends (June 20-22, June 27-29 and July 4-6).
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* Nickelback, The Offspring and Motley Crue are among the top rockers set to perform at the Festival D’Ete Quebec this summer. Over 200 acts will take the stage in Quebec between July 4-14, with Rise Against, Killswitch Engage, Kansas, Post Malone and more set to play.
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* Furnace Fest continues to fill up with bands. Set for Oct. 4-6 at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama, the event now has August Burns Red, Coheed and Cambria and Underoath as headliners. Coalesce, Poison the Well, Trapped Under Ice, Better Lovers, The Devil Wears Prada, Haste the Day, He Is Legend, Saosin, Unearth and more.
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* The lineup for NOFX’s Punk in Drublic Brockton, Mass. festival has been revealed. NOFX will be joined by Circle Jerks, Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls, Lagwagon, The Defiant, Flatliners, Sick of It All, Suicide Machines, Codefendants, Rebuilder, Teenage Bottlerocket, Catbite, Far From Finished and Colin From Arabia. The shows are set for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1
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