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18 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced This Past Week (May 8-14, 2026)

Another week, another 18 new rock and metal tours that you can potentially check out!

Lead the way this week, we’ve got a second leg of North American tour dates coming for Black Veil Brides. The late summer/early fall run will feature support from Caskets, Archers, Holy Wars and Autumn Kings.

Hayley Williams has Paramore on hold at the moment, but she’s playing a wealth of solo performances that have now extended into the fall.

And Journey might possibly be one of the hardest touring bands going in 26 tacking on a fall North American tour leg of their farewell run that will keep them on the road from September into November.

This week also saw Pearl Jam revealing their first concert since Matt Cameron exited the group as they’re one of the three headliners at Eddie Vedder’s annual Ohana Festival. We also got a stellar Furnace Fest lineup and there’s plenty more to check out in this week’s tour and festival announcements.

Check it all out below.

All Shall Perish

Tour Dates: Sept. 4 – Oct. 3
Support Acts: To Be Announced on June 1.
Notes: The Price of Existence 20th anniversary tour.

As I Lay Dying

Tour Dates: Nov. 20 – Dec. 2
Support Acts: None Listed
Notes: Shadows Are Security 20th Anniversary Tour

Black Veil Brides

Tour Dates: Aug. 27 – Sept. 27
Support Acts: Caskets, Archers, Holy Wars, Autumn Kings

The Browning

Tour Dates: Aug. 27 – Sept. 26
Support Acts: Deadlands, Blind Equation, The Crimson Armada, Extortionist

CKY

Tour Dates: July 9 – Nov. 8
Support Acts: None Listed.
Note: Rescheduled dates included with new shows.

Roger Daltrey

Tour Dates: Aug. 23 – Sept. 29
Support Acts: None listed.

Elder

Tour Dates: Sept. 9 – Oct. 3
Support Acts: Blackwater Holylight, Bask

Journey

Tour Dates: Sept. 12 – Nov. 28
Support Acts: None listed.

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

Tour Dates: July 14 – 18
Support Acts: Atomic Rule, Across Five Aprils, New Rituals

Nonpoint

Tour Dates: July 31 – Aug. 7
Support Acts: SOiL, Spineshank, (hed) p.e.

Of Virtue / Savage Hands

Tour Dates: July 16 – Aug. 21
Support Acts: Set for Tomorrow, Kingdom Collapse, Sorry X

Saosin

Tour Dates: Oct. 23 – Nov. 28
Support Acts: Silent Planet, Like Moths to Flames, Save Us
Notes: Celebrating 20th Anniversary of Self-Titled Album.

She Wants Revenge

Tour Dates: Oct. 10 – Nov. 4
Support Acts: Roseygarden Funeral Party
Notes: 20th Anniversary Tour

Stabbing Westward

Tour Dates: July 9 – 25
Support Acts: Priest, Acumen Nation
Notes: Celebrating 20th Anniversary of Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel

Switchfoot

Tour Dates: Sept. 5 – Nov. 21
Support Acts: Anberlin

The War on Drugs

Tour Dates: Sept. 18 – Oct. 11
Support Acts: I Think Like Midnight, Okonski, Lo Moon

Wednesday 13

Tour Dates: Sept. 23 – Oct. 31
Support Acts: Dead on a Sunday, Above Snakes

Hayley Williams

Tour Dates: Sept. 3 – Oct. 12
Support Acts: Magdalena Bay, Rico Nasty

New Rock + Metal Festivals + Special Shows

  • Eddie Vedder and Friends, Pearl Jam and Tyler Childers will lead the lineup for the 2026 Ohana Festival taking place Sept. 25-27.
  • Bring Me the Horizon and A Day to Remember will headline the 2026 Furnace Fest at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama, Oct. 10-11.
  • Gene Simmons will host the Gene Simmons Legends of Rock Expo Sept. 25-27 at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.
  • The 2026 Rock for Ronnie Concert in the Park is set for May 31, 2026, in Los Angeles.
  • Shadows Fall have announced a special 30th anniversary concert taking place July 18 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • Twenty One Pilots have announced a hometown stadium show at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on Oct. 17.