12 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced This Past Week

What a week it is for new tour announcements. We've got 11 new rock and metal tours that were revealed over the past week.

Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry have booked a fall co-headlining tour that should be one of the more energetic shows you'll see this year.

Alter Bridge have booked another leg of tour dates that pairs them up with Big Wreck and Tim Montana for November and December.

And you've also got Down playing a late summer run with Helmet and Spirit in the Room.

Elsewhere, DragonForce have booked a late year tour with new co-vocalist Alissa White-Gluz in town. The Summer Slaughter tour has revealed a second late summer leg with Hatebreed once again headlining. And we also got word on the 2026 Riot Fest lineup.

See all the big rock and metal tours and festival announcements from the past seven days below.

Alter Bridge

Tour Dates: Nov. 5 - Dec. 5
Support Acts: Big Wreck, Tim Montana
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Armored Saint / Metal Church

Tour Dates: Nov. 2 - 21
Support Acts: LiveKill
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Danzig

Tour Dates: Sept. 11 - 25
Support Acts: Twin Temple
Notes: More bands, venues and on sale dates TBA

Down

Tour Dates: Aug. 15 - Sept. 4
Support Acts: Helmet, Spirit in the Room
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DragonForce

Tour Dates: Nov. 13 - Dec. 13
Support Acts: None Listed.
Notes: 20th Anniversary Inhuman Rampage tour.
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Knocked Loose / Denzel Curry

Tour Dates: Sept. 26 - Nov. 8
Support Acts: None Listed.
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Mella

Tour Dates: July 10 - Aug. 9
Support Acts: Body Thief, Postdrone
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Nonpoint

Tour Dates: July 23 - Sept. 4
Support Acts: Spineshank, (hed) p.e., SOiL, Powerman 5000
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Nothing But Thieves

Tour Dates: March 30 - April 21
Support Acts: None Listed.
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Periphery

Tour Dates: Oct. 22 - Nov. 18
Support Acts: Ne Obliviscaris, Greyhaven and Ando San.
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Quicksand

Tour Dates: Aug. 3 - Sept. 3
Support Acts: Bane, Soul Blind
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Summer Slaughter (Second Leg)

Tour Dates: Aug. 20 - Sept. 13
Acts: Hatebreed, Terror, Incantation, Gates To Hell, Torture and Creeping Death
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New Rock + Metal Festivals + Special Shows Announced This Past Week

* The 2026 Riot Fest lineup was revealed this week, with Tool, Twenty One Pilots, Pierce the Veil and Alanis Morissette serving as headliners. The music weekend, running Sept. 18-20 at Chicago's Douglass Park, will also feature Rise Against, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Nash, The All-American Rejects, The Format, Taking Back Sunday, Morrissey, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, Pixies, Patti Smith, Sugar, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter and more.
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* Tom Morello is stating the 2026 Power to the People festival Oct. 3 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Special guests include Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Jack Black, Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Serj Tankan, Brittany Howard, Taylor Momsen, The Linda Lindas, Darryl "DMC' McDaniels, Matt Cameron, Grandson, Killer Mike, The Neighborhood Kids, Shepard Fairey and more to be named.
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* The 2026 Levitation festival lineup has been announced. American Football, Bikini Kill, Molchat Doma and a still to be named fourth headliner will lead the festival, which is set for Sept. 10-13 in Austin, Texas. Also set to play are Die Spitz, Gibby Haynes, Peter Hook and the Light, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats and more.
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READ MORE: 2026 Rock + Metal Festival + Cruise Guide

* Shinedown's new album, Ei8ht, arrived earlier today and the band will be taking part in a livestream Q&A today (May 29) at 12:30PM through YouTube.
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* Belinda Carlisle, Kate Pierson, Kathy Valentine, Cherie Currie, Beth Nielsen Chapman and more are among the musicians taking part in the Women's Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp Nov. 5-8 in Los Angeles.
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* Alexisonfire will play their lone 2026 U.S. headline show celebrating the 20th anniversary of their Crisis album on Aug. 12 at the Outer Harbor Live at Terminal B in Buffalo, N.Y. Underoath, Snapcase and SPACED will open.
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* All Time Low are playing a special acoustic benefit show June 7 at Cisco Brewers Nantucket in Nantucket, Mass. The show will celebrate the band's new branding partnership on Nantucket Crisps “Bay Spice” chips.
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* Franky Perez and the Allnighters are kicking off a residency at Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in which they'll be playing a weekly show. It all kicks off Thursday, June 25 and is expected to continue each Thursday night thereafter.
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See other rock and metal bands touring in 2026 below.