30 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced This Past Week

The 2025 rock and metal tours are coming fast and furious with 30 new tours announced this past week. And that’s not counting all the festival and special show announcements.

Creed will be back in 2025 for another round of “Summer of 99” touring, while you’ll also get a pretty impressive Coheed and Cambria / Mastodon co-headlining run and System of a Down just booked multiple stadium dates with all-star guests for 2025.

This week also brought us new tours from The Devil Wears Prada, 311, Danzig, The Used, Steel Panther, Palaye Royale and many more.

Plus Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Shinedown and Nickelback have signed on for the inaugural Boardwalk Rock Fest, the lineup for Milwaukee Metal Fest has grown and Randy Blythe has added to his upcoming spoken word book tour.

Check out all the new touring announcements from this past week below.

311

Tour Dates: March 21 – 31Support Acts: Sitting on SaturnTicketing Info

Big Big Train

Tour Dates: April 2 – 19Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Chelsea Grin

Tour Dates: March 21 – April 19Support Acts: Shadow of Intent, Signs of a Swarm, Disembodied TyrantTicketing Info

Close Enemies

Tour Dates: Jan. 8 – 23Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Coheed and Cambria / Mastodon

Tour Dates: May 10 – June 8Support Acts: PeripheryTicketing Info

Elvis Costello

Tour Dates: June 12 – July 12Support Acts: Charlie SextonTicketing Info

Creed

Tour Dates: July 9 –  Aug. 20Support Acts: 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, Big Wreck, Mammoth WVHTicketing Info

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Danzig

Tour Dates: March 21 – 30Support Acts: Down, Abbath, Cro-MagsTicketing Info

Damiano David

Tour Dates: Nov. 21 – Dec. 16Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Death Rattle

Tour Dates: Jan. 10 – Feb. 1Support Acts: Ashes of the PriestTicketing Info

The Devil Wears Prada

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 16Support Acts: Erra, Kingdom of Giants, AcresTicketing Info

Free Throw

Tour Dates: March 28 – April 26Support Acts: Ben Quad, Harrison GordonTicketing Info

Ghostkid

Tour Dates: Jan. 28 – Feb. 8Support Acts: HAWK, CrucifictionTicketing Info

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Tour Dates: June 13 – 21Support Acts: None ListedNotes: Las Vegas Residency at House of Blues Las Vegas inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.Ticketing Info

Magnolia Park

Tour Dates: April 15 – May 20Support Acts: Hot Milk, Savage Hands, South ArcadeTicketing Info

Michael Monroe

Tour Dates: April 2 – 13Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Palaye Royale

Tour Dates: Feb. 2 – March 9Support Acts: Johnnie GuilbertTicketing Info

Chuck Ragan

Tour Dates: March 18 – April 6Support Acts: Cory Branan, Nate BergmanTicketing Info

Shiner

Tour Dates: Jan. 9 – 12Support Acts: Various ArtistsTicketing Info

Slow Joy

Tour Dates: Feb. 5 – 23Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Soul Coughing

Tour Dates: April 9 – 26Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Ringo Starr + His All-Starr Band

Tour Dates: June 12 – 25Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Static Dress

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 11Support Acts: Soul BlindTicketing Info

Steel Panther

Tour Dates: March 5 – 28Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Styx / Kevin Cronin

Tour Dates: May 28 – Aug. 24Support Acts: Don FelderTicketing Info

System of a Down

Tour Dates: Aug. 27 – Sept. 5Support Acts: Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Polyphia, WhipTicketing Info

Tyr

Tour Dates: Feb. 13 – March 5Support Acts: Æther RealmTicketing Info

The Used

Tour Dates: April 3 – May 16Support Acts: None ListedNotes: The band’s 25th Anniversary Tour teatures three albums (Self-Titled, In Love and Death, Lies for the Liars) over three nights at each stop.Ticketing Info

Rick Wakeman

Tour Dates: March 27 – April 17Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

While She Sleeps

Tour Dates: April 2 – 30Support Acts: Bury Tomorrow, VendedTicketing Info

Also of Note:

* Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Nickelback and Shinedown will co-headline the inaugural Boardwalk Rock Fest taking place May 17-18, 2025 in Ocean City, Md. Halestorm, Bush, Chevelle, Three Days Grace, Alice Cooper and 3 Doors Down are also on the bill.Ticketing Info

* Milwaukee Metal Fest have announced another wave of performers with Rotting Christ, Chimaira, Scour, Tesseract and Evil Dead among those joining the Milwaukee-based festival May 16-18 at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom.Ticketing Info

* Basement, Cold World and Superheaven will head up the LDB Fest 2025 taking place April 25 and 26 at the Triple Crown Pavilion in Louisville. Fury, Glare, Godshate, High Vis and more are also on board.Ticketing Info

* Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison have announced the first guests for their Above Ground benefit where they’ll be playing The Cars and The New York Dolls debut albums. Billy Howerdel, Billy Idol, Duff McKagan, Elliott Easton, Jerry Cantrell, Jerry Harrison, Josh Freese, Mark McGrath, Steve Stevens, Tommy Henriksen and Glen Sobel have all joined in the fun. The show is set for Jan. 25 at Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre.Ticketing Info

* Tom Morello will play two full “electric band” sets Feb. 6 and 7 at Anaheim’s House of Blues and Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre.Ticketing Info

* Randy Blythe has added dates to his upcoming spoken word book tour. Shows are now scheduled between Feb. 19 and March 14, promoting his Just Beyond the Light book.Ticketing Info

* Category 7 announced that they have canceled their first-ever tour, which was set to kick off March 6 in Baltimore. The band cited below projected ticket sales in their cancelation.