The 73 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced Last Month (December)

December certainly didn’t slow the tour season, with a massive 73 new rock and metal tours announced during the month. Hopefully some concert tickets landed under your tree or in your stocking for the holiday season.

One thing is for certain, you will not be lacking for a variety of options to see musically in 2025.

Rock and metal legends such as AC/DC, Joan Jett and Ringo Starr announced new dates. So did some of rock’s heavy hitters such as Pearl Jam, Staind, Breaking Benjamin, Creed and System of a Down.

If its newer bands you desire, Spiritbox, Damiano David, Palaye Royale and more are back at it. And for music fans wanting something decidedly heavier, you’ve got new tours from Meshuggah, Mastodon, Danzig, The Devil Wears Prada, Arch Enemy, Whitechapel and more booking new 2025 treks.

Who will you be seeing in 2025? Are you saving up and looking to see which band you want to see next? Take a look at all the rock and metal tours announced in December and see what’s available.

Announced the Week of Nov. 29 – Dec. 5, 2024

10 Years

Tour Dates: Jan. 16 – Feb. 8Support Acts: Keith WallenTicketing Info

AC/DC

Tour Dates: April 10 – May 28Support Acts: The Pretty RecklessTicketing Info

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Trey Anastasio

Tour Dates: March 8 – April 5Support Acts: None ListedNotes: Acoustic TourTicketing Info

The Aristocrats

Tour Dates: April 4 – May 7Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Chase Petra

Tour Dates: March 28 – April 26Support Acts: Small Crush, Sorry MomTicketing Info

Coal Chamber / Fear Factory

Tour Dates: March 18 – April 20Support Acts: Twiztid, Black Satellite, FrayleTicketing Info

Coroner

Tour Dates: March 5 – 22Support Acts: DeceasedTicketing Info

Emperor

Tour Dates: May 9 – 18Support Acts: Wolves in the Throne Room, Wayfarer, AgallochTicketing Info

(hed) p.e.

Tour Dates: Jan. 10 – 26; Feb. 20 – March 29Support Acts: Josey Scott, Adema, FLAW, CoreTicketing Info

Helmet

Tour Dates: Feb. 19 – March 23Support Acts: SlomosaNotes: Celebrating 30th anniversary of Betty album.Ticketing Info

Avril Lavigne

Tour Dates: May 18 – June 29; Oct. 18Support Acts: Simple Plan, We the Kings, Fefe DobsonTicketing Info

Make Them Suffer

Tour Dates: Feb. 20 – March 30Support Acts: Like Moths to Flames, Windwalker, AvianaTicketing Info

Meshuggah

Tour Dates: March 28 – April 24Support Acts: Cannibal Corpse, CarcassTicketing Info

Necrofier

Tour Dates: Jan. 23 – 26Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Pearl Jam

Tour Dates: April 24 – May 18Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Pierce the Veil

Tour Dates: May 13 – June 29Support Acts: Sleeping With Sirens, Daisy Grenade, Beach WeatherTicketing Info

Poison the Well

Tour Dates: April 4 – 29Support Acts: Glassjaw, Better Lovers, Teenage WristNotes: 25th Anniversary Tour for The Opposite of December … A Season of SeparationTicketing Info

Gene Simmons Band

Tour Dates: April 28 – May 24Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Spiritbox

Tour Dates: April 3 – May 10Support Acts: Loathe, Gel, Dying WishTicketing Info

Staind / Breaking Benjamin

Tour Dates: April 26 – June 1Support Acts: Wage War, LakeviewTicketing Info

Theory of a Deadman

Tour Dates: Feb. 6 – March 20Support Acts: Ayron Jones, Mick Blankenship, Jeff MartinNotes: Unplugged TourTicketing Info

Announced the Week of Dec. 6 – 12, 2024

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

Announced the Week of Dec. 13 – 19, 2024

Arch Enemy

Tour Dates: April 14 – May 18Support Acts: Fit for an Autopsy, Baest and Thrown Into ExileTicketing Info

Blacklite District

Tour Dates: Feb. 21 – March 14Support Acts: Rob Shiner, RomanTicketing Info

The Bloody Beetroots

Tour Dates: April 16 – May 4Support Acts: None ListedNotes: 20th Anniversary TourTicketing Info

Cavalera

Tour Dates: Feb. 19 – March 30Support Acts: Necrot, Dead HeatTicketing Info

Kim Dracula / Hanabie

Tour Dates: March 5 – April 12Support Acts: Kaonashi, Crystal LakeTicketing Info

Dying Fetus / Cradle of Filth

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 14Support Acts: Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ne Obliviscaris, Undeath, Vomit Forth and Corpse PileTicketing Info

The Fall of Troy

Tour Dates: May 1 – 18Support Acts: A Lot Like Birds, Closure in MoscowNotes: Doppleganger album 20th anniversary tourTicketing Info

Fozzy

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 12Support Acts: Liliac, The Nocturnal AffairNotes: 25th Anniversary TourTicketing Info

Hollywood Undead / Tech N9ne

Tour Dates: April 8 – May 9Support Acts: Set It Off, Zero 9:36Ticketing Info

Ice Nine Kills

Tour Dates: April 28 – June 27Support Acts: To Be AnnouncedNotes: Night one features a full album performance of The Silver Scream with select deep cuts and new material. Night two features complete performance of The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood with deep cuts and brand new material.Ticketing Info

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Marcus King

Tour Dates: April 2 – May 11Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Mayhem (Decibel Magazine Tour 2025)

Tour Dates: March 17 – April 17Support Acts: Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant, New Skeletal FacesTicketing Info

Melvins

Tour Dates: March 1 – 7Support Acts: CNTS, DesslokNotes: Spring Break Side Shows separate from major spring tour.Ticketing Info

Gene Simmons

Tour Dates: April 5 – May 24Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Static-X / GWAR

Tour Dates: May 23 – June 18Support Acts: Dope, A Killer’s ConfessionTicketing Info

Whitechapel

Tour Dates: March 18 – April 19Support Acts: Brand of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, AlluvialTicketing Info

Announced the Week of Dec. 20 – 26, 2024

Fo Daniels

Tour Dates: Dec. 31, Feb. 12 – March 15Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Jesse Dayton

Tour Dates: Feb. 22 – May 2Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info

Austin Meade

Tour Dates: Feb. 15 – March 29Support Acts: Cole Barnhill, Cody WestTicketing Info

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Spit on Your Grave

Tour Dates: March 13 – 16Support Acts: Gorepig, IgnominiousTicketing Info

Zulu

Tour Dates: Feb. 7 – 15Support Acts: Lie, 92, Knife WoundTicketing Info

Announced the Week of Dec. 27, 2024 – Jan. 2, 2025

Starset

Tour Dates: Feb. 26 – April 9Support Acts: None ListedNotes: Acoustic TourTicketing Info