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
10 Years
Tour Dates: Jan. 16 – Feb. 8Support Acts: Keith WallenTicketing Info
AC/DC
AC/DC Power Up Tour – Start of the European tour
Tour Dates: April 10 – May 28Support Acts: The Pretty RecklessTicketing Info
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Trey Anastasio
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
chase petra
Tour Dates: March 28 – April 26Support Acts: Small Crush, Sorry MomTicketing Info
Coal Chamber / Fear Factory
coal chamber’s dez fafara and fear factory’s dino cazares
Tour Dates: March 18 – April 20Support Acts: Twiztid, Black Satellite, FrayleTicketing Info
Coroner
Tour Dates: March 5 – 22Support Acts: DeceasedTicketing Info
Emperor
Emperor
Tour Dates: May 9 – 18Support Acts: Wolves in the Throne Room, Wayfarer, AgallochTicketing Info
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(hed) p.e. press photo
Tour Dates: Jan. 10 – 26; Feb. 20 – March 29Support Acts: Josey Scott, Adema, FLAW, CoreTicketing Info
Helmet
Helmet – Page Hamilton
Tour Dates: Feb. 19 – March 23Support Acts: SlomosaNotes: Celebrating 30th anniversary of Betty album.Ticketing Info
Avril Lavigne
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Tour Dates: May 18 – June 29; Oct. 18Support Acts: Simple Plan, We the Kings, Fefe DobsonTicketing Info
Make Them Suffer
Make Them Suffer
Tour Dates: Feb. 20 – March 30Support Acts: Like Moths to Flames, Windwalker, AvianaTicketing Info
Meshuggah
meshuggah 2024 press photo
Tour Dates: March 28 – April 24Support Acts: Cannibal Corpse, CarcassTicketing Info
Necrofier
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
pierce the veil
Tour Dates: May 13 – June 29Support Acts: Sleeping With Sirens, Daisy Grenade, Beach WeatherTicketing Info
Poison the Well
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
kiss, gene simmons
Tour Dates: April 28 – May 24Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Spiritbox
Spiritbox 2024
Tour Dates: April 3 – May 10Support Acts: Loathe, Gel, Dying WishTicketing Info
Staind / Breaking Benjamin
Staind’s Aaron Lewis, Breaking Benjamin’s Ben Burnley in split image, tour admat in middle
Tour Dates: April 26 – June 1Support Acts: Wage War, LakeviewTicketing Info
Theory of a Deadman
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
311
Tour Dates: March 21 – 31Support Acts: Sitting on SaturnTicketing Info
Big Big Train
big big train
Tour Dates: April 2 – 19Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Chelsea Grin
chelsea grin
Tour Dates: March 21 – April 19Support Acts: Shadow of Intent, Signs of a Swarm, Disembodied TyrantTicketing Info
Close Enemies
tom hamilton
Tour Dates: Jan. 8 – 23Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Coheed and Cambria / Mastodon
coheed and cambria and mastodon
Tour Dates: May 10 – June 8Support Acts: PeripheryTicketing Info
Elvis Costello
elvis costello in 2023
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
glenn danzig
Tour Dates: March 21 – 30Support Acts: Down, Abbath, Cro-MagsTicketing Info
Damiano David
damiano david
Tour Dates: Nov. 21 – Dec. 16Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Death Rattle
death rattle
Tour Dates: Jan. 10 – Feb. 1Support Acts: Ashes of the PriestTicketing Info
The Devil Wears Prada
the devil wears prada
Tour Dates: April 17 – May 16Support Acts: Erra, Kingdom of Giants, AcresTicketing Info
Free Throw
free throw
Tour Dates: March 28 – April 26Support Acts: Ben Quad, Harrison GordonTicketing Info
Ghostkid
ghostkid
Tour Dates: Jan. 28 – Feb. 8Support Acts: HAWK, CrucifictionTicketing Info
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Thos Robinson, Getty Images
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
Magnolia Park press shot from 2024
Tour Dates: April 15 – May 20Support Acts: Hot Milk, Savage Hands, South ArcadeTicketing Info
Michael Monroe
Theo Wargo, Getty Images
Tour Dates: April 2 – 13Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Palaye Royale
Tour Dates: Feb. 2 – March 9Support Acts: Johnnie GuilbertTicketing Info
Chuck Ragan
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
soul coughing appears on abc’s jimmy kimmel live in 2024
Tour Dates: April 9 – 26Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Ringo Starr + His All-Starr Band
Ringo Starr Grammy Awards 2014
Tour Dates: June 12 – 25Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Static Dress
static dress
Tour Dates: April 17 – May 11Support Acts: Soul BlindTicketing Info
Steel Panther
steel panther
Tour Dates: March 5 – 28Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Styx / Kevin Cronin
styx and kevin cronin
Tour Dates: May 28 – Aug. 24Support Acts: Don FelderTicketing Info
System of a Down
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
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
rick wakeman
Tour Dates: March 27 – April 17Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
While She Sleeps
while she sleeps
Tour Dates: April 2 – 30Support Acts: Bury Tomorrow, VendedTicketing Info
Announced the Week of Dec. 13 – 19, 2024
Arch Enemy
arch enemy
Tour Dates: April 14 – May 18Support Acts: Fit for an Autopsy, Baest and Thrown Into ExileTicketing Info
Blacklite District
blacklite district
Tour Dates: Feb. 21 – March 14Support Acts: Rob Shiner, RomanTicketing Info
The Bloody Beetroots
the bloody beetroots
Tour Dates: April 16 – May 4Support Acts: None ListedNotes: 20th Anniversary TourTicketing Info
Cavalera
cavalera 2024
Tour Dates: Feb. 19 – March 30Support Acts: Necrot, Dead HeatTicketing Info
Kim Dracula / Hanabie
Kim Dracula, Hanabie
Tour Dates: March 5 – April 12Support Acts: Kaonashi, Crystal LakeTicketing Info
Dying Fetus / Cradle of Filth
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
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
hollywood undead and tech n9ne
Tour Dates: April 8 – May 9Support Acts: Set It Off, Zero 9:36Ticketing Info
Ice Nine Kills
ice nine kills with terrifier 2024
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)
Attila Csihar, Mayhem
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
kiss, gene simmons
Tour Dates: April 5 – May 24Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Static-X / GWAR
static-x, gwar
Tour Dates: May 23 – June 18Support Acts: Dope, A Killer’s ConfessionTicketing Info
Whitechapel
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
fo daniels
Tour Dates: Dec. 31, Feb. 12 – March 15Support Acts: None ListedTicketing Info
Jesse Dayton
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
2025 Rock + Metal Tour Guide
The bands that are touring in 2025, who is opening and how to get tickets.
Gallery Credit: Lauryn Schaffner
