Normally I post this on the 1st, but due to the holidays I’m a few days early. As always, this is just a list of shows for the next month, and new shows announced in December.

Upcoming Shows

1/3/26 Showbox: High On Fire, King Woman (sludge)

1/9/26 Substation: Sadness, Life, Dawn of Ouroboros (blackgaze)

1/10/26 Substation: Ragana, Drowse

1/16/26 Funhouse: Wacken Metal Battle 2026 with Trip The Wire, Ocean Ghost, Fate Defined, ACIII, Serene, Wayward Shot (various)

1/17/26 Substation: Castle Rat, Witch Ripper (doom)

1/19/26 El Corazon: Inhman Condition, Wretched, Trash Panda (death metal)

1/20/26 El Corazon: Black Flag (hardcore)

1/28/26 El Corazon: Dawn of Ashes, Antania, Social Abyss (industrial)

New Tour Announcements

1/19/26 El Corazon: Inhuman Condition, Wretched, Trash Panda (death metal)

3/5/26 Wenatchee WA Town Toyota Center: Filter, Finger Eleven, Local H (alternative/rock)

3/29/26 Paramount: Slaughter To Prevail, Whitechapel, Attila (deathcore)

4/4/26 Crocodile: Lacuna Coil, Escape The Fate, VOWWS, AXTY (gothic/symphonic)

4/7/26 Showbox: Erras, Currents, Caskets, Aviana (prog)

4/15/26 Tractor Tavern: Slomosa (sludge)

4/17/26 Neptune: Bloodywood, The Pretty Wild, Ladrones, Ankor (folk/metalcore)

4/21/26 El Corazon: Defeated Sanity, Vulvodynia, Organectomy, Excrescence (tech-death)

4/26/26 El Corazon: Shadow Of Intent, AngelMaker, Mental Cruelty, Synestia (deathcore)

5/12/26 El Corazon: Master Boot Record (synth)

5/13/26 Neptune: Arm’s Length, Callous Daoboys (emo)

5/16/26 El Corazon: Uada, Mortiis, Jerome Reuter’s Rome Wraith Knight (black metal)

5/26/26 Showbox SoDo: Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex, Bodysnatcher, 200 Stab Wounds, Ingested, Gates to Hell, Bodybox (who cares what genre LOOK AT THIS LINEUP)

5/31/26 Showbox: Thornhill, 156/Silence, Fox Lake, vianova (metalcore)

6/4/26 El Corazon: Archspire, (Undeath, Crown Magnetar, Mutilation Barbecue (tech-death)

6/18/26 Substation: Monolord, Mizmor (stoner)

7/23/26 White River Amphitheater: Evanescence, Spiritbox, Nova Twins (alternative metal)

10/8/26 El Corazon: Hammerfall, Evergrey, Elvenking (power)

Newly announced national tours skipping Washington: The Amity Affliction (August Burns Red, Boundaries, Heavensgate), Mammoth (10 Years, James And The Cold Gun), HANABIE (Nekrogolikon, Enterprise Earth), Amon Amarth/Dethklok (Castle Rat), Cradle of Filth (Suffocation, Ghost Bath, Cultus Black), Clutch (Corrosion Of Conformity, J.D. Pinkus), Bilmuri, Kreator (Carcass, Cold Steel), Rise Against (Destroy Boys), GWAR (Soulfly, King Parrot), Testament (Overkill, Destruction), Obscura (Allegaeon, Cognitive, Cryptosis)

Credit to Metal Injection and No Clean Singing