Hope everyone had a great Halloween! This was a really weird month for new shows, there were an metric ton of announcements for rock bands from the Eagles to Def Leppard, almost none for metal though. Couple really great ones though.

Upcoming Shows in November

11/1/26 Funhouse: Plague Mind, Masters Of War, Chin Up, HVLK HANDS (hardcore)

11/6/26 Moore Theater: Periphery, Ne Obliviscaris, Greyhaven, Ando San (prog)

11/8/26 El Corazon: Exhumed, Jarhead Fertilizer, Savage Master, Molder (death metal)

11/12/26 Crocodile: Nekrogoblikon, Aborted, Signs of the Swarm, Party Cannon (melodeath)

11/12/26 The Kraken: Paralysis Expletive (local), Reburied, Rat King, Wicked Game (grindcore)

11/15/26 Black Lodge: Sutekh Hexen, Sin Pavilion, Recursive Transform Array, Tuloc, Kole Galbraith (black metal)

11/15/26 Showbox: Russian Circles, Primitive Man (post-metal)

11/15/26 Substation: Serial Hawk, Melancholia, Bathypelagic (doom-sludge)

11/16/26 Showbox: Arch Enemy, Black Dahlia Murder (co-headlining), Septicflesh, Crypta, and Thrown Into Exile (melodeath)

11/17/26 Substation: Agriculture, Uniform, Pure Hex (black metal)

11/20/26 El Corazon Fear Factory, Darkest Hour, Brotality, Lacabra (industrial)

11/20/26 Funhouse: Crucible of Absolution, Defier, Four Dead Seasons, Deceiving the Masses, City of Reign, Gore Storm Massacre (slam)

11/20/26 Lucky Liquor: Brain Cell Genocide (local), Electric Head, Culmination, Swamp Ass (crossover thrash)

11/21/26 El Corazon: Psycroptic, Inferi, Cognitive, Summoning The Lich (tech-death)

11/23/26 Showbox SoDo: GWAR, Midnight, Mac Sabbath, Atomic Rule (I mean it’s GWAR)

11/28/26 El Corazon: Bodysnatcher, Gideon, Psycho-Frame, Volatile Ways (slam)

11/29/26 Showbox SoDo: Neurosis, Blackwater Holylight, Great Falls (hardcore)

New Tours Announced in October

1/27/27 Neptune Theater: Tesseract, Entheos, Sunborn (prog)

2/26/26 El Corazon: Beast In Black, Gloryhammer (power metal)

3/13/26 Crocodile: Haken, Thank You Scientist, Einar Solberg (prog)

4/14/27 Tacoma Dome: Iron Maiden, Bullet For My Valentine, The Raven (NWOBHM)

4/17/27 Paramount Theater: Meshuggah, Testament, Blood Incantation

Newly announced national tours skipping Washington: The Plot In You,

Credit to No Clean Singing and Puget Sound Metal Bulletin for the monthly shows, and to Loudwire for new tour announcements.