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. 8

Support Acts: Keith Wallen

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AC/DC

Tour Dates: April 10 – May 28

Support Acts: The Pretty Reckless

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Trey Anastasio

Tour Dates: March 8 – April 5

Support Acts: None Listed

Notes: Acoustic Tour

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The Aristocrats

Tour Dates: April 4 – May 7

Support Acts: None Listed

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Chase Petra

Tour Dates: March 28 – April 26

Support Acts: Small Crush, Sorry Mom

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Coal Chamber / Fear Factory

Tour Dates: March 18 – April 20

Support Acts: Twiztid, Black Satellite, Frayle

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Coroner

Tour Dates: March 5 – 22

Support Acts: Deceased

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Emperor

Tour Dates: May 9 – 18

Support Acts: Wolves in the Throne Room, Wayfarer, Agalloch

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(hed) p.e.

Tour Dates: Jan. 10 – 26; Feb. 20 – March 29

Support Acts: Josey Scott, Adema, FLAW, Core

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Helmet

Tour Dates: Feb. 19 – March 23

Support Acts: Slomosa

Notes: Celebrating 30th anniversary of Betty album.

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Avril Lavigne

Tour Dates: May 18 – June 29; Oct. 18

Support Acts: Simple Plan, We the Kings, Fefe Dobson

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Make Them Suffer

Tour Dates: Feb. 20 – March 30

Support Acts: Like Moths to Flames, Windwalker, Aviana

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Meshuggah

Tour Dates: March 28 – April 24

Support Acts: Cannibal Corpse, Carcass

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Necrofier

Tour Dates: Jan. 23 – 26

Support Acts: None Listed

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Pearl Jam

Tour Dates: April 24 – May 18

Support Acts: None Listed

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Pierce the Veil

Tour Dates: May 13 – June 29

Support Acts: Sleeping With Sirens, Daisy Grenade, Beach Weather

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Poison the Well

Tour Dates: April 4 – 29

Support Acts: Glassjaw, Better Lovers, Teenage Wrist

Notes: 25th Anniversary Tour for The Opposite of December … A Season of Separation

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Gene Simmons Band

Tour Dates: April 28 – May 24

Support Acts: None Listed

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Spiritbox

Tour Dates: April 3 – May 10

Support Acts: Loathe, Gel, Dying Wish

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Staind / Breaking Benjamin

Tour Dates: April 26 – June 1

Support Acts: Wage War, Lakeview

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Theory of a Deadman

Tour Dates: Feb. 6 – March 20

Support Acts: Ayron Jones, Mick Blankenship, Jeff Martin

Notes: Unplugged Tour

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Announced the Week of Dec. 6 – 12, 2024

311

Tour Dates: March 21 – 31

Support Acts: Sitting on Saturn

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Big Big Train

Tour Dates: April 2 – 19

Support Acts: None Listed

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Chelsea Grin

Tour Dates: March 21 – April 19

Support Acts: Shadow of Intent, Signs of a Swarm, Disembodied Tyrant

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Close Enemies

Tour Dates: Jan. 8 – 23

Support Acts: None Listed

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Coheed and Cambria / Mastodon

Tour Dates: May 10 – June 8

Support Acts: Periphery

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Elvis Costello

Tour Dates: June 12 – July 12

Support Acts: Charlie Sexton

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Creed

Tour Dates: July 9 –  Aug. 20

Support Acts: 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, Big Wreck, Mammoth WVH

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Danzig

Tour Dates: March 21 – 30

Support Acts: Down, Abbath, Cro-Mags

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Damiano David

Tour Dates: Nov. 21 – Dec. 16

Support Acts: None Listed

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Death Rattle

Tour Dates: Jan. 10 – Feb. 1

Support Acts: Ashes of the Priest

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The Devil Wears Prada

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 16

Support Acts: Erra, Kingdom of Giants, Acres

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Free Throw

Tour Dates: March 28 – April 26

Support Acts: Ben Quad, Harrison Gordon

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Ghostkid

Tour Dates: Jan. 28 – Feb. 8

Support Acts: HAWK, Crucifiction

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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Tour Dates: June 13 – 21

Support Acts: None Listed

Notes: Las Vegas Residency at House of Blues Las Vegas inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

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Magnolia Park

Tour Dates: April 15 – May 20

Support Acts: Hot Milk, Savage Hands, South Arcade

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Michael Monroe

Tour Dates: April 2 – 13

Support Acts: None Listed

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Palaye Royale

Tour Dates: Feb. 2 – March 9

Support Acts: Johnnie Guilbert

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Chuck Ragan

Tour Dates: March 18 – April 6

Support Acts: Cory Branan, Nate Bergman

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Shiner

Tour Dates: Jan. 9 – 12

Support Acts: Various Artists

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Slow Joy

Tour Dates: Feb. 5 – 23

Support Acts: None Listed

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Soul Coughing

Tour Dates: April 9 – 26

Support Acts: None Listed

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Ringo Starr + His All-Starr Band

Tour Dates: June 12 – 25

Support Acts: None Listed

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Static Dress

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 11

Support Acts: Soul Blind

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Steel Panther

Tour Dates: March 5 – 28

Support Acts: None Listed

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Styx / Kevin Cronin

Tour Dates: May 28 – Aug. 24

Support Acts: Don Felder

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System of a Down

Tour Dates: Aug. 27 – Sept. 5

Support Acts: Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Polyphia, Whip

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Tyr

Tour Dates: Feb. 13 – March 5

Support Acts: Æther Realm

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The Used

Tour Dates: April 3 – May 16

Support Acts: None Listed

Notes: 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.

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Rick Wakeman

Tour Dates: March 27 – April 17

Support Acts: None Listed

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While She Sleeps

Tour Dates: April 2 – 30

Support Acts: Bury Tomorrow, Vended

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Announced the Week of Dec. 13 – 19, 2024

Arch Enemy

Tour Dates: April 14 – May 18

Support Acts: Fit for an Autopsy, Baest and Thrown Into Exile

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Blacklite District

Tour Dates: Feb. 21 – March 14

Support Acts: Rob Shiner, Roman

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The Bloody Beetroots

Tour Dates: April 16 – May 4

Support Acts: None Listed

Notes: 20th Anniversary Tour

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Cavalera

Tour Dates: Feb. 19 – March 30

Support Acts: Necrot, Dead Heat

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Kim Dracula / Hanabie

Tour Dates: March 5 – April 12

Support Acts: Kaonashi, Crystal Lake

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Dying Fetus / Cradle of Filth

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 14

Support Acts: Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ne Obliviscaris, Undeath, Vomit Forth and Corpse Pile

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The Fall of Troy

Tour Dates: May 1 – 18

Support Acts: A Lot Like Birds, Closure in Moscow

Notes: Doppleganger album 20th anniversary tour

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Fozzy

Tour Dates: April 17 – May 12

Support Acts: Liliac, The Nocturnal Affair

Notes: 25th Anniversary Tour

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Hollywood Undead / Tech N9ne

Tour Dates: April 8 – May 9

Support Acts: Set It Off, Zero 9:36

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Ice Nine Kills

Tour Dates: April 28 – June 27

Support Acts: To Be Announced

Notes: 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.

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Marcus King

Tour Dates: April 2 – May 11

Support Acts: None Listed

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Mayhem (Decibel Magazine Tour 2025)

Tour Dates: March 17 – April 17

Support Acts: Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant, New Skeletal Faces

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Melvins

Tour Dates: March 1 – 7

Support Acts: CNTS, Desslok

Notes: Spring Break Side Shows separate from major spring tour.

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Gene Simmons

Tour Dates: April 5 – May 24

Support Acts: None Listed

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Static-X / GWAR

Tour Dates: May 23 – June 18

Support Acts: Dope, A Killer’s Confession

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Whitechapel

Tour Dates: March 18 – April 19

Support Acts: Brand of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, Alluvial

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Announced the Week of Dec. 20 – 26, 2024

Fo Daniels

Tour Dates: Dec. 31, Feb. 12 – March 15

Support Acts: None Listed

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Jesse Dayton

Tour Dates: Feb. 22 – May 2

Support Acts: None Listed

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Austin Meade

Tour Dates: Feb. 15 – March 29

Support Acts: Cole Barnhill, Cody West

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Spit on Your Grave

Tour Dates: March 13 – 16

Support Acts: Gorepig, Ignominious

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Zulu

Tour Dates: Feb. 7 – 15

Support Acts: Lie, 92, Knife Wound

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

Starset

Tour Dates: Feb. 26 – April 9

Support Acts: None Listed

Notes: Acoustic Tour

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