Upcoming Melodic Black Metal Events

Sweden Rock Festival 2025 Korn, Slipknot, Scorpions, Skillet, Sex Pistols, Apocalyptica, Dream Theater, Within Temptation, Opeth, DragonForce, Eagles of Death Metal, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Meshuggah, Kreator, Dark Tranquillity, Exodus, Turboneger, Danko Jones, The Ghost Inside, L.A. Guns, King Diamond, Running Wild, NOTHING MORE, Royal Republic, Doro, Soen, Cattle Decapitation, Jinjer, Old Man’s Child, Myrkur, Wind Rose, Pretty Maids, Brothers of Metal, Stryper, The Warning, Hardline, VOLA, Black Country Communion, Orbit Culture, Aviana, The Night Flight Orchestra, Crimson Glory, Abbath, Samantha Fish, Signs of the Swarm, Crucified Barbara, Vandenberg, Metalite, Alien, Remedy, Slomosa, Myles Kennedy, Bombus, The Good the Bad and the Zugly, Bror Gunnar Jansson, Unfound Reliance, Knogjärn, Transport League, Sabïre, Sarcator, The Headlines, Tryin' Within

Sweden Rock Festival Grounds in Norje, Sölvesborg Municipality, Blekinge, Sweden
Wed, 04 Jun 2025

Metalfest Open Air 2025, Day 3 Stratovarius, Heaven Shall Burn, Municipal Waste, King Diamond, Death Angel, Crematory, Ad Infinitum, Human Zoo, W.E.B.

Lochotínský amfiteátr in Plzeň, Plzeň-město, Plzeňský kraj, Czechia
Sun, 08 Jun 2025

Hellfest 2025, Day 3 Scorpions, Judas Priest, Dream Theater, Have a Nice Life, Turnstile, Russian Circles, Deafheaven, Savatage, Terror, Stick to Your Guns, The Ocean, Defeater, Leprous, Windhand, Stoned Jesus, Mars Red Sky, VOLA, Black Country Communion, My Sleeping Karma, Tremonti, Conan, Nasty, Beyond the Black, Freak Kitchen, Abbath, Wheel, Peyton Parrish, SPY, Vulture Industries, Audrey Horne, Majestica, Spectral Wound, Grima, Myles Kennedy, The Chisel, The Midnight Ghost Train, Ross the Boss, Tryglav, Urne, Pest Control, ADX, The Southern River Band, Witch Club Satan, Agriculture, Last Hounds, SYK, Lunar Tombfields

Hellfest, Val de Moine in Clisson, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France
Sat, 21 Jun 2025

Tons of Rock 2025 Green Day, Muse, Weezer, Avenged Sevenfold, Megadeth, Sex Pistols, Dream Theater, Within Temptation, Machine Head, Poppy, The Damned, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Exodus, Ugly Kid Joe, Carcass, Finntroll, Turboneger, Alestorm, Jerry Cantrell, Deafheaven, Whitechapel, Emperor, The Sword, Powerwolf, Candlemass, Steel Panther, Lorna Shore, Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Kaizers Orchestra, Belphegor, Dead Poet Society, Bleed From Within, Kim Dracula, Old Man’s Child, LANDMVRKS, Bad Nerves, Fit for an Autopsy, Dark Angel, Orbit Culture, Djerv, Black Debbath, Slomosa, Myles Kennedy, Kat Von D, The Good the Bad and the Zugly, Backstreet Girls, Fixation, The Cruel Intentions, Hurra Torpedo, Cocktail Slippers, Bastardane, Tarja, Moillrock, Eternal Evil

Fredriksten in Halden, Østfold, Norway
Wed, 25 Jun 2025

Vainstream Rockfest 2025 Bullet for My Valentine, Yellowcard, A Day to Remember, Zebrahead, Millencolin, Hatebreed, Motionless in White, Refused, Frank Turner, FIDLAR, Heaven Shall Burn, Polaris, Hot Water Music, The Ghost Inside, Terror, H₂O, Stick to Your Guns, Street Dogs, Currents, Gorilla Biscuits, LANDMVRKS, letlive., Static Dress, Trophy Eyes, Fit for an Autopsy, Creeper, Stray From the Path, Paleface Swiss, Dritte Wahl, High Vis, Anxious, Feine Sahne Fischfilet, Driveways, Montreal, Our Mirage, John Coffey, Pain of Truth, Swiss + Die Andern, Delilah Bon, The Baboon Show, Mehnersmoos, Booze & Glory, Stand Still, Spaced, Grade 2, Catbite, Stomper 98, Terminal Sleep, Drei Meter Feldweg, 100 Kilo Herz, Casino Blackout, The Headlines

Vainstream Rockfest Festival Grounds in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Fri, 27 Jun 2025

Rockharz Open Air 2025 All That Remains, DragonForce, Flogging Molly, Soulfly, Cradle of Filth, Dark Tranquillity, Saxon, Heaven Shall Burn, Rhapsody of Fire, Combichrist, Sodom, Overkill, Vader, Clawfinger, Powerwolf, In Extremo, King Diamond, Primal Fear, Insomnium, Draconian, Týr, J.B.O., Visions of Atlantis, Sólstafir, ASP, Gloryhammer, MONO INC., Grand Magus, Pro‐Pain, Any Given Day, Die Kassierer, Abbath, Green Lung, Avatarium, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Warkings, Versengold, Bokassa, Nachtblut, Memoriam, Aephanemer, Frozen Crown, Deserted Fear, Mister Misery, Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen, The Gems, The New Roses, Harpyie, Asenblut, Non Est Deus, April Art, Deliver the Galaxy, Frog Leap

Rockharz Open Air Festival Grounds in Ballenstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Wed, 02 Jul 2025

Dark River Festival 2025: Day 3 Kalmah, Rotting Christ, Stam1na, Sara, Carach Angren, Wolfheart, Pain Confessor, Red Eleven, Cryptic Hatred

Sat, 12 Jul 2025

XIX. Amphi Festival Oomph!, Camouflage, Rome, Suicide Commando, Die Krupps, She Past Away, Anne Clark, Lord of the Lost, TRAITRS, Ashbury Heights, Alien Vampires, Bloody Dead and Sexy, [:SITD:], Stahlmann, Erdling, Nachtblut, Qual, Unify Separate, Maerzfeld, Klangstabil, [x]-Rx, Hell Boulevard, Ductape, Eisfabrik, Wisborg, Abu Nein, Sanz, Traits

Theater am Tanzbrunnen in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Sat, 19 Jul 2025

Wacken Open Air 2025 Guns N’ Roses, Papa Roach, Apocalyptica, Static‐X, Within Temptation, Machine Head, Mastodon, Dope, Fear Factory, Gojira, Ministry, August Burns Red, Katatonia, Dimmu Borgir, W.A.S.P., DevilDriver, Saxon, Ugly Kid Joe, The Boomtown Rats, Clawfinger, The Hellacopters, Obituary, King Diamond, Lita Ford, Decapitated, Walls of Jericho, Grave Digger, Destruction, Kylesa, Orange Goblin, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Prong, 3 Inches of Blood, Soen, Schandmaul, Saltatio Mortis, 1349, LANDMVRKS, Amenra, Wind Rose, Annisokay, Angel Witch, Krisiun, Nailbomb, BAP, Brothers of Metal, Warbringer, Forbidden, Midnight, Benediction, Exhorder, Callejon, MASTER BOOT RECORD, Die Kassierer, Beyond the Black, Macabre, Peyton Parrish, 花冷え。, Victory, Enemy Inside, Majestica, Michael Schenker, Warkings, Floor Jansen, Dool, Party Cannon, Clowns, Cypecore, Smoke Blow, Night Demon, Torture Squad, Mimi Barks, Gehennah, Dogma, Svarttjern, Seven Spires, Fight the Fight, Lakeview, Torment, SETYØURSAILS, Iotunn, The Butcher Sisters, Lake Malice, Liliac, AVRALIZE, Deine Cousine, Nyktophobia, Tarja, Rauhbein, Heavysaurus, Seven Sisters, Crownshift, Dirkschneider, Hellbutcher, Eihwar, DOMINUM

Wacken Open Air Festival Grounds in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Wed, 30 Jul 2025

Bloodstock Open Air 2025, Day 2 Trivium, Lacuna Coil, Emperor, Kataklysm, Orange Goblin, Nailbomb, Flotsam and Jetsam, Paleface Swiss, Shade Empire, Konvent, Shrapnel, My Diligence, Famyne, Eihwar

Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Fri, 08 Aug 2025

Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025 Ill Niño, Fear Factory, Hatebreed, Napalm Death, King Diamond, Candlemass, Enslaved, Decapitated, Marduk, Moonsorrow, Dismember, Old Man’s Child, GosT, LANDMVRKS, Sigh, Forbidden, Warmen, AngelMaker, Kiuas, Me and That Man, Party Cannon, Kanonenfieber, Heavy Metal Perse, Alfahanne, Luna Kills, Qwälen

Helsingin jäähalli in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Fri, 08 Aug 2025

Bloodstock Open Air 2025, Day 3 Static‐X, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Ministry, Creeper, Warbringer, Breed 77, Undeath, HERIOT, Kublai Khan TX, The Spirit, Neonfly, Ba’al, Cage Fight

Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Sat, 09 Aug 2025

Summer Breeze Open Air 2025 Static‐X, Within Temptation, Machine Head, Gojira, Blind Guardian, August Burns Red, Dimmu Borgir, Saxon, Ensiferum, Between the Buried and Me, Vader, Obituary, In Extremo, Agnostic Front, Cult of Luna, Donots, Adept, Evergrey, Destruction, Royal Republic, Suffocation, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Wardruna, Elvenking, Counterparts, 3 Inches of Blood, Borknagar, Fit for a King, Septicflesh, Sólstafir, coldrain, ASP, Primordial, Fiddler’s Green, Crystal Lake, thrown, LANDMVRKS, Omnium Gatherum, Wind Rose, Annisokay, Unleashed, Warbringer, Benighted, Harakiri for the Sky, Warmen, AngelMaker, downset., Rivers of Nihil, Sunken, Kissin’ Dynamite, Spite, 花冷え。, Hämatom, The Halo Effect, Hellripper, Master, Imperial Triumphant, To the Grave, Gutalax, Angelus Apatrida, Gaerea, Slope, Nytt Land, Extermination Dismemberment, Lik, Cypecore, Aephanemer, Allt, Baest, Cytotoxin, Destinity, Hideous Divinity, Kanonenfieber, Abbie Falls, Frozen Crown, Kublai Khan TX, Fight the Fight, Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen, Evil Invaders, Iotunn, Asenblut, Schattenmann, Firtan, Non Est Deus, April Art, AVRALIZE, Charlotte Wessels, League of Distortion, Hammer King, TURBOBIER, Hiraes, Coffin Feeder, Tarja, Heavysaurus, Nattverd, Stellvris, Stesy, DOMINUM

Flugplatz des Aeroclubs Dinkelsbühl in Dinkelsbühl, Bayern, Germany
Wed, 13 Aug 2025

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