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SUMMARY:Nicko McBrain
DESCRIPTION:Heavy metal icon and Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain comes to the Ambassador Theatre on 18th November 2026.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/nicko-mcbrain/
LOCATION:Ambassador Theatre
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Rock & Indie
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SUMMARY:Xentrix | Cross-Atlantic Carnage Tour
DESCRIPTION:Thrash metal veterans XENTRIX join forces with Brazilian thrash powerhouse NERVOSA for a tour not to be missed! Get ready for a collision of riffs\, weapons of mass distortion and pure metal carnage across the UK and Ireland. XENTRIX have stood as one of the defining names in British thrash — Delivering razor-sharp riffs\, relentless energy and a catalogue that helped shape an underground legacy. Now they return to the stages of UK & Ireland with renewed intensity and a set list designed to hit harder than ever including songs from their latest album ‘Allied With The Enemy’. NERVOSA — The internationally acclaimed Brazilian outfit whose explosive live reputation\, ferocious musicianship and uncompromising aggression have made them one of modern metal’s most feared live acts. This isn’t nostalgia. This isn’t a tribute to the past. This is a new era of heaviness. Expect a night of breakneck thrash with enough riff damage to level all fronts. \nBe ready\, be warned and be there!!
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/xentrix-cross-atlantic-carnage-tour/
LOCATION:Opium\, 26 Wexford Street Dublin 2\, Dublin\, D02 HX93
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music
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SUMMARY:L1NKN P4RK
DESCRIPTION:L1NKN P4RK return in 2025 for their biggest UK/EU tour yet. Having sold out many shows across their 2024 touring and playing 1000 Lights at Utilita Arena Birmingham\, L1NKN P4RK proudly hold their place as the most authentic tribute to Linkin Park. Their raw\, high-energy performance will take you from nu-metal nostalgia of the early 2000’s to modern day hits. \nL1NKN P4RK’s mission has always been to pay homage to Chester Bennington and promote mental health awareness\, by supporting Help Musicians and Uprawr Mental Health Foundation. \nGet ready for the ultimate Linkin Park Experience!
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/l1nkn-p4rk/
LOCATION:Opium\, 26 Wexford Street Dublin 2\, Dublin\, D02 HX93
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Rock & Indie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261123T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261123T220000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111634Z
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SUMMARY:Urne
DESCRIPTION:The Grand Social is delighted to say Urne will be playing live in their venue on the 23rd of November.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/urne/
LOCATION:The Grand Social\, 35 Liffey St. Lower\, Dublin 1\, D01 C3N0
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261124T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261124T220000
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SUMMARY:Harakiri For The Sky
DESCRIPTION:Despair\, loss\, love\, and existential struggles have always been the foundation of HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’s distinctive sound. Since their formation in 2011\, multi-instrumentalist M.S. and vocalist J.J. have gained recognition for pushing musical boundaries with their emotionally charged blend of atmospheric extreme metal and melodic post-rock\, grunge and modern hardcore\, carving out a genre of their own. After maintaining a steady two-year release rhythm and producing five albums in nine years\, the band decided to break from tradition following 2021’s “Maere” (which peaked at #4 on the official German charts). Taking four years to craft their next epic chapter\, HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY will now release their new tour-de-force\, “Scorched Earth”\, in January 2025 through AOP Records. \nMusically\, HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY continues to evolve\, but don’t stray too far away from the path they have been walking for the past 13 years. Their music is renowned for its melancholic\, deeply emotional tone\, exploring themes of existential despair\, inner turmoil\, and the human condition. Over the years\, these themes have solidified their place as pioneers of their own genre. \nGrowth has been a defining element for HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY in recent years. They’ve headlined tours across Europe\, North America\, South America\, Asia\, and Australia\, earning a reputation as one of the most emotionally intense live acts in modern metal. Additionally\, they’ve garnered five nominations for Austria’s prestigious Amadeus Music Award. Now\, the band is ready to return to the stage\, kicking off an extensive North American tour with Swallow The Sun in February\, followed by a European headline tour in April to unveil “Scorched Earth” to the world.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/harakiri-for-the-sky/
LOCATION:Opium\, 26 Wexford Street Dublin 2\, Dublin\, D02 HX93
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261212T220000
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SUMMARY:The Emo Festival comes to Dublin
DESCRIPTION:The Emo Festival is coming to Dublin! The greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase! \n\n\n\n\nThe Emo Festival is coming to Dublin! 💀🖤 \nThe greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase… 🖤 \nTEENAGE NOSTALGIA featuring all your biggest emo songs in existence with A LIVE BAND & LIVE DJs spinning all the angst your teenage dirtbag heart desires all night long! LIVE Performers\, confetti & much more! \nPut on your eyeliner\, lace up your high-tops and get ready to rock to all your favourite nostalgic emo anthems! \nPlease note this is a standing event! \nThis event is 18+ – Please note this is a standing event! \nDisclaimer: The Emo Festival and its events are not affiliated with the artists listed. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. \nPlease note that in-line with normal consumer standards for ticket purchases\, tickets for The Emo Festival are non-refundable\, unless we move the event or cancel it – any issues please don’t hesitate to contact our support team at www.emofest.co.uk
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/the-emo-festival-comes-to-dublin/
LOCATION:Opium\, 26 Wexford Street Dublin 2\, Dublin\, D02 HX93
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Punk,Rock & Indie
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270107T220000
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SUMMARY:Black Veil Brides
DESCRIPTION:Before the birth of the BVB Army\, the countless fan tattoos\, and the gold and platinum records that followed\, Black Veil Brides was simply a dark vision dreamed up by an only child in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nAndy Biersack grew up obsessed with monsters\, real and imagined\, and with Batman\, KISS\, the Misfits\, and The Phantom of the Opera. The evocative iconography of religion and complex feelings about his Catholic heritage fueled explorations of the arcane\, primal\, and often-destructive allure of belief. Sworn to a life of purpose through expression and convinced of the power of the outcast\, Andy weaponized his fears and fascinations\, culminating in the “birth” and ascension of Black Veil Brides. \nGuitarists Jake Pitts and Jinxx\, drummer Christian Coma\, bassist Lonny Eagleton\, and Biersack celebrated several milestones in recent years\, including massive shows in London and Mexico City. “Bleeders” was a Top 10 hit at Active Rock radio and a several-month-long mainstay on YouTube’s Hard Rock & Metal chart (which tracks both current and catalog music videos) in 2024 and 2025. \nThe group’s cinematic scope and unwavering commitment to self-expression strike a familiar chord with fellow “bleeders” who seek refuge (and revenge) in the power of dark themes and imagination. \nVINDICATE\, the band’s seventh album\, harnesses the blend of grandeur and intimacy at the heart of the band’s melodic\, metallic sound. Each song on the album explores belief and distinct expressions of revenge\, tracing a clear throughline across Black Veil Brides’ history anddistilling the emotional instincts that have defined every era into their most focused and resonant form. \n“Knives and Pens\,” an early demo set to music video\, has over 150 million views\, made before Andy met his band of brothers. Platinum anthem “In the End” further proved the band was built to last. \nKerrang! and Rock Sound repeatedly featured Black Veil Brides on their covers. In the United States\, Revolver counted Andy among the “100 Greatest Living Rock Stars.” Andy and BVB appeared on the cover of Alternative Press more times than any other artist in the magazine’s 40-plus-year run. \nJake Pitts (also an accomplished producer) and Jinxx (a classically trained violinist) joined the fold before the creation of BVB’s debut album\, 2010’s We Stitch These Wounds. The shredding guitar duo had played in an earlier band with charismatic drummer Christian Coma and knew he’d be a perfect fit for BVB. CC came aboard for their major-label debut and first Billboard Top 20 album\, Set the World on Fire\, an anthemic sophomore set that produced the gold-certified single “Fallen Angels.” \nThe sprawling\, conceptually driven\, metalcore milestone and No. 1 Rock album Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones was the first of several BVB albums to debut in the Top 10 in the U.S.\, and it entered the Top 20 in the UK. BVB’s muscular fourth album\, titled simply Black Veil Brides\, gave them another Top 10 debut. Vale (2018) topped Billboard’s Hard Rock chart and achieved significant success in Europe and Australia. When BVB’s bassist position opened in 2019\, Lonny Eagleton fit in seamlessly. “Scarlet Cross\,” from 2021’s pulpy concept album The Phantom Tomorrow\, became their highest-charting single\, reaching No. 8 on Mainstream Rock Radio. \nVINDICATE is the first new Black Veil Brides full-length produced by Pitts and Biersack\, exercising complete creative control while synthesizing the best of what they’ve learned from A-list producers. The album was mixed by Zakk Cervini (Bring Me The Horizon\, Evanescence\, Bad Omens). \nVINDICATE ushers in Black Veil Brides’ most visceral\, creative\, thrilling\, and uncompromising era yet\, as the band continues to defy expectations and misconceptions held by casual onlookers. Black Veil Brides forever champions the isolated and the dismissed. They’re an object of devotion and obsession for those who sing their anthems in unison\, a diverse BVB Army that never surrenders.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/black-veil-brides/
LOCATION:3Olympia Theatre
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Rock & Indie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270118T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270118T220000
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SUMMARY:Unpeople
DESCRIPTION:Hefty riffs with catchy melodies and luscious harmonies\, Unpeople play The Grand Social January 18th\, 2027.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/unpeople/
LOCATION:The Grand Social\, 35 Liffey St. Lower\, Dublin 1\, D01 C3N0
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Punk,Rock & Indie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270126T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260325T092132Z
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SUMMARY:Whitechapel & Sylosis
DESCRIPTION:American deathcore band Whitechapel and UK metal powerhouse Sylosis announce huge co-headline Academy\, Dublin show for Tuesday\, 26th January 2027. Joining them are very special guests 200 Stab Wounds & Tribal Gaze. \nTickets from €43.50 (inc booking fee & venue facility fee) from Ticketmaster.ie. Bookings subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket (max €10.50) \nAbout Whitechapel: Whitechapel\, who formed in Knoxville\, Tennessee\, in 2006\, has seen the core lineup—vocalist Phill Bozeman; guitarists Ben Savage\, Zach Householder and Alex Wade; bassist Gabe Crisp—intact since 2007\, with the exception of the drummer Brandon Zackey\, who has been playing with the band since 2022. While Hymns in Dissonance follows 2021’s Kin chronologically\, the new album is actually somewhat of a sequel to This is Exile thematically\, the three-word title Hymns in Dissonance representing that correlation. \nWhitechapel started writing for the new album at Householder’s studio in June of 2023\, following the band’s headlining tour for The Valley. Whitechapel stuck to a strict weekday schedule\, the structure allowing formaximum creativity and minimum burnout. Householder produced Hymns in Dissonance\, which allowed the musicians to seamlessly switch gears from preproduction to recording the full album without skipping a beat.The guitarist shadowed producer Mark Lewis a lot over the last five Whitechapel albums and bringing that influence inside the band is a “full circle moment for Householder and Whitechapel. “It’s cool that we can be self-sufficient and produce a record of this magnitude ourselves; not a lot of bands can say that.” \nLongtime fans will detect hints of the past within the brutality. To wit: the riff-tastic “Hate Cult Ritual” is the only song on the album with Drop A tuning\, the tuning the first three Whitechapel albums used. Additionally\, the Hymns in Dissonance chapter in Bozeman’s life finds the frontman living through his “past times\,” or as he states\, “the music that brought me here. Brutal\, dark\, aggressive\, heavy music. Death metal\, black metal\, speed metal\, etc. I truly believe that your roots call you back at some point in your life and this is that point in my life.” \nAt this stage in the game\, the name Whitechapel commands the ultimate respect. Already sitting on one of the most enviable catalogs in contemporary metal\, in 2019 they dropped The Valley\, highlighting a confident evolution in their sound and standing as a true landmark release that sets a new standard for the genre. With Bozeman exploring childhood trauma on 2019’s The Valley\, it was their darkest release to-date. But with its2021 successor\, Kin\, the story was darker still. \nAbout Sylosis: UK metal powerhouse Sylosis will be unleashing their most ambitious outing yet; a 31-date headline tour\, hitting major venues and cities across the UK and Europe in early 2026. \nFueled by their growing catalogue of crushing riffs and relentless live energy\, Sylosis are set to dominate stages from Helsinki to Barcelona. The run will feature their two biggest UK headline shows to-date\, at the O2 Forum Kentish Town\, London (20/02) and O2 Ritz\, Manchester (21/02). \n“This is it. 5 years of building towards a UK/EU headline tour with a bill that we are truly proud of. We’ve been touring hard for the last few years and never been stronger as a unit. This is our time to step it up and show everyone what a Sylosis show is all about. \nRevocation are true legends of the genre and it’s an honour to have them as a part of this. Distant are one of the hardest working heavy bands out there and rounding off the bill is one of our favourite bands to emerge out of the US in recent years\, Life Cycles. \nWe love heavy music and have put together a true showcase of modern metal. If you consider yourself a fan of all things heavy\, this is a tour that you simply cannot miss. We’ll see you next year.” \nSylosis are one of the UK’s most formidable modern metal acts – an unrelenting force known for their razor-sharp thrash riffs\, soaring melodic passages\, and progressive songwriting. Emerging from Reading in the early 2000s\, the band quickly earned a reputation as scene heavy-weights\, fueling a career spanning over two decades. \nFeaturing Josh Middleton (lead guitar & vocals)\, Ali Richardson (drums)\, Conor Marshall (guitar)\, and Ben Thomas (bass)\, Sylosis have earned their place as a vital\, uncompromising voice in modern heavy music. With countless tours\, festival appearances and consistently fierce new material under their belts\, the future is theirs.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/whitechapel-sylosis/
LOCATION:The Academy\, 57 Middle Abbey Street\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music
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SUMMARY:Obscura
DESCRIPTION:OBSCURA leads Shred Fest 2027\, with PESTILENCE\, CRYPTIC SHIFT\, THUS and DVRK.\n \n2027 marks the 25th anniversary of OBSCURA\, and they are kicking off the year with their longest European & UK run. \nSHRED FEST is an annual touring festival concept that sets its sights on a different continent each year — uniting some of the most ferocious and technically accomplished bands in extreme metal. In 2027\, following previous editions across North America and Australia\, SHRED FEST arrives in Europe and the United Kingdom for its most ambitious chapter to date. \nFrom January 20th to February 27th\, 2027\, SHRED FEST will traverse the continent with 39 shows and no days off — a relentless run that stands as a statement of endurance\, precision\, and uncompromising musicianship. Leading the charge are Obscura\, joined by the legendary Pestilence\, the UK’s boundary-pushing Cryptic Shift\, Denmark’s progressive force Thus\, and France’s relentless DVRK.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/obscura/
LOCATION:Opium\, 26 Wexford Street Dublin 2\, Dublin\, D02 HX93
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Rock & Indie
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270217T220000
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SUMMARY:Saxon
DESCRIPTION:Adding to the excitement\, the band will revive their legendary 30-foot mechanised Eagle for all UK and Ireland shows\, with the exception of Cardiff due to venue restrictions. Fans can also expect the return of Saxon’s celebrated Castles & Eagles stage production\, promising one of the most spectacular live presentations in the band’s history. \nOriginally constructed in the early 1980s as Saxon prepared to tour their seminal album Denim and Leather\, the iconic Eagle was built by Midlands-based company LSD using airport runway landing lights. It made its first appearance during a pre-tour rehearsal in London before becoming an enduring symbol of the band. \nTowering above audiences during Saxon’s massive arena tours\, the emblematic Eagle quickly became Saxon’s mascot and inspired the title of their acclaimed 1982 UK Top 5 live album\, The Eagle Has Landed\, leading to fans requesting its presence ever since. \n“We wanted to make the Gods of Thunder UK & Ireland tour extra special\,” comments founding member and front man Biff Byford. “And what better way than to fly our beloved Saxon Eagle again… Get ready for take-off!” \nWith a new world tour on the horizon and their highly anticipated 25th studio album on Silver Lining Music waiting in the wings for an early 2027 release\, Saxon show no signs of slowing down as they continue to fly the flag for British heavy metal around the globe.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/saxon/
LOCATION:3Olympia Theatre
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music,Rock & Indie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270407T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20270407T220000
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SUMMARY:Ministry
DESCRIPTION:Born in 1981 in Chicago\, Ministry has been the lifetime passion project of founder Al Jourgensen\, considered to be the pioneer of industrial music. In its early days\, Ministry was identifiable by its heavy synth-pop material in line with the new sounds and technology that were being developed in the ‘80s. Ministry’s output began with four 12” singles on Wax Trax! Records in 1981 before the first LP With Sympathy in 1983 via Arista Records. As time progressed however\, so did Ministry\, quickly developing a harsher\, and more stylized sound that the band soon became infamous for on seminal albums Twitch (1986)\, The Land of Rape and Honey (1988)\, and The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (1989). With the release of Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs (1992)\, Ministry hit an all-time high in the mainstream musical realm and received its first Grammy nomination. \nIn total\, Ministry has been nominated for a Grammy award six times. Eight more albums would follow before an indefinite break in 2013\, only to be unearthed again in 2018 with AmeriKKKant\, continuing to reflect Jourgensen’s views on the frightening state of society and politics. The 2021 album Moral Hygiene marked a new creative era of Jourgensen and the band. It was followed by Ministry’s 16th studio album\, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES\, released in 2024 as well as The Squirrely Years Revisited with reworked songs from the band’s synth pop era in 2025. Ministry’s final album\, Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) is set for release on October 30\, 2026 via Cleopatra Records.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/ministry/
LOCATION:3Olympia Theatre
CATEGORIES:Metal,Music
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