NOV 4
In Flames
Newly listed, on sale Sep 4. Club-sized In Flames headline the night before the band's larger Trivium co-headline at Jannus Live on the 5th — worth confirming both stand.
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Where heavy metal is economic development.
Not an aggregator. This is the calendar we actually pay attention to — Florida's metal venues, the Japanese watch list, marquee festivals, new releases, livestreams, and the records on heavy rotation. Last updated Nov 1, 2026.
Three shows in ten weeks, two of them forty-eight hours apart with the same five bands and the same running order. What is left to vary is the room — Wacken, Fort Lauderdale, St. Petersburg.
Read the review →Where we go next. Two weeks across Japan this November — four metal show nights from Tokyo to Kawasaki.
The high-priority shows we're actually building around — marquee acts, confirmed field trips, the ones worth planning your week around.
Newly listed, on sale Sep 4. Club-sized In Flames headline the night before the band's larger Trivium co-headline at Jannus Live on the 5th — worth confirming both stand.
Rush bring the Fifty Something tour to Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood — their first South Florida stop in over a dozen years. Two sets a night, setlists drawn from a 35-song catalogue, each night different. Night one of two (see Nov 7). Show 8 PM.
Second Hollywood night, added by popular demand after Nov 5 sold through. Rush's Fifty Something tour — two sets, a different setlist from night one, pulled from a 35-song pool. Show 7:30 PM.
Rush — Fifty Something Tour, with Anika Nilles on drums alongside Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Tampa stop at Benchmark International Arena, doors/show 7:30 PM. Tickets via Ticketmaster. A second Tampa night on Nov 11 is listed by ticket aggregators but not yet confirmed against…
Forbidden — "Chaos By Design" Tour. Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave, Winter Park (Orlando), FL. Show 6:00 PM. Bay Area thrash originals in a 400-cap room. Forbidden almost never route this far south, and Conduit is a fraction of the size of the rooms they play elsewhere on this…
SiM — HOOMAN AFTER ALL World Tour 2026 NA leg
Across every bucket, soonest first. Use the bucket pages for the full lists.
EMNW at Rockateria, Sendai — night two after Niigata. Bandsintown lists seven further EMNW dates not yet visible; expect more.
SiM — HOOMAN AFTER ALL world tour, North American leg. Tickets: https://tix.soundrink.com/tours/sim
HANABIE. — Japan 2MAN Tour 2026. Hamamatsu FORCE in Hamamatsu, Japan. Show date: Nov 1 2026.
BAND-MAID — Japan show after US tour, before Budokan. COMTEC PORTBASE in Nagoya, Japan. Show date: Nov 1 2026.
EMNW take the self-titled major-debut album on the road — Sapporo SPiCE. Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Listing: https://www.bandsintown.com/EMNW
Havok — Colorado thrash — Austin date, following the fall UK/Europe run (London Sep 19).
Midnight — Satanic Royalty 15th Anniversary show. Cleveland's one-man blackened speed metal/punk racket (Athenar) brings the anniversary set to the Brass Mug for one filthy night.
Full bill: OK Goodnight, Lux Terminus, Eve. Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave, Winter Park (Orlando), FL. Show 7:00 PM. Progressive-metal triple bill — OK Goodnight are a Florida band, so this is a hometown-adjacent date worth watching. Source: Conduit venue calendar sweep.
SiM HOOMAN AFTER ALL World Tour 2026 — Tue 11/3/2026.
Each tile is its own page — bucket, count, and the editorial scope behind it.
Deep-dive pages for specific trips and festivals. Hand-built briefs beyond the calendar.
