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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.
Where heavy metal is economic development.
Where heavy metal is economic development.
The Music Cities™ makes the case for the cultural and economic value of heavy metal by giving visibility to the bands and scenes that deserve it. This is the calendar we actually follow: Florida’s metal venues, the Japanese watch list, marquee festivals and new releases. Last updated Nov 2, 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 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.
BAND-MAID — Japan show; presale nearly sold out. Namba Hatch in Osaka, Japan. Show date: Nov 3 2026.
GWAR's "Gor Gor Must Die" tour with Cleveland blackened speed-metal trio Midnight on direct support, plus Mac Sabbath and X-Cops rounding out the bill. Same night In Flames play Culture Room across town — pick your poison. All ages. Doors 6 PM, show 7 PM.
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.
Second Florida stop of the run; the Orlando date lands two nights later.
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.
