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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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 Oct 30, 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.
Honey Revenge x Dead Poet Society co-headline run, the night before their Tampa Halloween show. Full bill: Honey Revenge, Dead Poet Society, Hunny, Broadside. Early 6 PM start.
Michale Graves (former Misfits singer) — full band set, Halloween eve at the Whisky.
SiM — HOOMAN AFTER ALL world tour, North American leg. Tickets: https://tix.soundrink.com/tours/sim
HANABIE. — Japan 2MAN Tour 2026. BIG CAT in Osaka, Japan. Show date: Oct 30 2026.
EMNW Halloween night in Niigata at CLUB RIVERST, first of a Tohoku/Hokuriku back-to-back (Sendai follows Nov 1).
Halloween-night four-band bill; Broadside also on the lineup.
Genitorturers — "Live and Lewd" Tour, with support from Nathan James. Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave, Winter Park (Orlando), FL. Show 7:00 PM. Halloween night with the Orlando-founded industrial shock-rock band on home turf. As on-brand a Florida Halloween booking as exists. Source:…
Two-day, 40-band metal festival at Hardlove Company in Jacksonville — headlined by Maruder (NYC) with Florida's own Longpig among the lineup. Brought to you by Kingside Records.
EMNW at Rockateria, Sendai — night two after Niigata. Bandsintown lists seven further EMNW dates not yet visible; expect more.
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