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December 2025
Bands: Primitive Man, Buffalo Nichols, Great Falls, God Is War
American Observance MMXXV
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Monday, December 15th, 2025
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#PrimitiveMan
Bands: Castrator, Desolus
Coronation of the Grotesque Tour 2025
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Thursday, December 18th, 2025
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Castrator
Bands: Dying Fetus, Pig Destroyer, Visceral Disgorge
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 – New Year’s Eve
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#DFPxDx
January 2026
Bands: The Virgos, Funeral Dancer, Troncale, Ninth Realm
A Night Of Evil And Speed
Venue: Songbyrd (Union Market NE Washington DC)
Date: Friday, January 9th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#TheVirgos
Bands: Age of Ruin, Shovelhead A.D., Skin Testament
Venue: The Pocket at 7DrumCity (Truxton Circle NW Washington DC)
Date: Saturday, January 10th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#AgeOfRuin
Bands: Horrendous
Celebrating Ten Years of Anareta Tour
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Saturday, January 24th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Horrendous
Bands: Agriculture, Knoll, Sadness
The Spiritual Sound Tour
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Sunday, January 25th, 2026
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Agriculture
Bands: Left to Suffer, Your Spirit Dies, Fr3ak
The Eternal Suffering Tour
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Thursday, January 29th, 2026
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#LTS
Bands: Nunslaughter, Desolus, Nuclear Tomb
Headless Jehova Tour 2026
Venue: Songbyrd (Union Market NE Washington DC)
Date: Saturday, January 31st, 2026
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Nunslaughter
February 2026
Bands: Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize
Peel It Back Tour 2026
Venue: Capital One Arena (Chinatown NW Washington DC)
Date: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#NIN
Bands: Kayo Dot, Carl Gene
2026 North America Tour
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Thursday, February 12th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Kayodot
Bands: Nosferatu Madre, Lemmy Shelter, Quick Machine
Farewell To The Kings: A Night of Black Sabbath & Ozzy Tributes
Venue: The Pocket at 7DrumCity (Truxton Circle NW Washington DC)
Date: Friday, February 13th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#SabbathTributeNight
March 2026
Bands: Author & Punisher, King Yosef, Black Magnet
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Monday, March 2nd, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#AandP
Bands: Sabaton, Pop Evil, Wings of Steel
Legends on Tour
Venue: The Theater at MGM National Harbor (Oxon Hill, MD)
Date: Sunday, March 15th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Sabaton
April 2026
Bands: Helloween, Beast In Black
40th Anniversary North American Tour 2026
Venue: The Fillmore Silver Spring (Silver Spring, MD)
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Helloween
May 2026
Bands: Bring Me The Horizon, Motionless In White, The Plot In You, Amira Elfeky
North American Ascension Program 2
Venue: CFG Bank Arena (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Monday, May 4th, 2026
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https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#BMTH
Bands: Napalm Death, Repulsion, Sinister, Monstrosity, Organ Donor
Maryland Deathfest XXI Pre-Fest Show
Venue: Nevermore Hall (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MDFXXIPreFest
Maryland Deathfest XXI
Venue: Baltimore Inner Harbor
Date: Thursday, May 21st thru Sunday, May 24th, 2026
Tickets available here: here
Bands announced so far:
1914 (Ukraine)
Aberration
Acheron
Aftermath
Anatomia (Japan)
…And Oceans (Finland)
Antichrist Siege Machine
Avernus
Batushka (Poland)
Blood Red Throne (Norway)
Bongzilla
Cancer (UK) Death Shall Rise set
Cephalic Carnage (Old school set – First 3 albums)
Cephalotripsy
Cerebral Hemmorhage
Chaotian (Denmark)
Condemned
The Crown (Sweden)
Cryptic Shift (UK)
Dead Void (Denmark)
Death Angel performing Act III in its entirety
Der Weg einer Freiheit (Germany)
Destruction performing Infernal Overkill in its entirety
Diabolic Oath
Dying Fetus first 3 albums set (Purification Through Violence, Killing on Adrenaline, Destroy the Opposition)
Emasculator
Excrescence
Gestation
God Dethroned (Netherlands)
Grave (Sweden) – Old School Grave/Corpse set
Grave Infestation
Haukago Grind Time
Havukruunu (Finland)
Hellbutcher (Sweden)
Hemorrhoid
Kreator (Germany) performing songs from Pleasure to Kill, Terrible Certainty, and Extreme Aggression
Lair of the Minotaur
Lividity
Lömsk (Sweden)
Macabre
Mellow Harsher
Melting Rot
Miasmatic Necrosis
Mortician
Necrofier
Novembers Doom
Old Man’s Child (Norway)
Ossuary
Pan-Amerikan Native Front
Pathology Due to a band member suffering an injury that will require extended physical therapy, Pathology are no longer able to perform at MDF 2026
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard set
Poltergeist
Putridity (Italy)
Rotten Sound (Finland) Murderworks and Exit set
Rotting Christ (Greece) playing an old school set (1989-1995)
Rottrevore (replacing Pathology)
Rwake
Sarcófago (Brazil) (performed by Gerald “Incubus” Minelli and the Laws)
Sardonic Witchery
Sex Prisoner
Slimelord (UK)
Soil of Ignorance (Canada)
Solitude Aeturnus
StarGazer (Australia)
!T.O.O.H.! (Czech Republic)
Torture Rack
Terror Corpse
To Violently Vomit (ex-Disgorge US)
Torsofuck (Finland)
Unmerciful
Warbringer
Whiplash
Windhand
Witch Vomit
Wolfheart (Finland)
Wrathprayer (Chile)
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MDFXXI
September 2026
Bands: Iron Maiden, Megadeth
Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026
Venue: Jiffy Lube Live (Brisow, VA)
Date: Friday, September 11th, 2026
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Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#IronMaiden
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Thank you!! Finally a site to combine all metal shows.
Good list. Keep it up!
As always, nice info, Chris.
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Metal Chris, you could not be more awesome. Thank you so much for keeping this list going! If I ever run into you at one of these gigs, the beers are on me, dude.
very cool site.thanks for the listings. i think krass judgement are playing on the exumed/goatwhore show
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Had lots of fun at the Ghost show, It was fucking beautiful. Once again thanx for the site, new to area and pleased with this healthy metal sceene. DC knows how to tear shit up… See ya’ll at the Testament show!
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This site is really cool for letting people updated for their favorite metal band concerts and tours….
M/A was the band that got me into the genre many years ago.I’ve never seen them live and I pretty much adore you for making my day with the news that they are touring to a place I can see them….. in only a few months. I thank you big big. :-)
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By any chance did you whats the latest the buses run in Springfield, VA? I wil be livig in Washingon DC, but I would not have a problem going there, only getting back home.
Thanks
I don’t know but you can probably find out on the Metro’s website: http://www.wmata.com
Also check out the local Fairfax Connector busses:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector.
(A good guide is on page 2 of the Metro section in the Sept. 2 Washington post.)
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Love the updates. I know DORO and SISTER SIN are coming to Empire (http://www.empire-nova.com/eventdetails.aspx?eventId=294 ) and Baltimore Soundstage next year.
this site is really cool! Thanks for keeping us up to date with shows!
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Would miss out and never hear about many of these local shows happening without it.
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