Genre: Metal

The Metal Saint Tour 2027 – Metal Church with Armored Saint at Sherman Theater | March 29, 2027

Metal Church and Armored Saint co-headline the Metal Saint Tour 2027 at Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg, PA on March 29, with One Machine opening. Tickets on sale September 25.

Extreme Music Awards at Empire Live | January 16, 2027

The Extreme Music Awards returns to Empire Live in Albany for its fourth annual ceremony on January 16, 2027. The 518’s metal, punk, and hardcore community votes for its best bands, musicians, and albums — tickets on Ticketmaster.

Genitorturers at Empire Underground | October 17, 2026

Genitorturers bring the Live + Lewd Tour to Empire Underground in Albany on Saturday, October 17. Industrial metal and explicit performance art, three decades running. Show starts at 6:30 p.m.

Adelitas Way at Empire Underground | February 17, 2027

Adelitas Way brings their winter 2027 club run to Empire Underground in Albany on February 17 at 7:30 p.m., with Magdalene Rose and Scarhaven in support. Twenty years in, the Las Vegas hard rock band still makes rooms this size count.

Full Blown Chaos at Empire Underground | December 4, 2026

Full Blown Chaos play metal the way metal is meant to be played — committed, physical, with sets where volume is not a by-product but the point. The December 4 show in Albany arrives under a charitable banner: Holiday Toy Drive Day 1 at Empire Underground, opening what the billing marks as a multi-night series […]

Metallica at Highmark Stadium | June 8, 2027

Metallica brings the M72 World Tour to Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park on June 8, 2027, with Limp Bizkit and Avatar. The first concert at Buffalo’s new building. Tickets on sale September 25.

Xasthur & Temple Of The Fuzz Witch – Rochester, NY at Photo City Music Hall | September 28, 2026

Scott “Malefic” Conner started Xasthur in California’s black metal underground in 1995 and has spent three decades doing exactly as he pleases — ending the project in 2010, returning in 2015 with acoustic dark folk in place of the earlier black metal, and then on 2023’s Inevitably Dark, partly lifting his own self-imposed ban on […]