Gold Coast metal icons Sunk Loto return to the stage in August playing their first shows since 2023. Hitting the Crowbars and the Corner with new single Dead Shadows front and centre.

Australia… you thought they forgot! They did not. They waited. They sharpened their claws. They let the forest grow wilder, darker, hungrier. Three years is a blink in eternity, yet long enough for the trees to learn your secrets. Now they return not as visitors, but as conquerors. Bring your torches. Bring your madness. Bring your soul laid bare.

SOILENT GREEN from New Orleans, USA, are well known as one of the world's premiere Grindcore/Sludge Metal bands. The band's 1990s and early-2000s albums are regarded as trendsetting for the Grindcore genre, with a Rolling Stone article listing Soilent Green as one of the "ten most important hard and heavy bands" of the late 1990s.

Shat out of hell? Indeed. The epically unpronounceable, utterly indecipherable and altogether uncompromising gore merchants, Sanguisugabogg, are returning to Australia in June 2026 with special guests PeelingFlesh.

CANDLEMASS will bring their monumental sound to Australian shores this September and October for a long-awaited debut tour in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

This August, Tasmania's finest export, extreme metal pioneers, Psycroptic join like-minded-and-saxophone-wielding US progressive death wizards Rivers of Nihil for a co-headline tour that brings together two elite bands operating at the highest tier of modern death metal.

When British extreme metal legends CRADLE OF FILTH and American metal titans DEVILDRIVER, two of heavy music’s most iconic and ferocious bands - each with a stellar reputation for incredible live shows - joined forces for a North American tour in 2023 the results were predictably amazing and the synergy undeniable.

GAEREA is one of the rare bands where the boundaries between life and art not merely intertwine but forge a totality that you not only hear on record but one that also plays out in the band’s explosive live performance.

One of the most visceral forces on the modern heavy scene, UK heavy alchemists LOATHE are thrilled to announce their first-ever Australian headline tour this May, joined by special guests STATIC DRESS (UK).

After triumphantly casting off the shackles of claustrophobic dissonance on 2020's lauded ‘Stare Into Death and Be Still’, New Zealand unorthodox death metal legends ULCERATE up the ante even further with mind-bending 7th album ‘Cutting the Throat of God’. An acknowledgement that the band's most powerful and affecting material leans to the melodic side, this refined and hook-laden new record is a self-sufficient universe unto itself, a conflagration of inventively visceral death/black metal where dizzying experimentation meets head-nodding abandon - obscenely twisted and addictive, heart-stopping in its depth of feeling.”

The wait is almost over to celebrate THONRHILL's 2025 opus BODIES live in action on home soil, with the band's biggest headline shows to date kicking off later this month. And with the Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne shows entirely sold out, Sydney fans are officially on notice with limited tickets remaining for Sunday 22 February at the Enmore Theatre.

Shat out of hell? Indeed. The epically unpronounceable, utterly indecipherable and altogether uncompromising gore merchants, Sanguisugabogg, are returning to Australia in June 2026 with special guests PeelingFlesh.

One of the most influential acts in modern metal and hardcore, in 2026 Florida heavyweights POISON THE WELL will at long last again be at arm's length for Aussie fans, heading down under for their Australian headline tour in June, joined by special guests HAYWIRE (USA).

Paradise Lost remain the undisputed monarchs of metal’s dark frontier. Formed in Halifax in 1988, they quickly carved out their legacy as pioneers of gothic metal; a brooding fusion of crushing heaviness and shadow‑drenched melody.

Finnish progressive metal legends AMORPHIS will return to Australian shores for the first time in 13 years this September 2026, bringing their atmospheric power and mythic storytelling to Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney.

September 2026 – Prepare your necks and brace your ears — SHRED FEST 2026 is coming! The renowned travelling metal festival will storm across Australia and New Zealand, delivering an unmatched celebration of technical excellence, intensity, and musical precision.

Gore Metal kings EXHUMED (USA) hit the blood-soaked road in 2026, announcing their long-awaited return to Australia and New Zealand in support of their brand-new album Red Asphalt, out February 20, 2026 via Relapse Records.

Hardline Media are stoked to announce the inaugural and triumphant Reckoning tour of VINDICTA. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, it’s your turn…Born from the ruins of greatness, VINDICTA rise, more original and even greater than before. Australian believers, we heard your call…vocalist Grace Pasturini (Lilith) and guitarists Amber Maldonado (Lamia) and Patri Grief (Rusalka) will be descending down under in June 2026

BATTLE BEAST have announced that long-time vocalist Noora Louhimo will be departing the band. The news was shared on the band’s official social media channels recently.

Australia, prepare for impact — American technical death metal legends ORIGIN are returning to obliterate stages across the country for the first time in over a decade. Being hailed as one of the most ferociously technical and forward-thinking bands in extreme metal; ORIGIN Return to Australia in June 2026 to obliterate stages in the cities of Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Frankston, Melbourne and Sydney

ENSIFERUM, one of the world's leading Folk Metal Bands, return to Australia for their "Winter Storm Over Australia" tour late May 2026. With their 9th studio album under their belt Winter Storm, and celebrating their 30th anniversary, these shows will be huge. Get your drinking horns and Viking helmets ready.

In 2026, Michigan crushers KING 810 will head down under for their first ever Australian headline tour, set to roar onto shores next March joined by guests THE GLOOM IN THE CORNER and DREGG.

One of the world's most brutal Death Metal bands, the mighty CRYPTOPSY, are just weeks away from headlining 4 shows throughout Australia to close out the year as part of their ALL SO VILE tour!!!

Shat out of hell? Indeed. The epically unpronounceable, utterly indecipherable and altogether uncompromising gore merchants, Sanguisugabogg, are returning to Australia in June 2026 with special guests PeelingFlesh.

Progressive metal band NEOMANTRA is thrilled to announce their upcoming tour alongside Finnish melodic death doom icons Swallow the Sun. This epic tour promises to deliver an unforgettable fusion of progressive metal and atmospheric doom, combining NEOMANTRA's intricate compositions, spiritually charged lyrics, and emotionally intense soundscapes.

IMMORIUM is an unstoppable force in the heavy metal scene, fusing blistering Melodic Death Metal with Progressive Metal's complexity and the emotional depth of Post-Metal will join EVERGREY on their return to Australia in April and May 2026!

HED) P.E. return to shake Australia to its very foundations and they are bringing NONPOINT with them

HARDLINE MEDIA proudly presents VADER - REIGN FOREVER AUSTRALIA 2026 - Playing REIGN FOREVER WORLD + LITANY!