If your band is playing a show or you know of a show that isn’t listed here, email me the details including who is playing, what venue it is at, how much it costs and a promo flyer image to DCHeavyMetal@Gmail.com and I’ll list it here. If you’re playing a DIY show and can’t be bothered to make a flyer up real quick, don’t be surprised if I can’t be bothered to list the show.
January 2020
Bands: Galactic Cross, Spiral Grave and Mangog
Venue: Atlas Brew Works (Ivy City NE Washington DC)
Date: Friday, January 31st, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
About: Dave Sherman’s newest band, Galactic Cross, is playing their first show AND releasing their debut album this night as well.
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#GalacticCross
Check out the headliner:
Bands: An evening with Machine Head. The show will consist of 2 sets totalling 3 hours. The first set will be with the newer members of Machine Head playing fan favorites, and the second set will be a reunion of original Machine Head members Rob Flynn, Logan Mader, and Chris Kontos playing the entirety of the “Burn My Eyes” album
Venue: Fillmore Silver Spring (Silver Spring, MD)
Date: Friday, January 31st, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MachineHead
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Crooked Hills, Cavern, Foghound and Weed Coughin
Venue: Olde Mother Brewing (Frederick, MD)
Date: Friday, January 31st, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#CrookedHills
February 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Bandit, No/Más, ground, Needle and M.S.D. (Millennial Snowflakes of Death)
Venue: Pie Shop DC (H Street NE Washington DC)
Date: Saturday, February 1st, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Bandit
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Pimmit Hills (ex-King Giant), Seasick Gladiator and Collider
Venue: Pie Shop DC (H St Corridor NE Washington DC)
Date: Saturday, February 8th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#PimmitHills
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Max Redding and the Dogwood Gospel, Ashes of Everest, One Slack Mind, Noxious, Rat Infested, Dysfigure, Shumaun, Gravity Kong, Spiral Fracture and Ghost Logic
Venue: Tucked Away Brewing (formerly Bad Wolf Brewery) (Manassas, VA)
Date: Saturday, February 8th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#ToyDrive
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Alms, Omen Stones, Cavern and Almost Honest
Venue: Rituals: Bar & Venue (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Saturday, February 8th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Alms
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Mike Dillon Band, Earthride, Almost Honest and Screaming Mad Dee
Venue: Olde Mother Brewing (Frederick, MD)
Date: Saturday, February 15th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MikeDillonBand
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Queensrÿche
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Wednesday, February 20th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Queensrÿche
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Horehound, Foehammer and Bailjack
Venue: The Pocket at 7DrumCity (Truxton Circle NE Washington DC)
Date: Friday, February 21st, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#SludgeNight
Promo video:
Bands: Vastum, Deceased, Darsombra, Barishi, Magic Circle, Völur, Yatra, Leila Abdul-Rauf, Fell Ruin, Doomstress, Alms, Spiral Grave, Arsantiqva, Mo’ynoq, Witching, Polemicist, Frost Giant, Radamanthys, Capitalist and Infinite Pizza
Venue: Cafe 611 (Frederick, MD)
Date: Friday February 21st thru Saturday February 22nd, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Shadowfrost
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Heavy Temple, Shadow Witch, Eternal Black and Haze Mage
Venue: Oliver Brewing (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#HeavyTemple
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Opeth and Graveyard
Venue: Fillmore Silver Spring (Silver Spring, MD)
Date: Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Opeth
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Voarm, Et Mors and The Astral Void
Venue: Atlas Brew Works (Ivy City NE Washington DC)
Date: Friday, February 28th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Voarm
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Cult of Luna, Emma Ruth Rundle and Intronaut
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Saturday, February 29th, 2020 (Leap Year Day)
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#CultOfLuna
March 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Om and Wovenhand
Venue: Black Cat (U St Corridor NW Washington DC)
Date: Monday, March 2nd, 2020
More info soon! Tickets go on sale 11/15/19.
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Om
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Weedeater, The Goddamn Gallows and The Atomic Bitchwax
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Weedeater
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Bad Omens, Oh Sleeper, Thousand Below, Bloodline and Marzy Maddox
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#BadOmens
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Triumvir Foul, Human Agony and Antichrist Siege Machine (A.S.M.)
Venue: Atlas Brew Works (Ivy City NE Washington DC)
Show has been moved to the Sidebar in Baltimore
Date: Friday, March 6th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Tickets for Atlas will still be honored
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#TriumvirFoul
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Sanguisugabogg, Vomit Forth, No/Más and Immiseration
Venue: Sidebar (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Sunday, March 8th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Sanguisugabogg
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Overkill, Exhorder and Hydraform
Venue: Fillmore Silver Spring
Date: Friday the 13th of March 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Overkill
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Killswitch Engage and August Burns Red
Venue: Fillmore Silver Spring (Silver Spring, MD)
Date: Saturday, March 14th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Pre-Sale Password is: RHYTHM
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#KillswitchEngage
Check out the headliner:
Event: St. Thrashricks Fest: Return of McMoshy
Bands: Lich King, Swashbuckle, Wrath, Paralysis, Omnislash, Midnite Hellion, Black Mass, Bound By The Grave, Vitality, Toxic Ruin, Manic Outburst, Euphoria, Humungus, Fatal Agent, Arsena, Wrath Of Typhon and Exemptus
Venue: Angels Rock Bar (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Saturday, March 14th thru Sunday, March 15th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get single and 2 day tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#StThrashricksFest
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Devin Townsend, Haken and The Contortionist
Venue: Rams Head Live (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Monday, March 16th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#DevinTownsend
Check out the headliner:
Bands: High Command, Shadowland, Enforced and Nuclear Tomb
Venue: Atlas Brew Works (Ivy City NE Washington DC)
Date: Friday, March 20th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#HighCommand
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Fleshgod Apocalypse performing with the Veleno Quartet and The Agonist
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Friday, March 20th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#FleshgodApocalypse
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Morpheus Descends, Blood Spore and Perpetuated
Venue: Atlas Brew Works (Ivy City NE Washington DC)
Date: Friday, March 27th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MorpheusDescends
April 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Borracho, Galactic Cross and the Druids
Venue: Pie Shop DC (H Street NE Washington DC)
Date: Saturday, April 4th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Borracho
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Rotting Christ, Borknagar, Wolfheart, Abigail Williams and Imperial Triumphant
Venue: Milkboy Arthouse (College Park, MD)
The venue has been closed permanently and this show has been moved to the Ottobar in Baltimore.
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Date: Sunday, April 5th, 2020
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#DevastationOnTheNation
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Deafheaven, Inter Arma and Greet Death
Venue: 9:30 Club (U St Corridor NW Washington DC)
Date: Monday, April 6th, 2020
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Deafheaven
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Crowbar and Art Of Shock
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Sepultura
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Rippikoulu, Chthe’ilist, Nucleus and Putrisect
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Thursday, April 9th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Rippikoulu
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Krypts (from Finland), Spectral Voice and Ilsa
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Krypts
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Monster Magnet, Nebula and Silvertomb
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Friday, April 17th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MonsterMagnet
Check out the headliner:
Event Grim Reefer Fest (website)
Bands: Destroyer of Light, Hyborian, Asthma Castle, Haze Mage, High Reeper, Cavern, Green Meteor, Alms, Tombtoker and Compression
Venue: Rituals (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Saturday, April 18th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#GrimReeferFest
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Swallow The Sun, Infected Rain and Wheel
Venue: Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Friday, April 24th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#SwallowTheSun
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Fozzy, Through Fire and Royal Bliss
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Fozzy
May 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Dead Era, Undesiccated, Referendum, Constituents, Braincell, Dysfigure and Under Broken Skiez
Venue: VFW Post 9274 (Falls Church, VA)
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#VFWMetalFest
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Napalm Death, Aborted, Tombs and Wvrm
Venue: Black Cat (U St Corridor NW Washington DC)
Date: Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#NapalmDeath
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Fu Manchu
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#FuManchu
Dates: Thursday, May 21st thru Sunday, May 24th, 2020
4 day paases and individual day tickets are all on sale and available here
Confirmed bands:
ACxDC
Acid Witch
Antichrist (Sweden)
Archgoat (Finland)
Asthma Castle
At War
Backslider
Birdflesh (Sweden)
Bloodbath (Sweden)
Blood Feast
Butcher ABC (Japan)
Cadaver (Norway)
Cadaveric Incubator (Finland)
Cancer (UK)
Cerebral Rot
Cloud Rat
Coffins (Japan)
Cough
Dark Fortress (Germany)
Death Strike
Demilich (Finland)
Dismember (Sweden)
Exhorder
Fistula
Flesh Parade
Frizzi 2 Fulci (Italy)
Fuck the Facts (Canada)
Funerus
Galvanizer (Finland)
General Surgery (Sweden)
Grave Desecrator (Brazil)
Graveyard (Spain)
Haemorrhage (Spain)
Holy Cost (Canada)
Impaled
Imprecation
Impure
Limbsplitter
Malignant Altar
Massacre
Monstrosity
Napalm Raid
Necrofier
Necrophobic (Sweden)
Negative Approach
Nifelheim (Sweden)
No/Mas
Nocturnus AD
Novembers Doom
Nunslaughter
Onslaught (UK)
Panzerfaust (Canada)
Phlebotomized (Netherlands)
Prostitute Disfigurement (Netherlands)
Putrid Pile
Sacramentum (Sweden)
Sacrilegia (Ireland)
Schirenc Plays Pungent Stench (Austria)
Shock Narcotic
Skeletal Remains
Skitsystem (Sweden)
Spite
Suffocation
Throaat
Valkyrja (Sweden)
Vio-lence
Vircolac (Ireland)
Warfuck (France)
Warmask
Whoresnation (France)
Zombie Assault
Click the below image to see the schedule larger
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MDFXVIII
June 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Sadistic Vision, Inhumation, Rat Infested and Nuclear Tomb
Venue: VFW Post 9274 (Falls Church, VA)
Date: Friday, June 5th, 2020
The Facebook event page for this concert is here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#SadisticVision
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Alice Cooper and Lita Ford
Venue: The Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Sunday, June 21st, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#AliceCooper
Promo video::
Bands: Cirith Ungol, Blood Ceremony, Speedealer, Mondo Generator, The Skull (ex-Trouble members), Victor Griffin’s Death Row Assembly, Witch Mountain, Ol’ Time Moonshine, Arduini/Balich, Dirt Eater, Switchblade Jesus, Doperider, Condenados, Cultic, Yatra, Bailjack, Poobah, Earthride, Black Lung, Jake The Hawk, Black Road, Warmask, Admiral Browning, Sourpuss, Molasses Barge, Thunderbird Divine, Dust Prophet, Wolftooth, Vessel Of Light, Wrath Of Typhon, Spiral Grave, Plainride, Mangog, Cavern, Galactic Cross, Shadow Witch, Burgan, Akris, Plague Wielder, The Age Of Truth, Knoxxville, The Astral Void, Serpents Of Secrecy, Omen Stones, Crystal Spiders, Helgamite, VRSA, Conclave, Et Mors, Strange Highways, Alms and Dyerwulf
Venue: Cafe 611 (Frederick, MD)
Date: Thursday June 18th thru Sunday, June 21ast, 2020
The Maryland Doom Fest website is here
The Facebook event page for this fest is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#MarylandDoomFest
July 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Ministry, KMFDM and Front Line Assembly
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Sunday, July 19th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Ministry
August 2020
Check out the headliner:
Bands: Amaranthe, Battle Beast and Seven Spires
Venue: Baltimore Soundstage (Baltimore, MD)
Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Amaranthe
Tour Promo Video:
Bands: Rammstein
Venue: FedEx Field (Landover, MD)
Date: Thursday, August 27th, 2020
The venue’s event page for this concert is here
Get tickets here
Direct link to this concert listing:
https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/#Rammstein
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you guys are cool
Thanks for having this site!!
Awesome site for concert info guys!!! thanks!!!
thanks!
This is great site. Keep it up!!
Sick site, keep it up!
Thank you!! Finally a site to combine all metal shows.
Good list. Keep it up!
As always, nice info, Chris.
thanks for putting these together! very useful info dc needs.
Yes, very awesome! Thank you!
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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!
thanks for the info,forever metal.greetings to all metal bassists from THUNDERCHILD…………..
kep it comin man thanks.
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. :-)
Great job on your new review at mayhem. I enjoy reading your reviews and strongly agree with your point of view you put out there. Stay brutal man..
Hammer fist!
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!
Love this site. A real goldmine. Thanks for the time and effort keeping it up to date.
Would miss out and never hear about many of these local shows happening without it.
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Thanks so much for doing this!!!! I check it at least once a week XD