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Lily Allen is heading Down Under for her biggest Australian and New Zealand headline tour to date, bringing her acclaimed fifth album, West End Girl, to arenas across the region this October and November. The tour marks Allen’s first Australian and New Zealand shows in more than seven years, following her 2019 No Shame tour. Few British pop artists have …

For more than two decades, August Burns Red have been proving that metalcore can be both brutally heavy and ridiculously ambitious. Formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2003, the five-piece have built a reputation on precision riffing, throat-shredding vocals, breakdowns that hit like a wrecking ball and a willingness to push their sound beyond genre boundaries. Albums such as Constellations (2009) …

Avenged Sevenfold return to Australia and New Zealand in October 2026 for their first visit to the region in 12 years, bringing their spectacular arena production and a set spanning more than two decades of metal. The tour is officially billed simply as the AU/NZ Tour 2026, with Coheed and Cambria and Thornhill joining them as special guests on all …

Eindhoven’s Helldorado Festival has never been interested in playing it safe. Launched in 2017 as The Incredible Rock ’n’ Roll Freakshow, the indoor festival was created by Peter van Elderen of Peter Pan Speedrock and The Event Warehouse as a wild collision of heavy rock, metal, punk, circus spectacle and sideshow mayhem. After two early editions, Helldorado disappeared from the …

Norwegian experimental rock band Heave Blood & Die are known for blending elements of psychedelia, noise rock, post-punk, and electronic music into a distinctive, immersive sound. Formed in Tromsø, Norway, the band emerged from the country’s vibrant northern music scene and quickly gained attention for their dark, atmospheric style and intense live performances. The band released their self-titled debut album, …

Originally emerging from the hardcore punk scene, California band AFI quickly gained attention for their fast, aggressive sound and DIY ethic. Their early albums, such as Answer That and Stay Fashionable (1995) and Black Sails in the Sunset (1999), helped establish them as a key act in underground punk. In the early 2000s, AFI evolved stylistically, incorporating elements of alternative …