GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
Mon 10 Feb – San Fran, Wellington
Tue 11 Feb – Tuning Fork, Auckland
Known globally for their extraordinary live performances, God Is An Astronaut have been a major influence in the experimental rock scene for the past two decades. Their sound and live presentation have laid the blueprint for dozens of bands around the globe.
Formed in 2002, they have released eleven studio albums to date, traversing a broad range of sounds, including psych rock, krautrock, prog, electronica and world music.
JINJER
JINJER
Sun 2 March - San Fran, Wellington
Mon 3 March - Powerstation, Auckland
Valhalla Touring presents the first ever New Zealand tour of one of modern metal's hottest and most exciting bands around today: JINJER (Napalm Records). In less than 12 years, the four-piece Progressive Groove metal wrecking machine known as JINJER have carved their very own place in the Metal landscape. Hailing from Donetsk but now based in Kiev, this Ukrainian musical oddity formed in 2009 but consider the official start of the band with the addition of the incredible vocalist and Femme Fatale Tatiana Shmayluk in 2010.
JINJER has become synonymous with doing things their own way and breaking every rule in the Heavy Metal handbook- which they made loudly clear on their hugely successful fourth studio album: WALLFLOWERS.
WALLFLOWERS is not only an upgrade to the progressive groove metal sound that all JINJER fans crave, but also a sonic pressure cooker of technical musicianship, emotional fury and an intense soundtrack befitting the harrowing state of the world today. From the blast beat laden banger COLOSSUS, to the 90s grunge vibe of DISCLOSURE! and dynamically blazing MEDIATOR, to the dark and gloomy psychedelic ride of WALLFLOWER and blistering urgency of tracks such as VORTEX and AS I BOIL ICE – the unbridled heaviness and personality proved to be another standout addition to JINJER's already widely celebrated catalog, and a new standard for creativity in Modern Metal as a whole.
CONAN with BORER
CONAN with BORER
Thu 6 March - Valhalla, Wellington
Fri 7 March - Sydenham Underpass, Christchurch
Sat 8 March - Double Whammy, Auckland
Bow to battle doom lords CONAN, as they’re taking over our lands once again.
“…CONAN have risen to become titans of the doom metal scene. Revered by fans and other bands alike, the trio born of frontman Jon Davis’ desire to play heavy and slow have conquered their way across the globe, buoyed on the backs of dedicated work ethic and maul heavy riffing...” — Distorted Sound Magazine
Conan is wildly influential in their home country of the UK and well beyond; headliners in practice and theory alike. Their fifth LP, 2022’s ‘Evidence of Immortality,’ brought a dark ambience to coincide with its outright attack. With experiments in darkwave and synth adding breadth to the stated root purpose of aural force, it’s never been harder to guess where the next few years might take their sound, but whatever’s coming, Conan will make it kill. The better part of two decades later, their reliability remains unshakable. Which you want when your band is so heavy that the floor and your rib cage both start to vibrate.
Joining the killer bill will be Borer - Tone worshiping doom sludge from the swamps of Otautahi for a total tour of destruction.
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ALESTORM
ALESTORM
Fri 7 March – Galatos, Auckland
Sat 8 March – San Fran, Wellington
Wowsers! Behold human pirates of the southern lands, ALESTORM have set their compass this way for their next expedition to the other side of the world to regale us all with their super infectious blend of modern folk and power metal. With their well renowned A game PARTY prepped and packed, they’ll be stuffing the galley full of inflatable ducks, kilts, a hurdy gurdy player, maybe even a shark, but most importantly, drums upon drums of beer and rum! Bring your mateys, bring your best drinking hat, bring your lungs and let’s fire up the biggest shindigs of 2025!!
ALIEN WEAPONRY
ALIEN WEAPONRY TOUR 2025
with SPECIAL GUESTS SHEPHERDS REIGN
Fri 14 March – Kirikiriroa / Hamilton – Factory (Supervised)
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Sat 15 March – Pōneke / Wellington – Homegrown (R18)
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Thu 20 March – Ngāmotu / New Plymouth – TSB Showplace (R16)
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Fri 21 March - Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland – Powerstation (AA)
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Sat 22 March – Ōtautahi / Christchurch - James Hay (AA)
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Sun 23 March – Tāhuna / Queenstown - AJ Hackett Kawarau Bungy Centre (AA)
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“Gen Z has basically just discovered their own Sepultura, and they liked what they heard, and they were fantastic live” - 9.5/10
- Brink The Noise UK
Fresh off an exhaustive North American tour, sensational thrash metal band ALIEN WEAPONRY will return home in superb form next March to deliver their colossal adrenaline-charged performance to their loyal fans on a 6-date NZ tour with phenomenal Tāmaki Makaurau Polynesian metal band SHEPHERDS REIGN.
"Alien Weaponry, one of the best young metal bands in the world right now"
- Revolver Magazine
Metal fans nationwide have the chance to witness two of Aotearoa’s finest acts come together for a triumphant night of cultural heavy metal, a fresh sound conveyed through multi-lingual story-telling, ferocious tribal beats, crushingly heavy riffs and a raw, fervent power.
The bands will perform shows across the motu, taking in Kirikiriroa / Hamilton; Pōneke / Wellington; Ngāmotu / New Plymouth; Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland; Ōtautahi / Christchurch; and Tāhuna / Queenstown. Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday 22 November.
Hailed as the “future of metal” by esteemed music bible Metal Hammer, Alien Weaponry’s Henry Te Reiwhati de Jong (drums), Lewis Raharuhi de Jong (guitar/vocals), and Tūranga Morgan-Edmonds (bass) are taking the world by storm with their kinetic presence and thrash-inflected, Māori infused groove-metal.
Since the release of their lauded debut album TŪ in 2018 and follow up TANGAROA in 2021, Alien Weaponry have attracted throngs of fans and media supporters across the globe with their truly uniquely powerful blend of metal and Te Reo Māori. The band have been, and continue to, tour extensively through North America; perform at some of the biggest metal festivals in Europe; and regularly enjoy the privilege of performing with the likes of rock and metal heavy-weights, including artists Guns N’ Roses, Gojira, Ministry, Slayer, Black Label Society, Kerry King and more.
Round up your mates and whānau and secure your tickets now to ensure you don’t miss your chance to witness the raw energy of two of New Zealand’s finest metal bands when they hit a town near you next summer!
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CHELSEA WOLFE
CHELSEA WOLFE
Thu 29 May - Meow nui, Wellington
Fri 30 May - Powerstation, Auckland
Three years after her sold out tour of Oceania, the Queen of Darkness will bring her visceral, vivid live performance back to Auckland & Wellington.
She will tour with her four-piece band, as well as bringing along experimental Australian artist UBOA performing as support for all shows outside Perth.
Chelsea Wolfe will perform a career-spanning set on this tour, including songs from her new album “She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She” which was released in February.
Chelsea Wolfe’s latest album is a rebirth in process. It’s a powerfully cathartic statement about cutting ties, as well as an important reminder that healing is cyclical and circular, and not a simple linear process. Featuring elements of electronica, trip hop, industrial music and goth rock, it has been hailed as one of her finest works, with Clash proclaiming it her “most ambitious and carefully-constructed” and Kerrang suggesting it “may be the most creatively adventurous of her career.”
Her return in 2025 will mark 15 years since her debut ‘The Grime and The Glow’ was released, sparking a career that has influenced and inspired a dedicated cult following worldwide to appreciate life in both its darkness and light.
BATUSHKA
BATUSHKA
Dec 12th – Tuning Fork, Auckland
Hailing from Białystok, Podlaskie, Batushka was founded by Krzysztof Drabikowski in 2015. Bringing in vocalist Bartłomiej “Bart” Krysiuk, the distinct sound of Batushka was created and their debut album Litourgiya released. Litourgiya (Witching Hour Productions, 2015) is a masterful mix of savagely rhythmic black metal and Krysiuk’s beastly chants of the Eastern Orthodox litany, that continues to receive well deserved praise. Inspired by the Eastern Orthodox church in not only the imagery and themes, but Batushka’s lyrics are written exclusively in Church Slavonic, an encomium to the already haunting and jaggedly grand instrumentals.
toe
toe
Tue 22 Oct – Galatos, Auckland NZ
Wed 23 Oct – Meow, Wellington NZ
toe, known globally for their extraordinary musicianship, have been a major influence in the
experimental rock scene for the past two decades. Their tracks and live performances have left a remarkable imprint on the sound of countless bands around the world.
Don’t miss out on this historical tour, which is set to be one of the biggest highlights in the
experimental rock calendar for 2024.
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NILE
NILE
Tuesday 22 October - WHAMMY!, Auckland
There is death metal and then there is NILE.
South Carolina death metal masters NILE are making their long awaited return to Aotearoa in October 2024. The band’s New Zealand tour for their 2019 album Vile Nilotic Rites was initially cancelled due to the pandemic. Now after four long years, nothing can stop us from witnessing NILE’s brutal death metal in the flesh.
Formed in 1993 and still fronted by founding member Karl Sanders, NILE have continued to craft unsparingly ferocious and bone-crushingly heavy anthems over their time as a band. Devastatingly uncontestable, NILE’s technical ferocity shows utterly zero signs of diminishing with their ninth studio album Vile Nilotic Rites. Containing 11 songs that are as sharp as obsidian blades and as heavy as nine Nubian pyramids, the rulers have instilled a hammer blow of god-like heaviness.
Drawing inspiration from Egyptology, they’ve established their own new themes for technical death metal to instill the power of the ancient gods in all who witness them.
The time has surfaced to reacquaint diehard New Zealand fans with NILE’s saurian whirlwind and provocative funerary spells.
MONDERNTE AOTEAROA TOUR 2024
MONDERNTE AOTEAROA TOUR 2024
Sun 13th Oct - Valhalla, Wellington (with Fall of Man & Sol Mortvvs)
Sat 19th Oct - Churchill, Christchurch (with Hecates Cult & Men An Tol)
Sun 20th Oct - Whammy, Auckland (with UMOS & Brackenwood Coven)
Founded in Germany in 2019, MONDERNTE is a one-person satanic musical entity based in Reykjavík, Iceland. The sole creatrix S.W.R. invokes music that oscillates between black metal, dark folk, occult rock and dark ambient, while deliberately dissolving genre boundaries in the name of “Aural Luciferian Witchcraft”.
After having performed her musical offerings on stage in Iceland, Switzerland and Australia since 2022, MONDERNTE's first concert tour takes her to the Antipodean lands of Australia and New Zealand, countries that are both crucial to the band's inception and history.
So far, MONDERNTE has self-released three cassettes in true DIY fashion, as well two splits through the Swiss underground label Hexenkult and the German label AbArt Corruption.
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VULVODYNIA
VULVODYNIA
Tuesday 01 October- Valhalla, Poneke / Wellington
Wednesday 02 October- Churchills, Ōtautahi / Christchurch
Friday 04 October - Whammy, Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland
Vulvodynia is a South African slam juggernaut designed with one purpose: to make the heaviest, most absurdly heavy music possible, while attempting to define themselves as more than just “another slam band.” With former guitarist, Lwandile Prusent, now on vocal duties and their 6th album being release on the July 5th, Vulvodynia are making 2024 their own.
If their mission was over-the-top heaviness, then consider it accomplished—from their debut release, Lord of Plagues, to their upcoming album Entabeni, Vulvodynia’s penchant for skull-splitting technicality and eviscerating heaviness has been obvious. Rapidly gaining popularity and recognition for their prodigal slam prowess, each tour and release has seen the band reach ears not just in their local scene, but around the world as well. As the band’s popularity grew, their sound matured, drawing more from a greater array of influences and improving their musicianship and dynamism.
With 5 full length albums cementing Vulvodynia’s status as slam legends, transcending common gimmicks and staples of the genre and instead opting to generate an overwhelmingly crushing experience that fans of any style of heavy music will be able to get into. The trend will continue with their forthcoming album, Entabeni, set to be released on July 5th via Unique Leader Records. Aotearoa will be one of the first countries in the world to feel the full force of Entabeni live
FULL OF HELL and THOU
FULL OF HELL and THOU
Friday 23 August - Rolling Stone, Christchurch
Saturday 24 August - Meow, Wellington
Sunday 25 August - Galatos, Auckland
Ocean City, Maryland, Death grind outfit Full of Hell will make their long awaited Aotearoa debut this August along with Baton Rouge sludge / doom greats Thou.
Full of Hell have just announced an upcoming album, Coagulated Bliss due out on April 26th through Closed Casket Activities. This will be album number 6 for the band, following up from 2021’s Garden of Burning Apparitions. Since then they have released several EPs and splits collaborating with artists including Primitive Man, Gasp and Nothing.
This will be Thou’s first trip to the region showcasing their iconic sound often labelled as experimental doom, sludge metal and stoner metal. They have an extensive and varied discography including 5 full-length albums Tyrant, Peasant, Summit, Heathen and Magus. They have released several EPs, including a collection of Black Sabbath covers, Through the Empires of Eternal Void and splits/collaborations with bands such as Kowloon Walled City, Leech, Emma Ruth Rundle, The Body and Hell.
EYEHATEGOD
EYEHATEGOD
Tuesday 30 July – Wellington, Valhalla
Wednesday 31 July – Auckland, Mothership
EYEHATEGOD have become the high water mark when it comes to so called sludge metal, having birthed rock's unholy bastards and inspiring multiple others with their combined sounds of southern rock, blues riffs and hardcore punk. Noting Black Flag, The Melvins and Black Sabbath as a domineering and significant influence to their sound today, they are the cornerstone for countless other sonic acolytes following in their fetid footsteps and have made themselves one of the most reputable and distinctive bands ever.
EYEHATEGOD’s latest album ‘A History of Nomadic Behavior’ and their most recent since their last Australian tour in 2019, is a blowtorch-distortion and blues-saturated combination of songs pierced with scarring pain and disconsolate fury. The album combines an unsettling, chaotic tone with a scathing, scabrous slab of cacophonous sensory overload that only EYEHATEGOD know how to convey.
CAVE IN
CAVE IN
Wednesday 12 June - Valhalla, Wellington
Thursday 13 June - Whammy, Auckland
Formed in 1995 in Massachusetts by singer/guitarist Stephen Brodsky, CAVE IN was ahead of its time from the very beginning, helping to define the then-primitive metalcore genre with a more creatively elevated slant on their 1998 debut album Until Your Heart Stops.
After the tragic death of bassist/vocalist Caleb Schofield in 2018, Converge bassist Nate Newton picked up his friend’s instrument and the band was able to continue on its legacy, resulting in their seventh album - 2022’s Heavy Pendulum.
THE OCEAN
THE OCEAN
Friday 31 May - Galatos, Auckland
Saturday 01 June - San Fran, Wellington
Acclaimed post-metal band THE OCEAN return to Aotearoa this winter to wow audiences. Coalescing around a shared vision of limitless sonic exploration and heaviness, The Ocean is a group of artists that has released 10 studio albums in different constellations for over 20 years. 2023 saw the release of the band’s ninth album Holocene - the heavily conceptual collective’s most exploratory and varied release yet - and the conclusion of the paleontological era they began with 2018’s Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic and continued with 2020’s Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic. Having flirted more with extreme metal influences on these records than ever before, the arrival of Holocene saw the band - lead by guitarist and mastermind Robin Staps - forge a new path into a world of looped electronics and more subtle melodic experimentation while philosophically reflecting on humanity as always, this time on the nascent realities of a post-pandemic world.
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SUFFOCATION
SUFFOCATION
25th April - Valhalla, Wellington
26th April - Loons, Christchurch
27th April - Galatos, Auckland
New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION unleash their ninth full-length album, Hymns from the Apocrypha, via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to ...of the Dark Light (2017) pushes founder Terrance Hobbs (guitars), Derek Boyer (bass), Charles Errigo (guitars), Eric Morotti (drums), and newcomer Ricky Myers (vocals) to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the group's strongest-sounding, most sonically punishing album yet. SUFFOCATION have achieved death metal perfection.
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ORANGE GOBLIN
ORANGE GOBLIN
April 15th - Mothership, Auckland
April 16th - A Rolling Stone, Christchurch
April 17th - Valhalla, Wellington
Cut from the same beer-stained cloth as the greats, UK stoner rock metal act ORANGE GOBLIN are still riding high and leading the pack in 'balls to the wall' heavy metal thunder. Emerging amid the exhilarating melee of the mid-‘90s stoner rock and doom explosion, ORANGE GOBLIN immediately endeared themselves to a generation of metal fans by simply going for it at full, beer-swilling pelt and some twenty five plus years later, nothing has changed!
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CARCASS with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
CARCASS with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
April 10th - Wellington, Meow
April 11th - Christchurch, Loons
April 12th - Auckland, Galatos
Ferocious and uncompromising in their execution, CARCASS’s ability to intricately dissect the innards of death metal, and display them for us to sonically understand has been their point of excellence for well over three decades. Whether it was inventing gore-grind or creating the template for melodic death metal, CARCASS has always made records by which bars were set and rules were broken.
Since 2001, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have created a musical brute that embraces all the finest qualities of melodic death metal yet does not shackle them, giving them room to constantly evolve and grow. Consistently punishing with a searing visceral intensity, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER continue to inflict a cavalcade of riffs to the table, upping the stakes in technicality, melody, and sheer blunt force trauma.
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GATECREEPER
GATECREEPER
2nd April - Whammy, Auckalnd
“Writing catchy songs has always been the goal for Gatecreeper. It’s all about the riffs.” Gatecreeper vocalist and co-songwriter Chase H. Mason doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to discussing his band’s modus operandi. For a genre in which many closed-minded zealots see catchiness as a dirty word, Gatecreeper go hard against the grain of the old school death metal revival. Mason explains. “We wanted big hooks and catchy leads while still being extreme and aggressive.”
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Angelus Apatrida
Angelus Apatrida
Thu, 29th Feb - A Rolling Stone, Chc
Fri, 1st Mar -MOON, Wellington
Sat, 2nd Mar - Whammy Bar, Auckland
Spains most highly successful thrash metal act Angelus Apatrida will grace our shores for the first time! Signed to Century Media Records with no need to regain momentum, Angelus Apatrida are more ready than most to let rip in 2024. Their new record Aftermath marks a pinnacle in this band’s determined and always fruitful career. It’s a defiant, uplifting and resolutely metal-as-fuck response to an era defined by chaos and fear. It’s the sound of Angelus Apatrida, doing what they do, but bigger, better, louder and with more passion than ever.
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RUSSIAN CIRCLES
RUSSIAN CIRCLES
Wed Jan 31 – Tuning Fork, Auckland
Thu Feb 1 – San Fran, Wellington
Fri Feb 2 – A Rolling Stone, Christchurch
Underground legends RUSSIAN CIRCLES have announced their return to New Zealand after 9 years, touring in support of their new album GNOSIS.
Known for their combination of epic walls of sound with technical dexterity and driving rhythms, their intense compositions have earned them a loyal cult following that has seen them tour extensively worldwide since forming in the windy city of Chicago in 2004.
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OBITUARY
OBITUARY
Jan 5th - Auckland, Galatos
Jan 6th - Christchurch, Loons
Jan 7th - Wellington, San Fran
OBITUARY remains to this very day as one of the most influential and groundbreaking bands in the death metal genre, one which they helped to create. Combining hyper-speed guitar riffing, complex arrangements and guttural screams, the band created a bleak and violent soundscape all of their own. After more than 35 years in the pit, OBITUARY continues to peak and dominate the genre worldwide. That’s a given and proven fact!
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QUICKSAND
QUICKSAND
Thu 14/12 - Loon, Christchurch
Fri 16/12 - Meow, Wellington
Sat 16/12 - Mothership, Auckland
Quicksand are coming to take Australasia on an aggressively thought-provoking look at the last 30 years. Their passionate performances and timeless music are sure to captivate both longtime fans and new listeners alike, reaffirming their influential position in the history of rock music.
You won’t want to miss this.
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BEHEMOTH
BEHEMOTH
24th November
Powerstation Auckland
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LITURGY
LITURGY
22nd November
Whammy, Auckland
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DANCE GAVIN DANCE
DANCE GAVIN DANCE
21st November
Powerstation - Auckland
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