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Heavy metal, from thrash to doom, live across Athens' clubs, venues and festivals.
30 upcoming metal events in Athens. Next: Fri 18 Sep at FLOYD.
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Satyricon come back to Athens after a long absence, arriving at Floyd with roughly 35 years of Norwegian black metal behind them. Frontman Satyr and drummer Frost, the band's two constants, defined the genre with the 90s run of Dark Medieval Times, The Shadowthrone and Nemesis Divina, and were the first black metal…
Tormentor, an emblematic Hungarian black metal band from the 1980s, shaped the genre fundamentally with their raw, aggressive sound and fierce melodies. Their influence extended beyond Hungary to Norway, attracting the attention of Mayhem. With Attila Csihar as vocalist from their 1985 founding and again since 1999,…
Blackbriar are a Dutch gothic and symphonic metal band, and this is their first show in Greece. The set leans on dark fairytale storytelling, with songs built around love, loss and death, plus the cinematic streak that runs through their catalogue. They arrive at Fuzz Club touring their third album, A Thousand Little…
Wizards Of Ozz returns for a fourth year, and the setup is unchanged: tribute act Rhoads Of Revelation recruit a rotating lineup of Greek heavy and rock musicians to play the Ozzy Osbourne catalogue at Kyttaro. The set spans both sides of his career, the Black Sabbath records and the solo years, with particular…
One of contemporary experimental heavy music's most significant and influential figures returns to Athens. Jesu, Justin K Broadrick's personal musical vision, delivers rare live performances that blend the emotional atmosphere of shoegaze and dream pop with heavy metal's low-tuned weight, ambient electronic elements,…
Joe Lynn Turner has spent five decades as the voice other people needed. He joined Rainbow when Ritchie Blackmore called, sang on Deep Purple's Slaves and Masters, and cut the Odyssey record with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. Along the way he lent his voice to sessions for Cher, Billy Joel and Bonnie Tyler. This…
Iron Beast brings their largest production to Athens with a tribute spanning 40 years of Iron Maiden's landmark album Somewhere in Time. For one night only, the band performs the legendary album in full, recreating its era's atmosphere with respect for Iron Maiden's music and aesthetic. The show extends beyond the…
YOB returns to Kyttaro for an exclusive European headline performance, their first Athens appearance in eight years. The Oregon doom metal ensemble is known for expansive compositions merging heavy sonic textures with spiritual inquiry. Automaton opens the evening, presenting material from 'Labyrinth,' their recently…
Dutch band Pestilence have played death metal for four decades, with founding member Patrick Mameli still on songwriting, guitar and vocals. Their tenth album, Portals, and the European tour behind it bring them to Kyttaro. This is the Athens leg of a two-city run, and promoter Demons Gate fills out the bill with two…
Over three decades since their debut, NIGHTFALL remain among Europe's most significant extreme metal forces. As pioneers of the Greek scene and the first Greek metal band signed to an international label, Holy Records, they shaped the international identity of Greek metal. From the emblematic Parade Into Centuries to…
Following their appearances at Up The Hammers Festival, Phantom Spell returns to Greece for a headline show. Among contemporary metal's most compelling acts, they marry traditional heavy metal with bold 1970s prog influences, drawing inspiration from Wishbone Ash, Camel and Uriah Heep. Their vintage aesthetic,…
Phrenelith are the Danish death metal band trusted to look the genre's old guard in the eye: three albums of fast, heavy, brutal stuff, part of the new wave carrying old school death metal forward. This is their first show in Greece, at An Club, where they will test what the Athens crowd can take. Rapture, who have…
Holy Fawn make their first trip to Greece, and Venerate Industries put them at An Club. The Phoenix trio have spent eleven years slipping between blackgaze, doomgaze and shoegaze tags, though they'd rather call what they do loud, heavy and pretty. They have toured North America and Europe with Thrice, Deafheaven and…
Riot V mark 50 years of American heavy metal with a setlist built for the occasion: classic anthems and favourites drawn from across the band's discography. The Athens night at Kyttaro is one stop on a run that also reaches Patras, Thessaloniki and Nicosia. Support comes from Angelo Perlepes Mystery, the long-running…
Paradise Lost formed in Halifax in 1988 and helped invent gothic metal, from the doom-death of their early records to the polished heft of 1995's Draconian Times and later, more electronic experiments. Nearly four decades on, the Yorkshire five-piece are still going: their 17th album, Ascension, landed in 2025. At…
British doom metal pioneers Warning arrive in Athens for a landmark live performance. Fronted by Patrick Walker, the band earned lasting cult status through their seminal album 'Watching from a Distance,' widely regarded as one of doom metal's heaviest and most emotionally charged records. The record established…
Mother of Millions, one of Europe's most significant progressive metal bands, returns to Greek stages. The ensemble is presenting material from their fifth album T following its recent release. Joined by Universe217, an experimental doom act characterized by heavy riffs, ambient textures and distinctive vocals, the…
French symphonic melodic death metal leaders Aephanemer return to Greece. The quartet combines melodic death metal with classical symphonic music, developing a distinctive sound. Since their 2014 debut EP, they have released acclaimed albums through Napalm Records, including Memento Mori (2016) and Prokopton (2019).…
Two of thrash metal's founding heavyweights share one Athens stage. Kreator, the German band that helped build European thrash over four decades and more than two million records sold, bring their Krushers of the World tour to Floyd. The set pulls from their back catalogue plus new material from a forthcoming record.…
Napalm Death have been Birmingham's grindcore standard-bearers for four decades, long enough to hold a Guinness record for the shortest song ever recorded and to land genuinely extreme noise on the album charts. The Campaign For Musical Destruction tour brings them to Gagarin with three support acts: Master, the death…
INNERWISH, one of Greece's most important heavy metal bands with 30 years of continuous activity, celebrate the tenth anniversary of their fifth studio album InnerWish by performing it in its entirety. The band presents their complete album alongside a selection of songs from their full discography. The InnerWish…
PATRIARKH, the new incarnation of Batushka, bring one of contemporary black metal's most ambitious and atmospheric works to Athens. After five years of creative silence since the acclaimed Hospodi, they unveil the concept album Prophet Ilja (Prorok Ilja), a work transcending a traditional metal record to function as a…
Black Curse are one of the more talked-about names in the global extreme underground, and this is their first show in Greece. The American band deal in a suffocating blend of black and death metal, and their two records have already picked up cult status among people who follow the harsher end of the spectrum. Ten Out…
The Ocean are a German post-metal collective who have spent two decades reshaping heavy music under founder Robin Staps, their guitarist and lyricist, working with a rotating cast of players. This Gagarin show is built around Solaris, their eleventh album, named after the Andrei Tarkovsky film, with material from…
Οι Anorimoi επιστρέφουν στην Αθήνα στο πλαίσιο της περιοδείας Γυροβύζιον Tour 2027, στις 9 Ιανουαρίου στο Gagarin 205.
Scream Inc performs Metallica's legendary catalog alongside a live symphony orchestra at Christmas Theater, delivering a unique fusion of electric and classical sound. This tribute band, beloved by Greek audiences, showcases the most iconic tracks of the world's most significant heavy metal ensemble. With ten Grammy…
Acid Death have anchored Greek extreme metal since 1989, and this Kyttaro night doubles as their first official live album: recorded on the spot from a set that reaches across all eight of their records. It also marks 37 years of a band that turned progressive death metal into a Greek staple. Kikabass Productions…
Swedish melodic black metal legends Vinterland arrive in Athens to celebrate 30 years since the release of Welcome My Last Chapter, their landmark album. Released in 1996, the album became one of the most significant and beloved records in melodic black metal history despite being the band's only complete full-length…
Black Veil Brides run on Andy Biersack's teenage loves: KISS, the Misfits, Batman and Phantom of the Opera, all fed into the band's look and sound. A decade of records backs it up, from We Stitch These Wounds to The Phantom Tomorrow. Their Release Athens set was Greece's first look; this is the first proper headline…
Soen are the Swedish band ex-Opeth drummer Martin Lopez started with singer Joel Ekelof, and since their 2012 debut Cognitive they have built a sound that sits between progressive metal weight and post-rock space. This is billed as their biggest Greek show yet, drawing on seven albums including Lotus, Imperial,…