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130 upcoming rock & metal events in Athens — next: Wed 2 Sep at KYTTARO Live Club / ΚΥΤΤΑΡΟ.
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The Rumjacks trace their roots to the Irish community of Sydney and have spent six albums fusing punk energy with traditional Irish folk. They have toured with Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, played Hellfest and Wacken, and turned up twice at Street Mode, so Greece is familiar ground. 'An Irish Pub Song' has…
Italian death metal band Demidead play Athens for the first time, topping a three-band bill at Black Temple. They arrive behind their latest album, War Against Ourselves, the record that lifted their touring career, and they are known for keeping crowds in constant headbanging. Greek progressive metallers Risabov take…
The National Symphony Orchestra and Choir of ERT, under conductor Michalis Oikonomou, turn the Beatles into a full symphonic program. Expect "Let It Be," "Yesterday," "Hey Jude," "Come Together" and "Here Comes the Sun," rebuilt for orchestra and choir rather than a four-piece band. It runs as part of Parklife,…
Summer ends and reality returns. As schools reopen and daily routines resume, the organizers of Skiadareses invite you to confront these anxieties through indie rock. The concert brings together twin sisters Olga and Niki Skiadaresi, with Kostas Haikalis directing the sound. The event embraces playful irreverence,…
Φ hill Sessions returns for its second year to Philopappos Hill at the Dora Stratos Theatre in Athens. The festival presents an eclectic concert programme featuring indie rock, jazz, and world music performances. The outdoor theatre venue hosts these diverse musical performances within the festival's curated format.…
Φ hill Sessions returns for a second year to Philopappus Hill and the Dora Stratou Theatre. The festival presents an eclectic program of concerts spanning indie-rock, jazz, and world music genres. This multicultural programming brings together diverse musical styles and artistic traditions from across the cultural…
Following two packed nights at Lykavyttos that drew 12,000 spectators, ΠΥΞ ΛΑΞ renew their appointment with Athens at Κατράκειο Θέατρο in Nikaia. The consecutive sold-out events demonstrate sustained and substantial audience interest in the band within the capital. ΠΥΞ ΛΑΞ maintain a consistent and established…
Hat Trick and Fundracar unite at Technopoli for a live collaborative performance. This billing brings two well-established acts together in a single evening show. The bands present their own distinct approaches to rock and punk music. Both acts command considerable presence within the contemporary Greek music scene.…
Χατζηφραγκέτα take the stage at Τεχνόπολη in full band formation for a major concert marking September's soundtrack. The group brings characteristic melodies, beloved songs and a distinctive style that sets them apart. Led by vocalists and guitarists Πάνος Φραγκιαδάκης and Βαγγέλης Χατζηγιάννης, they bring rock…
Rock Hard is among the world's longest-established and most significant heavy metal publications, and a leading European magazine since its founding in Germany in 1983. The Greek edition began in 2005 and has operated exclusively online since 2011. It publishes in France and Italy, reaching hundreds of thousands of…
Allah-Las, a Los Angeles-based band formed in 2008, return to Athens for a live performance at gazarte ground stage. Drawn to groove and atmosphere, the Californian quartet weaves influences from garage, surf, psychedelia and folk without adhering to genre conventions. Their songs balance cinematic breadth with…
Artists Γιάννης Αγγελάκας and Νίκος Βελιώτης perform live in a show titled Λύκοι Λάιβ, presenting post-punk and rock music as part of the Φ hill Sessions concert series. The performances take place at Θέατρο Δόρας Στράτου located on Philopappos Hill in Athens. The event runs across two consecutive nights, bringing the…
Model/Actriz channel raw emotions into striking new forms. Their debut record Dogsbody presented dark, humid passages and veiled menace. Their sophomore album Pirouette, co-produced and mixed by Seth Manchester and mastered by Matt Colton, showcases a more immediate and thumping sound. The band features Aaron Shapiro,…
Giannis Charoulis presents a live tour performance at the Municipal Theatre Lycabettus in Athens, located in the Lycabettus district of Attica. The event features Greek music traditions encompassing cretan, entehno and rock styles. The venue hosts live musical performances and theatrical presentations as a cultural…
ΜΩΡΑ ΣΤΗ ΦΩΤΙΑ mark a landmark anniversary, celebrating forty years at Technopoli with a concert reflecting their enduring impact on Greek rock. From their early years to today, the band has remained a raw, uncompromising force channeling passion through electric guitars and songs spanning generations. Their iconic…
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…
Nightstalker return to Technopolis for a special anniversary celebration marking three decades since the release of their landmark album USE. The band's debut full-length record established the foundation of their signature sound, a fusion of heavy riffs, dirty grooves, psychedelic atmosphere and raw rock and roll…
Two of Greece's most respected tribute acts share the Kyttaro stage for one night built on Motörhead and AC/DC. City Kids, the Athens Motörhead tribute running since 2017, arrive endorsed by the official Motörheadbangers fan club and founding drummer Lucas Fox, and their set leans toward Orgasmatron for its fortieth…
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,…
Μητέρα Φάλαινα Τυφλή, whose name translates to Blind Mother Whale, is a large Greek ensemble that has spent nearly twenty years playing electroacoustic folk-soul-rock built on narrative songs and symphonic arrangements. This anniversary show is their first proper live appearance in close to a decade, back at the…
Sivert Høyem, the Norwegian frontman of Madrugada and acclaimed solo artist, returns to Europe in 2026 for a tour celebrating significant milestones. Making his Athens debut at Lycabettus Theatre, he will perform songs marked by raw, melancholic beauty echoing northern landscapes of his homeland. Following releases of…
Villagers of Ioannina City present their new album Venceremos at Lycabettus Theatre, marking their return to Athens after a two-year interval. The album, released shortly before the performance, addresses a world constructed through fear, illusion, and control, while celebrating those who resist and seek freedom and…
Sokratis Malamas takes the stage at Katraketo Theatre in Nikaia for a live musical performance this summer. This performance comes from an artist whose musical work draws deeply from Greek musical traditions spanning entehno and laika musical styles. The event presents a live music experience in a traditional…
Sokratis Malamas presents a live concert performance at Katrakeio Theatre in Nikaia as part of his 2026 summer programming schedule. The event showcases Greek music traditions spanning the entehno, laiko, and rock genres. These established musical forms represent significant genres within Greek popular culture and…
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…
Μίλτος Πασχαλίδης performs a live show at Δημοτικό Θέατρο Λυκαβηττού in Athens. The event is organized by STRAY MUSIC. Πασχαλίδης is a Greek artist working within entehno and rock musical genres. Entehno is a tradition in Greek music that emphasizes literary content paired with musical composition. Rock music…
Μίλτος Πασχαλίδης performs at the Δημοτικό Θέατρο Λυκαβηττού in Athens. The venue is a municipal theater located in the Lycabettus district. STRAY MUSIC presents this live concert event. The program features live music in the Greek genres of entehno and rock. Μίλτος Πασχαλίδης is an artist who performs within Greek…
Ty Segall returns to Athens after years away, bringing his band to Floyd. The Californian is one of the most prolific figures in the modern garage-rock revival, with dozens of releases under his own name and with groups like Fuzz and GØGGS. His records keep changing direction, from raw garage to psychedelia, glam,…
ΠΥΞ-ΛΑΞ represents an event within the 2026 Ionian Festivals, an established cultural festival organized by the Municipality of Nea Smyrni. Spanning decades, the festival has earned recognition as one of Greece's most significant quality outdoor cultural events. It maintains rigorous artistic standards without…
Norwegian heavy rock band SLOMOSA make their Athens debut with a live show at ARCH Club. Hailing from Bergen, the band has established itself as a major force in contemporary heavy rock within just a few years. Their characteristic sound, which they call "tundra rock," blends desert rock energy with melodic riffs and…
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…
Four Greek metal bands share the stage at AN Club, and each one turns up with something recent to show. Clairvoyant, the power metal band the Keramidas brothers started in 1989, released their fourth album Eternal Victory in May 2026. Crystal Winds and Sense of Fear both put out records the same month: Long Live the…
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…
Eat Metal Records presents Metal Without Mercy Festival Vol.I, bringing together metal bands selected for their proven ability to deliver on stage. The inaugural edition features all eight participating Greek bands making their domestic debut, a remarkable milestone for the underground scene. This festival maintains a…
Four bands from Athens' underground metalcore scene share one bill at Temple in Gazi, pulled together by Till Silence Breaks. They are the veterans, playing post metalcore since 2017, with a debut album out and new material underway. Novelty bring melodic metalcore and songs from a first album they are still…
FRENZEE are a punk rock trio of three siblings from Crete, and this AN Club show closes their European tour. They have played this Exarcheia basement before, and they return for one more night of the sweat, intensity and nonstop pogo their sets are known for. Opening are The Klammers, an Athens band working a…
Seksendört performs their first Athens show at Gagarin 205, presenting their pop-rock music to the local audience. The band's appearance represents a debut performance in the city, marking the first time they have played in Athens. Gagarin 205 serves as the venue hosting this inaugural engagement. The group brings…
Eat Metal Records presents Metal Without Mercy Festival Vol. I, day two of three at AN Club in Athens. The headliner is Sabbat, a black and thrash metal band from Japan. British act Toranaga brings new wave of British heavy metal and thrash stylings to the bill. Riffobia, a thrash metal band from Trikala, Greece,…
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult have been playing German black metal since 1997, the kind built on raw riffs and unrelenting drums across records like Follow the Calls for Battle and Saldorian Spell. Their stop at Black Temple is part of the Scream of Sulphur Tongues tour, and Athens does not see them often. Below…
Mikro returns to Gazarte roof stage with a performance blending synthpop, electronica, and dance. Since forming in Thessaloniki in 1997, the band created a distinctive sound across numerous albums and remixes. They have performed worldwide with international acts including Morrissey, Hooverphonic, and Ladytron. After…
GONG, one of the most distinctive and influential names in global psychedelic music, comes to Athens. Founded in 1969 by visionary Daevid Allen, the band melds psychedelic rock, jazz, progressive elements, and spiritual inquiry into a genre-defying force. Over six decades, GONG has transcended conventional frameworks,…
Two founding names of extreme metal share one Athens stage. MAYHEM, from Norway, helped shape black metal from 1984 onward and have never lived off the myth: their newest album, Liturgy Of Death, arrived in 2026, with Attila Csihar, Necrobutcher and Hellhammer still at the core. UNLEASHED, from Sweden, have built…
Lera Lynn is the American songwriter whose original music ran through True Detective, and the billing fits: her work sits where alt-Americana meets indie rock and a certain cinematic noir. She has kept a firmly independent path, releasing through her own label, Ruby Range Records, and writing for film, television and…
Buzzcocks helped shape British punk out of Manchester in 1976, fusing garage-rock scrappiness with fast, catchy melodies on records like Singles Going Steady. Founder Pete Shelley died in 2018; guitarist Steve Diggle took over vocals and still leads the band, whose recent album Attitude Adjustment lends this…
Post-rock pioneers we.own.the.sky return to An Club's historic stage for a career retrospective evening spanning their complete discography. Formed in 2010, the band has evolved from post-rock and alternative metal foundations, incorporating diverse sonic elements from electronic music to progressive metal. Across…
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…
Swiss band Messiah formed in 1984 and spent the late 1980s pushing thrash metal toward the death metal sound that followed. Their 1991 record Choir of Horrors became a cult reference point in early European extreme metal, and this tour marks its 35th anniversary. Despite a career running more than four decades, the…
Corpus Delicti formed in France in 1992 and built a reputation across Europe's post-punk and gothic rock scene, drawing on death rock and goth. They return to Death Disco almost a year after playing the venue's open air festival, this time with a new album, Liminal, in hand. The set leans on dark guitar riffs and…
Vasilis Rallis is an independent Greek singer-songwriter with seven albums, two EPs and a stack of singles behind him, working somewhere between indie, alternative, rock and new wave. He arrives at Kyttaro with a full band after a summer of touring and dates abroad, and he's calling this his first and biggest show of…
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…
Deep Purple returns to Athens with special guest Jayler (UK). Having shaped rock sound for over five decades, the legendary band remains among the most influential and respected acts worldwide. Their unparalleled catalogue, from 'Smoke on the Water' to 'Highway Star', continues to inspire new generations of musicians.…
Rome's Shores of Null have spent a decade folding black metal aggression into gothic-doom, with neither side sounding out of place. Clean singing trades off against growls, under the layered vocal harmonies that became their signature. Their fourth album, The Loss of Beauty, landed among 2023's stronger metal releases…
Tuber, the instrumental rock band out of Serres, are doing something backwards. Their new album is finished but unrecorded, and nobody has heard it. At Kyttaro they play it live from first note to last, once, before they ever step into a studio. The night gets taped for the album's Limited Deluxe Edition, so the crowd…
Ozric Tentacles, iconic representatives of psychedelic and progressive rock, return to Athens. Since their emergence at the legendary Stonehenge Free Festival in 1983, the band has forged a singular creative path under multi-instrumentalist founder Ed Wynne. Their distinctive sound seamlessly blends psychedelia, space…
Swallow the Sun's first Greek show in ten years, and their only date on this run. The Finnish band, formed in Jyväskylä in 2000, plays death-doom: mournful doom threaded with melodic death, gothic and black metal, spread across nine studio albums from The Morning Never Came to 2024's Shining. Two Greek acts open, both…
Εξαρχειώτης turns thirteen and marks the anniversary with two nights at the historic AN Club, the second festival after the ten-year one. Day one leans Greek rock and blues: Δημήτρης Μητσοτάκης, whose songwriting reaches back to Ενδελέχεια, alongside The Big Nose Attack, ΕΓΩ, Pulsating Radiostars, Αστικά Καβούκια and…
The Charlatans return to Athens for the first time in years, and the CV does the talking: one of the bands that defined Madchester alongside the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets, then carried straight through the Britpop years. Over 35 years and fourteen albums in, three of which hit No.1 in the UK,…
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…
Florence's Terminal Serious have never played Greece before, and they arrive at Death Disco behind Tear You Away, the third album they released in 2025 on Swiss Dark Nights. Their sound is darkwave built from post-punk, goth and electro, with the newer record leaning harder on analog synths. Opening are The Man & His…
Hexvessel are a Finnish band led by Mat 'Kvohst' McNerney, also known from Grave Pleasures and Beastmilk. Their music moves between neo-folk, psychedelia and atmospheric metal, with songs built around nature and mysticism. This Black Temple date in Gazi marks their return to Greece, touring the recent album Nocturne…
Violeta Ikari, Dimitris Bakoulis, and Mariana Katsimikha present a unique tribute to compositions set to lyrics by esteemed lyricist Alkis Alkaios. The program includes beloved works such as Rosa, Panta gelastoi, Victoria, Porto Rico, Oso kratai enas kafes, Vradines Peripoles, Agkathi, and Luna Park, selected from…
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…
Naxatras have spent more than a decade building one of the more distinctive names in European psychedelic rock, and this is their largest headline show in Greece so far. The band from Northern Greece deal in heavy guitar riffs, long stretches of improvisation and progressive detours, a sound spread across five albums,…
Guerrilla Live Productions presents Ντίνος Σαδίκης, founding member and voice of the seminal band Εν Πλω, whose 1989 debut album remains a reference point for Greek-language rock. Self-taught guitarist and prolific songwriter, Σαδίκης brings decades of musical evolution across solo albums and collaborations. Joining…
Saints & Sinners, the Whitesnake tribute band, returns to Kyttaro for their annual autumn Rock Overdose appearance, this time joined by Firefly, a new Uriah Heep tribute project. Together, the two tribute bands present an ultimate live tribute night honoring hard rock maestros Jon Lord and Ken Hensley. The program…
IMARHAN stands as one of the most significant and pioneering ensembles in contemporary Tuareg music. They deliver hypnotic desert blues rhythms, African grooves and contemporary psychedelic bursts. Since their founding in 2006 in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria, they have continuously expanded the boundaries of…
Two Athens bands play their first proper live show and mark it with a double album release. Babygoat, a deathcore studio project built by two friends, arrive with 'Birth of the Scene', a record whose guest list runs from local acts to Canadian deathcore band Angelmaker. Co-headliners Slamskies, a one-man project…
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…
Mercury Rev, one of the most influential American psychedelic bands, returns to Athens for the 25th anniversary of their legendary album 'All is Dream.' Led by Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper, the band has transformed psychedelia, chamber pop, dream rock, and experimentation into something deeply emotional and…
Coroner rarely tour, so a Gagarin 205 date fifteen years after their last Athens show carries weight. The Swiss technical thrash band, who started in Zurich as Celtic Frost's road crew, returned in 2025 with Dissonance Theory and collected album-of-the-year honors for it. This is one of the few European stops on the…
Swedish enigma GOAT returns to Athens for two performances at Gazarte Ground Stage. The band has created a distinctive musical universe blending psychedelia, afrobeat, kraut, funk, desert grooves, tribal rhythms and unrestrained rock'n'roll into a sound unlike any other. Since their 2012 debut with World Music, GOAT…
Superstrange built its name on Stranger Things tribute nights, and this Halloween it trades Hawkins for Forks. The plan: a full Twilight Saga party at Temple in Gazi, DJs running the official soundtracks next to the 2000s bands that scored that whole moment, Paramore, Muse, Placebo, The Killers and Linkin Park.…
Heartagram Greece brings a HIM tribute to An Club for Halloween. The live act is Heartagram Band, playing HIM's material, followed by a DJ set of alternative, gothic and metal. The programme also runs a HIM karaoke contest and a screening of classic Halloween films. A raffle hands out HIM merch, an official Fulgurgram…
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…
Mareux plays Athens for the first time, at Floyd Live Music Venue. The project is Aryan Ashtiani, an American musician of Iranian descent who has become one of the more recognizable names in the current darkwave and synth revival. His 2015 cover of The Cure's "The Perfect Girl" went viral on TikTok years after release…
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…
The Greek Dungeon Synth Festival returns for a second edition at An Club, after a first run last year across Athens and Thessaloniki. Dungeon synth is the corner of underground music where dark medieval keyboards meet black metal, and this bill covers its range. Arthuros, one of the scene's bigger international names,…
HENGE returns to Earth, this time setting course for Athens. The British outfit identifies as 'alien messengers' transmitting music from distant planets. Behind this fantastical mythology lies psychedelic rock, progressive rock, rave, electronica and space-music experimentation yielding unpredictable sonic paths. Over…
Delines Fest is the first live outing from Delines, the media channel run by Pavlos Toumbekis and Antonis Konstantaras. The bill leans on two poles of the domestic scene: Greek hip hop, headed by ZN founder Taki Tsan alongside DJ ALX of Terror X Crew, and punk, from the veteran Hat Trick and the younger pop-punk band…
Sleaford Mods are Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson, the British duo who built a career on minimal electronic beats and Williamson's ranting, spoken-word delivery. Nearly two decades in, they've gone from underground rooms to sold-out tours, Top 5 records and festival headline slots. The words are the point: class…
Krotalias presents an album titled 'One Minute of Silence' at An club in Athens. This album presentation marks the release event for the artist's latest work. An club serves as the venue for the unveiling, providing a space for the album to be experienced in a live context. The album title, 'One Minute of Silence,' is…
Vígljós make their first trip to Greece, and Temple Athens is where the Swiss four-piece land. Formed in Basel in 2022, they call what they do old-school black metal, built on the second-wave Norwegian template of Darkthrone, Immortal and Burzum, then threaded with mellotron, synth and the odd rock'n'roll riff. The…
Spike Fuck spent a decade as more urban legend than working musician: a Melbourne artist whose 2015 Smackwave EP on Partisan Records dealt bluntly with substance use, gender, religion and existence, then vanished at the moment he looked ready to break through. He resurfaced in 2024, sober and reshaped, no longer a…
The Veils arrive in Athens for the first time, presenting their new album Fragile World. Released through V2 Records, the album marks a sharp sonic shift, offering more direct, raw, and urgent material than their previous work. Recorded live to tape in New Zealand with producer Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, The Chills), the…
Uriah Heep are winding down, and this is their last show in Greece, part of the farewell run they've called The Magician's Farewell. The set leans on greatest hits: Gypsy, July Morning, Easy Livin', Lady in Black. In the 1970s the British band helped build progressive hard rock alongside Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath…
Vapors of Morphine keeps alive the distinctive sound of Morphine, the influential 1990s band. Led by saxophonist Dana Colley, this power trio features electric baritone sax, drums, and 2-string slide bass. Their setlists combine Morphine classics with new material and creative interpretations, all filtered through…
Kwoon, the enchanting rock/post-rock project fronted by visionary Sandy Lavallart, returns to the global stage with renewed creative energy. The band melds ethereal soundscapes with striking visuals, fusing music and art with distinctive artistry. Lavallart has recently completed a series of solo expeditions, sending…
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…
Sex Mask brings their distinctive artistic vision to Athens' Romantso venue as part of the Plisskën Festival cultural programming. According to NME, experiencing the band live is "all gas, no brakes." The band's artsy, electric fusion of proto-post-punk and writhing no-wave sensibilities leaves little room for…
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…
Four Greek bands split a hardcore and death metal bill at AN Club, and the pull is One Block Society, back on stage for the first time in about a decade as they mark thirty years together. Eden Demise bring metallic hardcore built for beatdowns, Kaijuju cover the modern melodic end of the scene, and Dogma Vile play…
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).…
BLASPHEMY are the Canadian band credited with defining war black/death metal, and this is their first show in Greece. Their two records, Fallen Angel of Doom and Gods of War, became the blueprint a generation of extreme bands built on, and their reputation rests on raw violence rather than any trend. Now they play…
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…
Belle & Sebastian, the Scottish band that shaped indie for the better part of three decades, bring their catalogue to Floyd. The night marks thirty years of If You're Feeling Sinister, the 1996 record that made their name, and they play it start to finish before a second set drawn from across their career. The songs…
Munly J. Munly, known from Slim Cessna's Auto Club, is a fixture of dark Americana, and he brings his full band Munly & The Lupercalians to Black Temple in Gkazi. Special guests Manos Six + The Muddy Devil released the album Swamp Suicide and the EP When Skies are Grey on Fucking Your Creation Records, working a range…
Ten Out Of Ten Productions lines up three of contemporary atmospheric black metal's key names for two nights at An Club, with each band playing a different set each night. Yellow Eyes bring Confusion Gate, the record that drew rave reviews across the board; Ultha follow A Light So Dim, the sequel to All That Has Never…
Παιδί Τραύμα is the project of Tasos Karteris, a name in Greece's independent scene who builds each album around a single theme and lets the personal stories carry it. His latest, «Δεύτερη Ζωή» on Fine! Records, is a record about the selves we left behind and the wish to start again. At Gagarin 205 he plays it live…
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…
Arab Strap, the duo of Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, performs at Gazarte Ground Stage. For nearly three decades, they have transformed everyday experience, solitude, love, and human vulnerability into raw poetic narrative. Their sound navigates the boundaries between slowcore, electronica, folk, and post-rock,…
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…
Panzerfaust are a Canadian black metal band, back at Temple Athens for the Death Frontiers tour. Over the last few years they built one long arc: the four-part 'The Suns of Perdition' cycle, which ran through 'Render Unto Eden' in 2020 and 'The Astral Drain' in 2022 before closing in 2024 with 'The Shadow of Zion'.…
Toody Cole co-founded Dead Moon, the American DIY power trio that bridged 1960s garage rock with the punk and early grunge that followed. After the deaths of her husband and bandmate Fred Cole and drummer Andrew Loomis, she keeps the catalog alive on stage, joined by Kelly Haliburton on drums and Christopher March on…
Tyketto made their name in '90s melodic hard rock, Danny Vaughn out front, on songs like 'Forever Young,' 'Wings' and 'Standing Alone' that their fans have held onto ever since. The Piraeus Academy date catches them touring a new album, 'Closer To The Sun,' so expect new material alongside the older songs people show…
Death Disco brings Echoberyl to Greece for the first time, a Paris duo working the newer end of European darkwave and synthpop. Cecilia Dassonneville handles vocals and lyrics, Adrian H. the analog synthesizers and compositions, and the sound sits between dark synthpop, cold wave and minimal electronics. Their…
Warhammer have worked the Greek extreme metal circuit since 2012, and this show launches their fourth album, Algos. The Athens band deal in blackened death metal, and the set draws from the new record plus cuts from Ashes and Cinders, along with the tribute to Human Serpent they run at every show. Support comes from…
David J helped write the rulebook for goth. A founding member of Bauhaus, he authored the lyrics to 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', the nine-minute song most people name when they argue about where the genre starts. He then co-founded Love and Rockets, who crossed over with the hit 'So Alive'. Twelve solo albums and a memoir…
Chelsea Wolfe brings The DARK tour to Floyd in Gazi, billed as her biggest Greek show to date. The American songwriter builds records around transformation, grief and spirituality, from Pain Is Beauty and Abyss to She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She. She arrives with new music, The Dark and Death Is Not the End,…
God Is An Astronaut have spent over two decades making instrumental post-rock that influenced a generation of bands after them. The Irish group return to Athens after three years for a single show at Gagarin 205, part of the Jameson Connects sessions. Their run goes from the 2002 debut The End of the Beginning through…
Bryan Adams has maintained a touring career spanning over four decades of continuous worldwide performances. His recordings have achieved significant chart success, reaching number one in more than 40 countries throughout his career. The Roll With The Punches tour represents another international concert date for the…
Jim Bob fronted Carter USM, the 90s British band that folded punk energy into indie and sharp social commentary. He arrives at Temple Athens with a full band and 14 solo albums behind him, the most recent, Stick and Automatic, both cracking the indie Top 10. Expect his own material alongside a stack of Carter USM…
Lords of the Sound orchestrate an impressive symphonic production dedicated to one of contemporary music's most iconic voices. The program features Adele's signature hits, including "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You," "Hello," "Skyfall," and "Set Fire to the Rain." Each piece is presented through grand…
Clan of Xymox have spent more than forty years at the center of darkwave and gothic rock, from their 1985 self-titled debut and Medusa a year later to the recent Exodus, which drew strong notices abroad. The Dutch band return to Athens after a sold-out show, back at Black Temple for one night with a support act still…
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…
DR FEELGOOD performs at Αρχιτεκτονική Club Live Stage, an Athens nightlife venue. The live performance brings the artist to the established club for this appearance. The show is scheduled as part of the venue's regular calendar of performances. This event adds to the rich variety of live entertainment offerings…
Up The Hammers Festival has endured as a sanctuary for traditional, epic and underground heavy metal for over two decades. The festival brings together international acts across multiple generations of the heavy metal underground. The lineup features landmark performances including Cirith Ungol in a globally exclusive…
The aftermath of last year's festival returns with international heavy metal lineup. Argus from Pennsylvania bring epic doom and classic heavy metal, drawing from Greek mythology for their name. Argentina's FEANOR reunites with longtime collaborator Gus Acosta, assembling a powerful lineup featuring Mike Stark on…
British punk band U.K. Subs play An Club in Exarchia, their first Athens show in 26 years. The group still runs on Charlie Harper, the frontman widely called the godfather of British punk, now 82, alongside Alvin Gibbs on bass, Steve Straughan on guitar and Stefan Häublein on drums. Between 1979 and 1981 they landed…
The Last Internationale, one of the most powerful and dynamic bands of the contemporary American rock scene, are coming to Athens for a unique live performance. The New York-based band, formed by singer Delila Paz and guitarist Edgey, has built a reputation through collaborations with industry luminaries including Tom…
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,…
Oh Hiroshima are a Swedish post-rock band built around brothers Jakob Hemström and Oskar Nilsson, and this is the tour behind their sixth album, "And the Dead Tree Gives No Shelter," out in 2026 on Pelagic Records. They have spent years pushing past post-rock's usual template, first on Napalm and now Pelagic. The show…