Metal shows in Chicago

with NVRMORE, Demo Division, Atheena

Cobra Lounge presents... NVRMORE "Our Funeral" EP Release Show Demo Division Atheena Strangersfilth $15 ADV // $

$15

with Time Thieves, Endorphins, Little Dave

Pop punk · Melodic punk rock · 800mw

Doors 7:30pm

with The Tyrant Lizard Kings

Stoner rock · Stoner metal

Blackened death metal · Thrash metal · Black metal

Day 2 of 3 · Saturday, September 5

Melodic death metal · Death doom metal · Melodic doom metal

Doors 6:30pm

$15.00-$20.00

with Fist to the Sky, Decision Streak, Endless Hours

Live and Local Showcase. All Ages.

Doors 3:30pm

$12

Doors 6:30pm

Chad Gray, Butcher Babies, Devil's Cut

Metal

with Creepy Little Things, THE HOUSE FLIES

Gothic metal · Doom metal · Steele metal

Doors 7:00pm

Stoner rock · Doom metal · Psychedelic rock

$20 Adv + Fees

Brostep · Heavy metal · Dubstep

Post-hardcore · Metalcore · Alternative metal

Metal

with Askysoblack, Mezmer, Old Coke

Rock · Death metal/ black metal

with Squid Pisser (ex-GWAR), No Raza, Into The Silo +1 more

with Until I Wake, Catsclaw, OUTRUN THE SUNLIGHT

Djent · Progressive metal · Math metal

Doors 6:00pm

Deathcore · Metalcore · Death metal

Cobra Lounge presents... Post Child Reely Big Moose Battery Eyes (MPLS) Burned or Buried Sweets $15 ADV // $17

$15

Rock · Metal

$14

Electronic · Metal

$27

with Hyss, Unto the Earth

Progressive metal · Heavy metal · Electronic

with Raider, SCARSIN, Carnotura

Death thrash metal

Doors 7:00pm

Trilogy

Weekly Friday night jam session

Rock · Metal

with Navaja, Consensus Madness, Cruelster

Cobra Lounge presents... Cruelster Lost Legion Navaja Consensus Madness $20 ADV // $24 DOS - All Ticket prices i

$20

Free jazz · Thrash metal · Dubstep

with Cheetah Pants, Planet Chasers, Satin Banshee

Hard rock

$17.50

The Avina Brothers, RIPTIDE, DESMA +1 more

Chicago's summer closing rooftop party with sunset, music, and packed terrace

with Carnifex, Extermination Dismemberment, Mauled

Deathcore · Death metal · Metalcore

Doors 6:00pm

Empire Productions presents... Augment Sick Joke Cheat Death Pure Hatred Split Teeth $20 - All Ticket prices i

$20

with Reaping Asmodeia, Opium Death, Beheading The Icon +1 more

Heavy metal

with BROKEN SPINDLES, Bronson Arm

Hardcore · Gothic rock · Metalcore

upsammy, Valentina Magaletti, composuresquad +1 more

upsammy creates interpretative space in contemporary electronic music

Doors 8:00pm

$25 Adv + Fees

Rock · Indie / Alt · Metal

Alternative metal · Groove metal · Hard rock

with To The Grave, Face Yourself, Backbiter

Brutal deathcore · Brutal death metal · Technical deathcore

Doors 6:00pm

$25.00

Deathcore · Metalcore · Death metal

with Nequient, Rejected Limbs, Displacer

with Withering Soul, IATT, Gravewitch

Blackened death metal · Thrash metal · Black metal

with VANISHING KIDS, On The Sun

Metal

Doors 7:00pm

Day 1 of 3 · Friday, September 18

with SoulKiller, Grimm, Reckless Redemption +1 more

Deathcore

Country music has always been about the voice and the story. Well, Joe Wortell sure has the voice and he sure as hell has some stories. Hailing from the City of Chicago where he works at his family's metal fabrication factory Joe cut his teeth in the bars and Honky Tonks playing the hell out of his

Metal

Doors 8:00pm

Day 2 of 3 · Saturday, September 19

Brutal death metal · Mosh

Doom metal · Stoner metal · Psychedelic rock

$34

with Jerome, Sabella, Errors of Humanity +1 more

Alternative metal · Groove metal · Hard rock

Doors 4:00pm

$13

Day 3 of 3 · Sunday, September 20

Iron Maiden, Megadeth

Heavy metal · Nwobhm · Hard rock

with ORDH, Barren Heir

Traditional doom metal

$33

Tickets sold at doors only

with Graveripper, Beyond Deth

Melodic black metal · Melodic death metal · Blackened death metal

Doors 7:00pm

Rock · Metal

Heavy metal

with 20 Watt Tombstone, Unto the Earth

Blues rock · Slide guitar · Country-blues

Doors 7:00pm

Deathcore · Metalcore · Death metal

Rock · Folk / Americana · Metal

Rock · Blues · Metal

Rock · Metal

with Evergrey, Elvenking

Heavy metal

Doors 6:30pm

$48-383

Industrial metal · Digital hardcore · Industrial hardcore

Final-year medical student creating music about life and beauty

$20 Adv + Fees

Metal

with The Crosses, Rollo Tomasi

Metalcore

King Woman, Youth Code, Chalk +3 more

Industrial festival night 3

Doors 6:00pm

with Jungle Rot, Fleshcrawl, Trash Panda

Thrash metal · Brutal death metal

Doors 6:00pm

with Andrés Crovetti, Dreadwolf

Doors 7:30pm

Thrash metal · Groove metal · Speed metal

with Denzel Curry, Superheaven, Boundaries

Metalcore · Beatdown hardcore · Metallic hardcore

Doors 5:00pm

DAVVN, Notions, MILLIONAIRE$

Electronic · Indie rock · Punk rock

$29-$85

with Aviana, HEAVENSGATE, FROMJOY

Metalcore · Mathcore · Chaotic hardcore

Doors 6:30pm

Rock · Metal

Metal

$17-378

Metal

$23-46

with Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, Weeping

Technical death metal · Technical thrash metal · Technical death thrash metal

Doors 6:00pm

Progressive metal · Sludge metal · Metalcore

with VAMPIRSKA, Sadness, LORD HUMONGOUS +3 more

Raw black metal · Usbm · Empty pit recordings

Doors 5:00pm

J-rock · Hard rock · Heavy metal

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Messa

Psychedelic rock · Stoner rock · Doom metal

Doors 7:00pm

$31.50

Billy Milano's S.O.D., UNITED FORCES: BILLY MILANO’S S.O.D., Backlash

Metal

$31-235

with Trhä, Saidan, GATES OF DAWN +2 more

Raw black metal · Atmospheric black metal · Usbm

Doors 5:00pm

Kowloon Walled City, Great Falls

Sludge metal · Doom metal · Noise rock

Doors 7:00pm

Alternative rock · Pop punk

$24

with Snuffed, Bifid Corpse, AMPOLLA +1 more

Grindcore · Hardcore · Powerviolence

Doors 6:00pm

Rock · Metal

with ira glass, Navaja

SOLAR FAN CLUB TOUR 2026

Doors 7:00pm

varaha, corridore, Waterfall King +2 more

Doom metal · Gothic metal · Experimental

with BL'AST!, Luicidal, CAVITY +1 more

Doom metal · Sludge metal · Sludgecore

Doors 7:00pm

Jerome, Love Lost, Chaosphere

Deathcore · Hardcore · Techno

Doors 6:00pm

$15.00-$20.00

Rock · Metal

In This Moment, Hollywood Undead, I See Stars +2 more

Melodic metalcore · Female fronted metal

Rock · Metal

with killmoves, Differences

$15

with CRYSTAL SPIDERS, Shadow of Jupiter

Stoner rock · Stoner metal · Stoner doom

Doors 7:00pm

Holywatr, mercury

Alternative metal · Alternative rock · Grunge

Doors 6:00pm

No cover

Post-hardcore · Post-metal · Metalcore

Doors 7:00pm

$15.00-$18.00

PeelingFlesh, Gridiron, Outta Pocket +2 more

Slamming brutal death metal · Deathcore

Doors 6:00pm

with Unto Others, Wraith Knight

Traditional doom metal · Heavy metal · Stoner rock

Doors 6:30pm

$27.50

with THE WATERFALL KING, KRONONAUT

Grindcore · Grunge · Psychedelic rock

Doors 7:00pm

Silly Goose, Cheem, MUTTLEE

Nu metal · Rapcore · Nu-metal

$20.00

Heavy metal

with SNUGGLEBUNZZZ, CONVULSIS, Dead and Buried

Metal

Doors 7:00pm

Rock · Metal

Death metal

$20

Rock · Metal

$20-61

with MIKEY CLASSIC AND HIS DEMONS, TBA

Folk rock · Pirate folk · Folk metal

Doors 7:00pm

Rock · Metal

Metal · Alternative · Progressive rock

Hard rock · Heavy metal · Hair metal

Doors 6:00pm

Metalcore · Beatdown hardcore · Nyhc

Rock · Punk · Hardcore

$20

with Wraith, MORBIDITY

Death metal · Thrash metal · Trio

Doors 7:00pm

Ambient · Psychedelic · Black metal

No cover

Rock · Folk / Americana · Metal

with Daarling, Bursting

Doors 8:30pm

$16

Alternative rock · Crossover · Britpop

$5-$10

with Headwreck, Slow Degrade

Metal

Doors 6:00pm

$25.00-$30.00

Rock · Blues · Metal

Power metal · Thrash metal · Speed metal

$29

Rock · Metal

Icon For Hire, Lauren Babic

Alternative rock · Hard rock

$32

Plini, Night Verses, Portraits

Progressive metal · Progressive rock · Fusion

Doors 6:00pm

SiM, Zero 9:36, aurorawave

Metal

Touhou · Noise · Raw black metal

Doors 7:00pm

with Coletta, Origami Button

Post-hardcore · Progressive rock · Swancore

$22.50-$25.00

Rock · Metal

Grindcore · Death metal · Grind

$40

with Quadeca, Olēka

Indie pop

Doors 7:00pm

with Heathen, void, TBA

Indie / Alt · Metal

Doors 6:00pm

The Goddamn Gallows, Go Hang

Psychobilly · Hellbilly · Rockabilly

Doors 8:00pm

Heavy metal · Progressive rock · Horror metal

with Orbital Gate, Beheading The Icon, Gutnoose

Slamming brutal death metal · Party slam

Doors 6:00pm

$15.00-$20.00

with Arch Enemy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Septicflesh +2 more

Melodic death metal · Female fronted metal

Doors 5:00pm

$45

Rapcore

$30.12

Electronic · Metal · Latin

with INTERNAL DECAY, TBA

Metal

Doors 7:00pm

$15

Heavy metal

Metal

$14-186

Die Spitz, Faetooth

Faetooth

Doors 6:30pm

with PIG’S BLOOD (Milwaukee, WI), Vukari

Metal

Doors 7:00pm

Black metal · Post-black metal · Blackgaze

Metal

Riot Fest Presents

Doors 7:00pm

$30

with Inferi, Cognitive, Summoning the Lich

Heavy metal

Doors 6:30pm

Rock · Metal

Seconds To Serenity, Glory Days, Embers Rise +3 more

CD Release Party with special guest bands

Doors 5:30pm

$15 ADV $20 DOS

with Thus Spoke Zarathustra, xMERCYx

Hardcore · Brutal deathcore · Death metal

$20

with Hellripper, SLACKJAW, XOTH

Thrash metal · Technical death metal

Doors 6:00pm

Post-hardcore · Emo · Indie

Doors 7:00pm

$25.00

Beartooth, DON BROCO, Magnolia Park +1 more

Metalcore · Post-hardcore · Hardcore

with Snooze, Eve

Progressive rock · Progressive metal

Doors 7:00pm

with Deadlands, Holy Wars, Night Rider

Metalcore · Post-hardcore · Experimental

Doors 6:00pm

$20.00-$22.00

Sabaton, Pop Evil, Wings of Steel

Power metal · Heavy metal · War metal

Doors 6:00pm

Metal · Rock · Glamrock

with Jarhead Fertilizer, Savage Master, Molder

Heavy metal

Doors 7:00pm

Whitechapel, Chelsea Grin, The Acacia Strain +1 more

Death metal · Brutal deathcore · Grindcore

with Heavy//Hitter, Squelching, Katywentmissing +1 more

Brutal deathcore · Downtempo deathcore · Death metal

$26

Suicide Silence, Emmure, AngelMaker +1 more

Deathcore · Death metal · Metalcore

Metal

Doors 7:00pm

Downtempo deathcore · Beatdown deathcore · Beatdown hardcore

Imminence, Dying Wish, Gaerea

Post-hardcore · Progressive metalcore · Metal

Metal

$20

Pop · Soul / R&B / Funk · Metal

Power violence · Goregrind · Blackened metal

Doors 7:00pm

Metal · Thrash & speed

$36-90