IMPORTANT NOTE: I guess it’s painfully obvious, but as of this writing Washington’s governor has ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses through May 4th, and for some reason music venues aren’t considered essential, so we’ve deleted all the gigs that were originally calendared to happen up to May 4th. The ones after that may or may not happen. We’ll update the calendar as we get closer to that date.

I’m the guy who runs this blog. I live in the Seattle area and I like live metal. Not necessarily all metal, but a pretty broad spectrum of it. As a public service, I post on this page upcoming shows in the Seattle area (and sometimes elsewhere in the Northwest) as I become aware of them. I tend to focus on the shows I would like to see, but I’ve tried to make it broader than that, too.

WARNING: I get my information from press releases and web sites for the venues for the shows, but I can’t guarantee that what I find and post here will stay accurate as time passes, so check it out for yourself. And I don’t promise to update the info if a show is canceled or a band drops off a tour or the venue changes. So before you show up to buy tickets at the door, check with the venue to make sure nothing has changed.

Sometimes I don’t list a show because I’m unfamiliar with the bands, or because I missed an announcement or forgot to check a venue’s calendar. If you’re a band or a venue and you want us to add your info here, or if you’re a music lover who thinks we ought to list an event you know of, leave a comment below or send an e-mail to: islander@nocleansinging.com

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MAY 8 at Substation: True Widow, Serial Hawk

MAY 8 at Neumos: Health, Street Sect

MAY 11 at Showbox: Baroness, Against Me!, Destroy Boys

MAY 12 at El Corazon: Archgoat, Valkyrja

MAY 14 at Showbox: Apocalyptica, Lacuna Coil

MAY 14 at El Corazon: Swallow the Sun, Infected Rain, Black Sun Moon. Idolatrous

MAY 14 at Club Sur: Monuments, Skyharbor, Vespera, After the Fallout, Damn the Flood

MAY 18 at Highline: Demilich, Divine Eye, Mortiferum, Oxygen Destroyer

MAY 19 at Highline: Coffins, Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin collab set, Petrification

MAY 19 at Showbox SoDo: Coheed and Cambria, Chon

MAY 22 at The Crocodile: Old Man Gloom, Deafkids, Sad Vicious

MAY 24 at Showbox SoDo: Testament, The Black Dahlia Murder, Meshiaak

MAY 26 at El Corazon: Between the Buried and Me

MAY 27 at Highline: NORTHWEST TERROR FEST PRE-SHOW — Fauna, Eneferens, Sleepchains, Molting

MAY 28 at Neumos, Barboza, and Highline: NORTHWEST TERROR FEST (details here)

MAY 29 at Neumos, Barboza, and Highline: NORTHWEST TERROR FEST (details here)

MAY 29 at the Tacoma Dome: Tool

MAY 29 at El Corazon: Flotsam & Jetsam, Hands of Deliverance

MAY 30 at Neumos, Barboza, and Highline: NORTHWEST TERROR FEST (details here)

JUN 1 at El Corazon: Symphony X, Primal Fear, Firewind

JUN 6 at Highline: Mars Red Sky, Dreadnought, Serial Hawk

JUN 7 at El Corazon: Pathology, Unmerciful

JUN 8 at El Corazon: Caligula’s Horse, Moon Tooth, EbonIvory

JUN 20 at Highline: Axegrinder, War/Plague, Open Veins, Fucked & Bound, Nightfeeder Reprobate

JUL 1 at Showbox SoDo: Ministry, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly

JUL 28 at WaMu Theater: Deftones, Gojira, Poppy

AUG 2 at T-Mobile Park: Guns N’ Roses

AUG 10 at Substation: Evil, Siege Column, Burnt Decay

SEP 12 at El Corazon: Amaranthe, Battle Beast, Seven Spires

SEP 26 at El Corazon: Hammerfall, Beast In Black, Edge of Paradise

OCT 3 at El Corazon: Amorphis, Entombed AD, Nervosa

OCT 14 at The Neptune: Eluveitie

OCT 21 at El Corazon: Nile

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