This is a list of all heavy shows, and events, across North Carolina. The list spans from Wilmington to Asheville, and includes music ranging from punk to hardcore, metal to metalcore, grind to doom and goth to industrial.
We're hoping to bring more awareness to the scene, and share the events that are taking place across the our great state of North Carolina!
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Jan 05 - Crank It Loud presents: Jesus Piece, Absolute Suffering, Vein / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 06 - Blind Path Booking presents: Polarity, To Live As Wolves, Vices & Vessels, Our Savior Remains, See Obsidian / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 07 - Primitive Ways presents: Chateau, Necroscythe, Bumfeeder, Basura / Slim’s Downtown, Raleigh
- Winter Metalfest: Bone Shelter, Widow, Kinghitter, Elusory, Hayvyn / Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh
- Wretched, Auxilia, SkinKage, Kairos, Gruzer, Black Ritual, Shadows Of Deceit / Amos’ Southend, Charlotte
- Kiss the Curse, Take Heart, Break the Skyline, Through All This / The Maywood, Raleigh
Jan 09 - Blind Path Booking presents: Second Death, Landfall, Broadmoor, Neglected, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 10 - The Toasters, Whimpy Rutherford & The Cryptics / The Pour House, Raleigh
Jan 13 - Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Saint Diablo, Fall River Massacre, Attracting the Fall, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville
- Alter Blood, Baasthyrian, Rotten Obscene, KRVSADE / The Milstone, Charlotte
Jan 14 - Suppressive Fire (CD release show), Deathcrown, Dreaded, Noctomb / The Maywood, Raleigh
- Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Kiss the Curse, Sixlight, Five Mile Radius / The DHP, Fayetteville
- 5&10 Entertainment presents: Saint Diablo, TBA / The Wizard Saloon, Hickory
Jan 15 -Koffin Kats, Motorbilly / The Maywood, Raleigh
Jan 16 - Blind Path Booking presents: NIHIL, Shrine, Bloodforce, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 18 - Blind Path Booking presents: Earth Groans, Blight On Society, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 20 - Knightmare, Children of the Reptile, Avalon Steel / The Maywood, Raleigh
- Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents ‘The Deformity Constellation’ tour: Cognitive, Artificial Brain, Death Of Uriah, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville
-Suppressive Fire, Nemesis, Dire Hatred, Greevace / The Station, Charlotte
Jan 21 - Jackyl (their last show at Amos), TBA / Amos Southend, Charlotte
- The Fill Ins, The Body Bags, The Big Fandamily Band, Old Scratch / The Milstone, Charlotte
Jan 25 - Blind Path Booking presents: Regions, Lowpoints, Desolute, From Wrath To Ruins, Neglected / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 27 - Primitive Ways presents: Demon Eye, Toke, Bedowyn / Slims Downtown, Raleigh
- Cat’s Cradle presents: Cold Cave, Drab Majasty / Motorco, Durham
- Jucifer, Violent Life Violent Death, AuxilliA, Born Hollow / The Milstone, Charlotte
Jan 28 - Snake & The Plisskens, No Anger Control, Poison Anthem, Karbuncle / Kings Barcade, Raleigh
- Primitive Ways presents: Rites To Sedition, Shrine, Valle Crucis, Arghast / Maywood, Raleigh
- Solar Halos, S.E. Ward, GOWN / Local 506, Chapel Hill / Carrboro
- Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Seasons After, Nowhere’s Home, Chaos By Candlelight, Solace Betrayal / The DHP, Fayetteville
Jan 29 - Deathcrown, Nemesis, KAVSADE, Violent Gods / The Milestone, Charlotte
Jan 30 - Regan Youth, Pleasures of the Ultraviolet, Dirty South Revolutionaries, No Anger Control / The Milestone, Charlotte
Feb 05 - Code Orange, Youth Code, Nicole Dollanganger, malice At the Palace / Kings Barcade, Raleigh
Feb 11 - Room 13 Productions presents: Cro-Mags, Fire and Ice, Society Sucker, Red Vision, Substance / Local 506, Chapel Hill/Carrboro
-Nonpoint, Something Clever, TBA / The Underground, Charlotte
Feb 14 - Crank It Loud presents: Mayhem, Inquisition, Black Anvil / The Throne Theater, Wilmington
Feb 17 - Primitive Ways presents: Withered, Immortal Bird, Mo’ynoq / Slims Downtown, Raleigh
Feb 22 - That 1 Guy, TBA / The Pour House, Raleigh
- Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions and 5&10 Entertainment presents: (hed) P.E., FLAW, Abstractionist, Solace Betrayal, Nowhere’s Home, Faith & Scars / The Throne Theater, Wilmington
Feb 23 - St Pauli presents: Less Then Jake, Pepper, TBA / The Fillmore, Charlotte
-That 1 Guy, TBA / The Rabbit Hole, Charlotte
Feb 25 - Polyphia, Jason Richardson, Covet / Local 506, Chapel Hill/Carrboro
- Bardus, GRIZZLOR / The Odditorium, Asheville
- That 1 Guy, TBA / The Grey Eagle, Asheville
Feb 26 - Squall, Bardus, GRIZZLOR, Slime / The Pour House, Raleigh
- Everything Is Sound tour: Silent Planet, Hail the Sun, Dayseeker, Ghost Key / Local 506, Chapel Hill/Carrboro
Feb 27 - Power Trip, Iron Regan, Genocide Pact / King’s Barcade, Raleigh
- Bardus, Suit City, GRIZZLOR, Power-Take-Off / The Milestone, Charlotte
Feb 28 - Expire (final tour) Homewrecker, Cross Me / The DHP, Fayetteville
Mar 01 - Agent Orange, Guttermounth, The Queers, The Atom Age / The Grey Eagle, Asheville
Mar 06 - Overkill, Nile, Amorphis, Swallow the Sun / The Fillmore, Charlotte
Mar 08 - Dance Gavin Dance, CRON, TBA / Neighborhood Theater, Charlotte
Mar 09 - The New Reign tour: Born of Osiris, Volumes, Oceans Ate Alaska, Within the Ruins, Fire From the Cops / The Blind Tiger, Greensboro
Mar 10 - Deafheaven, This Will Destroy You, Emma Ruth Rundle / The Underground, Charlotte
Mar 12 - Senses Fall, Counterparts, Movements, Like Pacific / Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill/Carrboro
- Let’s Get Abducted tour: Attila, New Year’s Day, Bad Omens, Cane Hill / Arizona Pete’s, Greensboro
Mar 17 - Decibel Magazine presents: Kreator, Obituary, Midnight, Horrendous / The Underground, Charlotte
Mar 18 - NAILS, Toxic Holocaust, Gatecreeper, Funeral Chic/ Motorco, Durham
Mar 19 - Katatonia, Caspian, Uncured / The Underground, Charlotte
- Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, Goddamn Gallows, Birdcloud / The Grey Eagle, Asheville
Mar 21 - Carry the Flame tour: After the Burial, Emmure, Fit For a King, Fit For an Autopsy, Invent, Animate / Arizona Pete’s, Greensboro
Mar 24 - Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, Goddamn Gallows, Birdcloud / Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh
Mar 25 - Shattered Sounds Promotions ‘Shamrock Slaughter Fest 3’: Relic Of the Adversary, Threatpoint, Death of Uriah, Decibel 9, Cult Territory, Bloodforce, MechaBull, The Rage Within / The DHP, Fayetteville
Apr 10 - Primitive Ways presents: Negura Bunget, Mo’ynoq, TBA / Kings Barcade, Raleigh
Apr 11 - The Killthrax tour: Anthrax, Killswitch Engage, The Devil Wears Prada / The Ritz, Raleigh
Apr 15 - Red Hot Chili Peppers, TBA / PNC Arena, Raleigh
Apr 16 - Testament, Sepultura, Prong / The Fillmore, Charlotte
Apr 17 - Red Hot Chili Peppers, TBA / Spectrum Center, Charlotte
Apr 20 - Sonic Unrest II tour: Periphery, The Contortionist, Norma Jean, Infinity Shed / The Underground, Charlotte
Apr 21 - Y&T, TBA / The Grey Eagle, Asheville
Apr 22 - Y&T, TBA / Lincoln Theater, Raleigh
May 05 - Carolina Rebellion with: Soundgarden Def Leppard, Avenge Sevenfold, A Perfect Circle, KORN, Cheville
May 07 - The Offspring, Mastadon, Pierce the Veil, Opeth, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Dillinger Escape Plan, Sum 41, Every Time I Die, In Flames, In This Moment, All That Remains, Papa Roach, Skillet, Fozzy, Kyng, with 38 more bands / Motor Speedway, Charlotte
May 21 - Sabaton, TBA / The Underground, Charlotte
July 06 - Vans Warp tour, Charlotte
Aug 11 -Guns n’ Roses, TBA / BB&T Field, Winston
