As music festivals disappoint, these gigs look more enticing.

In support of last year’s acclaimed records, Nightmare Logic and Need to Feel Your Love.

These are the albums we leaned on most during a year we’re eager to forget.

Plus: Stone Temple Pilots, Billy Idol, Baroness, Quicksand, The Sword, Code Orange, and Red Fang.

Thrash metal band take one of the year’s finest albums out on the road.

The year’s only halfway done, and we’ve already been spoiled rotten.

Metal’s renaissance isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

Featuring dates with Negative Approach.