Metal

Metal bands reunite less, tour harder, and when they do come back, tickets vanish in hours. We track metal across the whole spectrum — power, thrash, doom, death, black, prog, the works — watching for the first sign of a comeback, a one-off festival slot, or the kind of cryptic teaser that only metal bands still do properly.

Below is every metal act we've got eyes on. Touring bands sit up top. Scroll for the hiatus-era legends whose fans keep the rumor mill running and the buzz score climbing. Tap any artist to see what Reddit and the metal press are actually saying.