Past Events

Aura Noir Black Thrash Attack NZ Tour 2018 Spreading their path of destruction to New Zealand shores for the first time, come Aura Noir. Aura Noir, the creators of what would then be called black thrash metal, came together in 1993 as a result of Aggressor and Apollyon’s disappointment with the metal underground trends, the overused use of keyboards, and the beloved productions, Aura Noir came as another unholy poisonous wind to regenerate a sterile and indifferent scene. Blasphemer joined…

Mortiis - NZ Winter Tour 2018 For the First Time in New Zealand.. Mortiis (Nor) is coming to New Zealand for Two Shows Only ! With a very Special Performance of the Cold Meat Industry Classic "Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør" on show…   After Mortiis left Emperor, the Norwegian black metal band he was part of starting, in late 1992, he started Mortiis as a solo project, and released a number of solo records between 1993 and 1999. Reinvented as a…

Auckland, Whammy Bar - Tue, 21st Aug Wellington, Valhalla - Wed, 22nd Aug Buy now ———> http://bit.ly/ArchspireNZ

Like a bulldozer ramming down a rollercoaster, ABORTED return to New Zealand to smash bodies without remorse, warning, or regret. 17 Sep – Whammy – Auckland 18 Sep – Club Tavern – Christchurch 19 Sep – Valhalla – Wellington ABORTED has been slinging skulls around since it’s wretched birth in Waregem, Belgium in the unholy year of ‘95. While the band originally had an entire lineup of members living in Belgium, ABORTED current lineup now features members from Belgium, The…

Like a bulldozer ramming down a rollercoaster, ABORTED return to New Zealand to smash bodies without remorse, warning, or regret. 17 Sep – Whammy – Auckland 18 Sep – Club Tavern – Christchurch 19 Sep – Valhalla – Wellington ABORTED has been slinging skulls around since it’s wretched birth in Waregem, Belgium in the unholy year of ‘95. While the band originally had an entire lineup of members living in Belgium, ABORTED current lineup now features members from Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States, still delivering the…

Like a bulldozer ramming down a rollercoaster, ABORTED return to New Zealand to smash bodies without remorse, warning, or regret. 17 Sep – Whammy – Auckland 18 Sep – Club Tavern – Christchurch 19 Sep – Valhalla – Wellington ABORTED has been slinging skulls around since it’s wretched birth in Waregem, Belgium in the unholy year of ‘95. While the band originally had an entire lineup of members living in Belgium, ABORTED current lineup now features members from Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States, still delivering the…

Canada's INTERVALS is headed to NZ this September for the first time. INTERVALS is a window into the mind of guitarist & composer, Aaron Marshall. Founded in 2011, INTERVALS is a progressive and forward thinking staple in modern instrumental music with roots firmly planted in all things traditional, & an open eye on the future. Aaron’s most recently release "The Way Forward" is the natural evolution of Aaron's sound & a testament to his knack for infectious melody, & engaging…

Canada's INTERVALS is headed to NZ this September for the first time. INTERVALS is a window into the mind of guitarist & composer, Aaron Marshall. Founded in 2011, INTERVALS is a progressive and forward thinking staple in modern instrumental music with roots firmly planted in all things traditional, & an open eye on the future. Aaron’s most recently release "The Way Forward" is the natural evolution of Aaron's sound & a testament to his knack for infectious melody, & engaging…

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER continue to inflict a cavalcade of riffs to the table, upping the stakes in technicality, melody, and sheer blunt force trauma. The latest album Nightbringer released in 2017, delivers a punishing and cutthroat form of melodic death metal with a searing visceral intensity. New Zealand fans beware, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER they are on a mission to tear your soul apart! Saturday 29 Sept – Valhalla – Wellington Sunday 30 Sept – Whammy – Whammy

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER continue to inflict a cavalcade of riffs to the table, upping the stakes in technicality, melody, and sheer blunt force trauma. The latest album Nightbringer released in 2017, delivers a punishing and cutthroat form of melodic death metal with a searing visceral intensity. New Zealand fans beware, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER they are on a mission to tear your soul apart! Saturday 29 Sept – Valhalla – Wellington Sunday 30 Sept – Whammy – Whammy

Listener NZ Tour Oct 2018   IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING, but Kansas City’s LISTENER is finally bringing their unique brand of ‘Talk Music’ to patient fans in New Zealand this Oct as part of the now sold out Yours & Owls Festival, and doing a headline run of their very own.   If your best friend was a band, who would they be? I think they might be something like Listener.  Because LISTENER is a band of best…

Church Of Misery – Doom of New Zealand Tour For the first time on Aotearoa’s shores, all the way from Japan, oozes the doom that is CHURCH OF MISERY. Coming to its sludgy start in a dark corner of Tokyo in 1995, thanks to the bassist Tatsu Mikami solo project, CHURCH OF MISERY reflected his darker, heavier musical taste after Salem, a renowned thrash metal band he played with, broke up. Influenced by Doom bands such as Black Sabbath, Saint…

Church Of Misery – Doom of New Zealand Tour For the first time on Aotearoa’s shores, all the way from Japan, oozes the doom that is CHURCH OF MISERY. Coming to its sludgy start in a dark corner of Tokyo in 1995, thanks to the bassist Tatsu Mikami solo project, CHURCH OF MISERY reflected his darker, heavier musical taste after Salem, a renowned thrash metal band he played with, broke up. Influenced by Doom bands such as Black Sabbath, Saint…

From the dark, frozen corners of Norway, the beast has surfaced. After 25 years, the world’s biggest black metal forge, DIMMU BORGIR, surfaces for their first destructive tour of New Zealand. Casting a show that will viciously attack your senses whilst pushing them to their ultimate limits and showcasing the might and power of one of the most influential acts of the genre. Conceived in the heart of the Norwegian black metal scene in 1993, DIMMU BORGIR quickly broke free…

The double-header international metal force that is savage aural barbarians CONAN and spellbinding sonic summoners BELL WITCH have announced they will be storming our shores, for shows at Wellington’s Valhalla and Auckland’s Whammy Bar in November. Hailing from Liverpool and Seattle respectively, the bands occupy opposite ends of the slow-pentatonic-riff spectrum. While Conan specialises in medieval savagery, as witnessed on their 2016 offering Revengeance, Bell Witch oozes with ethereality and otherworldliness, as seen on last year’s eighty four minute epic…

The double-header international metal force that is savage aural barbarians CONAN and spellbinding sonic summoners BELL WITCH have announced they will be storming our shores, for shows at Wellington’s Valhalla and Auckland’s Whammy Bar in November. Hailing from Liverpool and Seattle respectively, the bands occupy opposite ends of the slow-pentatonic-riff spectrum. While Conan specialises in medieval savagery, as witnessed on their 2016 offering Revengeance, Bell Witch oozes with ethereality and otherworldliness, as seen on last year’s eighty four minute epic…

Amenra / YLVA / Into Orbit NZ Tour November 2018 TOUR DATES 19th November – Valhalla – Wellington 20th November – Whammy – Auckland There are not enough words to describe the sheer magnificence of AMENRA, a band whose powerful and unorthodox music has created waves in the metal world for almost two decades. Hailing from the eerie depths of Kortrijk, Belgium, AMENRA will bring forth the fierce, pulsating sounds of their music to consume New Zealand for the very…

Amenra / YLVA / Into Orbit NZ Tour November 2018 TOUR DATES 19th November – Valhalla – Wellington 20th November – Whammy – Auckland There are not enough words to describe the sheer magnificence of AMENRA, a band whose powerful and unorthodox music has created waves in the metal world for almost two decades. Hailing from the eerie depths of Kortrijk, Belgium, AMENRA will bring forth the fierce, pulsating sounds of their music to consume New Zealand for the very…