Machine Head announce evening-with Europe and UK shows for May 2026

Machine Head have announced an evening-with tour of Europe and the UK.

Oakland’s groove metal pioneers will return to the other side of the Atlantic in April and May, for a run of dates where they’re set to play three-hour-long sets every night. It will mark the first time that they’ve done an evening-with tour since 2020. See all announced dates below.

On social media, the band promise “three hours of molten metal, raging pits and life-affirming sing-alongs!” Tickets are now available for pre-sale. Get yours now via the Machine Head website.

Evening-with tours were a regular practice for Machine Head in the 2010s, especially after they stopped playing festivals in 2014. Frontman Robb Flynn later explained that the band stepped away from the circuit due to burn-out and not feeling connected with the mainstream heavy metal scene.

“I didn’t feel that connection with the audience anymore and I just needed to get my break from it,” he told Bloodstock TV in 2022.

The band returned to festivals in 2022, with a surprise set on the second stage of UK weekender Bloodstock Open Air, and the same year they co-headlined a European run with Amon Amarth.

This August, they returned to Bloodstock, this time as a main-stage headliner. Metal Hammer’s Rich Hobson gave the show a four-and-a-half-star writeup, calling it “an explosive, emotional headline set”. More importantly, my mum gave the show 11 out of 10 on Hammer’s social media and wrote, “Holy shit!”

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Machine Head released their latest album, Unatoned, to a positive response in April, including another four-and-a-half-star review from Hammer’s Dom Lawson.

Machine Head 2026 European tour dates: