MACHINE HEAD To Return To ‘An Evening With’ Format For Spring 2026 European/UK Tour

Machine Head are bringing back their signature ‘an evening with’ experience for a European and UK run in Spring 2026. The Oakland, CA-based thrash/groove metal veterans will perform three-hour sets each night with no opening acts, giving fans a deep dive into their catalog of anthems, deep cuts, and epic tracks. Pre-sale tickets are already live.

Frontman Robb Flynn shared his thoughts on the approach for this tour:

“I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes a Machine Head show… a Machine Fuckin’ Head show.
People talk about the riffs, the circle pits, the sweat, the beers, the chaos—and yeah, all of that is part of who we are. It always has been.

But there’s something else. Something I didn’t fully understand until years into doing this.

It’s the singing.

The way you take our songs… songs we wrote in a cold Oakland rehearsal room, in dark places, in moments of pain, struggle, or heartbreak—and you turn them into something bigger. Something yours.

I’ve stood on stages all over the world, guitar hanging off my shoulder, lights blinding my eyes, sweat dripping down my face… and then I hear it:

You. All of you. Singing louder than the PA. Singing like the song belongs to you—and it does.

That feeling… I can’t compare it to anything else in my life.

It’s not a performance anymore. It becomes a conversation. A communion.

And that’s why we’re doing this tour.

No openers. No limits. Just 3 hours of anthems, deep cuts, ragers & epics, the songs you’ve screamed so loud we could feel it in our bones.

I want these nights to feel like those rare shows where everything clicks and the world falls away. Where we can dig into the catalog, take our time, talk, play, improvise, go places we haven’t gone in years… or ever.

These are the nights where the band and the fans become the same damn thing.

Pre-sale tickets start today. I hope you’ll be there with us. I hope you’ll bring your voice. Because we’re going to need it.

With love, rage, and gratitude,
Robb”

2026 European/UK Tour Dates

04/11 Copenhagen, DEN – Vega
04/13 Hamburg, GER – Inselparkhalle
04/15 Warsaw, POL – Progresja
04/17 Zwickau, GER – Stadthalle
04/18 Berlin, GER – Columbiahalle
04/19 Vienna, AUT – Gasometer
04/20 Munich, GER – Tonhalle
04/22 Milan, ITA – Alcatraz
04/23 Marseille, FRA – Espace Julien
04/24 Balma, FRA – Interference
04/25 Villava, SPA – Sala Totem Aretoa
04/27 Madrid, SPA – Sala Riviera
04/28 Lisbon, POR – Lav Lisboa Ao Vivo
04/29 Malaga, SPA – Sala Paris 15
04/30 Barcelona, SPA – Razzmatazz
05/02 Paris, FRA – L’Olympia
05/03 Strasbourg, FRA – La Laiterie
05/04 Saarbrucken, GER – Saarlandhalle
05/06 Ludwigsburg, GER – MHP Arena
05/07 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof Wiesbaden
05/08 Cologne, GER – Palladiu
05/09 Fribourg, SWI – Fri-Son
05/11 Tilburg, NET – Escape Room 013
05/12 Brussels, BEL – Ancienne Belgique
05/14 Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy
05/15 Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse
05/16 Wolverhampton, UK – Civic Hall
05/17 London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton

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