BABYMETAL Announce 2025 North American Tour with Black Veil Brides, Jinjer, and Bloodywood
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BABYMETAL have announced a 2025 North American tour with support from Black Veil Brides, Jinjer, and Bloodywood on select dates.
The Japanese pop-metal act will kick off the outing on June 13th in Houston, and wrap things up on July 23rd in Phoenix, highlighted by a show on June 24th at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The route also hits major markets such as Chicago, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, among others.
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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday (March 19th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code FUNKY. General ticket sales start Friday (March 21st) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
BABYMETAL are coming off a series of collaborative tracks with artists such as Tom Morello, future tourmates Bloodywood, and Electric Callboy. Per BABYMETAL's tour press release, 'the new collaborations offer a peak into what should be their forthcoming album' — the follow-up to 2023's THE OTHER ONE.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian progressive-metal act Jinjer will be out in support of their new album, Duél, which dropped in February.
Below you can see BABYMETAL's full list of tour dates.
BABYMETAL's 2025 Tour Dates: 06/13 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall * 06/14 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory * 06/17 – Tampa, FL @ Yuengling Center * 06/18 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy * 06/20 – Charlotte, NC @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre * 06/21 – Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion * 06/24 – New York, NY @ The Theater at Madison Square Garden * 06/25 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway * 06/27 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Arena * 06/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann Center * 06/30 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell * 07/02 – Toronto, ON @ Coca-Cola Coliseum * 07/03 – Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre * 07/05 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest 07/06 – St. Louis, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park # 07/08 – Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom # 07/09 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory # 07/11 – Denver, CO @ The JunkYard # 07/14 – Vancouver, BC @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Center # 07/15 – Kent, WA @ accesso ShoWare Center # 07/17 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic # 07/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort # 07/21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre # 07/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre #
* = w/ Black Veil Brides and Bloodywood # = w/ Jinjer and Bloodywood
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