In Flames and Trivium will co-headline a 26-date European tour in spring 2027, announced Tuesday August 25, with Paleface Swiss and VOLA supporting on every single date. The run opens March 29 at Dublin’s 3Arena and closes May 7 at Spodek in Katowice, Poland, taking in Alexandra Palace, the Avicii Arena, Vienna’s Stadthalle and the Nokia Arena along the way. Artist presale begins Wednesday August 26, with general sale on Friday August 28. And rather than argue about who goes on last, the two bands have done something almost nobody bothers with.
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Scott Penfold breaks down the In Flames and Trivium announcement on today’s Metal Breakdown Daily — all 26 dates, the presale times, and the billing arrangement that quietly solves a problem most co-headline tours never fix. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and get it every weekday morning.
They swap the headline slot by country
This is the part worth reading properly, because it’s genuinely smart and most coverage today will flatten it into “co-headline tour.”
The billing changes depending on where they are.
In the UK and Ireland, Trivium headline and In Flames appear as special guests. In Scandinavia, it flips — In Flames top the bill and Trivium are the guests. Everywhere else in mainland Europe, they’re true co-headliners and share the stage on equal terms.
Paleface Swiss and VOLA open throughout, no matter who’s closing.
Think about what that actually solves. Trivium are enormous in Britain — Ascendancy went gold there and Kerrang! named it album of the year. In Flames are national institutions in Sweden and have the Nordic territories locked. Rather than one band eating a demotion for half the run, each headlines where they’re strongest and the fans in every city get the version that makes sense for that room.
It’s obvious when you say it out loud. It’s also rare, because it requires two bands and two management teams to agree that ego costs more than it’s worth.
Both statements suggest this isn’t a new relationship. In Flames call Trivium old friends. Trivium call In Flames longtime friends and say a new era of the band is about to begin.
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Every date on the tour
Twenty-six shows, March 29 through May 7, 2027.
March 29 – IE – Dublin 3Arena *
March 31 – UK – Glasgow The OVO Hydro *
April 02nd Apr – UK – Manchester Co-op Live *
April 03rd Apr – UK – London Alexandra Palace *
April 04 – UK – Cardiff Utilita Arena Cardiff *
April 06 – BE – Brussels Lotto Arena
April 07 – FR – Paris Zénith
April 09 – DE – Hamburg Sporthalle
April 10 – DE – Dresden Messe Dresden
April 11 – DE – Berlin Velodrom
April 13 – LU – Esch-Sur-Alzette Rockhal
April 14 – CH – Bern Festhalle
April 16 – DE – Frankfurt Festhalle
April 17 – DE – Düsseldorf PSD Bank Dome
April 18 – NL – Amsterdam AFAS Live
April 20 – CZ – Prague O2 Universum
April 21 – AT – Vienna Stadthalle
April 23 – DE – Stuttgart Schleyer-Halle
April 24 – DE – Munich Zenith
April 25 – DE – Bamberg Brose Arena
April 27 – DK – Copenhagen K.B. Hallen ~
April 29 – NO – Oslo Spektrum ~
May 01 – SE – Stockholm Avicii Arena ~
May 03 – FI – Tampere Nokia Arena ~
May 05 – LV – Riga Xiaomi Arena ~
May 07 – PL – Katowice Spodek
* Trivium headline, In Flames special guests
~ In Flames headline, Trivium special guests All other dates: co-headline Paleface Swiss and VOLA support every date
How to get tickets
Artist presale: Wednesday, August 26 at 10am CEST / 9am BST. General on sale: Friday, August 28 at 10am CEST / 9am BST.
Both via InFlames.com and Trivium.org.
Six German dates and a full Nordic run means this one will move quickly in those territories. If you’re in Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen, treat the presale as the real onsale.
Two bands arriving at the same moment from opposite directions
What makes this bill interesting isn’t just the size of it. It’s the timing.
In Flames formed in 1990 and effectively invented the Gothenburg sound — the twin-guitar melodic death metal template that half of modern heavy music still runs on. Fourteen albums in, they’ve toured with Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Judas Priest and Slayer, and their discography remains one of the most argued-about in metal precisely because they never stood still.
They’ve just come off a two-month summer run and their own Göteborg Brinner festival in Gothenburg. And album fifteen has been in progress through 2026, recorded in Los Angeles with Howard Benson. The release notes say more information is coming, which suggests an announcement lands before this tour does.
Trivium formed in Orlando in 1999, when Matt Heafy was in eighth grade. Ascendancy in 2005 went gold in the UK, sold half a million worldwide, took Kerrang!’s album of the year, and later landed in Metal Hammer’s top fifteen metal albums of the century. Since then: six straight top 25 Billboard 200 debuts, a Grammy nomination for “Betrayer,” and a quarter of a billion streams.
Alex Rüdinger took over on drums in 2025, and the Struck Dead EP arrived the same year as a first taste of what’s coming. Hence the band’s own line about a new era beginning — this run is the start of it.
So you’ve got a band on album fifteen and a band opening a new chapter, both peaking at once. That’s a better bill than the poster suggests.
Heafy, incidentally, remains one of the most restlessly productive people in metal — a black metal solo project in Ibaraki, guest spots with Powerwolf and Testament, a daily Twitch stream, and a children’s book about Japanese folklore.
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Don’t sleep on the openers
Two support bands, both worth turning up early for.
Paleface Swiss have come out of the Zurich extreme metal underground to become one of the most talked-about live acts in Europe, welding deathcore, beatdown hardcore and nu metal into something genuinely violent. Marc “Zelli” Zellweger fronts them. Their 2025 album Cursed and this year’s follow-up EP The Wilted have made them the band everyone in that scene is watching.
VOLA are the opposite kind of proposition — a Danish-Swedish progressive outfit from Copenhagen fusing tech metal, djent and electronica with genuinely beautiful atmospheric songwriting. They broke through with 2016’s Inmazes and have built tens of millions of streams since.
And here’s the neat bit: VOLA’s 2024 album Friend Of A Phantom features a guest appearance from Anders Fridén. Two years later they’re opening for him across an entire continent.
That’s a good bill from top to bottom, and if you’re mapping out next year’s heavy touring, it belongs near the front of the list.
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TL;DR
- What’s announced: In Flames and Trivium will co-headline 26 European dates in spring 2027, announced August 25, 2026.
- When: March 29, 2027 in Dublin through May 7, 2027 in Katowice, Poland.
- Support: Paleface Swiss and VOLA on every date.
- The billing: Trivium headline in the UK and Ireland, In Flames headline in Scandinavia, and the two co-headline everywhere else in mainland Europe.
- Tickets: artist presale Wednesday August 26 at 10am CEST / 9am BST, general on sale Friday August 28, via InFlames.com and Trivium.org.
- Context: In Flames have a fifteenth album in the works; Trivium have Alex Rüdinger on drums and describe this as the start of a new era.
FAQ
When is the In Flames and Trivium 2027 tour?
The European tour runs from March 29, 2027 at Dublin’s 3Arena through to May 7, 2027 at Spodek in Katowice, Poland — 26 dates across Ireland, the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Czechia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia and Poland.
Who is headlining, In Flames or Trivium?
Both, depending on the country. Trivium headline in the UK and Ireland with In Flames as special guests. In Scandinavia the billing reverses, with In Flames headlining and Trivium as special guests. Across the rest of mainland Europe the two bands share equal co-headline billing.
When do In Flames and Trivium tickets go on sale?
The artist presale begins Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10am CEST (9am BST). General tickets go on sale Friday, August 28, 2026 at 10am CEST (9am BST), via InFlames.com and Trivium.org.
Who is supporting In Flames and Trivium?
Swiss deathcore and beatdown hardcore band Paleface Swiss, fronted by Marc “Zelli” Zellweger, and Danish-Swedish progressive metal band VOLA. Both appear on all 26 dates. VOLA’s 2024 album Friend Of A Phantom featured a guest appearance from In Flames vocalist Anders Fridén.
Is there a new In Flames album coming?
The band has confirmed work on their fifteenth studio album, recorded in Los Angeles with producer Howard Benson, and says further information is coming. It would follow 2023’s Foregone. Trivium, meanwhile, released the Struck Dead EP in 2025 and have described this tour as the start of a new era.
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