MAY 2026

 MAY

05/01 - Super Devil, 8 Ball Death, DJ Haj @ Flipside Records, Berkley 6 PM

05/01 - The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis (DC/NY), Yr Knives (IL) @ Third Man Records, Detroit

05/01 - Powerplay (FL), Chained (NC), Southover (OH), Triflin @ Bella's Vault [27th Letter], Detroit

05/01 - Snooper (TN), Shrudd (KY), Day Residue, Low Exposure @ Small's, Hamtramck

05/01 - Gladie (PA), Noun (PA), Supo @ Lager House, Detroit

05/02 - Southover (OH), Brittle Bullet, Courage, Kingslayer, Stacked Deck, Local Man @ Z's Villa, Detroit 3 PM

05/02 - Eyewash (PA), A Modest Proposal (IN), Riot Course, Feign, Career Funeral @ Tenacity Craft, Detroit

05/02 - Clan Of Xymox (Netherlands), Buzz Kull (Australia), Rosa Anschütz (German), Cold Cave (CA) @ St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit

05/02 - Dead Hour Noise, Lucius Fox, Mouthful Of Locusts, Impending @ Shakespeare's Lower Level, Kalamazoo

05/03 - The True Faith (PA), Louse (OH), Ingo Swann, Johnstonsons @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit

05/04 - Bill Callahan (TX), Jana Horn (TX) @ Magic Stick, Detroit 

05/04 - Remember Sports (PA), Cusp (IL), Fred Thomas @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/05 - Denouement (DC), Loveletters (OH), Eternal Wound (KY), Brittle Bullet, Abuse Repression @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/05 - Vulture Feather (CA), Womb Worm, Frizz @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit

05/05 - Mdou Moctar (Niger), Mezzanine Swimmers @ Blind Pig, Ann Arbor

05/06 - Universal Beat (CA), Rotary Club (NV), Quitters, Sleep Tight Tiger @ The Field Office, Detroit

05/07 - Ducks Ltd. (Canada), Pretty Island @ Lager House, Detroit

05/07 - Pigeon Pit (WA), Walter Mitty And His Makeshift Orchestra (CA), The Last Arizona (VA), Pacing (CA), Closet Ghost, Rent Strike @ The Love Factory, Ypsilanti

05/07 - Mdou Moctar (Niger) @ Out There, Sawyer SOLD OUT!

05/07 - Felon Class, Will To Power, Coyote, Moretta, Encroachment @ Morning Ritual, Grand Rapids FREE

05/08 - flowersforpersephone (OH), Sixteen12, Career Funeral, ihatemyfriends @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/08 - Mirror Mask, ECK!, DJ Sanford @ Bowlero, Royal Oak FREE

05/08 - Paper Sleep, Dryfruit, Future Remedy @ PLAV Post 10, Hamtramck

05/08 - Plague Wielder (OH), Horse Bomb, HAG, Gloom Squad @ Paris Bar, Hamtramck 

05/08 - Human Skull, Craig Brown Band, Adam Snyder @ Ziggy's, Ypsilanti

05/08 - Tunnel Of Love, Armor Class, Crying At Work, Coyote @ The Fledge, Lansing

05/09 - The Hobknobs (Netherlands), Tyvek. Sleep Tight Tiger @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit

05/09 - Kamikaze Relief Fund (WI), Cynical Display, SOOT, Basement Floor, Angry All The Time, The Fetal Position, 17 Dead @ The Crypt [Sanctuary], Detroit

05/10 - Hustle Culture (OH), Werewolf Jones, Fen Fen @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit

05/11 - Golomb (OH), Robber Robber (VT) @ Lager House, Detroit 

05/11 - Circuit Circuit (TN), Tower Of Pines (GA), Sixteen12 @ The Confessional [Sanctuary], Detroit

05/11 - To Violently Vomit (CA), Vulnificus (IN/PA), Excremental Scaphism @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/13 - Haze Gazer (MN), Dead People Park, Tonguecutter @ Dormouse Basement, Kalamazoo

05/14 - Blistered Spirit (MO), Loveletters (OH), Dissected (OH), Wind For Wings, Will To Power @ Metal Frat, Ann Arbor

05/15 - Spectrum 2, Jimbo Easter, Domes @ Detroit Public Library, Detroit FREE 4 PM

05/15 - Home Front (Canada), Love Fool, Big Life @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/15 - The Jackal (OH), Cemetery Girl, Brittle Bullet, MDOP, Immaculate Conception, Teknokrat. Misplaced Hate @ Voodoo House, Detroit

05/15 - Sleep Tight Tiger, Checker, Dryfruit @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit

05/15 - Haze Gazer (MN), It Happened One Night, Angry All The Time, THECHEESEBURGERPICNIC @ Bella's Vault [27th Letter], Detroit

05/15 - PANIC IN DETROIT: Laundry Bats (TN), MRKT, Ill Imor, Simulation @ Old Miami, Detroit

05/15 - Dr. Pete Larson, Hot Bananas, Game Park, Coin Temper @ High Dive, Hamtramck 

05/15 - Napalm Death (UK), Deadguy (NJ) @ The Vault, Saginaw

05/15 - Cruel Bloom, Buried Lights, The Shotgun Message, Bright Nights @ Metal Frat, Ann Arbor

05/15 - King Tuff (VT), Mod Lang @ Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids

05/15 - Sinking Suns (WI), Tonguecutter, Something Is Waiting @ Rake Beer Project, Muskegon 

05/16 - HAG, Sherm, Stubborn Assholes @ Ride It Sculpture Park, Detroit FREE

05/16 - PANIC IN DETROIT: Mr. Clit And The Pink Cigarettes (IN), Space Skull, Dusty Rose Gang, Bores @ Old Miami, Detroit

05/16 - Southover (OH), Doubt It!, World Of Malice, Fool's Spring, DJ Johnny Athey @ 27th Letter Books, Detroit

05/16 - On-Site (MN), Dave Nasty (IL), PRMATRIPPR, Corruptedhdd, Mormon Underwear @ Job Stoppers Inc., Detroit 

05/16 - The Crosses (WI), State, Cripple Fight!, Coyote @ Papa Pete's, Kalamazoo

05/16 - Priority Waste, Scanners, Viscera @ Pizza Hut Basement, Saute Sainte Marie

05/17 - On-Site (MN), Brittle Bullet, Violent Scum, Triflin, Chop House @ The Runoff, Kalamazoo 3 PM

05/17 - Dead Void (Denmark), Ossuary (WI), Jail @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/17 - Career Funeral, 40ft to go, Sixteen12, The Fetal Position, FinalBossFight!, OCEAN, Year Of The Snake, Lucky Catch @ The Sanctuary, Detroit

05/18 - Tipper Gore (KY), Parking (KY), Zastava @ PLAV Post 10, Hamtramck 

05/18 - Diabolic Oath (OR), Viogression (WI), Attrition Cult, Gorelina @ Fulton Street Pub, Grand Rapids

05/20 - My Wife's An Angel (PA), wujeria (OH), Abuse Repression, Tried, meek @ The Sanctuary, Detroit

05/20 - Snuffed On Sight (CA), Torture (IL), Mutilatred, World Of Malice @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/21 - Alga (IL), Quitters, Electric Bug, Lincoln Parsons @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit

05/21 - Hang Your Hate (MO), Feign, Palema @ The Sanctuary, Detroit 

05/21 - Minibeast (RI), Big Life, Painted Friends @ Lager House, Detroit

05/21 - Slow Slow Loris (Germany), Illusion Of Safety (IL), Tyler Hicks, P.U.R.E. V.I.C.E. @ Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti

05/21 - ihatemyfriends, Rec League, Year Of The Snake, I Survived @ Metal Frat, Ann Arbor

05/21 - Contempt (IL), About Face (CA), Encroachment, The Divide, Full Count @ Rake Beer Project, Muskegon

05/22 - Gremlin (OH/KY), TY, Empties @ Lager House, Detroit

05/22 - Midwest Lust (WA), Machine Country (OR), Daywalker (OH), 17 Dead @ The Crypt [Sanctuary], Detroit 

05/22 - Triangle Fire (GA/TN), Black Market Kidney Surgeon (TN), Mormon Mincers (CA), Yaksaw, Teknokrat, Tongue @ Regal Beagle, Ypsilanti

05/23 - Thelma And The Sleaze (TN), Zem, Craig Brown & Friends, Will Lorenz And The Mind Stuff @ The Painted Lady, Hamtramck

05/23 - Crying At Work, HAG, Dog Skull, Grand Snake, SOOT, 17 Dead, Jouissance @ Tenacity Craft, Detroit

05/23 - DemsFightinWords (IL), Self Absorbed, Anaconda Vice, Stretched Thin, Life Sentence @ Four Star Theatre, Grand Rapids

05/23 - Emaciated Remains, Decedent, Kingslayer, Act Of Torment @ Montie House, Lansing 

05/24 - Fentanyl (CA), MDOP, Yaksaw, SOOT @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/25 - Bursting (IL), Long Square, It Happened One Night, Shobijin @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/26 - Gestation (AZ), Aftermath (AZ), Tormentuous, Girth @ Regal Beagle, Ypsilanti

05/27 - Portrayal Of Guilt (TX), Street Sects (TX), Halloween (PA) @ Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids

05/28 - ick (CA), Day Residue, Internal Revenue, Natty G, Paradise Day @ 3774 Gladstone, Detroit

05/28 - TIED DOWN: Youth Of Today (NY), Restraining Order (MA), Madman (PA), Build And Destroy, WMD @ Edgemen Printing, Clinton Township SOLD OUT!

05/28 - Pentagram (VA), Today Is The Day (ME), Cullossus @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/28 - Portrayal Of Guilt (TX), Street Sects (TX), Halloween (PA), Cloud Rat @ Lager House, Detroit

05/28 - Eatt (OH), Lottery, 3 The Hardway, DJ Rosie @ Paris Bar, Hamtramck

05/28 - Malevich (GA), Abuse Repression, Dead Hour Noise, A Grim Existence @ Regal Beagle, Ypsilanti

05/29 - Weird Nightmare (Canada), Gusher @ The Pike Room, Pontiac

05/29 - TIED DOWN: Eskrima (Canada), 100 Demons (CT), Rotting Out (CA), The Killer (IL), Division Of Mind (VA), COA (MA), Death Before Dishonor (MA), Discontent (MD/NY) @ Magic Stick, Detroit SOLD OUT!

05/29 - Lip Critic (NY), Flatwounds (NY), Bejalvin (MN), Credit Card @ The Sanctuary, Hamtramck

05/29 - Tried, Harper, M. Slaughter @ PLAV Post 10, Hamtramck

05/29 - U.D.I., Teknokrat, Last Call In Jonestown @ The Painted Lady, Hamtramck

05/29 - Tailpipe, Soul Harvester, Simulation @ The Field Office, Detroit

05/29 - D.R.I. (TX), Deathwish (WI) @ Token Lounge, Westland

05/29 - The Dr. Pete Larson Group, Electric Love @ Rancho Tranquilico, Dexter

05/30 - TIED DOWN: Kruelty (Japan), Kickback (France), Blood For Blood (MA), Terror (CA), End It (MD), NAILS (CA), Bayway (NJ), En Love (OH), Peeling Flesh (OK), Start Today (CA), Missing Link (NY), Shattered Realm (NJ), Pain Of Truth (NY), Negative Approach, Never Ending Game, Walls Of Jericho @ Russell Industrial Center, Detroit

05/30 - susie!, Two Gifts, Fallsin, Super Crazy, Nothing2Special, My Shortcomings @ Ride It Sculpture Park, Detroit 6 PM

05/30 - Wombo (KY), Paper Sleep @ Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit 

05/30 - Detroit 442, EKG, 3 The Hardway @ Lager House, Detroit

05/30 - Bath Drawer (IL), Congress, Modern Lady Fitness, Alec Harryhausen, Haven't You Heard DJ's @ Ziggy's, Ypsilanti 

05/30 - Yotuma (WI), Drillbit (WI), Excremental Scaphism, Decedent @ Parts & Labor, Melvindale

05/30 - Eight Ball Death, Dull Knife, Cripple Fight!, Heathens @ The Sugar Bowl, Kalamazoo

05/30 - The Lonely Waiting Room, From The Fleet, Low Phase, The Westside @ The Potato Sack, Kalamazoo

05/31 - TIED DOWN: Pig Pen (Canada), Pluto's Kiss (Canada/MI), Carry On (CA), Straight Ahead (NY), Angel Du$t (MD), Bane (MA), Forced Order (CA), Warthog (NY), Skinhead (CA/MA), Firestarter (CA), Skourge (TX), Final Resting Place (MD/NY), Bad Beat, Anhedonia, The Sissy Boys @ Russell Industrial Center, Detroit

05/31 - Marisa Anderson (OR) @ Out There, Sawyer SOLD OUT!