Children of Bodom, Carach Angren, Lost Society, Uncured

Finland’s COB has walked a fine line for two decades between savage death metal and bombastic power metal, encapsulated on 2015’s I Worship Chaos. The 20 Years Down & Dirty tour celebrates that era of aural bludgeoning, so expect classics as well as Chaos. Netherlands’ black metal troop Carach Angren, armed with Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten, and Finnish thrashers Lost Society, brandishing Braindead, support the bloodletting. New York prog deathsters Uncured open. – Michael Toland