Destruction Concert History

Destruction is a German thrash metal band. They are considered one of the "The Big Four" of the German thrash metal scene, the others being Kreator, Sodom and Tankard. Three of those four (Tankard being the exception) are often credited with helping pioneer black metal, by containing several elements of what was to become the genre. Destruction was originally named Knight of Demon, but changed their name in 1984. For most of the 1990s, Destruction...

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Aug 23, 2025
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Kreator / Destruction / Tankard

Gießener Kultursommer

Giessen, Germany
Jul 30, 2025 –
Aug 02, 2025
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Beyond The Gates 2025
King Diamond / Triptykon Performs Celtic Frost / I Am Morbid / Destruction / Hellbutcher / Hellripper / Abbath / Beyond The Gates / Dark Sonority / Beyond the Gates 2025 / Absu / Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult / Koldbrann / Furia / Eternal Evil / Askeregn / Morax / Opeth / Nihilvm / Candlemass / Paradise Lost / Taake / Gehenna / Tribulation / Lucifer / Hexvessel / Attic / Helheim Show all bands
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Various (GriegHallen, USF, Kulturhuset) Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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May 17, 2025
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Wisconsin Metalfest
Black Label Society / Devin Townsend / Exodus / 3 Inches Of Blood / Destruction / Between The Buried And Me / Demolition Hammer / TesseracT / EvilDead / Necrot
The Rave/Eagles Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
May 15, 2025 –
May 18, 2025
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Milwaukee Metal Fest 2025
Down / Black Label Society / Devin Townsend / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Exodus / Chimera / Enslaved / Destruction / Suicide Silence / Paradise Lost / Demolition Hammer / Rotting Christ / 3 Inches Of Blood / TesseracT / Wolves In the Throne Room / Trouble / The Acacia Strain / Harm's Way / Scour / Fugitive / Speed / Exhorder / Full of Hell / End / Nekrogoblikon / Deceased / Legions of Doom / Macabre / EvilDead Show all bands
The Rave/Eagles Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Jan 31, 2025
Destruction / Yoth Iria / White Tower
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Principal Club Theater (Μύλος) Thessaloníki, Greece
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Nov 28, 2024
Destruction

Destruction @ IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş

IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Nov 27, 2024
Destruction
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6:45 KK Bolu Ankara, Turkey
Sep 14, 2024
Metalitalia Festival 2024 - Day 1
Overkill / Destruction / Morbid Saint / Xentrix / Cripple Bastards / Angelus Apatrida / Ural / Husqwarnah
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Live Music Club Trezzo sull'Adda, Italy
Aug 29, 2024 –
Aug 31, 2024
Golden R. Festival
Achelous / Afterimage / Crimson Fire / Destruction / Deus Dethroned / Exilium Noctis / Flames / Gaerea / Graywitch / Human Genom / Isolert / Kin Beneath Chorus / Mayhem / Melan Selas / Psyanide / Sorcerer / Spiral Ion / Suicidal Angels / Sunburst / Thelemite / Varathron / Warlord MMXXIV Show all bands
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Open Cultural Center "N. Sarmanis" Néa Anchiálos, Thessaly, Greece
Aug 01, 2024
Rockstadt Extreme Fest
Kreator / Hatebreed / Baroness / Destruction / Tankard / Eluveitie / Sodom / Bury Tomorrow / Destroyer 666 / Gaerea / Eivør Pálsdóttir / Amenra / Ho99o9 / Cro-Mags / Comeback Kid / Indian Fall / Massacre / Slope
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Rockstadt Extreme Festival Grounds Rasnov, Romania
Jul 30, 2024 –
Aug 05, 2024
Rockstadt Extreme Fest 2024
1000 Mods / 1349 / A Place To Bury Strangers / Abbath performs Immortal / Aborted / After the Burial / Amenra / Amon Amarth / Anaal Nathrakh / Arkona / Armored Saint / Baroness / Behemoth / Bipolar Architecture / Bodysnatcher / Brutus / Bury Tomorrow / Cancer Bats / Combichrist / Comeback Kid / Converge / Cro-Mags / Cynic / Crownshift / Dark Funeral / Dark Tranquillity / Deicide / Delain / Destroyer 666 / Destruction / Devil Master / Dimmu Borgir / Dirty Rotten Imbeciles / Dopelord / Dragonforce / Eivør / Eluveitie / Emmure / Exodus / Fear Factory / Frog Leap / Gaerea / God Is An Astronaut / Gutalax / Hatebreed / Havok / HO9909 / Humanity's Last Breath / Imminence / Incantation / Insomnium / Jesus Piece / Jinjer / KK's Priest / Kreator / Kvelertak / Lacuna Coil / Left To Die / Leprous / Loathe / Massacre / Maybeshewill / Misery Index / My Dying Bride / Nanowar of Steel / Napalm Death / Opeth / Orden Ogan / Paradise Lost / Pendulum / Saturnus / Saxon / Serrabulho / Show Me The Body / Shy, Low / Slope / Sodom / Stoned Jesus / Strigoi / Suffocation / Suicidal Tendencies / Svalbard / Tankard / Terror / Testament / Textures / The Amity Affliction / The Black Dahlia Murder / The Devil's Trade / The Exploited / The Halo Effect / Therapy? / Toxic Holocaust / Ufomammut / Venom Inc. / Watain / Whitechapel Show all bands
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Cetatea Râșnov Râşnov, Brașov, Romania
Jul 20, 2024
Kreator / Sodom / Destruction / Tankard

Klash of the Ruhrpott

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Amphietheater Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Jul 13, 2024
Annisokay / Destruction / Evil Invaders / Judas Priest

Rockmaraton

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Szalki Sziget Dunaújváros, Hungary
Jun 08, 2024
Sintage / Enforcer / Destruction / Sodom

Metal am Gaskessel

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Gaswerk Augsburg Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Jun 07, 2024 –
Jun 09, 2024
NADA - Na Alma do Alentejo 2024
Destruction / Taake / Christian Death / Impaled Nazarene / Atrocity / Spiritual Front / Serrabulho / Dark oath / Hochiminh / Enchantya / All Against / Voidwomb / Alpha Warhead / Baltum / Supercollider
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Parque de Feiras e Exposições - Pavilhão dos Sabores Beja, Beja, Portugal
May 30, 2024 –
Jun 01, 2024
M.I.S.E. Open Air
Clanpipers / Rockin Kids / Headshot / Dying Breed / The Prophecy 23 / Acranius / Parasite Inc. / Brainstorm (GER) / Cypecore / Area Desaster / Wallop / Torturebitch / Darkness / AIR RAID / Dust In Mind / Asphyx / Destruction / Lay Down Rotten / Traitor / Concrete Cold / Skeleton Pit / Abbie Falls / Synlakross / Necrotted / Crypta / Ensiferum / Onslaught Show all bands
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Büßfeld
May 17, 2024 –
May 19, 2024
Milwaukee Metal Fest 2024
Mr. Bungle / Blind Guardian / Slaughter To Prevail / In Flames / Hatebreed / Deicide / Katatonia / Kamelot / Marduk / Possessed / Incantation / Skinless / The Red Chord / Heathen / Internal Bleeding / Embryonic Autopsy / Eyes Of The Living / Death to All / Symphony X / Avatar / Lacuna Coil / Destruction / Bleed From Within / Eternal Champion / Devourment / Profanatica / Night Demon / Martyr AD / Uada / Visigoth / Necrofier / CENOTAPH / Cloak / Alluvial / Viogression / Beyond Threshold / Amerikan Overdose / Hammerfall / Testament / Soilent Green / Paleface Swiss / Exhumed / It Dies Today / Errors of Humanity / Casket Robbery / Hellwitch / Belushi Speed Ball / Illusion of Fate / I Am Morbid / Havok / Lords of the Trident / Nunslaughter / Terrorizer / Gatecreeper / Municipal Waste / Autopsy / Macabre / SKELETAL REMAINS / Creeping Death / Upon Stone / Stabbing. / Monochromatic Black / Death Ray / Death Ray / Vision / Backlash / Bewitcher / Morbikon / Dead by Wednesday / Engineered Society Project / Hatriot / Time To Kill / Doro / Ross The Boss / Atheist Show all bands
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Eagles Ballroom, The Rave/Eagles Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
May 09, 2024 –
May 11, 2024
Metal-Power Open Air 2024
Crematory / Burning Witches / Victory / Macbeth / Cobra Spell / Post Mortem / Fatal Embrace / First Aid / Metall / Depressive Age (DE) / Factory Under Cover / Attacktion / Moshquito / Iron Allies / Way2Far / Slow Fall / The AC/DCs Tribute Band / Destruction / Grave Digger / M.C.B. / Members of the Beast Show all bands
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Heidering Speedway Wittstock Wittstock, Germany
Nov 18, 2023
Destruction

40 Years of Destruction

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Ferienpark Weissenhäuser Strand Wangels, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Nov 17, 2023 –
Nov 18, 2023
Metal Hammer Paradise 2023 @ Weissenhäuser Strand GmbH
Epica / Kreator / Avatar / Amorphis / Death Angel / Destruction / Sólstafir / Rage / Dog Eat Dog / Lost Society / Knorkator / Before the Dawn / Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons / Wolfheart / Nervosa / Mob Rules / Screamer / Hinayana / Erik Cohen
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Weissenhäuser Strand GmbH Weissenhäuser Strand, Germany
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