Hirax Concert History

Hirax is an American thrash metal band from Buena Park, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena, the band played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the other new thrash metal bands of the area such as Metallica, Exodus and Slayer. The band was a clear example of the thrash/speed metal/crossover genre.

Hirax Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2024 - 2025)

Date Concert Venue Location
May 08, 2025 –
May 10, 2025
Upcoming
Northwest Terror Fest 2025
Agalloch / Demolition Hammer / Gorguts / Brainoil / Coke Bust / Deceased / Hirax / Sonja / vermin womb / Crossspitter / Dreadnought / Glacial Tomb / The Keening / Terrorizer / Xoth / Dark Meditation / John Haughm / Many Blessings / Persekutor / Vicious Blade / Weald & Woe / witching Show all bands
Neumos & Barboza Seattle, Washington, United States
Oct 12, 2024 –
Oct 13, 2024
California Deathfest VII
Dismember / Cancer / Soilent Green / Mork / Cruciamentum / Black Fucking Cancer / Sodom / Sacrifice / Hirax / EvilDead / Oath of Cruelty / Power From Hell / Funeral Chant / Cenotaph
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Sweet's Ballroom Oakland, California, United States
Oct 09, 2024
Sodom / Whiplash / Hirax / Stress Angel
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The Brooklyn Monarch New York, New York, United States
Show Duplicates for Oct 09, 2024
Aug 15, 2024 –
Aug 18, 2024
Motocultor Festival 2024
Architects / Avantasia / Meshuggah / Opeth / Baroness / Bob Vylan / Clutch / Exodus / Faun / Igorrr / Jinjer / KK's Priest / Kvelertak / Lionheart / Magma / Myrkur / Millencolin / Nova Twins / The Amity Affliction / The Halo Effect / Red Fang / Squid / Aborted / After the Burial / Bernard Minet Metal Band / Born of Osiris / Crippled Black Phoenix / DeWolff / Dirtyphonics / Emma Ruth Rundle / Emmure / Haggard / Infected Rain / Left To Die / Les Sheriff / Lysistrata / Myrath / Plini / Riverside / Rotting Christ / Sacramentum / Skynd / Sowulo / Stoned Jesus / The Black Dahlia Murder / Venom Inc. / Wargasm / Arhios / Aura Noir / Bambie Thug / Black Bile / Broken by the Scream / Calcine / Crypta / Didier Super / Duel / Dvne / Esthesis / Exumer / Frail Body / Future Palace / Grandma's Ashes / Hexis / Hippotraktor / Hirax / Horskh / Incantation / Inhumate / Jesus Piece / Kalandra / Karras / Kronos / Liturgy / LLNN / Monkey3 / Moundrag / My Diligence / Nekrogoblikon / Night Verses / Resolve / Ruyyn / Shy, Low / Slow Fall / Sorcerer / Train Fantome / Villagers of ioannina city / Widilma / Alan Stivell / Neko Light Orchestra / Deicide / Crownshift / Havok / The SIDH / Soulfly / Griffon / Terrorizer / Beast In Black Show all bands
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Site De Kerampuilh Carhaix-Plouguer, Brittany, France
Aug 12, 2024
Exodus / Exumer / Hirax
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O2 Academy Islington London, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Aug 12, 2024
Aug 11, 2024
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2024 Day 3 (Sunday)
Architects / Gene Simmons Band / Opeth / Clutch / Mayhem / Exodus / Dark Tranquillity / Jinjer / Korpiklaani / Danko Jones / Armored Saint / Baroness / Orange Goblin / Soil / Terrorizer / Aborted / After the Burial / Heathen / Green Lung / Legion Of The Damned / Cirith Ungol / Unto Others / Audrey Horne / Cobra the Impaler / Conan / Eternal Champion / After All / Sacrifice / Hirax / Exumer / Left To Die Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 09, 2024 –
Aug 11, 2024
Alcatraz Open Air 2024
Amon Amarth / Saxon / Channel Zero / Beast In Black / Feuerschwanz / Orden Ogan / Eclipse / Massive Wagons / Dyscordia / Cradle of Filth / Paradise Lost / Whitechapel / Septicflesh / Sadus / Misery Index / Mental Cruelty / SKELETAL REMAINS / Dudsekop / Life Of Agony / Madball / The Ocean / Sylosis / Cro-Mags / The Casualties / Funeral Dress / Mantah / Fatal Move / Brant Björk Trio / Monkey 3 / Uada / Hippotraktor / Fen / Fire Down Below / The Killbots / The Lucifer Principle / X-Pozed / Europe / Epica / Testament / Dio Disciples / Spiritbox / The Night Flight Orchestra / Finntroll / Raven / Vengeance / Satyricon / Watain / Lord of the Lost / Marduk / Benediction / Fleshgod Apocalypse / Massacre / Bodysnatcher / Temptations for the weak / Hatebreed / Heideroosjes / Red Fang / Emmure / Bizkit Park / Fleddy Melculy / Pro-Pain / D.R.I. / Ankor / Crippled Black Phoenix / Truckfighters / 1000 Mods / Pothamus / Thronehammer / Rituals Of The Dead Hand / Arson / Columbarium / Secondhand Saints / Architects / Gene Simmons Band / Korpiklaani / Exodus / Jinjer / Armored Saint / Soil / Audrey Horne / After All / Opeth / Mayhem / Dark Tranquility / Terrorizer / Aborted / Legion Of The Damned / Left To Die / Mordkaul / Millhaven / Clutch / Danko Jones / Baroness / Orange Goblin / Green Lung / Unto Others / Conan / Eternal Champion / Cobra the Impaler / Heathen / Cyclone / Sacrifice / Cirith Ungol / Hirax / Exumer / Thorium / Sanity's Rage / Eternal Breath Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Show Duplicate for Aug 09, 2024
Aug 08, 2024 –
Aug 11, 2024
Alcatraz Open Air 2024
Ghost Division / Powerslave / Amon Amarth / Beast In Black / Channel Zero / Cradle of Filth / Dudsekop / Fatal Move / Feuerschwanz / Hippotraktor / Life Of Agony / Mantah / Orden Ogan / Paradise Lost / Saxon / Sylosis / Whitechapel / Bizkit Park / Bodysnatcher / Emmure / Epica / Europe / Finntroll / Fleddy Melculy / Fleshgod Apocalypse / Lord of the Lost / Marduk / Massacre / Pro-Pain / Spiritbox / Testament / The Night Flight Orchestra / Watain / Cobra the Impaler / Eternal Champion / Thorium / Exumer / Aborted / Hirax / Jinjer / Korpiklaani / Dark Tranquility / Gene Simmons Band / Mayhem / Architects / Opeth Show all bands
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Sportcampus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Show Duplicate for Aug 08, 2024
Aug 07, 2024 –
Aug 10, 2024
Brutal Assault 2024
Motionless In White / Architects / Behemoth / God Is An Astronaut / Born of Osiris / Jinjer / Emperor / Brutus / Ufomammut / Terrorizer / Incantation / Bodysnatcher / Legion Of The Damned / Vomitory / Necrot / Left To Die / Abbath / Aborted / Akhlys / Armored Saint / Baroness / Blockheads / Čad / Cancer Bats / Carcass / Cryptopsy / Cult Of Fire / Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague / Cynic / Cytotoxin / Dark Tranquillity / Darvaza / Deathstars / Deicide / Diskord / Dødheimsgard / Dopelord / Dopethrone / Escuela Grind / Evil Invaders / Exodus / Exumer / forbidden / Gaupa / Gorod / Grand Magus / Guilt Trip / Hatebreed / Havok / Heathen / Hexvessel / Hirax / Humanity's Last Breath / Impaled Nazarene / Julie Christmas / Kalmah / Kampfar / Khold / Kronos / Laibach / Laid To Waste / Lik / Madball / MASTER BOOT RECORD / Mental Cruelty / Misery Index / New Model Army / Night Verses / Obscura / Party Cannon / Pestilence / Plini / Primordial / Red Fang / Riverside / Rotten Sound / Sadus / Satyricon / Severe Torture / Show Me The Body / SKELETAL REMAINS / Sněť / Soil / Spiritbox / Stoned Jesus / Svalbard / Textures / Testament / The Amity Affliction / The Black Dahlia Murder / The Obsessed / This Is Hell / Toxic Holocaust / Triumph of Death / Tulus / Uada / Unto Others / Ved Buens Ende / Villagers of ioannina city / Vltimas / Vomitory / Whitechapel / Yellow Eyes / Bewitched / Emma Ruth Rundle / Finntroll / Imperial Triumphant / Mortuary Drape / My Diligence / Sylosis / The Omnific / Totenmesse / The Dillinger Escape Plan / 1914 / Cloak / Chthe'ilist / Hellripper / Srefa / Worm / Acid Row / Aeon Winds / Candlemass / Cephalic Carnage / Deadroots / Distant / Doomas / Exorcizphobia / Ions / Mallephyr / Oceans Ate Alaska / Persefone / STELLVRIS / Take Offense / Antelogos / Arottenbit / Black Hole Constellation / Body of Pain / Bosco Sacro / C4AT / Destruction Derby / Gertie Adelaido / HeXeN / Igra/Cybersheep / Jasnovidec / Mancy Sono / Mouth Wound / OLAF OLAFSONN AND THE BIG BAD TRIP / Sinister / Solventis / Spit Mask / The Marquis is Dead / The Undertaker's Tapes / Vont / XDZVONX Show all bands
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Brutal Assault Jaroměř, Czech Republic
Aug 01, 2024
Exodus / Hirax
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Junkyard Open Air Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Jul 31, 2024 –
Aug 03, 2024
Wacken Open Air 2024
Scorpions / Korn / Amon Amarth / Architects / Avantasia / In Extremo / Gene Simmons Band / Opeth / Blind Guardian / Feuerschwanz / KKs Priest / Accept / Behemoth / The Darkness / Alligatoah / Suzi Quatro / Testament / Cradle of Filth / Axel Rudi Pell / Spiritbox / Motionless In White / Mr. Big / Beast In Black / Dragonforce / Watain / The 69 Eyes / Pain / Baroness / Insomnium / Bury Tomorrow / The Amity Affliction / Oomph! / Red Fang / Knorkator / The Baboon Show / Sonata Arctica / Tankard / Zebrahead / Fiddlers Green / Rage / Armored Saint / Primal Fear / Raven / Ankor / Blues Pills / Liv Kristine / The Warning / Betontod / Incantation / Jungle Rot / Unleash the archers / Flotsam and Jetsam / Primordial / Trelldom / Butcher Babies / Bokassa / The Black Dahlia Murder / Textures / Emil Bulls / Vio-Lence / Uada / Xandria / Endstille / Skyline / Exumer / Messiah / Hellripper / Brutus / April Art / Mister Misery / Wolf / Future Palace / Vreid / SKELETAL REMAINS / Van Canto / Blackbriar / Soil / Ignea / Beastö Blancö / Nachtblut / As Everything Unfolds / Necrotted / Half Me / Paddy and the Rats / John Coffey / Jesus Piece / EVILE / Portrait / Asenblut / HITTEN / Deimos´Dawn / Dear Mother / SDI / Embryonic Autopsy / Asagraum / Infected Union / Mayhem / Massive Wagons / ROBSE / Whitechapel / Persefone / Planet Of Zeus / Bülent Ceylan (Comedy Act) / Corvus Corax / Die Habenichtse / Einherjer / Equilibrium / Extrabreit / Heidevolk / Koenix / Kupfergold / Skiltron / SVARTSOT / Tri state corner / Vanaheim / Vogelfrey / Alcatrazz / Blaas of Glory / Black Sabbitch / Cherie Currie / Chuan-Tzu / Asrock / Crystal Viper / Gaupa / Girlschool / Hirax / Jaya The Cat / Metaklapa / Misery Oath / Objector / Prey For Nothing / Sebastian Bach / Shredhead / Swartzheim / Thyrfing / Tragedy / Ulrich Roth / Unto Others / Etterna / Voidwomb / Türböwitch / Doomsday Astronaut / Junkwolvz / Tessia / Aquilla / Beguiler / Poseydon / Five Penalties / Anneke van Giersbergen / Blind Channel / Crisix / Drone / Fleshless Entity / Hämatom / INFO / Inherited / Source of Rage / Sweet / Tina Guo / Walkways / Mambo Kurt / Amalgam / Carbonic Fields / Cascade Effect / Corbian / Dio Disciples / Flogging Molly / Graufar / Griefgod / Kill The Phia / Mikkey Dee / Rain / Shvriken / Thus / Uragh / Finch Show all bands
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Wacken Open Air Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Jul 29, 2024 –
Aug 03, 2024
Wacken Open Air 2024
Heidevolk / Phantom Excaliver / Korn / Opeth / Behemoth / Cradle of Filth / Baroness / Blind Guardian / Pain / The 69 Eyes / Sebastian Bach / Oomph! / Rage / Blind Channel / In Extremo / EVILE / Anneke van Giersbergen / Knorkator / As Everything Unfolds / Hellripper / Ankor / Bokassa / John Coffey / Hirax / Liv Kristine / Nachtblut / April Art / Vanaheim / Tri state corner / Deimos' Dawn / ROBSE / Etterna / Amalgam [DE] / Victory / Wacken Firefighters / Graufar / Skiltron / Sweet / Wasted Land / Asenblut / Vogelfrey / Messiah / Feuerschwanz / Uada / Extrabreit / Incantation / Flogging Molly / Einherjer / Endstille / Amon Amarth / Suzi Quatro / Dragonforce / Testament / Corvus Corax / Türböwitch / Karabiner / Sunken State / Jaya The Cat / Ivory Tower / Megabosch / Butcher Babies / Cascade Effect / Shvriken / INFO / The Darkness / Tessia / Thus / Fleshless Entity / Drone / Aquilla / 5 Penalties / Beguiler / Mr. Big / Scorpions / Cherie Currie / Blaas of Glory / The Amity Affliction / Embryonic Autopsy / Spiritbox / Moritz "Mutz" Hempel / Primal Fear / Ignea / Unleash the archers / Black Sabbitch / Fiddler's Green / Wolf / The Black Dahlia Murder / Bury Tomorrow / Architects / Hämatom vs. Finch / Avantasia / Kupfergold / Bülent Ceylan / Accept / Beast In Black / Motionless In White / Half Me Show all bands
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Wacken Open Air Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
May 04, 2024
Legions of Metal 2024 - Day 2
Watchtower / Hirax / Dawnbringer / Stress Angel / Night Cobra / Mean Mistreater / Midnight vice / Fer De Lance
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Reggie's Rock Club Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mar 09, 2024
Voivod / Prong / Hirax UC Theater Berkeley, California, United States
Sep 07, 2023
Goatwhore / Eyehategod / Hirax / BL'AST! / Cancer Christ
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The Regent Los Angeles, California, United States
Sep 06, 2023
Eyehategod / Goatwhore / Hirax / BL'AST! / Cancer Christ

30th Anniversary of “Take As Needes For Pain”

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The Observatory Santa Ana, California, United States
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Jun 17, 2023
Mendo-Lake Metalfest
Hirax / Blind Illusion / Boneless Ones / Mordred / Negative Sixxx / Infex / Embryonic Devourment / Coffin Hunters / Live the Day / Frightmare / A Life in Exile
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Freedom Riders MC Club Lakeport, California, United States
Nov 19, 2022 –
Nov 20, 2022
Dragon Rojo Metal Fest 2022
Dying Fetus / Hirax / Blood Feast / Cemican / CENOTAPH / Sylvania / Introtyl / Last Breath / Silver Talon / COATL™ / Thanatology / Anarchus / swarm of serpents / Feed The Vulture / Restos Mortales / The Unholy (MX) / Deux Machina
Estadio Chevron Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Nov 04, 2022 –
Nov 06, 2022
Mass Destruction Metal Fest V
Mortician / Deicide / Benediction / Tsjuder / Raven / Sacramentum / Bulldozer / Novembers Doom / Hirax / Derketa / Internal Bleeding / Masacre / Ares Kingdom / Eyehategod / SKELETAL REMAINS / Demiser / P.L.F. / Sardonic Witchery / Grave Gnosis / Crossspitter / Obscene / Trenchant / Night Hag Show all bands
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The Loft Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Jun 10, 2022
Nasty Savage / Witchaven / Hirax / EvilDead The Regent Theater Los Angeles, California, United States

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Wacken Open Air 2024
Jul 31 - Aug 3, 2024
 Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Wacken Open Air 2024
Jul 31 - Aug 3, 2024
 Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Wacken Open Air 2024
Jul 31 - Aug 3, 2024
 Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Wacken Open Air 2024
Jul 31 - Aug 3, 2024
 Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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California Deathfest VII on Oct 12, 2024 [997-small]

California Deathfest VII
Oct 12 - 13, 2024
 Oakland, California, United States
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California Deathfest VII
Oct 12 - 13, 2024
 Oakland, California, United States
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California Deathfest VII
Oct 12 - 13, 2024
 Oakland, California, United States
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California Deathfest VII
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 Oakland, California, United States
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Genres:

United States
Metal
Death Metal
Thrash Metal
Speed Metal
California
Crossover Thrash
Crossover
Thrash
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Latest Setlist (10/12/2024):

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  1. Hellion Rising
  2. Blind Faith
  3. Drill into the Brain
  4. Warlords Command
  5. The Plague
  6. Black Smoke
  7. Faster Than Death
  8. Lightning Thunder
  9. Hate, Fear and Power
  10. Drowned Bodies
  11. Hostile Territory
  12. Destroy
  13. Criminal Punishment
  14. Broken Neck
  15. El diablo negro
  16. Bombs of Death

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Concerts Per Year:

2025 1 concert
2024 13 concerts
2023 3 concerts
2022 3 concerts
2021 2 concerts
2020 1 concert
2019 4 concerts
2018 4 concerts
2017 15 concerts
2016 3 concerts
2015 39 concerts
2014 26 concerts
2013 27 concerts
2012 6 concerts
2011 10 concerts
2010 2 concerts
2009 4 concerts
2008 3 concerts
2007 4 concerts
2006 5 concerts
2005 1 concert
2004 1 concert
1985 1 concert
1984 1 concert

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has Hirax had?

Hirax has had 179 concerts.

What genre is Hirax?

Hirax is most often considered to be United States, Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, California, Crossover Thrash, Crossover, Thrash, and New Wave Of Thrash Metal.

When is the next Hirax concert?

The next Hirax concert is on May 08, 2025 at Neumos & Barboza in Seattle, Washington, United States. The bands performing are: Agalloch / Demolition Hammer / Gorguts / Brainoil / Coke Bust / Deceased / Hirax / Sonja / vermin womb / Crossspitter / Dreadnought / Glacial Tomb / The Keening / Terrorizer / Xoth / Dark Meditation / John Haughm / Many Blessings / Persekutor / Vicious Blade / Weald & Woe / witching.

When was the last Hirax concert?

The last Hirax concert was on October 12, 2024 at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, California, United States. The bands that performed were: Dismember / Cancer / Soilent Green / Mork / Cruciamentum / Black Fucking Cancer / Sodom / Sacrifice / Hirax / EvilDead / Oath of Cruelty / Power From Hell / Funeral Chant / Cenotaph.

What setlist does Hirax play live?

The songs that Hirax performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the October 12, 2024 concert at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, California, United States:

  1. Hellion Rising
  2. Blind Faith
  3. Drill into the Brain
  4. Warlords Command
  5. The Plague
  6. Black Smoke
  7. Faster Than Death
  8. Lightning Thunder
  9. Hate, Fear and Power
  10. Drowned Bodies
  11. Hostile Territory
  12. Destroy
  13. Criminal Punishment
  14. Broken Neck
  15. El diablo negro
  16. Bombs of Death

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