Negative Approach Concert History

Negative Approach is an American hardcore punk band. They are considered one of the pioneers of hardcore punk, along with bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Black Flag. Formed in Detroit, Michigan, Negative Approach existed from 1981-1984, and now again from 2006-present. Like most hardcore bands, they were little known in their day outside of their hometown. They are now idolized in the Detroit underground and the punk subculture, considered to be one of the elite bands of the “old school” era, and continue to be influential.

Date Concert Venue Location
Jul 16, 2017
Negative Approach / Bloodclot / Bust Off
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DC9 Nightclub Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Jun 24, 2017
Dummerfest 2017
Off With Their Heads / Negative Approach / PEARS / The Copyrights / Toys That Kill / Typesetter / The Brokedowns / The Slow Death / Rational Anthem / 83 Wolfpack / Eradicator / Avenues / Direct Hit!
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Metal Grill Cudahy, Wisconsin, United States
Apr 14, 2017
Eyehategod / Off! / Negative Approach

Berserker Fest IV

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The Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac, Michigan, United States
Mar 21, 2017
Negative Approach / J Mascis stooges cover The way out club St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Feb 12, 2017
Dillinger Four / Negative Approach / Victory

Final Show at the Triple Rock

Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Dec 01, 2016
"America's Hardcore Fest" / Negative Approach / Hardware / Rare Form

America's Hardcore Fest

Hardcore Stadium Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Oct 16, 2016
Eyehategod / Negative Approach reggies rock club Chicago, Illinois, United States
Show Duplicate for Oct 16, 2016
Aug 20, 2016
NEW NOISE FEST 2016
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / H2O / The Flatliners / ROAM / Negative Approach / Mantar / Dead Swans / Broken Teeth / Sport / No Zodiac / The Tidal Sleep / ANCST / Hardside / Deathrite / GWLT / Phantom Winter / Henry Fonda / Will to Die / Cohol / Storm{O} (IT) / WSTR / As It Is / State Champs Show all bands
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Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Aug 12, 2016
Ieper Hardcore Festival
"Ieper Hardcore Festival" / Sick of It All / The Black Dahlia Murder / Tribulation / Stray from the Path / Reproach / Wiegedood / Headshot / Polar / Broken Teeth / Black Heart Rebellion / Alkerdeel / Negative Approach / Eleanora
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Ieper Hardcore Festival Grounds Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 12, 2016 –
Aug 14, 2016
Ieperfest 2016
Sick of It All / Agnostic Front / Terror / Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School of Medicine / Atari Teenage Riot / The Black Dahlia Murder / AHNA / Alkerdeel / Arms Race / Ashes / Bishops Green / Blind Justice / Broken Teeth / Cocaine Piss / Cold hard truth / Cro-Mags / Crude SS / Der Weg Einer Freiheit / Desolated / Dying Fetus / Eleanora / Freeze / Ghost Bath / Ghostlimb / Goatwhore / Graf Orlock / Gruesome / H2O / Headshot / Hemelbestormer / Higher Power / I Killed The Prom Queen / Ironed Out / Iron Reagan / Kingdom / King Dude / Knuckledust / Lifespite / MDC / Negative Approach / No Zodiac / Polar / Pro-Pain / Raw Power / Reagan Youth / Reproach / Rope / Soul Grip / Stab / Stray from the Path / Street Dogs / The Black Heart Rebellion / Sundays / Total Chaos / Toundra / Tribulation / Turbowarrior of Steel / UK Subs / Valient Thorr / Violent Reaction / Violent Stomp / VVOVNDS / Wiegedood / World Eater / xBishopx / xVICIOUSx Show all bands
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Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 08, 2016
FLAG / Negative Approach

FLAG @ Arena Wien

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Arena Wien Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Aug 07, 2016
"Disintegrate Your Ignorance Festival" / Valient Thorr / Negative Approach / Grime / Broken Dolls

Disintegrate Your Ignorance Festival

Disintegrate Your Ignorance Festival Grounds Giavera Del Montello, Italy
Aug 05, 2016
Wacken Open Air Festival
"Wacken Open Air Festival" / Ministry / Pyogenesis / Tarja Turunen / Eluveitie / Entombed A.D. / Legion Of The Damned / Testament / Blind Guardian / Bullet for My Valentine / Red Fang / Axel Rudi Pell / Loudness / The Haunted / Unisonic / Torfrock / Equilibrium / Beyond The Black / Orden Ogan / While She Sleeps / 1349 / Deez Nuts / Girlschool / Negative Approach / Vintage Caravan / Henry Rollins / Fateful Finality / Kampfar / Caliban / Ihsahn / Alcest / Orphaned Land / Ektomorf / Die Krupps / Bury Tomorrow / Red Hot Chilli Pipers / Versengold / John Coffey Show all bands
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RheinRiot Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Aug 04, 2016 –
Aug 06, 2016
Wacken Open Air 2016
Iron Maiden / Whitesnake / Blind Guardian / Twisted Sister / Saxon / Foreigner / Testament / Ministry / Eluveitie / Arch Enemy / Triptykon / Tarja / Therion / Parkway Drive / Bullet for My Valentine / Callejon / Entombed AD / Steel Panther / Metal Church / Dagoba / Clutch / Borknagar / Immolation / Dragonforce / Axel Rudi Pell / Symphony X / Marduk / Therapy? / The Haunted / DevilDriver / Vader / 1349 / Legion Of The Damned / Equilibrium / Eskimo Callboy / Blue Öyster Cult / Orphaned Land / Torfrock / Insidious Disease / Loudness / Beyond The Black / Girlschool / Michael Monroe / Unisonic / Ihsahn / Ektomorf / Alcest / Pyogenesis / Gloryhammer / Hämatom / Die Krupps / Caliban / Orden Ogan / Aura Noir / Red Fang / Drone / Bury Tomorrow / Negative Approach / Kampfar / Einherjer / Dio Disciples / The Vintage Caravan / Steak Number Eigth / Cripper / Bliksem / DEEZNUTS / Buffalo Summer / Monuments / Knasterbart / Serious Black / Barb Wire Dolls / Budderside / Dritte Wahl / Skyline / The Raven Age / Honky / Jesus Chrysler Supercar / Henry Rollins / Forgotten North / W:O:A Firefighters / While She Sleeps / Fateful Finality / Phil Campbell's All Starr Band / Snowy Shaw / Asrock / Mambo Kurt / Bembers / The O'Reillys & the Paddyhats / watch out stampede / Sebastien / Myrkur / Sector / Year of the Goat / Bon Scott / Bodh'aktan / Goddamn Gallows / John Coffey / tuXedoo / Vogelfrey / Eat the Turnbuckle / King Dude / Blaas of Glory / Blechblos’n / Monstagon / Reliquiae / Pampatut / Feuerschwanz Show all bands
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Wacken Open Air Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Show Duplicates for Aug 04, 2016
May 28, 2016
"Maryland Deathfest" / Discharge / Despise You / ______ / Severed Head Of State / Negative Approach

Maryland Deathfest

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Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, Maryland, United States
May 26, 2016 –
May 29, 2016
Maryland Deathfest 2016
Testament / Paradise Lost / Earth / Venom / DOOM / Discharge / Nuclear Assault / Weedeater / Bongzilla / Bongripper / Negative Approach / Tragedy / Novembers Doom / Incantation / Rotten Sound / Ringworm / Magrudergrind / Deströyer 666 / Jungle Rot / Impaled Nazarene / Exciter / Repulsion / Sinister / Tulus / Craft / Hirax / Infest / Hail of Bullets / Buzzov•en / Satan / Severe Torture / Lord Belial / Secrets of the Moon / Dragged Into Sunlight / Disgorge / Dopethrone / Putrid Pile / Excel / Wormed / Desaster / General Surgery / Haemorrhage / Khold / Test / Thulcandra / Visceral Disgorge / Demonical / Horrendous / Centinex / Deranged / Grave Miasma / Mitochondrion / Mystifier / Saturnalia Temple / Svarttjern / Gruesome / Yacøpsæ / Infernal Revulsion / Dehumanized / Svartidaudi / Malignant Tumour / Severed Head Of State / Hemdale / Waco Jesus / The Afternoon Gentlemen / Sick Fix / World Burns To Death / Crypt Sermon / Denouncement Pyre / Nocturnal Graves / Auroch / Hellbringer / Demonic Christ / Gets Worse / Sanitys Dawn / Six Brew Bantha / Wombbath / Claudio Simonettis Goblin / Priapus / Phobocosm / Skullshitter / Dead Church / Whoresnation / Putrescence / Sick Of Stupidity / Internment / Samael Show all bands
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Unknown venue Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Apr 22, 2016
Eyehategod / Negative Approach / Fight Amp / King Giant / Genocide Pact / Snakehed Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Apr 07, 2016
Negative Approach / Agent Orange North Side Yacht Club Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Mar 06, 2016
Neurosis / Converge / Negative Approach
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The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, California, United States
Jan 30, 2016
Negative Approach / The Craig Brown Band
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Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit, Michigan, United States
Nov 28, 2015
Negative Approach / Night Birds / Casanovas In Heat / Conmen The Middle East - Upstairs Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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 Garden Grove, California, United States
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 Portland, Oregon, United States
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 Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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 Buffalo, New York, United States
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