Suffocation Concert History

Suffocation is an American brutal technical death metal band originating from Centereach, New York. The band formed in 1988 and approached this genre in their own style, revolving around heavy, uniquely rhythmic riffs and even deeper growling vocals and breakdowns to create a sub-genre of the form often termed "brutal" death metal - also known by many as "New York Death Metal," or "NYDM" for short. Other New York death metal bands that soon after followed in the footsteps of Suffocation's style include Immolation...

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Suffocation Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2025)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 17, 2025
Upcoming
Motocultor Festival
AngelMaker / Between The Buried And Me / Blind Guardian / Ensiferum / Exhorder / Fear Factory / Gost / Green Lung / Hangman's Chair / King Buffalo / LANDMVRKS / Machine Head / Monolord / Party Cannon / Suffocation / Thrown
Motocultor Festival Grounds St. Nolff, France
Aug 15, 2025
Upcoming
Motocultor Festival
Benighted / Carpenter Brut / Dimmu Borgir / Eivør Pálsdóttir / Enthroned / Finntroll / Fleshgod Apocalypse / forbidden / Ihsahn / Imperial Triumphant / Kerry King / Lacuna Coil / Rectal Smegma / Solstafir / Suffocation / To The Grave / Tribulation / Wayfarer Show all bands
Motocultor Festival Grounds St. Nolff, France
Aug 09, 2025
Upcoming
Alcatraz Metal Festival
Extreme / Avatar / Obituary / Wolfmother / Nailbomb / Doro / Leprous / Helmet / Candlemass / Evergrey / The Black Dahlia Murder / VOLA / Vader / Fit for a King / Suffocation / Nasty Savage / Caliban / Ne Obliviscaris / Myrath / Whiplash (NJ) / Between The Buried And Me / Wytch Hazel / The Night Eternal / Rivers of Nihil / Mammoth Grinder / Magic Kingdom / BAEST / Psycroptic / Crypt Sermon / Tenside / Holy Mother / Knife / Vulture / Primal Creation / Signs Of Algorithm Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 08, 2025 –
Aug 11, 2025
Upcoming
Alcatraz Open Air 2025
3 Inches Of Blood / Abbath Doom Occulta / Absu / Alkerdeel / Avatar / Avulsed / BAEST / Bark / Between The Buried And Me / Blaze Bayley / Borknagar / Briqueville / Caliban / Candlemass / Clowns (AUS) / Cobracide / Coffin feeder / Congress / Conjurer (UK) / Crypt Sermon / Crystal Lake / Cult of Luna / Cult Of Scarecrow / Dark Angel / Disneyland After Dark (D.A.D.) / Devestation / Dimmu Borgir / Dool / Dope / Doro / Dvne / Dying Fetus / Earthless / Emperor / Evergrey / Evil Invaders / Exhorder / Extreme / Fear Factory / Fit for a King / Flotsam and Jetsam / forbidden / Frayle / Frog Leap / Fu Manchu / Gaerea / Gutalax / Helmet / Heriot / Holy Mother / Hypocrisy / Ill Niño / In Aphelion / Kerry King / King Buffalo / Knife / Kreator / Leprous / Liliac / Machine Head / Magic Kingdom / Majestica / Mammoth Grinder / Mastodon / Me And That Man / Messa / Michael Schenker / Ministry / Myrath / Nailbomb / Nasty Savage / Ne Obliviscaris / Obituary / Overkill / Pestilence / Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons / Pig Destroyer / Primal Scream / Promise Down / Psycroptic / Prong / Rivers of Nihil / Rotting Christ / Signs Of Algorithm / Slaughter Messiah / Slomosa / Snot / Splendidula / Static-X / Suffocation / Tenside / Terrifier / The Belgian Quo Band / The Black Dahlia Murder / The Hellacopters / The Night Eternal / Thrown / Suffocation / Thy Catafalque / Tsjuder / Vader / Violent Sin / VOLA / Vulture / W.A.S.P. / Warbringer / Wednesday 13 / Whatever It Takes / Whiplash / Wind Rose / Winterfylleth / Wolfmother / Wytch Hazel / Year of No Light Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 07, 2025 –
Aug 10, 2025
Upcoming
Alcatraz Open Air 2025
Overkill / Evil Invaders / Warbringer / Exhorder / Kreator / Mastodon / Abbath performs Immortal / W.A.S.P. / Dark Angel / Dying Fetus / Absu / Thy Catafalque / Winterfylleth / Dool / In Aphelion / Dvne / Messa / Extreme / Obituary / Candlemass / Vader / Suffocation / Ne Obliviscaris / Between The Buried And Me / Wytch Hazel / The Night Eternal / Rivers of Nihil / BAEST / Psycroptic / Machine Head / Dimmu Borgir / Emperor / Kerry King / Cult of Luna / Rotting Christ / forbidden / Flotsam and Jetsam / Borknagar / Pig Destroyer / Tsjuder / Gaerea / Pestilence Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 06, 2025 –
Aug 09, 2025
Upcoming
Brutal Assault 2025
3 Inches Of Blood / Absu / Agnostic Front / Aluk Todolo / AngelMaker / Arthur Brown / Asphyx / Attila / August Burns Red / Avulsed / Benighted / Between The Buried And Me / BLOOD FIRE DEATH: A TRIBUTE TO QUORTHON AND THE MUSIC OF BATHORY / Blood Red Throne / Bohren & Der Club of Gore / Brujeria / Car Bomb / Carnivore AD / Counterparts / Crypt Sermon / Crystal Lake / Cult of Luna / Dark Angel / Dark Funeral / Defeated Sanity / Dimmu Borgir / Dope / Drowning Pool / Dying Fetus / Envy / Fear Factory / Fit for a King / Fleshgod Apocalypse / Frayle / Fulci / Furia / Gadget / Gaerea / Gojira / Gost / Graphic Nature / grave / Green Lung / Gutalax / GUTSLIT / Hällas / HANABIE. / Harakiri for the sky / Hellbutcher / Hellripper / Heriot / Hideous Divinity / High Parasite / Ill Niño / Inter Arma / Karnivool / Kataklysm / Kerry King / Klidas / Kublai Khan TX / LANDMVRKS / Macabre / Malevolent Creation / Malignancy / Mammoth Grinder / Mantar / Mastodon / Mayhem / Ministry / Mnemic / Monolord / Ne Obliviscaris / Nile / Obituary / Obscure Sphinx / Opeth / Orange Goblin / Oranssi Pazuzu / Overkill / Paradise Lost / Patriarchy / Pelican / Pig Destroyer / Priest / Prong / Protector / Psycroptic / Pyrexia / Pyrrhon / Replicant / Rezn / Rivers of Nihil / Rotting Christ / Ruïm / Ryker's / Skálmöld / Static-X / Suffocation / The Browning / The Halo Effect / The Kovenant / Thrown / To The Grave / Tsjuder / Unleashed / Warbringer / Wayfarer / White Ward / Within Destruction / Zemial Show all bands
Fortress Josefov Jaroměř, Czech Republic
Aug 01, 2025 –
Aug 03, 2025
Upcoming
Sylak Open Air 2025
Dimmu Borgir / Suffocation / Orange Goblin / Mass Hysteria / The Brains / Imperial Triumphant / Arkangel / Severe Torture / I Am Morbid
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Stade Regis Perrin SAINT MAURICE DE GOURDANS, France
Jul 26, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black Riverside Municipal Auditorium Riverside, California, United States
Jul 22, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black Summit Denver, Colorado, United States
Jul 20, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Bodybox Wooly's Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Jul 18, 2025 –
Jul 20, 2025
Upcoming
Inkcarceration Festival 2025
Slipknot / Three Days Grace / Marilyn Manson / Five Finger Death Punch / Falling In Reverse / Killswitch Engage / Lamb Of God / I Prevail / We Came As Romans / Parkway Drive / In This Moment / Architects / August Burns Red / Beartooth / The Amity Affliction / Crossfade / Emmure / The Plot In You / Knocked Loose / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Slaughter To Prevail / Kublai Khan TX / Dayseeker / Suffocation / Of Virtue / Drain / Spite / Acid Bath / Kublai Khan (MN) Show all bands
Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Jul 17, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac, Michigan, United States
Jul 15, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black Mercury Ballroom Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Jul 12, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Jul 11, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black

Hell Chose Me 15th Anniversary Tour

The Webster Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Jul 10, 2025
Upcoming
Monochromatic Black / Bodybox / Distant / Suffocation / Carnifex Brooklyn Monarch New York, New York, United States
Jul 09, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black

Hell Chose Me 15 Year Anniversary Tour

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Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Jul 08, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black / Distant The Canal Club Richmond, Virginia, United States
Jul 06, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Devourment / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black The Underground, The Fillmore Charlotte, AvidXchange Music Factory Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Jul 05, 2025
Upcoming
Carnifex / Suffocation / Devourment / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black Brooklyn Bowl Nashville Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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I Am Morbid / Fulci / Suffocation / Uada / Mortiferum / Knoll
Dec 10, 2024
 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Suffocation / AngelMaker / Fuming Mouth / Carcosa / Mélancolia on Mar 6, 2025 [690-small]

Suffocation / AngelMaker / Fuming Mouth / Carcosa / Mélancolia
Mar 6, 2025
 Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
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Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black on Jul 9, 2025 [035-small]

Carnifex / Suffocation / Distant / Bodybox / Monochromatic Black
Jul 9, 2025
 Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Sylak Open Air 2025 on Aug 1, 2025 [468-small]

Sylak Open Air 2025
Aug 1 - 3, 2025
 SAINT MAURICE DE GOURDANS, France
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Suffocation / AngelMaker / Fuming Mouth / Carcosa / Mélancolia on Feb 27, 2025 [356-small]

Suffocation / AngelMaker / Fuming Mouth / Carcosa / Mélancolia
Feb 27, 2025
 Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Suffocation / Merauder / Morpheus Descends / Final Resting Place / Bowel Erosion on Feb 22, 2025 [736-small]

Suffocation / Merauder / Morpheus Descends / Final Resting Place / Bowel Erosion
Feb 22, 2025
 Amityville, New York, United States
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Suffocation / AngelMaker / Fuming Mouth / Carcosa / Melancolia on Mar 22, 2025 [118-small]

Suffocation / AngelMaker / Fuming Mouth / Carcosa / Melancolia
Mar 22, 2025
 Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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Suffocation / CALL OF CHARON / Diaroe / Butchers Burial on May 1, 2023 [643-small]

Suffocation / CALL OF CHARON / Diaroe / Butchers Burial
May 1, 2023
 Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Suffocation / Enterprise Earth / Sanguisugabogg / Organectomy on Jan 26, 2024 [570-small]

Suffocation / Enterprise Earth / Sanguisugabogg / Organectomy
Jan 26, 2024
 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Genres:

United States
Metal
Death Metal
Black Metal
Deathcore
Grindcore
Brutal Death Metal
Technical Death Metal
Technical Brutal Death Metal
New York Death Metal
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Latest Setlist (03/03/2025):

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  1. Thrones of Blood
  2. Seraphim Enslavement
  3. Effigy of the Forgotten
  4. Dim Veil of Obscurity
  5. Entrails of You
  6. Hymns From the Apocrypha
  7. Funeral Inception
  8. Clarity Through Deprivation
  9. Pierced From Within
  10. Catatonia
  11. Perpetual Deception
  12. Liege of Inveracity
  13. Infecting the Crypts

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Concerts Per Year:

2025 52 concerts
2024 106 concerts
2023 76 concerts
2022 65 concerts
2021 3 concerts
2020 40 concerts
2019 69 concerts
2018 89 concerts
2017 115 concerts
2016 59 concerts
2015 48 concerts
2014 46 concerts
2013 66 concerts
2012 46 concerts
2011 12 concerts
2010 106 concerts
2009 63 concerts
2008 60 concerts
2007 57 concerts
2006 82 concerts
2005 92 concerts
2004 79 concerts
2003 6 concerts
1998 4 concerts
1997 2 concerts
1996 3 concerts
1995 8 concerts
1993 3 concerts
1991 2 concerts
1990 4 concerts
1987 2 concerts

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