{"id":1760032,"date":"2026-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1760032"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:00:00","slug":"loudness-announce-massive-spring-summer-2026-world-tour-for-45th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1760032","title":{"rendered":"LOUDNESS Announce Massive Spring &amp; Summer 2026 World Tour For 45th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/loudness-2022.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n<div id=\"1844\"><\/div>\n<p>After kicking off their 45<sup>th<\/sup>-anniversary celebrations late last year, Japanese metal legends <strong>Loudness<\/strong> have officially announced a busy run of spring and summer 2026 shows spanning the United States, Japan and Europe. The tour kicks off on March 19 at Hell&#8217;s Heroes 2026 in Houston, TX and wraps up on July 6 at Time To Rock in Knislinge, SE. Get your tickets here.<\/p>\n<p>The newly revealed dates continue a milestone year for the band, who formed in 1981 and helped bring Japanese heavy metal to the global stage. Few bands can claim the same international impact. With genre-defining albums like <em>Thunder in the East <\/em>and <em>Lightning Strikes<\/em>, <strong>Loudness<\/strong> carved out a unique space in metal history, becoming one of the first Japanese acts to break through on a global level.<\/p>\n<p>More than four decades later, they remain a formidable live force, with guitarist <strong>Akira Takasaki<\/strong> still at the center of the band&#8217;s blistering, high-octane sound.<\/p>\n<p>3\/19-21 Houston, TX Hell&#8217;s Heroes 2026<br \/>3\/22 San Antonio, TX The Rock Box<br \/>3\/24 West Hollywood, CA Whisky A Go Go<br \/>3\/25 San Juan Capistrano, CA Coach House<br \/>4\/12-17 Miami, FL Monsters Of Rock Cruise Rock The Nations<br \/>5\/6 Fukuoka, JP Zepp Fukuoka<br \/>5\/8 Osaka, JP Zepp Namba<br \/>5\/10 Ishikawa, JP Kanazawa Eight Hall<br \/>5\/12 Aichi, JP Zepp Nagoya<br \/>5\/15 Hokkaido, JP Zepp Sapporo<br \/>5\/17 Miyagi, JP Sendai Gigs<br \/>5\/29 Tokyo, JP Zepp Divercity Tokyo<br \/>7\/3-5 Barcelona, ES Barcelona Rock Fest<br \/>7\/3-6 Knislinge, SE Time To Rock\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\"><strong>Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-newsletter-form\">\n<fieldset>\n<p><button id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\">Subscribe<\/button><\/p>\n<\/fieldset>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/tour-dates\/loudness-announce-massive-spring-summer-2026-world-tour-for-45th-anniversary&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/loudness-2022.jpg&#8221;] After kicking off their 45th-anniversary celebrations late last year, Japanese metal legends Loudness have officially announced a busy run of spring and summer 2026 shows spanning the United States, Japan and Europe. The tour kicks off on March 19 at Hell&#8217;s Heroes 2026 in Houston, TX and wraps up on July 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,55],"class_list":["post-1760032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-metalinjection-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}