Festival appearances confirmed for the tour include some of the most respected gatherings in the global metal community, including: Keep It True, Hyperspace Metal Fest, and Hell’s Heroes. A full list of dates is below.
SANCTUARY Live: 4/18 – Vancouver, Canada @ The Rickshaw/Hyperspace Metal Festival 4/22 – Athens, GR @ Piraeus Club Academy 4/24 – Geiselwind, DE @ Tauberfrankenhalle/Keep It True 4/25 – Drachten, NL @ Iduna 4/26 – Hamburg, DE @ Logo 4/28 – London, UK @ The Underworld 4/29 – Kortrijk, BE @ Dvg Club 5/01 – Zoetermeer, NLS @ Boerderij 5/02 – Andernach Rheinland-Pfalz, DE @ Juz Live Club/Andernach Metal Days 8/16 – Washington, USA @ Substation/Soldiers Of Steel 8/22 – Mexico City @ TBD 8/23 – Mexico City @ TBD 8/25 – Lima, Peru @ TBD 8/27 – Chile @ Concepcion 8/28 – Santiago, Chile 8/29 – Buenos Aires, Argentina 8/30 – São Paulo, Brazil 9/18 – Wisconsin, USA @ Crucible – Blades Of Steel
Vancouver – April 16-17 (The Cobalt), April 18 (Rickshaw Theatre)
Vancouver, B.C.’s leading melodic and power metal festival, HYPERSPACE METAL FEST, is gearing up for its 7th edition after another year packed with unforgettable, high‑energy performances.
Taking place at The Cobalt on April 16 and 17, and at the Rickshaw Theatre on April 18, the festival has unveiled its full lineup of 2026 performers, which includes: SANCTUARY, EDGE OF PARADISE, ATAVISTIA, VOIDCHASER, OWLBEAR, ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE, and more.
“The full lineup for Hyperspace Metal Festival VII is here! Sanctuary will be performing a Canadian exclusive performance of Into The Mirror Black in its entirety! Atavistia will be headlining night 1, which will have a heavy emphasis on melodic death metal. Night two headliner Edge of Paradise will cap off a night of epic symphonic and melodic power metal! After this year, the festival will be going on indefinite hiatus, so if you’ve been wanting to make it to Hyperspace, this could be your last chance. Let’s rage together at the Rickshaw and the Cobalt one last time!” adds festival organizer Joey Hockin of Journeyman Productions.
Day One– April 16 Atavistia Inpathos Hyperstrike Ravensun Kayas
Day Two – April 17 Edge of Paradise The Scepter Lycanthro Ophelia Falling Valley of Despair
Day Three – April 18 Sanctuary – (Performing Into The Mirror Black in its entirety) Owlbear – Canadian Debut Artificial Language – (Canadian Debut) Voidchaser Witchkiller
This year’s HMF headliner, Sanctuary, will make their exclusive Canadian appearance unforgettable by performing their acclaimed 1990 album Into the Mirror Black in full.
Formed in Seattle in 1985, Sanctuary quickly became a major force in the city’s metal scene, driven by the soaring vocals of the late Warrel Dane. Their debut, Refuge Denied (1988), produced by Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), put them on the global metal map, followed by the darker and more refined Into the Mirror Black in 1990. The rise of grunge paused the band’s momentum, leading members to form Nevermore, but Sanctuary reunited in 2011 and returned to major festival stages worldwide.
They released The Year the Sun Died in 2014 and the archival collection Inception in 2017. After Dane’s passing later that year, the band continued with Joseph Michael on vocals, earning strong support from fans. Today’s lineup features Michael, original members Lenny Rutledge and Dave Budbill, plus bassist George Hernandez, with a second guitarist joining them live.
Sanctuary will perform special sets of Refuge Denied and Into the Mirror Black at select 2026 festivals and is currently working on a new album, Transmutation. The band is ready to bring fresh music and a powerful new show back to Europe and beyond. See you on the road!
It is with great pleasure that we can finally announce that Sanctuary are officially continuing on. This small string of US dates will serve as the starting point of many more things to come. To celebrate the deep history of the band and the connection the fans have with us, we will perform Refuge Denied in its entirety, along with other popular songs. Along for this journey, Ghost Ship Octavius will be joining us. 2019 will be an exciting year.
Take a look for yourself above, at the TOP 3 Albums on this week’s Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart! WHOA! Metal be thy name! ALL METAL. Great METAL at that. The above chart is for the week ending November 1st, 2014.
With Revocation, Sanctuary and Rings Of Saturn taking over the top 3 spots, respectively and The Melvins at #5, the METAL message is clear: METAL WILL NEVER SURRENDER!! HAIL METAL!!
How Billboard defines their Heatseekers Albums Chart:
The week’s top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared on the top 100 of the Billboard 200 or the top 10 of R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Country Albums, Latin Albums, Christian Albums or Gospel Albums. Titles are ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
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