Alcest announce UK & EU tour for 2027
Following their stunning recent performance at Arctangent 2026, French atmospheric metal legends Alcest have announced an extensive European tour for March and April 2027. The tour kicks off on the 12th March in Annecy, France and runs through to 10th April in Porto, Portugal making stops in the UK, Benelux, Eastern Europe, Austria and Germany.
Special guests for this tour will be ecstatic black metal band Agriculture from Los Angeles. You can find all confirmed dates below.
Alcest - Europe 2027 Tour
w/ special guests: Agriculture
12/03 - Annecy (FR) - Le Brise Glace
13/03 - Aix-en-Provence (FR) - Headbang Festival
14/03 - Orléans (FR) - L’Astrolabe
16/03 - Southampton (UK) - The Brook
17/03 - Bristol (UK) - Electric Bristol
18/03 - Birmingham (UK) - O2 Institute
19/03 - Tourcoing (FR) - Le Grand Mix
20/03 - Esch-sur-Alzette (LU) - Kulturfabrik
21/03 - Tilburg (NL) - O13
23/03 - Kraków (PL) - Kwadrat
24/03 - Wroclaw (PL) - Zaklete Rewiry
25/03 - Brno (CZ) - Fleda
26/03 - Kosice (SK) - Colosseum
27/03 - Salzbourg (AT) - Rockhouse
28/03 - Nuremberg (DE) - Hirsch
30/03 - Hannover (DE) - Capitol
31/03 - Leipzig (DE) - Felsenkeller
02/04 - Groningen (NL) - Oosterpoort
01/04 - Wiesbaden (DE) - Schlachthof
03/04 - Köln (DE) - Tapdeck Music Fest
04/04 - Antwerp (BE) - Samhain Festival
09/04 - Lisbon (PT) - Lisboa ao Vivo *
10/04 - Porto (PT) - Casa da Musica *
* w/o Agriculture
Tour tickets can be purchased HERE.
Released to widespread critical acclaim, Alcest's most recent album “Les Chants de L'Aurore” further expanded Alcest's singular artistic vision, seamlessly blending shimmering shoegaze textures, post-rock atmospherics, and black metal intensity into one of the band's most evocative and immersive works to date. A journey through both radiant beauty and profound melancholy, the album drifts between cathartic, dreamlike passages and moments of soaring emotional weight, as showcased on standout tracks such as L'Envol, Améthyste, and Flamme Jumelle. The record marks another high point in Alcest's celebrated catalog, reaffirming the band's status as one of the most innovative and influential forces in modern heavy music.
You can stream or purchase “Les Chants de L'Aurore" HERE.
For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, Alcest has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, Alcest seem to dip their toes in a multitude of musical genres without ever quite fitting in. “In the metal scene ALCEST is a weird band, in the indie/post-rock scene ALCEST is a weird band- we never quite fit in,” Neige reflects. “This is how I feel in life, always an outsider; It’s not a problem, it’s just the way it is.”
