Summer of Loud Tour: Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, I Prevail & Beartooth at Xfinity Center

Summer of Loud Tour

A new Heavy Metal festival is touring across the nation this summer that’s perfect for the headbangers across America. 

‘Summer of Loud Tour’ is the new heavy metal and hardcore music festival everyone’s talking about, and for a good reason too. The festival will be coming to Mansfield, MA on July 22nd at Xfinity Center to rock your socks off.

The tour will be debuted by four metal and hardcore giants of our time. The lineup is one of a kind and sets the standard for the festival and its goals. The co-headlining bands are Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, I Prevail and Beartooth. That’s right. Three of America’s legendary heavy bands and Australia’s top mosh pit starters will be playing under one roof to just blow it right off. The show will be supported by some of today’s best and emerging heroes such as Devil Wears Prada, Amity Affliction, Kingdom of Giants, Dark Divine and Alpha Wolf.

Headliners

Parkway Drive

Parkway Drive is a Metalcore band from Australia, formed in 2003. Since their formation over 20 years ago, the band has gone from just a basement hobby to a global phenomenon with fans across Australia, North America, the United Kingdom and many parts of Europe to name a few. Parkway Drive have released seven studio albums with hits such as ‘Prey,’ ‘Carrion,’ and ‘Darker Still.’ The band’s top hits continue to reach towards 100 Million plays worldwide. 

Killswitch Engage

Metalcore band Killswitch Engage is an American band formed in 2000. The band has released nine studio albums during their 25-year-long career with many awards and certificates collected along the way. Killswitch Engage’s energetic and heavy performance is what they are known for, and that has not gone unnoticed either. They won Grammy Awards back in 2005 and 2014 for “Best Metal Performance” to further prove the band’s commitment to their craft. Killswitch Engage’s most notable songs are ‘My Curse,’ and gold certificate hits ‘End of Heartache,’ and ‘As Daylight Dies.’ The band has a global reach that extends to the United Kingdom, Australia and beyond.

I Prevail

I Prevail is a Metalcore band from America, formed in 2013. They released their debut EP in 2014 called ‘Heart vs. Mind’ when they also released the metal cover of Taylor Swift's ‘Blank Space,’ which gave them an early on popularity. I Prevail have released four studio albums so far, and released popular singles such as ‘Gasoline,’ ‘Breaking Down.’ ‘Hurricane,’ and Grammy Awards nominee hit ‘Bow Down.’ True fans of the band would consider I Prevail’s third studio album ‘Trauma’ released in 2019, to be a monumental work from the band. The album was also nominated for Grammy Awards’ Best Rock Album of the Year. Although from the States, the Metalcore band has 5 Million global monthly listeners from Australia, Europe and many more. 

Beartooth

Formed in 2012, Beartooth is an American Metalcore band that blends the best parts of Rock and Metal into a new age infused Hardcore and Heavy Metal music. Founded by vocalist Caleb Shomo, the band initially was a one-man band with Shomo performing all the instruments in the studio. Luckily, he soon was joined by a four-piece band to form the Beartooth we know today. In just a decade the band got signed by Red Bull Music, released six studio albums and even reached for the Best Rock/Metal Album of the Year award in 2021. Beartooth’s top hits include ‘The Past is Dead,’ ‘Fed Up,’ and ‘In Between,’ with 2 Million monthly listeners worldwide.

Supporting Acts

Devil Wears Prada, Amity Affliction, Kingdom of Giants, Dark Divine and Alpha Wolf.