Beast In Black and Gloryhammer bring their power-metal double act to Mercury Ballroom

The newly announced 2027 North American headline run stops at Louisville's 900-capacity Mercury Ballroom on Saturday, March 13.

Last week's tour announcement came with a Louisville date for anyone who likes their metal with keyboards, falsetto and very big choruses.

Beast In Black play Mercury Ballroom on Saturday, March 13, 2027, at 8 p.m., with Gloryhammer in support. Tickets are sold through Ticketmaster. The room holds 900.

The date is part of a February-March 2027 North American headline tour that Blabbermouth reported on Oct. 27. Per that report, presales started Oct. 29 and the general on-sale opened Oct. 30 at 10 a.m. local time, so tickets are on sale now. The run opens in February with dates including Charlotte's The Underground on Feb. 11 and Atlanta's The Masquerade on Feb. 12, which puts Louisville toward the back half of the tour.

This tour follows a busy 2026 for the band. Earlier this year Beast In Black toured North America as support on Helloween's 40th-anniversary run, a tour that bandleader Anton Kabanen sat out, according to Blabbermouth. Coming back to headline their own rooms a few months later says something about the audience they have built.

Keyboards, falsetto and very big choruses.

The pairing isn't new. Beast In Black and Gloryhammer have already shared a stage on the "Glory and the Beast" double-headline tour, announced by Nuclear Blast in 2024. Bringing the two back together for North America keeps one of power metal's more crowd-pleasing double bills intact. For Louisville, it means two bands whose shows run on spectacle and singalongs, back to back on a Saturday.

The room suits it. Mercury Ballroom sits in the Wright-Taylor Building at 611 S. Fourth Street, a building that was vacant for nearly three decades before it reopened as a music venue in 2014. It's a Live Nation room, right next door to its sister venue, the Louisville Palace, and at 900 capacity it is small enough to keep the crowd close to the stage and big enough for the production a band like this travels with. The Ticketmaster venue guide notes there's no traditional lobby, so plan for the line on Fourth Street and dress for March.

Gloryhammer's set alone is reason to show up early. Between the two bands you get a full night of fantasy-themed, keyboard-heavy power metal, which is not something Louisville sees every month. If you have been waiting for a show where everyone in the room knows every word of the chorus and sings it at full volume, this is the one.

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