Beast In Black and Gloryhammer bring the power-metal pageantry to the Rave on March 9

The Finnish band's 2027 North American headlining run stops at the Eagles Ballroom on a Tuesday night, with Gloryhammer in tow — and tickets are on sale now.

Milwaukee's power-metal faithful, start stretching your vocal cords. Beast In Black is coming back to North America as a headliner next year, and they're bringing Gloryhammer with them.

Beast In Black plays The Rave/Eagles Ballroom on Tuesday, March 9, 2027, at 8 p.m., with Gloryhammer. The date was announced Oct. 27, and tickets are available now through eTix. The Eagles Ballroom holds 3,500, which makes this one of the bigger metal nights on the Rave's early 2027 calendar.

The Milwaukee stop is part of a February–March headlining tour of North America that Blabbermouth reported last week, opening with dates including Charlotte's The Underground on Feb. 11 and Atlanta's The Masquerade on Feb. 12. Presales ran Oct. 29 and the general on-sale followed Oct. 30, so if you were waiting for tickets to drop, they already have.

For the uninitiated: Beast In Black is a Finnish band that plays heavy metal with the neon turned all the way up — big synths, soaring vocals, choruses engineered for thousands of people to shout back. Nuclear Blast, their label, has kept them on a steady touring cycle, including a European run announced for 2026, and the band's recent videos, like "To The Last Drop Of Blood," lean into the same maximalist style.

This year, North American fans saw them in a supporting role. Beast In Black opened for Helloween on that band's 40th anniversary North American tour in 2026 — a run that came with an asterisk, as Blabbermouth reported that band leader Anton Kabanen would sit that tour out. The 2027 dates put them back at the top of the bill on their own terms.

The pairing with Gloryhammer isn't new, either. The two bands have shared bills before under the banner "Glory and the Beast," a double-headline tour Nuclear Blast announced in 2024. Gloryhammer's sci-fi fantasy shtick and costumed theatrics make them an ideal match: if Beast In Black is the arena-sized singalong, Gloryhammer is the tabletop campaign come to life. Together, it's a night designed for people who think metal should be a lot of fun.

And the Eagles Ballroom is the right place for it. The historic room has the scale for a full production and the kind of high ceiling that makes those big choruses sound bigger. On a Tuesday in March, it's also a refreshingly easy night to get to.

Some practical notes. An 8 p.m. start on a weeknight means planning ahead if you're coming from work or out of town. With two theatrical bands on the bill, arriving in time for Gloryhammer is strongly recommended. And yes, people do dress up for these shows — you won't be the only one in a cape.

Mark the calendar. March is a long way off, but this is the sort of night power-metal fans plan around.

Sources: JamBase: Beast In Black at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom (jambase.com); eTix: Beast In Black North American Tour 2027, Milwaukee (etix.prf.hn); Blabbermouth: Beast In Black announces February/March 2027 North American tour with Gloryhammer (blabbermouth.net); Nuclear Blast: Beast In Black news (nuclearblast.com); Tuonela Magazine: Beast In Black release music video for "To The Last Drop Of Blood" (tuonelamagazine.com); The Metallist: Helloween launch 40th anniversary North American tour with Beast in Black (themetallist.com); Blabbermouth: Anton Kabanen to sit out North American tour with Helloween (blabbermouth.net); Nuclear Blast: Glory and the Beast double headline tour 2024 (nuclearblast.com)