Beast In Black and Gloryhammer storm Delmar Hall on Friday, March 12

The Helsinki power-metal band brings its 2027 North American headline run, with Gloryhammer in support, to a 750-capacity room on the Loop.

Power metal does not usually come in small packages, which is what makes a Friday in March at Delmar Hall interesting. Beast In Black plays Delmar Hall on Friday, March 12, 2027, with Gloryhammer in support. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The date was announced on Oct 27.

If you were waiting for the on-sale, you have already missed the first wave. The tour's local presale opened Oct 29, with the general on-sale following on Oct 30. With a room this size and a double bill this strong, there is no reason to sit on it.

Beast In Black is a Helsinki-based band, and this run is a February and March 2027 headline tour across North America. The routing opens in the Southeast, with dates at The Underground in Charlotte on Feb 11 and The Masquerade in Atlanta on Feb 12, before working toward St. Louis in March.

The tour also closes a loop from earlier this year. In 2026, Beast In Black spent time on the road in North America as support for Helloween's 40th-anniversary tour, a run that band leader Anton Kabanen sat out. Coming back as a headliner less than a year later says something about how those shows went for them, and St. Louis gets the full set this time rather than an opening slot.

Gloryhammer is not a throwaway opener, either. The two bands have toured together before: in 2024 they shared a double-headline European run billed as Glory and the Beast, through their label Nuclear Blast. The pairing makes sense on paper and on stage, two acts that lean all the way into the theatrical, sing-along side of the genre. Seeing them back to back in the same room is about as concentrated a dose of it as you will find.

Then there is the room. Delmar Hall holds 750, which is small for a bill like this one. In a bigger hall, a band like Beast In Black would be a distant spectacle; at Delmar, the choruses will be close enough to sing back at. For a genre built on audience participation, the size of the room is a feature.

Our listing tags the night simply as metal, but expect the bright, keyboard-forward end of it rather than the bleak end. Arrive in time for Gloryhammer, since they are a reason to buy the ticket in their own right.

A Friday in March at Delmar with two bands that tour together because they enjoy it: it is hard to ask for much more from a winter metal calendar. Grab the ticket, find a spot near the front and warm up your voice.

Sources: JamBase: Beast In Black at Delmar Hall, Mar 12, 2027 (jambase.com); Ticketmaster: Beast In Black North American Tour, St. Louis, Mar 12, 2027 (ticketmaster.com); Blabbermouth: BEAST IN BLACK Announces February/March 2027 North American Tour With GLORYHAMMER (blabbermouth.net); The Metallist: Helloween Launch 40th Anniversary North American Tour with Beast in Black (themetallist.com); Blabbermouth: BEAST IN BLACK Leader ANTON KABANEN To Sit Out Band's North American Tour With HELLOWEEN (blabbermouth.net); Nuclear Blast: Beast in Black announce Glory and the Beast double headline tour 2024 (nuclearblast.com)