German power metal legends HELLOWEEN are launching the North American leg of their 40 Years Anniversary Tour tonight, April 7, in Dallas, TX at The Bomb Factory. The 16-date run — with Finnish metallers BEAST IN BLACK providing direct support — concludes May 2 in Las Vegas at the House of Blues.
This leg is the first explicitly framed as a full anniversary celebration in North America, and the first backed by material from Giants & Monsters — the August 2025 studio record widely regarded as the strongest work of HELLOWEEN's reunion era. The album features the full seven-piece "Pumpkins United" lineup: founding member Kai Hansen, classic-era vocalist Michael Kiske, and longtime vocalist Andi Deris, alongside guitarists Michael Weikath and Sascha Gerstner, bassist Markus Grosskopf, and drummer Dani Löble.
The reunion, born from the 2017 "Pumpkins United" initiative, has grown beyond all expectations. Shows that initially drew 4,000–7,000 fans eventually expanded to filling arenas of 14,000+. Deris recently credited Van Halen's disastrous 2015 dual-frontman reunion as a cautionary tale that gave HELLOWEEN "the focus not to fuck it up."
Fans spanning four decades of HELLOWEEN's catalog should expect an extensive setlist pulling from every era of the band's storied history.