Metal Up Your Tap

06/07/2026

A Metal Up Your Tap production…

06/04/2026

New Castle - Metal Band video! See them live in Des Moines on Thursday, September 17th at Locals Bar & Stage. 21+/$15 cover/7:00 music. Support from Quade and Bat Problem!

Castle return with a new track (and official video) for "Carry Chains," the title track from their impending album dropping September 4 via Hammerheart Records.

05/29/2026

Metal Up Your Tap PROUDLY presents …

Thursday, September 17th
Locals Bar & Stage
Des Moines, Iowa
21+/$15 Cover/6:00 Doors/ 7:00 Show

CASTLE (San Francisco doom)
QUADE (Des Moines hardcore)
BAT PROBLEM (Des Moines rock ‘n’ roll)

Join us.

05/11/2026

Heavy Duty Show Announcement Coming May 28th …

04/10/2026

June 24th, 2011: The very first Metal Up Your Tap Des Moines. Headlined by local institution BLACK MARKET FETUS.

Black Market Fetus perform at Metal Up Your Tap in Des Moines, Iowa.

04/10/2026

We were lucky enough to book the mighty BIBLE OF THE DEVIL numerous times in both Chicago and Des Moines (and even the Glenwood Arts Fest for you diehards!), and they never, ever disappointed. This footage is from 2010 at the Red Line Tap (RIP) in Chicago …

Bible Of The Devil performs "Hijack The Night" at Metal Up Your Tap on January 30th, 2010.

03/29/2026

Show announcement coming soon! Stretch those necks, Des Moines!

03/10/2026

Our friends at Black Heart Booking deliver the goods next week with HAUNT and INTRANCED in both Des Moines and Iowa City. Feel it!

09/02/2025

One, two, three, four, five!!

Superchrist performs "Hurry Up And Bleed" at Metal Up Your Tap on March 28, 2009.

08/20/2025

Kommandant, Yakuza, Deadnight, and Dark Psychosis … if memory serves, this was the very first sold out MUYT. Flyer design by Mark Sugar.

designed by Mark Sugar