Crank up the spooky spirit with these Halloween concerts in OKC


OKLAHOMA CITY – It’s been rightly said that one of the most difficult things to do as an adult is to find something fun and creative to do on Halloween.

The lynchpin activities of the holiday – treat-or-treating, school dress-up days, and the light vandalism of toilet paper-ing a house – are all a young person’s game, leaving adults with few options beyond getting all costumed-up just to go hang around a friend’s house party.

Well, worry not, because with the Halloween holiday falling this year on a Friday, and with the city’s music scene lately firing on all cylinders, OKC’s local stages are set to scare up a bucket’s worth of concert treats perfect for getting all dressed up and having someplace to go.

Driving rock, oddball electronica, throwback covers, and haunted indie are all descending upon the city, capped off by a massive three-night metal party loud enough to drive the ghosts away for another year.

My So-Called Band – Tower Theatre – October 25th

It’s true that I don’t often feature cover shows here, but let’s be honest, the annual Halloween blowout from OKC’s premiere 90’s alt-rock/pop tribute ensemble has become a pretty major local tradition, if only to see what surprise songs they might bust out and what wild costumes they’ll appear in.

And besides, the Halloween holiday is all about casting off the rules and restrictions of society and pretending to be someone or something else. So I can’t think of a better time to celebrate a cover band.

My So-Called Band live (from Facebook)

Even though Halloween night falls on a Friday this year, MSCB’s big concert and costume contest will actually land nearly a week early this time around on the 25th, which means you can join in on the festivities and still reserve the 31st for one of the other shows listed here.

For more information, visit towertheatreokc.com.

Helen Kelter Skelter w/ Lover Girl – Factory Obscura – October 31st

As ever, the immersive art maestros at Factory Obscura will host another time-honored OKC Halloween tradition, the Procession of Lights, throughout Automobile Alley just as the sun sets on the 31st.

But once that illuminated march wraps up back at their headquarters on 9th Street, a couple of the scene’s hottest, hardest rockers will be ready to explode as fuzzed-out psych-masters Helen Kelter Skelter celebrate the spooky evening alongside heavy stompers Lover Girl.

Cate Jones of Lover Girl at Opolis during Norman Music Festival 2025 (B.FIELDCAMP/Okla City Free Press)

Anyone lucky enough to see Factory Obscura’s Halloween night concert last year (when stepmom debuted their Profitopia show inside the exhibit) will know just how electric and wild the space gets with a costumed crowd and a full-volume freak-out.

For more information, visit factoryobscura.com.

Dissociation presents Modern Slasher, Nogronomicon, & Lilith the Virgin – Bookish – October 31st

Dark electro and experimental purveyors Dissociation have quite a night of audio horrors and sonic strangeness in store for Halloween this year.

The back room at Bookish will be transformed into a doom-filled dance party featuring macabre DJ sets, deathly experimentalism, and perhaps Oklahoma’s very best dark industrial techno from Modern Slasher, all bolstered by vivid visuals via Bird Drugs.

Modern Slasher performing at Bookish (B.FIELDCAMP/Okla City Free Press)

There’s going to be loads of Halloween hard rock and metal all over town, but if you want something weird, electronic, and potentially actually disturbing, this is bound to be the show where you’ll hear it.

And also there’s a costume contest because of course there’s a costume contest.

For more information, visit shop-bookish.com.

Mad Honey, Audio Book Club, & Easier: hosted by JMASTY – Resonant Head – October 31st

If you prefer a little more dreaminess in your night(mare), then the always dreamy Resonant Head has your Halloween concert covered with a haunted handful of gaze-y goodness.

Recent standouts Audio Book Club and Easier will be on hand to tee up the night for the lately darker, fuzzier, and more intense Mad Honey, who brought all that energy to one of the heaviest and most memorable Main Stage sets at this year’s Norman Music Festival.

Mad Honey performing on the Main Stage at Norman Music Festival 2025 (B.FIELDCAMP/Okla City Free Press)

And it’ll all be hosted by the indefatigable JMASTY, who will play master of scare-emonies for the evening, teasing a special appearance by his good friends, psych-jammers World Peace Death Ray.

For more information, visit resonanthead.com.

Hellaweekend XVIII – 89th Street – October 31st through November 2nd  

Of course, you can’t talk about horror-filled, Halloween-style music without mentioning metal, and 89th Street is cranking up the volume and keeping a local holiday tradition alive all weekend long with Hellaweekend XVIII, the latest installment in the season’s loudest showcase for all things brutal and heavy.

The three-day event boasts a huge roster of pulverizing hard rock acts like Nevermind the Embers, Against the Damned, Neanderthal Jones, and Pat Minotaur (which might be the best band name in Oklahoma right now,) all headed up by the metal mammoth that is Locust Grove on Halloween Night proper.

Locust Grove at Norman Music Festival 2025 (B.FIELDCAMP/Okla City Free Press)

In addition to the bigger names on the bill, this is a great chance to see a slew of younger and smaller heavy acts at the outset of their metal quest.

Plus, it’s a great excuse to keep wearing your costume even two days after Halloween.

For more information, visit 89thstreetokc.com.


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Brett Fieldcamp is our Arts and Entertainment Editor. He has been covering arts, entertainment, news, housing, and culture in Oklahoma for 15+ years, writing for several local and state publications. He’s also a musician and songwriter and holds a certification as Specialist of Spirits from The Society of Wine Educators.