AC/DC Close the Power Up Tour With Dave Grohl at MetLife: Was It the Last Show?

AC/DC saved the biggest bang for last. After a nor’easter blew out their original September 25 date, the band closed the Power Up Tour on Friday, October 2, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Dave Grohl walked out to sing “Highway to Hell” with them. If you were in the parking lot by noon, you earned it.

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Why the last show moved to October 2

MetLife called off the September 25 show the same day because of severe wind warnings across New York and New Jersey, and moved it to October 2. Tickets carried over. The rain check created a second problem: The Pretty Reckless, the tour’s regular openers, were already booked for Aftershock in Sacramento on October 1. So Foo Fighters stepped in, just as they had for the St. Louis stop on September 8. Not a bad backup plan.

Dave Grohl, “Highway to Hell” and an 11-year-old’s dream

Grohl told the crowd that seeing AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock concert film at 11 is what sent him down the rock ‘n’ roll road. Decades later he got to sing “Highway to Hell” with the band that started it all. Angus Young then stretched “Let There Be Rock” into one of his trademark marathon solos, and Brian Johnson, days away from his 79th birthday, closed the night by thanking the fans and telling them he hoped to see them again.

The full MetLife setlist

1. If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)
2. Back in Black
3. Demon Fire
4. Shot Down in Flames
5. Thunderstruck
6. Have a Drink on Me
7. Hells Bells
8. Shot in the Dark
9. Stiff Upper Lip
10. Highway to Hell (with Dave Grohl)
11. Shoot to Thrill
12. Sin City
13. Jailbreak
14. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
15. High Voltage
16. Riff Raff
17. You Shook Me All Night Long
18. Whole Lotta Rosie
19. Let There Be Rock
20. Encore: T.N.T.
21. Encore: For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

The Power Up Tour by the numbers

• Started: May 17, 2024, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
• Shows: about 90, across Europe, Australia, Latin America and North America.
• The 2026 stadium run: Charlotte, Columbus, Madison, San Antonio, Denver, Las Vegas, Santa Clara, Edmonton, Vancouver, Atlanta, Houston, South Bend, St. Louis, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Philadelphia, then the rescheduled MetLife finale.
• The band on stage: Brian Johnson (vocals), Angus Young (lead guitar), Stevie Young (rhythm guitar), Chris Chaney (bass) and Matt Laug (drums), the last two finishing their first tour with AC/DC.

So was that the last AC/DC show ever?

Nobody knows, and the band isn’t saying. The summer dates were promoted as a chance to “power up one last time,” which reads like the end of this tour rather than a retirement notice. Angus is 71, the only founding member still in the band, and he joked to USA Today in July that he hoped his last show wouldn’t be at his own funeral.

History is a clue. AC/DC almost always tours behind a new album, and their last three came six years apart: Black Ice (2008), Rock or Bust (2014) and Power Up (2020). Fans are already guessing at a greatest hits package, a quietly recorded new album or a run of shows with no album at all. For now there are no announced dates and no farewell, so we’re filing this one under “to be continued.”

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Sources: Ultimate Classic Rock (finale and setlist), Ultimate Classic Rock (last show?), Loudwire, NextMosh, Power Up Tour.