After three years at Summit, Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest will tap the Fillmore Auditorium as the 2025 home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6
Freshly reunited sludge/doom metal band Acid Bath will make its first Denver appearance in over 30 years to headline Saturday night, while Denver’s own death metal space force Blood Incantation will perform its first hometown show in over two years with a headlining performance on Friday night.
The rest of the band and brewery lineup will be unveiled in the coming months, but 2-day and 3-day passes—which include admittance to a special Pre-Fest at Ratio Beerworks (Larimer Street location) on Dec.—go on sale at 10 a.m. MT Friday, March 21.
The following pre-sales will run prior to the general on-sale.
- Acid Bath pre-sale begins at 11 a.m. MT Wednesday, March 19 (code: COLDSKY)
- Blood Incantation pre-sale begins at 11 a.m. MT Wednesday, March 19 (code: CONCENTRATE)
- Decibel pre-sale begins at 10 a.m. MT Thursday, March 20 (code: FUNKY)
- Ticketmaster pre-sale begins at 10 a.m. MT Thursday, March 20 (code: BEATBOX)
- KBPI pre-sale begins at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 20 (code: KBPI)
Ticket options include the “Just Metal” ticket, which includes admission to the event but no beer samples (those 21 and older can buy select beers a la carte, and the “Metal & Beer” ticket, including admission to the event and unlimited sampling from a lineup of international breweries and a Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2025 sampling cup.
Limited tickets are available for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 4 and 5 at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, featuring special full-album sets from Exodus (“Bonded by Blood”), Dismember (“Like an Ever Flowing Stream”) and Darkest Hour (“Undoing Ruin”), as well as rare performances from Demolition Hammer, Pig Destroyer, Eternal Champion and more. Full daily band and brewery lineups—and all ticket options—are available here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/events/metalandbeerfest/.
