Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver is tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as this year’s home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6, 2025. Freshly reunited sludge/doom band Acid Bath make its first Denver appearance in over 30 years to headline Saturday night (Dec. 6), 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 (Dec. 5).
The bill, presented by Century Media, is rounded out by Oklahoma City noise rock crushers Chat Pile, NOLA sludgelords Eyehategod, resurrected metallic hardcore heroes Deadguy, Massachusetts maulers the Red Chord (performing a special 20th anniversary “Clients” set), Minnesota atmospheric black metallers Panopticon (performing a special 10th anniversary “Autumn Eternal” set), Denver doom destructors Primitive Man, U.K. stoner sludge sword wielders Conan, Northeast death metal cutting crew Castrator and Houston black metal earth-scorchers Necrofier.
In addition America’s most metal breweries—and meaderies—will descend upon Denver to provide the essential suds to the soundtrack of crushing metallic thuds. Presented by American craft brewing legends 3 Floyds Brewing (Indiana), the brewers’ row will include featured breweries—and meaderies—WarPigs Brewing (Indiana), Magnanimous Brewing (FLorida), Black Sky Brewery (Colorado), Brimming Horn Meadery (Delaware), Black Circle Brewing (Indiana), Brujos Brewing (Oregon), Zymurgy Brewing (Wisconsin), Jukes Ale Works (Nebraska), plus pours from Hammerheart Brewing (Minnesota) and Ratio Beerworks (Colorado).
Single-day and regular-priced tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. MT Friday, July 25. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.decibelmagazine.com/.
Lineup:
Dec. 4 (pre-fest at Ratio Beerworks)
Terror Corpse
Vimana
Death Possession
Dec. 5 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Blood Incantation
Chat Pile
The Red Chord
Panopticon
Castrator
Dec. 6 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Acid Bath
Eyehategod
Deadguy
Primitive Man
Conan
Necrofier
