Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest will return to Denver for its fifth round, tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4-5, 2026. Southern doom supergroup Down will make its first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night... Continue Reading →
My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit and Pierce the Veil will headline the 2026 edition of the Aftershock festival, Oc.t 1 to 4 at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California. With the addition of a fifth stage at the expanded festival site, this year's 140-plus artists comprise the largest Aftershock lineup to date. The lineup is... Continue Reading →
Godsmack, Papa Roach and Slayer, celebrating the 40th anniversary of its seminal "Reign in Blood" album, will headline the 2026 Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma. The 20th anniversary edition of the event will be held Sept. 4 to 6 at the Rockin'Â Red Dirt Ranch. "The guys and I are beyond excited to return to Rocklahoma... Continue Reading →
Tool and Limp Bizkit will join previously announced headliners Iron Maiden and My Chemical Romance at this year's Louder Than Life festival, set for Sept. 17 to 20, 2026, at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. In total, Louder Than Life will feature nearly 200 bands on seven stages, the biggest bill ever assembled... Continue Reading →
Disturbed, Bad Omens and Limp Bizkit headline this year's Inkcarceration Festival, which will take place July 17 to 19, 2026, on the Ohio State Reformatory grounds in Mansfield, Ohio. The three-day event features a lineup of more than 65 bands, led by: Friday, July 17: Disturbed, Papa Roach, Cypress Hill, Hollywood Undead Saturday, July 18: Bad Omens, Gojira, The Used,... Continue Reading →
Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly will return May 2 and 3, 2026, at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—and for the first time ever, it will be an all-ages event. Texas crossover thrash band Power Trip will headline Sunday night with its first Philadelphia performance in seven years, while Richmond, Virginia, thrash metal act... Continue Reading →
The M3 Rock Festival, the long-running celebration of 1980s arena rock, will return Saturday, May 2, 2026, to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The 17th edition of the event has a lineup led by Cinderella's Tom Keifer and Queensryche, along with Buckcherry, White Lion, Barry Goudreau's Engine Room, Faster Pussycat and Trixter. In addition,... Continue Reading →
Acid Bath, the influential sludge metal band that reunited in late 2024 after being inactive since the 1990s, is the first headliner announced for the 2026 Milwaukee Metal Festival. “For the last three years, the number 1 requested band the fans wanted for Milwaukee Metal Fest was Acid Bath!" festival co-organizer Jamey Jasta said. "We... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Rockville will return May 7 to 10, 2026, to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, with Guns N' Roses and Foo Fighters joining previously announced headliners Bring Me the Horizon and My Chemical Romance. The 15th year of the festival, produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, will feature more than 160 bands performing... Continue Reading →
Boardwalk Rock, a festival that debuted in May 2025 in Ocean City, Maryland, and featured headliners Def Leppard, Nickelback, Shinedown and Rob Zombie, will take 2026 off and return in 2027. "We had an incredible time rocking out with you at Boardwalk Rock this year," reads a statement released on Nov. 5. 2025. "We can't... Continue Reading →
