Festivals

The anticipation has been building—and now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is here: set times for Louder Than Life 2025 are officially LIVE! With a mind-­blowing 175+ bands primed to take over Louisville, it’s time to strategize your ultimate festival experience. Festival at a Glance Dates: Thursday, September […]

Hell’s Heroes VIII, the eighth instalment of the Houston festival, is confirmed for March 19-21, 2026 at White Oak Music Hall. Organizers have offered the first glimpse of next year’s lineup, issuing the following message: “For our first offering of bands we bring you U.D.O. Dirkschneider doing a special set […]

70000 Tons Of Metal, the original, the world’s biggest heavy metal cruise, has announced that public sales for the 2026 sailing will begin on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. EDT / 18:00 CET via 70000tons.com. The festival-at-sea continues its tradition of delivering an unforgettable experience with 60 metal bands […]

Los Angeles, CA-based punk rock festival C.Y. Fest have announced their 2026 lineup, which will see UK anarchist punk collective Subhumans, Sáo Paulo’s Ratos de Porao, and New Jersey thrash metal outfit Whiplash headline the day festival scheduled for Saturday March 26th at The Belasco. Among the headliners acts such […]

Gods of Chaos, a one-night Halloween event blending metal, hip-hop, horror, and rage, hits Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on October 31, 2025. Presale tickets go live Tuesday, July 29 at 10 a.m. CT, with general on-sale Wednesday, July 30 at 10 a.m. CT. Headliner Three 6 Mafia will […]

Dark Days Bright Nights, the 3-day Richmond, VA-based music festival, will be headlined by Industrial metal act Uniform, hometown post-hardcore outfit City of Caterpillar, and a rare appearance by reunited Tampa hardcore band Reversal of Man. This will mark the second reunion show by Reversal of Man in 25 years. […]

DEFTONES have announced the 2025 installment of their music festival, Dia De Los Deftones. The event, which returned in 2022 for the first time since 2019, will take place on November 1, 2025 at Petco Park in San Diego. Joining the influential alt-metal outfit at this year’s event will be CLIPSE, 2HOLLIS, RICO NASTY, DEAFHEAVEN, REGULO CARO, ECCA […]

Converge have announced their own curated festival, Saddest Day Festival, set to take place December 13 at Roadrunner in Boston, MA. The lineup is stacked with heavy hitters across hardcore and metal, including Touché Amoré, Coalesce, The Hope Conspiracy, and Converge themselves. One slot beneath The Hope Conspiracy is listed […]

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, December 5-6th, 2025. And now the full can-crushing band and brewery lineup can finally be revealed! Freshly reunited sludge/doom legends Acid Bath make […]

Earlier this week, Denver hardcore band Destiny Bond raised concerns about Punk In The Park‘s ties to President Donald Trump, citing a past campaign donation from festival owner Cameron Collins of Brew Ha Ha Productions. Those concerns ultimately led Destiny Bond to drop off the lineup. Now, another local band, […]