Hardcore bands

We track 135 Hardcore bands. 69 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Warped Tour Orlando and Sonic Temple. 82 have tour dates on sale, 703 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

82 Hardcore bands with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Hardcore bands on the bill, soonest first. The Hardcore festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Turnstile8Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
  2. 2My Chemical Romance4Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera, with marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
  3. 3Pierce The Veil4San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
  4. 4Angerfist2Dutch hardcore's most recognisable mask, with twenty-odd years of relentless gabber kicks and horror-film samples and no interest in mellowing.
  5. 5Lil Texas2Cowboy-hatted hardcore producer pushing tempos well past 180 with a completely straight face, with Texas kitsch welded to gabber punishment.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1Turnstile19Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
  2. 2Pierce The Veil10San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
  3. 3Haywire9Boston hardcore named for the city's 617 area code and fronted by Austin Sparkman, carrying the local pit-first tradition from a 2024 debut on DAZE to a 2026 album on Roadrunner.
  4. 4Knocked Loose6Kentucky hardcore built on the meanest two-step riffs going, with Bryan Garris's shriek cutting clean over the top: heaviness that crossed over without softening.
  5. 5Kublai Khan TX6Texas hardcore at its most punishing, with mosh calls that carry a message and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.
  6. 6Sleep Theory6New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end, and the format's next arena act in waiting.
  7. 7Sleeping With Sirens6Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore: Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
  8. 8Underoath6'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now, metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
  9. 9Circa Survive5Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited, soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
  10. 10Coheed and Cambria5Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks: 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.

Most saved to a plan

The Hardcore bands people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Sleeping With SirensKellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore: Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
  2. 2The UsedBert McCracken's scream-to-croon whiplash defined a corner of early-2000s post-hardcore and still detonates live, and the chaos has aged into craft.
  3. 3Hawthorne HeightsOhio emo survivors whose mid-2000s records are still the reference point for the whole scream-over-the-chorus template, played now with veterans' gratitude.
  4. 4Taking Back SundayLong Island emo royalty: mic-swinging catharsis, twenty-plus years deep, 'MakeDamnSure' still a communal throat-shred, and yes, the mic still swings.
  5. 5TurnstileHardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
  6. 6Dance Gavin DanceSwancore's funk-flecked flagship (technicolor riffs and dual-vocal whiplash) with a prolific catalog that never stopped mutating.
  7. 7Soul GloPhilly's ferocious hardcore standard-bearers, with blistering screamo velocity spliced with hip-hop and biting political fury, critical darlings for good reason.
  8. 8SilversteinCanadian post-hardcore that outlasted the scene it came from by simply never getting worse, and 'My Heroine' is still a full-crowd scream.
  9. 9AFIHardcore kids who became goths and then a genuinely huge rock band, with Davey Havok's full-commitment melodrama riding a catalog that runs from East Bay punk to 'Miss Murder'-era anthems.
  10. 10AlexisonfireCanada's post-hardcore heart: three voices trading scream, croon, and rasp across one beloved catalog, with reunion sets that feel like national holidays back home.

All 135 Hardcore bands

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

TurnstilePierce The VeilHaywireSleeping With SirensSPEEDBad ReligionHolding AbsenceI PrevailKnocked LooseKublai Khan TXSleep TheoryUnderoathCirca SurviveCoheed and CambriaDance Gavin DanceDrainRise AgainstSuicidal Tendencies

AFIAlexisonfireBeartoothBodysnatcherChiodosCorrosion of ConformityEmeryEscape The FateFrom First To LastGideonKayzoL.S. DunesLil TexasMy Chemical RomancePaleface SwissRain City DriveSilversteinSunamiTaking Back SundayThe Plot In YouThe UsedThousand BelowThriceThrownunpeopleAngerfistBen QuadblessthefallCatch Your BreathEmarosaEnter ShikariFalling In ReverseHail The SunHawthorne HeightsHelmetMadballNorma JeanPain of TruthSaosinSenses FailShow Me The BodyThursdayWe Came As Romans

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