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Furnace Fest 2026 Lineup
Two days of hardcore, metalcore and 2000s scene reunions inside a decommissioned Birmingham ironworks.
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About Furnace Fest 2026
Furnace Fest takes place inside a dead ironworks: Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, a preserved 19th-century blast-furnace site of rusted pipework and brick sheds, which is either the best or the worst possible place to put 60 hardcore and metalcore bands for two October days. The 2026 edition leans on the full-album set (Underoath performing Define the Great Line in its entirety, and Bring Me The Horizon closing Sunday with their debut Count Your Blessings front to back for its twentieth birthday), then surrounds them with the reunions this festival has built its reputation on: Chiodos, Poison the Well, Eighteen Visions, Cartel, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. A Day To Remember tops Saturday. Everything else is 2000s scene history and the current hardcore wave sharing the same slag heap.
Saturday was re-cut for a tropical storm passing over Birmingham on October 10. Festival doors at Sloss moved to 2:30 PM and the Saturday sets run from 3:00 PM to 12:30 AM, with every act later than first scheduled and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza moved to the Shed. Five of the day's opening acts (Cold Promise, Silverhand, Empty Shell Casing, Holder and Held.) play a free festival-presented show at WorkPlay instead, from 11:30 AM to 2:05 PM across its Theater and Soundstage rooms. Pain of Truth and Koyo are not on the revised Saturday schedule.
Expect post-hardcore, metalcore, deathcore and hardcore across 60 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Saturday to Sunday, two days
- Where
- Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL
- Lineup
- 60 acts
- Website
- Official site
Furnace Fest 2026 lineup & schedule: all 60 acts
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Sheffield shape-shifters who went from feral deathcore to arena-sized electronic metalcore, with one of heavy music's most elaborate stage shows.
MetalcoreAlt-metal
'The Question'-era screamo-pop veterans who are still swinging, with dueling vocals and dynamic whiplash from one of the scene's smartest bands.
Post-hardcoreScreamo
Atlanta pop-punk lifers whose 'Chroma' still hits like 2005, a front-to-back scene classic that never needed a follow-up to justify the devotion.
Pop-punkPower-pop
A drummer-vocalist fronting frantic, jazz-inflected post-hardcore that changes direction every eight bars, Chico's contribution to the Swancore canon.
Post-hardcoreSwancore
Thirty years of blunt-force positivity: Jamey Jasta shouting self-reliance over riffs engineered to move a room sideways, hardcore's most dependable motivational speaker.
HardcoreMetallic hardcore
A two-piece making absurdly dense, tapping-heavy emo that sounds like four people having the best day of their lives. Gami gang, assemble.
EmoPop-punk
Aaron Gillespie stepping out from behind the kit for scrappier, southern-tinged rock songs with the grit left in (Underoath's drummer, unplugged from the chaos).
Alt-rockPost-hardcore
Melodic metalcore that leans hard on the clean-sung hook, carrying a decade-plus of hard-won catharsis and brotherhood themes made literal.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Alabama metalcore turned mean, with melodic roots swapped for something nu-metal-adjacent, and the heaviness pays for the trade.
HardcoreNu-metalcore
Craig Owens's theatrical post-hardcore, reunited: MySpace-era drama with real stakes, piano flourishes and that unmistakable swooping vocal intact.
Post-hardcoreScreamo
Bay Area deathcore with a bottomless low end and breakdowns that arrive like a door being kicked in: no melody, no mercy.
Deathcore
'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now, metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
Post-hardcoreMetalcore
Melodic hardcore with a conscience: sermons about solidarity delivered at full sprint, with Orange County conviction two decades deep.
Melodic hardcore
Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited, soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
Post-hardcoreProg-rock
Florida metalcore that kept mutating, with each record noticeably stranger and more textured than the last, a blueprint for the genre's art wing.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Florida beatdown with no interest in subtlety, where grief and rage are compressed into two-minute assaults, as heavy emotionally as it is sonically.
DeathcoreBeatdown
Utah deathcore that keeps finding new floors beneath the floor, a decade-plus of low-tuned punishment that only got nastier with time.
Deathcore
Swedish hardcore channelling panic-attack lyricism into riffs that feel physically claustrophobic: short songs, total impact.
HardcoreNu-metalcore
Deathcore's early standard-bearers, with blast beats into breakdowns delivered at maximum volume and Mitch Lucker's legacy carried respectfully forward.
Deathcore
Blackened deathcore with a genuine sense of atmosphere under all the tremolo and blastbeats, where grim, symphonic weight outlasts the genre's shock tactics.
DeathcoreBlackened deathcore
Chaotic Southern metalcore: dissonant, lurching, and famously punishing to watch from the front, two decades of controlled collapse.
MetalcoreNoisecore
Divisive by design, with nu-metal bounce, deathcore weight, and Frankie Palmeri saying the unsayable, engineered to start arguments and pits alike.
Nu-metalcoreDeathcore
Moody, bass-heavy alt-metal that trades breakdowns for slow-building dread and falsetto, with 'FEEL NOTHING' the crossover moment.
Post-hardcoreAlt-metal
Keyboard-shadowed, black-metal-tinged metalcore from the peak of the Orange County scene, with symphonic menace layered over mosh-part brutality.
Metalcore
Texas hardcore at its most punishing, with mosh calls that carry a message and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.
HardcoreMetalcore
The band that put the fashion in fashioncore, with hair, hooks, and a metallic swagger nobody else pulled off, and Orange County scene history reactivated.
Metalcore
Alex Terrible's subterranean roar over deathcore built like siege machinery, as much spectacle as band, and heavier than both.
Deathcore
Sermonizing metallic hardcore delivered less like a set than a revival meeting, with altar calls between breakdowns.
HardcoreChristian hardcore
Horror-movie theatrics welded to industrial-tinged metalcore, with corpse paint, synths, and choruses built for an arena singalong, Halloween as a year-round genre.
Gothic metalcoreIndustrial metal
Cold Promise
Rock
Silverhand
Alternative
Empty Shell Casing
Alternative
Holder
Alternative
Held.
Punk
Escape Artist
Metal
A joke name attached to genuinely punishing mathcore, with time signatures as a form of assault, reunited for the brave.
MathcoreDeathgrind
Blxck Sheep
Alternative
Big Ass Truck I.E.
California crew working the blunt end of beatdown hardcore, with breakdowns built for pit damage rather than for anyone's stereo.
Metal
Hometown heavy hardcore that is ugly, fast, and unmistakably Alabaman, pit music with a chip on its shoulder.
HardcoreBeatdown
Willowake
Alternative
Fifth-wave emo at its most frantic, with tapped riffs and throat-shredding payoffs in equal measure, from a band that treats catharsis as a competitive sport.
EmoPost-hardcore
Clarion
Rock
Boston 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.
Hardcore
Sludge Mother
Seattle group formed in 2024, dragging grunge back through the sludge-metal end of the city's inheritance, heavy, slow and unhurried about it.
Rock
Beneath All Mercy
Philly emo with a comedian's timing, offering sprawling, funny songs that turn genuinely bleak without warning, from a band whose whole name is an iCarly bit played straight.
EmoMath-rock
Synestia
Minneapolis outfit welding orchestral arrangements and blastbeats to deathcore breakdowns, with symphonic scale and no loss of low end.
Metal
Valley of Doves
Rock
Rev3rent
Metal
Star Witness
I Promised The World
Denton, Texas outfit assembled in 2021, pushing melodic metalcore toward the shriller, more emotionally frayed end of screamo.
Metal
The Dark.fm
Metal
Symphonic deathcore that never abandoned the orchestral bombast, whatever the trends did: keyboards and breakdowns in full armor.
DeathcoreSymphonic deathcore
Boltcutter
Metal
Post-hardcore that leans into the ache, with glossy production over genuinely raw heartbreak, built for night drives after the show.
Post-hardcore
Hardcore veterans making sunny, ramshackle power-pop with the energy of a band that has nothing to prove, with Turnstile and Trapped Under Ice pedigree and zero tough-guy posture.
Power-popPost-hardcore
Whiplash mathcore that lurches from jazz interlude to blast beat mid-phrase and dares you to follow. Jersey chaos, precision-built.
MathcoreGrindcore
Twinkly, self-lacerating emo about mental health, sung like it's being confessed rather than performed: catharsis with a Nashville accent.
EmoMidwest emo
Atlanta's grungiest emo export, with quiet, bitter verses that detonate without warning, catharsis engineered with a slow fuse.
EmoAlt-rock
The headliners
A Day To Remember · The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint, with mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
Bring Me The Horizon · Sheffield shape-shifters who went from feral deathcore to arena-sized electronic metalcore, with one of heavy music's most elaborate stage shows.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Origami Angel · Two people making more noise, and more melody, than most bands manage with five.
Ben Quad · Fifth-wave emo at a full sprint: the most cathartic half hour of Saturday.
Thrown · Swedish hardcore that turns a panic attack into a setlist, and never lets the tension off.
No Cure · Birmingham's own: the hometown pit, and affectionately the ugliest one of the weekend.
Other acts worth planning around
Underoath · Define the Great Line in full, on a bill stacked with bands that record shaped.
Poison the Well · The arty, awkward end of early metalcore. Twenty-five years on, still nothing sounds like it.
Eighteen Visions · Fashioncore's originators: hair, hooks, and a swagger nobody else got away with.
Norma Jean · Two decades of refusing to resolve a riff cleanly, and no sign of starting now.
- The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza · A joke of a band name attached to some of the most punishing mathcore ever committed to tape.
Angel Du$t · Hardcore veterans playing sunny power-pop, the closest thing to a breather all weekend.
Hatebreed · Thirty years on and still the most reliable way to start a pit ever devised.
Motionless In White · Corpse paint and arena-sized choruses; the most theatrical thing on Sunday's bill.
The lineup by day
Saturday lineup (October 10)
A Day To Remember, Circa Survive, Underoath, Chiodos, We Came As Romans, Hatebreed + 23 more
Saturday set times (29 sets)
- Cold Promise · WorkPlay Theater
- Silverhand · WorkPlay Soundstage
- Empty Shell Casing · WorkPlay Theater
- Holder · WorkPlay Soundstage
- Held. · WorkPlay Theater
- The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza · Shed
- Escape Artist · Pond Stage
- Emery · Main Stage
- Cartel · Main Stage
- Blxck Sheep · Pond Stage
- Big Ass Truck I.E. · Shed
- Hail the Sun · Main Stage
- No Cure · Shed
- Willowake · Pond Stage
- Hatebreed · Main Stage
- Origami Angel · Shed
- The Almost · Pond Stage
- We Came As Romans · Main Stage
- Ben Quad · Pond Stage
- Gideon · Shed
- Chiodos · Main Stage
- Clarion · Pond Stage
- Spite · Shed
- Underoath · Main Stage
- Haywire · Pond Stage
- Stick To Your Guns · Shed
- Circa Survive · Main Stage
- Poison the Well · Shed
- A Day To Remember · Main Stage
Sunday lineup (October 11)
Bring Me The Horizon, Motionless In White, Slaughter To Prevail, Kublai Khan TX, The Plot In You, Norma Jean + 25 more
Sunday set times (31 sets)
- Sludge Mother · Shed
- Beneath All Mercy · Pond Stage
- Carly Cosgrove · Main Stage
- Synestia · Shed
- Bodysnatcher · Main Stage
- Valley of Doves · Pond Stage
- Rev3rent · Shed
- Chelsea Grin · Main Stage
- Star Witness · Pond Stage
- Thrown · Main Stage
- I Promised The World · Shed
- The Dark.fm · Pond Stage
- Suicide Silence · Main Stage
- Winds of Plague · Shed
- Boltcutter · Pond Stage
- Carnifex · Shed
- Norma Jean · Main Stage
- Thousand Below · Pond Stage
- Emmure · Shed
- The Plot In You · Main Stage
- Angel Du$t · Pond Stage
- Bleeding Through · Shed
- Kublai Khan TX · Main Stage
- The Number Twelve Looks Like You · Pond Stage
- Eighteen Visions · Shed
- Free Throw · Pond Stage
- Slaughter To Prevail · Main Stage
- Sleeping Giant · Shed
- Microwave · Pond Stage
- Motionless In White · Main Stage
- Bring Me The Horizon · Main Stage
Furnace Fest 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Furnace Fest 2026?
October 10–11, 2026: Saturday and Sunday.
Where does Furnace Fest take place?
Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama: a decommissioned ironworks, now a museum and National Historic Landmark.
Who is headlining Furnace Fest 2026?
A Day To Remember (Saturday) and Bring Me The Horizon (Sunday), with Bring Me The Horizon playing their debut Count Your Blessings in full for its twentieth anniversary.
Are there other full-album sets?
Underoath performs Define the Great Line in its entirety on Saturday.
How many bands are playing Furnace Fest 2026?
60 acts across two days.
What days do specific bands play?
Every act's day is already on this page. Expand the full lineup below or check the day-by-day breakdown. Stage times usually land closer to the festival.
How do I figure out which of the 60 bands I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love. It'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
When is Furnace Fest 2027?
Furnace Fest is expected back in October 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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