A Day To Remember
The band that made whiplash between gang-vocal breakdowns and stadium-sized pop choruses feel inevitable — two decades on, still the template.
Furnace Fest 2026 Lineup
Two days of hardcore, metalcore and 2000s scene reunions inside a decommissioned Birmingham ironworks.
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 62 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.
Expect post-hardcore, metalcore, hardcore and deathcore across 62 acts.
The headliners
- A Day To Remember — The band that made whiplash between gang-vocal breakdowns and stadium-sized pop choruses feel inevitable — two decades on, still the template.
- Bring Me The Horizon — Playing debut Count Your Blessings front to back for its 20th — a return to the feral deathcore they spent the next two decades outgrowing.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Koyo — Long Island melodic hardcore with hooks that land the first time you hear them.
- 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.
- Pain of Truth — Current-wave heavy hardcore built for exactly this kind of room, or courtyard.
- 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, October 10: A Day To Remember, Circa Survive, Underoath, Chiodos, We Came As Romans, Hatebreed + 25 more
- Sunday, October 11: Bring Me The Horizon, Motionless In White, Slaughter To Prevail, Kublai Khan TX, The Plot In You, Norma Jean + 25 more
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?
62 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 62 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.
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Circa Survive
Anthony Green's helium-high tenor floating over restless, chiming guitar work that never quite resolves where you expect — prog instincts wearing post-hardcore clothes.
Underoath
Performing Define the Great Line in full — the screamed-and-sung record that dragged the era's scene toward genuine dissonance and ambition.
Chiodos
Piano-laced, theatrical post-hardcore with Craig Owens's unmistakable yelp lurching between croon and shriek — scene-era maximalism played with total commitment.
We Came As Romans
Melodic metalcore that leans hard on the clean-sung hook, carrying a decade-plus of hard-won catharsis — brotherhood themes made literal.
Hatebreed
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.
Poison the Well
South Florida's awkward, arty metalcore pioneers — dissonant and abrupt where their peers went polished, and more influential for it.
Cartel
Sunny, hook-first pop-punk from the Chroma era, back when a big chorus was the entire argument — and theirs were bigger than most.
Hail the Sun
A drummer-vocalist fronting frantic, jazz-inflected post-hardcore that changes direction every eight bars — Chico's contribution to the Swancore canon.
Emery
Dual-vocal post-hardcore built on the tension between two singers arguing across the same melody — Tooth & Nail-era craft that aged unusually well.
The Almost
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.
Origami Angel
A two-piece making absurdly dense, tapping-heavy emo that sounds like four people having the best day of their lives — Gami gang, assemble.
Spite
Bay Area deathcore with a bottomless low end and breakdowns that arrive like a door being kicked in — no melody, no mercy.
Stick To Your Guns
Melodic hardcore with a conscience — sermons about solidarity delivered at full sprint, Orange County conviction two decades deep.
Haywire
Gideon
Alabama's own, having swapped melodic metalcore for something meaner and nu-metal-adjacent — with the heaviness to justify the trade.
Pain of Truth
Long Island heavy hardcore riding the current wave — stomping, unfussy, built entirely for the pit, posse cuts included.
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
A joke name attached to genuinely punishing mathcore — time signatures as a form of assault, reunited for the brave.
Koyo
Long Island kids threading '90s melodic hardcore through big, wistful hooks that stick immediately — scene-lifer pedigree with real pop instincts.
No Cure
Hometown heavy hardcore — ugly, fast, and unmistakably Alabaman, pit music with a chip on its shoulder.
Clarion
Big Ass Truck I.E.
Ben Quad
Fifth-wave emo at its most frantic — tapped riffs and throat-shredding payoffs in equal measure, from a band that treats catharsis as a competitive sport.
Willowake
Empty Shell Casing
Holder
Held.
Blxck Sheep
Escape Artist
Silverhand
Cold Promise
Bring Me The Horizon
Playing debut Count Your Blessings front to back for its 20th — a return to the feral deathcore they spent the next two decades outgrowing.
Motionless In White
Horror-movie theatrics welded to industrial-tinged metalcore — corpse paint, synths, and choruses built for an arena singalong, Halloween as a year-round genre.
Slaughter To Prevail
Alex Terrible's subterranean roar over deathcore built like siege machinery — as much spectacle as band, and heavier than both.
Kublai Khan TX
Texan beatdown with Matt Honeycutt barking working-class grievance over riffs like falling masonry — heavy in subject and in tuning.
The Plot In You
Moody, bass-heavy alt-metal that trades breakdowns for slow-building dread and falsetto — 'FEEL NOTHING' the crossover moment.
Norma Jean
Georgia's chaotic metalcore lifers — dissonant, lurching, and allergic to a clean resolution, still finding new ways to fall apart on purpose.
Suicide Silence
The band that made deathcore a genre with a fanbase, still trading in pure blunt trauma — 'The Cleansing'-era canon intact.
Sleeping Giant
Sermonizing metallic hardcore delivered less like a set than a revival meeting — altar calls between breakdowns.
Bleeding Through
Keyboard-shadowed, black-metal-tinged metalcore from the peak of the Orange County scene — symphonic menace layered over mosh-part brutality.
Thrown
Swedish hardcore channelling panic-attack lyricism into riffs that feel physically claustrophobic — short songs, total impact.
Emmure
Divisive by design — nu-metal bounce, deathcore weight, and Frankie Palmeri saying the unsayable, engineered to start arguments and pits alike.
Chelsea Grin
Utah deathcore that keeps finding new floors beneath the floor — a decade-plus of low-tuned punishment that only got nastier with time.
Carnifex
Blackened deathcore with a genuine sense of atmosphere under all the tremolo and blastbeats — grim, symphonic weight that outlasts the genre's shock tactics.
Eighteen Visions
The band that put the fashion in fashioncore — hair, hooks, and a metallic swagger nobody else pulled off, Orange County scene history reactivated.
Bodysnatcher
Florida beatdown with no interest in subtlety — grief and rage compressed into two-minute assaults, as heavy emotionally as it is sonically.
Angel Du$t
Hardcore veterans making sunny, ramshackle power-pop with the energy of a band that has nothing to prove — Turnstile and Trapped Under Ice pedigree, zero tough-guy posture.
Microwave
Atlanta's grungiest emo export — quiet, bitter verses that detonate without warning, catharsis engineered with a slow fuse.
Winds of Plague
Symphonic deathcore that never abandoned the orchestral bombast, whatever the trends did — keyboards and breakdowns in full armor.
Free Throw
Twinkly, self-lacerating emo about mental health, sung like it's being confessed rather than performed — catharsis with a Nashville accent.
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Whiplash mathcore that lurches from jazz interlude to blast beat mid-phrase and dares you to follow — Jersey chaos, precision-built.
Thousand Below
Post-hardcore that leans into the ache — glossy production over genuinely raw heartbreak, built for night drives after the show.
Rev3rent
I Promised The World
Carly Cosgrove
Philly emo with a comedian's timing — sprawling, funny songs that turn genuinely bleak without warning, from a band whose whole name is an iCarly bit played straight.
Synestia
Boltcutter
The Dark.fm
Sludge Mother
Star Witness
