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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 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.
Furnace Fest 2026 lineup & schedule: all 62 acts
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Playing debut Count Your Blessings front to back for its 20th — a return to the feral deathcore they spent the next two decades outgrowing.
Keyboard-shadowed, black-metal-tinged metalcore from the peak of the Orange County scene — symphonic menace layered over mosh-part brutality.
Florida beatdown with no interest in subtlety — grief and rage compressed into two-minute assaults, as heavy emotionally as it is sonically.
Blackened deathcore with a genuine sense of atmosphere under all the tremolo and blastbeats — grim, symphonic weight that outlasts the genre's shock tactics.
Atlanta pop-punk lifers — 'Chroma' still hits like 2005, a front-to-back scene classic that never needed a follow-up to justify the devotion.
Utah deathcore that keeps finding new floors beneath the floor — a decade-plus of low-tuned punishment that only got nastier with time.
Craig Owens's theatrical post-hardcore, reunited — MySpace-era drama with real stakes, piano flourishes and that unmistakable swooping vocal intact.
Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited — soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
The band that put the fashion in fashioncore — hair, hooks, and a metallic swagger nobody else pulled off, Orange County scene history reactivated.
'The Question'-era screamo-pop veterans, still swinging — dueling vocals and dynamic whiplash from one of the scene's smartest bands.
Divisive by design — nu-metal bounce, deathcore weight, and Frankie Palmeri saying the unsayable, engineered to start arguments and pits alike.
Alabama metalcore turned mean — melodic roots swapped for something nu-metal-adjacent, and the heaviness pays for the trade.
A drummer-vocalist fronting frantic, jazz-inflected post-hardcore that changes direction every eight bars — Chico's contribution to the Swancore canon.
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.
Texas hardcore at its most punishing — mosh calls with a message, and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.
Horror-movie theatrics welded to industrial-tinged metalcore — corpse paint, synths, and choruses built for an arena singalong, Halloween as a year-round genre.
Chaotic Southern metalcore — dissonant, lurching, and famously punishing to watch from the front, two decades of controlled collapse.
A two-piece making absurdly dense, tapping-heavy emo that sounds like four people having the best day of their lives — Gami gang, assemble.
Florida metalcore that kept mutating — each record noticeably stranger and more textured than the last, a blueprint for the genre's art wing.
Alex Terrible's subterranean roar over deathcore built like siege machinery — as much spectacle as band, and heavier than both.
Sermonizing metallic hardcore delivered less like a set than a revival meeting — altar calls between breakdowns.
Bay Area deathcore with a bottomless low end and breakdowns that arrive like a door being kicked in — no melody, no mercy.
Melodic hardcore with a conscience — sermons about solidarity delivered at full sprint, Orange County conviction two decades deep.
Deathcore's early standard-bearers — blast beats into breakdowns, delivered at maximum volume, with Mitch Lucker's legacy carried respectfully forward.
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.
Moody, bass-heavy alt-metal that trades breakdowns for slow-building dread and falsetto — 'FEEL NOTHING' the crossover moment.
Swedish hardcore channelling panic-attack lyricism into riffs that feel physically claustrophobic — short songs, total impact.
'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now — metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
Melodic metalcore that leans hard on the clean-sung hook, carrying a decade-plus of hard-won catharsis — brotherhood themes made literal.
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.
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.
Beneath All Mercy
Big Ass Truck I.E.
California crew working the blunt end of beatdown hardcore — breakdowns built for pit damage rather than for anyone's stereo.
Blxck Sheep
Boltcutter
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.
Clarion
Cold Promise
Empty Shell Casing
Escape Artist
Twinkly, self-lacerating emo about mental health, sung like it's being confessed rather than performed — catharsis with a Nashville accent.
Newer West Coast hardcore working the same fast, mean seam as its Bay Area peers — no-frills aggression built for short, violent sets.
Held.
Holder
I Promised The World
Denton, Texas outfit assembled in 2021, pushing melodic metalcore toward the shriller, more emotionally frayed end of screamo.
Long Island kids threading '90s melodic hardcore through big, wistful hooks that stick immediately — scene-lifer pedigree with real pop instincts.
Atlanta's grungiest emo export — quiet, bitter verses that detonate without warning, catharsis engineered with a slow fuse.
Hometown heavy hardcore — ugly, fast, and unmistakably Alabaman, pit music with a chip on its shoulder.
Long Island heavy hardcore with a lineage running straight back to the NYHC canon — new-school stomp, old-school allegiance.
Rev3rent
Silverhand
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.
Star Witness
Synestia
Minneapolis outfit welding orchestral arrangements and blastbeats to deathcore breakdowns — symphonic scale without losing the low end.
The Dark.fm
Whiplash mathcore that lurches from jazz interlude to blast beat mid-phrase and dares you to follow — Jersey chaos, precision-built.
A joke name attached to genuinely punishing mathcore — time signatures as a form of assault, reunited for the brave.
Post-hardcore that leans into the ache — glossy production over genuinely raw heartbreak, built for night drives after the show.
Valley of Doves
Willowake
Symphonic deathcore that never abandoned the orchestral bombast, whatever the trends did — keyboards and breakdowns in full armor.
The headliners
A Day To Remember — The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint — mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
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 lineup (October 10)
A Day To Remember, Circa Survive, Underoath, Chiodos, We Came As Romans, Hatebreed + 25 more
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
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.
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Who plays Saturday at Furnace Fest 2026?
Saturday, October 10: A Day To Remember, Circa Survive, Underoath, Chiodos, We Came As Romans, Hatebreed, plus 25 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Furnace Fest 2026?
Sunday, October 11: Bring Me The Horizon, Motionless In White, Slaughter To Prevail, Kublai Khan TX, The Plot In You, Norma Jean, plus 25 more acts.
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