France's environmental-metal titans — from the Olympics opening ceremony to the pit, whale-song riffs and precision heaviness with an actual conscience.
Louder Than Life 2026 Lineup
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Louder Than Life is America's biggest rock festival, full stop: four September days at Louisville's Highland Festival Grounds, seven stages, nearly 200 bands, and bourbon everywhere it legally fits. The 2026 bill is an embarrassment of heaviness: My Chemical Romance, Iron Maiden, Tool, Limp Bizkit, and Pantera's only U.S. show of the year up top; Megadeth's farewell; Cavalera performing Sepultura's Roots; reunions from Circa Survive, Chiodos, and Get Scared; and Saturday hosting one of the most prominent female-fronted stage lineups a major U.S. rock festival has ever assembled. Whatever heavy means to you (emo, thrash, hardcore, metalcore, nu-metal nostalgia), it's on this poster somewhere.
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Up the irons — metal's greatest live institution, Eddie included, galloping twin leads and Bruce Dickinson sprinting the stage like it's 1985.
Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera — marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
The reborn kings of groove metal — their only U.S. show of 2026, 'Walk' and 'Cowboys from Hell' as scripture.
San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act — the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
Sun-bleached ska-punk-dub hybrid, now carried by Bradley Nowell's son with the songs left intact — '40oz. to Freedom' forever.
Prog-metal's cathedral builders — polyrhythms, lasers, and total audience surrender, Danny Carey's drumming alone worth the pilgrimage.
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.
The original shock-rock showman — guillotines, snakes, straitjackets, and 'School's Out' forever, still running rock's greatest vaudeville horror show six decades in.
Chicago's heart-skull institution — graveyard romance in three chords, with Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano trading morbid valentines across two-plus decades of dark pop-punk.
Big Four thrash with NYC attitude — 'Caught in a Mosh' remains an instruction, and four decades in they still play like the scrappiest kids in the class.
J-pop choreography welded to genuine power-metal chops — a premise that should not work and completely does, now with arena-scale production and a decade of converted skeptics.
Johnny Franck's absurdist country-core project gone legitimately huge — saxophones, breakdowns, and jokes played tight enough to work as straight-up bangers.
Zakk Wylde's biker-metal brotherhood — pinch harmonics for days, Sabbath-weight riffs, and guitar solos treated as main events.
Warpaint-and-leather anthems — the black parade's glammer cousins, stadium-goth choruses delivered with total conviction, eyeliner-era devotion still marching.
Max and Iggor performing Sepultura's 'Roots' in full — Brazilian metal history live, from the brothers who wrote it.
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.
Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks — 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.
Swancore's funk-flecked flagship — technicolor riffs and dual-vocal whiplash, a prolific catalog that never stopped mutating.
Oingo Boingo's madman turned Tim Burton's composer — a berserk orchestral-rock spectacle that mashes film scores into art-punk chaos.
The Evil Elvis — Misfits mythology and 'Mother' brooding in the flesh, blues-metal croon delivered from rock's darkest pulpit.
Metalocalypse's cartoon death-metal band, real and devastating live — Brendon Small's shred played against the animation at brutal volume.
Lzzy Hale's Grammy-winning powerhouse — the loudest voice in modern hard rock, delivered nightly with full-throttle sincerity.
Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
Horror-movie metalcore staged as full theatre — every song a slasher reference, every set closer to a production than a gig.
Maria Brink's gothic ritual-metal — costumes, choirs, and 'Whore' still searing, a stage show closer to dark ceremony than concert.
Metalcore's standard-bearers — 'The End of Heartache' still detonates, two decades of the genre's template played by its authors.
Kentucky 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.
Texas hardcore at its most punishing — mosh calls with a message, and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.
Dancing electric-violin spectacle — classical chops at festival scale, choreography and pyrotechnics included, a one-woman production that earns the word spectacle.
Oakland groove-metal veterans — 'Davidian' still an extinction event, three decades of down-tuned survival behind it.
Atlanta's prog-sludge institution — concept records about doom and grief, played with genuinely uncommon musicianship and harmonized howls.
Mustaine's farewell campaign — thrash's most venomous catalog, one last ride through 'Peace Sells' and four decades of grudges.
Al Jourgensen's industrial-metal war machine — sampled sermons, mechanised riffing, and four decades of pure spite, still grinding forward.
San Antonio alt-metal showmen — bass-throwing spectacle, Grammy-nominated hooks, and a stage rig built like a science experiment.
'Last Resort' to now — nu-metal survivors who never stopped filling fields, with Jacoby Shaddix still working every inch of stage.
Chicago's melodic-hardcore conscience — two decades of fists-up anthems delivered with undimmed conviction, 'Savior' still closing rooms.
Swedish power metal's war historians — tank included, choruses drilled to parade-ground precision, history lectures you can mosh to.
Christian rock's arena juggernaut — 'Monster' with a special production, pyro and strings at full budget.
Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore — Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
Venice crossover legends — 'Institutionalized' and a pit that never ages, Cyco Mike still leading the charge.
Long Island emo royalty — mic-swinging catharsis, twenty-plus years deep, 'MakeDamnSure' still a communal throat-shred, and yes, the mic still swings.
At the Drive-In's cosmic successors — salsa-prog freakouts and falsetto fire, 'The Widow' amid the labyrinth.
Taylor Momsen's grunge-blooded hard rock — smoky, heavy, chart-topping, with more rock-radio #1s than most legacy acts.
Firestarters, still — the UK's rave-punk institution hits harder than bands half their age, three decades of menace intact.
Bert McCracken's scream-to-croon whiplash defined a corner of early-2000s post-hardcore and still detonates live — the chaos aged into craft.
Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone — Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
The Rage guitarist solo, which in practice means the riffs, the politics, and a rotating cast of guests — expect surprises.
'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now — metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
Pittsburgh metalcore outfit built on dissonant, mathy riffing and unrelenting vocal delivery — hardcore aggression with the corners deliberately left jagged.
Cleveland's contribution to the new-school death-metal revival — filthy, mid-paced, and built entirely around the riff, with the kind of grooves that turn a pit violent in seconds.
New Jersey band from the turn-of-the-millennium nu-metal wave, trading in downtuned riffs and shouted-to-sung dynamics — reactivated years after the fact.
Las Vegas-formed hard rock outfit built around Rick DeJesus, a fixture of active-rock radio since the late 2000s — riff-first post-grunge with no apologies for it.
Early djent architects out of Minneapolis — eight-string polyrhythms and huge grooves whose low end still lands harder live than any recording has managed to capture.
The godfathers of NYHC — Lower East Side scripture since the early '80s, with 'Victim in Pain' still the blueprint for every two-stepping hardcore band that followed.
Canada'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.
Best known for turning 'Smooth Criminal' into an alt-metal hit — which undersells a Riverside band with a real ear for a chorus and more melodic instinct than their era usually rewarded.
American Monster
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.
Eight-string instrumental wizardry — Tosin Abasi rewrites what a guitar can do nightly, prog-metal precision that draws musicians the way other bands draw fans.
Archers
Orlando trio playing bright, hook-first pop-rock with synths pushed up in the mix, together since their early teens.
As You Were
OC metalcore originators — 'Lip Gloss and Black' nostalgia with new-era polish, from a band that helped write the genre's melodic playbook in the first place.
The original Of Mice & Men vocalist returning to the material after years away from touring — a scene-history moment for everyone who wore out those first records.
Gothenburg group working in modern, machine-tight heaviness rather than their city's melodeath tradition — riffs built on precision and sudden dynamic drops.
Progressive metal with no regard for song length — polka breaks, jazz detours, and genuine death-metal fury, often inside the same eleven-minute track.
Billy McNicol
Bruising American hardcore outfit from the mid-nineties, trading in blue-collar bitterness and street-punk grit.
Blue Medusa
Boltcutter
Chicago-area group that folded keyboards and sweeping synth leads into deathcore early, helping define the technical, djent-adjacent wing of the genre.
Connecticut band working the heavy end of metalcore, with hardcore-scene pacing underneath the riffs and a pit-first approach to arrangement.
Texas pop-punk comedians with better songwriting chops than the joke suggests — twenty-five years of hooks hiding under the punchlines.
Los Angeles band built on duelling front-women trading screams and clean hooks, with a shock-rock streak inherited from the Plasmatics.
New Orleans four-piece who came up alongside the nu-metal revival and then kept mutating — sludge, industrial grime and hooks delivered with a Southern sneer.
Leeds band working the melodic end of metalcore, big clean choruses set against screamed verses — polished, radio-sized heaviness with a post-hardcore heart.
A solo billing built entirely around two decades of nu-metal and groove-metal frontman work — Mudvayne intensity and HELLYEAH swagger in one set.
Chained Saint
Utah deathcore that keeps finding new floors beneath the floor — a decade-plus of low-tuned punishment that only got nastier with time.
Fat Mike's genre-agnostic side project — punk, rap, and folk stitched into something genuinely odd, with Ceschi's rapid-fire verses at the center.
Corpse Pile
Connecticut metalcore working in precise, downtuned riff architecture and hairpin dynamic turns — technical weight with the melodies left intact.
Dark Divine
Guitar-forward alt-rock built on riffs that behave like hooks — a four-piece that sounds considerably larger.
Death Valley Dreams
Los Angeles rock singer working in heavy guitars and big choruses, with a voice pitched at the back of the room.
Nashville rapper with a rock streak and a fiercely independent release history — melodic grit built entirely outside the label system.
Downswing
Connecticut metalcore outfit threading synthwave gloss through progressive riffing — neon melody over technical heft.
New York metal outfit out of the turn-of-the-millennium groove and nu-metal wave — down-tuned churn under vocals that swing between bark and bellow.
American post-grunge band formed in 1999 around Wil Martin's voice — heavy, hook-first alt-rock from the era when radio rock still filled arenas.
Elijah
Kentucky's own — post-hardcore turned silk-smooth pop-rock, playing home turf with one of the scene's most distinctive clean vocals.
'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.
Baltimore hardcore built on short, brutal bursts and unmistakable hometown pride — economical songs delivered with maximum aggression.
Alabama metalcore long-haulers who set Jesse Cash's clean melodies against JT Cavey's roar — precision riffing with an ambient, weightless sheen.
Vegas post-hardcore that survived a frontman swap and a decade of scene churn intact — arena-scene hooks with a survivor's stubbornness.
'Hey Man Nice Shot' — Richard Patrick's industrial-rock sneer intact, machine-tooled riffs from NIN's family tree.
Texas metalcore built on clean-vocal lift and reliably enormous breakdowns — arena-scale heaviness delivered with total consistency.
Fox Lake
Denver group working the heavier end of modern rock since 2017 — riff-driven and built for small rooms with loud PAs.
Freeze The Fall
Rap-rock revivalists trading verses between a singer and an MC, straight out of the 2000s playbook — updated production, same adrenaline.
German trio working the melodic end of metalcore, with Maria Lessing swinging between clean vocals and screams over post-hardcore atmosphere.
Louisville crew splitting the difference between death metal riffing and hardcore delivery, built for rooms where the pit starts on the first note.
Utah post-hardcore band out of the late-2000s scene era, keeping the theatrical screams and synth-tinted choruses fully intact.
Louisville's chaotic metalcore pride — Every Time I Die-school swerves and hooks, on a hometown play.
Intergalactic latex monsters spraying fake blood on the front rows since 1984 — thrash chops under the costumes. Wear a poncho.
H2O
A drummer-vocalist fronting frantic, jazz-inflected post-hardcore that changes direction every eight bars — Chico's contribution to the Swancore canon.
Indiana metalcore band out of the early-2000s Christian hardcore scene, with a lineup that turned over repeatedly across two vocalist eras before a farewell and eventual return.
Newer West Coast hardcore working the same fast, mean seam as its Bay Area peers — no-frills aggression built for short, violent sets.
North Carolina band who grew out of early-2000s post-hardcore into something swampier and slower-burning — Schuylar Croom's howl over riffs with real southern grit.
Heavy//Hitter
Welsh post-hardcore romantics — soaring, heart-first heaviness, every chorus written to be wept through, Cardiff sincerity at full wingspan.
LA project trading in cinematic, brooding alt-pop with a big low end — grief-forged songs delivered with theatrical force.
Holywatr
One of the bands that defined electronicore, welding trance synths and dance drops to post-hardcore — maximalist and unapologetically melodic.
Ariel Bloomer's hook-driven alt-rock project, funded and released independently by a famously devoted audience — electronics, big choruses, blunt lyrics.
ivri
Jeff Hardy
Josey Scott: The Original Voice of SALIVA
Toronto artist who moved from rap features into full pop-punk, and sounds more at home there — emo-rap roots showing through the power chords.
Kami Kehoe
Flint, Michigan band whose bleak, spoken-word-heavy metal draws directly on their hometown's violence — confrontational to the point of discomfort.
Long Island kids threading '90s melodic hardcore through big, wistful hooks that stick immediately — scene-lifer pedigree with real pop instincts.
MCR, Thursday, and Circa Survive members' supergroup — urgent, veteran post-hardcore played like a first band, not a side project.
The former Flyleaf vocalist under her own name, carrying that same raw-throated conviction into solo hard rock.
Ladrones
Ohio metalcore fronted by Chris Roetter, alternating throat-shredding screams with big clean hooks — a decade-plus of relentless touring behind them.
'My Own Worst Enemy' — one perfect song and a very good time, delivered by SoCal pros who know exactly why you came.
Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift — Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.
Locked Shut
Black Sabbath covers performed by fast-food mascots — exactly as great as it sounds, with lyrics rewritten as fast-food satire.
NYHC royalty — Freddy Cricien's bark over the crossover riffing that defined the Lower East Side sound, hardcore lineage in the literal family sense.
Keith Buckley's band after Every Time I Die, trading Buffalo's chaos for something heavier, straighter and more deliberate.
Maylene & The Sons of Disaster
American metal institution going since 1980, bridging traditional heavy metal and the speed of early thrash — riff-driven, high-register, and remarkably durable.
Missing Link
American crew working the heaviest end of hardcore since 2020 — beatdown built for two-step pits rather than record collections.
Cleveland masked-metal institution predating most of the nu-metal wave — painted faces, dual vocalists and a rotating cast held together for decades.
Nevertel
No Resolve
Australian guitarist who moved from Michael Jackson's final rehearsals to Alice Cooper's band and her own records — shredding attached to plainspoken pop-rock songwriting.
Las Vegas hard rock band fronted by the Patrick brothers, longtime fixtures of the active-rock radio circuit — post-grunge heft with anthems built for arenas they've mostly opened.
'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' — San Diego's nu-metal survivors, positivity intact through every scene cycle.
Three brothers making self-described fashion-art rock, glam theatrics wrapped around garage riffs — a band with one of the most devoted young fanbases in rock.
Slam played with a hip-hop swagger — gurgles, gore, and breakdowns tuned to the floor, the internet's favorite new heaviness.
Spider One's long-running industrial metal outfit, built on sci-fi B-movie imagery and pneumatic riffs — 'When Worlds Collide' still detonating three decades on.
President
Downtuned riffs and half-rapped menace from nu-metal's major-label boom years, running in fits and starts until the band finally called it quits in 2015.
Formerly Slaves, rebuilt around melody — modern post-hardcore with the edges sanded deliberately smooth and the choruses aimed at radio.
'End of Silence' anniversary — orchestral Christian metal's biggest debut, replayed in full with the strings intact.
Lyon quintet folding post-hardcore urgency into djent-adjacent heaviness, with strings and clean choruses used as pressure release.
Pennsylvania technical death metal band who folded saxophone into the blast beats and made it feel inevitable rather than gimmicky — heavy music with a jazz lung.
Sace6
Keyboard-led post-hardcore with a genuinely gorgeous streak under the screaming — scene-era drama back from the vault.
Pink-glitter 'bimbocore' — pop-metalcore with a feminist bite, breakdowns in hot pink and lyrics that name names.
Sent By Ravens
Set For Tomorrow
Theatrical pop-rock with orchestral flourishes and a frontman who can genuinely belt — Broadway instincts at Warped velocity.
Snarling young punk energy on the Sunday undercard.
American deathcore at its most relentless — downtuned slams and guttural low end delivered with enough precision to keep the brutality legible.
Silly Goose
New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end — the format's next arena act in waiting.
Late-nineties American heavy rock act that came up through the post-grunge and alt-metal churn and never softened the riffs.
Max Cavalera's post-Sepultura vehicle, still fusing tribal percussion with pure groove-metal weight — three decades of roar undiminished.
Bay Area deathcore with a bottomless low end and breakdowns that arrive like a door being kicked in — no melody, no mercy.
Long-running American hard rock band with roots in the late-nineties Christian scene, trading screamed passages for big melodic choruses.
Space-suit cinematic rock — sci-fi lore with radio-metal hooks, a full 'demonstration' rather than a mere concert.
Bay Area beatdown that turned meme-level swagger into a genuinely feared live act — the joke stopped being a joke fast.
Surfaced
Louisville post-grunge veterans on home ground — 'Breakdown'-era radio rock played for the crowd that grew up on it.
Denison, Texas outfit dealing in what frontman Big Dad Ritch calls red dirt metal — Southern swagger welded to thick, stoner-weight riffing.
Punishingly slow, tuned-into-the-floor heaviness with Vincent Bennett's misanthropy on top — doom tempos, hardcore intent, heaviness as a moral position.
Long-running American pop-punk act whose late-90s and early-2000s run made them fixtures of the skate-punk era, still touring on those hooks.
The Barbarians of California
Atlanta theatrical rock outfit with a taste for gothic showmanship — post-hardcore heft dressed in ringmaster flourish.
Seattle's funk-flecked pop-metalcore — groove first, breakdowns second, and falsetto hooks the scene didn't see coming.
The Pretty Wild
Finnish rock veterans who broke internationally with 'In the Shadows' after years of funk-inflected work at home — three decades of goth-tinged arena hooks.
Jacksonville post-hardcore whose one inescapable single has kept the whole catalogue in rotation for two decades — 'Face Down' still hits its mark.
The Violent Hour
Phoenix metalcore fronted by Telle Smith, alternating clean choruses with breakdowns and drifting toward electronics as the years pass.
Post-hardcore that leans into the ache — glossy production over genuinely raw heartbreak, built for night drives after the show.
Post-hardcore's elder statesmen — heavy, literate, endlessly evolving, and never once coasting on the back catalog.
'Full Collapse' pioneers — the bridge between hardcore and emo, still vital, with Geoff Rickly's yelp intact.
'Possum Kingdom' — Texas alt-rock's eternal dark ride, still promising to be your angel nightly, Texas gothic in radio form.
Los Angeles heavyweights pairing crushing metallic hardcore with a genuinely crooned baritone — goth romance smuggled into the pit.
TX2
Vana
vianova
Los Angeles band who came up in the early djent wave and stayed strange — polyrhythmic guitar figures loosened by hip-hop swing and clean-sung hooks.
'Check Yes Juliet' — MySpace-era pop-punk sunshine, Florida warmth that never curdled, and the chorus still checks yes.
Wind Walkers
Zero 9:36
American singer working the seam between big-tent rock and rap-inflected pop-punk, delivering arena-scaled hooks with a screamer's commitment.
The headliners
My Chemical Romance — Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera — marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
Iron Maiden — Up the irons — metal's greatest live institution, Eddie included, galloping twin leads and Bruce Dickinson sprinting the stage like it's 1985.
Tool — Prog-metal's cathedral builders — polyrhythms, lasers, and total audience surrender, Danny Carey's drumming alone worth the pilgrimage.
Limp Bizkit — Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
Pantera — The reborn kings of groove metal — their only U.S. show of 2026, 'Walk' and 'Cowboys from Hell' as scripture. The reborn groove-metal kings, playing their only U.S. show of 2026.
Pierce The Veil — San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act — the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
Gojira — France's environmental-metal titans — from the Olympics opening ceremony to the pit, whale-song riffs and precision heaviness with an actual conscience.
Sublime — Sun-bleached ska-punk-dub hybrid, now carried by Bradley Nowell's son with the songs left intact — '40oz. to Freedom' forever.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Sleep Theory — Memphis alt-metal's fastest riser: R&B-smooth vocals over crushing grooves.
The Home Team — Seattle's funk-flecked pop-metalcore: groove first, breakdowns second.
Scene Queen — Pink-glitter 'bimbocore': pop-metalcore with a feminist bite.
The Warning — Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone: Mexico's hard-rock pride.
Bilmuri — Absurdist country-core gone legitimately huge: saxophones and breakdowns.
Other acts worth planning around
Megadeth — Mustaine's farewell campaign: thrash's most venomous catalog, one last ride.
Cavalera — Max and Iggor performing Sepultura's Roots in full: Brazilian metal history, live.Danny Elfman — Oingo Boingo's madman turned Burton's composer, a berserk orchestral-rock spectacle.
The Mars Volta — At the Drive-In's cosmic successors: salsa-prog freakouts and falsetto fire.
Circa Survive — Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited (soaring, strange, beloved).
- Mac Sabbath — Black Sabbath covers performed by fast-food mascots. Exactly as great as it sounds.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (September 17)
Iron Maiden, Pantera, Megadeth, Danzig, Rise Against, Alice Cooper + 42 more
Thursday set times (48 sets)
- Chained Saint · Life Stage
- Set For Tomorrow · Big Bourbon Bar
- The Violent Hour · Louder Stage
- King 810 · Impact Stage
- Mac Sabbath · Life Stage
- Sent By Ravens · Big Bourbon Bar
- Zero 9:36 · Decibel Stage
- Metal Church · Louder Stage
- Signs of the Swarm · Impact Stage
- Red · Reverb Stage
- vianova · Loudmouth Stage
- GWAR · Life Stage
- Holy Wars · Big Bourbon Bar
- The Ataris · Decibel Stage
- Suicidal Tendencies · Louder Stage
- Born of Osiris · Impact Stage
- The Rasmus · Reverb Stage
- Machine Head · Life Stage
- Cane Hill · Loudmouth Stage
- Lit · Decibel Stage
- Dark Divine · Big Bourbon Bar
- Anthrax · Louder Stage
- Emmure · Impact Stage
- Adelitas Way · Reverb Stage
- Like Moths To Flames · Loudmouth Stage
- Sabaton · Life Stage
- Bowling For Soup · Decibel Stage
- Elijah · Big Bourbon Bar
- The Acacia Strain · Impact Stage
- Alice Cooper · Louder Stage
- From Ashes To New · Reverb Stage
- Volumes · Loudmouth Stage
- Danzig · Life Stage
- After The Burial · Impact Stage
- Alkaline Trio · Decibel Stage
- Archers · Big Bourbon Bar
- Megadeth · Louder Stage
- ERRA · Loudmouth Stage
- Starset · Reverb Stage
- Pantera · Life Stage
- Thousand Below · Big Bourbon Bar
- Hot Mulligan · Decibel Stage
- Currents · Loudmouth Stage
- Iron Maiden · Louder Stage
- Skillet · Reverb Stage
- Chelsea Grin · Impact Stage
- Rise Against · Decibel Stage
- Fit For A King · Loudmouth Stage
Friday lineup (September 18)
My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, A Day To Remember, The Used, Coheed and Cambria, The Pretty Reckless + 44 more
Friday set times (49 sets)
- ivri · Life Stage
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus · Louder Stage
- Lacey Sturm · Life Stage
- American Monster · Decibel Stage
- Ladrones · Loudmouth Stage
- L.S. Dunes · Louder Stage
- Death Valley Dreams · Reverb Stage
- Billy McNicol · Big Bourbon Bar
- Nevertel · Loudmouth Stage
- Get Scared · Life Stage
- Showing Teeth · Decibel Stage
- Gates To Hell · Impact Stage
- We The Kings · Louder Stage
- Butcher Babies · Reverb Stage
- 40 Below Summer · Big Bourbon Bar
- Wind Walkers · Loudmouth Stage
- Vana · Decibel Stage
- Loathe · Life Stage
- Missing Link · Impact Stage
- Earshot · Big Bourbon Bar
- Rain City Drive · Loudmouth Stage
- Mushroomhead · Reverb Stage
- Coheed and Cambria · Louder Stage
- KOYO · Impact Stage
- Scene Queen · Decibel Stage
- The Word Alive · Loudmouth Stage
- Primer 55 · Big Bourbon Bar
- Sleeping with Sirens · Life Stage
- Soulfly · Reverb Stage
- Twitching Tongues · Impact Stage
- Dead Poet Society · Decibel Stage
- Holding Absence · Loudmouth Stage
- Taking Back Sunday · Louder Stage
- Dry Kill Logic · Big Bourbon Bar
- Blue Medusa · Reverb Stage
- Angel Du$t · Impact Stage
- The Used · Life Stage
- President · Loudmouth Stage
- The Warning · Decibel Stage
- Jeff Hardy · Big Bourbon Bar
- HAYWIRE · Impact Stage
- A Day To Remember · Louder Stage
- Cavalera · Reverb Stage
- Soil · Big Bourbon Bar
- Pierce The Veil · Life Stage
- The Pretty Reckless · Decibel Stage
- Knocked Loose · Impact Stage
- Chad Gray: Voice of Mudvayne & HELLYEAH · Reverb Stage
- My Chemical Romance · Louder Stage
Saturday lineup (September 19)
Limp Bizkit, Sublime, Papa Roach, BABYMETAL, Halestorm, Circa Survive + 45 more
Saturday set times (51 sets)
- TX2 · Life Stage
- Diamante · Decibel Stage
- Josey Scott: The Original Voice of SALIVA · Louder Stage
- Emarosa · Reverb Stage
- The Funeral Portrait · Life Stage
- Kami Kehoe · Decibel Stage
- Freeze The Fall · Loudmouth Stage
- Codefendants · Impact Stage
- Alien Ant Farm · Louder Stage
- Scary Kids Scaring Kids · Reverb Stage
- Heavy//Hitter · Loudmouth Stage
- As You Were · Big Bourbon Bar
- Set It Off · Life Stage
- Icon For Hire · Decibel Stage
- Many Eyes · Impact Stage
- Silly Goose · Loudmouth Stage
- Hail The Sun · Reverb Stage
- P.O.D. · Louder Stage
- Doobie · Big Bourbon Bar
- The Barbarians of California · Impact Stage
- Orianthi · Decibel Stage
- Nothing More · Life Stage
- Fox Lake · Loudmouth Stage
- No Resolve · Big Bourbon Bar
- Thursday · Reverb Stage
- H2O · Impact Stage
- Tom Morello · Louder Stage
- PeelingFlesh · Loudmouth Stage
- Spoken · Big Bourbon Bar
- Lindsey Stirling · Decibel Stage
- Madball · Impact Stage
- Ice Nine Kills · Life Stage
- Chiodos · Reverb Stage
- OTHERWISE · Big Bourbon Bar
- Spite · Loudmouth Stage
- Bilmuri · Louder Stage
- Agnostic Front · Impact Stage
- In This Moment · Decibel Stage
- Tantric · Big Bourbon Bar
- Boundaries · Loudmouth Stage
- BABYMETAL · Life Stage
- Dance Gavin Dance · Reverb Stage
- Blood For Blood · Impact Stage
- Texas Hippie Coalition · Big Bourbon Bar
- Sublime · Louder Stage
- Kublai Khan TX · Loudmouth Stage
- Halestorm · Decibel Stage
- Powerman 5000 · Big Bourbon Bar
- Papa Roach · Life Stage
- Circa Survive · Reverb Stage
- Limp Bizkit · Louder Stage
Sunday lineup (September 20)
Tool, Gojira, Danny Elfman, The Prodigy, The Mars Volta, Mastodon + 43 more
Sunday set times (49 sets)
- Austin Carlile: The Original Voice of Of Mice & Men · Decibel Stage
- Rivers of Nihil · Life Stage
- He Is Legend · Reverb Stage
- Between The Buried And Me · Life Stage
- Caskets · Decibel Stage
- Surfaced · Impact Stage
- Toadies · Louder Stage
- Maylene & The Sons of Disaster · Reverb Stage
- Sace6 · Loudmouth Stage
- Animals As Leaders · Life Stage
- Future Palace · Big Bourbon Bar
- I See Stars · Decibel Stage
- Boltcutter · Impact Stage
- Filter · Louder Stage
- Emery · Reverb Stage
- The Pretty Wild · Loudmouth Stage
- Dethklok · Life Stage
- Escape The Fate · Decibel Stage
- Corpse Pile · Impact Stage
- Haste The Day · Reverb Stage
- Arrows in Action · Loudmouth Stage
- Ministry · Louder Stage
- Dreamwake · Big Bourbon Bar
- Atreyu · Decibel Stage
- 200 Stab Wounds · Impact Stage
- Black Label Society · Life Stage
- Alexisonfire · Reverb Stage
- Holywatr · Loudmouth Stage
- The Mars Volta · Louder Stage
- Resolve · Big Bourbon Bar
- Black Veil Brides · Decibel Stage
- End It · Impact Stage
- Mastodon · Life Stage
- Thrice · Reverb Stage
- Downswing · Big Bourbon Bar
- Killswitch Engage · Decibel Stage
- Locked Shut · Impact Stage
- Jutes · Loudmouth Stage
- Danny Elfman · Louder Stage
- Aviana · Big Bourbon Bar
- Underoath · Reverb Stage
- Gojira · Life Stage
- Greyhaven · Big Bourbon Bar
- The Prodigy · Decibel Stage
- Sunami · Impact Stage
- The Home Team · Loudmouth Stage
- Tool · Louder Stage
- 156/Silence · Big Bourbon Bar
- Sleep Theory · Loudmouth Stage
Louder Than Life 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Louder Than Life 2026?
September 17–20, 2026, Thursday through Sunday.
Where does Louder Than Life take place?
Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY.
Who is headlining Louder Than Life 2026?
Iron Maiden and Pantera (Thursday), My Chemical Romance and Pierce The Veil (Friday), Limp Bizkit and Sublime (Saturday), and Tool with Gojira (Sunday).
How many bands are playing?
198 announced acts across seven stages over four days.
What days and times do specific bands play?
Set times are live. The festival published its full schedule on 13 August, and every act on this page carries a day, a stage and a set time. Expand the full lineup below, or use the day-by-day breakdown. The one exception is Palaye Royale, still billed for the Friday but not yet given a slot.
How do I figure out which of the 198 bands I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love, and it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
Who plays Thursday at Louder Than Life 2026?
Thursday, September 17: Iron Maiden, Pantera, Megadeth, Danzig, Rise Against, Alice Cooper, plus 42 more acts.
Who plays Friday at Louder Than Life 2026?
Friday, September 18: My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, A Day To Remember, The Used, Coheed and Cambria, The Pretty Reckless, plus 44 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Louder Than Life 2026?
Saturday, September 19: Limp Bizkit, Sublime, Papa Roach, BABYMETAL, Halestorm, Circa Survive, plus 45 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Louder Than Life 2026?
Sunday, September 20: Tool, Gojira, Danny Elfman, The Prodigy, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, plus 43 more acts.
Are set times out for Louder Than Life 2026?
Yes. The full schedule is live: the day-by-day section on this page lists every act with its set time.
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