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Venice Beach hardcore punk band whose debut album, Time to Burn, was produced by Ross Robinson and released on Blowed Out Records in May 2026.

Michael Starr, Satchel, Spyder and Stix Zadinia play glam-metal satire as Steel Panther, a Los Angeles act that started as the Sunset Strip covers band Metal Skool.

Craig Mabbitt has fronted this Las Vegas band since 2008; The Last Goodbye came out on Big Noise on October 2, 2026, after the singles "Déjà Vu," "Idle Potential" and "Paranoia."

Detroit band behind the 1990s rock-radio hits "Plowed" and "Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)," led by founding singer Vinnie Dombroski.

Detroit horrorcore duo Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, face paint and Faygo included; the founders of Psychopathic Records and of the Juggalo fanbase.

Alt-rock singer raised on a ranch in rural Ottawa and now based in Los Angeles; his phone-made "Sleepyhead" broke through in 2024, and August 2026's Chin Up, Beautiful is a record Melodic called his heaviest.

Knoxville alt-metal band behind the platinum-certified 2005 hit "Wasteland," a No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.

Isla Vista, California hard rockers ("Everything About You," a Top 10 cover of "Cats in the Cradle") who reunited in 2010 and say their next album will be heavier.

Page Hamilton's New York band, whose clipped, drop-tuned riffs on 1992's gold-certified, Grammy-nominated Meantime shaped alternative metal; latest album Left (2023).

Swedish progressive metalcore band from Karlskoga, formed in 2020 and signed to Century Media.

Emmy-winning composer of Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead and God of War, billed by the festival as "The Legendary Composer" and touring his own hard rock concept albums.

Dallas metalcore band now pared down to singer Andy Leo and guitarist Brandon Hoover, whose June 2026 single "raw" was their first new music since the 2023 album Dogma.

Israeli melodic metalcore band that favors steady EP drops over long album gaps; the festival bills their Saturday set as the band's U.S. debut.

Travie McCoy's rap-fronted band from Geneva, New York, behind "Cupid's Chokehold" and "Stereo Hearts," back in 2026 with "Universal Language," their first new single since 2011.

Brick Squad rapper behind Flockaveli and "No Hands" who already got a rock crowd moshing at Welcome to Rockville in 2026.

Brendan B. Brown's band, still touring "Teenage Dirtbag" 25 years on, and still writing: Brown said in 2025 he had about a dozen new songs to record.

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, band whose 2013 song "Youngest Daughter" went gold more than a decade after release; their self-titled comeback album arrived in April 2025.

Travis Clark's pop-punk band from Bradenton, Florida, best known for "Check Yes Juliet" and the Demi Lovato duet "We'll Be a Dream."

Texas pop-punk band behind "1985" and "High School Never Ends," led by Jaret Reddick. Founding guitarist Chris Burney retired in January 2025.

Atlantic Records alt-rock singer whose 15-track album LOVE IS A WEAPON came out August 28, 2026, ahead of a fall run opening for Breaking Benjamin.

Bassist Aaron Pauley now sings lead for this Orange County metalcore band, whose ninth album, Another Miracle, came out in November 2025. They played the 2026 Warped Tour.

Masked Pacific Northwest rapper known for "Red Vineyard" and "Circus Psycho," whose music runs from rap into horrorcore.

Matt McAndrew fronts this alt-rock band, formed out of the post-hardcore band Slaves; their second album, Things Are Different Now, came out on Thriller Records in 2024.

"Starting Over Again," their first new song in more than a decade, marked this Orange County post-hardcore band's return with singer Cove Reber.

Rock Sound's Best British Artist for 2026, an Oxford four-piece splicing 2000s pop-punk melodies with nu-metal riffs.

Bay Area thrash band led by Chuck Billy and Eric Peterson; Para Bellum (2025) is their first album with drummer Chris Dovas, and they support Meshuggah across North America in 2027.

Kristopher Roe's pop-punk band, best known for So Long, Astoria and its cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer," which reached No. 20 on the Hot 100.

Fronted by Jon Lundin, this Los Angeles band was revived by a 2018 cover of nothing,nowhere. and now leans heavier, with features alongside The Ghost Inside and Ray Volpe.

Keaton Prescott's dubstep-and-metal project, guitar slung over the decks; after his first European headline tour and a 2026 Welcome to Rockville set, he's back on the rock-festival circuit.

French producer Franck Hueso's darksynth project: horror-movie synths at metal volume, fresh off Leather Temple, the 2026 finale of his Leather trilogy.

Jess Margera and Chad I Ginsburg's band from West Chester, Pennsylvania, behind "96 Quite Bitter Beings"; their 2026 song "Beware of the Heartless" carries a solo from the late Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds.

Industrial metal band behind 1995's Demanufacture, led by guitarist Dino Cazares and now fronted by singer Milo Silvestro.

A Tasmanian artist who folds nu-metal, trap and jazz into the same set; Kim Dracula also guests on In This Moment's 2026 album Witch.

Atlanta pop-punk quartet that became the first all-Black band to top Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart, with "Get the Message" from their debut EP NSFW.

Sumerian Records signee raised in Auckland, blending industrial alt-metal with electro-pop hooks ahead of a debut album.

Massachusetts band born as a Vein.fm side project, splitting vocals between Anthony DiDio and Marisa Shirar over shoegaze haze and hardcore bite.

Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro's paired voices anchor this Milan gothic metal band; Sleepless Empire, their tenth album, came out on Century Media in 2025.

Grammy-nominated for its 2006 debut End of Silence, this hard rock band is carried on by co-founders Randy and Anthony Armstrong, with AJ Reingardt of OHKAYA filling in on vocals after Michael Barnes's 2026 exit.

Matt Thiessen's band from Canton, Ohio, behind "Be My Escape" and Mmhmm, on Sunday's lineup in what the festival bills as a rare show.

Nashville-based extreme-music project led by vocalist Addison, whose debut EP A Fate Worse Than Loneliness came out on Republic/Spinefarm in September 2026.

Santa Barbara nu-metal band whose 1997 album Get Some was its only record with Lynn Strait, now fronted by Andy Knapp and recording new music.

Founded by Max Cavalera after he left Sepultura in 1996, this Arizona-based band released its thirteenth album, Chama, on Nuclear Blast in October 2025.

Pittsburgh metalcore band fronted by Jack Murray; From a Distance (2026), their first record for Pure Noise, opens with a sample from Severance.

Electronicore band from Michigan behind 3-D and Digital Renegade, back on festival bills with THE WHEEL, their first album since 2016.

Started in 2004 by Minnesota high-school classmates Trent Hafdahl and Justin Lowe, this metalcore band began tracking its first album since 2019's Evergreen in March 2026.

Solo project of former Archers bassist Oscar Porter, mixing metal, trap and dance ideas; second album The Shape of Blue came out on Hopeless Records in October 2026.

Buffalo emo-pop band from the mid-2000s Fueled by Ramen class, booked for Sunday in what the festival bills as a reunion show.

Hard-rock choruses meet metalcore weight in this Orlando band, playing Saturday behind Undead Melody, their May 2026 album on Thriller Records.

Queens, New York heavy band fronted since 2003 by Frankie Palmeri, built on bouncing, nu-metal-indebted breakdowns over death-metal-tinged hardcore.

Patrick Glover fronts this Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, metalcore band; Where the Light Begins to Fade came out on Thriller Records in August 2026.

Oklahoma slam death metal band fronted by Damonteal Harris, whose 2024 debut album The G Code samples Project Pat over breakdowns.

R&B-metal duo on Sumerian Records whose debut album, brutalist, came out May 8, 2026, with jxdn guesting on "reverie."

Brothers Mitch, Scott and George Swanger lead this Moscow, Idaho, hard rock band, whose 2016 "Fragile Minds" video has passed 46 million YouTube views.

Matthew McDougal's metalcore band from Connecticut, whose fourth album, Yearning: The unbeautiful after, was their July 2026 debut on Sumerian Records.

Dallas pop-punk band behind "Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)," playing what the festival bills as a Reunion Show in a 2027 run that also includes Welcome to Rockville and the UK's Slam Dunk.

Dual vocalists Han Mee and Jim Shaw lead this Manchester band; their second album, Corporation P.O.P (2025), takes aim at modern Britain.

Max Cavalera's 1994 industrial-thrash side project, first made with Fudge Tunnel's Alex Newport, revived for the stage with Max's son Igor Amadeus Cavalera.

James DeBerg fronts this San Diego post-hardcore band, whose fourth album, Buried In Jade, came out in August 2025 through Pale Chord and Rise.

Nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for "Smothered," this Los Angeles nu-metal and industrial band has been back since 2025 with original members Jonny Santos, Rob Garcia and Tommy Decker.

Seattle Christian metal band led by Ryan Clark since 2000; in 2026 they toured for the 20th anniversary of Storm the Gates of Hell and sued Netflix over KPop Demon Hunters.

Catch My Butterfly, the John Feldmann-produced third album from this Los Angeles rock trio, is due January 15, 2027; they broke through by topping Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart while still unsigned.

Westchester County, New York heavy band (formerly Hinge) whose 2001 Roadrunner debut, The Darker Side of Nonsense, anchored their first run. They returned to the stage in 2025 after a long hiatus.

Yukina, Matsuri, Hettsu and Chika's Tokyo band, mixing metalcore, groove metal, hyperpop and vocaloid; their HOT TOPIC EP came out in January 2026.

Texas atmospheric metalcore band whose 2023 album Heavener still anchors its set, now joined by "Fall Like Rain," an April 2026 single about singer Marcus Vik's insomnia.

Halo-themed studio project turned symphonic deathcore band, started in Connecticut in 2013 by vocalist Ben Duerr and guitarist Chris Wiseman.

Heidi Shepherd now leads this Los Angeles metal band alone, out supporting Nightbloom, the October 2026 album on Judge & Jury Records.

Lou Miceli is back in front of this New Jersey post-hardcore band, which spent a decade on Rise Records and split in 2023; the festival bills this as a reunion show.

British metal band led by Josh Middleton, whose thrash-rooted seventh album The New Flesh arrived on Nuclear Blast in February 2026.

Former Fever 333 members Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta, now an electronic-rock duo based in Los Angeles and signed to Red Bull Records.

Southern California post-hardcore band whose September 2026 album, Searching for the Things We Don't Wish to Find, came out on SBG Records.

David Gunn's fully independent band from Flint, Michigan; La Grande Mort or Silence of God, a sequel in spirit to 2016's La Petite Mort, is due November 27, 2026.

Gothenburg doom trio touring Neverending, its 2026 Relapse Records album produced by Sylvia Massy, whose credits include Tool and the Melvins.

Alice Cooper's guitarist since 2014 and a solo artist in her own right; "Dead Inside" with David Draiman made her the first solo woman to top Mainstream Rock Airplay since 1990.

Otep Shamaya's nu-metal band, which Sonic Temple bills as a "Rare Show." Shamaya announced her retirement in November 2024, then returned with new music in August 2026.

Spellemann winners for 2024's Tundra Rock, a Bergen, Norway riff band whose first U.S. headline tour came through Columbus in April 2026.

California deathcore band fronted by Darius Tehrani, touring NEW WORLD KILLER, their Halloween 2025 album on Rise Records.

Sisters Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez lead this Arizona metalcore band, playing together again since 2023 and revisiting their 2008 debut Reach on tour.

Long Island hardcore band with a metallic edge, touring their self-titled second album, released on DAZE in September 2026.

Christian metalcore band from Ohio on Solid State Records, whose sixth album Wasteland (2025) was co-produced with Spiritbox bassist Josh Gilbert.

Found On Road Dead, this hardcore band's five-track debut EP, came out on Nuclear Blast in October 2026, with a vinyl pressing made to look like a tire.

Sword-swinging Brooklyn fantasy-metal band led by Riley Pinkerton's Rat Queen; the festival bills this as one of just two U.S. Castle Rat performances in 2027.

Duo of theOGM and Eaddy, splicing hardcore punk, rap and industrial noise; 2022's SKIN was produced by Travis Barker.

New York hardcore band that began as an Agnostic Front offshoot with a 12-year-old Freddy Cricien on vocals, and made its name with 1994's Set It Off on Roadrunner.

Solid State signees from Montpellier, France, pairing metalcore weight with atmospheric post-hardcore.

AWOLNATION singer Aaron Bruno's heavy side project: hardcore and thrash with a straight-faced sense of humor, now touring the 2026 album MEGATONS.

Absolute Elsewhere, this Denver death metal band's two-song 2024 album, was named the best metal album of the year by Metal Hammer.

London folk-horror heavy metal band whose fourth album, Necropolitan (Nuclear Blast, September 2026), tours the overgrown Victorian cemeteries ringing their city.

Brook Reeves fronts this California Christian deathcore band, billed by the festival as a Rare Show; their most recent full-length came out in 2018.

Boston-area metalcore veterans fronted by Trevor Phipps, whose eighth album, The Wretched; The Ruinous, came out on Century Media in May 2023.

Two-time Grammy-nominated Massachusetts metal band back from a long hiatus, with their first new music in over a decade and, by their guitarist's account, a finished comeback album.

Atlanta rap-rock band reviving late-'90s nu-metal for a generation too young to remember it the first time; their second album Keys to the City came out in 2025.

Garret Rapp's metalcore band from Rockford, Illinois; after going quiet in 2018 they now play only occasional shows, and the festival bills this as a rare reunion show.

Lena Scissorhands fronts this Moldovan metal band, signed to Napalm Records and touring behind 2024's TIME.

Dallas-Fort Worth nu-metal band that calls its sound "thug metal," with rap vocals, a DJ and a heavy debt to French nu-metal.

Athenar's hooded black-and-roll project out of Cleveland, mixing first-wave black metal, speed metal and punk; signed to Metal Blade.

Billed as the voice of Mudvayne and HELLYEAH, Chad Gray plays songs from both bands under his own name while Mudvayne sits out 2026.