Graspop reveals 91 additional bands for 2026 edition

Author Benedetta Baldin - 31.10.2025

With as many as 14 acts announced for #GMM26 earlier this week, the festival is now fleshing out the line-up with another 91(!) bands for the upcoming 29th edition of Graspop Metal Meeting. A Day to RememberAlter BridgeAnthraxBlack Label SocietyForeignerIce Nine KillsMastodonThree Days Grace and Tom Morelloare just a few of the heavy hitters that will grace the stage in Dessel next summer. 

No fewer than 37 acts are making their GMM debut. Check them all out here. Bold means new addition!

Here is the full list of new confirmations for the line-up of #GMM26: AcceptA Day to RememberAlter Bridge, Ankor, AnthraxAvatar, Bark, Battle Beast, Black Label Society, Bloodywood, Bury Tomorrow, Carpenter Brut, Catch Your Breath, Corrosion of Conformity, Cult of Luna, Death to All, Decapitated, Drain, Drowning Pool, Ego Kill Talent, Elder, Embryonic Autopsy, EuropeExtreme, Faetooth, Feuerschwanz, Forbidden, Foreigner, Future Palace, Gaerea, Gatecreeper, Grade 2, Guilt Trip, Harms Way, Hollywood UndeadIce Nine Kills, John Coffey, Kadavar, Kanonenfieber, Kublai Khan TX, Lacuna Coil, Lagwagon, Lakeview, letlive., Life of Agony, Lionheart, Loathe, Magnolia Park, Mammoth, Mastodon, Moonspell, Mouth Culture, Old Man’s Child, Oranssi Pazuzu, P.O.D., Pennywise, Periphery, Possessed, President, Primal Fear, Queensrÿche, Rain City Drive, Return to Dust, Rivers of Nihil, Scowl, Septicflesh, Sepultura, Set It Off, Sinsaenum, Six Feet Under, Snot, Sólstafir, Static-X, TesseracT, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Funeral Portrait, The Gathering, The Plot in You, Thornhill, Three Days Grace, Thrown, Tom MorelloTrivium, TX2, Uada, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Venom, Wargasm, We Came as Romans, Wind Rose, Wolves in the Throne Room.

Tickets for GMM 2026 will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Saturday 8 November through Ticketmaster. Mastercard holders can get their hands on presale tickets between 10 a.m. on Thursday 06 November and 9 a.m. on Saturday 08 November [festival and VIP tickets only]. Go to priceless.com/music for full details.

About GMM: For four days, Graspop Metal Meeting 2026 will once again transform the quiet town of Dessel into the roaring epicentre of the hard rock and metal scene. Five stages, awesome headliners, raging riffs, emerging metal gods and colossal mosh pits will shake the earth to its very core. For its 29th edition, Graspop Metal Meeting is billing the cream of the international hard rock and metal scene. From 18-21 June 2026, tens of thousands of metalheads will converge on Dessel to experience the biggest and most diverse metal festival of the Benelux. GMM2026: be there or be square!

Undead – unstoppable!