Louder Than Life festival reveals additional wave of bands for this year’s edition

Bringing the biggest roster in the festival’s history and the biggest bill ever put together by producer Danny Wimmer Presents, Louder Than Life will make its eleventh appearance at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky from September 17–20, as per Blabbermouth. Louder Than Life 2026 will have an amazing four days of music, with Tool and Limp Bizkit joining previously confirmed headliners My Chemical Romance and Iron Maiden. Over 200 artists from various rock genres will perform on seven stages at Louder Than Life 2026.

Confirmed artists:

• 156/Silence
• 200 Stab Wounds
• 40 Below Summer
• A Day To Remember
• Adelitas Way
• After The Burial
• Agnostic Front
• Alien Ant Farm
• Alissa White-Gluz
• Alice Cooper
• Alexisonfire
• Alkaline Trio
• Animals As Leaders
• Angel Du$T
• Annisokay
• Archers
• Arrows In Action
• Atreyu
• Austin Carlile: The Original Voice Of Of Mice & Men
• Aviana
• BabyMetal
• Badflower
• Band-Maid
• Between The Buried And Me
• Billy McNicol
• Bilmuri
• Black Label Society
• Black Veil Brides
• Blood For Blood
• Bodybox
• Bodysnatcher
• Boltcutter
• Born Of Osiris
• Bowling For Soup
• Boundaries
• Butcher Babies
• Cane Hill
• Caskets
• Cavalera
• Chad Gray
• Chained Saint
• Chelsea Grin
• Chiodos
• Circa Survive
• Coal Chamber
• Codefendants
• Coheed And Cambria
• Conjurer
• Corpse Pile
• Currents
• Dance Gavin Dance
• Danny Elfman
• Danzig
• Dark Divine
• Daughtry
• Death Valley Dreams
• Decessus
• Dethklok
• Diamante
• Doobie
• Dreamwake
• Dry Kill Logic
• Earshot
• Elijah
• Emarosa
• Emmure
• Emery
• End It
• Erra
• Escape The Fate
• Filter
• Fit For A King
• Fox Lake
• Frozemode
• From Ashes To New
• Future Palace
• Gates To Hell
• Gemini Syndrome
• Get Scared
• Gojira
• Greyhaven
• GWAR
• H2O
• Hail The Sun
• Halestorm
• Haste The Day
• Haywire
• He Is Legend
• Heavy//Hitter
• Here Comes The Kraken
• Holding Absence
• Holy Wars
• Holywatr
• Hot Mulligan
• Hot Milk
• I See Stars
• Ice Nine Kills
• Icon For Hire
• In Thisnmoment
• Iron Maiden
• Ivri
• Jeff Hard
• Jimmy Eat World
• Josey Scott: The Original Voice Of Saliva
• Jutes
• Kami Kehoe
• Killswitch Engage
• King 810
• Koyo
• Kubalai Khan TX
• L.S. Dunes
• Lacey Sturm: The Voice Of Flyleaf
• Lit
• Lindsey Stirling
• Loathe
• Locked Shut
• Lo Spirit
• Machine Head
• Mac Sabbath
• Madball
• Make Them Suffer
• Many Eyes
• Marmozets
• Mastodon
• Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster
• Megadeth
• Metal Church
• Missing Link
• Ministry
• Mushroomhead
• Nevertel
• Nothing More
• Orianthi
• Otherwise
• P.O.D.
• Palaye Royale
• Pantera
• Papa Roach
• Peelinflesh
• Pierce The Veil
• PowerMan 5000
• President
• Primer 55
• Private School
• Rain City Drive
• Red
• Resolve
• Rise Against
• Rivers Of Nihil
• Sace6
• Sabaton
• Scene Queen
• Scary Kids Scaring Kids
• Sent By Ravens
• Set For Tomorrow
• Set It Off
• Shaman’s Harvest
• Showing Teeth
• Signs Of The Swarm
• Skillet
• Sleeping With Sirens
• Sleep Theory
• Soil
• Soulfly
• Spite
• Stampin’ Ground
• Starset
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Sunami
• Tantric
• Taking Back Sunday
• Texas Hippie Coalition
• The Acacia Strain
• The Ataris
• The Barbarians Of California
• The Funeral Portrait
• The HomenTeam
• The Mars Volta
• The Pretty Reckless
• The Pretty Wild
• The Prodigy
• The Rasmus
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• The Used
• The Violent Hour
• The Warning
• The Word Alive
• Thousand Below
• Thrice
• Thursday
• Toadies
• Tom Morello
• Tool
• Twitching Tongues
• TX2
• UnderOath
• Vana
• Vianova
• Volumes
• We The Kings
• Wind Walkers
• Zero 9:36