Rotten Sound, Converge, Eyehategod and more announced for Obscene Extreme 2026

Czech Republic’s legendary extreme music festival Obscene Extreme has begun unveiling its lineup for 2026, and the first announced names already promise another brutally packed edition.

Among the early headliners confirmed for Obscene Extreme 2026 are Rotten Sound, Converge, Eyehategod, and Benighted. As usual, the festival will focus on grindcore, death metal, hardcore, and other extreme subgenres from around the world.

Obscene Extreme 2026 dates and location

Obscene Extreme 2026 will take place from July 1 to July 5, 2026, at its traditional home in Trutnov – Battlefield, Czech Republic. Tickets for the event are already on sale via the festival’s official channels.

According to the organizers, the full lineup will eventually feature 84 bands, with more announcements expected in the coming months.

First announced bands for Obscene Extreme 2026

Accion Mutante
Amputated Genitals
Assassin
Avskum
Bad Acid Trip
Benighted
Bodyfarm
Bodyrot
Bonded
Botulism
Centinex
Converge
Cút Lộn
Decorticate
Decrepid
Delinquentes
Demonical
Despondency
Devangelic
Dwarves
Eat The Decay
Embrace Your Punishment
Embryonic Devourment
Eyehategod
Fleshcrawl
Fosse Septique
Fredag Den 13:e
Heavy Kevy
Hideous Divinity
Choof
Insanity Alert
Isacaarum
Jungle Rot
Keitzer
Macabre
Macabre Minstrels
Maceration
Malignant Tumour
Masacre
Melting Rot
Morgue Breath
Morta Skuld
Možnost Volby?
Necrot
Not!
Nunslaughter
Opstand
Oxidised Razor
Øblast
Paediatrician
Phantom
Phrenetix
Poison The Preacher
Pro-Pain
Purulent
Pustulant Flesh
Rectal Smegma
Repulsive Feast
Retorsion
Rotten Sound
Season Of The Dead – Killjoy Lives
Social Shit
Spoiled
Sulfuric Cautery
Svaveldioxid
Taedifer
Tension
Teratoma
TFB
The Accüsed AD
The Atrocity Exhibit
Uncurbed
Unlocked
Vor Die Hunde
Vulvectomy
Warcollapse

More announcements still to come

With only the first waves revealed, Obscene Extreme 2026 is expected to grow even heavier as additional bands are announced. Given the festival’s long-standing reputation, more international grindcore, death metal, and hardcore heavyweights are likely to join the bill.