Louder Than Life Announces 2026 Lineup With Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, Tool
Louder Than Life has announced that it will be returning to the Kentucky Expo Center from September 17th-20th, 2026 in Louisville, KY. The massive rock festival will be headlined over four days by Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, and Tool. Other notable performances on the lineup will come from artists like Megadeth, A Day To Remember, Sublime, Danny Elfman, Danzig, The Used, Baby Metal, Mastodon, Pantera, Pierce The Veil, Papa Roach, Gojira, Rise Against, The Pretty Reckless, Halestorm, Killswitch Engage, Skillet, Chad Gray, Circa Survive, Underoath, and so many more.
Passes are on sale now, and you can view the full lineup below. Who are you most looking forward to seeing?
Louder Than Life
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Alice Cooper
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Metal Church
The Violent Hour
Pantera
Danzig
Sabaton
Machine Head
Gwar
Mac Sabbath
Chained Saint
Rise Against
Jimmy Eat World
Hot Mulligan
Alkaline Trio
Bowling For Soup
Lit
The Ataris
Skillet
Starset
From Ashes To New
Red
The Rasmus
Adelitas Way
Zero 9:36
Fit For A King
Currents
Erra
Make Them Suffer
Volumes
Like Moths To Flames
Cane Hill
Chelsea Grin
After The Burial
The Acacia Strain
Emmure
Born of Osiris
Signs of the Swarm
King 810
Thousand Below
Archers
Elijah
Dark Divine
Holy Wars
Sent By Ravens
Set For Tomorrow
Friday, September 18th, 2026
My Chemical Romance
A Day To Remember
Taking Back Sunday
Coheed and Cambria
We The Kings
L.S. Dunes
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Pierce The Veil
The Used
Sleeping With Sirens
Loathe
Get Scared
Lacey Sturm
Ivri
The Pretty Reckless
The Warning
Badflower
Palaye Royale
Scene Queen
Vana
Showing Teeth
Chad Gray (Mudvayne, Hellyeah vocalist)
Cavalera (playing Roots album in full)
Alissa White-Gluz
Soulfly
Mushroomhead
Butcher Babies
Death Valley Dreams
President
Holding Absence
Caskets
Rain City Drive
Wind Walkers
Nevertel
(Mystery Guest TBA)
(Special Guest Performance TBA)
Haywire
Angel Du$t
Twitching Tongues
Koyo
Missing Link
Gates to Hell
Jeff Hardy (WWE Superstar)
Powerman 5000
Dry Kill Logic
Primer 55
Earshot
40 Below Summer
Billy McNicol
Saturday, September 19th, 2026
Limp Bizkit
Sublime
Bilmuri
Tom Morello
Coal Chamber
P.O.D.
Alient Ant Farm
Josey Scott (the original voice of Saliva)
Papa Roach
Baby Metal
Ice Nine Kills
Nothing More
Set It Off
The Funeral Portrait
TX2
Halestorm
In This Moment
Lindsey Stirling
Orianthi
Icon For HJire
Kami Kehoe
Diamente
Circa Survive (Reunion Show)
Dance Gavin Dance
Chiodos
Thursday
Hail The Sun
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Emarosa
Kublai Khan TX
Boundaries
Spite
Bodysnatcher
Peelingflesh
Fox Lake
Heavy//Hitter
Blood for Blood
Agnostic Front
Madball
H2O
The Barbarians of California
Many Eyes
Codefendants
Soil
Texas Hippie Coalition
Gemini Syndrome
Shaman’s Harvest
Tantric
Otherwise
Doobie
Sunday, September 20th, 2026
Tool
Danny Elfman
The Prodigy
The Mars Volta
Ministry
Filter
Toadies
Gojira
Mastodon
Black Label Society
Dethklok
Animals as Leaders
Between The Buried and Me
Rivers of Nihil
Killswitch Engage
Black Veil Brides
Atreyu
Escape The Fate
I See Stars
The Word Alive
Austin Carlile
Underoath
Thrice
Alexisonfire
Haste The Day
Emery
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
He Is Legend
Sleep Theory
The Home Team
Jutes
Holywatr
Arrows In Action
The Pretty Wild
Sace6
Sunami
Locked Shut
End It
200 Stab Wounds
Bodybox
Corpse Pile
Boltcutter
516 Silence
Greyhaven
Aviana
Vianova
Resolve
Dreamwake
Future Palace
