Furnace Fest 2026 Drops Massive Lineup With BMTH Underoath Circa Survive and More

Furnace Fest just dropped its 2026 lineup and I need you to sit down for this one. The Birmingham, Alabama festival is returning to Sloss Furnaces on October 10 and 11 with a bill that feels like someone cracked open a time capsule from 2006 and decided to make it everyone's problem.

The big story here is Bring Me The Horizon headlining Sunday night and performing Count Your Blessings in full. This is being billed as a North American exclusive, which means if you want to see BMTH rip through their 2006 deathcore debut on this side of the Atlantic, this is your shot. The album is turning 20 this year and the band has already performed the set for the first time ever at Manchester's B.E.C. Arena. They're also releasing Count Your Blessings | Repented, a fully re-recorded 20th anniversary edition, on July 10. The BMTH of 2006 was a completely different animal than the band you know now, and getting to hear that album front to back at Sloss Furnaces is going to be something else.

Two Days, Not Three

Before we get into the rest of the lineup, it's worth noting that Furnace Fest is running as a two-day event this year instead of the usual three. The festival went through some significant changes behind the scenes. After the 2025 edition dealt with lower than expected ticket sales and financial losses, founding partner Johnny Grimes departed and the festival was sold to an outside production company. That new team is covering outstanding debts and taking the reins going forward. Monster Energy is on board as the main sponsor. Different era for Furnace Fest, but if this lineup is any indication, the new ownership is swinging hard.

Saturday's Lineup Is Stacked

Saturday, October 10 is headlined by A Day to Remember and honestly the undercard might be even more exciting than the top of the bill. Underoath is performing Define the Great Line in full for its 20th anniversary. That album came out on June 20, 2006 through Tooth & Nail Records, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, and moved 98,000 copies in its first week. The music video for Writing on the Walls was nominated for a Grammy. If you were in the scene in 2006, you know exactly how massive that record was. Underoath has stayed busy too. They dropped their tenth studio album The Place After This One on March 28, 2025.

Then there's Circa Survive. I'll be real, this is the one that hit me. The band confirmed an indefinite hiatus back in the fall of 2022 after frontman Anthony Green suffered a relapse. They said goodbye with that year's Two Dreams and that felt like it might be the end. Since then, Green has stayed active with L.S. Dunes, collaborated with Skrillex, and reconnected with The Sound of Animals Fighting for both an album and a short tour. But a proper Circa Survive reunion? That's a different level. They also announced reunion shows at Louder Than Life and The Fillmore in Philadelphia. The initial Fillmore date sold out in hours, forcing the band to add two more nights. Furnace Fest is one of only a handful of reunion dates announced so far.

The rest of Saturday includes Chiodos, We Came As Romans, Hatebreed, Poison the Well, Cartel, Hail the Sun, Emery, The Almost, Origami Angel, Spite, Stick To Your Guns, Haywire, Gideon, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Koyo, Ben Quad, Carly Cosgrove, and a ton more. That Saturday card alone is worth the price of admission.

Sunday Is Pure Heaviness

Sunday tilts heavier. Along with BMTH headlining, you've got Motionless In White, Slaughter to Prevail, Kublai Khan TX, The Plot In You, Norma Jean, Suicide Silence, Bleeding Through, Thrown, Emmure, Chelsea Grin, Carnifex, Eighteen Visions, Angel Du$t, Microwave, Winds of Plague, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Free Throw, Sleeping Giant, Bodysnatcher, and more. That's a brutal day of music. The kind where your neck is going to hurt by the end of it.

The 20th Anniversary Angle

What really ties this lineup together is the nostalgia factor. Both Count Your Blessings and Define the Great Line came out in 2006. Twenty years later, both albums are getting the full album performance treatment at the same festival. Add in Circa Survive coming back from what everyone thought was a permanent goodbye, and Furnace Fest 2026 is shaping up to be a legitimate pilgrimage for anyone who grew up on mid-2000s heavy music. The setting doesn't hurt either. Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark, and performing heavy music among towering smokestacks and old ironworks just hits different.

Tickets and Details

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 15 at 10 AM CT through the official Furnace Fest website. The event is all ages. There's no camping on site, but there are hotels nearby in Birmingham. With a lineup this loaded on only two days, I wouldn't wait around on this one. Don't sleep on it.

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