Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denverreturns to Denver for its fifth round, tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 4-5, 2026. And now the full can-crushing band and brewery lineup can finally be revealed!
Southern doom supergroupDownmake their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash metal legendsSuicidal Tendencieswill unleash their first Denver headline performance in over eight years on Friday night (December 4).
The already stacked artist bill, presented byBLKIIBLK Records,is rounded out by: legendary DMV grind forcePig Destroyer (performing a special 25th anniversaryProwler in the Yardset);reunited progressive psych sludge institutionKylesa; New York hardcore legendsCro-Mags (performing a special 40th anniversaryThe Age of Quarrelset); Denver’s own Americana gunslingersWayfarer; freshly resurrected death/thrash/crust killersBlack Breath; progressive sludge crewIntronaut(performing for the first time in over four years); masked mincecore maraudersHaggusand Denver doom lordsIn the Company of Serpents.
But that’s just the (sober) half of it! America’s most metal breweries and meaderies will descend upon the beer capital of America to provide essential suds to the soundtrack of crushing metallic thuds! Presented by American craft beer vanguard 3Floyds Brewing(IN), the murderous maelstrom of malts includes Featured Breweries—and Meadery—WarPigs Brewing(IN), XUL Beer Company(TN),Brimming Horn Meadery(DE), Bear Cult BrewingCo.(DE), Odell Brewing Co (CO),Zymos Brewing (CO), Mythk Brewing (FL), Surly Brewing Co (MN),Left Hand Brewing(CO), plus pours from RatioBeerworks(CO).
Daily lineups can be found below. All ticket options for Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026, including single-day tickets, go on sale on Friday, July 31 at 10am MT.
IMPORTANT: We’re already down to anextremely limitednumber of three-day passes that include tickets to the official Metal & Beer PRE-Fest at Ratio Beerworks (Larimer Street location) on December 3 withClusterfux, Axeslasher and Victim of Fire. Full daily lineups below.
DECEMBER 3 (Pre-fest at Ratio Beerworks)
Clusterfux
Axeslasher
Victim of Fire
DECEMBER 4 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Suicidal Tendencies
Pig Destroyer (specialProwler in the Yardset)
Cro-Mags(specialThe Age of Quarrelset)
Black Breath
Haggus
DECEMBER 5 (at Fillmore Auditorium)
Down
Kylesa
Wayfarer
Intronaut
In the Company of Serpents
“Just Metal” Ticket (21+)
Admittance to the day’s event, but as the name suggests, you just get to see the show—no beer samples.
“Metal & Beer” Ticket (21+)
Admittance to the day’s event plus unlimited* sampling from our diverse lineup of national breweries presented by 3 Floyds. Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 sampling cups provided. Limited tickets available per day.
*Please note: In extremely extreme cases, certain high-ABV pours will be ticketed, with attendees receiving a limited number of tickets available to redeem for each offering.
Hails and ales to our sponsors!
BLKIIBLK Records
3 Floyds Brewing
WarPigs Brewing
Relapse Records
Metal Blade Records
XUL Beer Company
Dunable Guitars
Nuclear Blast Records
IndieMerchStore
Brimming Horn Meadery
Bear Cult Brewing Co.
EMG Pickups
Surly Brewing Co.
Zymos Brewing
Mythk Brewing
Odell Brewing Co.
Left Hand Brewing
Prosthetic Records
Infernal Spirits
Tankcrimes
Dark Descent Records
Sauce Leopard
Ratio Beerworks
