📋About
Music Forge Festival 2026: metal and rock in Lich, Germany
Music Forge Festival is a metal and rock festival held at Licher Waldschwimmbad in Hesse. Over three days, the festival brings together 24 artists celebrating heavy music in a friendly outdoor natural setting.
The 2026 edition explores heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal and power metal. The festival pairs metal legends with underground acts in an intense and varied programme.
The bill also ventures into folk metal, melodic death metal, doom metal and hard rock. Groove metal, stoner metal and progressive metal round out a lineup drawing extreme music fans.
From August 20 to 22, 2026, Lich becomes the temple of metal in Hesse. Explore the lineup and book your tickets.
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🎤Lineup
Headliners
SIGNS OF THE SWARM
Deathcore
Deez Nuts
Hardcore Punk
Stick To Your Guns
Hardcore Punk
April Art
Alternative Metal
Alexis in Texas
Heavy Metal
Artemis Rising
Heavy Metal
BLUTHUND
Rap Metal
Caught In A Mirror
Heavy Metal
Dark Days
Heavy Metal
Doppelbock
Alternative Rock
Dying Breed
Heavy Metal
Elwood Stray
Metalcore
Ground2A
Rock
HENKER
Rap/Hip Hop
King Nugget Gang
Rock
Mental Cruelty
Deathcore
Never Back Down
Metalcore
Our Mirage
Rock
Postmodern Fantasy
Rock
Revolte Tanzbein
Alternative
Roberto Blanco
Schlager
Samurai Pizza Cats
Metalcore
Watch me Rise
Alternative
XO Armor
Heavy Metal
Location
Licher Waldschwimmbad, Germany
