With just 49 days to go until Graspop Metal Meeting 2026 takes over Dessel, organisers have revealed the final nine bands rounding out the bill. Evergrey, Infected Rain, King 810, Kuazar, Mantah, Suicidal Angels, Triggerfinger, Vower and Zetra all join the line-up, locking in one of the most diverse European metal weekends of the summer.
It’s a properly varied closing salvo. Evergrey bring their melancholic Swedish progressive metal, Infected Rain add modern metalcore bite, and King 810 return with their unflinching Flint, Michigan grit. Greek thrashers Suicidal Angels will satisfy the old school crowd, while Belgian rockers Triggerfinger play on home soil. Heavier underground picks Vower, Zetra, Mantah and Kuazar round things out with everything from black metal atmospherics to riff driven heaviness.
Not all news is good news, mind. Bush, Forbidden, Harms Way and Scowl have all had to cancel their appearances at this year’s festival. TX2 have been shifted from Sunday to Friday.
Tickets are vanishing fast. Thursday 18 June, Saturday 20 June and all VIP tickets are completely sold out, with only a handful left for Sunday 21 June. Combi, Friday and Sunday tickets remain available. The Metal Park, Devil’s Lake, Metal Town and Inferno campsites are also full, though the pre-pitched FestiTent option at Boneyard is still open for those who’d rather skip the tent wrestling.
Now in its 29th edition, Graspop Metal Meeting runs 18 to 21 June 2026 across five stages in Dessel, Belgium, drawing tens of thousands of metalheads to what’s become the Benelux’s biggest and most diverse metal gathering. With the line-up now complete, stage times will be announced in the run up to the festival.
We’ve watched Graspop grow into one of the genuine pillars of the European festival circuit, and with this final reveal, the 2026 bill looks every bit the heavyweight it should.
