Damnation Festival have added three more heavyweight names to their 2026 bill. Post metal standouts Pelican, mathcore extremists Frontierer and black metal experimentalists Krallice all make their festival debut at this year’s edition, which takes place across Saturday and Sunday, 7 and 8 November at Manchester’s BEC Arena.
The trio join an already obscenely stacked bill including Cult of Luna, Satyricon, Igorrr, Carcass, Health, Crowbar, Triptykon and Wolves In The Throne Room, alongside recent additions Car Bomb and Møl.
Pelican bring two decades of pioneering instrumental post metal to proceedings, whilst Glasgow-based Frontierer continue to redefine what mathcore can sound like with their signature wall of distorted noise. Krallice round things out with the kind of avant garde black metal that has made them critical darlings of the underground scene.
Day splits have now also been confirmed, giving fans the chance to plan their weekends in detail. With more than half the tickets already sold and the festival on track for a record sell out, weekend and limited day tickets are on sale now, with instalment plans available.
We’ve watched Damnation grow into one of the genuine pillars of UK underground metal, and a 2026 lineup that combines this calibre of headliners with debut appearances from Pelican, Frontierer and Krallice is exactly why it keeps earning that reputation.
