{"id":345919,"date":"2025-12-13T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:39:08","slug":"killswitch-engage-ministry-obituary-and-more-than-40-other-acts-announced-for-milwaukee-metal-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345919\/","title":{"rendered":"Killswitch Engage, Ministry, Obituary, and More Than 40 Other Acts Announced for Milwaukee Metal Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few weeks, we\u2019ve heard rumblings of who will be playing next year\u2019s Milwaukee Metal Fest. First, it was confirmed that Acid Bath would be headlining<\/a> and that was why the festival\u2019s dates were moved. Then we learned that not only was Iron Reagan reuniting, but they were playing<\/a> at The Rave\/Eagles Ballroom during the annual fest. <\/p>\n

Now, with the holidays right around the corner, festival organizers dropped a big ass gift at our heavy metal tree and revealed a couple dozen acts slated to play Milwaukee Metal Fest 2026 \u2014 and the list is already jam packed with hard hitters.<\/p>\n

According to today\u2019s announcement, Acid Bath will be the headliner on Friday, June 5, Killswitch Engage will headline Saturday, June 6, and Ministry will headline Sunday, June 7.<\/p>\n

In addition to the headliners, we now know a huge number of bands that will be playing the fest. Some standouts include Agalloch, Obituary, Deadguy, Nails, and Polkadot Cadaver, to name a few. The following is the full list of currently announced acts so far:<\/p>\n

Acid Bath<\/p>\n

After The Burial<\/p>\n

Agalloch<\/p>\n

Belushi Speed Ball<\/p>\n

Brick By Brick<\/p>\n

Casket Robbery<\/p>\n

Dark Horse Prophet<\/p>\n

Dead By Wednesday<\/p>\n

Deadguy<\/p>\n

Dusk<\/p>\n

Eyes Of The Living<\/p>\n

Havok<\/p>\n

Hirax<\/p>\n

Human Artifacts<\/p>\n

Incite<\/p>\n

Integrity<\/p>\n

Internal Bleeding<\/p>\n

Iron Reagan<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Nothing<\/p>\n

Killswitch Engage<\/p>\n

Master<\/p>\n

Ministry<\/p>\n

Misery<\/p>\n

Morta Skuld<\/p>\n

Nails<\/p>\n

Nunslaughter<\/p>\n

Obituary<\/p>\n

Polkadot Cadaver<\/p>\n

Power Trip<\/p>\n

Prong<\/p>\n

Striking 13<\/p>\n

Sworn Enemy<\/p>\n

Thanatotic<\/p>\n

Threnody<\/p>\n

Trip To The Morgue<\/p>\n

Uada<\/p>\n

Weekend Nachos<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Metal Fest will once again take place at The Rave\/Eagles Ballroom from June 5 to 7, with a pre-party scheduled to take place on June 4. Tickets will go on sale this Monday, December 15, with single, two-day, and three-day options available. If you\u2019d like to attend next year\u2019s Milwaukee Metalfest, you can ensure your spot at the show by\u00a0securing your tickets online<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the last few weeks, we\u2019ve heard rumblings of who will be playing next year\u2019s Milwaukee Metal Fest.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-345919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}