{"id":414795,"date":"2026-01-18T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414795\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:18:09","slug":"new-england-metal-and-hardcore-festival-to-sit-out-2026-this-isnt-goodbye-its-just-a-breather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414795\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New England Metal And Hardcore Festival&#8217; To Sit Out 2026: &#8220;This Isn&#8217;t Goodbye \u2014 It&#8217;s Just A Breather&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual \u2018New England Metal And Hardcore Festival\u2018 will be taking 2026 off. Organizers for the long-running festival took to social media yesterday, January 16th, to issue the following statement regarding their planned absence this year:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a great run, we\u2019re taking 2026 off. This isn\u2019t goodbye \u2014 it\u2019s just a breather.<\/p>\n<p>NEMHF will return. Thank you for always showing up and making this fest what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Held yearly in Worcester, MA, the \u2018New England Metal And Hardcore Festival\u2018 began back in 1999. Its initial run persisted through to 2016 before going on a five-year hiatus that ended in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual \u2018New England Metal And Hardcore Festival\u2018 will be taking 2026 off. Organizers for the long-running festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,198796],"class_list":["post-414795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-england-metal-and-hardcore-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414795","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=414795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}