Metalfest Open Air 2026

🤘 METALFEST is entering its 15th season! 🤘
The traditional metal start of the festival summer in PLZNIA will be packed with stars! 🌟

The popular international metal festival METALFEST OPEN AIR, which annually kicks off the summer festival season in PLZNI at the beginning of June, has the full programme for its 15th edition, which will take place at the amphitheatre Lochotín from Friday 5 June to Sunday 7 June 2026! 📅

Festival passes and single day tickets are on sale, as are places in campsites and car parks. 🎫 Hot news is the possibility to buy comfortably furnished tents in the tent city CHILL VILLAGE, with a range of services with parking free! ⛺🚗

🎸 And who will come to the 15th METALFEST?
AVANTASIA - the amazing and always breathtaking metal opera by Tobias Sammet. AVANTASIA will bring to FULL not only their bombastic, tenth studio album "Here Be Dragons " 🐉 but also all their world famous hits, in their biggest and most epic festival show ever! AVANTASIA, the project of master Tobias Sammet and his impeccable musical renditions of visions, dreams and breathtaking journeys into fantasy, enchanting choruses and catchy symphonic-metal storytelling in a totally immersive, colourful show you'll never forget! At METALFEST 2026 in PLZEN! 💥

SEPULTURA - last festival show in the Czech Republic! 🇧🇷 The renowned Brazilian metal icon SEPULTURA celebrated an impressive 40 years on the world metal scene and said goodbye to active playing and travelling the world on a very powerful, emotionally charged tour. Next summer they want to say goodbye to their festival life as well and for their last festival performance they have chosen METALFEST in Pilsen! 📢 Don't miss the opportunity to see and hear the greatest hits of the famous SEPULTURA one last time live! 🔥

ANTHRAX - after a great performance at the Birmingham Ozzy farewell concert, ANTHRAX announce their return to European stages! 🎸 You can see them here at METALFEST in Pilsen! ANTHRAX are responsible for the creation of speed and thrash metal. According to Rolling Stone, ANTHRAX were one of the few heavy metal bands that received praise in the 80s and managed to redefine the genre. Their musical style is unmistakable - fast, aggressive, thunderous. 👊 They incorporated heavy metal, punk, grunge and darker alternative directions, but the main and always the most distinctive was, is and will be classic thrash-metal.

ACCEPT - 50th Anniversary show 🇩🇪 German heavy metal legend ACCEPT will celebrate their fantastic 50th anniversary at METALFEST 2026! 🎂 To mark this huge milestone, the band will celebrate their golden birthday not only with a completely unique anniversary tour, but also with an anniversary album to be released in early 2026! ACCEPT have successfully shaped generations of metal musicians and fans alike, and with their unmistakable sound, they belong in the Metal Hall of Fame! 🏛️ At METALFEST in PLZEN you can expect a fantastic metal journey through time in a breathtaking stage show. The greatest hits and those songs that have rarely been played live will be performed. And maybe there will be some surprise guests... 👀

🔥 Other confirmed bands:
You'll also see the crowd favourite, Peter Tägtgren with his industrial-metal parade PAIN ⚡, American symphonic-power metal superstar KAMELOT ✨, Swiss hard-rock star GOTTHARD 🇨🇭, the fantastic power-metal rocket BATTLE BEAST with new female vocalist 🎤, the popular symphonic-metal band BEYOND THE BLACK or the increasingly admired undead band DOMINUM 🧟.

ECLIPSE, FREEDOM CALL, SOEN, CREMATORY, ORPHANED LAND, CHARLOTTE WESSELS, CRYPTA, APRIL ART, MOONLIGHT HAZE, EMIL BULLS, TRI STATE CORNER, SOVENGAR, SEASONS IN BLACK, NEVERLAND and home-grown SOLAR SYSTEM confirmed their participation. 🎸

The 15th edition of METALFEST will go down in history in a big way! ✍️ We hope and with a record number of you fans on site! Let's create together a new milestone of this great start of the metal festival summer in PLZNIA! 🍻

Pilsen's METALFEST OPEN AIR opens the festival summer 2026 with a big bang! Be there! 🎆