This is where it starts – the Tuska festival, which will be held in Suvilahti, Helsinki, from 26 to 28 June 2026, has announced the first performers for next summer. The headliners will be announced in two pieces right away:
Bring Me The Horizon, from Sheffield, England, will rightfully claim one of the Tuska 2026 headliner spots. BMTH, which started out as a deathcore act in 2004, is now more of an alternative metal band with electronic and pop influences.
Bring Me The Horizon has carved out its own niche on the path of modern metal and is one of the most significant influences and trendsetters in its genre. The “POST HUMAN: NeX GEn” album, released in 2024, took BMTH’s already huge international popularity to even greater heights, and the band’s fan base continues to grow, one continental-shaking gig at a time.
Bring Me The Horizon’s Tuska show the previous summer was quite the mind-blower, and with the band currently perhaps in a stronger position than ever, it’s worth holding on to your metaphorical and even real hats!
You ordered this and it’s here; Bad Omens is one of the headliners of Tuska 2026. The band had to cancel their European tour in the summer of 2024, including the eagerly awaited Tuska show so this has been awaited!
US metalcore sensation Bad Omens is definitely one of the hottest names in modern heavy music right now. Formed in 2015, the band mixes heavy expression, ripping melodies, and a dark, unapologetic aesthetic. It’s a combination that resonates with many.
With their 2022 breakthrough album “The Death of Peace of Mind,” Bad Omens introduced a new kind of electronic depth and darkness, and its title track went viral on social media, reflecting the explosive growth of the band’s fan base worldwide. Frontman Noah Sebastian’s multi-dimensional voice is the musical core of Bad Omens. The band’s art is simultaneously extremely visual, captivating, and startlingly personal.
Other Tuska 2026 performers who have just been announced include the American metalcore band The Plot In You, the American band Blood Incantation, which plays experimental and psychedelic death metal, the American Queensrÿche, one of the founding fathers of prog metal, Kublai Khan TX, a band from Texas that leans on the tradition of 90s metal hardcore and rolls extremely heavy, the English band Malevolence, who play traditional metalcore, Soilwork, one of the pioneers of melodic death metal from Gothenburg, the American Rivers of Nihil, who play extreme technical death metal, the Finnish band Ensiferum, who spice up their melodic death metal with folk metal influences, the modern Finnish band Bloodred Hourglass, who are at the forefront of Finnish metal, the Swedish messenger of symphonic power metal Majestica, the Australian metalcore phenomenon Melrose Avenue, a genre-breaking combination of mathcore, nu metal and chaotic emo serving up The Callous Daoboys from Atlanta and the Danish Neckbreakker, who carve out old-school death metal with a modern twist.
Confirmed Tuska 2026 performers:
Bring Me The Horizon, Bad Omens
The Plot In You, Blood Incantation, Queensrÿche
Kublai Khan TX, Malevolence, Soilwork
Rivers of Nihil, Ensiferum, Bloodred Hourglass, Majestica
Melrose Avenue, The Callous Daoboys, Neckbreakker
Artists’ performance dates will be announced later.
More programs will be released later this year.
Tickets:
Tuska 2026 3-day tickets, as well as VIP 3-day tickets are now available through Tuska’s official ticketing partners, Tiketti and Lippu.fi.
Other ticket categories will be on sale later.
Three-day tickets from €239.00
VIP three-day tickets from €379.00
In collaboration with: Fortum, Helsinki, Karhu, Radio City, Redi
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