The daily set times have been announced for Louder Than Life 2026, returning to the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY, September 17–20.
This year’s festival features more than 200 bands across seven stages, with My Chemical Romance, Iron Maiden, Tool, Limp Bizkit, Gojira, Pantera, Pierce The Veil, Papa Roach, A Day To Remember, Sublime, Megadeth and Danny Elfman among the headliners.
Festival gates open at 10:45 a.m. each day. Set times are subject to change. Get tickets here.
Thursday, September 17th
Louder Stage:
Iron Maiden – 8:45 PM
Megadeth – 6:35 PM
Alice Cooper – 4:45 PM
Anthrax – 3:15 PM
Suicidal Tendencies – 1:55 PM
Metal Church – 12:50 PM
The Violent Hour – 11:55 AM
Life Stage:
Pantera – 7:30 PM
Danzig – 5:40 PM
Sabaton – 4:00 PM
Machine Head – 2:30 PM
GWAR – 1:20 PM
Mac Sabbath – 12:20 PM
Chained Saint – 11:30 AM
Decibel Stage:
Rise Against – 10:05 PM
Jimmy Eat World – 8:15 PM
Hot Mulligan – 6:35 PM
Alkaline Trio – 5:05 PM
Bowling For Soup – 3:50 PM
Lit – 2:40 PM
The Ataris – 1:30 PM
Reverb Stage:
Skillet – 9:10 PM
Starset – 7:25 PM
From Ashes To New – 5:50 PM
Red – 4:30 PM
The Rasmus – 3:15 PM
Adelitas Way – 2:05 PM
Zero 9:36 – 12:55 PM
Loudmouth Stage:
Fit For A King – 10:05 PM
Currents – 8:15 PM
ERRA – 6:35 PM
Volumes – 5:20 PM
Like Moths To Flames – 3:55 PM
Cane Hill – 2:35 PM
vianova – 1:15 PM
Impact Stage:
Chelsea Grin – 9:10 PM
After The Burial – 5:50 PM
The Acacia Strain – 4:35 PM
Emmure – 3:15 PM
Bom Of Osiris – 2:05 PM
Signs Of The Swarm – 1:00 PM
King 810 – 12:00 PM
Big Bourbon Bar:
Thousand Below – 7:20 PM
Archers – 5:20 PM
Elijah – 4:25 PM
Dark Divine – 3:00 PM
Holy Wars – 1:30 PM
Sent By Ravens – 12:30 PM
Set For Tomorrow – 11:30 AM
Friday, September 18th
Louder Stage:
My Chemical Romance – 9:25 PM
A Day To Remember – 7:10 PM
Taking Back Sunday – 5:30 PM
Coheed And Cambria – 3:50 PM
We The Kings – 2:25 PM
L.S. Dunes – 1:15 PM
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – 12:05 PM
Life Stage:
Pierce The Veil – 8:15 PM
The Used – 6:20 PM
Sleeping With Sirens – 4:40 PM
Loathe – 3:05 PM
Get Scared – 12:40 PM
Lacey Sturm – 11:30 AM
Decibel Stage:
The Pretty Reckless – 10:00 PM
The Warning – 8:15 PM
Dead Poet Society – 6:25 PM
Scene Queen – 5:15 PM
Vana – 4:05 PM
Showing Teeth – 2:55 PM
American Monster – 1:45 PM
Reverb Stage:
Chad Gray – 9:05 PM
Cavalera – 7:25 PM
Blue Medusa feat Alissa White-Gluz – 5:50 PM
Soulfly – 4:40 PM
Mushroomhead – 3:30 PM
Butcher Babies – 2:20 PM
Death Valley Dreams – 1:10 PM
Loudmouth Stage:
PRESIDENT – 6:25 PM
Holding Absence – 5:25 PM
The Word Alive – 4:30 PM
Rain City Drive – 3:35 PM
Wind Walkers – 2:40 PM
NEVERTEL – 1:35 PM
Cenobia – 12:40 PM
Impact Stage:
TBA – 8:15 PM
Haywire – 6:50 PM
Angel Du$t – 5:55 PM
Twitching Tongues – 5:00 PM
Koyo – 4:05 PM
Missing Link – 3:10 PM
Gates To Hell – 2:15 PM
Big Bourbon Bar:
SOiL – 7:00 PM
Jeff Hardy – 5:00 PM
Dry Kill Logic – 4:05 PM
Primer 55 – 2:55 PM
Earshot – 2:00 PM
40 Below Summer – 1:10 PM
Billy McNicol – 12:05 PM
Saturday, September 19th
Louder Stage:
Limp Bizkit – 9:45 PM
Sublime – 7:30 PM
Bilmuri – 5:45 PM
Tom Morello – 4:05 PM
P.O.D. – 2:30 PM
Alien Ant Farm – 1:15 PM
Josey Scott: The Original Voice Of Saliva – 12:05 PM
Life Stage:
Papa Roach – 8:25 PM
BABYMETAL – 6:35 PM
Ice Nine Kills – 4:55 PM
Nothing More – 3:15 PM
Set It Off – 1:50 PM
The Funeral Portrait – 12:40 PM
TX2 – 11:30 AM
Decibel Stage:
Halestorm – 7:45 PM
In This Moment – 6:05 PM
Lindsey Stirling – 4:25 PM
Orianthi – 3:00 PM
Icon For Hire – 1:50 PM
Kami Kehoe – 12:40 PM
Diamante – 11:30 AM
Reverb Stage:
Circa Survive – 8:40 PM
Dance Gavin Dance – 6:55 PM
Chiodos – 5:15 PM
Thursday – 3:40 PM
Hail The Sun – 2:25 PM
Scary Kids Scaring Kids – 1:15 PM
Emarosa – 12:05 PM
Loudmouth Stage:
Kublai Khan TX – 7:35 PM
Boundaries – 6:25 PM
Spite – 5:20 PM
PeelingFlesh – 4:15 PM
Fox Lake – 3:20 PM
Silly Goose – 2:25 PM
Heavy//Hitter – 1:30 PM
Freeze The Fall (Twitch winner) – 12:40 PM
Impact Stage:
Blood For Blood – 7:05 PM
Agnostic Front – 5:55 PM
Madball – 4:50 PM
H2O – 3:50 PM
The Barbarians Of California – 2:50 PM
Many Eyes – 1:55 PM
Codefendants – 1:00 PM
Big Bourbon Bar:
Powerman 5000 – 8:05 PM
Texas Hippie Coalition – 7:10 PM
Tantric – 6:10 PM
Otherwise – 5:15 PM
Spoken – 4:20 PM
No Resolve – 3:25 PM
Doobie – 2:35 PM
As You Were – 1:45 PM
Sunday, September 20th
Louder Stage:
Tool – 9:25 PM
Danny Elfman – 7:10 PM
The Mars Volta – 5:25 PM
Ministry – 3:45 PM
Filter – 2:15 PM
Toadies – 1:00 PM
Life Stage:
Gojira – 8:15 PM
Mastodon – 6:15 PM
Black Label Society – 4:35 PM
Dethklok – 2:55 PM
Animals As Leaders – 1:35 PM
Between The Buried And Me – 12:25 PM
Rivers Of Nihil – 11:30 AM
Decibel Stage:
The Prodigy – 8:25 PM
Killswitch Engage – 6:55 PM
Black Veil Brides – 5:30 PM
Atreyu – 4:10 PM
Escape The Fate – 3:00 PM
I See Stars – 1:50 PM
Caskets – 12:40 PM
Austin Carlile – 11:30 AM
Reverb Stage:
Underoath – 7:40 PM
Thrice – 6:15 PM
Alexisonfire – 4:50 PM
Haste The Day – 3:35 PM
Emery – 2:25 PM
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster – 1:15 PM
He Is Legend – 12:05 PM
Loudmouth Stage:
Sleep Theory – 10:05 PM
The Home Team – 8:45 PM
Jutes – 7:00 PM
Holywatr – 4:50 PM
Arrows In Action – 3:35 PM
The Pretty Wild – 2:25 PM
sace6 – 1:15 PM
Impact Stage:
Sunami – 8:25 PM
Locked Shut – 6:55 PM
End It – 5:30 PM
200 Stab Wounds – 4:10 PM
Corpse Pile – 3:00 PM
Boltcutter – 1:50 PM
Surfaced – 12:40 PM
Big Bourbon Bar:
156/Silence – 9:30 PM
Greyhaven – 8:20 PM
Aviana – 7:25 PM
Downswing – 6:20 PM
Resolve – 5:25 PM
Dreamwake – 4:00 PM
Future Palace – 1:45 PM
