Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest

There will be thrashing all around on May 2-3, 2026, when Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly returns to the Fillmore Philly and turns your boring festival into art for its ninth year! And for the first time ever, Metal & Beer Fest (the metal part at least) will be an ALL-AGES show!

Texas crossover thrash juggernauts Power Trip will headline the Sunday night with their first Philly performance in seven years, while Richmond heroes Municipal Waste will close out Saturday evening via a special celebration of selections from their thrash metal landmark ‘The Art of Partying.’

Of course, our flight of special sets doesn’t end there! Montréal death metal kings Cryptopsy will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their ‘None So Vile’ LP with a set of vintage (and a few new) rippers, while New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags will perform their genre-defining ‘The Age of Quarrel’ album to honor its 40th anniversary.

The already stacked artist bill, presented by BLKIIBLK, is rounded out by: freshly reunited progressive psych sludge institution Kylesa; Oakland death metal raiders Necrot; Italian death cultists Fulci; bicoastal masked mincecore marauders Haggus; capitol grindcrushers No/Más; and D.C. death/grind blasters Blood Monolith.