Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver returns to Denver for its fifth round, tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 4-5, 2026. And now the full can-crushing band and brewery lineup can finally be revealed!
Southern doom supergroup Down make their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash metal legends Suicidal Tendencies will unleash their first Denver headline performance in over eight years on Friday night (December 4).
The already stacked artist bill, presented by BLKIIBLK Records, is rounded out by: legendary DMV grind force Pig Destroyer (performing a special 25th anniversary Prowler in the Yard set); reunited progressive psych sludge institution Kylesa; New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags (performing a special 40th anniversary The Age of Quarrel set); Denver’s own Americana gunslingers Wayfarer; freshly resurrected death/thrash/crust killers Black Breath; progressive sludge crew Intronaut (performing for the first time in over four years); masked mincecore marauders Haggus and Denver doom lords In the Company of Serpents.
But that’s just the (sober) half of it! America’s most metal breweries and meaderies will descend upon the beer capital of America to provide essential suds to the soundtrack of crushing metallic thuds! Presented by American craft beer vanguard 3 Floyds Brewing (IN), the murderous maelstrom of malts includes Featured Breweries—and Meadery—WarPigs Brewing (IN), XUL Beer Company (TN), Brimming Horn Meadery (DE), Bear Cult Brewing Co. (DE), Odell Brewing Co (CO), Zymos Brewing (CO), Mythk Brewing (FL), Surly Brewing Co (MN), Left Hand Brewing (CO), plus pours from Ratio Beerworks (CO).
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