No K-Town Hardcore Fest without a danceable and sing-a-long-able afterparty! 🔥💿
Here are the crews for each day.

And of course in keeping with festival tradition, DJs Penny Century and Niice Pants will close the festival 🎶

Final band announcement for this year’s fest! 🔥 we are pleased to announce following bands to the line-up

BAD BREEDING (Stevenage)
https://badbreeding.bandcamp.com/
Dark and oppressive anarcho punk amped all the way up.

SLIP (Crime City)
https://sliphardcore.bandcamp.com/
Heavily mosh-friendly hardcore – Crime City-style!

PRISÃO (Stockholm/Belo Horizonte)
https://prisao.bandcamp.com/
Mean and classic raw hardcore cutting straight to the bone.

TRAUMATIZER (Haarlem)
https://neontasterecords.bandcamp.com/album/traumatizer
Total d-beat annihilation with a thrashy edge - uuaargh!


That’s the full line-up for K-Town Hardcore Fest 2026 - or is it…?
(yes yes, we know there’s an error with the numbering with today’s post)

Time for another round of band announcements for K-Town Hardcore Fest 2026! Hope you lot are as hyped as we are 🔥

INNUENDO (Milwaukee/Indiana)
https://unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/album/innuendo-peace-love
Midwest hardcore punk for the creepy crawlers - midtempo, sick and twisted.

تقريبًا TA2REEBAN (Beirut)
https://ta2reeban.bandcamp.com
Blistering bursts of old school hardcore fury straight from Dajjeh. Fuck the imperalist war machine!

SÖT (Catalunya)
https://sotpunk.bandcamp.com
A crisp and cold melancholic take on the Barcelona lineage of melodic punk.

AMERETAT (London)
https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-31
Dirty and angry crust/anarcho punk from the Iranian diaspora.

THE BERSERK (Philadelphia)
https://theberserk.bandcamp.com/
Fast, frantic and furious classic USHC for the pit.

AYUCABA (Barcelona)
https://educacioncinica.bandcamp.com/album/operaci-n-masacre
Barcelona punx mixing UK and Japanese styles – bone-breaking and eerie.

As hinted at in our newsletter from earlier today, we are planning a massive collaborative photo exhibition – and we invite all you all to take part in it!

It's saturday, so it's time for another round of band announcements. We are incredible exited to announce the following handful of bands to the line-up! 🔥🔥

SURROGATES (Minneapolis)
https://surrogatesmpls.bandcamp.com
Catchy and snotty HC punk for an ever declining western civilization.

THE SOCIAL (Liverpool)
https://thesocial.bandcamp.com/
Burly and barmy oi-tinged UK82 for the class war.

JJ & THE A’S (Barcelona/Copenhagen)
https://jjandtheas.bandcamp.com/
International crew meeting right in the middle of seething anger and skating fun.

RISKERA (Malmö/Linderöd)
https://riskerapunk.bandcamp.com
Primitive, raw and noisy hardcore punk - what more do you need?

PSICO GALERA (Veneto, Friuli, Romagna)
https://psicogalera.bandcamp.com/
Unhinged and unpredictable blend of mid-80s HC sounds from across the world.

BIG MESS (Copenhagen)
https://bigmessdk.bandcamp.com/
Infectious powerpop-punkrockers with hits going steady.

How about some more bands for K-Town Hardcore Fest 2026? We are thrilled to announce the following bands to the line-up! 🔥

BOOTLICKER (Pacific Northwest)
https://boot-licker.bandcamp.com/
Anthemic and stomping UK82-inspired HC punk for the pogo-connoisseurs.

TIIKERI (Tampere)
https://tiikeri.bandcamp.com/
Punk is FUN and these sing-along-suomis provide the proof.

PHOSPHORE (Bordeaux)
https://phosphore-bdx.bandcamp.com/
Raw d-beaters reaching for some classic Scandi-inspired mangel.

BLOODSTAINS (Orange County)
https://bloodstains714.bandcamp.com
Classic OC punk - catchy and melodic with a vicious snarl as you like it.

DECORTICATE (Cph)
https://decorticate.bandcamp.com/
Local powerviolence mafia ready to tear up the pit at lightning speed.

STRONG BOYS (Dublin)
https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/homo
Tough queer hardcore for those that like to be “Tied Down”.

We are finally ready to shed some light into this year's line-up! This has taken longer than expected and we know some of you have been looking forward to this moment (so have we)!

Without further ado, here's the very first band announcement for K-Town Hardcore Fest 2026 🔥 We are incredibly stoked to reveal the following six bands...

HACKER (unceded Wurundjeri land)
https://hackerhc.bandcamp.com/
Heavy and thrashy hardcore punk - mosh bliss guaranteed.

SKITKIDS (Malmö)
https://skitkids.bandcamp.com/
Rock’n’rolling käng legends back for your pleasure. Go ape!

TRAIDORA (London)
https://traidorapunx.bandcamp.com/
Fast, crusty and queer - hardcore punx are here!

SIYAHKAL (Toronto)
https://siyahkalpunk.bandcamp.com/
Stomping and tortured heavy hardcore punk from the void.

INDIKATOR B (Zagreb)
https://indikatorb.bandcamp.com/
Classic Yugo-styled HC is back - fast, catchy and bouncy.

LIFE ABUSE (Albany/ Richmond)
https://armageddonlabel.bandcamp.com/album/systematization/
Apocalyptic and crushing US crust punk savagery.

Our pre-sale starts on the 1st of March, so put a big fat X in your calenders and save the date!

A massive thank you to the overwhelming interest in playing at our fest this year! All bands will recieve a reply from us shortly and we will start announcing the line-up later this month. 🔥

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