Here are the stage times for Louder Than Life Festival 2026

There’s just over a month to go until the US’ largest rock and metal festival, Louder Than Life, returns, and they’ve now released the stage times for its largest edition in its 12-year history.

Over four days, over 200 bands will take to seven stages, among them My Chemical Romance, Iron Maiden, TOOL, Limp Bizkit, Gojira, Pierce The Veil, Papa Roach, Megadeth and more. The action will all be going down between September 17 and 20 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.

There’s a lot to organise - have a scan of the times below.

Louder Stage

8:45 PM Iron Maiden
6:35 PM Megadeth
4:45 PM Alice Cooper
3:15 PM Anthrax
1:55 PM Suicidal Tendencies
12:50 PM Metal Church
11:55 AM The Violent Hour

Life Stage

7:30 PM Pantera
5:40 PM Danzig
4:00 PM Sabaton
2:30 PM Machine Head
1:20 PM GWAR
12:20 PM Mac Sabbath
11:30 AM Chained Saint

Decibel Stage

10:05 PM Rise Against
8:15 PM Jimmy Eat World
6:35 PM Hot Mulligan
5:05 PM Alkaline Trio
3:50 PM Bowling For Soup
2:40 PM Lit
1:30 PM The Ataris

Reverb Stage

9:10 PM Skillet
7:25 PM Starset
5:50 PM From Ashes To New
4:30 PM Red
3:15 PM The Rasmus
2:05 PM Adelitas Way
12:55 PM Zero 9:36

Loudmouth Stage

10:05 PM Fit For A King
8:15 PM Currents
6:35 PM ERRA
5:20 PM Volumes
3:55 PM Like Moths To Flames
2:35 PM Cane Hill
1:15 PM Vianova

Impact Stage

9:10 PM Chelsea Grin
5:50 PM After The Burial
4:35 PM The Acacia Strain
3:15 PM Emmure
2:05 PM Born Of Osiris
1:00 PM Signs Of The Swarm
12:00 PM King 810

Big Bourbon Bar

7:20 PM Thousand Below
5:20 PM Archers
4:25 PM Elijah
3:00 PM Dark Divine
1:30 PM Holy Wars
12:30 PM Sent By Ravens
11:30 AM Set For Tomorrow

Louder Stage

9:25 PM My Chemical Romance
7:10 PM A Day To Remember
5:30 PM Taking Back Sunday
3:50 PM Coheed And Cambria
2:25 PM We The Kings
1:15 PM L.S. Dunes
12:05 PM The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Life Stage

8:15 PM Pierce The Veil
6:20 PM The Used
4:40 PM Sleeping With Sirens
3:05 PM Loathe
1:50 PM Get Scared
12:40 PM Lacey Sturm
11:30 AM ivri

Decibel Stage

10:00 PM The Pretty Reckless
8:15 PM The Warning
6:25 PM Dead Poet Society
5:15 PM Scene Queen
4:05 PM Vana
2:55 PM Showing Teeth
1:45 PM American Monster

Reverb Stage

9:05 PM Chad Gray
7:25 PM Cavalera
5:50 PM Blue Medusa feat. Alissa White-Gluz
4:40 PM Soulfly
3:30 PM Mushroomhead
2:20 PM Butcher Babies
1:10 PM Death Valley Dreams

Loudmouth Stage

6:25 PM President
5:25 PM Holding Absence
4:30 PM The Word Alive
3:35 PM Rain City Drive
2:40 PM Wind Walkers
1:35 PM Nevertel
12:40 PM Cenobia

Impact Stage

8:15 PM TBA
6:50 PM Haywire
5:55 PM Angel Du$t
5:00 PM Twitching Tongues
4:05 PM Koyo
3:10 PM Missing Link
2:15 PM Gates To Hell

Big Bourbon Bar

7:00 PM SOiL
5:00 PM Jeff Hardy
4:05 PM Dry Kill Logic
2:55 PM Primer 55
2:00 PM Earshot
1:10 PM 40 Below Summer
12:05 PM Billy McNicol

Louder Stage

9:45 PM Limp Bizkit
7:30 PM Sublime
5:45 PM Bilmuri
4:05 PM Tom Morello
2:30 PM P.O.D.
1:15 PM Alien Ant Farm
12:05 PM Josey Scott: The Original Voice Of Saliva

Life Stage

8:25 PM Papa Roach
6:35 PM Babymetal
4:55 PM Ice Nine Kills
3:15 PM Nothing More
1:50 PM Set It Off
12:40 PM The Funeral Portrait
11:30 AM TX2

Decibel Stage

7:45 PM Halestorm
6:05 PM In This Moment
4:25 PM Lindsey Stirling
3:00 PM Orianthi
1:50 PM Icon For Hire
12:40 PM Kami Kehoe
11:30 AM Diamante

Reverb Stage

8:40 PM Circa Survive
6:55 PM Dance Gavin Dance
5:15 PM Chiodos
3:40 PM Thursday
2:25 PM Hail The Sun
1:15 PM Scary Kids Scaring Kids
12:05 PM Emarosa

Loudmouth Stage

7:35 PM Kublai Khan TX
6:25 PM Boundaries
5:20 PM Spite
4:15 PM Peeling Flesh
3:20 PM Fox Lake
2:25 PM Silly Goose
1:30 PM Heavy//Hitter
12:40 PM Freeze The Fall (Twitch winner)

Impact Stage

7:05 PM Blood For Blood
5:55 PM Agnostic Front
4:50 PM Madball
3:50 PM H2O
2:50 PM The Barbarians Of California
1:55 PM Many Eyes
1:00 PM Codefendants

Big Bourbon Bar

8:05 PM Powerman 5000
7:10 PM Texas Hippie Coalition
6:10 PM Tantric
5:15 PM Otherwise
4:20 PM Spoken
3:25 PM No Resolve
2:35 PM Doobie
1:45 PM As You Were

Louder Stage

9:25 PM Tool
7:10 PM Danny Elfman
5:25 PM The Mars Volta
3:45 PM Ministry
2:15 PM Filter
1:00 PM Toadies

Life Stage

8:15 PM Gojira
6:15 PM Mastodon
4:35 PM Black Label Society
2:55 PM Dethklok
1:35 PM Animals As Leaders
12:25 PM Between The Buried And Me
11:30 AM Rivers Of Nihil

Decibel Stage

8:25 PM The Prodigy
6:55 PM Killswitch Engage
5:30 PM Black Veil Brides
4:10 PM Atreyu
3:00 PM Escape The Fate
1:50 PM I See Stars
12:40 PM Caskets
11:30 AM Austin Carlile

Reverb Stage

7:40 PM Underoath
6:15 PM Thrice
4:50 PM Alexisonfire
3:35 PM Haste The Day
2:25 PM Emery
1:15 PM Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
12:05 PM He Is Legend

Loudmouth Stage

10:05 PM Sleep Theory
8:45 PM The Home Team
7:00 PM Jutes
4:50 PM Holywatr
3:35 PM Arrows In Action
2:25 PM The Pretty Wild
1:15 PM sace6

Impact Stage

8:25 PM Sunami
6:55 PM Locked Shut
5:30 PM End It
4:10 PM 200 Stab Wounds
3:00 PM Corpse Pile
1:50 PM Boltcutter
12:40 PM Surfaced

Big Bourbon Bar

9:30 PM 156/Silence
8:20 PM Greyhaven
7:25 PM Aviana
6:20 PM Downswing
5:25 PM Resolve
4:00 PM Dreamwake
1:45 PM Future Palace

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