Eindhoven Metal Meeting has split its 2026 bill across the two days. The sixteenth edition runs on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December, thirty bands, two stages, with the warm up party on the Thursday night.
Friday leans black and thrash at the top: Rotting Christ, Death Angel and Vio-Lence, with Desaster, Darvaza, Merrimack, Perchta, Groza, Dodsrit, Fortresse, Acrostichon, Helleruin, Lamp Of Murmur, Detresse and Wrang underneath them.
Saturday is the heavier half on paper. Flotsam and Jetsam, Legion of the Damned, The Crown, Severe Torture, Schammasch, At War, Panzerfaust, Izegrim, Gorerotted, Dim Aura, Insurrection, Mortal Strike, Necrotted and Nexion, plus a tribute set to Quorthon and Bathory.
The Thursday warm up has Cirith Gorgor, Novelization, Ultima Necat and Schirenc Plays Pungent Stench, which is Martin Schirenc playing the Pungent Stench catalogue.
Sixteen editions in, the festival still books the same way: no headliner that eats the budget, and a bill where the fourth name down is the reason half the room bought a ticket.