Hatebreed will headline Fajtfest 2027, which runs from 1 to 3 July at Velke Mezirici in the Czech Republic.
Thirteen names are out so far. Fear Factory are on it, which makes the festival one of the first European dates announced since they named Roboticist for April. Drain bring the Californian end of hardcore, Downset the Los Angeles one, and the rest of the first wave is Fox Lake, Slope, Don't Try, Bitedown, Kult 45, Lifesick, Negative Frame, The Crowned and Kimura.
The festival has always drawn its line between hardcore, metalcore and nu metal rather than inside any one of them, and a bill that puts a Connecticut band from 1994 next to a Danish hardcore group and a Czech one is exactly what that looks like in practice.
It is an outdoor event and it has run every summer in the same small Moravian town for years, which is the part that keeps people coming back.
More names are promised.