A forest swimming pool, two stages, twelve hundred people and a Thursday that costs nothing. Malevolence and Wargasm top the second announced wave for Music Forge Festival 2027, which runs from 26 to 28 August at the Waldschwimmbad in Lich.
Seventeen acts are billed so far against a fact sheet that promises around twenty five. Alongside the two headliners are Abbie Falls, Mittel Alta, Gutalax with a late night set, Backstabbed, Waves Like Walls, Consvmer, Out Of Vision, Lost in Hollywood, Thruth Grip, Throatcut, Breakdown Of Sanity, Resolve, The Narrator, Pentastone and Noice For The Voiceless.
The festival is run by MUSIC FORGE Kultur und Kunst e.V., founded in 2018, and the free Thursday is the point of the thing: the organisers say they want culture to be reachable by everyone, so the opening day costs nothing at all. Gates open at ten on the Thursday morning.
A weekend ticket is 105 euros and 125 with camping, the early birds having gone already, with caravans extra and the campsite about a hundred and fifty metres from the infield. Entry to the pool is included, which is not a sentence many festival listings get to carry, and the food runs from vegan to the usual German.