the heavy underground · 2000–2026

Festival Alumni

Over its original run and revival, Emissions has hosted foundational heavy underground artists across doom, sludge, stoner rock, and experimental metal.

Filter by Emissions edition: Show All Alumni Emissions 1 — April 14–15, 2000 Emissions 2 — May 25–27, 2001 Emissions 3 — Sept 8–9, 2001 (Chicago) Emissions 4 — May 24–26, 2002 Emissions 5 — May 23–25, 2003 Emissions 6 — May 28–30, 2004 Emissions 7 — May 26–29, 2005 Emissions 8 — May 25–28, 2006 Emissions 9 — May 25–27, 2007 (Austin) Emissions 10 — October 8–11, 2026 (Youngstown) Search by band name See an error? Band missing or wrong date? Email us

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Band	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
A Thousand Knives of Fire						●		●
Abdullah					●
Acid Ape					●
Acid King					●
Alabama Thunderpussy				●	●	●	●
All Night					●
Amplified Heat							●		●
Artimus Pyledriver									●
Axioma										●
Baroness								●
Beast									●
Beaten Back To Pure						●	●
Bible Of The Devil							●		●
Black Cobra									●
Black Manta				●
Blue Cheer									●
Bluto										●
Bongzilla	●	●	●		●	●				●
Boris								●
Bottom	●			●
Boulder	●	●	●	●
Bruhaha				●
Buried at Sea						●
Burnout		●	●	●	●			●
Cavity										●
Clock Eating Planet		●
Collapsar									●
Colour Haze								●
Conifer								●
Cuda	●	●	●
Cudamantra						●
Damnweevil									●
Darediablo							●
Deadbird							●		●	●
Debris Inc.						●	●
Delicious						●	●
Devil To Pay							●	●
Disengage		●		●	●		●			●
Dixie Witch			●	●	●		●	●	●
Dot(.)							●
Dove						●
Dozer						●
Dragon Green		●	●	●
Drunkenmaster			●
Earthride		●		●
Edhochuli										●
Electric Frankenstein				●
Electro Quarterstaff								●
Erik Larson Band					●
Eyehategod							●
Facedowninshit								●	●
Faerie Ring										●
Fiftywatthead						●
Fistula				●	●	●	●			●
Five Horse Johnson		●				●
Floor					●
Freightliner		●
Generation of Vipers										●
Giant Squid									●
Gil Mantera's Party Dream				●	●	●
Gonzalez		●
Graves at Sea								●
Great Day For Up							●
Great Falls										●
Grey								●
Grief								●
Halfway to Gone		●			●
Hognose									●
Honeymaid	●
Honky							●
Hope And Suicide							●	●
Horseburner										●
Howling Giant										●
Hyatari								●
Imperial Battlesnake									●
Indian									●
JJ Paradise Players Club				●	●		●
Jumbo's Killcrane				●
Karma To Burn	●
Keelhaul					●		●
King Valley							●
Kneel Drill			●
Kowloon Walled City										●
Kung Pao	●	●	●	●		●
Kylesa						●		●	●
Lair Of The Minotaur							●
Lake Lake										●
Lamont				●		●	●	●
Lo Freq					●
Lo-Pan										●
Lord									●
Lord By Fire									●
Lost Goat				●
Low Divide								●
Lung Brush			●
Mastodon				●	●
Meatjack					●	●	●
Mess With The Bull									●
Middian									●
Milligram				●
Minsk							●	●	●	●
Mouth of The Architect							●	●
Mustache	●
Nice Cat	●
Nova Driver			●
O.I.L.										●
Operator Generator			●
Orange Goblin				●		●		●
Oversoul		●
Pale Divine		●					●
Pelican					●	●
Penance	●	●	●	●	●
Pig Destroyer							●
Place of Skulls			●			●
Plaster		●
Poobah						●
Porn (The Men Of)			●	●	●
Positraction		●
Puddy						●
Raging Slab		●					●
Rammer				●
Rebreather	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●
Red Elite								●
Red Giant	●	●	●	●	●	●		●
Roadsaw							●
Rockcatcher		●
Rosetta								●
RPG					●	●			●
Rue								●
Rwake					●	●	●	●	●	●
Saint Vitus						●
Samothrace									●
Sasquatch									●
Scissorfight					●			●
Sea of Green		●	●
Shun										●
Shuteye		●
Six Sigma	●									●
Sixty Watt Shaman	●
Skeletonwitch									●
Slow Horse		●
Sofa King Killer				●	●
Solace					●	●	●	●		●
Sons of Otis					●		●
Soulpreacher		●
Spirit Caravan	●	●		●
Starchild						●
Stinking Lizaveta				●	●	●	●	●		●
Subarachnoid Space						●
Sunn O)))								●
Sunnshine		●
Sunrot										●
Suplecs			●
Suzukiton						●			●
Swarm of the Lotus						●
Telekinetic Yeti										●
Test-Site							●
The Atomic Bitchwax								●
The Brought Low				●		●		●		●
The Formula					●
The Hidden Hand					●	●	●
The Makai									●
The Mighty Nimbus						●
The Rubes				●	●
The Want		●
Throttlerod	●	●			●				●
Thunderchief										●
Tia Carrera									●
Today Is The Day							●			●
Torche							●			●
Trephine						●		●
Tummler	●	●		●	●	●		●
UltraLord								●
Unfortunaut								●	●
Unorthodox		●
Unsane						●
VALIS						●
Valkyrie									●
Village of Dead Roads								●
Volume					●
Warhorse		●	●
We're All Gonna Die								●
Weedeater		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Wickerman	●		●
Winds of Neptune										●
Witch Mountain		●
Witchcraft							●
Wooly Mammoth				●
Year Long Disaster								●
YOB						●	●
Zebulon Pike						●