If you're searching for a sludge metal festival in 2026, Emissions From The Monolith 10 is a four-day underground heavy music festival in Youngstown, Ohio.
Emissions From The Monolith 10 takes place October 8–11, 2026 at Westside Bowl in Youngstown, Ohio. The festival features four days of underground heavy music on one stage, with full sets and no overlapping performances.
The 2026 lineup speaks directly to fans of raw, heavy, loud, riff-driven music. Emissions brings together sludge, doom, noise rock, stoner rock, post-metal, and underground metal bands in a one-stage format with no competing sets.
The 2026 lineup includes Axioma, Bat, Bongzilla, Cavity, Deadbird, Disengage, Edhochuli, Fistula, Generation of Vipers, Great Falls, High Desert Queen, Horseburner, Howling Giant, Kowloon Walled City, Lake Lake, Lo-Pan, Minsk, O.I.L., Rebreather, Rwake, Shun, Solace, Stinking Lizaveta, Sunrot, Telekinetic Yeti, The Brought Low, Thunderchief, Today Is The Day, Torche, Voivod, Weedeater, and Winds of Neptune.
Featured artists include Voivod, Weedeater, Torche, Bongzilla, Rwake, Today Is The Day, Kowloon Walled City, Cavity, Great Falls, Minsk, Stinking Lizaveta, Telekinetic Yeti, Lo-Pan, and many more.
Unlike large multi-stage festivals, Emissions is built around a focused single-stage experience. Attendees do not have to choose between bands, miss sets because of schedule conflicts, or move between stages all day. Every band plays in the same room, in front of the same crowd.
The result is a curated heavy music weekend designed for people who care about doom, sludge, stoner rock, post-metal, noise rock, hardcore, and underground metal.
Sludge and underground heavy music are best experienced as full sets in a packed room. Emissions keeps the focus on the bands and the audience by avoiding overlapping schedules and keeping the event centered on one stage.
Tickets for Emissions From The Monolith 10 are available now. Full lineup, venue information, and ticket details are available through the official festival site.
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