Slam Dunk has hosted some pretty heavy acts over the years – Of Mice & Men, While She Sleeps, The Amity Affliction, LANDMVRKS, Stray From The Path – and alongside their final line-up announcement for 2026, the festival also announced they would be featuring "two brutal new heavy stages. Side by side. Back to back. No clashes." It comes as a part of the festival's 20th anniversary celebrations.
And 2025's Slam Dunk could definitely have been a stepping stone to this new inclusion – it did feature the aforementioned Stray From The Path and LANDMVRKS, as well as the English metal group DEFECTS and the hardcore band Scowl. That, and metal bands are doing pretty well right now. In this year's complete line-up, Slam Dunk has dubbed the following to take their 'heavy' stages:
- Angel Du$t
- Bury Tomorrow
- Cancer Bats
- Comeback Kid
- CURRENTS
- Dying Wish
- Guilt Trip
- Heriot
- Knocked Loose
- Malevolence
- Pest Control
- PRESIDENT
- Saosin
- Static Dress
Founded in 2006 in Leeds as a one-day, one location festival, Slam Dunk has since expanded to two different sites in Hatfield's Hatfield Park and Leeds' Temple Newsam with next year's dates falling on the Saturday the 23rd of March (Hatfield), and the Sunday the 24th of March (Leeds), on the bank holiday weekend.
You can find the festival's full-lineup below, and you can grab a ticket here.
- A Loss For Words
- Angel Du$t
- Bayside
- Beauty School
- Boston Manor
- Call Me Amour
- Comeback Kid
- Currents
- Dead Pony
- Deaf Havana
- Dying Wish
- Guilt Trip
- Hands Like Houses
- Heriot
- Knocked Loose
- Madina Lake
- Malevolence
- Origami Angel
- Pest Control
- Punk Rock Factory
- Saosin
- SiM
- State Champs
- Static Dress
- Trash Boat
- Vukovi
- Youth Fountain
