Mystic Festival 2026, The Full Programme Is Out And The Beast Is Awake

The full programme of Mystic Festival 2026 has finally landed today, and like every year, it hits with the weight of a steel boot to the chest. This isn’t just another line up drop. This is the moment when months of announcements, teases, half confirmed guesses and obsessive refreshes finally collapse into something solid, loud, and unavoidable, the point where anticipation turns into commitment and you realise your summer plans have just been violently rearranged around a few days in Gdańsk.

At We Shoot Music, this one is personal. We’ve been there since day one, since the festival first carved its mark into Gdańsk’s shipyard landscape. Year after year, Mystic has grown from a bold idea into a European heavy institution, and still somehow manages to feel dangerous, obsessive, and stubbornly underground at heart. That’s rare. That’s precious.

And yes, the excitement is real. Borderline feral.

Mystic Festival has never been about polite genre boundaries. This year’s programme continues that proud tradition of chaos, stacking titans next to cult heroes and letting the pit decide who survives.

here are bands we at We Shoot Music simply wouldn’t want to miss, full stop. Of course, as every year, we will have to plan our festival very carefully, juggling inevitable clashes and hard choices with notebooks in hand and cameras ready. There’s a whole ecosystem of bands to discover, fall for, argue about, and write about, the kind of line up that doesn’t just reward curiosity but demands it.

Mastodon remain one of the most vital heavy bands of the last two decades, a group that can turn progressive ambition into something visceral and massive without losing soul.

Anthrax still play like they’ve got something to prove, and that hunger matters. Thrash with bite, sweat, and zero nostalgia cosplay.

Megadeth are pure metal history, but when the riffs lock in, it’s still lethal. You don’t argue with that catalogue. You submit.

Overkill bring that no nonsense New Jersey violence, the kind of set that reminds you why thrash was never meant to be polite or clever.

On darker ground, Behemoth at home in Poland is always something else entirely. Ritual, confrontation, and absolute command of the stage. This is not background music. This is ceremony.

Rotting Christ, quite simply our favourite band of the entire festival, continue to stand as absolute masters of atmosphere and menace, living proof that extreme metal can feel ancient, ritualistic, and brutally immediate all at once.

And then there’s Harakiri for the Sky, dragging melody, despair, and post black intensity into something painfully human. Expect tears in the pit and mud on your boots.

What makes Mystic Festival matter isn’t just the names on the poster. It’s the consistency. The trust. The feeling that this festival is curated by people who actually listen to music obsessively, not by spreadsheets and marketing meetings.

Gdańsk itself plays a role here too. The post industrial sprawl, the Baltic air, the sense of history hanging over the shipyard grounds. Mystic doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It collides with its surroundings, and that collision is part of the experience.

Every year, expectations are high. Every year, somehow, they’re met or shattered in the best possible way.

The full programme being out means one thing. It’s time to start planning clashes, circling must see sets, and preparing your body for days of volume, sweat, and emotional overload.

Mystic Festival isn’t coming quietly.

And neither are we.

Warm Up Day

Park Stage:
Ice Nine Kills
Six Feet Under
Kublai Khan TX
Road to Mystic Competition Team

Desert Stage:
Grave
Kanonenfieber
Thrown
Frontside
Blackgold

Sabbath Stage:
Unleashed
Priest
Damnation
Disharmonic Orchestra
Embryonic Autopsy

The Void:
A.A. Williams
Neptunian Maximalism
H.Exe
Neckbreakker
Dola
Road to Mystic Competition Team

Day One

Main Stage:
Megadeth
Anthrax
Overkill
Forbidden

Park Stage:
Blood Incantation
Cavalera: Chaos A.D.
Decapitated: 30 years anniversary show
Bloodywood
Letlive

Desert Stage:
Marduk
Tides From Nebula
Psychonaut
Truckfighters
Return To Dust

Sabbath Stage:
Belphegor
Carach Angren
Seth
Djerv
Winterfylleth
Noctem

The Void:
Allt
Zetra
Escuela Grind
Wonder: Games X Anime Show
Ciśnienie
Road to Mystic Competition Team

Day Two

Main Stage:
Black Label Society
Down
Corrosion of Conformity
Eyehategod: Special Set

Park Stage:
Electric Wizard
Carpenter Brut
Death to All: Symbolic Healing set
Coroner
Gatecreeper

Desert Stage:
Rotting Christ: 35 years of evil existence
Primordial
Benediction
Black Tusk
Hostia

Sabbath Stage:
Today is the Day
Soilent Green
Eihwar
Fulci
Severe Torture
Czerń

The Void:
Shining
Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Ard
Quantum Trio
Vianova
Road to Mystic Competition Team

Day Three

Main Stage:
Behemoth
Mastodon
Static-X
Caskets

Park Stage:
Saxon
The Gathering: 30 years of Mandylion
Pain
Evergrey
Avralize

Desert Stage:
Septicflesh
Scour
Frog Leap
Acid King: Busse Woods Full Album Set
Blood Vulture

Sabbath Stage:
Harakiri From The Sky: Trauma Set
Gaahls Wyrd
Bolzer
Master Boot Record
Martyrdod
Yoth Iria

The Void:
Monkey3
Youth Code
Hulder
TBA
Kent Osborne
Knife Bride

Mystic Festival 2026: Tickets and Passes
4-day pass: PLN 869 + service fees
4-day VIP pass: PLN 1299 + service fees
2-day ticket: PLN 599 + service fees
1-day ticket: PLN 389 + service fees
Tickets are available on the tickets.mysticfestival.pl website.

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