BEYOND THE GATES 2026 Reveals Full Lineup + Day Splits; Electric Wizard, Blood Incantation, Marduk + More Added

December is here; and so is the full Beyond the Gates 2026 lineup! The festival is now unveiling seven new artists, completing next year’s bill. Leading the charge are stoner-doom legends Electric Wizard and death-metal prog visionaries Blood Incantation, topping the bill with the already announced Emperor and Testament.

Beyond the Gates 2026 will be an absolute feast for anyone with an appetite for underground magic. The festival is proud to present a lineup that’s diverse, and truly reflective of today’s death, doom, and black metal scenes.

The full lineup and day splits are now as follows:

Wednesday, July 29 @ USF Verftet:

Testament

Nergal + Misþyrming perform Behemoth’s ‘Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)’

Rotting Christ

Spectral Wound

Castle Rat

Imha Tarikat

Thursday, July 30 @ USF Verftet:

Electric Wizard

Beherit

1349

Warning

The Ruins of Beverast

Forteresse

Imha Tarikat

Friday, July 31 @ Grieghallen:

Blood Incantation

Marduk

Whoredom Rife

Misotheist

Saturday, August 1 @ Grieghallen:

Emperor

Alcest

Arcturus

Gaahls WYRD

Day Shift Thursday, July 30:

Sulphur Aeon

Terrestrial Hospice

Concrete Winds

Night Shift Thursday, July 30:

Bölzer

Day Shift Friday, July 31:

Dold Vorde Ens Navn

Vafurlogi

Saturnalia Temple

Night Shift Friday, July 31:

Mortuary Drape

The epic four-day metal event will take place once again across several venues in the heart of Bergen (NO) from July 29 – August 1, 2026 Tickets and passes are now available HERE.

In addition, Beyond the Gates is now launching a special December campaign a December campaign with discounted Day tickets and festival passes. Lucky fans can also win a hotel package. More info HERE.

“As a festival, Beyond the Gates is immediately lovable. Bergen is intrinsically part of that embrace… Sure, Norway’s expensive, but seeing the best bands out there, taking in a Tolkienesque fjord or two, pilgrimaging to Fantoft church, hitting up Gaahl’s art gallery (Galleri Fjalar) nestled in the quaint houses at Bryggen while Freyr gleefully and continually pisses rain on you from the heavens? All worth its weight in hordes of kroner.” – Decibel Magazine, December 2022 issue

Since the inception of the Beyond the Gates festival, fans have been coming to Bergen to see performances of their favorite Norwegian artists in their home environment. As most visitors know, nature and local culture has always been a poignant source of inspiration for the bands emerging from the Bergen scene. Yet again, Beyond the Gates will give all of the traveling fans the opportunity to get an unique insight into all aspects of the Norwegian Metal scene and the local culture in general. In that regard, we’re putting together a series of events before and during the festival so that all of you can discover what inspired – and still does – the Norwegian metal scene.

More special events will be announced, including exclusive listening parties, music and culture panels, in-depth live interviews, and a wealth of of events and activities that will give you a Beyond the Gates Experience that will last for a lifetime. Stay tuned for more…

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