Furnace Fest 2025 lineup: Knocked Loose, Jimmy Eat World, Texas Is The Reason, Converge, Foundation & more

The great Birmingham, Alabama punk, emo, metal, hardcore, metalcore, post-hardcore, etc festival Furnace Fest made a comeback in 2021 (delayed a year due to COVID) after initially running from 2000-2003, and the organizers said 2024 would mark an “end of an era” for the festival but then they fortunately walked that back and decided to move forward with another full, proper edition in 2025. It goes down October 3-5 at its usual home of Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces, and after gradually rolling out 25 names on the 90-band lineup, the (almost) full thing is now here. Plus, there’s one TBA band on the second line below the headliner on day three. Any guesses?

The headliners include veteran bands Jimmy Eat World on day one and Dropkick Murphys on day two, plus newer band Knocked Loose elevating to headliner status on day three. Outside of the headliners, one of the most exciting names on the lineup is the newly-reunited Texas Is The Reason (who were announced yesterday); and other bands on there range from vets like Suicidal Tendencies, Biohazard, Converge, Hot Water Music, Saves The Day, Comeback Kid (celebrating 20 years of Wake the Dead), Less Than Jake, Say Anything, Anberlin (playing Never Take Friendship Personal, with original vocalist Stephen Christian), Zao (playing Liberate Te Ex Inferis), Terror, Norma Jean (celebrating 20 years of O’ God, the Aftermath), From First to Last, Madball, Modern Life Is War, Ten Yard Fight, HORSE the Band, I Am The Avalanche, Nora, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley’s new band Many Eyes, and more; to comparatively newer bands approaching veteran status like the recently-reunited hardcore bands Foundation and The Mongoloids, as well as Citizen, Harms Way, Knuckle Puck, Microwave, Kublai Khan TX, Rolo Tomassi, Spanish Love Songs, Teen Suicide, and more; to the current generation of bands like Drain, Speed, Glare, Contention, Downward, Secret World, Wounded Touch, Sunami, Common Sage, Initiate, Squint, Trauma Ray, Balmora, Boundaries, Gates To Hell, Gridiron, Gumm, Haywire, Like Roses, Sanguisugabogg, Sincere Engineer, Soul Blind, Spaced, Sweet Pill, and more.

That’s a whole lot of awesome music for a three-day span, and tickets (three-day and single-day) are on sale now.

Here’s the full, day-by-day lineup:

Friday, October 3
Jimmy Eat World
Mom Jeans
Kublai Khan TX
Hot Water Music
Saves The Day
Comeback Kid (celebrating 20 years of Wake The Dead)
Drain
SPEED
Texas Is The Reason
Adlet
Contention
Day Job
Delta Sleep
Double Tape
Downward
From First To Last
Gideon
Guilt Trip
Knuckle Puck
Madball
Microwave
Midrift
Novulent
Proper.
Rolo Tomassi
Secret World
Spanish Love Songs
Still Remains
Sunami
Wounded Touch

Saturday, October 4
Dropkick Murphys
Suicidal Tendencies
Anberlin (feat. Stephen Christian) (performing Never Take Friendship Personal)
Less Than Jake
Say Anything
Glare
On Broken Wings
Petey USA
Zao (performing Liberate Te Ex Inferis)
A Change Of Pace
Big Ass Truck
Common Sage
Crush Your Soul
Dosser
Driveways
Initiate
Keep Flying
Meadows
Millington
Modern Life Is War
New Aesthetic
Orthodox
Path Of Destruction
Soft Play
Squint
Teen Suicide
Ten Yard Fight
Trauma Ray

Sunday, October 5
Knocked Loose
Citizen
Converge
TBA
Norma Jean (celebrating 20 years of O God, The Aftermath)
Biohazard
Foundation
Harm’s Way
Terror
Balmora
Boundaries
Emery
Gates To Hell
Gridiron
Gumm
Haywire
HORSE the band
I am The Avalanche
Johnny Booth
Like Roses
Many Eyes
Marytr AD
The Mongoloids
Sanguisugabogg
Sincere Engineer
Soul Blind
Spaced
Sweet Pill
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Vigilante