Furnace Fest will return to Alabama this year, with a lineup that includes New Found Glory, The Ghost Inside, Alexisonfire and more.
Organizers for the music festival announced its 2022 dates today — Sept. 23-25 — along with the first wave of acts set to perform on three stages at Sloss Furnaces, 20 32nd St. North in Birmingham. Ninety bands are on the agenda for Furnace Fest, which focuses on heavy rock, thrash, punk and metal.
Thirty acts were revealed today, including Anti-Flag, Pedro the Lion, The Joy Formidable, Stretch Armstrong, Earth Crisis, Elliott, Kublai Khan TX, Nothing, Shadows Fall, Strike Anywhere, Wristmeetrazor, Demon Hunter, Lagwagon, Misery Signals and Quicksand. More names are set to be announced later this year.
“Super early bird” tickets for Furnace Fest went on sale today via the festival website, priced at $249 for three-day general admission. Two service fees attached to the tickets cost $37.57.
Thirty acts have been announced for the lineup of Furnace Fest 2022. The music festival is set for Sept. 23-25 at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham.(Courtesy of Furnace Fest)
Furnace Fest — a revival of a “DIY punk rock festival” that was held in Birmingham from 2000 to 2003 — made its return in 2021, with a lineup of about 90 bands that included headliners Underoath, Taking Back Sunday and Killswitch Engage. The rebooted festival originally was scheduled for September 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic.
“Furnace Fest took a 17-year nap before a group of us banded together with hopes of a one-time reunion,” Furnace Fest organizers said today via a press release. “After countless difficulties (like a global pandemic and rescheduling three times) the ‘one-time resurrection’ went so well that we knew it was only fair to share the experience again. We’re beyond excited to share this first wave of artist announcements and are thrilled to welcome 90 total bands on four stages in one, if not the, most unique venues on the planet. To us, Furnace Fest isn’t a festival. This is a family reunion of the most epic kind.”
Furnace Fest organizers are Johnny Grimes, who lives in Birmingham; Chad Johnson and Ryan Luther, both of whom are in Nashville; and Mike Ziemer of Dallas.
Furnace Fest was the first sizable music festival in Birmingham — and one of the first in Alabama — to announce a 2021 admission policy that required negative COVID tests for unvaccinated ticketholders. There’s no word yet on COVID guidelines for the 2022 event.
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