{"id":1697300,"date":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1697300"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:00:00","slug":"new-england-metal-hardcore-festival-will-not-return-this-year-this-isnt-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1697300","title":{"rendered":"New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival Will Not Return This Year: &#8220;This Isn&#8217;t Goodbye&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n<div id=\"9778\"><\/div>\n<p>New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival will not return in 2026. Organizers for the festival issued a brief statement online, saying :&#8221;After a great run, we&#8217;re taking 2026 off. This isn&#8217;t goodbye \u2013 it&#8217;s just a breather. [New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival] will return. Thank you for always showing up and making this fest what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival originally ran between 1999 and 2016, and then again from 2023 to 2025 \u2013 with the latest iteration being headlined by <strong>Lorna Shore<\/strong>, <strong>Cannibal Corpse<\/strong>, and <strong>Kublai Khan TX<\/strong>. The festival has historically been held at the Worcester Palladium in Worcester, MA. No other information about the festival&#8217;s absence in 2026 is available at this time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\"><strong>Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-newsletter-form\">\n<fieldset>\n<p><button id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\">Subscribe<\/button><\/p>\n<\/fieldset>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Source URL: https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/news\/new-england-metal-hardcore-festival-will-not-return-this-year-this-isnt-goodbye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival will not return in 2026. Organizers for the festival issued a brief statement online, saying :&#8221;After a great run, we&#8217;re taking 2026 off. This isn&#8217;t goodbye \u2013 it&#8217;s just a breather. [New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival] will return. Thank you for always showing up and making this fest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,55],"class_list":["post-1697300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-metalinjection-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}