Furnace Fest 2026

We didn't have a great time at our last metal music festival just a few weeks ago, and were hoping we'd have a better time at the more local festival that we've attended the past few years. So we returned to Sloss Furnaces↗ in nearby Birmingham, Alabama for Furnace Fest↗. The festival had a kind of rocky start thanks to some weather but we did wind up seeing some great bands and having a fantastic time. Saturday We woke up Saturday after the storm rolled through to find that the day's set times were up in the air. There had apparently been since-deleted posts made on Facebook and Instagram late Friday night with news that the festival opening would be postponed until 2:30PM (from 11 AM originally)... but nothing official or that could be accessed without logging in to a Meta property. They finally posted the updated schedule on the festival's website later in the morning which confirmed the delay. The festival organizers had no trouble sending near-daily emails in the lead-up to the…