Motocultor Festival in Carhaix – Plouguer, France, has revealed the final lineup. After adding 20 new names of performers before Christmas, now the festival has published 26 new names. The new artists are: Anaal Nathrakh (Extreme Metal / England), Brieg Guerveno (Indie Rock / France), Castle Rat (Fantasy Heavy Metal / USA),Coltaine (Post Metal / Germany), Coroner (Thrash Metal / Switzerland), Eisbrecher (Industrial Metal / Germany), Filth (Hip Hop x Deathcore / USA), Grave (Death Metal / Sweden), Gravity (Metalcore / France), Hollow Jan (Screamo x Post Rock / South Korea), Holy Mother (Hard Rock / USA), Hrafngrimr (Nu Nordic / France), Ice Sealed Eyes (Newcore / Belgium), Leprous (Progressive Metal / Norway), Modder (Sludge / Belgium), Múr (Black Metal x Avant-garde / Iceland), Nawather (Oriental Metal / Tunisia), Necrowretch (Death Metal / France), Pain Magazine (Post Hardcore X Techno / France), Slift (Rock / France), Stille Volk (Pagan Folk / France, Unearth (Metal X Hardcore / USA), Unleashed (Death Metal / Sweden), Vansind (Folk Metal / Denmark), Warning (Doom / England), Wormsand (Sludge X Grunge / France).

Motocultor Open Air 2026 will take place from August 13th to August 16th. On August 13th the headliner will be Godsmack. On August 14th Emperor, Visions Of Atlantis, Soen, Miracle Of Sound, Paradise Lost and Slaughter to Prevail will perform. On the third festival day Frog Leap, Orden Ogan, Nevermore will play. The main headliner Judas Priest will close the festival madness on the last day.

Here is the daily program:

Thursday, August 13:
200 Stab Wounds – Amenra – Battlesnake – Bloodbath – Brieg Guerveno – Celkilt X Bagad Ar Meilhoù Glaz Quimper – Death Angel – Denez – Fauxx – Gaerea – Godsmack – Kittie – Komodrag & The Mounodor – Municipal Waste – Oomph! – Pilori – Primus – Sanguisugabogg – Unearth

Friday, August 14:
Alcest – Bölzer – Cage Fight – Coroner – Chelsea Grin – Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult – Eihwar – Emperor – Filth – Gravity – Guineapig – Hellripper – Hrafngrimr – Ice Sealed Eyes – Iotunn – Lord Of The Lost – Mass Hysteria – Master Boot Record – Miracle Of Sound – Nawather – Paradise Lost – Slaughter To Prevail – Skaphos – Soen – Stille Volk – Textures – Unleashed – Urne – Vansind – Visions Of Atlantis

Saturday, August 15:
Anaal Nathrakh – Aorlhac – Ashen – Basaalt – Bruit≤ – Cancer – Eisbrecher – Frog Leap – Grave – Hollow Jan – Ill Nino – Jetsex – Leprous – Les 3 Fromages – Monde De Merde – Múr – Nanowar Of Steel – Necrowretch – Nevermore – Omnium Gatherum – Orden Ogan – Perturbator – Rectal Smegma – Shady Fat Kats – Sierra Veins – Slift – Steve’n’seagulls – Svinkels Family & Friends – The Casualties – Within Temptation

Sunday, August 16:
Airbourne – Arch Enemy – Castle Rat – Coltaine – Cryptopsy – Deafheaven – Eyes – Fit For An Autopsy – Heavy // Hitter – Heretoir – Holy Mother – Internal Bleeding – John Cxnnor – Jools – Judas Priest – Killers – Kim Dracula – Les Hommes Crabes – Modder – Monkeys On Mars – Pain Magazine – Red Sun Atacama – Sacred Reich – Shaârghot – Signs Of The Swarm – Vader – Voivod – Warning – Wormsand – Witch Club Satan

Motocultor Festival has a long story. At first it was founded in Brittany, France, by metal enthusiasts as a small local heavy metal gathering. Nowadays it is recognized as the smaller brother of Hellfest Open Air. In 2023 it left its original location at Saint-Nolff and now is located in Carhaix-Plouger. May famous musicians had concerrts there: Ultra Vomit, Mass Hysteria, Gojira, Loudblast, Betraying the Martyrs, Meshuggah, Opeth, Behemoth, Trivium, Ministry, Soulfly, Exodus, Pestilence, Destruction, Sodom, Entombed, Korpiklaani, Samael, Shining, Sick of it all, Fear Factory, Lacuna Coil, Kataklysm, Sacred Reich, Voivod and others.

The festival offers 1-day passes and 4-day passes, and packages with bus travel and festival tickets. You can find them here.

Here you can see the official movie for 2026: