RADAR Festival 2026 finalises line-up with SikTh, Einar Solberg, The Hara, and Glass Bridges
The award-winning, genre-busting RADAR Festival completes its 2026 line-up with four final stellar acts, joining an already stacked bill.
Announced today are UK tech metal legends SikTh, Leprous' Einar Solberg's solo project, English alt-metallers The Hara, and alternative rockers Glass Bridges.
Tickets are available from: www.radarfestival.co.uk/tickets
Full lineup:
Skindred
Animals As Leaders (UK festival exclusive)
Thy Art Is Murder (UK festival exclusive)
Northlane
The Pineapple Thief
Chelsea Grin (UK festival exclusive)
Protest The Hero (UK festival exclusive)
SikTh
Voyager (UK festival exclusive)
Einar Solberg
unpeople
Pintglass
Graphic Nature
Heart Of A Coward
Employed To Serve
Vianova
Ten56.
Ghost Iris
Cage Fight
Elwood Stray
Hacktivist
Black Gold
The Hara
Royal Sorrow
CLT DRP
Dali
Ihlo
Glass Bridges
Benthos
Seething Akira
Rozemary
Luna Kills
Maebe
Eville
Dacara
Co-founder and co-organiser of RADAR, Joe James, comments:
"That’s the music lineup complete! Today, we announce the last four bands (one replacement) for the 2026 edition: SikTh, Einar Solberg, The Hara (stepping in for Siamese) and Glass Bridges.
We’ve curated three musically-connected days. Friday, the face-melting heavy day will be mosh pit followed by mosh pit on repeat. Get your stretches in, have an energy drink, as we’re going to test your endurance. The end of the day: SikTh into Hacktivist, into Chelsea Grin, into Pintglass, into Thy Art is Murder! No clashes. Good luck!
"Well, I lied above: Saturday, with Skindred, Northlane, Protest the Hero, unpeople, Heart of a Coward and more, is going to get people moving. So, by Sunday, everyone has earned a more relaxing day of prog and progressive music, with Animals as Leaders, The Pineapple Thief, Voyager and Einar Solberg. But, I lied again, and we’ve snuck in a lot of bands to get you moving on stage two with Ten56. and Employed to Serve, guaranteed to raise your heartbeat.
"Beyond the music, we continue to expand our Music and Gaming Market. We are putting the finishing touches on the 2026 masterclasses, and if you need a break from sweating in the crowd, the coffee area has been expanded, and we’ll be including engaging coffee shop chats. As ever, our no-clash schedule means that you don’t have to choose because you can get it all."
Alongside the acts announced, RADAR's commitment to a musical and gaming paradise continues: their music and gaming market will return. Expected to be wowed by a retro arcade, the best new instruments and music tech, and many more besides.
Also demonstrating their commitment to new bands, RADAR will continue to donate a portion of ticket sales proceeds to Music Venue Trust and Save Our Scene's Liveline Fund, in order to support grassroots music venues.
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RADAR - the UK's most exciting progressive music festival - moved to Manchester for its 2023 edition, the third iteration of the festival.
RADAR pride themselves on providing a first home for the best international artists - previous years have seen Dirty Loops' (2022) and The Callous Daoboys' (2023) first UK shows; it was also the first festival to provide a headline slot for Sleep Token (2023).
RADAR 2025 saw a stellar headline set from darkwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut and metalcore legends UNDERØATH, alongside some of the hottest talent from the UK and further afield.
Joining this stellar list were RADAR 2024's Friday headliners - synth royalty The Midnight, making their UK festival debut. Accompanying them were Saturday headliners TesseracT, as the UK prog metal titans delivered a special War Of Being album set. Finally, closing the festival on Sunday, modern progressive titans Leprous performed a world-first live, by request fan set.
RADAR 2023 had Friday headliners Sleep Token joining Periphery (Sunday) and Igorrr (Saturday) among a host of the best from the UK and global progressive underground.
RADAR capped their intensely impressive 2022 by winning the Best New Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards on 6th December in Manchester, and were shortlisted for Best Small Festival and Best Metropolitan Festival at 2023 and 2024's UK Festival Awards.
With their mixture of international talent and confirmed homegrown success, RADAR Festival has already positioned themselves as a champion of forward-thinking, guitar-led progressive music. No genre boundaries, welcome to all, RADAR Festival was launched in 2019 to acclaim, with performances from Animals As Leaders, Agent Fresco, Rolo Tomassi, among others. Following the COVID hiatus, RADAR Festival 2022 expanded to three days with triumphant appearances from Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops, Plini, Conjurer, Soen and more.
RADAR Festival is all about pushing boundaries - this year introducing fresh genres to the line-up and stages - and this is just the beginning.
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