Photo by Jamal Eid / Written by Sosefina Fuamoli

With now over three decades of music culture building an unshakeable legacy, the 2026 Warped Tour is set to enjoy summer in SoCal for another year at Long Beach’s Shoreline Waterfront.  

Two days, 120+ artists that have soundtracked many eras and moments of our lives, Warped Tour is coming in hot. We take a look at just ten of the artists that make up their Class of 2026.

JINJER 

The Ukrainian powerhouse has been delivering some career-high performances on their Duél album tour, and there’s no doubt Jinjer will serve up a set that is nothing short of commanding on Warped Tour Saturday. 

Duél is one of the band’s best projects to date: brutality and beauty clashing together with precision. And as we noted at the band’s recent headline show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, Jinjer is riding an epic wave of creativity at the moment while still hinting the best is still to come. 

CITIZEN

With their sixth studio album, Halcyon Blues, set for release August 7, Citizen fans are about to be eating *good*. What better way to celebrate this beloved group than as part of this year’s Warped Tour? 

Citizen’s music has maintained a timeless quality. Whether it’s the nostalgia wrapped up in their breakthrough debut Youth, the heavier leaning Everybody Is Going to Heaven, or the vibrancy threaded through the post-punk of Life In Your Glass World, this band has been an absolute blast to grow with as music fans – their next chapter is highly anticipated.

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA

The Dayton metalcore kings displayed rejuvenation and fresh ambition with their 2025 album Flowers, and it will be special to see how their festival set captures this energy now the record has had time to breathe on stages around the world. 

One thing you can’t take away from this band, they’ve always been enthusiastic about redefining themselves and their sound; evolving and maturing a blueprint that was key to the 2000s metalcore wave but now incorporates more atmospheric, melodic and evocative soundscapes with ease.

SACE6

Rising Los Angeles duo Sace6 dropped a highlight album of the year in brutalist and will surely draw a whole new wave of fans to their growing base as part of Warped Tour this year. 

Blending metalcore riffs with melodies and hooks that bridge genres including R&B and pop, Sace6 present charged and hypnotic moments of music to gleefully get lost in. Intensity and intimacy is at the core of this duo’s music, perfectly shown through tracks like ‘ego’ and ‘reverie’; Sace6 are carving out a space of their own within this current gen’s alt-metal/rock landscape.

GUILT TRIP

Manchester’s Guilt Trip are one of the UK’s most exciting groups, with their latest album Armour Of Angels bringing them further onto a global radar. 

Already a mainstay of the UK hardcore scene, Guilt Trip are a band that has remained true to their beginnings while also boldly stepping further into new sonic territory as a group. Armour Of Angels has been a great example of the band’s ability to blend hardcore with clear nu-metal influences, while keeping their trademark brand of ferocity well in check.

NOVA TWINS

Amy Love and Georgia South have made a career out of defying naysayers and using their electrifying music and live performances as a platform to naturally pursue their own activism within the British rock scene. 

With their fusion of rock, punk, grime and hip hop positioning Nova Twins early as ones to watch, hearing how their style has expanded and continued to flourish on their latest record, 2025’s Parasites & Butterflies, has only boosted curiosity and excitement for the girls’ shows for this album cycle.

 

LETLIVE.

After making a highly-anticipated return to the Warped Tour in 2025, LA soulpunx letlive. are continuing their triumphant resurrection arc in 2026. The band’s Sincerely Yours tour that took them around the world last year, though positioned as a proper farewell run, quickly became something more for everyone involved.

Led by Jason Aalon Butler, the chaotic energy of the letlive. experience is as much of a drawcard as it was when it was first unleashed on audiences in the 2010s. Now, fans are able to experience the emotional range of Fake History, the innovation of The Blackest Beautiful and boldness of If I’m The Devil… with reverence and rejuvenation driving each performance.

 

ALEXISONFIRE

Alexisonfire is simply undeniable. The influence this band has had on a whole generation of  post-hardcore and emotionally charged post-punk fans is undoubtedly why a lot of attendees will be streaming through the gates on Warped Tour Sunday. 

With their sixth album in the works, the band’s first since Otherness in 2022, it’s safe to say that Alexisonfire fans have been more than patient when it comes to ushering in one of the best comebacks of any band from this formative era of the genre. What we’ve heard so far, has indicated the chemistry is good, the live energy comes packed with catharsis – all points to a memorable Warped return.

GLASSJAW

Warped Tour legends Glassjaw have long been beloved for their intensity and chaos; genre pioneers, they remain a must-see on any festival bill that bears their name. Three studio albums that capture the visceral energy of a band and fanbase alike, Glassjaw has stayed producing music that seems only get richer in texture and dynamics with time.

 

VANA

Making the trip to Long Beach from Aotearoa New Zealand, industrial alt-metal artist Vana has been on the rise thanks to some hectic singles dropping throughout 2025 including ‘Pray’ and ‘BITE BACK’, all leading towards her much-anticipated debut album, expected this year.

With a sound that blends hedonistic alt-metal together with trap and electronic elements, Vana dives headfirst into dark and divine fantasy through her music (all co-produced with Magnolia Park’s Vincent Ernst, fun fact), making her creative world ambitious at it is passionately individual.

 

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The Vans Warped Tour Long Beach takes places July 25th and 26th. See the complete line-up and get tickets - HERE