Decibel Metal and Beer Fest Philadelphia 2025 has booked a banger of a musical lineup and a murderous row of brewers for the exclusive event! Produced by Decibel Magazine and taking place at the Filmore, April 4-5, 2025 and features a ton of bands and some exclusive sets! Exodus, Dismember, Pig Destroyer, Darkest Hour, Vastum, Demolition Hammer, Eternal Champion, Devil Master, Sonja, and more will perform with the full lineup below! The fest will also celebrate Relapse Records in honor of their 35th anniversary. Tickets on sale this week and more info can be found at the links below.

 

🍻 Announcing Decibel Metal & Beer Fest 2025! FULL LINEUP REVEALED – TICKETS ON SALE THIS FRIDAY! 🍻

We’ll all be bonded by suds on April 4-5, 2025, when Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly returns to fill the Fillmore with an ever-flowing stream of beer for its eighth year!

Swedish death metal legends Dismember will headline the Friday festivities with an exclusive performance of their 1991 landmark album, Like An Ever Flowing Stream (plus other choice cuts), while Bay area heroes Exodus will close out Saturday evening with a very special 40th anniversary celebration of their genre-creating Bonded byBlood debut in full (alongside other essential thrash classics)!!

Our flight of special sets doesn’t end there: DC’s melodic death metal institution Darkest Hour will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic Undoing Ruin by unleashing the record in its entirety, and New York deathrash kings Demolition Hammer will pound through their first-ever Philadelphia performance!

This super-stacked artist bill, presented by Relapse in honor of their 35th anniversary (!!), is rounded out by: Grindcore head-crushers Pig Destroyer plus local supreme vampunk warriors Devil Master and many more! Full daily lineups and brewery list below:

*FRI APRIL 4*

Dismember –  Like An Ever Flowing Stream album set (plus other choice cuts),

Pig Destroyer

Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin album set 

Vastum

Maul

Mother of Graves

Unholy Altar

*SAT APRIL 5*

Exodus – 40th anniversary celebration of Bonded byBlood debut in full (alongside other essential thrash classics)!!

Demolition Hammer

Eternal Champion

Devil Master

Sonja

Funeral Leech

Vicious Blade

The year’s beer lineup is once again presented by craft beer icons 3 Floyds Brewing (IN) and includes fan-favorite featured breweries:

WarPigs (IN)

Magnanimous (FL)

Adroit Theory (VA)

Ever Grain (PA)

New Trail (PA)

Imprint (PA)

Attic (PA)

and our flagship meadery Brimming Horn Meadery (DE)!

We are also *very excited* to bring some new blood and brews to our hometown Fest, namely:

Incantation Brewing (CO)

Nepenthe Brewing Co. (MD)

and the brand new Bear Cult Brewing Company (DE) !

Tickets go on sale on Friday, Nov 1 at 10:00 am ET but *limited presales* will go live via our partners throughout the week, so keep an eye on the 3 Floyds and Relapse Records pages for presale codes and visit Decibelmagazine.com for full info and links!