2024 Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is set to be held on December 6, 2024, and December 7, 2024, at the Summit in Denver, Colorado, with a preshow at the Ratio Beerworks in the same city on December 5, 2024. The Denver festival will be the festival's second edition this year, with the Philadelphia edition having been held in April 2024.
Decibel presale is currently ongoing and can be accessed with the code ZOMBIEDUST. A Live Nation presale is also available and can be accessed with the code STRUM. Presale tickets are priced at $206 plus charges. General tickets will follow on July 26, 2024, at 10:00 am MT. General ticket prices are likely to differ from presale ticket prices. Presales and tickets will be available via Live Nation.
The lineup for the Decibel Metal & Beer Fest in Denver was announced on July 24, 2024, with a post on the festival's official Instagram page:
2024 Decibel Metal & Beer Fest lineup
The lineup for the 2024 Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is listed below:
Prefest show at Ratio Beerworks on December 5, 2024:
- Green Druid
- Abrams
- Cloud Catcher
Day 1 at Summit on December 6, 2024:
- Autopsy "Severed Survival" set
- Frozen Soul
- Undergang
- Dreadnought
- Necropanther
- Upon Stone
- Daeva
Day 2 at Summit on December 7, 2024:
- Yob
- Cirith Ungol
- Pallbearer
- Crypt Sermon
- Earthburner
- Glacial Tomb
- Oak, Ash & Thorn
Alongside the festival's music performers, there will be a whole host of breweries dedicated to metal music and culture who will showcase their creations at the festival. The list of these breweries and companies is given below:
- 3Floyds Brewery from Indiana
- Incantation Breweing from Colorado
- Black Sky Brewery from Colorado
- Nepenthe Brewing Co from Maryland
- Brimming Horn Meadery from Delaware
- WarPigs Brewing from Indiana
- Adroit Theory from Viriginia
- Smouldered Society Beer Company from New York
- Thin Man Brewing from New York
- Magnanimous Brewing from Florida
- Attic Brewing from Pennsylvania
- Ratio Beerworks from Colorado
- TRVE Brewing from Colorado
The festival is also being sponsored by several of the breweries mentioned above and other companies. The list of sponsors for the event is given below:
- Thin Man Brewing
- Smoldered Society Beer
- Nepenthe Brewing Co
- Incantation Brewing
- Dead Sky Publishing
- Relapse Records
- Pull the Plug Patches
- Metal Blade Records
- 3 Floyds Brewing
- Black Sky Brewing
- Indiemerchstore
- Brimming Horn Meadery
- WarPigs Brewing
- Dark Descent Records
- Nefarious Industries
- Magnanimous Brewing
- Adroit Theory Brewing
- Century Media Records
- Hella Hot Sauce
Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest Denver edition is set to be one of the only Denver shows for Cirith Ungol. It will also be one of the first live performances by the band Earthburner.
The 2024 edition will be Decibel Metal & Beer Fest's seventh overall edition, first held in 2017. The festival has previously featured performers such as Khemmis and Glacial, as well as Possessed, Evoken, and heavy metal giant Cannibal Corpse, among other notable acts. The festival has held editions in California, Philadelphia, and Denver, among other places.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest traces its origins to the Decibel Magazine's long association with the brewing industry, with a dedicated craft beer column in the magazine running since 2009.
Along with the Decibel Metal & Beer Fest, Decibel Magazine is also set to host their 20th anniversary show on August 31, 2024, at the Bowl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show will feature performances by Autopsy and more.