{"id":5836,"date":"2026-01-17T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/01\/17\/new-england-metal-hardcore-festival-will-not-return-this-year-this-isnt-goodbye\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:32:18","slug":"new-england-metal-hardcore-festival-will-not-return-this-year-this-isnt-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/01\/17\/new-england-metal-hardcore-festival-will-not-return-this-year-this-isnt-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Metal &#038; Hardcore Festival Will Not Return This Year: &#8220;This Isn&#8217;t Goodbye&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"44.586592178771\">\n<p>New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival will not return in 2026. Organizers for the festival issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTlre2UkZrY\/\">brief statement online<\/a>, saying :&#8221;After a great run, we&#8217;re taking 2026 off. This isn&#8217;t goodbye \u2013 it&#8217;s just a breather. [New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival] will return. Thank you for always showing up and making this fest what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival originally ran between 1999 and 2016, and then again from 2023 to 2025 \u2013 with the latest iteration being headlined by <strong>Lorna Shore<\/strong>, <strong>Cannibal Corpse<\/strong>, and <strong>Kublai Khan TX<\/strong>. The festival has historically been held at the Worcester Palladium in Worcester, MA. No other information about the festival&#8217;s absence in 2026 is available at this time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\" wp_automatic_readability=\"33\">\n\t\t<strong style=\"display: block;margin: 0 auto;max-width: 660px;font-size: 1.625rem;\">Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/news\/new-england-metal-hardcore-festival-will-not-return-this-year-this-isnt-goodbye\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival will not return in 2026. Organizers for the festival issued a brief statement online, saying :&#8221;After a great run, we&#8217;re taking 2026 off. This isn&#8217;t goodbye \u2013 it&#8217;s just a breather. [New England Metal &amp; Hardcore Festival] will return. Thank you for always showing up and making this fest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}