This is it! The final lineup. We’re adding the last three bands to the bill. And they’re not the least. We are extremely proud to have this beautiful collection of bands coming over to Zottegem, Belgium on May 14 to 16th.

With only 102 days to go, we present the second to last selection of bands to join us for what will become an epic edition of the festival for many reasons. Please find below three more reasons to join us in May!

Turpentine Valley is bringing a new album to dunk!festival but we’re too excited to wait that long. So we booked them for a dunk!HQ release show on March 7th. Supported by Onrust, one of our newest members in the dunk!family.

We’re really enjoying the pace of this year’s announcements, so we’re keeping it going until the full lineup is revealed. And yes, we still have a few treats for you — starting with these three excellent post-rock bands.

Today happens to be Blue Monday but we’re not going to do that and make it a great day. Let’s do that by adding a few more bands to the lineup.

It’s 2026! The year of our return to the forest. We’re counting down. Only 123 days to go. We have quite some logistical and administrational challenges to conquer but we’ll come back to that later. The good news is that the lineup is getting better and better!

While the year is coming to an end, we would like to add four names to the lineup. Which gets us halfway through the lineup announcements. Read on below and get to know these latest additions to the lineup.

Yes we like them so much that we booked them twice. We Lost The Sea from Australia will be headlining the festival on Saturday May 16th, playing Departure Songs in full (with guests).

Fridays are extra exciting lately. And definitely this one today. We can’t announce that many headliners for each edition. So a day like this, when we get to announce that Caspian will be headlining day 2 of the festival, is a real joy.

After announcing three Belgian bands last week we’re now looking across the oceans (or at least across the English Channel) to announce another three beautiful additions to the 2026 lineup.

We already had Celestial Wolves and Onrust from Belgium on the lineup and couldn’t resist adding another three of our favorite Belgian bands of the moment.

Today is a good day. So we’re sharing some good news with you. We have three more bands who were so kind to accept our invitation to come and play the festival in May 2026.

Here we go! Today we start assembling the lineup together step by step. And what a big first step this is! We’re happy to welcome back Russian Circles and Pelican to our stage.

It took us a few days but we were finally able to go through all your submissions and count the enormous amount of votes. Just kidding of course. We didn’t count anything. AI got involved and that was done in an instant. Either way, the results are in and they learned us a few things.

This is the fun part! We’re now in the middle of carefully selecting the bands for the 2026 lineup. And as always we would like to know what you guys want to see on our stages in 2026.

Like every year, we record as much performances as we can. And every year we promise ourselves that we would spend the time on editing those nice shots afterwards so everyone can enjoy the experience again.

Our ticket shop for dunk!festival 2026 is now open! You can choose between the following items:

We would like to thank all of you for the amazing response to the fact that we’re moving the festival back to Zottegem in 2026. It’s great to see that you all are as excited as we are. We can’t wait to welcome you back to our home grounds.

That’s right. We decided it is about time to come home and embrace the forest, the fresh air, the camping site, the food square, the merch tent and most of all the good vibes we created there together. Let’s make Zottegem the post-rock capital of the world again for at least one weekend a year.

As expected, this anniversary edition was incredible! Thank you to everyone for showing up. And if you showed up early, you were in for some treats by our opening bands every single day. They set the quality standard for that day and not a single band dropped the ball.