Mystic Festival (PL) Will Have A Thrash Heavy Line-up In 2026. Big Four Legends Megadeth And Anthrax Added.

The Main Stage will be completely occupied by legends of the American scene. Megadeth, Anthrax, Overkill and Forbidden together on the stage.

Megadeth

Megadeth are retuning as Mystic Festival headliners as the crowning finish of an unrepeatable day with the American thrash metal. The cover art of their seventeenth – and, unfortunately, final – album, slated for January release, sees Vic Rattlehead on fire, yet smiling mischievously. Before he turns to ashes, he’ll dance with us one last time. Heads will roll, for, after all, killing is his business… and for 40 years, the business has been good. In 1984, Dave Mustaine, perhaps the best guitarist in the history of thrash metal, instead of wallowing after having been kicked out of Metallica, reemerged with a new band and with music that was sharper and better – the final coming of thrash. After all, can anyone do more justice to this genre of metal than Megadeth on Rust in Peace or Countdown to Extinction? Years pass and Mustaine’s band has yet to wane, despite line-up changes and fortune’s whims. If they are to bid farewell now, it’s only so they can leave the stage undefeated.

Anthrax

They’ve been spreading the thrash disease since 1981. While at it, they helped Judge Dredd enforce the rule of law, pioneered the marriage of metal with rap, popped by the house of the Bundy family and haunted the black lodge in Twin Peaks, not to mention touring the whole world over. First and foremost, however, they have us an abundance of great music. From the venomous speed metal of their debut Fistful of Metal, through the textbook thrash of Among the Living, to the groove on steroids of their later records. What they brought to the thrash Big Four is the New York formula for blending metal with punk, a sense of humor and the daring to venture out to new sounds.

Mystic Festival will take place in Gdansk, Poland at the Gdansk Shipyard on June 3rd through 6th, 2026.

Tickets are available now on the Mystic Festival homepage here