Good Things Festival is returning to Australia this December with a line-up built for anyone who still believes heavy music should be loud, unruly and impossible to reduce to a single genre.
The travelling festival has announced its 2026 edition, bringing an extensive roster of international headliners, established scene figures, Australian favourites and emerging artists to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane across three consecutive days.
At the top of the bill sits Limp Bizkit, returning to Australia as headliners after their appearance at the 2023 edition. More than three decades into their career, the band remain closely associated with the collision of hip-hop, metal, punk attitude and late-’90s alternative culture that shaped an entire generation.
Songs including Nookie, Break Stuff and Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle) remain central to that legacy, but their reputation has always been equally tied to the band’s live presence. Fred Durst and company return to Good Things with a catalogue that continues to cross generational lines without losing its abrasive character.
They will be joined at the top of the programme by Simple Plan and Spiritbox, two bands occupying very different corners of contemporary heavy music.
Simple Plan arrive with more than twenty years of pop-punk history behind them, carrying songs such as I’m Just A Kid, I’d Do Anything, Perfect and Welcome To My Life. Spiritbox represent a much newer strain of heaviness, folding metalcore, electronic textures and expansive melodic passages into one of the most prominent sounds in modern metal.
The rest of the bill moves freely through punk, hardcore, industrial, metal, alternative rock and pop-punk.
Australian metalcore favourites Polaris will bring their live set to the festival, while The All-American Rejects are preparing for their first Australian festival appearances in more than 17 years. Punk institution Bad Religion will mark their 45 + 1 anniversary, adding another chapter to a career that has helped define melodic punk for generations.
Alexisonfire will perform their 2006 album Crisis in full, turning their appearance into a 20th-anniversary celebration. Australian favourites Grinspoon will also return, drawing from a catalogue that has remained deeply embedded in the country’s alternative-rock culture for more than three decades.
Millencolin will offer another full-album performance, playing their platinum-certified record Pennybridge Pioneers in its entirety.
Further down the bill, the festival brings together Bilmuri, Ministry, Chad Gray, MxPx, Neck Deep, Speed, Slowly Slowly, P.O.D., The Devil Wears Prada and Choirboys.
For Ministry, the 2026 appearances carry particular weight: the festival dates will mark the band’s final performances in Australia.
Chad Gray will also arrive with a career-spanning set titled “30 Years Of Madness”, drawing from his work with both Mudvayne and HELLYEAH.
And Good Things is still nowhere near finished.
The programme also includes All Them Witches, The Black Queen, Future Palace, Headwreck, The Home Team, House Of Protection, ivri, Kami Kehoe, Locked Shut, LØLØ, vianova, Voice Of Baceprot and Stage 666.
Together, the line-up moves between generations without treating them as separate territories. Foundational punk sits alongside industrial veterans; hardcore meets metalcore; pop-punk shares space with electronic experimentation and artists operating at the more unstable edges of alternative music.
The Australian contingent brings its own history to the festival. Sydney hardcore band Speed return after an extraordinary rise that has taken them from the local scene to international stages including Coachella, Reading & Leeds and Sick New World.
Headwreck will return after appearing as a secret guest at the 2025 Brisbane edition, while Slowly Slowly make another appearance following years of establishing themselves within Australia’s indie and pop-punk landscape.
MxPx will return to Australia for the first time in 13 years, LØLØ will make her Australian debut, and All Them Witches will be back after their first Australian appearances earlier this year.
The 2026 edition will take place across three venues:
Friday, December 4 — Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse
Saturday, December 5 — Sydney, Sydney Showground
Sunday, December 6 — Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds
All events are 16+.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale Tuesday, August 18 at 10am AEST, with access available to fans who register through the official Good Things Festival website. General public tickets follow on Thursday, August 20 at 10am AEST via Oztix.
Three cities, three days and a line-up that refuses to stay inside one scene. Good Things Festival 2026 is shaping up as another large-scale gathering for Australia’s alternative music community, with Limp Bizkit at the centre and enough noise around them to keep the conversation going long after the last set.
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