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ProgStorm Festival announces second headliner

ProgStorm Festival has announced the second headliner for 2026!

Canada’s premier progressive metal festival returns to Montréal, Québec from August 21–23, 2026 at Club Soda for its second year of celebrating progressive music in all its diverse and boundary-defying forms.

The festival has confirmed legendary progressive metal innovators CYNIC as Friday’s headliner, joining previously announced Saturday headliner CAR BOMB.

The current lineup includes:

Friday, August 21

  • CYNIC
  • VULKAN
  • FRACTAL SUN
  • HILLWARD
  • More bands to be announced

Saturday, August 22

  • CAR BOMB
  • AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION
  • EXIST
  • More bands to be announced

Sunday, August 23

  • DAWN OF OUROBOROS
  • SKY PASSAGE
  • More bands to be announced

ProgStorm Festival 2026 - Cynic

ProgStorm Festival takes place at Club Soda, Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 21st-23rd, 2026. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here

For more information on PROGSTORM FESTIVAL like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.

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