TOTAL METAL OPEN AIR III - 2026

🎸 The international rock festival Total Metal Open Air III gathers 20 bands from around the world near Pleven. The event will take place from August 13 to 16, 2026 at Japara Campground near the village of Opanets.

🏕️ Japara Rock Campground will host the largest international rock festival in Northern Bulgaria. Guests will be welcomed with improved conditions and a large grassy area for campers.

🎤 The headliner will be the former vocalist of Bonfire and Accept – David Reece with his project BANGALORE CHOIR.

🔥 Over the four festival days, the audience will hear representatives of symphonic alternative rock and metal, Southern metal, thrash metal, and progressive metal. There will be bands playing heavy metal, hard rock, black metal, and almost all subgenres of heavy music.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria will be represented by six bands, including Trotyl, the punk rock band Nash'te Hora, and the melodic death/black metal representatives Fransis Forth.

🎟️ Over the years, the festival has been attended by an average of nearly 600 fans of heavy music.

📅 PROGRAM:
• 13.08 (Thursday) – Day 1: Opening
• 14.08 (Friday) – Day 2
• 15.08 (Saturday) – Day 3
• 16.08 (Sunday) – Day 4: Closing with David Reece

🎸 LINEUP:
• David Reece's BANGALORE CHOIR (USA/Italy) – HEADLINER
• Acorise (Sweden) – Classic hard rock
• Ammify (Australia) – Symphonic alternative rock/metal
• Black Stone Machine (Greece) – Southern metal
• Condemned AD (Sweden) – Thrash metal
• ETJM (Spain) – Instrumental progressive metal
• Fortress Under Siege (Greece) – Progressive heavy/power metal
• Fransis Forth (Bulgaria) – Melodic death/black metal
• Itinerum (Spain) – Symphonic metal
• Jeremy Harry Harris & The Treachery Of Ravens (Australia) – Melodic rock
• Melodius Deite (Thailand/International) – Symphonic progressive power metal
• Mystfall (Greece) – Symphonic metal
• Nash'te Hora (Bulgaria) – Punk rock
• Nest Of Plagues (Hungary) – Alternative/Groove metal
• Nocturnal Eternity (Bulgaria) – Symphonic metal
• Poetsky (Bulgaria) – Nu-metal
• SickRed (Bulgaria) – Alternative metal
• Subfire (Greece) – Heavy/Power metal
• Sunless Sky (USA) – Melodic power/heavy metal
• Trotyl (Bulgaria) – Power/Doom metal