Fireplace In The Mountains has introduced one other kickass line-up addition to their 2026 version: the unique 2026 US reunion efficiency of the legendary 16 Horsepower.
For over a decade, 16 Horsepower helped redraw the map of guitar music by twisting conventional Appalachian folks, bluegrass, gospel, and nation round a stark, electrical backbone. Their distinctive sound, which has been dubbed “gothic nation” and “gothic Americana,” blazed the path for the iconic “Denver Sound”.
This reunion brings the core triad — David Eugene Edwards, Jean-Yves Tola, and Pascal Humbert — again into the identical body for the primary time in 21 years. Slightly than slipping right into a predictable membership circuit or major-city competition, they’ve chosen a setting that mirrors the gravity and austerity of their music: the wide-open, mountainous expanse of Fireplace within the Mountains.
In a short assertion, David Eugene Edwards stated: “It’s a particular honor and privilege to reunite and drift like sleep into the Lodge Montana. To the Nice Blackfeet Nation’s sovereign lands for the Fireplace within the Mountains competition 2026.”
Fireplace In The Mountains 2026 will happen between July 23 and 26 at Purple Eagle Campground in East Glacier, MT, and the bands introduced to this point are:
- 16 Horsepower (Unique US reunion efficiency)
- Enslaved
- Borknagar (U.S. unique)
- Yob (offered by Firekeeper Alliance)
- Gallowbraid (U.S. dwell debut)
- Sigh
- Wayfarer
- Midwife
- Tarantella
- Galvanist
- Nocturne
Fireplace within the Mountains is an immersive, open-air music and cultural occasion that merges heavy music with pure landscapes and Indigenous cultural experiences. As the one alcohol-free heavy music competition in North America, Fireplace In The Mountains is devoted to confronting a crucial and pressing concern that considerably impacts the Blackfeet Nation, and all of Indian Nation: suicide.
Fireplace In The Mountains is dedicated not solely to elevating consciousness of the prevalence of suicide in Indian Nation but additionally to actively collaborating within the answer by offering assist for suicide prevention initiatives. Fireplace In The Mountains goals to create a platform that brings this concern to the forefront of our public consciousness and fosters a supportive group devoted to vary.
By way of music, artwork, and schooling — all set throughout the distant wilderness that borders Glacier Nationwide Park — in an space the Blackfeet name “The Spine of the World,” Fireplace In The Mountains provides a one-of-a-kind, immersion-based expertise designed to rekindle the inside hearth and deepen every participant’s connection to the pure world and to at least one’s self.
This distinctive strategy has rapidly earned Fireplace In The Mountains worldwide recognition as probably the most authentic, talked-about, and significant heavy music competition in North America. Extra information from Fireplace within the Mountains coming quickly.
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