Inkcarceration 2026 just moved from lineup hype to actual weekend planning.
The July 17-19 festival has released full set times for its return to the historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, and the top of the bill is exactly as heavy as advertised: Disturbed closes Friday, Bad Omens closes Saturday, and Limp Bizkit closes Sunday. Underneath that, the schedule is loaded with Papa Roach, Cypress Hill, Hollywood Undead, Gojira, The Used, Sleeping With Sirens, A Day To Remember, Motionless In White, Ice Nine Kills, Lorna Shore, Jinjer, Machine Head, Hatebreed, Sanguisugabogg, Born Of Osiris and a lot more.
This is the practical version of the Inkcarceration 2026 lineup: when the gates open, where the conflicts land, and how much ground fans are going to have to cover once the prison yard starts moving.
Festival gates open at 11:00 AM daily.
Inkcarceration 2026 Set Times: What Stands Out
Friday is built like a radio-rock and heavy nostalgia warpath at the top, with Hollywood Undead into Cypress Hill into Papa Roach into Disturbed. The earlier day has real weight too: Jinjer at 4:10 PM, Tech N9ne at 5:00 PM, Starset at 5:50 PM, and a nasty Infirmary Stage run with Entheos, PeelingFlesh and Sanguisugabogg.
Saturday is the modern-heavy day. Bad Omens gets the 9:30 PM headlining slot, Gojira plays 8:25 PM, The Used hits at 7:35 PM, and Sleeping With Sirens goes at 6:45 PM while celebrating the 15th anniversary of Let's Cheers To This. That run alone is enough to explain why this day will be one of the weekend's biggest draws.
Sunday closes with the most chaotic stretch of the festival: Ice Nine Kills at 6:25 PM, Motionless In White at 7:25 PM, A Day To Remember at 8:25 PM, and Limp Bizkit at 9:30 PM. That is not subtle booking. It is built to end the weekend with maximum sing-alongs, breakdowns, and bad decisions.
If you are tracking the wider Danny Wimmer Presents season, Inkcarceration sits in the same orbit as Sonic Temple, Welcome To Rockville and Louder Than Life, but the Ohio State Reformatory setting gives this one its own identity. The prison backdrop is not decoration. It is part of the festival's entire appeal.
Friday, July 17 Set Times
Yard / Redemption stages
- 11:25 AM - If Not For Me
- 11:55 AM - Nevertel
- 12:30 PM - DED
- 1:05 PM - Point North
- 1:40 PM - Dying Wish
- 2:15 PM - Jutes
- 2:50 PM - Rev Theory
- 3:25 PM - Memphis May Fire
- 4:10 PM - Jinjer
- 5:00 PM - Tech N9ne
- 5:50 PM - Starset
- 6:40 PM - Hollywood Undead
- 7:30 PM - Cypress Hill
- 8:25 PM - Papa Roach
- 9:30 PM - Disturbed
Infirmary Stage
- 11:30 AM - Vicar Blood
- 12:20 PM - Jeffrey Nothing
- 1:10 PM - Corpse Pile
- 2:10 PM - Snuffed On Sight
- 3:05 PM - Entheos
- 4:05 PM - PeelingFlesh
- 5:00 PM - Sanguisugabogg
Saturday, July 18 Set Times
Yard / Redemption stages
- 11:30 AM - Fox Lake
- 12:00 PM - Wolves At The Gate
- 12:35 PM - Earshot
- 1:10 PM - Thousand Below
- 1:45 PM - Caskets
- 2:20 PM - Landmvrks
- 2:55 PM - Lacuna Coil
- 3:35 PM - Sleep Theory
- 4:20 PM - Hatebreed
- 5:05 PM - Machine Head
- 5:55 PM - Poppy
- 6:45 PM - Sleeping With Sirens
- 7:35 PM - The Used
- 8:25 PM - Gojira
- 9:30 PM - Bad Omens
Infirmary Stage
- 11:30 AM - Night Rider
- 12:15 PM - Enmy
- 1:00 PM - Heavy//Hitter
- 1:50 PM - Guilt Trip
- 2:40 PM - Cane Hill
- 3:30 PM - King 810
- 4:20 PM - 156/Silence
- 5:15 PM - Spite
Sunday, July 19 Set Times
Yard / Redemption stages
- 11:25 AM - Versus Me
- 11:55 AM - Silly Goose
- 12:30 PM - Archers
- 1:05 PM - Silent Planet
- 1:40 PM - Norma Jean
- 2:15 PM - Miss May I
- 2:50 PM - Escape The Fate
- 3:25 PM - Alien Ant Farm
- 4:00 PM - Get Scared
- 4:40 PM - Fit For A King
- 5:30 PM - Lorna Shore
- 6:25 PM - Ice Nine Kills
- 7:25 PM - Motionless In White
- 8:25 PM - A Day To Remember
- 9:30 PM - Limp Bizkit
Infirmary Stage
- 11:45 AM - Killstreak
- 12:35 PM - Filth
- 1:25 PM - Synestia
- 2:15 PM - The Crimson Armada
- 3:10 PM - Static Dress
- 4:05 PM - Left To Suffer
- 5:00 PM - Born Of Osiris
Tickets, Tattoos, Blood Prison And The Prison Tours
Inkcarceration is still pushing the full destination-event angle, not just a stage schedule. The 2026 edition includes more than 65 bands, 100+ tattoo artists, self-guided prison tours, and the Blood Prison haunted attraction inside the Ohio State Reformatory complex made famous by The Shawshank Redemption.
Discounted Blood Prison tickets are available to festival attendees for $10 through June 4 before the price moves to $15, according to the festival announcement. The official Inkcarceration mobile app is also live for iPhone and Android, giving fans a way to build personalized schedules once the conflict math starts getting ugly.
Limited 3-day and single-day GA and VIP passes are still available through the festival. Fans can check official festival options at Inkcarceration.com or search tickets through Ticketmaster.
Can't find the pass you need? Check resale availability through StubHub.
This is the point where waiting starts costing you choices. Inkcarceration has sold out five years in a row, and once the set times are public, the casual crowd usually starts turning into the committed crowd. If you are going, build the schedule now. If you are still debating, this is the weekend map in front of you.
