Good Things Festival tickets are officially on sale, and once you get past the rather large red cap sitting at the top of the poster, there is a ridiculous amount happening across this year’s lineup.
Yes, Limp Bizkit are back.
Fred Durst and co. return to headline Good Things after their 2023 appearance, but treating 2026 as simply another excuse to ‘Break Stuff’ would miss half the fun. This lineup is littered with anniversary sets, long-awaited Australian returns, farewells and bands arriving at wildly different points in their careers.
With Good Things hitting Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from December 4th to 6th, here are some of the sets already making December look dangerous.
Limp Bizkit get another crack at Good Things
There isn’t much mystery surrounding what Limp Bizkit bring to a festival anymore, that’s exactly why it works.
Three decades into their career, they’ve somehow crossed from nu metal punching bag to one of the most reliable festival attractions in heavy music. ‘Break Stuff’, ‘Nookie’, ‘Rollin’’ and that enormous catalogue of turn of the century fun hit differently when thousands of people are yelling every word back.
Their 2023 Good Things performances were followed by sold-out Australian headline shows, and now they’re coming back to take the top spot again.
Sometimes you don’t need reinvention, you need riffs and a dude yelling about a chainsaw.
Alexisonfire are playing ‘Crisis’ in full
This one alone will probably make the decision for a particular generation.
Alexisonfire will celebrate 20 years of ‘Crisis’ by performing the entire record at Good Things.
That means ‘Drunks, Lovers, Sinners and Saints’, ‘This Could Be Anywhere in the World’, ‘Boiled Frogs’, ‘Rough Hands’ and the rest of the 2006 record getting their moment.
‘Crisis’ wasn’t simply another successful post-hardcore album, for plenty of people who came through heavy music during the mid-2000s, it was foundational.
Twenty years later, hearing the whole thing in sequence should hurt beautifully.
Ministry are saying goodbye to Australia
Good Things will also host Ministry‘s final Australian performances.
Al Jourgensen’s industrial wrecking crew are approaching album number 17 with ‘Hate to Go – Take Out or Delivery’ arriving this October, but their Australian story is reaching its endpoint.
With more than four decades of industrial metal filth behind them, this isn’t one of those sets where wandering past halfway through feels sufficient.
If you’ve been waiting to see Ministry again, the clock has essentially run out.
The All-American Rejects end a 17 year Australian absence
Here’s another potentially massive singalong hiding beneath the headliner.
The All-American Rejects haven’t performed in Australia for more than 17 years, that changes at Good Things.
‘Dirty Little Secret’. ‘Move Along’. ‘It Ends Tonight’. Those songs have had plenty of time to embed themselves permanently into people’s brains, but the band aren’t arriving purely as a nostalgia exercise either. Their fifth studio album ‘Sandbox’ landed this year.
Still, when ‘Move Along’ hits, nobody is pretending they’re there to stand quietly.
Spiritbox return on very different terms
The last time Spiritbox performed in Australia was Knotfest 2023, a lot has happened since.
The Canadian band now return with ‘Tsunami Sea’ behind them, another GRAMMY nomination added to the pile and a live production increasingly built for enormous rooms.
Spiritbox’s ability to move from atmosphere into absolute blunt-force heaviness has always been the hook, but in 2026 they’re no longer arriving as the rapidly ascending curiosity.
They’re one of the bands defining what modern metal looks like right now.
Millencolin give ‘Pennybridge Pioneers’ the full treatment
Alexisonfire aren’t alone in raiding one of their most important records, Millencolin will perform 2000’s ‘Pennybridge Pioneers’ in full.
For anyone raised on skate punk, that’s a serious proposition. ‘No Cigar’, ‘Fox’, ‘Penguins & Polarbears’ and ‘The Ballad’ all sit on a record whose fingerprints can still be found across melodic punk more than 25 years later.
It’s also another example of why this Good Things bill gets more interesting the further you move down it.
Then there’s even more
Polaris return to Australian festival stages after supporting Linkin Park earlier this year. SPEED continue their march from Sydney hardcore rooms towards the global stage. Bilmuri is coming back after making his Australian debut earlier in 2026, while Neck Deep, The Devil Wears Prada, P.O.D., Bad Religion, Grinspoon, MxPx and Slowly Slowly make the middle of the poster look more like the top half of another festival.
Then things get stranger.
The Black Queen return to Australia. House Of Protection bring the project formed by Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta. Future Palace make the trip from Germany. Voice Of Baceprot return from Indonesia, while LØLØ will make her first Australian appearances.
And somewhere amongst all of it, Stage 666 is waiting.
That’s the real strength of Good Things 2026. You can arrive wanting nu metal nostalgia, 2000s post-hardcore, industrial metal, pop punk, hardcore or whatever the hell Bilmuri is doing and leave having attended completely different festivals.
Tickets went on sale yesterday, now comes the harder part: working out who you’re prepared to miss.
Good Things Festival 2026
Friday, December 4th – Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse (16+)
Saturday, December 5th – Sydney, Sydney Showground (16+)
Sunday, December 6th – Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds (16+)
Tickets are on sale now via Oztix.
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