FYA Fest 2027: Floorpunch, Poison the Well and 33 more hardcore bands hit Orlando Warehouse

The hardcore weekend returns to Orlando Warehouse on Jan. 9–10 with 35 acts on the bill. Here's where to start planning.

Two days in January, one room, 35 bands, and almost nobody standing still. FYA Fest is back at Orlando Warehouse on Saturday, Jan. 9 and Sunday, Jan. 10, 2027, and the lineup is out early enough to book the time off.

The facts first. The bill lists 35 acts. Floorpunch tops it, and the names most likely to pull the biggest crowds are Poison the Well, Collateral, Fiddlehead, Angel Du$t, Contention, Earth Crisis, Ringworm, Discontent, Holder and Start Today. Orlando Warehouse holds about 3,500. Tickets are on DICE, and the DICE event page bills this edition as FYA 13.

That number counts for something. FYA has been moving around for a while. Orlando Weekly covered the festival's relocation to Orlando for its 11th year, with Nails headlining. Ahead of the 2025 edition, BrooklynVegan and Lambgoat both reported that the festival was moving indoors, and it landed at Orlando Warehouse. The 12th edition ran Jan. 10–11, 2026, with Hatebreed, Drain and Gorilla Biscuits on a bill Orlando Weekly previewed as hardcore legends past and present. One attendee's write-up for WXYC counted 38 hardcore bands from across the U.S. and abroad.

So a 13th edition in the same room, on the same second weekend in January, starts to look like something Orlando can count on. For a scene that tends to live in small rooms and DIY spaces, a fixed annual weekend that draws bands and fans from out of state is worth protecting.

A fixed annual hardcore weekend that brings bands and fans to town from out of state is worth protecting.

Now the planning. With two days and one venue, you won't be running between stages. The real decision is how early you arrive. Plenty of the bands below the top line are the reason people make the trip: Carry On, God's Hate, Path of Resistance, Harms Way, C4, Special Move, The Difference, Swear to God, Division of Mind, Demonstration Of Power, Killing Pace, Step 2 This, Condition One, Demonstrate, Barricade, Breakdown, Ethic, Living Weapon, Madman, xSERAPHx and XweaponX are all on the lineup. So are The Sissy Boys, Shits Creek, and Blood and Tears, which the bill lists as a tribute to Danzig.

Pick five you've never seen and get there for them. That's the honest way to do a festival like this: the headliner is why you buy the ticket, and the band at 3 p.m. you'd never heard of is what you talk about on the drive home. Day splits and set times weren't in the lineup listing we worked from, so watch FYA's and the venue's own channels before you plan around a single set.

A few practical notes. It's January, so you won't melt in the sun, but a packed indoor room still gets hot, so hydrate. Bring earplugs. Look after the people around you in the pit. Hardcore shows run on the crowd looking out for each other, and FYA is no different.

Thirteen editions in, FYA is still the weekend the Florida hardcore calendar is built around. See you on the floor.

Sources: FYA Fest 2027 — JamBase festival listing (jambase.com); FYA 13 tickets — DICE (dice.fm); Hardcore nirvana: FYA Fest relocates to Orlando for its 11th year — Orlando Weekly (orlandoweekly.com); FYA Fest moving indoors for 2025 — BrooklynVegan (brooklynvegan.com); FYA 11 moves again, this time indoors — Lambgoat (lambgoat.com); FYA Fest brawls its way back into Orlando with hardcore legends past and present — Orlando Weekly (orlandoweekly.com); Charlotte NC's Magnitude at FYA Festival 12 — WXYC (wxyc.org)