Despite a fairly stacked lineup, this year’s ‘Furnace Fest‘ hasn’t met the sales goals needed to make the event a financial success. After originally planning to pull the plug on the festival following last year’s edition, organizers reversed course and announced a 2025 edition last fall. That event has been booked for October 03rd to 05th at the Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, AL and has no shortage of talent lined up from the worlds of hardcore, metalcore, emo, punk and more.
However, despite having had tickets on sale for the event since this past February, attendance numbers remain worryingly soft. In a bid to combat that and make sure the event can happen as planned, the organizers behind the festival have dropped prices in a bid to get some more attendees. They said in a statement issued this morning, August 22nd:
“Furnace Fest Fam, we’re going to shoot you straight – ticket sales aren’t where they need to be. We could make excuses, but we’d rather take action and do everything we can to fill Sloss with people, not reasons why it didn’t work.
To keep this thing alive, we’ve rolled prices back to early bird rates. We know not everyone will agree with this decision, but the choice was simple: cut prices to move tickets or cancel altogether. If you purchased at tier one pricing, we’ll do our best to make it right for you.
Our hope was to keep FF going as long as the passion from fans was there. We hope to see you in October!”
In a separate statement, organizers added:
“There isn’t much else to say. At the end of the day we’re just a handful of friends trying to do something awesome for our community. There’s no corporate backer here. The only support we have is YOU. Without YOU there is no @furnacefest”
