MAGMA Fest, Hollow Earth Radio’s annual music celebration, has announced the dates for its 2026 festival and the full lineup of performances. For the first time, Magma Fest will be held on Halloween at The Black Lodge located in Eastlake. We are dubbing this year's event MAGMA-Ween!

Since its inception in 2008, MAGMA Fest has sought to showcase underground, underrepresented, and emerging artists from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 

Acts featured at the 2025 festival include The Rat Utopia Experiment, Astral Trap, Toño, neverendings, BNH Deluxe, Bazaar, KAPSLOK, Gender Envy, Medic!, and Catica.

The full 2026 lineup includes:

• Trash Panda Go Kart - Power twee lesbian raccoon rock from Zinnia and Selena on the Island of Misfit Toys. Expect noisy yet dance-y songs about critters, bugs, flowers, and food with sing-songy melodies and loud guitars.

• Echo Ravine - Echo Ravine is a dark pop, post-alt, shoegaze band based in Tacoma/Seattle, Washington. They are besties, dweebs, activists, and dorks, with a sincere love for performing together and a musical appreciation that spans the quietest of landscapes to the most chaotic of sound walls. Members include Emily Koo on bass and vocals, Sean Foe on guitar, Tim Meinig on drums, and Chris Early on keyboards.

• Pyrocene - Heavy, queer, psychedelic punk and gloom from Bellingham, WA. Fresh off a West Coast tour and the release of their full-length debut RENOUNCE DOMINATION // A WISHING WELL, Pyrocene is thrilled to be back home and looking to the future. They make music with and for abyssal joy, liberation, and magic.

• Skunk Ape - skunk ape is a Drongo recording artist and the solo project of Elliott Hansen. skunk ape explores patience and silence, open spaces, tension and release through long-form songs and improvisations for guitar and electronics. Parallel lines, omnidirectional, frozen plains, suspended time.

• Very Magical - Very Magical is an ambient musician taking pop soundscapes through a shimmering machine; when not making music, they are feeding the crows of North Seattle.

• Hate Knife - Hate Knife is a punk band from Seattle, Washington, playing loud, raunchy music with a sense of humor. Hate Knife was formed by degenerates for degenerates.

Vendors:

• Turntables & Trails
• Drongo Tapes
• Lasserette
• Milky Production Co

Tickets are $25 + fees and are available via DICE: https://link.dice.fm/r0f4cdb41cb2.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. Music begins at 7:00 PM.

About Magma Fest

Launched in 2008, Magma Fest is Hollow Earth Radio’s annual music showcase. A multi-day, multi-venue event, the festival aims to platform up-and-coming artists from Washington and “provide a public forum for the people of Seattle to experience underrepresented sounds and perspectives.” Additionally, the festival plans to bring awareness to Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle’s non-profit, all-volunteer, DIY LPFM radio station.

According to an article in Seattle’s The Stranger, Magma Fest offers “hardcore, garage, pop, experimental, punk, loud, quiet, young, old—it's a sonic buffet for every taste imaginable, and they never book the same band twice.” 

For more info about Magma Fest, visit khuh.fm/magmafest26.