The 2016 edition of the Summer Breeze Festival will take place in Dinkelsbuhl, Germany from August 17th – August 20th. All throughout December, new bands are being announced via an Advent Calendar. 

The new additions to the festival are Testament, D-A-D, DevilDriver, Illdisposed, Agnostic Front, Grand Magus, Vader, Mantar, Obscura, Bury Tomorrow, Beyond The Black, Skamold, Fear Factory, Satyricon, Toxpack, Pain, Letzte Instanz, Wolfheart, Nasty, The Other, In The Woods…, Versengold, and Motörhead.

Bands confirmed for Summer Breeze 2016: Agnostic Front, Arkona, At The Gates, Beyond The Black, Blues Pills, Bury Tomorrow, Cattle Decapitation, Coppelius, D-A-D, Deez Nuts, DevilDriver, Dying Fetus, Eisbrecher, Entombed A.D., Equilibrium, Exodus, Fear Factory, Feuerschwanz, Grand Magus, Heart Of A Coward, Illdisposed, In The Woods…, Iron Reagan, Karbholz, Korpiklaani, Letzte Instanz, Lord Of The Lost, Mantar, Motörhead, My Dying Bride, Nasty, Obscura, Ohrenfeindt, Omnium Gatherum, Pain, Parkaway Drive, Primordial, Sabaton, Satyricon, Skamold, Soilwork, Steel Panther, Subway To Sally, Swallow The Sun, Testament, Toxpack, Terror, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Other, The Word Alive, Unleashed, Vader, Versengold, and Wolfheart.