📅 Date
Saturday, September 26, 2026 — doors at 2:00 PM, music until late.
FESTIVAL PREVIEW · METAL / HARDCORE / PUNK
Night Shift Party Weekend Vol. 5: Daytona’s heaviest day of the year
Municipal Waste, Cro-Mags and Darkest Hour top a 12-band bill at the Iron Horse Saloon on Saturday, September 26 — the fifth annual Party Weekend from Night Shift Merch, with a free Friday kickoff and a late-night after-show rounding out the weekend.
By Manolo Caraballo · CyberGrokr Music Desk · September 23, 2026
THE ESSENTIALS
What, when, where
📍 Venue
Iron Horse Saloon, 1068 US-1, Ormond Beach, Florida — the world-famous biker bar turned heavy-music institution.
🎤 Tickets
$50 advance / $60 day of show. All ages (under 16 with a parent or guardian). Vendors and food trucks on site.
THE LINEUP
Saturday’s set times
The fifth edition stacks three generations of heavy music on one stage. Richmond crossover thrashers Municipal Waste close the night at 10:30, preceded by NYHC legends Cro-Mags (9:35) and metalcore veterans Darkest Hour (8:45). The undercard runs the full spectrum: death metal from Devourment (7:55), epic heavy metal from Eternal Champion (7:05), deathcore from 200 Stab Wounds (6:20) and Devil Master’s blackened punk at 5:40.
Doors open at 2:00 PM with Step 2 This (2:30), followed by Maul (3:00), Jarhead Fertilizer (3:40), Tribal Gaze (4:20) and Contention (5:00) — a full afternoon-to-midnight run with no filler.
THE FULL WEEKEND
Three days, four rooms
Party Weekend is more than the Saturday main event. The Friday kickoff (September 25) takes over Full Moon Saloon, 700 Main St, Daytona Beach — doors 7:00 PM, free with registration — with Life Cycles, Emaciate, Dose, Mass Panic and False Alarm. After the Iron Horse winds down Saturday night, the after-show hits Punk Rock Pizza (821 Main St) at 11:30 PM: Frog Concert’s special set plus Undercrypt and Vorlauf, $10. Sunday cools down with the Wired For Chaos matinee at Cinematique (242 N Beach St), doors 2:00 PM, $12.
CYBERGROKR ON THE GROUND
We’ll be there Saturday
CyberGrokr will be on site at the Iron Horse on September 26 covering the full day — watch this space for our review and photo gallery after the fest. Tips, guest-list or interview requests: our desk is at [email protected].
Sources: nightshiftmerch.com (official event page), theprp.com, lambgoat.com — lineup reporting, May 2026. Set times per the official event flyer.