Image: Galeria Rynek, Olsztyn
MOK Olsztyn has announced that Sun Dies Festival 2026 will officially relocate to Olsztyn, with the metal event set for 22 August at the Amfiteatr im. Czesława Niemena on ul. Zamkowa 1. The festival begins at 18:00 and is presented as part of the Radiola series. Tickets are priced at 99.90 zł and are available through the MOK Olsztyn website.
The festival’s move is framed by the organiser as a new chapter for an event that has, from the start, been “created for music, not trends.” In the announcement, Sun Dies is described as keeping its selective line-up and uncompromising intensity while taking advantage of a venue in Olsztyn that offers “new possibilities” and greater comfort for audiences. The text also underlines the change in location with the line, “Scena rośnie. Miasto się zmienia. Energia zostaje ta sama.”
The 2026 line-up includes Gorycz, Damnation, Blindead 23, Christ Agony and Furia. The organiser says the programme will be more than a sequence of concerts, with space on site for meetings, merchandise and a break between performances. The festival is presented as a concentrated live-music event rather than a broad arts fair, and the source material keeps the emphasis on the performances themselves.
Sun Dies Festival’s arrival in Olsztyn places it within MOK’s wider summer programme, Radiola, which also includes other concerts and cultural events across the city. In that context, the amphitheatre is being used as a venue for a large-scale ticketed concert with a single evening programme, rather than as part of a multi-day campus or exhibition-style setting. The source does not indicate any additional festival dates or companion venues for Sun Dies 2026.
The announcement presents the edition as both a continuation and a reset: the same identity, but in a new city and a new setting. The phrase “new opening” appears in the festival copy alongside the claim that the project is moving to a space prepared for large concerts. For audiences, that means a single-night event with a fixed start time, a defined bill and a move into one of Olsztyn’s central outdoor performance spaces.
Sun Dies Festival 2026 takes place on Saturday, 22 August, at 18:00 at Amfiteatr im. Czesława Niemena, ul. Zamkowa 1, Olsztyn. Tickets cost 99.90 zł and are sold via mok.olsztyn.pl.
