YOUNGSTOWN — The Monolith will start emitting again in 2026.

Emissions from the Monolith, a music festival that attracted bands and fans from around the world to Youngstown from 2000 to 2006, will return to Youngstown for four days from Oct. 8 to 11, 2026, at Westside Bowl.

Westside Bowl owners Nate and Jami Offerdahl will partner with Greg Barratt, who started the festival when he owned the former Youngstown music venue Nyabinghi, which hosted the festival.

Emissions catered to fans of doom metal, stoner rock, sludge metal and adjacent sounds. Those genres don’t dominate pop culture, but they have loyal fan bases, and Nyabinghi veterans like Clutch and Mastodon now headline mid-sized venues and appear on the bills of major music festivals worldwide. Mastodon played the Covelli Centre w

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