Louder Than Life 2025 features Slayer, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Avenged Sevenfold, Sleep Token, Bad Omens and more from September 18-21. The 11th annual festival is the largest lineup from music fest powerhouse producer Danny Wimmer Presents. Louder Than Life will take place at the Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
“Louder Than Life has always been about showcasing the future of rock and heavy music while honoring the legends who paved the way. Bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, $uicideboy$, Motionless In White, Spiritbox, I Prevail, Slaughter To Prevail, Lorna Shore, Wage War, Dayseeker, and Knocked Loose aren’t just performing—they’re defining the next generation of headliners,” says Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents. “At the same time, pioneers like Slayer, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, and Avenged Sevenfold have set the standard, proving that this music is always evolving. This is where the past, present, and future of heavy music collide.”
Lineup
The complete lineup for Louder Than Life 2025 is:
Thursday:
- Slayer, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Lamb of God, Down, Lorna Shore, The Story So Far, Cannibal Corpse, Cavalera, Neck Deep, Kublai Khan TX, Exodus, State Champs, Drain, From Ashes to New, Atreyu, Carcass, Municipal Waste, The Black Dahlia Murder, Fear Factory, Scowl, Set It Off, Winds of Plague, LANDMVRKS, Brand of Sacrifice, Catch Your Breath, SANGUISUGABOGG, Full of Hell, Gideon, Left to Suffer, Guilt Trip, If Not For Me, Colorblind, Fulci, Not Enough Space, PEELINGFLESH, Mugshot, Snuffed on Sight, Big Ass Truck, Imperial Tide, Sicksense
Friday:
- Avenged Sevenfold, Sleep Token, Breaking Benjamin, Mudvayne, Spiritbox, All Time Low, Dream Theater, Hollywood Undead, Insane Clown Posse, Dayseeker, Powerwolf, PVRIS, Story of the Year, Static-X, Hatebreed, Imminence, Dragonforce, Alestorm, Whitechapel, Suicide Silence, DOPE, Violent Vira, Hot Milk, Demon Hunter, Northlane, Gloryhammer, Of Mice & Men, Magnolia Park, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Miss May I, Thrown, NONPOINT, Walls of Jericho, Thornhill, Liliac, DED, Islander, Aurorawave, Savage Hands, Uncured, XCOMM
Saturday:
- Deftones, Bad Omens, Black Veil Brides, Attack Attack!, Woe, is Me, Disembodied Tyrant, A Perfect Circle, I Prevail, Acid Bath, Stone Temple Pilots, Motionless In White, Cypress Hill, TRIVIUM, Chides, Machine Head, Chimaira, LETLIVE., We Came As Romans, Glassjaw, August Burns Red, Superheaven, Freshwater, Kittie, BLESSTHEFALL, Failure, Devildriver, Stabbing Westward, Spineshank, Hawthorne Heights, From First To Last, Snot, Quannnic, The Funeral Portrait, The Union Underground, Spiritworld, RA, Return to Dust, Small Town Titans, Smile Empty Soul, Holocene, No Resolve, Versus Me
Sunday:
- Bring Me The Horizon, $UICIDEBOY$, Evanescence, Knocked Loose, Three Days Grace, Bruce Dickinson, Slaughter To Prevail, Wage War, Flylead with Lacey Sturm, Testament, Tech N9ne, Crossfade, Queensryche, Sebastian Bach, Bilmuri, Rev Theory, Accept, Hinder, Counterparts, Yngwie Malmsteen, Memphis May Fire, The Plot In You, Escape The Fate, 10 Years, 12 Stones, Dying Wish, Sleep Theory, Norma Jean, It Dies Today, Chained Saint, Gates to Hell, Wargasm, Amira Elfeky, The Haunt, Kami Kehoe, Picturesque, Enmy and more TBA.
Special Appearances and Reunion Performances
These performers are:
● 12 Stones (Reunion)
● Accept (50th anniversary)
● Acid Bath (Reunion)
● Avenged Sevenfold (Only U.S. headlining show of the year)
● Cavalera (Playing Chaos A.D. in full in a very rare, special performance)
● Chimaira (Reunion)
● Chiodos (Reunion)
● Crossfade (Reunion)
● Dope (25-year anniversary set)
● DOWN (The band’s first time back in Kentucky in 10 years, celebrating 30 years of NOLA)
● Dream Theater (40th anniversary)
● Fear Factory (Celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Demanufacture)
● From First To Last (Reunion)
● Gates To Hell (Hometown show from Louisville natives)
● Insane Clown Posse (Farewell set)
● It Dies Today (Reunion)
● Kittie (Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Spit)
● Knocked Loose (Hometown show from the Louisville natives)
● Letlive. (Reunion)
● Picturesque (Home state show from Lexington natives)
● RA (One of the band’s final shows)
● Rev Theory (The original lineup of the band’s first show since 2014 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album Truth Is Currency)
● Rob Zombie (performing Astro-Creep: 2000 in its entirety for the album’s 30th anniversary in a one-night only, worldwide exclusive performance)
● Slayer (Reunion)
● Snot (Reunion)
● Spineshank (Reunion)
● The Union Underground (25th anniversary of An Education in Rebellion as well as the band’s first Kentucky show in 20+ Years)
● Trivium (Playing Ascendancy for the album’s 20th anniversary)
● Walls of Jericho (First Kentucky performance since 2008)
● Winds of Plague (Reunion)
Tickets
Four-day and single day GA, VIP and Angel’s Envy Top Shelf passes for Louder Than Life 2025 are on sale now. Fans who want to attend Louder Than Life and Bourbon & Beyond at the best price can grab an Exacta Pass, beginning at $550 plus fees. Glamping and RV camping options are available. Regular car and tent camping passes are currently on a waitlist. Onsite parking will be available for purchase soon. For more information about ticketing, lineup or more, visit https://louderthanlifefestival.com.