Louder Than Life is ready to rock and/or piss off all of our neighbors once again! Louder Than Life 2025 is officially the largest lineup in the history of producer Danny Wimmer Presents. Over 160 bands will perform on 6 stages September 18, 19, 20 & 21 at the Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center right here in Louisville, KY for the 11th edition of North America’s biggest and most certainly loudest rock and metal festival.
And the lineup is absolutely staggering! Headliners include Slayer, Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon, Rob Zombie, Evanescence, Sleep Token, A Perfect Circle, Bad Omens, Marilyn Manson, $uicideboy$, and Breaking Benjamin.
Not to be overlooked on the bill are Louisville’s own Knocked Loose and Gates To Hell, as well as Lexington natives Picturesque. Plus a spot will be given to the winning band/artist of the “Loudest in LOU” contest, (more on that once we have it).
This year’s festival will also include a massive amount of band reunions, anniversaries, farewell shows, and full album performances, (listed below).
“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, founder 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.”
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Full lineup is as follows:
- Slayer (Reunion)
- Deftones
- Avenged Sevenfold (Their only U.S. headlining show of the year)
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Sleep Token
- $uicideboy$
- Bad Omens
- Rob Zombie (performing White Zombie’s Astro-Creep: 2000 in its entirety to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary in a one-night only, worldwide exclusive performance)
- A Perfect Circle
- Breaking Benjamin
- Marilyn Manson
- Evanescence
- Knocked Loose
- Three Days Grace
- Lamb of God
- Mudvayne
- I Prevail
- Spiritbox
- All Time Low
- Dream Theater (40th anniversary)
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Motionless in White
- Cypress Hill
- Acid Bath (Reunion)
- DOWN (Celebrating 30 years of the album NOLA)
- Lorna Shore
- Bruce Dickinson
- The Story So Far
- Slaughter To Prevail
- Trivium (Playing Ascendancy in full to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary)
- Chiodos (Reunion)
- Hollywood Undead
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Cannibal Corpse
- Black Veil Brides
- Insane Clown Posse (Farewell set)
- Dayseeker
- Wage War
- Powerwolf
- Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm
- Cavalera (Brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera playing Sepultura’s Chaos A.D. album in full)
- Machine Head
- Chimaira (Reunion)
- Neck Deep
- PVRIS
- Tech N9ne
- Testament
- Kublai Khan TX
- Story of the Year
- Letlive. (Reunion)
- Glassjaw
- State Champs
- We Came As Romans
- Crossfade (Reunion)
- Exodus
- DRAIN
- From Ashes To New
- Static-X
- Hatebreed
- August Burns Red
- Bilmuri
- Queensrÿche
- Imminence
- Atreyu
- Carcass
- DragonForce
- Alestorm
- Sebastian Bach
- Of Mice & Men
- Whitechapel
- Suicide Silence
- Fleshwater
- Superheaven
- Kittie (Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album Spit)
- Blessthefall
- Rev Theory (Original lineup reunion celebrating the 20th anniversary of the album Truth Is Currency)
- Accept (50th anniversary)
- Failure
- DevilDriver
- Stabbing Westward
- Hinder
- Counterparts
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Municipal Waste
- Memphis May Fire
- Set It Off
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Fear Factory (Celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the album Demanufacture)
- Scowl
- Dope (25th anniversary)
- Violent Vira
- Demon Hunter
- Spineshank (Reunion)
- Hawthorne Heights
- From First To Last (Reunion)
- The Plot In You
- Northlane
- Snot (Reunion)
- LANDMVRKS
- Gloryhammer
- Winds of Plague (Reunion)
- Brand of Sacrifice
- Catch Your Breath
- 10 Years
- Magnolia Park
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Sleep Theory
- Miss May I
- Thrown
- Escape The Fate
- Hot Milk
- 12 Stones (Reunion)
- Dying Wish
- Quannnic
- Sanguisugabogg
- Nonpoint
- Full of Hell
- Gideon
- Walls of Jericho
- The Union Underground (Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their album An Education in Rebellion)
- The Funeral Portrait
- Attack Attack!
- Norma Jean
- It Dies Today (Reunion)
- Woe, Is Me
- Thornhill
- Left To Suffer
- Aurorawave
- Guilt Trip
- Spiritworld
- RA (One of the band’s final shows)
- Return To Dust
- Chained Saint
- WARGASM
- Amira Elfeky
- PeelingFlesh
- Ded
- Disembodied Tyrant
- If Not For Me
- Colorblind
- Mugshot
- Liliac
- Savage Hands
- Small Town Titans
- Smile Empty Soul
- Halocene
- Versus Me
- The Haunt
- Kami Kehoe
- Picturesque
- Snuffed On Sight
- Big Ass Truck
- Fulci
- Not Enough Space
- Uncured
- Islander
- ENMY
- No Resolve
- Gates To Hell
- XCOMM
- Sicksense
- Imperial Tide
Louder Than Life draws fans from every state and many countries around the world. The special 10th anniversary edition of Louder Than Life in 2024 brought together 150,000 fans over three festival days, (a fourth day was cancelled due to inclement weather), and continues to retain its title of America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival a decade after debuting in Louisville in 2014, marking a dedicated and ongoing partnership between the city of Louisville and festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents.
Louder Than Life and DWP’s Louisville companion festival Bourbon & Beyond, which takes place the weekend prior, generated over $33 million in local economic impact in 2024 and drew more than 300,000 attendees booking over 60,000 hotel room nights and creating a visitor boom at local restaurants and other businesses, including bourbon distilleries along the Urban Bourbon Trail.
Service fees on all pass purchases include a charity fee for the DWP Foundation, which will be supporting the following nonprofits in 2025: Dare to Care and Preston Area Business Alliance, plus more to be announced.
For tickets and all other information, please visit: louderthanlifefestival.com
Fans in the Louisville area can celebrate the 2025 Louder Than Life lineup with a Happy Hour this Friday, February 28 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at The Fox Den. The event will feature service fee-free passes for sale, as well as custom cocktails, headliner drink specials, photo ops and live music with Matt Red Moore and DJ. All who attend will have a chance to win two Mint VIP passes.
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This article appears in Feb 14-27, 2025.