Sick New World announces 2025 line-up with Linkin Park, Metallica, Evanescence, QOTSA and more

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Linkin Park and Metallica headlining – buy tickets here.The festival, which focuses on rock, nu-metal and industrial, shared the line-up for its third edition on April 12 at Las Vegas Festival Grounds on social media today.

Over 50 names have been announced, with Evanescence, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gojira and AFI among some of the biggest names after the headliners.Also on the lineup are The Flaming Lips, the Sisters Of Mercy, Meshuggah, Cradle Of Filth, X, Refused, Cannibal Corpse and Lacuna Coil.

Meanwhile, Louisiana sludge metallers Acid Bath will be reuniting to play their first show since 1997 at the festival.Tickets will go on sale on Friday (October 18), starting at US$19.99.

You can sign up for the presale on the festival’s website, and buy tickets here.A post shared by Sick New World (@sicknewworld)Last year, the likes of System Of A Down, Slowdive and Slipknot played the festival, the latter celebrating the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album and performing a career-spanning setlist.System Of A Down played the inaugural festival in 2023, too, while Korn, Deftones and Incubus were also among the biggest names to perform.Check out the official recap of last year’s festival here:Ahead of their Sick New World headline set next year – and in the middle of their ‘M72’ world tour – Metallica frontman James Hetfield told The Metallica Report that the thrash icons have no plans to become a “legacy band”.He said: “We know people wanna hear the ‘best of’.