Metallica and Linkin Park to host Sick New World Fest 2025

Hard rock lovers will be looking forward to Las Vegas' Sick New World Festival again next year, which has secured Metallica and the reunited Linkin Park to headline its third edition on April 12 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.

The massive, one-day event will feature more than 50 acts including Queens of the Stone Age, Gojira, AFI, Evanescence, Tomahawk, 311, Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, The Flaming Lips, The Sisters of Mercy, Meshuggah and Filter and Cradle of dirt. Ticket sales begin on Friday (October 18).

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As usual, the undercard is packed with cult classics like X, Refused, Quicksand, Melvins and Cannibal Corpse as well as scene veterans like Underoath, Mudvayne, Kittie, Orgy, Lacuna Coil and Stabbing Westward. Louisiana sludge metal band Acid Bath also reunites at Sick New World for their first performance since 1997.

Since its launch in 2023, Sick New World has hosted some of the only System of a Down performances in the past five years. “I had more fun there than on many, many other tours, and that's why we're doing it again,” frontman Serj Tankian told SPIN after the inaugural edition. “It was great fun. We've rehearsed just enough to know our abilities, and then the rest, who the hell knows? Let’s see what happens on stage.”

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