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Metallica and Linkin Park will headline next year’s Sick New World festival, with Evanescence, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gojira, Ministry, Meshuggah, Machine Head and AFI joining them at the Las Vegas event.

The one-day event, which will take place on April 12 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds next year, will also feature Tomahawk, Melvins, Kittie, Refused, Exodus and more.

Promoters have announced more than 50 bands for the festival, with tickets going on sale on Friday, October 18. Interested parties can register for a pre-sale on the event website.

The 2024 edition of Sick New World was co-headlined by System of a Down and Slipknot. System of a Down also co-headlined the festival’s first staging with Korn.

Speak with Metal hammer Earlier this year, SOAD frontman Serj Tankian recalled how headlining the first Sick New World fest really struck a chord with him.

“As I saw from the stage at Sick New World last year, the multi-generational appeal of the music we have created is astounding,” he stated. “Our music is more timeless than we ever imagined, and that is the greatest compliment for any artist.”

“I really enjoyed Sick New World last year, so when the opportunity came up again this year, I said I’d love to do it.”

Speak with Classic rock magazine recently, Jerry Cantrell was equally excited about playing the 2024 event with Alice in Chains.

“To keep a group together and create a repertoire and a body of work in thirty to forty years and still care about it myself, and have people care about it, is pretty amazing,” the guitarist said. “That’s the goal: you want to be the Stones, you want to be Metallica, you want to be Heart, to make music that people might pass on. I think we achieved that with Alice, and it’s really humbling and a bloody honor.