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Metallica and Linkin Park anchor 2025 Sick New World Fest
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Metallica and Linkin Park anchor 2025 Sick New World Fest

Hard rock fans will once again look forward to next year’s Sick New World festival in Las Vegas, which has secured Metallica and the reunited Linkin Park for 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, Filter and Cradle or Filth. Tickets go on sale Friday (October 18).

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As usual, the undercard is packed with cult classics like X, Refused, Quicksand, Melvins and Cannibal Corpse, plus 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 launching in 2023, Sick New World has hosted some of the few System of a Down performances of the past five years. “I had more fun there than on many other tours, and that’s why we’re doing it again,” frontman Serj Tankian told SPIN after the first edition. “It was great. We’ve rehearsed just enough to know our chops, and then the rest, who the fuck knows? Let’s see what happens on stage.”

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