Louder Than Life Festival 2025
September 18–21, 2025Louisville, Kentucky, United States · Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center
Louder Than Life is America's Loudest Rock & Metal Festival, an outdoor event held annually in Louisville, Kentucky. It is known for featuring a diverse lineup of hard rock, heavy metal, punk rock, alternative rock, metalcore, and other heavy genres, alongside offerings of whiskey, craft beer, and gourmet food. The festival spans four days and features over 160 bands performing on six stages. While it is an all-ages event, the festival environment is geared towards adults and may include strong language, mature themes, and behavior not suited for younger attendees; parental discretion is advised.
- Rock
- Metal
- Alternative
- Metalcore
- Pop
- Hard Rock
- Tickets from
- $439.99
- Family friendly
- No
The festival partners with Clean Vibes to manage cleanup and recycling efforts, offering volunteer opportunities in exchange for admission.
Lineup
157 artists
Also playing
- Cypress Hill
- $uicideboy$
- Dream Theater
- Breaking Benjamin
- Sleep Token
- Lamb of God
- Hollywood Undead
- Cannibal Corpse
- Trivium
- All Time Low
- A Perfect Circle
- Powerwolf
- Black Veil Brides
- DragonForce
- Escape the Fate
- Motionless In White
- Machine Head
- Accept
- Suicide Silence
- Tech N9ne
- Bruce Dickinson
- Static-X
- Testament
- Bad Omens
- Insane Clown Posse
- Exodus
- Sebastian Bach
- I Prevail
- In This Moment
- Spiritbox
- Of Mice & Men
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Fear Factory
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Alestorm
- Carcass
- August Burns Red
- Hinder
- We Came As Romans
- Jinjer
- blessthefall
- Queensrÿche
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Set It Off
- Neck Deep
- Knocked Loose
- DevilDriver
- Memphis May Fire
- 12 Stones
- Kittie
- 10 Years
- Miss May I
- While She Sleeps
- From Ashes to New
- Demon Hunter
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Attack Attack!
- DOWN
- Bilmuri
- Nonpoint
- LANDMVRKS
- Gloryhammer
- Chimaira
- Hawthorne Heights
- Municipal Waste
- Acid Bath
- Dayseeker
- From First To Last
- Wage War
- Spineshank
- The Story So Far
- Story Of The Year
- The Plot In You
- Sleep Theory
- Norma Jean
- Dope
- Imminence
- Four Year Strong
- Rev Theory
- Superheaven
- Failure
- Crossfade
- Walls of Jericho
- Glassjaw
- Sanguisugabogg
- State Champs
- Thornhill
- Counterparts
- Fleshwater
- Ded
- Smile Empty Soul
- Liliac
- letlive.
- Stabbing Westward
- RAC
- The Funeral Portrait
- Amira Elfeky
- Winds of Plague
- Full Of Hell
- VIOLENT VIRA
- Catch Your Breath
- Dying Wish
- Kublai Khan TX
- thrown
- Disembodied Tyrant
- Snot
- Magnolia Park
- Kami Kehoe
- Left to Suffer
- Gideon
- Brand of Sacrifice
- The Union Underground
- Woe, Is Me
- Colorblind
- It Dies Today
- aurorawave
- If Not For Me
- No Resolve
- Guilt Trip
- Spiritworld
- Picturesque
- Return to Dust
- Fulci
- Halocene
- Hot Milk
- Versus Me
- Small Town Titans
- The Haunt
- Islander
- Uncured
- DRAIN
- Snuffed on Sight
- Mugshot
- Savage Hands
- ENMY
- XCOMM
- Northlane
- Gates to Hell
- BIG ASS TRUCK
- Sicksense
- Wargasm
- Chained Saint
- Cavalera
- Imperial Tide
- quannic
- Fatebreaker
- Aireyus
- Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm
- Peeling Flesh
Getting there
Venue
Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center
1016 Phillips Lane, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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