Linkin Park and Metallica to Headline Sick New World 2025: How to get tickets, presale, lineup, & all you need to know

Sick New World 2025
Sick New World Facebook profile image (Image via official Facebook @Sick New World)

Sick New World 2025 is set to be held on April 12, 2025, at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 2025 edition of the festival will be headlined by Linkin Park and Metallica, with other acts including Queens of the Stone Age, Napalm Death, and more.

The presale for the festival starts on October 18, 2024. Registration for said presale is ongoing on the festival's official website. Interested patrons will need to use their email address to sign up for the festival, with patrons with US-based carriers for their mobile numbers also eligible for registration via their mobile numbers. A general on-sale will follow after the presale.

Tickets for the festival are available in multiple categories. General admission tickets start at $399, while general plus tickets start at $550. VIP Tickets start at $650, and Platinum tickets are priced at $1800. There are also Hotel packages that start from $719. Tickets can be availed with a Layaway Plan that starts with a $19.99 down payment.

The festival announced the lineup for the 2025 edition via a post on its official Instagram page on October 15, 2024:


Sick New World 2025 lineup

Sick New World 2025 edition's lineup is given below:

  • Metallica
  • Linkin Park
  • Queens Of The Stone Age
  • AFI
  • Evanescence
  • Ministry
  • 311
  • The Sisters Of Mercy
  • Gojira
  • Acid Bath
  • Three Days Grace 2x
  • Glassjaw
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway
  • Down
  • Three Days Grace 2x
  • Cannibal Corpse
  • Meshuggah
  • Tomahawk
  • Melvins
  • Testament
  • Mastodon
  • Refused
  • Filter
  • Cradle Of Filth
  • Terror
  • Mayhem
  • X
  • Underoath
  • The Hives
  • Carcass
  • Kittie
  • Poison The Well
  • Mudvayne
  • Exodus
  • Machine Head
  • Arch Enemy
  • Twin Tribes
  • Quicksand
  • Sponge
  • Die En Grey
  • Static-X
  • ERRA
  • Stabbing Westward
  • Rendez-Vous
  • Deathklok
  • Orgy
  • Lacuna Coil
  • The Birthday Massacre
  • Nuovo Testamento
  • Scowl
  • Dope
  • Show Me The Body
  • Amira Elfeky
  • Lebanon Hangover
  • Napalm Death
  • Seven Hours After Violet
  • Vision Video

Sick New World 2025 is being partnered with Beatbox, Bella Canvas, Monster Energy, and Tito's Handmade Vodka. The festival will see the bands Queens Of The Stone Age, Evanescence, Ministry, and Refused perform as part of their respective farewell tours. Queens of the Stone Age are performing at the festival as one of their few 2025 tour dates after having canceled their 2024 tour.

Meanwhile, Acid Bath is reuniting for the first time since their dissolution in 1997. No further details regarding the band's reunion have been given. Meanwhile, Tomahawk is set to perform for the first time since 2013. The show will also see Dir En Grey return to the United States.

Sick New World will also be the first new festival show of the reunited Linkin Park with their new singer, Emily Armstrong. The Sisters of Mercy are also returning again at the festival after their 2023 performance at the same festival.

Three Days Grace will perform at the festival after they announced their reunion with their original singer, Adam Gontier. X's performance at the festival will also be part of their goodbye tour.

Sick New World was created by Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group in 2023. The festival's first edition saw performances by System of a Down, Korn, Deftones, and Incubus, among others. In 2024, the festival saw performances by System Of A Down as well as Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, A Perfect Circle, Alice In Chains, and more.

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Edited by Sarah Nazamuddin Harniswala