This year the Louder Than Life Festival known as the World’s Largest Rock ‘N’ Roll Whiskey Festival takes place from Friday, September 28 to Sunday, September 30 in at Champions Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The festival’s 5th year anniversary includes performances headlined by Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Avenged Sevenfold and Godsmack. Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday, June 8 at12:00 PM ET. The sale includes General Admission tickets, VIP and Top Shelf VIP Packages, hotel and ticket packages, as well as tent and RV packages and can be bought here.
On Friday, September 28, Avenged Sevenfold will headline the beginning of the festival. The band is currently on a summer world tour and recently were headliners at Rock on the Range. Breaking Benjamin will be playing new songs from their album Ember as part of their festival set. Seether starts their world tour on June 6 in Germany. Skillet recently released the video for their song “Brave” and is currently touring. Limp Bizkit. Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators and Black Stone Cherry will also be performing on the first day of the festival.
The second day, Saturday September 29, is kicked off by Godsmack who released their first album in four years titled When Legends Rise. Five Finger Death Punch start their North American tour on June 14 in Canada. Performer Shinedown recently played with Iron Maiden while they toured this spring. Bush kicks off their Revolution 3 Tour with The Cult and Stone Temple Pilots. Bullet For My Valentine start their tour on June 6 in Finland with Rockfest. Hellyeah, Body Count, Pop Evil, Sevendust, GWAR, Dance Gavin Dance, From Ashes To New, Sick Puppies, Cane Hill, Bad Omens, Blacktop Mojo, Awake At Last, Stone Broken and The Jacks will also perform on Saturday.
The festival wraps up on Sunday, September 30 with headliners Nine Inch Nails who release their new album Halo 32 on June 22. Deftones will be touring in Europe from June 20 to June 23. Ice Cube was the first rapper to perform at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia on May 31. Billy Idol starts a world tour on June 16 at the Nova Rock Festival in Austria. Asking Alexandria released their video for their song “Alone in a Room” recently. Action Bronson, Clutch, Yelawolf, The Sword, Glassjaw, The Fever 333, Monster Magnet, Spirit Animal, The Dose, and The Breton Sound will also be performing on the last day of the festival.
UPDATE (7/31): After Avenged Sevenfold had to withdraw from the festival (and their entire tour) following a vocal infection. In their place, Alice in Chains has been announced as a performer at the festival.
UPDATE (9/5): As we enter the first week of September and those holding tickets for the festival count down the days until the big event occurring in Louisville, Kentucky, there is an update to the lineup. Earlier this summer, the music world lost the legendary drummer, Vinnie Paul. Before his sudden death, his band Hellyeah was set to play at the upcoming Louder Than Life festival.
Now, it seems like a tribute is planned for the event that will feature an all-star list of superstars including members of Korn, Deftones, Godsmack, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Body Count and more. The set at this year’s Louder Than Life will see these musicians playing songs by Paul’s band Pantera as well as his other band, Damageplan.
Danny Wimmer and Sirius XM organizing the tribute scheduled to occur on September 29th.
UPDATE (9/25): Due to flooding and severe weather, the organizers of both Bourbon & Beyond and Louder than Life festivals have canceled the upcoming events, this according to WDRB.
The officials posted the cancellation via Facebook Monday night expressing that, “it is no longer possible to make the festival safe in time for this weekend.” According to the post, there was an attempt to move the festival but problems arose regarding safety and moving the equipment.
Another statement was released during a press conference Tuesday where the organizers gave detail description of the issues surrounding stage inspections due to rain and mud, “Tuesday, we couldn’t get the stage certified as safe,” organizer Billy Hayes said. “That wasn’t going to be able to happen until at least Friday, and at that point, it’s impossible to even load equipment onto the stage.”
Those with tickets, passes and or hotel and camping purchases are said to get a full refund. People should expect three weeks to see any changes.
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