Linkin Park, Flaming Lips To Play Sick New World Festival 2025
Linkin Park and Metallica have been announced as the headliners for 2025’s Sick New World festival, set to take next April at Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
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Over 50 names have been announced for the festival, including Evanescence, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gojira and AFI, The Flaming Lips, the Sisters Of Mercy, Meshuggah, Cradle Of Filth, X, Refused, Cannibal Corpse and Lacuna Coil. Meanwhile, Louisiana sludge metallers Acid Bath will be reuniting to play their first show since 1997 at the festival.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday (18 October), starting at US$19.99. You can sign up for the presale on the festival’s website.
Linkin Park‘s hotly anticipated comeback album, From Zero, will be released 15 November.
The band announced a comeback earlier this month with new vocalist Emily Armstrong, previously of Dead Sara. Original vocalist Chester Bennington committed suicide back in 2017.
Speaking to Radio 1’s New Music Show on Monday, guitarist and singer Mike Shinoda said their return was “not meant to be a redo or a rewrite of Linkin Park”.
“This is intended to be a new chapter of Linkin Park,” Shinoda went on. “The old chapter was a great chapter and we loved that chapter. It ran its course and now we were faced with a challenge of: ‘well OK, if you start from scratch with another voice, what do you do?'”
Shinoda also revealed he’d been working with Armstrong since 2019. “We were just slowly coming together and then eventually things just started to fall into place with Emily and with Colin our new drummer,” he said.
“We talked about putting her voice on things we’d already written that only had my voice on them. Once we did that, we were like, ‘that sounds really good, we should try that on even more songs’.”