The 2025 installment of Sick New World Pageant has been canceled.
The one-day pageant was to happen at Las Vegas Pageant Grounds on April twelfth, 2025, that includes a lineup led by headliners Metallica and Linkin Park, plus Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, Gojira, AFI, Tomahawk, Ministry, Tomahawk, Acid Tub, and extra.
Organizers introduced the pageant’s cancelation in a press release launched on Friday, November twenty ninth. “Regardless of our greatest efforts, we’ve encountered unexpected circumstances that we’re unable to beat for subsequent yr’s present,” they stated. “We lengthen our heartfelt because of all of the devoted SNW followers who had made plans to affix us for an additional cultural celebration of laborious rock, goth, different, and heavy music. Please keep tuned for additional and future info relating to Sick New World.”
Tickets will likely be robotically refunded to the unique technique of fee inside 30 days.
Rumors of Sick New World’s cancelation initially surfaced earlier this week as Tomahawk’s Trevor Dunn informed the podcast The Vinyl Information in an interview that the pageant was “not taking place” (through BrooklynVegan). “I’m most likely not supposed to speak about this, nevertheless it’s not taking place,” Dunn stated. “It’ll come out within the wash quickly, however principally, the pageant is just not taking place. We had an entire tour, we had a two-week factor constructed round that, which we are able to’t do now as a result of financially it doesn’t make any sense, so yeah, that’s not taking place.”
Sick New World initially debuted in 2023 as a nu-metal revival pageant. Except for that includes a extra mainstream rock lineup in 2025, the pageant additionally considerably raised its ticket costs.
— Sick New World Fest (@snwfest) November 29, 2024