Snoop Dogg, Escape The Fate, Gojira, More To Play Louder Than Life 2021

After COVID-19 canceled last year’s Louder Than Life, the rock festival is planning on making 2021 its best year to date.

The Louisville, Ky., festival announced its lineup for 2021 earlier yesterday, unveiling that this year’s headliners are Korn, Snoop Dogg, Machine Gun Kelly, Cypress Hill, Staind, Jane’s Addiction, Mudvayne, Nine Inch Nails, Judas Priest, Rise Against, and Metallica who are performing two different sets. Others attending include Teenage Wrist, Beartooth, Escape The Fate, Killswitch Engage, The Blue Stones, Gojira, Ice Nine Kills, Spiritbox, The Distillers, Pennywise, The Hu, and From Ashes To New. Check out the full lineup below.

“[Promoter Danny Wimmer Presents] has always considered Louisville home, so to be able to bring America’s Biggest Rock Festival back in 2021 means everything to us,” the festival’s founder Danny Wimmer said in a statement. “After a year filled with challenge after challenge, we worked incredibly hard to curate a lineup worth the wait for our fans. Weather got in the way of Nine Inch Nails in 2018, the pandemic derailed our plans for two big Metallica sets in 2020 – so to have them both back for 2021, along with KORN and the rest of this incredible lineup over four days, that’s the kind of ‘new normal’ that we’re all looking forward to.”

Louder Than Life 2021 will be held at the Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center on September 23 – 26. Tickets are available now.

The festival premiered in 2014 and has boasted a lineup of bands and artists including Stone Temple Pilots, Whiskey Myers, Being As An Ocean, Falling In Reverse, and Guns N’ Roses.

Alesana Announce Record For Fearless Records’s 25th Anniversary 7″ Series

The eighth record has been unveiled.

Last night, Fearless Records (Eat Your Heart Out, Parting Gift, Underoath) announced that post-hardcore band Alesana will release a 7″ for their 25th anniversary seven-inch series. The record comes on white vinyl and is limited to 500 copies.

Side A features “The Thespian”, a track from their final album with Fearless and first in the Annabel trilogy The Emptiness, and Side B features “Apology”, which was from their debut album On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax, originally released by Tragic Hero Records (The Dead Rabbits, Strawberry Girls, VALLEYS) before Fearless signed the band and re-released it.

You can purchase the 7″ here.

Alesana formed in 2004 in Raleigh, N.C., and signed with Fearless back in late 2006. On Fearless, Alesana three albums before leaving the label in November 2010, officially signing with Epitaph Records (Converge, Mannequin Pussy, This Wild Life). During their time with Fearless, the band played three Vans Warped Tours (2007, 2008, and 2010) and toured with Enter Shikari, Our Last Night, Chiodos, The Word Alive, and Honor Bright. The band are currently signed to their own label Revival Recordings (AVOID, Feverwar, TLE) and dropped their latest EP The Lost Chapters in 2017.

Previous bands who released records for the series include Plain White T’s, Pierce The Veil, Mayday Parade, The Maine, Sugarcult, Every Avenue, and I Prevail.

Chamber Sign With Pure Noise Records

Nashville hardcore act Chamber have joined the Pure Noise Records (Inclination, Mundy’s Bay, Stick To Your Guns) family.

The band broke the news yesterday along with the announcement of their 12″ Ripping/Pulling/Tearing, which features their new track “Replacing Every Weakness” and re-recorded versions of older tracks. Pre-orders are available now.

Chamber formed in 2017 and has slowly built up an incredible reputation. Revolver called the group “one of the most technically pugnacious hardcore bands around.” The band has toured with Gideon, The Acacia Strain, Old Wounds, Vamachara, and Orthodox.

They’ll be playing day 2 of Sophomore Slump Fest 2019 on Saturday, September 7 with Keep Flying, AVOID, and Shame Spiral.

Grayscale, Bearings, World War Me, More To Play Sophomore Slump Fest 2019

The full lineup for the fourth annual Sophomore Slump Fest has been unveiled.

Today the festival has added acts like Grayscale, Belmont, INSVRGENCE, Harm, World War Me, I The Victor, Bearings, Rich People, Paid In Full, and Boys Of Fall. Check out the full lineup below.

Previously announced acts for this year’s festival include Keep Flying, Scowl Brow, The Worst Of Us, bloom., and City Mouth.

Sophomore Slump Fest takes place at the Motorco Music Hall in Durham, N.C., on September 6 and 7. Tickets are on sale now.