Slipknot, Dance Gavin Dance, Code Orange, More To Play Sonic Temple 2020

The second annual Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival is looking real good.

After already announcing Metallica as a headliner (who will headline two nights,) the Columbus, Ohio, rock festival have unveiled more artists for a stellar 2020 performance. Joining Metallica on the headlining slot is Slipknot, who will perform on Saturday night. Others playing are Code Orange, Royal Blood, Sublime With Rome, The Pretty Reckless, Flatbrush Zombies, Dance Gavin Dance, Hellyeah, Jinjer, Knocked Loose, and Ghostemane, as well as a mystery band. Check out the lineup below.

Tickets are on sale now and can be bought at sonictemplefestival.com. Sonic Temple takes place at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, from Friday, May 15, to Sunday, May 17.

Sonic Temple first took place earlier this year and replaced the annual Rock On The Range, which started back in 2007 in Columbus. Bands and artists like Ghost, Pussy Riot, Hands Like Houses, Action Bronson, Movements, The Black Dahlia Murder, Teenage Wrist, The Glorious Sons, and Basement, performed at the first Sonic Temple back in May of this year.

Ghost, FEVER 333, Stick To Your Guns, More To Play Heavy Montréal 2019

Canada’s greatest destination for rock and metal is back for its eleventh anniversary.

Earlier today, Heavy Montréal unveiled some of the lineup for this year’s festival. Headlining the two-day festival are Slayer, playing their final show in Québec, and Ghost. Others playing include Stick To Your Guns, Despised Icon, Cancer Bats, Skálmöld, Atreyu, Steel Panther, Knocked Loose, Terror, Galactic Empire, and FEVER 333, to name a few.

Passes for the festival are available on their website (hope you can read French).

Heavy Montréal first started in 2008 but took a year off in 2009. The festival originally went under the name Heavy MTL but changed it to its current name in 2014. Bands who’ve played the festival in the past include Dethklok, Norma Jean, Kiss, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, A Day To Remember, Dropkick Murphys, Glassjaw, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Alestorm.

Evanescence, Judas Priest, Tool, More To Play Welcome To Rockville 2019

Florida’s biggest rock ‘n’ roll festival is gonna be bigger than ever next year.

The 2019 Welcome To Rockville festival will take place in Jacksonville, Fla., at Metropolitan Park. Welcome To Rockville will be from Friday, May 3, to Sunday, May 5. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon est.

Alterative metal act Evanescence, English metal legends Judas Priest, and Los Angeles rock group Tool are headlining the festival along with KoЯn, The Prodigy, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Incubus, and Bring Me The Horizon. Others set to play include Chevelle, Flogging Molly, Beartooth, Starset, Hands Like Houses, Dirty Honey, Skillet, Yelawolf, The Damned Things, High On Fire, Movements, Boston Manor, Papa Roach, Meshuggah, Fever 333, While She Sleeps, grandson, and The Dirty Nil.

Welcome To Rockville started in 2011 and has been expanding ever since. Originally the festival was a one day only show before expanding to two days in in 2013 and then the whole weekend in 2018. Bands who’ve played the festival in the past include The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Five Finger Death Punch, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chiodos, Hollywood Undead, Red Sun Rising, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Great Van Fleet.

Check out the full lineup below.

System Of A Down, The Prodigy Architects, More To Play Inagural Sonic Temple Festival

If you didn’t know that this year was the final year of Rock On The Range, now you know. But fret not, there’s a spiritual successor that will start next May.

Sonic Temple, created by Louder Than Life and Welcome To Rockville founder and Rock On The Range co-founder Danny Wimmer Presents, will be a different experience than their previous festival. Unlike ROTR, which DWP co-produced with AEG, Sonic Temple will be run entirely by DWP. In a press release posted by Consequence Of Sound, DWP said, “I am so proud of what we accomplished with Rock on the Range, and we couldn’t have done it without our partnership with AEG. When we started Rock on the Range, there was no other festival in America quite like it but recently it became clear that we had different visions of where to take the festival next. The city of Columbus and our devoted rock fans deserve a one-of-a-kind, world-class festival, and that is exactly what Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival will bring to MAPFRE Stadium.”

That’s right, Sonic Temple won’t just be another rock festival, other genres will be accepted. Spoken word, punk, rap, emo, post-hardcore, and comedy will be featured along with artists in the worlds of rock and metal.

Foo Fighters, System Of A Down, and Disturbed will headline the inaugural festival. Other acts to perform include Bring Me The Horizon, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Scarlxrd, Teenage Wrist, In This Moment, Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, Movements, Hands Like Houses, Basement, Wage War, and many others. A comedy and spoken word tent, presented by SiriusXM, will feature comedian Andrew Dice Clay, former Black Flag vocalist Henry Rollins, and actor Pauly Shore (Bio-Dome, Encino Man, Son In Law).

Sonic Temple will take place May 17 to the 19 at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets go on sale November 30.