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.

Dead Girls Academy Rock The Hard Rock In New Music Video

Sin City hard rockers Dead Girls Academy light up their hometown with the latest music video from their new album Doves In Glass Houses, “Agonize”.

The third single from their sophomore album, directed by Michael Imperioli (Carnifex, Motionless In White, Upon A Burning Body), features the band performing at the Hard Rock Café on the Las Vegas Strip. “We literally shut down the Hard Rock Café on the Las Vegas Strip,” frontman Michael Orlando said about the video. “Scott had the vision of using a movie projector on my face and body, projecting occultist type images throughout. I’m known for publicly airing my dirty laundry through my lyrics, but with this song I really wanted to take those bottled up feelings from a toxic relationship and get them off my chest, once and for all.”

Watch the video below.

On the visual imagery behind the video, Orlando adds, “I wanted to venture back into my goth roots and create something close to my heart. I used to be bullied nonstop about the way I dressed and the makeup I wore. It was a constant battle! There were so many industry people and fellow artists that gave me a hard time about my stage name, ‘Michael Vampire,’ and the fact I tried to keep a mystique about myself. Nowadays, things have drastically changed for the better. You have artists like Yungblud, Palaye Royale, Ghostemane and even Machine Gun Kelly wearing makeup proudly! I felt it was time to bring back the old me with a 2020 twist and I am very thankful I did. I finally feel like myself again!”

Doves In Glass Houses is available now on Mission Two Entertainment (Brave The Cold, Don’t Sleep, Insight).

Forever The Sickest Kids Are Working On Something

Finally some good news for 2020.

Beloved Texan neon pop group Forever The Sickest Kids revealed to their fans on Thursday that new music might be coming out soon. This marks the first time in seven years that the band put out any new material, their latest being 2013’s J.A.C.K., their only album with Fearless Records (The Almost, NOT A TOY, Volumes).

The news broke out after Alternative Press wrote an article about ten neon pop bands that need to reunite, which featured bands like Artist Vs Poet, The Friday Night Boys, and Cobra Starship. After the feature was published, both the band and frontman Jonathan Cook took to social media to break the good news. All the band said was, “watch out very soon!” On his account, Cook wrote, “We may not quite look like this anymore, and the odds are pretty bad that We ever will, but the odds are darn good that WE, Forever The Sickest Kids will be back active!”

To add some fuel to the fire, FTSK posted studio images back in April and May, jokingly asking fans if they wanted to hear Owl City, Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, Tom DeLonge of Angels & Airwaves, Lil Wayne, or Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz on a song.

After dropping J.A.C.K., FTSK embarked that summer on the Vans Warped Tour, playing on the Tilly’s stage with The Summer Set, Goldfinger, and New Years Day, and the Kia Forte stage with Bring Me The Horizon, Sleeping With Sirens, and Chiodos. They went on hiatus for a few years, reuniting briefly in 2017 to play So What?! Music Festival with Cute Is What We Aim For, Ghostemane, and Mayday Parade and some dates on the 2019 Sad Summer Festival with State Champs, The Wonder Years, and Just Friends.

Stay tuned, Underdogs.

Ghostemane, The Offspring, Dance Gavin Dance, More To Play Welcome To Rockville 2020

Are you ready to rock?

The tenth annual Welcome To Rockville has released its lineup, and it’s one hell of a way to start the decade. Unlike the previous years which were in Jacksonville, Fla., this one will take place at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach.

Headlining the first night (Friday, May 8) are Metallica, Deftones, and Social Distortion, with appearances from Ghostemane, Knocked Loose, Bones UK, City Morgue, and Dinosaur Pile-Up. Day two (Saturday, May 9) will be headlined by Disturbed, The Offspring, and Staind, and will have acts like The Pretty Reckless, Hellyeah, Bad Wolves, New Years Day, and Toothgrinder perform. The last night (Sunday, May 10) will have Metallica coming back to headline with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Godsmack joining them. Also appearing on Sunday are Mastodon, Dance Gavin Dance, Of Mice & Men, Agnostic Front, and Hero The Band. Check out the full lineup below.

Tickets can be purchased right here. Welcome To Rockville 2020 takes place Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10, in Daytona Beach, Fla., at Daytona International Speedway.

Performers who previously played the festival include Puddle Of Mudd, Evanescence, Young Guns, A Day To Remember, Sons Of Texas, Enter Shikari, Coheed And Cambria, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Movements.