Louder Than Life ist ein seit 2014 ausgetragenes US-amerikanisches Rock- und Metal-Festival, dass in Louisville, Kentucky ausgetragen wird. Veranstaltet wird das Festival von der Firma Danny Wimmer Presents,[1] die auch die Festivals Aftershock, Chicago Open Air, Epicenter, Welcome to Rockville und viele andere veranstaltet.

Louder Than Life
Breaking Benjamin beim Louder than Life 2019
Breaking Benjamin beim Louder than Life 2019
Allgemeine Informationen
Ort Louisville, Kentucky
Genre Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock
Veranstalter Danny Wimmer Presents
Zeitraum seit 2014
Website louderthanlifefestival.com
Besucherzahlen
2014 36.826
2015 +50.000
2016 50.000
2017 +60.000
2019 128.000

Das Festival begann als zweitägige Veranstaltung im Champions Park. Im Jahre 2018 sollte das Festival erstmals über drei Tage stattfinden. Schlechtes Wetter sorgte dafür, dass das Festival abgesagt werden musste.[2] 2019 fand das Festival schließlich erstmals über drei Tage statt und zog auf das Highland Festival Grounds beim Kentucky Exposition Center um. Mit 128.000 Zuschauern wurde das Louder Than Life zum größten Rockfestival der USA.[3]

36.826 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.[4]

4. Oktober
Monster Stage South Monster Stage North Marshall Headphones Stage

Judas Priest
Stone Temple Pilots & Chester Bennington
Alter Bridge
Theory of a Deadman
Pop Evil
Otherwise

Korn
Limp Bizkit
Mastodon
Steel Panther
Fuel
Nonpoint

Memphis May Fire
Miss May I
Thousand Foot Krutch
Wilson
Fuel

5. Oktober
Monster Stage South Monster Stage North Marshall Headphones Stage

Kid Rock
Papa Roach
A Day to Remember
Buckcherry
Hellyeah
Monster Truck

Five Finger Death Punch
Volbeat
Bring Me the Horizon
P.O.D.
Nothing More
Crobot
The New Black 7

Choidos
Motionless in White
Butcher Babies
Avatar
Islander

Über 50.000 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.[5]

3. Oktober
Monster Stage South Monster Stage North Monster Stage East Jägermeister Mobile Stage

Rob Zombie
Bring Me the Horizon
Hollywood Undead
Beartooth
Trivium
Art of Dying

Godsmack
Seether
Atreyu
Saint Asonia
Butcher Babies
Jelly Roll

Chevelle
Sevendust
Tremonti
Starset
Red Sun Rising
Raveneye

Issues
Aranda
Like a Storm
Cliver
Romantic Rebel

3. Oktober
Monster Stage South Monster Stage North Monster Stage East Jägermeister Mobile Stage

ZZ Top
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
Black Stone Cherry
Hinder
Nothing More
The Color Morale

Shinedown
Breaking Benjamin
Collective Soul
10 Years
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown
Whiskey Myers

Lynyrd Skynyrd
3 Doors Down
Skid Row
The Kentucky Headhunters
We Are Harlot
Goodbye June

We Came as Romans
Turbowolf
Flaw
The Glorious Sons
All Them Witches

50.000 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.[6]

1. Oktober
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Avenged Sevenfold
The Cult
Anthrax
Motionless in White
Neck Deep
Twelve Foot Ninja

Slayer
Pierce the Veil
Hellyeah
The Amity Affliction
Avatar
’68

Cheap Trick
Chevy Metal
Sick Puppies
Being as an Ocean
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Bishop Gunn

2. Oktober
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Slipknot
Korn
Alter Bridge
Sevendust
Parkway Drive
Skindred
Crobot

Disturbed
Ghost
Skillet
Pop Evil
Trivium
Adelitas Way

Clutch
Kyng
Sabaton
Smashing Satellites
Them Evils

Über 60.000 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.[7]

30. September
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Ozzy Osbourne feat. Zakk Wylde
Rob Zombie
Halestorm
Hollywood Undead
Of Mice & Men
Sleeping with Sirens
For We Are Many

Five Finger Death Punch
Mastodon
Gojira
Eagles of Death Metal
Starset
New Years Day
Palisades

Steel Panther
Fire from the Gods
Through Fire
Ded
He Is Legend

1. Oktober
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Prophets of Rage
Rise Against
Thrice
Falling in Reverse
Beartooth
Joyous Wolf

Incubus
Stone Sour
The Pretty Reckless
Nothing More
Greta Van Fleet
Black Map

In This Moment
Lacuna Coil
Radkey
Ocean Grove
’68
Biters

Wenige Tage vor der geplanten Austragung musste das Festival wegen schlechten Wetters abgesagt werden. Langanhaltender Regen und Überflutungen sorgten dafür, dass das Festivalgelände unsicher wurde.[2]

28. September
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Limp Bizkit
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
Skillet
Underoath
Tremonti
Hyro the Hero

Alice in Chains
Breaking Benjamin
Seether
Black Stone Cherry
Red Sun Rising
Badflower

Suicidal Tendencies
Turnstile
Jelly Roll
Skyharbor
Islander
True Villians

29. September
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Five Finger Death Punch
Bush
Vinnie Paul All-Star Tribute
Pop Evil
Sick Puppies
Awake at Last

Godsmack
Shinedown
Bullet for My Valentine
Sevendust
From Ashes to New
Cane Hill
The Jacks

Body Count
Gwar
Dance Gavin Dance
Bad Omens
Blacktop Mojo
Stone Broken

30. September
Monster Energy Stage Loudmouth Stage Zorn Stage

Deftones
Billy Idol
Clutch
Asking Alexandria
Monster Magnet

Nine Inch Nails
Primus
Ice Cube
Glassjaw
The Sword
The Breton Sound

Action Bronson
Yelawolf
Fever 333
The Dose
Anemic Royalty

Das erstmals über drei Tage ausgetragene Festival zog 128.000 Zuschauer an, womit das Louder Than Life zum größten Rockfestival der Vereinigten Staaten wurde.[3] Austragungsort war erstmals das Highland Festival Grounds beim Kentucky Exposition Center.

27. September
Barrel Stage Oak Stage Loudmouth Stage

Slipknot
A Day to Remember
I Prevail
Motionless in White
Wilson

Staind
Chevelle
Beartooth
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals
New Years Day
All Them Witches

Gwar
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
The Crystal Method
Crown Lands
Dead Posey
Santa Cruz

28. September
Barrel Stage Oak Stage Loudmouth Stage

Guns n’ Roses
Ice Cube
Dropkick Murphys
Suicidal Tendencies
Anti-Flag
Dirty Honey
Amigo the Devil

Godsmack
Halestorm
Stone Temple Pilots
Badflower
Parlor Mob
Like a Storm

Melvins
Andrew W.K.
Knocked Loose
Redd Kross
Jelly Roll
Junkbunny
The Pink Slips

29. September
Barrel Stage Oak Stage Loudmouth Stage

Disturbed
Marilyn Manson
In This Moment
Demon Hunter
Ded
Sick Puppies

Rob Zombie
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
Sum 41
White Reaper

Deadland Ritual
Ho99o9
Angel Du$t
Fire from the Gods
Anemic Royalty

Nachdem das Festival im Vorjahr wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie abgesagt werden musste, wurde es für 2021 auf vier Tage ausgedehnt.

23. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage

Staind
Beartooth
Wage War
Escape the Fate
Another Day Dawns

Korn
Cypress Hill
Anthrax
Sevendust
Avoid

Knocked Loose
Memphis May Fire
Zero 9:36
Jeris Johnson
Currents
Blame My Youth

24. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage

Metallica
Rise Against
Killswitch Engage
Avatar
Cleopatrick
South of Eden

Jane’s Addiction
Gojira
Starset
Fever 333
’68
Joyous Wolf

Turnstile
Dead Sara
The Violent
Contraclut Collective
Tallah

25. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage

Machine Gun Kelly
Falling in Reverse
Atreyu
Ice Nine Kills
Spiritbox
Red

Disturbed
Volbeat
Asking Alexandria
Grandson
Bones UK
Diamante

Suicidal Tendencies
Code Orange
Butcher Babies
Dana Dentata
Unity TX
Siiickbrain

26. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage

Metallica
Breaking Benjamin
Pennywise
The Hu
Tremonti
Ayron Jones

Judas Priest
Seether
Skillet
Badflower
Fozzy
Like Machines

Sabaton
Every Time I Die
From Ashes to New
Teenage Wrist
Dead Poet Society

Erneut wurde das Festival über vier Tage ausgetragen. Es gab jedoch eine Erweiterung von drei auf fünf Bühnen, wobei auf der fünften Bühne ausschließlich Newcomerbands spielten.

22. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Nine Inch Nails
Evanescence
Highly Suspect
Nothing More
Dorothy
Maggie Lindemann

Bring Me the Horizon
Halestorm
Yungblud
Spiritbox
New Years Day
Plush

Tenacious D
Ho99o9
Giovannie and the Hired Guns
Lilith Czar
Mothica
Eva Under Fire

Ministry
Apocalyptica
Royal & The Serpent
Taipei Houston
Superbloom
The Dead Deads

23. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Slipknot
Lamb of God
Highly Suspect
In This Moment
In Flames
Ded
Vended

Shinedown
Mastodon
Clutch
Amigo the Devil
All Good Things
Ego Kill Talent

Meshuggah
Baroness
Crown the Empire
Mike’s Dead
Archetypes Collide
Aeir

Gwar
Helmet
Suicide Silence
Poorstacy
Orbit Culture
The Luka State

24. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Kiss
Alice Cooper
Ghostemane
Sevendust
Tetrarch
Redlight King

Rob Zombie
Chevelle
Jerry Cantrell
Pop Evil
Airbourne
Solence

Body Count
Ill Niño
Cherry Bombs
Wargasm
The Alive
Dropout Kings

Theory of a Deadman
We Came as Romans
D.R.U.G.S.
Trash Boat
Bloodywood

25. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Incubus
The Pretty Reckless
The Struts
Dirty Honey
Radkey

Alice in Chains
Papa Roach
Jelly Roll
The Joy Formidable
The Warning
The Strangers

Action Bronson
Bayside
Joey Valence & Brae
Carolesdaughter
The Native Howl
The Mysterines

Bad Religion
Anti-Flag
Oxymorrons
Crown Lands
Shaman’s Harvest

Erneut wurde das Festival über vier Tage auf fünf Bühnen ausgetragen.

21. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Weezer
311
Royal Blood
Nothing but Thieves
Call Me Karizma
Tigerclub

Foo Fighters
Rancid
Coheed and Cambria
White Reaper
Mannequin Pussy
Pinkshift

Code Orange
L7
Sueco
Starcrawler
Guerrilla Warfare
Asava

Deafheaven
nothing, nowhere.
Kid Kapichi
Kyng
Starbenders

22. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Tool
Limp Bizkit
Corey Taylor
Wage War
Fame on Fire
Austin Meade

Godsmack
Megadeth
Bad Omens
Avatar
Wargasm
Flat Black

Dance Gavin Dance
Kittie
ten56.
SIM
Gnome
Fox Lake

Fever 333
Miss May I
Tallah
Hanabie
Widow7
Luna Aura

23. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Pantera
Pierce the Veil
Babymetal
The Hu
Suicide Silence
Another Day Dawns

Avenged Sevenfold
Falling in Reverse
Parkway Drive
Asking Alexandria
Memphis May Fire
Strange Kids

The Amity Affliction
Dethklok
Gideon
Afterlife
Ithaca
Reach NYC
Dissonation

Sleep Token
Whitechapel
Zero 9:36
Kim Dracula
Dragged Under
Devil’s Cut

24. September
Space Zebra Stage Loudmouth Stage Disruptor Stage Revolver Stage

Green Day
Turnstile
The Interrupters
Rival Sons
Boston Manor
Holy Wars

Queens of the Stone Age
Run the Jewels
Flogging Molly
Awolnation
Senses Fail
Thousand Below

Mayday Parade
Viagra Boys
Rain City Drive
Sleep Theory
Letdown
As You Were

Billy Talent
Death by Romy
Jehnny Beth
The Bronx
Reddstar
Death Valley Dreams

Erneut wurde das Festival über vier Tage auf fünf Bühnen ausgetragen. Sämtliche Konzerte am 27. September mussten witterungsbedingt ausfallen.[8]

26. September
Main Stage 1 Main Stage 2 Decibel Stage Reverb Stage Loudmouth Stage

Slipknot
The Offspring
Seether
Badflower
Fit for a King
Point North
Dead Poet Society

Five Finger Death Punch
Halestorm
Highly Suspect
Starset
The Warning
Finger Eleven
Reach NYC

Sum 41
Marky Ramone
Bob Vylan
Brutus
Touché Amoré
Orgy
Teen Mortgage

Saosin
Pup
Militarie Gun
Holding Absence
Slothrust
Mike’s Dead
Soul Glo

D.R.U.G.S.
Veil of Maya
Kneecap
Blame My Youth
Deadlands
Budderside
Jigsaw Youth

27. September
Main Stage 1 Main Stage 2 Decibel Stage Reverb Stage Loudmouth Stage

Slayer
Till Lindemann
Anthrax
Sevendust
Black Stone Cherry
Nonpoint
New Years Day

Evanescence
In This Moment
Clutch
Fozzy
From Ashes to New
Alien Ant Farm
Like a Storm

Tom Morello
Grandson
Show Me the Body
Set It Off
The Chisel
Powerman 5000
Adema

Lorna Shore
Fugitive
Whitechapel
Holy Fawn
Gel
Return to Dust
Silly Goose

Juliette Lewis & The Licks
Ho99o9
High Vis
Ekoh
Caskets
Jager Henry

28. September
Main Stage 1 Main Stage 2 Decibel Stage Reverb Stage Loudmouth Stage

Mötley Crüe
Falling in Reverse
Dropkick Murphys
Nothing More
Filter
Tim Montana
CKY

Disturbed
Chevelle
Skillet
Sleeping with Sirens
P.O.D.
Lilith Czar
Local H

Mastodon
L.S. Dunes
Joey Valence & Brae
The Armed
Tantric
Unity TX

Body Count
Three 6 Mafia
Better Lovers
Citizen Soldier
Any Given Sin
Damnage

Health
Ill Niño
The Funeral Portrait
Lo Spirit
Hemorage
Lowlives

29. September
Main Stage 1 Main Stage 2 Decibel Stage Reverb Stage Loudmouth Stage

Korn
Breaking Benjamin
Gojira
Spiritbox
Eagles of Death Metal
Oxymorrons
(hed)p.e.
Taproot

Judas Priest
Staind
Architects
Poppy
Saliva
Drowning Pool

Jinjer
Polaris
Drug Church
Winona Fighter
Royale Lynn
Project MishraM
As You Were

Biohazard
Pain of Truth
Narrow Head
Descartes a Kant
Silent Planet

Sponge
Red
Nerv
Black Map
Self Deception
Gozu

Einzelnachweise

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  1. Chad Childers: First Annual Louder Than Life Rock Festival Set to Rock Louisville. Loudwire, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  2. a b Andrew O´Brien: Louisville’s Louder Than Life Festival 2018 Force To Cancel Due To Inclement Weather. Live for Live Music, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  3. a b Chad Childers: Louder Than Life Is Now the Biggest Rock Festival in America. Loudwire, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  4. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: LOUDER THAN LIFE BRINGS IN OVER 36,000 FANS FOR LOUISVILLE'S OCTOBER 4 & 5 WEEKEND FESTIVAL CELEBRATING ROCK MUSIC, BOURBON, WHISKEY, CRAFT BEER AND "GOURMET MAN FOOD". AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  5. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: SECOND ANNUAL LOUDER THAN LIFE SELLS OUT WITH OVER 50,000 IN ATTENDANCE FOR OCTOBER 3 & 4 DESTINATION FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE WORLD'S TOP BOURBON, MUSIC AND GOURMET MAN FOOD. AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  6. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: THIRD ANNUAL LOUDER THAN LIFE WRAPS WITH 50,000 IN ATTENDANCE OVER TWO-DAY FESTIVAL AT CHAMPIONS PARK IN LOUISVILLE WITH HEADLINERS AVENGED SEVENFOLD AND SLIPKNOT. AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  7. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: Fourth Annual Louder Than Life Wraps With More Than 60,000 In Attendance Over Two Days At Champions Park In Louisville, KY. AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch).
  8. wookubus: Second Day Of 2024 ‘Louder Than Life’ Festival Canceled Due To Weather. The PRP, abgerufen am 30. September 2024 (englisch).
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