Louder Than Life

Louder Than Life is a hard rock/heavy metal festival that takes place in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The event is known to also feature whiskey, craft beer, gourmet food and multiple exhibits. It has made a large economic impact on the city of Louisville.

History
The first Louder Than Life was a two-day festival hosted at Champions Park in 2014.

The 2015 festival also featured live matches between wrestlers from WWE NXT.

In 2018 the festival was cancelled due to continuing rain and deteriorating conditions at Champions Park.

The festival was expanded to three days in 2019 and moved to Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center to prevent flooding.

The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021 the festival was expanded to four days.

2024 will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the festival with a record 140+ bands, including the reuniting of Slayer after a five-year retirement.

Estimated yearly attendance

 * 2014: 36,000
 * 2015: 50,000
 * 2016: 50,000
 * 2017: 60,000
 * 2019: 128,000
 * 2021: 160,000
 * 2022: 170,000
 * 2023: 180,000

2014
Saturday, October 4
 * Judas Priest
 * Korn
 * Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington
 * Limp Bizkit
 * Alter Bridge
 * Mastodon
 * Theory of a Deadman
 * Of Mice and Men
 * Steel Panther
 * Memphis May Fire
 * Pop Evil
 * Fuel
 * Otherwise
 * Thousand Foot Krutch
 * Nonpoint
 * Wilson
 * Flaw

Sunday, October 5
 * Kid Rock
 * Papa Roach
 * Five Finger Death Punch
 * Volbeat
 * A Day to Remember
 * Bring Me the Horizon
 * Buckcherry
 * In This Moment
 * Hellyeah
 * Chiodos
 * Motionless in White
 * Nothing More
 * Butcher Babies
 * Crobot
 * Avatar
 * Monster Truck
 * Islander

2015
Saturday, October 3
 * Rob Zombie
 * Godsmack
 * Chevelle
 * Seether
 * Sevendust
 * Tremonti
 * Bring Me the Horizon
 * Of Mice and Men
 * Hollywood Undead
 * Atreyu
 * Issues
 * 10 Years
 * Butcher Babies
 * Starset
 * Beartooth
 * Art of Dying
 * Turbowolf
 * Dorothy
 * Jelly Roll
 * Cliver
 * Romantic Rebel
 * RavenEye

Sunday, October 4
 * ZZ Top
 * Lynyrd Skynyrd
 * Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
 * Breaking Benjamin
 * Shinedown
 * 3 Doors Down
 * Collective Soul
 * Hinder
 * Saint Asonia
 * Black Stone Cherry
 * Skid Row
 * Kentucky Headhunters
 * We Came as Romans
 * Nothing More
 * We Are Harlot
 * Aranda
 * Like a Storm
 * The Temperance Movement
 * The Glorious Sons
 * Kill It Kid
 * Marmozets
 * Red Sun Rising
 * All Them Witches
 * Whiskey Myers
 * Goodbye June

2016
Saturday, October 1
 * Avenged Sevenfold
 * Slayer
 * The Cult
 * I Prevail
 * Pierce the Veil
 * Cheap Trick
 * Anthrax
 * Hellyeah
 * Chevy Metal
 * Motionless in White
 * The Amity Affliction
 * Avatar
 * Sick Puppies
 * Neck Deep
 * Young Guns
 * Being As An Ocean
 * '68
 * Twelve Foot Ninja
 * Dinosaur Pile-Up

Sunday, October 2
 * Slipknot
 * Disturbed
 * Korn
 * Alter Bridge
 * Ghost
 * Clutch
 * Sevendust
 * Pop Evil
 * Biffy Clyro
 * Parkway Drive
 * Skillet
 * Trivium
 * Zakk Sabbath(Black Sabbath cover band with Zakk Wylde)
 * Kyng
 * Skindred
 * Adelitas Way
 * Crobot
 * Sabaton
 * Smashing Satellites

2017
Saturday, September 30
 * Ozzy Osbourne featuring Zakk Wylde
 * Rob Zombie
 * Hollywood Undead
 * Five Finger Death Punch
 * Halestorm
 * For We Are Many
 * Of Mice and Men
 * Sleeping with Sirens
 * Mastodon
 * Gojira
 * Eagles of Death Metal
 * Starset
 * New Years Day
 * Palisades
 * Steel Panther
 * Fire From the Gods
 * Through Fire
 * He Is Legend
 * Ded

Sunday, October 1
 * Prophets of Rage
 * Rise Against
 * Incubus
 * Stone Sour
 * Falling in Reverse
 * Beartooth
 * Joyous Wolf
 * Nothing More
 * The Pretty Reckless
 * Greta Van Fleet
 * Black Map
 * In This Moment
 * Lacuna Coil
 * Radkey
 * Ocean Grove
 * '68
 * Biters

2019
Friday, September 27
 * Gwar
 * Slipknot
 * Staind
 * A Day to Remember
 * Chevelle
 * I Prevail
 * Architects
 * Beartooth
 * Motionless In White
 * Phil Anselmo (performing with his band Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals).
 * Wilson
 * The Crystal Method
 * Graveyard
 * Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
 * New Years Day
 * All Them Witches
 * Crown Lands
 * Joyous Wolf
 * Dead Posey
 * Santa Cruz

Saturday, September 28
 * Guns N' Roses
 * Ice Cube
 * Godsmack
 * Stone Temple Pilots
 * Suicidal Tendencies
 * Halestorm
 * Dropkick Murphys
 * Melvins
 * Andrew W.K.
 * Badflower
 * Knocked Loose
 * Anti-Flag
 * Redd Kross
 * Parlor Mob
 * Like A Storm
 * Jelly Roll
 * Dirty Honey
 * Ded
 * Junkbunny
 * The Pink Slips

Sunday, September 29
 * Rob Zombie
 * Marilyn Manson
 * Disturbed
 * Breaking Benjamin
 * Sum 41
 * Three Days Grace
 * Die Antwoord (Did not perform)
 * In This Moment
 * Deadland Ritual
 * White Reaper
 * Demon Hunter
 * Ho99o9
 * Angel Dust
 * Sick Puppies
 * Amigo the Devil
 * Fire From the Gods
 * Broken Hands
 * Anemic Royalty

2021
Breaking Benjamin were added on September 21, 2021, as replacements for Mudvayne, who cancelled their performance due to Chad Gray and some staff members contracting COVID-19. Disturbed replaced Nine Inch Nails for the Saturday headliner spot.

Thursday, September 23
 * Korn
 * Staind
 * Cypress Hill
 * Anthrax
 * Beartooth
 * Sevendust
 * Knocked Loose
 * Wage War
 * Memphis May Fire
 * Escape the Fate
 * Zero 9:36
 * Avoid
 * Currents
 * Jeris Johnson
 * Another Day Dawns
 * Blame My Youth

Friday, September 24
 * Metallica
 * Jane's Addiction
 * Rise Against
 * Gojira
 * Killswitch Engage
 * Starset
 * Avatar
 * Fever 333
 * Turnstile
 * Cleopatrick
 * Dead Sara
 * '68
 * The Violent
 * South of Eden
 * Tallah
 * Joyous Wolf
 * Contracult Collective

Saturday, September 25
 * Disturbed
 * Machine Gun Kelly
 * Volbeat
 * Falling in Reverse
 * Suicidal Tendencies
 * Asking Alexandria
 * Atreyu
 * Grandson
 * Code Orange
 * Ice Nine Kills
 * Spiritbox
 * Red
 * Butcher Babies
 * Bones UK
 * Diamante
 * Siiickbrain
 * Unitytx
 * Dana Dentata
 * The Messenger Birds

Sunday, September 26
 * Metallica
 * Judas Priest
 * Breaking Benjamin
 * Seether
 * Pennywise
 * Skillet
 * Sabaton
 * The Hu
 * Badflower
 * Tremonti
 * Fozzy
 * Every Time I Die
 * Ayron Jones
 * From Ashes to New
 * Teenage Wrist
 * Dead Poet Society
 * Like Machines

2022
Thursday, September 22
 * Nine Inch Nails
 * Bring Me the Horizon
 * Evanescence
 * Halestorm
 * Tenacious D
 * Yungblud
 * Highly Suspect
 * Ministry
 * Nothing More
 * Spiritbox
 * Apocalyptica
 * Ho99o9
 * New Years Day
 * Lilith Czar
 * Dorothy
 * Plush
 * Maggie Lindemann
 * Taipei Houston
 * Royal & the Serpent
 * Giovannie and the Hired Guns
 * The Dead Deads
 * Mothica
 * Superbloom
 * Eva Under Fire
 * Archers
 * Nail Bite
 * Asava
 * Two Sides of Me
 * Magg Dylan

Friday, September 23
 * Slipknot
 * Shinedown
 * Lamb of God
 * Mastodon
 * In This Moment
 * Meshuggah
 * Clutch
 * Gwar
 * In Flames
 * Baroness
 * Helmet
 * Crown the Empire
 * Poorstacy
 * Amigo the Devil
 * Ded
 * All Good Things
 * Vended
 * Mike's Dead
 * Suicide Silence
 * Orbit Culture
 * The Luka State
 * Ego Kill Talent
 * Aeir
 * Archetypes Collide
 * Until I Wake
 * Befell
 * Young Other
 * The Dev
 * The 500 Block
 * Thirst

Saturday, September 24
 * Kiss
 * Rob Zombie
 * Alice Cooper
 * Chevelle
 * Ghostemane
 * Jerry Cantrell
 * Body Count
 * Theory of a Deadman
 * Sevendust
 * Pop Evil
 * We Came as Romans
 * Airbourne
 * Cherry Bombs
 * Ill Nino
 * Tetrarch
 * D.R.U.G.S.
 * Redlight King
 * Wargasm
 * Trash Boat
 * The Alive
 * Solence
 * Dropout Kings
 * Bloodywood
 * Widow7
 * Scarlet O'hara
 * Silly Goose
 * Sevven
 * Breed

Sunday, September 25
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Alice in Chains
 * Incubus
 * Papa Roach
 * The Pretty Reckless
 * Bad Religion
 * Action Bronson
 * Jelly Roll
 * The Struts
 * Dirty Honey
 * Anti-Flag
 * The Joy Formidable
 * Bayside
 * Oxymorrons
 * Carolesdaughter
 * The Warning
 * Radkey
 * The Native Howl
 * Shaman's Harvest
 * Joey Valence & Brae
 * Lines of Loyalty
 * Heartsick
 * Normundy
 * As You Were
 * The Strangers

2023
Thursday, September 21
 * Foo Fighters
 * Weezer
 * Rancid
 * 311
 * Coheed and Cambria
 * Royal Blood
 * Code Orange
 * White Reaper
 * L7
 * Deafheaven
 * Nothing But Thieves
 * Movements
 * The Bronx
 * Nothing,Nowhere
 * Oliver Anthony
 * Mannequin Pussy
 * Beauty School Dropout
 * Pinkshift
 * Kid Kapichi
 * Starcrawler
 * Starbenders
 * Kyng
 * Tigercub
 * SeeYouSpaceCowboy
 * Guerrilla Warfare
 * Asava
 * From Ashes to Embers
 * Sueco
 * Nvrless
 * Traverse the Abyss
 * Nail Bite

Friday, September 22
 * Tool
 * Godsmack
 * Limp Bizkit
 * Megadeth
 * Corey Taylor
 * Dance Gavin Dance
 * Bad Omens
 * Wage War
 * Avatar
 * Fever 333
 * Kittie
 * Enter Shikari
 * Miss May I
 * Fame on Fire
 * Wargasm
 * Oliver Anthony
 * Flat Black
 * Austin Meade
 * SiM
 * Tallah
 * Ten56.
 * Hanabie
 * Gnome
 * Fox Lake
 * Widow7
 * Luna Aura
 * Raven Gray
 * Foxbat
 * Capra
 * Major Moment

Saturday, September 23
 * Avenged Sevenfold
 * Pantera
 * Falling in Reverse
 * Pierce the Veil
 * Parkway Drive
 * Babymetal
 * Asking Alexandria
 * Dethklok
 * The Hu
 * The Amity Affliction
 * Memphis May Fire
 * Suicide Silence
 * Sleep Token
 * Whitechapel
 * Zero 9:36
 * Kim Dracula
 * Gideon
 * Strange Kids
 * Dragged Under
 * Jesus Piece
 * Afterlife
 * Another Day Dawns
 * Ithaca
 * Devil's Cut
 * Reach NYC
 * Silly Goose
 * Feast For the Crows
 * Dissonation
 * Kissing Candice
 * Deadlands
 * CZYK
 * Dead//Water

Sunday, September 24
 * Green Day
 * Queens of the Stone Age
 * Turnstile
 * Run the Jewels
 * Flogging Molly
 * The Interrupters
 * Awolnation
 * Rival Sons
 * Billy Talent
 * Mayday Parade
 * Rain City Drive
 * Senses Fail
 * Viagra Boys
 * Boston Manor
 * DeathbyRomy
 * Jehnny Beth
 * The Emo Night Tour
 * Call Me Karizma
 * Sleep Theory
 * Thousand Below
 * Holy Wars
 * Reddstar
 * Letdown.
 * As You Were
 * Death Valley Dreams
 * JVK
 * Archers
 * Over the Moon
 * HXLA
 * Two Sides of Me