Sick New World 2025 cancelled weeks after line-up announcement
Sick New World festival has cancelled its planned 2025 edition only weeks after announcing the line-up. READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band around The festival, which focuses on rock, nu-metal and industrial, shared the line-up for its third year in October . Previously set to take place at Las Vegas Festival Grounds on April 12, over 50 names were announced, with Linkin Park and Metallica to headline alongside performances from Evanescence , Queens Of The Stone Age , Gojira and AFI . Also initially slated to play were The Flaming Lips , the Sisters Of Mercy , Meshuggah , Cradle Of Filth , X, Refused , Cannibal Corpse and Lacuna Coil . Meanwhile, Louisiana sludge metallers Acid Bath were due to reunite with their first show since 1997 at the festival . Now, though, organisers have announced the festival’s cancellation due to “unforeseen circumstances”. In...