The 2025 ‘Sick New World‘ competition has formally been canceled. An announcement issued by the competition’s organizers right this moment, November twenty ninth, reads:
“It’s with nice disappointment that we announce that Sick New World will now not happen in Las Vegas April 12, 2025.
Regardless of our greatest efforts, we’ve encountered unexpected circumstances that we’re unable to beat for subsequent yr’s present. We prolong our heartfelt because of the all of the devoted SNW followers who had made plans to affix us for one more cultural celebration of arduous rock, goth, different and heavy music. Please keep tuned for additional and future data concerning Sick New World.
Tickets bought immediately from entrance gate tickets will probably be mechanically refunded to the unique technique of cost in as little as 30 days.”
The cancelation follows trade rumblings of budgeting points placing the destiny of the competition subsequent yr in jeopardy, in addition to phrase of the cancelation leaking from artists booked for the occasion. Subsequent yr’s now scrapped version of the competition was introduced on October fifteenth and was set to function the next roster of artists:
- Metallica
- Linkin Park
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- AFI
- Evanescence
- Ministry
- 311
- The Sisters Of Mercy
- Gojira
- Acid Bathtub
- Three Days Grace 2x
- Glassjaw
- The Flaming Lips
- Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway
- Down
- Three Days Grace 2x
- Cannibal Corpse
- Meshuggah
- Tomahawk
- Melvins
- Testomony
- Mastodon
- Refused
- Filter
- Cradle Of Filth
- Terror
- Mayhem
- X
- Underoath
- The Hives
- Carcass
- Kittie
- Poison The Effectively
- Mudvayne
- Exodus
- Machine Head
- Arch Enemy
- Twin Tribes
- Quicksand
- Sponge
- Die En Gray
- Static-X
- ERRA
- Stabbing Westward
- Rendez-Vous
- Deathklok
- Orgy
- Lacuna Coil
- The Birthday Bloodbath
- Nuovo Testamento
- Scowl
- Dope
- Present Me The Physique
- Amira Elfeky
- Lebanon Hangover
- Napalm Demise
- Seven Hours After Violet
- Imaginative and prescient Video
The earlier two incarnations of the competition have been headlined by System Of A Down, each of which bought out the competition’s venue dwelling of the Las Vegas Pageant Grounds.
