Louder Than Life
Louder Than Life is an annual heavy metal and rock music festival that takes place in Louisville, Kentucky. It is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents. It was originally hosted at Champions Park. Starting in 2019, it was moved to the Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The first festival was in 2014 and lasted two days. It was eventually expanded to three. The 2018 and 2020 festivals were cancelled due to bad weather and the coronavirus. The festival is known for featuring whiskey, craft beer, gourmet food, and multiple exhibits. The 2015 festival also featured live matches with WWE NXT wrestlers.It has made a large economic impact on the city of Louisville.
Estimated Yearly Attendance
- 2014: over 36,000
- 2015: over 50,000
- 2016: 50,000
- 2017: over 60,000
- 2019: over 100,000
Lineups
2014
Saturday, October 4th- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Slayer
- The Cult
- The Pretty Reckless
- 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
- Slipknot
- Disturbed
- Korn
- Alter Bridge
- Ghost
- Clutch
- Sevendust
- Pop Evil
- Biffy Clyro
- Parkway Drive
- Skillet
- Trivium
- Zakk Sabbath
- Kyng
- Skindred
- Adelitas Way
- Crobot
- Sabaton
- Smashing Satellites
2017
- 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
- 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
- Gwar
- Slipknot
- Staind
- A Day to Remember
- Chevelle
- I Prevail
- Architects
- Beartooth
- Motionless In White
- Phil Anselmo.
- The Crystal Method
- Graveyard
- Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
- New Years Day
- All Them Witches
- Crown Lands
- Joyous Wolf
- Dead Posey
- Santa Cruz
- Ice Cube
- Guns N' Roses
- 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
- Rob Zombie
- Marilyn Manson
- Disturbed
- Breaking Benjamin
- Sum 41
- Three Days Grace
- Die Antwoord
- 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