Louder Than Life Music Performance Times Announced
America’s Largest Rock, Metal, & Punk Festival Features
4 Days • 7 Stages • 200+ Bands
My Chemical Romance, Iron Maiden, TOOL, Limp Bizkit,
Gojira, Pantera, Pierce The Veil, Papa Roach,
A Day To Remember, Sublime, Megadeth, Danny Elfman & Many More
September 17-20 In Louisville, KY At Kentucky Exposition Center
All Pass Types On Sale Now,
Including General Admission, VIP & Angel’s Envy Top Shelf VIP
LouderThanLifeFestival.com
(August 13, 2026): The daily music set times are now available for Louder Than Life, America’s Largest Rock, Metal, & Punk Festival. Louder Than Life returns to the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY September 17-20 for its 12th edition, delivering the largest lineup in the festival’s history —4 days, 7 stages, 200+ bands— topped by My Chemical Romance, Iron Maiden, TOOL, Limp Bizkit, Gojira, Pantera, Pierce The Veil, Papa Roach, A Day To Remember, Sublime, Megadeth, Danny Elfman and many more.
Louder Than Life General Admission, VIP and Angel’s Envy Top Shelf VIP passes are available here.
In 2025, Louder Than Life brought together over 240,000 fans — and this year's edition will feature the biggest bill ever assembled by producer Danny Wimmer Presents.
In addition to the wide range of music at Louder Than Life, festivalgoers will receive FREE access to amusement rides inside Kentucky Kingdom, which became part of the festival footprint in 2025 and will be open exclusively to Louder Than Life attendees. A full list of onsite experiences, along with various food and beverage options, can be found here.
The 2026 Louder Than Life mobile app has launched and gives fans the option to create personalized itineraries. The Louder Than Life app is available for both iPhone and Android here.
The full music schedule for Louder Than Life 2026 is as follows (subject to change) and can also be found online here.
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Thursday, September 17 |
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Louder Stage |
Life Stage |
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8:45 PM |
Iron Maiden |
7:30 PM |
Pantera |
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6:35 PM |
Megadeth |
5:40 PM |
Danzig |
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4:45 PM |
Alice Cooper |
4:00 PM |
Sabaton |
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3:15 PM |
Anthrax |
2:30 PM |
Machine Head |
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1:55 PM |
Suicidal Tendencies |
1:20 PM |
GWAR |
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12:50 PM |
Metal Church |
12:20 PM |
Mac Sabbath |
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11:55 AM |
The Violent Hour |
11:30 AM |
Chained Saint |
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Decibel Stage |
Reverb Stage |
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10:05 PM |
Rise Against |
9:10 PM |
Skillet |
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8:15 PM |
Jimmy Eat World |
7:25 PM |
Starset |
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6:35 PM |
Hot Mulligan |
5:50 PM |
From Ashes To New |
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5:05 PM |
Alkaline Trio |
4:30 PM |
Red |
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3:50 PM |
Bowling For Soup |
3:15 PM |
The Rasmus |
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2:40 PM |
Lit |
2:05 PM |
Adelitas Way |
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1:30 PM |
The Ataris |
12:55 PM |
Zero 9:36 |
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Loudmouth Stage |
Impact Stage |
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10:05 PM |
Fit For A King |
9:10 PM |
Chelsea Grin |
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8:15 PM |
Currents |
5:50 PM |
After The Burial |
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6:35 PM |
ERRA |
4:35 PM |
The Acacia Strain |
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5:20 PM |
Volumes |
3:15 PM |
Emmure |
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3:55 PM |
Like Moths To Flames |
2:05 PM |
Born Of Osiris |
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2:35 PM |
Cane Hill |
1:00 PM |
Signs Of The Swarm |
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1:15 PM |
Vianova |
12:00 PM |
King 810 |
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Big Bourbon Bar |
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7:20 PM |
Thousand Below |
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5:20 PM |
Archers |
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4:25 PM |
Elijah |
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3:00 PM |
Dark Divine |
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1:30 PM |
Holy Wars |
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12:30 PM |
Sent By Ravens |
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11:30 AM |
Set For Tomorrow |
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Friday, September 18 |
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Louder Stage |
Life Stage |
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9:25 PM |
My Chemical Romance |
8:15 PM |
Pierce The Veil |
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7:10 PM |
A Day To Remember |
6:20 PM |
The Used |
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5:30 PM |
Taking Back Sunday |
4:40 PM |
Sleeping With Sirens |
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3:50 PM |
Coheed And Cambria |
3:05 PM |
Loathe |
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2:25 PM |
We The Kings |
1:50 PM |
Get Scared |
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1:15 PM |
L.S. Dunes |
12:40 PM |
Lacey Sturm |
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12:05 PM |
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus |
11:30 AM |
ivri |
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Decibel Stage |
Reverb Stage |
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10:00 PM |
The Pretty Reckless |
9:05 PM |
Chad Gray |
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8:15 PM |
The Warning |
7:25 PM |
Cavalera |
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6:25 PM |
Dead Poet Society |
5:50 PM |
Blue Medusa feat. Alissa White-Gluz |
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5:15 PM |
Scene Queen |
4:40 PM |
Soulfly |
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4:05 PM |
Vana |
3:30 PM |
Mushroomhead |
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2:55 PM |
Showing Teeth |
2:20 PM |
Butcher Babies |
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1:45 PM |
American Monster |
1:10 PM |
Death Valley Dreams |
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Loudmouth Stage |
Impact Stage |
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6:25 PM |
President |
8:15 PM |
TBA |
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5:25 PM |
Holding Absence |
6:50 PM |
Haywire |
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4:30 PM |
The Word Alive |
5:55 PM |
Angel Du$t |
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3:35 PM |
Rain City Drive |
5:00 PM |
Twitching Tongues |
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2:40 PM |
Wind Walkers |
4:05 PM |
Koyo |
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1:35 PM |
Nevertel |
3:10 PM |
Missing Link |
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12:40 PM |
Cenobia |
2:15 PM |
Gates To Hell |
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Big Bourbon Bar |
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7:00 PM |
SOiL |
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5:00 PM |
Jeff Hardy |
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4:05 PM |
Dry Kill Logic |
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2:55 PM |
Primer 55 |
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2:00 PM |
Earshot |
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1:10 PM |
40 Below Summer |
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12:05 PM |
Billy McNicol |
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Saturday, September 19 |
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Louder Stage |
Life Stage |
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9:45 PM |
Limp Bizkit |
8:25 PM |
Papa Roach |
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7:30 PM |
Sublime |
6:35 PM |
Babymetal |
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5:45 PM |
Bilmuri |
4:55 PM |
Ice Nine Kills |
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4:05 PM |
Tom Morello |
3:15 PM |
Nothing More |
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2:30 PM |
P.O.D. |
1:50 PM |
Set It Off |
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1:15 PM |
Alien Ant Farm |
12:40 PM |
The Funeral Portrait |
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12:05 PM |
Josey Scott: The Original Voice Of Saliva |
11:30 AM |
TX2 |
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Decibel Stage |
Reverb Stage |
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7:45 PM |
Halestorm |
8:40 PM |
Circa Survive |
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6:05 PM |
In This Moment |
6:55 PM |
Dance Gavin Dance |
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4:25 PM |
Lindsey Stirling |
5:15 PM |
Chiodos |
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3:00 PM |
Orianthi |
3:40 PM |
Thursday |
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1:50 PM |
Icon For Hire |
2:25 PM |
Hail The Sun |
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12:40 PM |
Kami Kehoe |
1:15 PM |
Scary Kids Scaring Kids |
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11:30 AM |
Diamante |
12:05 PM |
Emarosa |
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Loudmouth Stage |
Impact Stage |
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7:35 PM |
Kublai Khan TX |
7:05 PM |
Blood For Blood |
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6:25 PM |
Boundaries |
5:55 PM |
Agnostic Front |
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5:20 PM |
Spite |
4:50 PM |
Madball |
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4:15 PM |
Peeling Flesh |
3:50 PM |
H2O |
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3:20 PM |
Fox Lake |
2:50 PM |
The Barbarians Of California |
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2:25 PM |
Silly Goose |
1:55 PM |
Many Eyes |
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1:30 PM |
Heavy//Hitter |
1:00 PM |
Codefendants |
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12:40 PM |
Freeze The Fall (Twitch winner) |
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Big Bourbon Bar |
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8:05 PM |
Powerman 5000 |
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7:10 PM |
Texas Hippie Coalition |
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6:10 PM |
Tantric |
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5:15 PM |
Otherwise |
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4:20 PM |
Spoken |
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3:25 PM |
No Resolve |
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2:35 PM |
Doobie |
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1:45 PM |
As You Were |
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Sunday, September 20 |
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Louder Stage |
Life Stage |
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9:25 PM |
Tool |
8:15 PM |
Gojira |
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7:10 PM |
Danny Elfman |
6:15 PM |
Mastodon |
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5:25 PM |
The Mars Volta |
4:35 PM |
Black Label Society |
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3:45 PM |
Ministry |
2:55 PM |
Dethklok |
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2:15 PM |
Filter |
1:35 PM |
Animals As Leaders |
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1:00 PM |
Toadies |
12:25 PM |
Between The Buried And Me |
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11:30 AM |
Rivers Of Nihil |
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Decibel Stage |
Reverb Stage |
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8:25 PM |
The Prodigy |
7:40 PM |
Underoath |
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6:55 PM |
Killswitch Engage |
6:15 PM |
Thrice |
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5:30 PM |
Black Veil Brides |
4:50 PM |
Alexisonfire |
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4:10 PM |
Atreyu |
3:35 PM |
Haste The Day |
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3:00 PM |
Escape The Fate |
2:25 PM |
Emery |
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1:50 PM |
I See Stars |
1:15 PM |
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster |
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12:40 PM |
Caskets |
12:05 PM |
He Is Legend |
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11:30 AM |
Austin Carlile |
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Loudmouth Stage |
Impact Stage |
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10:05 PM |
Sleep Theory |
8:25 PM |
Sunami |
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8:45 PM |
The Home Team |
6:55 PM |
Locked Shut |
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7:00 PM |
Jutes |
5:30 PM |
End It |
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4:50 PM |
Holywatr |
4:10 PM |
200 Stab Wounds |
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3:35 PM |
Arrows In Action |
3:00 PM |
Corpse Pile |
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2:25 PM |
The Pretty Wild |
1:50 PM |
Boltcutter |
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1:15 PM |
sace6 |
12:40 PM |
Surfaced |
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Big Bourbon Bar |
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9:30 PM |
156/Silence |
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8:20 PM |
Greyhaven |
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7:25 PM |
Aviana |
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6:20 PM |
Downswing |
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5:25 PM |
Resolve |
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4:00 PM |
Dreamwake |
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1:45 PM |
Future Palace |
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Festival gates open at 10:45 AM daily.
Some of the special appearances and reunions at Louder Than Life 2026 will include:
● Pantera’s only U.S. show of 2026
● Danny Elfman’s first show in the Eastern half of the U.S. in nearly a decade
● One of Megadeth’s final farewell performances
● Reunion sets from Circa Survive, Get Scared, Blood For Blood, Metal Church, Primer 55, Sent By Ravens and 40 Below Summer
● Jimmy Eat World celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bleed American
● Sleeping With Sirens celebrating the 15th anniversary of Let’s Cheers To This
● Cavalera with an exclusive performance of the iconic Sepultura album Roots live for the first time in nearly a decade
● A special pyrotechnic performance from Skillet
● Chad Gray, the voice of Mudvayne and Hellyeah, in a “30 Years of Madness” solo performance
● Alissa White-Gluz, the former voice of Arch Enemy & The Agonist (and current Dragonforce vocalist) in a debut show with her new band, Blue Medusa
● The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus celebrating the 20th anniversary of Don’t You Fake It
● Alien Ant Farm celebrating the 25th anniversary of ANThology
● Red celebrating the 20th anniversary of End of Silence
● Rare sets from Dry Kill Logic and Earshot
● Hometown shows from Emarosa, Greyhaven, Tantric, Showing Teeth, Gates To Hell and Billy McNicol
Saturday, September 19 will feature one of the most prominent all-female-fronted stage lineups assembled at a major U.S. rock festival, with Halestorm, In This Moment, Lindsey Stirling, Orianthi, Icon For Hire, Kami Kehoe, and Diamante.
Onsite parking passes for Louder Than Life at Kentucky Exposition Center are available here. For those that prefer not to drive to the festival grounds, the official Louder Than Life Downtown Hotel Shuttle will transport festival attendees between the Kentucky International Convention Center and the festival grounds. Full details and shuttle passes are available here.
Louder Than Life camping is sold out, but a wait list is available for select packages. Info on Louder Than Life Jampack hotel packages can be found here.
Louder Than Life and DWP’s Louisville companion festival Bourbon & Beyond, which take place on back-to-back weekends, generated over $43 million in combined local economic impact in 2025 and drew more than 450,000 attendees booking over 60,000 hotel room nights and creating a visitor boom at local restaurants and other businesses, including bourbon distilleries along the Urban Bourbon Trail.
Service fees on Louder Than Life pass purchases include a charity fee for the DWP Foundation, which gives back to local and national charities throughout the year. In 2026, the DWP Foundation will be supporting Dare to Care, Preston Area Business Alliance and others.
Louder Than Life is teaming up with an incredible lineup of partners for 2026 including Angel's Envy, Beatbox, Bud Light, Cutwater, Jack Daniel's, Old Forester, Red Bull, Tito's Handmade Vodka, White Claw and more.
Louder Than Life’s Community Partners include Crowne Plaza, Galt House Hotel, Kentucky Proud, Kentucky Venues, Louisville Metro, Louisville Tourism, Louisville Marriott Downtown and Team Kentucky.
To learn more about Louder Than Life, please visit:
Website: https://louderthanlifefestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://x.com/LTLFest
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louderthanlifefest
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louderthanlifefestival
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(Louder Than Life 2025, by Logan Rouse)
(Louder Than Life 2025, by Steve Thrasher)
(Louder Than Life 2025, by Steve Thrasher)
About Danny Wimmer Presents: Danny Wimmer Presents (DWP) is the largest independent producer of destination music festivals in the United States and a fully integrated live entertainment company spanning festivals, concerts, talent buying, venue development, and entertainment consulting. Since its founding in 2011 by music industry veteran Danny Wimmer, DWP has become known for producing some of North America’s premier rock and alternative music festivals, including Aftershock, Bourbon & Beyond, GoldenSky, Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival, Louder Than Life, Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, and Welcome To Rockville. In addition to offering lineups stacked with A-list talent, these events draw on unique elements of local cuisine, culture and venue spaces to create distinct fan experiences. Beyond festivals, DWP operates DWP Concerts, a dedicated division focused on concert promotion, venue programming, strategic entertainment development, and venue consulting, alongside its nationwide Talent Services division. With an integrated, end-to-end approach across talent buying, marketing, sponsorship, operations, ticketing, production, hospitality, and fan experience, DWP partners with venues, festivals, casinos, and entertainment properties across the United States to deliver world-class live event experiences for fans, artists, partners, and host communities alike.
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Louder Than Life Publicity Contacts
Kristine Ashton-Magnuson / Ashton-Magnuson Media, kristine@am-media.net
Selena Fragassi / Ashton-Magnuson Media, selena@fr-pr.net
Lynsey Trager / Lemonade PR, lynsey@lemonade-pr.com
Louder Than Life UK Publicity Contacts
James Monteith / Hold Tight, james@holdtight.co
Matt Benton / Hold Tight, matt@holdtight.co
Louder Than Life Marketing Contact
Boone Vires / Danny Wimmer Presents, boone.vires@dwpresents.com
Louder Than Life Sponsorship Contact
Vinson Lee / Danny Wimmer Presents, partnerships@dannywimmerpresents.com
