Louder Than Life

Louder Than Life ist ein seit 2014 ausgetragenes US-amerikanisches Rock- und Metal-Festival, dass in Louisville, Kentucky ausgetragen wird. Veranstaltet wird das Festival von der Firma Danny Wimmer Presents, die auch die Festivals Aftershock, Chicago Open Air, Epicenter, Welcome to Rockville und viele andere veranstaltet.

Louder Than Life

Breaking Benjamin beim Louder than Life 2019
Allgemeine Informationen
Ort	Louisville, Kentucky
Genre	Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock
Veranstalter	Danny Wimmer Presents
Zeitraum	seit 2014
Website	louderthanlifefestival.com
Besucherzahlen
2014	36.826
2015	+50.000
2016	50.000
2017	+60.000
2019	128.000

Das Festival begann als zweitägige Veranstaltung im Champions Park. Im Jahre 2018 sollte das Festival erstmals über drei Tage stattfinden. Schlechtes Wetter sorgte dafür, dass das Festival abgesagt werden musste. 2019 fand das Festival schließlich erstmals über drei Tage statt und zog auf das Highland Festival Grounds beim Kentucky Exposition Center um. Mit 128.000 Zuschauern wurde das Louder Than Life zum größten Rockfestival der USA.

Bands

2014

36.826 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.

4. Oktober
Monster Stage South	Monster Stage North	Marshall Headphones Stage
Judas Priest Stone Temple Pilots & Chester Bennington Alter Bridge Theory of a Deadman Pop Evil Otherwise	Korn Limp Bizkit Mastodon Steel Panther Fuel Nonpoint	Memphis May Fire Miss May I Thousand Foot Krutch Wilson Fuel

5. Oktober
Monster Stage South	Monster Stage North	Marshall Headphones Stage
Kid Rock Papa Roach A Day to Remember Buckcherry Hellyeah Monster Truck	Five Finger Death Punch Volbeat Bring Me the Horizon P.O.D. Nothing More Crobot The New Black 7	Choidos Motionless in White Butcher Babies Avatar Islander

2015

Über 50.000 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.

3. Oktober
Monster Stage South	Monster Stage North	Monster Stage Eeast	Jägermeister Mobile Stage
Rob Zombie Bring Me the Horizon Hollywood Undead Beartooth Trivium Art of Dying	Godsmack Seether Atreyu Saint Asonia Butcher Babies Jelly Roll	Chevelle Sevendust Tremonti Starset Red Sun Rising Raveneye	Issues Aranda Like a Storm Cliver Romantic Rebel

3. Oktober
Monster Stage South	Monster Stage North	Monster Stage Eeast	Jägermeister Mobile Stage
ZZ Top Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators Black Stone Cherry Hinder Nothing More The Color Morale	Shinedown Breaking Benjamin Collective Soul 10 Years Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Whiskey Myers	Lynyrd Skynyrd 3 Doors Down Skid Row The Kentucky Headhunters We Are Harlot Goodbye June	We Came as Romans Turbowolf Flaw The Glorious Sons All Them Witches

2016

50.000 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.

1. Oktober
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Avenged Sevenfold The Cult Anthrax Motionless in White Neck Deep Twelve Foot Ninja	Slayer Pierce the Veil Hellyeah The Amity Affliction Avatar ’68	Cheap Trick Chevy Metal Sick Puppies Being as an Ocean Dinosaur Pile-Up Bishop Gunn

2. Oktober
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Slipknot Korn Alter Bridge Sevendust Parkway Drive Skindred Crobot	Disturbed Ghost Skillet Pop Evil Trivium Adelitas Way	Clutch Kyng Sabaton Smashing Satellites Them Evils

2017

Über 60.000 Zuschauer sahen das zweitägige Festival im Champions Park.

30. September
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Ozzy Osbourne feat. Zakk Wylde Rob Zombie Halestorm Hollywood Undead Of Mice & Men Sleeping with Sirens For We Are Many	Five Finger Death Punch Mastodon Gojira Eagles of Death Metal Starset New Years Day Palisades	Steel Panther Fire from the Gods Through Fire Ded He Is Legend

1. Oktober
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Prophets of Rage Rise Against Thrice Falling in Reverse Beartooth Joyous Wolf	Incubus Stone Sour The Pretty Reckless Nothing More Greta Van Fleet Black Map	In This Moment Lacuna Coil Radkey Ocean Grove ’68 Biters

2018

Wenige Tage vor der geplanten Austragung musste das Festival wegen schlechten Wetters abgesagt werden. Langanhaltender Regen und Überflutungen sorgten dafür, dass das Festivalgelände unsicher wurde.

28. September
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Limp Bizkit Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators Skillet Underoath Tremonti Hyro the Hero	Alice in Chains Breaking Benjamin Seether Black Stone Cherry Red Sun Rising Badflower	Suicidal Tendencies Turnstile Jelly Roll Skyharbor Islander True Villians

29. September
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Five Finger Death Punch Bush Vinnie Paul All-Star Tribute Pop Evil Sick Puppies Awake at Last	Godsmack Shinedown Bullet for My Valentine Sevendust From Ashes to New Cane Hill The Jacks	Body Count Gwar Dance Gavin Dance Bad Omens Blacktop Mojo Stone Broken

30. September
Monster Energy Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Zorn Stage
Deftones Billy Idol Clutch Asking Alexandria Monster Magnet	Nine Inch Nails Primus Ice Cube Glassjaw The Sword The Breton Sound	Action Bronson Yelawolf Fever 333 The Dose Anemic Royalty

2019

Das erstmals über drei Tage ausgetragene Festival zog 128.000 Zuschauer an, womit das Louder Than Life zum größten Rockfestival der Vereinigten Staaten wurde. Austragungsort war erstmals das Highland Festival Grounds beim Kentucky Exposition Center.

27. September
Barrel Stage	Oak Stage	Loudmouth Stage
Slipknot A Day to Remember I Prevail Motionless in White Wilson	Staind Chevelle Beartooth Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals New Years Day All Them Witches	Gwar Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes The Crystal Method Crown Lands Dead Posey Santa Cruz

28. September
Barrel Stage	Oak Stage	Loudmouth Stage
Guns n’ Roses Ice Cube Dropkick Murphys Suicidal Tendencies Anti-Flag Dirty Honey Amigo the Devil	Godsmack Halestorm Stone Temple Pilots Badflower Parlor Mob Like a Storm	Melvins Andrew W.K. Knocked Loose Redd Kross Jelly Roll Junkbunny The Pink Slips

29. September
Barrel Stage	Oak Stage	Loudmouth Stage
Disturbed Marilyn Manson In This Moment Demon Hunter Ded Sick Puppies	Rob Zombie Breaking Benjamin Three Days Grace Sum 41 White Reaper	Deadland Ritual Ho99o9 Angel Du$t Fire from the Gods Anemic Royalty

2021

Nachdem das Festival im Vorjahr wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie abgesagt werden musste, wurde es für 2021 auf vier Tage ausgedehnt.

23. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage
Staind Beartooth Wage War Escape the Fate Another Day Dawns	Korn Cypress Hill Anthrax Sevendust Avoid	Knocked Loose Memphis May Fire Zero 9:36 Jeris Johnson Currents Blame My Youth

24. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage
Metallica Rise Against Killswitch Engage Avatar Cleopatrick South of Eden	Jane’s Addiction Gojira Starset Fever 333 ’68 Joyous Wolf	Turnstile Dead Sara The Violent Contraclut Collective Tallah

25. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage
Machine Gun Kelly Falling in Reverse Atreyu Ice Nine Kills Spiritbox Red	Disturbed Volbeat Asking Alexandria Grandson Bones UK Diamante	Suicidal Tendencies Code Orange Butcher Babies Dana Dentata Unity TX Siiickbrain

26. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage
Metallica Breaking Benjamin Pennywise The Hu Tremonti Ayron Jones	Judas Priest Seether Skillet Badflower Fozzy Like Machines	Sabaton Every Time I Die From Ashes to New Teenage Wrist Dead Poet Society

2022

Erneut wurde das Festival über vier Tage ausgetragen. Es gab jedoch eine Erweiterung von drei auf fünf Bühnen, wobei auf der fünften Bühne ausschließlich Newcomerbands spielten.

22. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Nine Inch Nails Evanescence Highly Suspect Nothing More Dorothy Maggie Lindemann	Bring Me the Horizon Halestorm Yungblud Spiritbox New Years Day Plush	Tenacious D Ho99o9 Giovannie and the Hired Guns Lilith Czar Mothica Eva Under Fire	Ministry Apocalyptica Royal & The Serpent Taipei Houston Superbloom The Dead Deads

23. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Slipknot Lamb of God Highly Suspect In This Moment In Flames Ded Vended	Shinedown Mastodon Clutch Amigo the Devil All Good Things Ego Kill Talent	Meshuggah Baroness Crown the Empire Mike’s Dead Archetypes Collide Aeir	Gwar Helmet Suicide Silence Poorstacy Orbit Culture The Luka State

24. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Kiss Alice Cooper Ghostemane Sevendust Tetrarch Redlight King	Rob Zombie Chevelle Jerry Cantrell Pop Evil Airbourne Solence	Body Count Ill Niño Cherry Bombs Wargasm The Alive Dropout Kings	Theory of a Deadman We Came as Romans D.R.U.G.S. Trash Boat Bloodywood

25. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Red Hot Chili Peppers Incubus The Pretty Reckless The Struts Dirty Honey Radkey	Alice in Chains Papa Roach Jelly Roll The Joy Formidable The Warning The Strangers	Action Bronson Bayside Joey Valence & Brae Carolesdaughter The Native Howl The Mysterines	Bad Religion Anti-Flag Oxymorrons Crown Lands Shaman’s Harvest

2023

Erneut wurde das Festival über vier Tage auf fünf Bühnen ausgetragen.

21. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Weezer 311 Royal Blood Nothing but Thieves Call Me Karizma Tigerclub	Foo Fighters Rancid Coheed and Cambria White Reaper Mannequin Pussy Pinkshift	Code Orange L7 Sueco Starcrawler Guerrilla Warfare Asava	Deafheaven nothing, nowhere. Kid Kapichi Kyng Starbenders

22. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Tool Limp Bizkit Corey Taylor Wage War Fame on Fire Austin Meade	Godsmack Megadeth Bad Omens Avatar Wargasm Flat Black	Dance Gavin Dance Kittie ten56. SIM Gnome Fox Lake	Fever 333 Miss May I Tallah Hanabie Widow7 Luna Aura

23. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Pantera Pierce the Veil Babymetal The Hu Suicide Silence Another Day Dawns	Avenged Sevenfold Falling in Reverse Parkway Drive Asking Alexandria Memphis May Fire Strange Kids	The Amity Affliction Dethklok Gideon Afterlife Ithaca Reach NYC Dissonation	Sleep Token Whitechapel Zero 9:36 Kim Dracula Dragged Under Devil’s Cut

24. September
Space Zebra Stage	Loudmouth Stage	Disruptor Stage	Revolver Stage
Green Day Turnstile The Interrupters Rival Sons Boston Manor Holy Wars	Queens of the Stone Age Run the Jewels Flogging Molly Awolnation Senses Fail Thousand Below	Mayday Parade Viagra Boys Rain City Drive Sleep Theory Letdown As You Were	Billy Talent Death by Romy Jehnny Beth The Bronx Reddstar Death Valley Dreams

Einzelnachweise

1. Chad Childers: First Annual Louder Than Life Rock Festival Set to Rock Louisville. Loudwire, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 
2. Andrew O´Brien: Louisville’s Louder Than Life Festival 2018 Force To Cancel Due To Inclement Weather. Live for Live Music, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 
3. Chad Childers: Louder Than Life Is Now the Biggest Rock Festival in America. Loudwire, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 
4. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: LOUDER THAN LIFE BRINGS IN OVER 36,000 FANS FOR LOUISVILLE'S OCTOBER 4 & 5 WEEKEND FESTIVAL CELEBRATING ROCK MUSIC, BOURBON, WHISKEY, CRAFT BEER AND "GOURMET MAN FOOD". AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 
5. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: SECOND ANNUAL LOUDER THAN LIFE SELLS OUT WITH OVER 50,000 IN ATTENDANCE FOR OCTOBER 3 & 4 DESTINATION FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE WORLD'S TOP BOURBON, MUSIC AND GOURMET MAN FOOD. AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 
6. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: THIRD ANNUAL LOUDER THAN LIFE WRAPS WITH 50,000 IN ATTENDANCE OVER TWO-DAY FESTIVAL AT CHAMPIONS PARK IN LOUISVILLE WITH HEADLINERS AVENGED SEVENFOLD AND SLIPKNOT. AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 
7. Krstine Ashton-Magnuson: Fourth Annual Louder Than Life Wraps With More Than 60,000 In Attendance Over Two Days At Champions Park In Louisville, KY. AM Media, abgerufen am 19. Oktober 2019 (englisch). 

Weblinks

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