The 2025 edition of the Sick New World festival has been cancelled, with organisers citing "unforeseen circumstances". The event was scheduled for 12 April, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada. and was due to be headlined by Metallica and Linkin Park.

Sick New World has made the decision to cancel its 2025 rock and metal festival only two months after it announced the lineup.

Sadly, another music festival bites the dust. If you were looking forward to catching Sick New World 2025, you’re out of luck. Yesterday (November 29), Sick New World organizers announced that the event scheduled for next year has officially been canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances” with a post on Instagram (viewable here ).

The Las Vegas festival was to feature Metallica, Linkin Park, QOTSA, Evanescence, and more. Sick New World 2025 Canceled Due to “Unforeseen Circumstances”

The Sick New World Festival will not be taking place next year after all. Organizers issued a statement revealing the cancelation of the event for 2025, citing "unforeseen circumstances" in their ability to put the show on in Las Vegas next spring. The full statement can be viewed below:

The highly anticipated 2025 edition of Las Vegas festival Sick New World has been canceled. Organizers announced the cancellation in a statement, writing: "It is with great disappointment that we announce that Sick New World will no longer take place in Las Vegas on April 12, 2025.

The one day mega heavy music festival in Las Vegas with nearly 60 bands announced that due to “unforeseen circumstances” the show would not go on.

Sick New World won’t be coming back for a third year after all. The massive heavy music festival, which was set to take place at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds April 12 with headliners Metallica, Linkin Park and dozens more,

The highly anticipated return of Sick New World, originally scheduled for April 12, 2025, in Las Vegas, has been officially canceled. The festival’s organizers shared the disappointing news, citing insurmountable unforeseen circumstances that have made next year’s event impossible to execute.

In a social media post that just went live moments ago, the organizers behind Sick New World announced that next year’s fest has been canceled. Though details explaining why they decided to pull the plug on the whole event are scarce at the moment, the folks behind this shocking reveal offered the following statement: