After being cancelled in 2025, the Sick New World Festival announced lineups for two 2026 events featuring headliners System of a Down, Korn and Deftones. The festival returns to the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 25 and expands to the inaugural edition at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas on October 24.
System Of A Down will headline both the Las Vegas and Texas events. Korn will serve as co-headliners at the Las Vegas event, which will also feature artists including Bring Me The Horizon, Evanescence, Danny Elfman, Knocked Loose, Ministry, AFI, Cypress Hill, Mastodon, and many others.
Deftones will join System of a Down to headline the Texas event, with Slayer perfmiring their album Reign In Blood in its entirety to celebrate the album’s 40th anniversary. Evanescence, Knocked Loose, AFI, Ministry, Mastodon, The Prodigy, Underoath and many more will also perform at the Texas event.
Presale tickets for Sick New World Las Vegas 2026 and the Inaugural Sick New World Texas 2026 begin today at 10AM PT; head to the festival’s website for more information.
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