Due to the massive success of the second edition of Milwaukee Metal Fest, the iconic midwestern event is returning in 2025. The festival will take place again at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom from May 16-18, 2025, with the pre-party kicking off on May 15.
The festival is now pleased to welcome Rotting Christ, Chimaira, Scour, Tesseract & Evil Dead to the lineup. More bands will be revealed this week as part of the festival’s 12 Days of Christmas campaign, in which the festival will be revealing a new artist every day through this weekend. Be sure to check the official Milwaukee Metal Fest socials (Facebook, Instagram, X) to keep up.
Milwaukee Metal Fest returned to prominence in 2023 under the watchful eye of Jasta and Sound Talent Group‘s Tim Borror, as well as the team at The Rave/Eagles Club, where so many of the original festivals took place.
Here’s how the full lineup looks like thus far:
- Down
- Black Label Society
- Devin Townsend
- The Dillinger Escape Plan (Performing “Calculating Infinity” album in its entirety)
- Exodus
- Chimaira
- Enslaved
- Destruction
- Rotting Christ
- Suicide Silence
- Scour
- 3 Inches of Blood
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- Trouble
- The Acacia Strain
- Harms Way
- Fugitive
- Speed
- Exhorder
- Tesseract
- Macabre
- Full of Hell
- END
- Nekrogoblikon
- Deceased
- Evil Dead
- Legions of Doom
