The Knotfest 2025 lineup dropped overnight with a diverse collection of artists.
Knotfest, the destination festival brand curated by nu metal maniacs Slipknot, returns to Australia in 2025. The music and counterculture experience will hit the East Coast of Australia starting on Friday, February 28th at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, then heads to Brisbane on Sunday, March 2nd at Brisbane Showground before wrapping up in Sydney on Saturday, March 8th at Centennial Park.
With Slipknot already announced as the huge headliners, the 2025 festival lineup has dropped including a melting pot of metal and scene bands including A Day To Remember, BABYMETAL, Slaughter to Prevail, Polaris, Within Temptation, Enter Shikari, Hatebreed, In Hearts Wake, Health, Miss May I, Vended and Sunami.
Knotfest Australia 2025
- Friday 28 February 2025 – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
- Sunday 2 March 2025 – Brisbane Showground, Brisbane
- Saturday 8 March 2025 – Centennial Park, Sydney
Knotfest Lineup
- Slipknot
- A Day To Remember
- BABYMETAL
- Slaughter To Prevail
- Polaris
- Within Temptation
- Enter Shikari
- Hatebreed
- In Hearts Wake
- HEALTH
- Miss May I
- Vended
- Sunami
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Slipknot headlined the inaugural Australian event in 2023 to mammoth reception. Whilst currently on a 25 year Anniversary Tour in which they are playing their debut self-titled album in full and nothing after 1999, the festival slot will see them shift between the old all the way up to their 2022 #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, The End, So Far. expect ‘Duality’, ‘Psychosocial’, ‘Wait and Bleed’ and other classics to make the cut, along with deep cuts and newer material.
No strangers to Australian shores, Florida-hailing quartet A Day To Remember head to Australia for the first time since 2019. Wielding an irresistible melting pot of metalcore, pop-punk and post-hardcore, A Day To Remember have remained one of the most versatile and vigorous acts to emerge from the early 2000s, with the group remaining an active force from the halcyon days of Myspace and physical media through to the modern era of TikTok and streaming. In command of hundreds of millions of Spotify streams and YouTube views, seven studio albums, including two certified Gold records, entirely sold out tours in their wake, and their own curated Self Help Festival. Get ready for ‘The Downfall Of Us All’, ‘If It Means A Lot To You’ and ‘The Plot To Bomb The Panhandle’ amongst other hits live.
BABYMETAL have become festival and arena favourites having just toured Australia last year to sold out audiences. Their unique brand of metal meets martial arts makes them a marvel to witness live. After obliterating Aussie crowds with their debut Australian performance as part of Good Things Festival in 2023, Russian deathcore behemoths Slaughter to Prevail led by the formidable frontman, Alex Terrible, bring a ferocious blend of deathcore and blackened metal sonic onslaught that leaves no survivors. Representing the Aussie talent is Polaris who’s recent regional tours have blown audiences away and their albums continue to push them up the charts and into number one territory.
The lineup for this year is littered with new faces, favourites and friends of our shores and is unmissable!
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General On-Sale: 3pm local time, Wednesday 23rd October from Knotfest.com/Australia
