Rotting Christ, Chimaira, Scour, and More Added to Milwaukee Metal Fest 2025
It’s been a minute since we got an update for next year’s Milwaukee Metal Fest, but this new one’s something to get excited about, as Rotting Christ, Chimaira, Scour, Tesseract, and Evil Dead have been added to the already stacked lineup.
Announced earlier today by festival organizers, the new crop of bands added to the final list make next year’s Milwaukee Metal Fest one most people aren’t going to want to miss. The Milwaukee Metal Fest will once again take place at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom from May 16 to 18, with a pre-party scheduled to take place on May 15.
Today’s reveal was listed as part of what the festival is calling its “12 Days of Christmas” campaign, where they’ll unveil new bands added to the festival’s bill every day through this weekend. Organizers said they’ll reveal the full list of artists participating in next year’s event just before the holidays.
As it stands, the full lineup right now is as follows:
- DOWN (Anselmo, Windstein, Keenan, Bower, Bruders)
- Black Label Society
- Devin Townsend
- The Dillinger Escape Plan (Performing ‘Calculating Infinity’)
- 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
