America’s largest hardcore pageant may get even larger this 12 months. Los Angeles’ Sound And Fury, possibly probably the most thrilling annual occasion on the hardcore calendar, simply unveiled most of its 2025 lineup. The present is coming to LA’s Exposition Park July 12-13, and it seems prefer it’ll be a blast. Sound And Fury at all times presents its acts alphabetically, not with headliners on the prime, however a few names on its poster bounce out instantly. Knocked Free, possibly the preferred younger act on your complete heavy-music panorama, will play Sound And Fury. So will Challenge Pat, the Memphis underground rap legend who’s lengthy been beloved within the hardcore world. Sound And Fury has beforehand booked hardcore-adjacent rap varieties like Lil Ugly Mane, and Challenge Pat just lately performed a Brooklyn present with Mindforce, nevertheless it’s nonetheless loopy to see him on this lineup.
One other large title on the Sound And Fury lineup is Basement, the mostly-inactive British band who just lately blew up on TikTok. Basement just lately performed their first US exhibits in 5 years, and so they’re additionally headlining LDB Fest. Based mostly on the poster, Knocked Free and Basement are slated to headline Sound And Fury. Trash Speak, the California band who don’t play typically anymore however who at all times trigger absolute chaos, are additionally on the invoice. So are the San Fernando Valley crush-kill-destroyers God’s Hate, Sound And Fury regulars who’re already promising that their subsequent chapter will start on the pageant.
Japanese greats Kruelty, who needed to drop out of final 12 months’s pageant on the final minute, are as soon as once more on the Sound And Fury lineup. As at all times, there’s a heavy worldwide presence on this one; different acts embrace Thailand’s Whispers and the UK’s Dynamite. The California band Compelled Order broke up in 2018, however they’re coming again for this one. The invoice additionally options non-hardcore acts from the worlds of shoegaze (Cloakroom, Midrift), steel (Caustic Wound), crust (Lagrimas), and synthpop (Nuovo Testamento).
And naturally, the invoice additionally options most of the American hardcore bands who’re presently making strikes. For those who’re into that stuff, it’s an absolute feast. Together with everybody I simply talked about, the lineup contains Mindforce, Ache Of Fact, Massive Boy, Lacking Hyperlink, XWeaponX, Combust, Competition, L.O.T.I.O.N., Snuffed On Sight, Peeling Flesh, Crush Your Soul, Massive Ass Truck, Mongrel, Deadly Realm, and Febuary. Yow will discover all of the related information right here.
