San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires.
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Sonic Temple 2027 Lineup
Four days of rock and metal at the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, with Iron Maiden at the top of the bill.
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About Sonic Temple 2027
Sonic Temple 2027 runs Thursday May 13 to Sunday May 16 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, with Iron Maiden at the top of the bill on Friday. Blink-182 headline Thursday, Falling in Reverse Saturday and Korn Sunday.
Under them are 147 acts covering most of heavy music. Turnstile, Knocked Loose and Mastodon share Thursday with The Offspring and Jimmy Eat World. Alice in Chains and A Perfect Circle are on Friday, and $UICIDEBOY$, Faith No More and Primus fill Sunday. Further down, the bill runs deep on deathcore and metalcore, from Shadow of Intent and Fit For An Autopsy to Unearth, with 90s names like Snot, Spineshank and Nailbomb alongside. Every act but Sponge has a day, and set times are not out yet.
Expect metal, metalcore, rock and post-hardcore across 147 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Historic Crew Stadium, Columbus, OH
- Lineup
- 147 acts
- Hours
- Gate times are still to be announced. Usually gates open between 11am and noon.
- Ages
- All ages. Every attendee needs a full price ticket regardless of age, and parents are urged to bring hearing protection for children.
- Passes
- All-in prices with fees included: 4-Day GA Stadium $450, GA Field $630, GA Plus $655, VIP $930, Rock Royalty $1,885 and Columbus Owners Club $2,420. Single-day GA Stadium is $195.
- Website
- Official site
Sonic Temple 2027 lineup & schedule: all 147 acts
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Up the irons: metal's greatest live institution, Eddie included, galloping twin leads and Bruce Dickinson sprinting the stage like it's 1985.
Heavy metal
Ronnie Radke's shape-shifting post-hardcore, swerving between metalcore breakdowns, rap verses and arena-sized choruses, sometimes inside a single song.
Post-hardcoreMetalcore
The band that wrote the nu metal rulebook: down-tuned seven-string grooves, slap bass and Jonathan Davis's raw, confessional howl, from 'Blind' to 'Freak on a Leash'.
Nu metalMetal
Texas pop-punk comedians with better songwriting chops than the joke suggests, and twenty-five years of hooks hiding under the punchlines.
Pop-punkComedy rock
Brooklyn doom theater with Sabbath-lineage riffs, delivered by a costumed cast with the Rat Queen out front.
Metal
The emo band that became a permanent radio fixture, with enormous choruses delivered with total earnestness, decade after decade without a dip.
EmoAlt-rock
Kentucky hardcore built on the meanest two-step riffs going, with Bryan Garris's shriek cutting clean over the top: heaviness that crossed over without softening.
HardcoreMetalcore
Atlanta's prog-sludge institution, with concept records about doom and grief, played with genuinely uncommon musicianship and harmonized howls.
Progressive metalSludge metal
Swedish extreme metal band whose lurching, mathematical polyrhythms on down-tuned guitars more or less invented djent.
Metal
President
Masked, anonymous British rock outfit fronted by a figure styled as The President, pairing heavy riffs with soaring, pop-minded choruses.
Rock
Thick, downtuned '90s worship that a whole generation found late and adopted wholesale, 'Youngest Daughter' the unlikely viral hymn.
GrungeAlt-rock
San Diego rock band who spent the late nineties as a Christian-market act before crossing over to mainstream radio, and 'Dare You to Move' still carries the room.
Alternative
Bay Area thrash veterans from the genre's first wave, still built around Chuck Billy's roar and Alex Skolnick's lead guitar.
MetalThrash metal
'Gives You Hell' and a wildly fun second act: the internet's favorite reunion, with Tyson Ritter in full chaos-uncle mode.
Pop punkPower pop
Thirty years of hooks that snuck genuine punk speed onto daytime radio without anyone noticing, and the catalog is basically all singles.
PunkSkate punk
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
HardcoreAlt-rock
Billy Howerdel's band with Tool singer Maynard James Keenan: brooding, melodic art rock that broke big with the 2000 debut 'Mer de Noms'.
Alternative metalRock
Seattle heavyweights whose sludgy riffs and eerie stacked harmonies made 'Man in the Box' and 'Rooster' the darkest hits of the grunge years.
GrungeAlternative metalRock
Connecticut band working the heavy end of metalcore, with hardcore-scene pacing underneath the riffs and a pit-first approach to arrangement.
Metal
Welsh metalcore from Bridgend, Matt Tuck's twin-guitar leads and soaring choruses unchanged in spirit since 'Tears Don't Fall' made them a 2000s fixture.
MetalcoreHeavy metal
The Mudvayne and Hellyeah frontman stepping out under his own name, with the same guttural roar and melodic bite that carried both bands.
Alternative metalNu metal
Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited, soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
Post-hardcoreProg-rock
Dallas metalcore band built on theatrical concept records, swinging between soaring clean choruses and full-force screams.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Tokyo metalcore band of four women who call their sound harajuku-core: breakdowns, screams and bright pop styling at once.
MetalcoreMetal
Maria Brink's gothic ritual-metal, with costumes, choirs, and 'Whore' still searing, a stage show closer to dark ceremony than concert.
Theatrical metal
Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift, with Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.
MetalcoreShoegaze-metal
The Anthony Green-fronted EP is the stuff of scene legend and the live show still leans on it, with 'Seven Years' guaranteed to level the tent.
Post-hardcore
South African-born post-grunge band behind 'Broken', 'Remedy' and a long run of rock radio number ones, all heavy hooks and Shaun Morgan's ragged voice.
Post-grungeHard rockRock
New Jersey hard rockers who gave the late hair metal years some teeth, with 'Youth Gone Wild', '18 and Life' and the power ballad 'I Remember You'.
Hard rockHeavy metal
Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore: Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
Post-hardcorePop-punk
Sunset Strip glam metal played absolutely straight musically and absolutely not lyrically: spandex, shred solos and some of the filthiest jokes in rock.
Glam metalHard rock
Taylor Momsen's grunge-blooded hard rock is smoky, heavy, and chart-topping, with more rock-radio #1s than most legacy acts.
Hard rockAlternative rock
Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone, Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
Hard rock
Nu-metal revivalism from a newer solo act, leaning on the genre's bounce rather than its irony, and self-made and rising.
Nu-metalAlt-metal
The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint, with mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
MetalcorePop-punk
Los Angeles rock band with an anxious, confrontational streak, known for the rock radio hit 'Ghost' and songs that dig into mental health without flinching.
Alternative rockHard rock
Caleb Shomo's Ohio metalcore, gang-vocal hardcore punch wrapped around big melodic hooks about getting through the bad days.
MetalcoreHardcore
French producer whose darksynth plays like an '80s horror soundtrack with a metal band's adrenaline, performed live with guitar and drums behind the synths.
SynthwaveElectronic
New Orleans sludge metal institution led by Kirk Windstein, slow and crushingly heavy since the early 90s.
MetalSludge metal
Rory Rodriguez's falsetto turned a metalcore band into something closer to devastating synth-pop with guitars, with grief-heavy songwriting that broke the scene's mold.
Post-hardcoreAlternative rock
Intergalactic latex monsters spraying fake blood on the front rows since 1984, with thrash chops under the costumes. Wear a poncho.
Shock metal
Bluesy, scuffed-up rock delivered with a chip on the shoulder and a genuine gift for a chorus, with grit and hooks at festival scale.
Blues rockAlt-rock
Swedish metalcore where Eddie Berg's violin plays alongside the breakdowns, as melancholy as it is heavy.
Metalcore
Australian shapeshifter who lurches between jazz trumpet, rap, nu metal and full-throated screams, sometimes in one verse, first noticed for a chaotic take on 'Paparazzi'.
Alternative metalNu metal
Southern California metalcore band who went from breakdown-heavy early records to the nu metal-tinged grooves of 'Restoring Force', and kept the weight after a change of singer.
Metalcore
New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end, and the format's next arena act in waiting.
Alt-metalPost-hardcore
Plays guitar and screams over his own dubstep, the metal/bass crossover taken entirely seriously, pits and drops in equal measure.
DubstepMetal
Firestarters, still. The UK's rave-punk institution hits harder than bands half their age, three decades of menace intact.
Rave-punkElectronic
Rammstein's frontman on his own: the same booming baritone and pummeling industrial riffs, pushed further into provocation and theater.
Industrial metalMetal
'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now, metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Grimy, Memphis-indebted rap about self-destruction, built into one of the largest underground followings in music, where G59 loyalty runs religious.
Underground hip-hopTrap metal
DONTTRUSTME and the rest of the MySpace-era catalog, played fully self-aware, with neon electro-rap chaos that has aged into a gleeful, shout-along riot live.
Electro-popCrunkcore
Riff-and-groove lifers, with Neil Fallon hollering tall tales over the most reliably heavy live band in American rock, three decades without phoning one in.
Stoner-rockHard-rock
Sunny California hardcore that treats a circle pit as a party rather than a fight, and the scene's most reliably grinning live band.
HardcoreCrossover thrash
Mike Patton and the San Francisco band that mixed funk, metal, rap and lounge-singer theatrics into 'Epic' and 'Midlife Crisis', a template alternative metal borrowed from for years.
Alt-metalAlt-rock
Vein.fm side project gone huge, with grunge-gaze heaviness for the new generation and Deftones worship refracted through hardcore muscle.
Shoegaze-metal
Dallas pop-punk band from the MySpace era, all synths, gang vocals and sugar rush choruses, best known for 'Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)'.
Pop punk
Florida-raised rapper turned industrial noise artist whose blown-out 808s, black metal shrieks and occult imagery made 'Mercury: Retrograde' an underground anthem.
Industrial metalHip-hop
Travie McCoy's band bent rap, rock and pop into one radio-shaped thing, and Cupid's Chokehold and Stereo Hearts are the proof. Live they play it as a party rather than a nostalgia set.
Pop-rapAlt-rock
Page Hamilton's precision-machined downstrokes powered the band a generation of nu-metal quietly ripped off, and they're still tighter than all of them.
Alt-metalPost-hardcore
Masked LA rap-rock six-piece with six vocalists and a knack for the shout-along that outlives the criticism: critic-proof and pit-approved.
Rap rockNu metal
Midwest emo's chaotic favorites bring screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
EmoPop-punk
The Faygo flies at sundown: whoop whoop, and genuinely one of music's strangest, most loyal communities gathered in one place.
HorrorcoreRap-rock
Al Jourgensen's industrial-metal war machine, with sampled sermons, mechanised riffing, and four decades of pure spite, still grinding forward.
Industrial metal
Slam played with a hip-hop swagger: gurgles, gore, and breakdowns tuned to the floor, the internet's favorite new heaviness.
Slam-metalDeathcore
American artist who turned an uncanny, too-sweet internet persona into genuine metal credibility, with bubblegum melody and blast beats sharing the same song.
Rock
Les Claypool's slap-bass oddity from the Bay Area, funk metal played as a cartoon fever dream since 'Jerry Was a Race Car Driver'.
Alternative metalRock
Ohio pop-punk band who grew from goofy youth-group favorites into the earnest, melodic rock of 'Be My Escape' and 'Who I Am Hates Who I've Been'.
Pop punkRock
The top-hatted Guns N' Roses guitarist's long-running solo band, with Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy on vocals: big riffs, bigger solos, and a set that reaches back to 'Sweet Child O' Mine'.
Hard rockRock
Atlanta rapper whose bellowed hooks and blown-out trap production defined a whole era of strip-club rap, with 'Hard in da Paint,' 'No Hands,' and a voice built for shouting along.
Hip-hop
'Check Yes Juliet' (MySpace-era pop-punk sunshine) and Florida warmth that never curdled, and the chorus still checks yes.
Pop-punk
Early djent architects out of Minneapolis, with eight-string polyrhythms and huge grooves whose low end still lands harder live than any recording has managed to capture.
DjentProgressive metalcore
Arankai
Metal
Denver death metal by way of Tangerine Dream, cosmic, patient, and the most critically adored band in the genre.
Death metalProgressive metal
Dark Divine
Metal
Divisive by design, with nu-metal bounce, deathcore weight, and Frankie Palmeri saying the unsayable, engineered to start arguments and pits alike.
Nu-metalcoreDeathcore
New Jersey deathcore band whose crushing, groove-driven records carry sharp social anger and a melodic, almost Gojira-like sense of scale.
DeathcoreMetal
London heavy rock band steeped in English folk horror, with organ-washed riffs and big, witchy choruses.
Heavy rockDoom metal
Her Last Sight
Metal
Southern California deathcore band whose crushing low end and guttural vocals carry an unapologetically Christian message.
Deathcore
Toronto artist who moved from rap features into full pop-punk, and sounds more at home there, with emo-rap roots showing through the power chords.
Pop-punkEmo-rap
Swedish doom trio dealing in slow, enormous, fuzz-soaked riffs with distant, hazy vocals floating above the rumble.
Doom metalStoner rock
sace6
American band folding djent-weight riffing and electronic textures into hazy shoegaze, with alt-metal heaviness under the blur.
Alternative
Connecticut deathcore band with a sci-fi and symphonic sweep: orchestral layers, technical riffing and some of the genre's biggest breakdowns.
DeathcoreSymphonic metal
The Nashville project of Kentucky-born singer Addison, whose voice jumps from low growls to piercing screams to clean melody over deathcore weight, first heard in clips filmed in her car.
Deathcore
Norwegian band playing what they call tundra rock: warm, fuzzed-out desert rock grooves with big, sing-along melodies.
Stoner rockRock
Bay Area deathcore with a bottomless low end and breakdowns that arrive like a door being kicked in: no melody, no mercy.
Deathcore
English thrash and metalcore band led by guitarist and singer Josh Middleton, riff-dense and technical.
MetalMetalcore
Long-running American pop-punk act whose late-90s and early-2000s run made them fixtures of the skate-punk era, still touring on those hooks.
Rock
The Barbarians of California
Metal
Melodic death metal played with a fan's enthusiasm, carrying on after the loss of their frontman, with the songbook honored nightly.
Melodic death metal
The Paradox
Atlanta pop-punk band with an early 2000s sound, whose single 'Get the Message' reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart.
Pop-punkPunk
Long Island band forever tied to 'Teenage Dirtbag', the falsetto-chorused anthem that still fills every room it plays.
Pop punkAlternative rock
Tennessee-formed rock band who came up through the early-2000s post-grunge wave and have kept working steadily ever since, pairing heavy riffs with big melodic choruses.
Hard rock
Pittsburgh metalcore outfit built on dissonant, mathy riffing and unrelenting vocal delivery: hardcore aggression with the corners deliberately left jagged.
Metal
Swedish outfit formed in Örebro at the start of the 2020s, welding djent-adjacent rhythmic precision to metalcore's melodic instincts, technical without turning bloodless.
Metal
Film and TV composer behind the scores for 'Battlestar Galactica', 'The Walking Dead' and 'God of War', taking his orchestral-meets-metal sound to the stage.
Symphonic metalSoundtrack
Los Angeles band built on duelling front-women trading screams and clean hooks, with a shock-rock streak inherited from the Plasmatics.
Metal
Los Angeles blues rock band with a swaggering '70s sound, the first unsigned act to top Billboard's mainstream rock chart with 'When I'm Gone'.
Hard rockRock
Long-running Arizona outfit led by the Nicoli sisters, pairing clean melodic vocals against screamed counterpoint, with mid-2000s post-hardcore still in motion.
Rock
Moldovan band fronted by Lena Scissorhands, whose switching between clean singing, rapped cadences and full-throat screams anchors their groove-heavy metal.
Metal
Texas metalcore band with an atmospheric, progressive streak: shimmering guitar textures that open up between punishing breakdowns.
MetalcoreProgressive metal
Milan's gothic metal veterans, built on the dual vocals of Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro, who broke through with 'Heaven's a Lie' and a heavy cover of 'Enjoy the Silence'.
Gothic metalAlternative metal
Shred guitarist known for years in Alice Cooper's band, whose solo records pair blistering instrumental work with guest singers.
Hard rockHeavy metal
Otep Shamaya's long-running nu metal project, built on spoken word, venomous screams and fiercely political lyrics.
Nu metalAlternative metal
New Jersey post-hardcore band that fuses heavy riffs with electronic production and pop-sized hooks.
Post-hardcoreMetalcore
Nashville band whose orchestral hard rock pairs strings with crushing guitars, the sound set by their 2006 debut 'End of Silence'.
Christian rock
San Diego post-hardcore band trading off soaring clean vocals and raw screams over melodic, hard-hitting songs.
Post-hardcore
Sunborn
Rock
Illinois metalcore band known for emotionally direct songs about depression and recovery, pairing heavy riffs with melodic choruses.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Post-hardcore that leans into the ache, with glossy production over genuinely raw heartbreak, built for night drives after the show.
Post-hardcoreMetalcore
Seattle outfit founded by the Clark brothers, alternating crushing groove with big melodic choruses, with faith-driven heaviness and a designer's eye for its own iconography.
Hard rock
Diggy Graves
American rapper dragging horrorcore darkness and emo confession into heavy, guitar-driven tracks, with verses that tip over into screamed punk aggression.
Hip-hop
Empty Shell Casing
Alternative
Vegas post-hardcore that survived a frontman swap and a decade of scene churn intact, with arena-scene hooks and a survivor's stubbornness.
Post-hardcore
Industrial metal pioneers whose machine-gun precision riffs and alternating growled and clean vocals on 'Demanufacture' shaped a generation of heavy bands.
Industrial metalMetal
The duo two Fever 333 members started after that band ended, with hardcore, electronics and no genre loyalty whatsoever.
Hard rock
One of the bands that defined electronicore, welding trance synths and dance drops to post-hardcore, maximalist and unapologetically melodic.
Rock
If Not For Me
Metal
Kami Kehoe
Pop
NYHC royalty: Freddy Cricien's bark over the crossover riffing that defined the Lower East Side sound, with hardcore lineage in the literal family sense.
NYHC
Cleveland's masked trio playing filthy, high-speed blackened heavy metal straight out of the Venom and Motörhead playbook.
Heavy metalSpeed metal
Nevertel
American band working in polished modern hard rock, pairing heavy riffs with big sing-along choruses built for active-rock radio.
Rock
Southern California rock band blending pop-punk energy with heavier, modern alt-metal production and arena-sized hooks.
Alternative rockPop punk
Formerly Slaves, rebuilt around melody, they make modern post-hardcore with the edges sanded deliberately smooth and the choruses aimed at radio.
Post-hardcoreAlt-rock
Massachusetts band at the heart of the early 2000s American metal wave, mixing thrash solos with hardcore punch on 'The War Within'.
MetalcoreThrash metal
Silent Theory
Rock
British band reviving 2000s alt-rock gloss with a genuinely modern pop sensibility, with Y2K crunch and algorithm-era hooks.
Alt-rockNu-metal
Massachusetts metalcore band known for twin-guitar harmonies, relentless breakdowns and one of the most physical live shows in the genre.
Metalcore
VANA
Auckland artist welding big pop choruses to heavy metal riffs, with a dark, theatrical edge she frames as her own 'darkcore' sound.
Metal
Ohio metalcore band that has spent well over a decade balancing screamed and sung vocals against faith-driven lyrics: heavy without the nihilism.
Hard rock
Big Ass Truck I.E.
California crew working the blunt end of beatdown hardcore, with breakdowns built for pit damage rather than for anyone's stereo.
Metal
Pennsylvania hard rock band bound up with the skate-video world that broke them, with sludgy riffs, deadpan menace and '96 Quite Bitter Beings' still doing the heavy lifting.
Hard rock
Buffalo pop-punk band whose wordy, sharp-tongued 2006 debut 'The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch' was a Warped Tour-era staple.
Pop punkEmo
New York metal outfit out of the turn-of-the-millennium groove and nu-metal wave, with down-tuned churn under vocals that swing between bark and bellow.
Metal
Newark-born duo smashing hardcore punk, industrial noise and rap together, with a live show as chaotic as the records.
PunkHip-hopIndustrial
Manchester co-fronted pop-punk with a sneer inherited directly from Britpop, featuring dual vocals, big choruses, and bigger attitude.
Pop-punkAlt-rock
Flint, Michigan band whose bleak, spoken-word-heavy metal draws directly on their hometown's violence, and it's confrontational to the point of discomfort.
Metal
Max Cavalera's mid-'90s industrial thrash project with Alex Newport, whose lone studio album 'Point Blank' became a cult touchstone of metal and noise.
Industrial metalThrash metal
Long Island heavy hardcore with a lineage running straight back to the NYHC canon: new-school stomp, old-school allegiance.
HardcoreBeatdown
Late-'90s funk-metal cut short by tragedy, hyperactive and punk-fast, and still fondly guarded by everyone who caught them the first time.
Nu-metalFunk-metal
Max Cavalera's post-Sepultura vehicle, still fusing tribal percussion with pure groove-metal weight, with three decades of roar undiminished.
Groove metalNu-metal
LA industrial-tinged nu metal, mechanical and cold in a way most of their late-'90s peers never managed, with machine-press riffs still grinding.
Nu metalIndustrial metal
Santa Barbara-area hard rockers with a smirk, behind the early '90s hit 'Everything About You' and a heavy cover of Harry Chapin's 'Cat's in the Cradle'.
Hard rockFunk metal
XCOMM
Punk
Detroit alternative rock band from the mid '90s modern rock boom, remembered for 'Plowed' and 'Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)'.
Alternative rockPost-grunge
The headliners
Iron Maiden · Up the irons: metal's greatest live institution, Eddie included, galloping twin leads and Bruce Dickinson sprinting the stage like it's 1985. Galloping twin-guitar heavy metal, Eddie included.
Blink-182 · San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires. Fast San Diego pop punk with Travis Barker on drums.
Korn · The band that wrote the nu metal rulebook: down-tuned seven-string grooves, slap bass and Jonathan Davis's raw, confessional howl, from 'Blind' to 'Freak on a Leash'. Down-tuned seven-string nu metal from the band that set its template.
Falling in Reverse · Ronnie Radke's shape-shifting post-hardcore, swerving between metalcore breakdowns, rap verses and arena-sized choruses, sometimes inside a single song.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Castle Rat · Costumed Brooklyn doom with Sabbath-style riffs.
SLOMOSA · Warm Norwegian fuzz rock the band calls tundra rock.
HANABIE. · Tokyo metalcore that mixes breakdowns and screams with bright pop styling.
Green Lung · Organ-washed London heavy rock steeped in folk horror.
Sleep Theory · Alt-metal with a soulful clean voice and a modern low end.
Other acts worth planning around
Faith No More · Mike Patton's band, mixing funk, metal, rap and lounge theatrics.
Meshuggah · Lurching, down-tuned polyrhythms that more or less invented djent.
Turnstile · Hardcore with dreamy detours and a crowd that moves as one.
Bear McCreary · The composer behind the God of War and Battlestar Galactica scores, playing them heavy.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (May 13)
Blink-182, Turnstile, The Offspring, Knocked Loose, The All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World + 30 more
Friday lineup (May 14)
Iron Maiden, A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Seether, Sleeping With Sirens, Circa Survive + 31 more
Saturday lineup (May 15)
Falling in Reverse, A Day To Remember, The Prodigy, Beartooth, Till Lindemann, Dayseeker + 31 more
Sunday lineup (May 16)
Korn, $UICIDEBOY$, Faith No More, Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Primus, Poppy + 30 more
Sonic Temple 2027 lineup FAQ
When is Sonic Temple 2027?
Thursday May 13 to Sunday May 16, 2027.
Where is Sonic Temple held?
Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
Who is headlining Sonic Temple 2027?
Iron Maiden tops the bill on Friday. Blink-182 headline Thursday, Falling in Reverse Saturday and Korn Sunday.
How many acts are playing?
147 acts are on the 2027 bill.
Is Sonic Temple all ages?
Yes. Every attendee needs a full price ticket whatever their age, and parents are urged to bring hearing protection for children.
What time do gates open?
Gate times have not been announced. Gates usually open between 11am and noon.
How much are tickets?
All-in prices with fees: 4-Day GA Stadium $450, GA Field $630, GA Plus $655, VIP $930, Rock Royalty $1,885 and Columbus Owners Club $2,420. Single-day GA Stadium is $195.
Are day-by-day lineups or set times published?
Every act except Sponge has a day, but set times have not been published yet.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches, with reasons.
Who plays Thursday at Sonic Temple 2027?
Thursday, May 13: Blink-182, Turnstile, The Offspring, Knocked Loose, The All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, plus 30 more acts.
Who plays Friday at Sonic Temple 2027?
Friday, May 14: Iron Maiden, A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Seether, Sleeping With Sirens, Circa Survive, plus 31 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Sonic Temple 2027?
Saturday, May 15: Falling in Reverse, A Day To Remember, The Prodigy, Beartooth, Till Lindemann, Dayseeker, plus 31 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Sonic Temple 2027?
Sunday, May 16: Korn, $UICIDEBOY$, Faith No More, Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Primus, Poppy, plus 30 more acts.
When is Sonic Temple 2028?
Not announced yet. This page carries Sonic Temple 2027 and will carry the 2028 edition as soon as the festival announces it.
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