Louder Than Life is ready to rock Louisville in September. Here's a list of who is coming

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Mötley Crüe, Korn, Slipknot and Slayer will headline the 2024 Louder Than Life rock music festival in Louisville.

After bringing a record 180,000 people for a long weekend of rock music in September 2023, the lineup for Louder Than Life's 10th edition was released Wednesday with a star-studded cast of live music over four nights.

On top of the four headliners, Breaking Benjamin, Anthrax, Staind, Evanescence, Disturbed, Judas Priest and Dropkick Murphys join a lengthy list of acts that includes Louisville's Tantric.

Louder Than Life is set to take over the Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center from Sept. 26-29. Last year, the rock music festival brought people to Louisville from all 50 states and 22 countries to see Green Day, Foo Fighters, Tool, Pantera, Avenged Sevenfold and Weezer.

Athena Prychodko, who works at Better Days Records on Barret Avenue in Louisville, knows her rock festivals and said this is a festival she doesn't miss.

"You don't have to wear all the buttons and the T-shirts to be a metal head," she said Wednesday.

The lineup announced Wednesday is one Prychodko had been waiting months to see.

"That is fantastic," she said, seeing the lineup for the first time.

Louder Than Life happens the weekend after the annual Bourbon & Beyond music festival, which runs from Sept. 19-22. This year's lineup for Bourbon & Beyond was released nearly a month ago, and includes headliners like Zach Bryan, Dave Matthews Band, Tyler Childers, Neil Young, Beck, The National, My Morning Jacket and The War on Drugs.

Other bands and artists include Whiskey Myers, Cody Jinks, Tedeschi, Trucks Band, Black Pumas, The Beach Boys, Mt. Joy, Fleet Foxes, Young the Giant, Maren Morris, The Head and the Heart, Teddy Swims and Melissa Etheridge.

Bourbon & Beyond previously announced it would add two more stages and about 40 more bands to this year's festival, as well as an expanded culinary and bourbon experience from Chris Santos, Ed Lee, Chris Blandford and Amanda Freitag.

Both festivals bring thousands of people to Louisville each year and provide a big economic boost for the city and surrounding area. Together, Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life bring in about $30 million to the local economy.

"It's a huge influx of monetary value, obviously, for the city because, people come from everywhere for this," Prychodko said. "It's very much a sense of pride, actually, to have it here in our backyard."

Passes for this year's Louder Than Life festival are already on sale. Four-day general admission passes start at $1,079.96. Single-day general admission tickets start at $199.99.

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