The Sonisphere Festival is a touring music festival which takes place across Europe between June and August. The festival is owned and promoted by Kilimanjaro Live with financial backing from AEG. The first run of festivals ran throughout the summer of 2009 at six venues, returning in 2010 with 11 venues.
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Airbourne
- Alestorm
- All Time Low
- Anberlin
- Andrew Maxwell
- Andrew O'Neill
- Anterior
- Anthrax
- Arcane Roots
- Arch Enemy
- Architects
- Bad Religion
- Biffy Clyro
- Bill Bailey
- Black Breath
- Black Spiders
- Black Tide
- Blood Red Shoes
- Bob Slayer
- Brendon Burns
- Cancer Bats
- Cerebral Ballzy
- Cherri Bomb
- Decade
- Demonic Resurrection
- Diamond Head
- Don Broco
- Exit Ten
- Firewind
- Flats
- Fletcher
- Four Year Strong
- Fozzy
- Gallows
- Glamour Of The Kill
- Gojira
- Grinspoon
- Hammer Of The Gods
- Hayseed Dixie
- Hounds
- House of Pain
- Howard Marks
- In Flames
- InMe
- Innerpartysystem
- Jarred Christmas
- Jason John Whitehead
- Jason Rouse
- Jettblack
- Jim Breuer
- Jim Smallman
- Kids in Glass Houses
- Killing Joke
- Kylesa
- Limp Bizkit
- Mastodon
- Me Vs Hero
- Megadeth
- Metallica
- Motorhead
- Nick Helm
- One Minute Silence
- Opeth
- Orange Goblin
- Panic Cell
- Paradise Lost
- Parkway Drive
- Periphery
- Protest the Hero
- Pulled Apart by Horses
- Revoker
- Richard Cheese
- Rise To Remain
- Rival Sons
- Rolo Tomassi
- Saint Jude
- Sean Hughes
- Six Hour Sundown
- Slam Cartel
- Slayer
- Slipknot
- Sonic Boom Six
- Sons of Icarus
- Steve-O
- Sum 41
- Sylosis
- Tek-One
- TesseracT
- The Answer
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Cavalera Conspiracy
- The Crave
- The Defiled
- The Mars Volta
- The Safety Fire
- The Sisters of Mercy
- The Treatement
- Tiffany Stevenson
- Title Fight
- Turbowolf
- Virginmarys
- Volbeat
- Watain
- Weezer
- While She Sleeps
- You Me At Six
- Young Legionnaire
- mojoFURY
Festival News and Rumors

Dethklok and Run the Jewels Top the Bill for 2022 Adult Swim Festival Block Party
The three-day fest will be staged across multiple venues August 5th-7th in Philadelphia.
Spencer Kaufman May 18, 2022

Music Midtown 2022: Jack White, MCR, Fall Out Boy, and More to Play Atlanta Fest
Alex Young May 17, 2022

Chemical Brothers, M.I.A., Flume, Jamie xx to Play Inaugural Portola Music Festival in San Francisco
Alex Young May 16, 2022

Reunited Sunny Day Real Estate Added to Furnace Fest Lineup
The emo pioneers are making their first live appearances since 2010.
Jon Hadusek May 12, 2022

Riot Fest 2022 Lineup: MCR, Misfits, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Sunny Day Real Estate & More
Carys Anderson May 11, 2022