Soundwave is an annual music festival held in major cities around Australia. The festival originated in Perth, Western Australia and began traveling to the other Australian capital cities in 2007. It features a number of international and Australian music acts, from various genres including rock, metal and punk acts.
02/22 – Brisbane
02/23 – Sydney
02/28 – Melbourne
03/01 – Adelaide
03/03 – Perth
Headliners
Festival lineup
- AFI
- Alice in Chains
- Alkaline Trio
- Alterbridge
- Amon Amarth
- Asking Alexandra
- August Burns Red
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Baroness
- Biffy Clyro
- Black Dahlia Murder
- Bowling For Soup
- Clutch
- DevilDriver
- Down
- Finch
- Five Finger Death Punch
- GWAR
- Green Day
- Heaven's Basement
- Korn
- Living Colour
- Megadeath
- Motionless In White
- Mushroomhead
- Newsted
- Placebo
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Rob Zombie
- Rob Zombie
- Rocket From the Crypt
- Skindred
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Terror
- Testament
- Trash Talk
- Trivium
- Volbeat
- Whitechapel
- Your Demise
Festival News and Rumors

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Carys Anderson June 29, 2022

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Spoon's Britt Daniel, Claud, and Joy Oladokun also made appearances during the 15-song covers set.
Glenn Rowley June 19, 2022