Louder Than Life is returning to Louisville, September 17 through 20, 2026, and we've got your chance to win passes.

That’s right. We are Lookin' For Loudmouths! We have a pair of 4-Day General Admission passes to America’s largest rock and metal festival, and you and a friend could be going all four days.

What Is Lookin' For Loudmouths

If you live loud, love loud, and crank it up past responsible levels, you, too, might be a Loudmouth.

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Our Lookin' For Loudmouths contest gives you the chance to win a pair of 4-Day GA passes so you and your loudest Plus One can attend Louder Than Life at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Returning for 2026: all pass holders also get access to Kentucky Kingdom, too!

Louder Than Life Lineup Is Stacked

Four days. Nearly 200 bands. Seven stages. One massive weekend of rock.

  • My Chemical Romance
  • Iron Maiden
  • TOOL
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Pantera
  • Pierce The Veil
  • Gojira
  • Danny Elfman
  • The Prodigy
  • Sublime
  • Papa Roach
  • A Day To Remember
  • BABYMETAL
  • Megadeth
  • Danzig
  • Halestorm
  • Rise Against
  • Alice Cooper
  • Circa Survive
  • Ice Nine Kills
  • Jimmy Eat World
  • The Mars Volta
  • Mastodon
  • The Used
  • Bilmuri
  • Sabaton
  • Coheed and Cambria
  • The Pretty Reckless
  • Hot Mulligan
  • Taking Back Sunday
  • Sleeping With Sirens
  • In This Moment
  • Dance Gavin Dance
  • Chiodos
  • Black Label Society
  • Killswitch Engage
  • Anthrax
  • Ministry
  • CAVALERA
  • Skillet
  • The Warning
  • Nothing More
  • Tom Morello
  • Lindsey Stirling
  • Dethklok
  • Black Veil Brides
  • Kublai Khan TX
  • Underoath
  • Alkaline Trio
  • Machine Head
  • Suicidal Tendencies
  • Chad Gray
  • Starset
  • Badflower
  • Alexisonfire
  • Animals As Leaders
  • Thrice
  • LOATHE
  • Coal Chamber
  • P.O.D.
  • The Home Team
  • Bowling For Soup
  • Thursday
  • We The Kings
  • From Ashes To New
  • Fit For A King
  • Sleep Theory
  • President
  • GWAR
  • Palaye Royale
  • L.S. Dunes
  • Atreyu
  • Lit
  • Get Scared
  • Set It Off
  • Blood For Blood
  • Sunami
  • Filter
  • Alissa White-Gluz
  • Soulfly
  • Between The Buried And Me
  • ERRA
  • Chelsea Grin
  • After The Burial
  • Lacey Sturm: The Voice of FLYLEAF
  • Toadies
  • Currents
  • Orianthi
  • Boundaries
  • Make Them Suffer
  • Metal Church
  • The Acacia Strain
  • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
  • Holding Absence
  • HAYWIRE
  • Spite
  • Agnostic Front
  • Escape The Fate
  • Jutes
  • Emmure
  • ivri
  • Alien Ant Farm
  • Bodysnatcher
  • Scene Queen
  • Caskets
  • Rain City Drive
  • The Funeral Portrait
  • PeelingFlesh
  • Haste The Day
  • Holywatr
  • Locked Shut
  • Hail The Sun
  • Madball
  • I See Stars
  • Mushroomhead
  • Angel Du$t
  • Scary Kids Scaring Kids
  • The Word Alive
  • Jeff Hardy
  • Mac Sabbath
  • The Ataris
  • The Rasmus
  • Volumes
  • Wind Walkers
  • Twitching Tongues
  • Powerman 5000
  • The Barbarians of California
  • Emery
  • Maylene & The Sons of Disaster
  • Born of Osiris
  • H2O
  • Red
  • Josey Scott: The Original Voice of SALIVA
  • Adelitas Way
  • Thousand Below
  • Soil
  • Arrows in Action
  • Chained Saint
  • Zero 9:36
  • Elijah
  • Holy Wars
  • Butcher Babies
  • Nevertel
  • Dry Kill Logic
  • Icon For Hire
  • Kami Kehoe
  • Codefendants
  • Texas Hippie Coalition
  • Austin Carlile: The Original Voice of Of Mice & Men
  • The Pretty Wild
  • End It
  • Vana
  • Rivers of Nihil
  • Like Moths To Flames
  • Signs of the Swarm
  • Archers
  • KOYO
  • Primer 55
  • Emarosa
  • Gemini Syndrome
  • Shaman's Harvest
  • 200 Stab Wounds
  • 156/Silence
  • Missing Link
  • Fox Lake
  • sace6
  • Greyhaven
  • King 810
  • Many Eyes
  • Tantric
  • The Violent Hour
  • Dark Divine
  • Sent By Ravens
  • Showing Teeth
  • Earshot
  • TX2
  • Diamante
  • OTHERWISE
  • Doobie
  • He Is Legend
  • Aviana
  • vianova
  • Future Palace
  • Cane Hill
  • Corpse Pile
  • 40 Below Summer
  • Heavy//Hitter
  • Bodybox
  • Boltcutter
  • Resolve
  • Dreamwake
  • Gates To Hell
  • Death Valley Dreams
  • Set For Tomorrow
  • Billy McNicol
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Why You Do Not Want To Miss Louder Than Life

Louder Than Life has become one of the biggest rock festivals in the country, drawing fans from across the United States to Louisville every September.

With multiple stages, national headliners, food, bourbon, and Kentucky Kingdom amusement rides included with admission, it's more than just a festival. It's a rock experience, and passes are on sale now!

How To Enter

Entering is easy.

Scroll down and complete the activities below to earn sweepstakes entries beginning Friday, February 27, 2026, through midnight on Sunday, March 8, 2026

Like, follow, and share using the prompts below. The more you interact, the more entries you earn.

That’s it.

No screaming required. Though it is encouraged.

*The value of this prize is $860. Each winner will be expected to submit a W-9 form prior to receiving their prize.*

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