Psycho Las Vegas has revealed its full 2020 lineup, and the festival’s second Mandalay Bay edition will again fuse heavy metal, indie rock and more experimental sounds.
Topping the bill are three metal giants: New Jersey’s Danzig, scheduled to perform 1990 album Danzig II: Lucifuge in its entirety; Denmark’s Mercyful Fate; and Norway’s Emperor—the latter two making their only U.S. appearances of the year.
The festival’s fifth Vegas edition will take place August 14-16 at venues across Mandalay Bay including the Events Center, House of Blues and Mandalay Bay Beach, with the annual Psycho Swim party kicking things off one night earlier at Daylight Beach Club.
Danzig also headlined Psycho Las Vegas in 2018, playing 1992 album Danzig III: How the Gods Kill (and frontman Glenn Danzig returned to headline the fest as a member of The Original Misfits last year), and Mercyful Fate vocalist King Diamond headlined Psycho Las Vegas in 2017.
Among others added to the bill are alternative rock veterans The Flaming Lips; metal supergroup Down, fronted by ex-Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo; garage-rock outfit Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Scandinavian metal bands Satyricon and Katatonia; and recently reunited Las Vegas mathcore favorites Curl Up and Die.
They join a list of previously revealed artists including Blue Öyster Cult, Ty Segall, Warpaint, Blonde Redhead, Watain, Ulver, At the Gates, Poison the Well, Thursday, Pinback, Boris, Windhand, Cursive and Brutus.
Passes for Psycho Las Vegas are on sale now for $199 plus fees and taxes at vivapsycho.com and axs.com, along with tickets to Psycho Swim ($55 plus fees and taxes).
Psycho Las Vegas’ full 2020 lineup:
Danzig
Mercyful Fate
Emperor
The Flaming Lips
Blue Öyster Cult
Down
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Ty Segall
Mayhem
Satyricon
Obituary
Warpaint
Blonde Redhead
Health
Watain
Ulver
Katatonia
At the Gates
Poison the Well
T.S.O.L.
Crowbar
Exhorder
Wolves in the Throne Room
Thursday
Pinback
Zola Jesus
Drab Majesty
Boris
Eyehategod
Repulsion
Immolation
Midnight
Mgla
Windhand
Cursive
Paul Cauthen
Amigo the Devil
King Dude
Pig Destroyer
Brutus
Profanatica
Lower Dens
Cult of Fire
Intronaut
Boysetsfire
Death by Stereo
Curl Up and Die
Adamantium
This Will Destroy You
Khemmis
Mothership
Guantanamo Baywatch
Dengue Fever
Kaelan Mikla
Black Joe Lewis
Fatso Jetson
Wino
Creeping Death
Mephistofeles
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Toke
Foie Gras
Flavor Crystals
Silvertomb
Lord Buffalo
Warish
Alms
Bömbers
Glacial Tomb
Relaxer
Black Sabbitch
Hippie Death Cult
Vaelmyst
Mother Mercury
Two Minutes to Late Night
Psycho Swim:
Old Man Gloom
Elder
Polyrythmics
Death Valley Girls
The Skull
Blackwater Holylight
Here Lies Man
DJ Scott Seltzer
