This year’s Psycho Las Vegas festival looks to be bigger and badder than ever. Set for August 14th-16th at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino (which hosted the event in 2019), the fest will span four stages in its fifth year, including the Mandalay Bay Events Center, the House of Blues, Mandalay Bay Beach and Rhythm & Riffs Lounge. As for the lineup, Psycho Las Vegas 2020 will features more than 70 acts, including some insane once-in-a-lifetime highlights and momentous exclusives.
Standout performances will include:
- Danzig celebrating the 30th anniversary of Danzig II: Lucifuge with the only performance of the album in entirety in the U.S. this year
- Mercyful Fate’s exclusive 2020 reunion performance in the U.S., which will also mark the band’s first performance in over two decades
- At the Gates performing their groundbreaking album Slaughter of the Soul in its entirely, celebrating 25 years of the classic LP
- Down celebrating the 25th anniversary of the sludge supergroup’s debut album, NOLA
- Reunion performances by Adamantium and Poison the Well, the latter of whom will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Opposite of December
- Special one-off appearances by Emperor, Watain and Satyricon
- The U.S. debut performances by Cult of Fire and Mephistofeles
The full Psycho Las Vegas 2020 lineup includes:
Danzig
Mercyful Fate
Emperor
The Flaming Lips
Blue Öyster Cult
Down
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Ty Segall
Warpaint
Mayhem
Satyricon
Watain
Blonde Redhead
Health
Obituary
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
King Dude
Paul Cauthen
Amigo the Devil
Eyehategod
Pig Destroyer
Repulsion
Immolation
Midnight
Mgla
Windhand
Cursive
Brutus
Profanatica
Lower Dens
Black Joe Lewis
Intronaut
Boysetsfire
Death by Stereo
Curl Up and Die
Adamantium
This Will Destroy You
Khemmis
Mothership
Guantanamo Baywatch
Dengue Fever
Kaelan Mikla
Blackwater Holylight
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
Dj Scott Seltzer
Two Minutes to Late Night
Old Man Gloom, Elder, Polyrhymics, Death Valley Girls, the Skull, Blackwater Holylight, Here Lies Man and DJ Scott Seltzer will play the Psycho Swim pre-party, set for the Daylight Beach Club at Mandalay Bay on August 13th.
Tickets for Psycho Las Vegas — as well as the Psycho Swim pre-party, which requires a separate ticket from the main festival pass — are on sale now via VivaPsycho.com.
