Gadzooks! It’s like Coachella, but interesting. It’s like Lollapalooza, but instead of pretending to have a soul, it already knows it, you and I are all doomed anyway so we might as well throw down when we can. It is, in other words, Psycho Las Vegas, the far and away premier American festival for the varied forms of heavy and beyond.

They’ve been trickling out bands one at a time with blurbs that a couple years ago I might’ve been cool enough to write, and it was assumed that sooner or later the full thing would be unveiled. Here we are.

To call the lineup insane is to understand precisely what Psycho Las Vegas is all about.

It’s hot in the desert. Bring shorts.

From the PR wire:

PSYCHO LAS VEGAS 2022 // Full Lineup Announcement

PSYCHO LAS VEGAS ANNOUNCES FULL ARTIST LINEUP FOR 2022 EDITION OF AMERICA’S ROCK N’ ROLL BACCHANAL

Festival To Be Hosted at Resorts World Las Vegas – The Strip’s Newest Casino-Resort and the Historic Site of the Iconic Stardust Hotel

Brave new world, brave new Psycho Las Vegas. With a whole new set of rules to live by, we provide fertile ground for your evolution. Landing at Resorts World Las Vegas August 19th-21st, Psycho expands its vision and crosses unforeseen boundaries in the Strip’s latest 88-acre futuristic pleasure palace. For three days and nights, the desert transforms into an alternative reality where rock and roll outlaws and journeyman trippers lead our casino-wide takeover to brilliant and euphoric psychosis. With six stages, no curfews, hedonistic leisure and cuisine, tournament-level gambling, and bands from undergrounds around the world performing between beach club bacchanals and pinnacle Las Vegas grandiosity, Resorts World is an adult amusement park for the senses. Suspend your ability to overload and override every instinct to hold back.

Forty food and beverage options from internationally acclaimed chefs offer decadence around every turn, spas make for relaxing getaways inside your getaway. Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments pitting fans and artists crown new winners all day. Psycho dance parties transform the casino floor into a late-night bat cave. The proximity of the strip makes cheap booze and food only a stoned throw away.

An other-worldly lineup is led by performances by Emperor, Suicidal Tendencies and Mercyful Fate. Whether you like it heavy, thrashed, blackened, doomed, or dead, every flavor of metal descends upon Psycho weekend with Satyricon, Paradise Lost, Vio-lence, Tribulation, MGLA, Wolves in the Throne Room, and more planning to pulverize your eardrums. Hip-hop’s finest are in the house with GZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Mind expansion via alternative sounds by Warpaint, Beats Antique, The Black Angels and She Past Away make Psycho Las Vegas 2022’s lineup more eclectic than any other festival around the world.

Buy the ticket and take the ride. Go all-in for one weekend with no reservations. All bets are off August 19-21st. Let the chips fall where they may.

The complete artist lineup for Psycho Las Vegas 2022:

Mercyful Fate
Emperor
Suicidal Tendencies
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Mayhem
Warpaint
Carcass
Raekwon & Ghostface Killah
The Black Angels
Gza & Inspectah Deck
Carpenter Brut
At the Gates
Allah-Las
Satyricon
Show Me The Body
High on Fire
The Gaslamp Killer
Monster Magnet
She Past Away
Beats Antique
Paradise Lost
Boris
Vio-lence
Nitzer Ebb
Liars
Katatonia
Wolves In The Throne Room
Nothing
Samael
Ulver
Amenra
Tribulation
Twin Tribes
William Basinski
Crobot
Elder
The Juliana Theory
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Sugar Candy Mountain
Anika
King Woman
Monolord
The Night Beats
Holy Wave
MGLA
Marissa Nadler
Cirith Ungol
Primitive Man
The KVB
The Dwarves
Soft Kill
Health DJ Set
Dance with the Dead
Blackwater Holylight
The Accüsed A.D.
Gatecreeper
Liturgy
Intronaut
Whores
Blood Incantation
Death Valley Girls
WAND
Golden Dawn Arkestra
The Body
Drain
Gost
Geneva Jacuzzi
Mizmor
Devil Master
Wiegedood
Mareux
New Candys
Akhlys
Creeping Death
Danava
The Goddamn Gallows
Bömbers
N8NOFACE
Warthog
Portrayal of Guilt
Sanguisugabogg
Mothership
200 Stab Wounds
Black Box Revelation
Undeath
Mondo Drag
Ruby the Hatchet
Duel
ASG
Year of No Light
Indian
Witch Mountain
Frozen Soul
Yakuza
Succumb
Elizabeth Colour Wheel
Sasquatch
Psychlona
Lord Buffalo
Mint Field
Spaceface
Moonily
Belzebong
Church of the Cosmic Skull
Early Moods
Spiritworld
Hippie Death Cult
Stinking Lizaveta
Rifflord
Dreadnought
Forever Grey
L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation
Leather Lung
Kids N Love DJ Set
Great Electric Quest
Crematory Stench
Lovelorn
Cancer Christ
Greenbeard
Kadabra
Kings Destroy
Old Fashion Assassin
Human
Weight of the Sun
Worship

Chessboxing with Gza – Blitz Chess Battles with Fans and Friends
Last Podcast on the Left – Performing Live
The High Way with Kyle Shutt – Live Podcast

Links:

Tickets, FAQs, and more: VIVAPSYCHO.COM

Psycho Presents exclusive shows in Los Angeles and San Diego: https://vivapsycho.com/tickets/

PSYCHO SWIM 2022 Promo Video: https://youtu.be/FAVDb3YgXJE

Psycho Waxx: https://psychowaxx.com

Psycho Las Vegas 2022 promo video

Tags: Psycho Las Vegas, Psycho Las Vegas 2022

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