DOWN, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, EXODUS and Extra Showed For 2025 MILWAUKEE METAL FEST
Because of the overpowering good fortune of the 2023 version, Milwaukee Steel Fest is ready to make a thunderous go back in 2025! This iconic Midwestern steel match will as soon as once more take over The Rave/Eagles Ballroom from Would possibly 16-18, 2025, with a thrilling pre-party kicking issues off on Would possibly 15. Enthusiasts can already snatch their early fowl tickets now!
The competition lineup is shaping as much as be a headbanger’s dream. Down, The Dillinger Get away Plan (acting their mythical album Calculating Infinity in complete), Exodus, 3 Inches Of Blood, and plenty of extra are already showed, with quite a lot of further acts but to be introduced.
The primary wave of bands introduced for Milwaukee Steel Fest 2025:
DOWN
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
EXODUS
DESTRUCTION
3 INCHES OF BLOOD
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
TROUBLE
THE ACACIA STRAIN
HARMS WAY
FUGITIVE
SPEED
EXHORDER
FULL OF HELL
END
NEKROGOBLIKON
DECEASED
LEGIONS OF DOOM
Competition co-organizer and Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta says: “Milwaukee Steel Fest is again for yr #3 and we’re having a look ahead to a good larger and higher match in 2025!


“Down hardly ever play the Midwest, so their set goes to be one thing particular. Exodus are celebrating their fortieth anniversary and have been our #1 maximum asked band for the competition. We will’t reside with out Bay Space Thrash. The Dillinger Get away Plan haven’t performed Milwaukee in nearly 15 years, let by myself doing ‘Calculating Infinity’, plus 3 Inches Of Blood are again however best doing make a selection appearances, so the truth they selected to return play MMF is implausible and we will be able to’t wait to have our pals from the nice white north.
“Throw in new hxc steel phenomenons like Velocity and Fugitive, who constitute the most productive of the brand new breed of heavy bands, plus MMF alumni like Bother, Exhorder and Deceased, and we’re assured to have a rager!”
Milwaukee Steel Fest made its triumphant comeback in 2023 beneath the management of Jasta and Sound Ability Staff‘s Tim Borror, together with the group at The Rave/Eagles Membership—an iconic venue that has hosted lots of the competition’s mythical moments. 2025 guarantees to be even larger and louder!

