After months of sleepless nights and nail-biting, hard rock, heavy metal, and punk fans across Australia can finally rejoice. The Soundwave 2016 lineup has finally arrived and it’s truly glorious.

Organisers have been drip-feeding acts to fans for a few months now, unveiling big names, up-and-comers, local heroes, and underground legends like Bring Me The Horizon, Lordi, Northlane, Failure, and Moose Blood.

There was also much written about the elusive headliner, with Maddah promising that they would be so massively brilliant they would quickly sell out the festival dates and later claiming that they had never played the festival before.

Having experimented with a two-day format for their last instalment, Soundwave Festival 2016 will see Australia’s premier hard rock and heavy metal event return to the single-day format, hitting up venues in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Tickets for Soundwave 2016 are available now via the official Soundwave website. Check below for all dates and ticketing details, as well as the full lineup. Make sure you stay tuned to Tone Deaf for more Soundwave 2016 news.

Disturbed
Bring Me The Horizon
The Prodigy
Deftones
NOFX
Bullet For My Valentine
Public Enemy
Refused
Metal Allegiance
Hatebreed
Soulfly
Northlane
Dead Letter Circus
L7
frnkiero andthe cellabration
Nothing But Thieves
Frenzal Rhomb
Failure
Lordi
Devil You Know
Moose Blood

+ more to be announced

Soundwave 2016

Saturday, 23rd January 2016
Brisbane

Sunday, 24th January 2016
Sydney

Tuesday, 26th January 2016
Melbourne

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