After cancelling their 2020 edition because of COVID, Psycho Las Vegas are planning to return in 2021, with almost the same lineup as 2020 — 80 of the 83 bands booked are currently onboard for the coming year, including Danzig, Mercyful Fate, Emperor, The Flaming Lips, Blue Oyster Cult, Down, Mayhem, Satyricon, Obituary, Warpaint, Blonde Redhead, HEALTH, Watain, Ulver, Katatonia, At the Gates, Poison the Well, Thursday, Zola Jesus, Pinback, Boris, Eyehategod, Windhand, Cursive, TSOL, King Dude, Pig Destroyer, and more. The festival is scheduled for August 20-22 at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, and they’ve put single day tickets on sale, and begun rolling out the lineup by day.
So far we’ve seen the lineups for Friday, headlined by Emperor and also featuring Blue Oyster Cult, Mayhem, GZA (performing Liquid Swords), Satyricon, Watain, Obituary, HEALTH, Cephalic Carnage, Exhorder (performing Slaughter in the Vatican), King Dude, Pinback, This Will Destroy You, Khemmis, MGLA, Two Minutes to Late Night; and Saturday, headlined by Danzig (performing Danzig II: Lucifuge), and also featuring The Flaming Lips, Ulver, Warpaint, At the Gates (performing Slaughter of the Soul), Poison the Well, Pig Destroyer, Eyehategod, Thursday, Cursive, Death by Stereo, Profanatica, Boysetsfire, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, and more. Sunday’s lineup will headlined by Mercyful Fate and also featuring Katatonia, Wolves in the Throne Room, Blonde Redhead, Crippled Black Phoenix, Boris, Drab Majesty, Repulsion, TSOL, Immolation, Midnight, Zola Jesus, Windhand, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Intronaut, Lower Dens, Guantanamo Baywatch, and more.