Tool, Machine Head, Knocked Loose, and More Announced for Good Things Festival 2025
When it comes to music festivals, organizers usually tend to try to stick to an overarching theme or genre. Think metal festivals and Hellfest, Wacken, Tolminator… You know — the regulars. Then there’s wild, multi-genre festival soups like the one planned for three days in Australia this December, as the Good Things Festival 2025 just announced their lineup.
But who would play a three-day traveling festival in Australia on December 5-7? How about headliner Tool, Machine Head, Knocked Loose, Lorna Shore, Refused, Kublai Khan TX… Oh and Weezer, Garbage, New Found Glory, Goldfinger. You know, common festival cohorts.
So yeah, this festival is a mish-mash of genres and that should be exciting for us metalheads. It’s a chance to bring the metal music to more normies, which only means one thing — a potential to expand the tent of heavy metal. We’re just hoping the insane antics of GWAR don’t turn those people off.
The full list of bands announced so far for Good Things Festival 2025 is as follows:
- All Time Low
- Bad Nerves
- Civic
- Cobra Starship
- Dayseeker
- Dead Poet Society
- Fever 333
- Garbage
- Goldfinger
- GWAR
- High Vis
- Inertia
- James Reyne
- Knocked Loose
- Kublai Khan TX
- Lorna Shore
- Machine Head
- Make Them Suffer
- New Found Glory
- Palaye Royale
- Refused (final Australian shows)
- Scene Queen
- South Arcade
- The All-American Rejects
- Tonight Alive
- Tool
- Wargasm
- Weezer
- Windwaker
- Yours Truly
Good Things Festival 2025 will be taking place at the following locations and dates:
- 12/6 Melbourne, AUS Flemington Racecourse
- 12/6 Sydney, AUS Sydney Showground
- 12/7 Brisbane, AUS Brisbane Showgrounds
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday, August 21 at 10 a.m. AEST, with presales kicking off on Tuesday, August 19 at 10 a.m. AEST right here. You can find out more about the presale over at the festival’s social media accounts.
