Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival unveils full lineup, adding Limp Bizkit and Slipknot as headliners

MANSFIELD, Ohio – The Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival, taking place July 14-16, 2023 at the old Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, has announced that Limp Bizkit and Slipknot will headline the revamped Pantera this year.

Pantera was announced earlier this year as the headliner for Saturday July 15th. Inkcarceration unveiled a full line-up yesterday, with Limp Bizkit headlining Friday 14th July and Slipknot on Sunday 16th July. Dozens of other acts are planned for the three-day festival, including Megadeth, Lamb of God and Slipknot. Any metalheads looking for fresh meat can check out bands like Vended, featuring two sons of Sunday headliners “Clown” and Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Fight From Within.

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The event will be moderated by SiriusXM’s Jose “Metal Ambassador” Mangin. There will also be a tattoo convention featuring more than 65 artists and free tours of the Reformatory, which served as a prison in the Oscar-winning film The Shawshank Redemption. Also, the popular haunted house attraction, Blood Prison, returns to terrify festival-goers.

Day and weekend passes plus camping are now available on the Inkarceration website. Festival passes sold out quickly in both 2021 and 2022, with an estimated 75,000 fans attending each year.

The current line-up for all three days of the festival is as follows:

Friday, July 14: Limp Bizkit, Volbeat, Highly Suspect, Coal Chamber, Hatebreed, POD, Slaughter To Prevail, We Came As Romans, Fit For A King, Chelsea Grin, Kublai Khan TX, Vended, Mothica, A Killer’s Confession, Thousand Below, Fox Lake, Violent New Breed, Dark Signal, Lonewolf, Sid Stratton, Southbound Beretta, Bittersweet Revenge

Saturday, July 15: Pantera, Lamb of God, In This Moment, Motionless in White, Undersworn, The Ghost Within, Suicidal Silence, Memphis May Fire, Mushroomhead, Fire of the Gods, The Violent, Varials, Woe to Me, Like Moths to the Flames, Unhealed, Heartsick, Asava , Set For Tomorrow, Fight From Within, Half-Heard Voices, Harmless Habit, Ghostatic

Sunday, July 16: Slipknot, Megadeth, Bush, Flyleaf w/ Lacey Sturm, Asking Alexandria, Wage War, GWAR, Crown The Empire, 10 Years, Fame On Fire, Dayseeker, Gideon, Eva Under Fire, Slay Squad, Last Of Our Kind, Clifford, Nerv, Scarlett O’Hara, More Than Never, Traverse The Abyss, Frayle, God of Nothing, Darkhorse Saloon