Soundwave have locked in three heavy-hitting bands to join their 2016 bill.

In a special Soundwave-exclusive performance,Killswitch Engage will perform the entirety of their seminal 2002 recordAlive Or Just Breathing,whileIll Niño will beperformingRevolution, Revolucionin its entirety. Also joining the bill is the supergroupTerror Universal,featuring current and former members of Machine Head, Soulfly and Ill Niño.

They join a lineup which already features the likes of Disturbed, NOFX, Deftones, The Prodigy, Public Enemy, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine, Refuse d, Metal Allegiance, Hatebreed, Frenzal Rhomb, Failure, Lordi, Devil You Know, Moose Blood, Soulfly, Northlane, Dead Letter Circus, L7, Frnkiero and the Cellabration and Nothing But Thieves, with many more to be announced.

After spanning two days in 2015, the festival will return to a one-day format next year. The Melbourne leg of the festival will fill the empty space left by Big Day Out, running on Australia Day.

Soundwave 2016comes to Sydney on Sunday January 24.

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