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Sick New World is an annual heavy metal music festival held at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Winchester, Nevada. The first edition took place in 2023. The festival was co-created by David "Beno" Benveniste and Live Nation Entertainment, and is operated by Live Nation's subsidiary C3 Presents in partnership with Benveniste's Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group, and is described as the "sister festival" to the pop-punk oriented When We Were Young festival which is run by the same company and takes place at the same location.