The event returns to Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio in July 2025
Following another record-setting year with 75,000 fans attending three days of music, tattoos and haunted attractions, Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival returns to the historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio for its seventh year July 18-20, 2025.
The artist lineup and passes will be announced at a later date. Festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents are planning for another record-setting year, with the biggest Inkcarceration yet.
Inkcarceration 2024 featured high-octane sets from headliners Shinedown, Godsmack, and Breaking Benjamin, with performances by The Offspring, Bad Omens, Halestorm, Parkway Drive, and others. Memorable moments from 2024 included Chimaira’s first US festival appearance in 14 years, Halestorm and I Prevail exclusively collaborating during each others’ sets, Benjamin Burnley’s son singing and playing guitar during Breaking Benjamin’s set, as well as one of only two reunion shows for All Shall Perish.
Thousands of fans experienced the Blood Prison Tour haunted attraction inside Ohio State Reformatory, hosted by the terrifying “Warden’s Widow” – featured in the Inkcarceration 2025 date announcement video. The onsite Inkcarceration tattoo festival also included more than 100 tattoo artists tattooing festivalgoers throughout the weekend.
The 2024 event brought in more than $10 million in economic impact to the area, and Inkcarceration’s overall economic impact totals more than $50 million since the festival began in 2018.
