Any comments on the upcoming festivals next year??

I have already done a thread for Hammerfest, which looks like its gonna be great. Bloodstock looks good too, but what about the major festivals???
I am gonna be under serious pressure to take my kids and my daughters eldest 2 to download even though i said i wouldnt go again as they loves both SOAD and Avenged shittenfold!!! They also all like slipknot so maybe sonisphere could be on the cards again, however, the cost for 6 of us is way beyond what i could afford, and they class kids as 12+!!! pfft!!!!

Keep it True, Muskelrock and Roadburn if i can.

Which is quite a lot considering i don't have a job, hahah

Also Soad don't deserve the bad wrap they get, out of all of the "nu" metal bands they were easily the best.

Dian Wei wrote:Keep it True, Muskelrock and Roadburn if i can.

Which is quite a lot considering i don't have a job, hahah

Also Soad don't deserve the bad wrap they get, out of all of the "nu" metal bands they were easily the best.

yeah, i would actually like to see them as i never have, same with slipknot if they only played their good songs

Dian Wei wrote:Keep it True, Muskelrock and Roadburn if i can.

Roadburn's first lot of tickets sold out in 20 minutes! I'm hoping to get to this motherfucker as well but it seems a bit of a long shot. Hammerfest looks good but it's timing looked a bit difficult for me. So, besides Roadburn, I'm hoping to get to Hellfest, the Rebellion punk festival and possibly Obscene Extreme as well - if I can find anyone else to go with or if I decide to go by myself.

Mainstream festivals are too expensive. They're ridiculous. The only one I'd consider is Glastonbury and I would be going solely for the atmosphere, with perhaps a handful of bands there that I'd consider worth seeing. I have seen SOAD and Slipknot both at Reading Festivals. Slipknot were on surprsingly good form and I was a big System fan at the time of seeing them. Considering SOAD are recently reformed, you'd hope this would mean some newly injected energy...

I'm going to KiT, should be amazing!

I was just checking out the Roadburn line-up so far, and it didn't wow me too much until: Candlemass
(celebrating 25 years of doom, including “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” in its entirety; featuring original vocalist Johan Längquist)

I really want to see that! Hammer of Doom sounds at least as amazing though: http://truecultheavymetal.com/blog1.php ... d-solstice

I am also going to Keep It True, and I'd quite like to go to Hell's Pleasure too.

BUT - Immortal and Morbid Angel are playing Bloodstock next year, which might finally tempt me to go!

What about Pentagram playing Roadburn, James?

Yeah I know, they're playing Hammer of Doom as well though, and the rest of the Roadburn line-up isn't as good yet imo.

Because you're a purist, there are bands on that line up that literally make me wank my eyes off. I mean, Earth, Acid King, Blood Ceremony, Count Raven, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Yob and Yakuza. It's very rare that there's a festival where I actually want to watch the bands!

Chris, it's all about the last minute ticket grabs, last year it was a toss up between me going to Muskelrock (I saw Evil, haha. It's actually brilliant though, it's like being at Metalbrew but everyone is swedish and there were a billion women, which for once worked in my favour hahaha) and Roadburn, luckily for me i chose Muskelrock because the day I would have flew out the Volcano blew it's load.

But in all truth the last minute tickets were not even that much, maybe £20-30 over retail. Which considering how much i've paid on ebay for shit before was a breeze.

I am working Roadburn, and planning to go to Hellfest and Bloodstock.

No Maryland Death Fest for me this year unless my financial situation gets better, I am extremely dissapointed as I have been to America every year since it has started.

However it may give me a chance to go to that DIY Crust Fest in London that I miss every year I think its called Scum Fest

Chris I would be up for going to OE depending on the lineup.