Personally I think the fests are cool cause I like seeing all the different types of people from different states and cities come together, the Murder Fest I say was a good show for us, but it was just a "show" not playing in front of 2000 people, Milwuakee Metalfest seems to be the best fest in the U.S.A I wouldnt want our band to fly or do a one off for one of these fests though.
It is not worth our time or money, unless we were getting paid enough to profit personaly and band wise from. I suggest the same shit to other bands, shouldnt have to pay to play or get paid in food for these things.
Fests are nothing but tour stops for us, and most of the scheduals are far behind, and the drums they provide for the fest are absolute crap, best to use your own, no exceptions. Alot of bands dont know how to take their equiptment off stage fast enough for these things which make things run far behind. aight theres my rant.