We Love to look forward...who do you want to see in the promo video for next year?

[No Username]

Discovered this band today. They tour the US, and could Def fill the "Power" part of the bill:

 

[PromisedLand]

Edguy, Blind Guardian, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, Killer Dwarfs. Any of those 5 would make me tinkle a little.

 

[Mardoch]

...Gloryhammer...

Or Andrew WK?

 

[MetalSpice]

-Been waiting to see Dark Moor for years.
-Triddana...they sound like Dio singing with bagpipes. Awesome.
-Nightwish w/ Floor (caught the Orlando show last year....words cannot describe)
-Not really Prog nor Power, but Swallow the Sun. Not sure how well that would go over.
- Diabulus in Musica
-Amberian Dawn

 

[PromisedLand]

Or Andrew WK?

Only if he performs with Gloryhammer.

 

[DigitalMan]

Same list I posted last time, I just keep removing the ones Glenn brings and adding new ones.

1) Arch/Matheos
2) Sieges Even
3) Ne Obliviscaris
4) Draconian
5) Royal Hunt w/ DC
6) Agalloch
7) Sirenia
8) Tristania
9) Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
10) Wobbler
11) Dark Tranquility
12) Unisonic
13) The Shadow Theory
14) Subsignal

 

[SF Metal Man]

Discovered this band today. They tour the US, and could Def fill the "Power" part of the bill:

The key part of your statement is that "they tour the US," so nobody will need to fly to Atlanta to see them. I'm sure you can catch them with playing with some other metalcore band in your area soon.

 

[PromisedLand]

I don't know that metalcore would ever make the bill, even as an oddball act.

 

[nightwish58]

ANUBIS GATE!!!

I plan on putting a sponsorship bid in for them. The Detached was great and the new one sounds even better!

 

[Formerly known as Chris F5]

hmmm

Devin Townsend doing some form of the Retinal Circus show
Sybreed
Saga
Marillion
Flotsam and Jetsom
Trail of Murder
Lalu

In addition to other returning favorites

 

[Mardoch]

ANUBIS GATE!!!

I plan on putting a sponsorship bid in for them. The Detached was great and the new one sounds even better!

I sure hope you get it. They're a great match for the fest and the last disc was crazy good.

 

[labrekk]

I'd love that the "traditional" or "old-school" metal in 2015 would be TROUBLE...
The new album is excellent and Kyle Thomas can do the old songs justice




Cloudscape
Nightmare
Civil War (or Astral Doors or Lions Share)
Threshold
Saffire
Sinister Realm
Trail Of Murder
Mustasch

 

[PromisedLand]

How about Holy Grail playing all of Crisis In Utopia?

 

[pack1fan4life]

Falconer
A Lost Horizon reunion
Dark Moor
Vanden Plas
Amorphis
Ancient Bards

 

[nailz]

Only if he performs with Gloryhammer.

I would literally explode.

 

[dcowboys311]

A Lost Horizon reunion

yep

 

[PromisedLand]

I would literally explode.

"I never knew unicorns existed like you.."

 

[dcowboys311]

I don't know that metalcore would ever make the bill, even as an oddball act.

Soilwork's pretty much a metalcore band these days...

 

[Mardoch]

Soilwork's pretty much a metalcore band these days...

I love that people say metalcore with a sneer.

 

[PromisedLand]

They're kind of metalcore-ish now, but not full-blown metalcore. Not enough angst.

I generally dont care for metalcore, but its mostly because of the local bands that all sound the same that get wedged onto the local shows to try to increase the crowd. Picture Symphony X with two local metalcore bands, and you can kind of see what used to happen a lot here in Dallas. It's a lot like people who deride power metal - there's so much of it that's cookie-cutter and by the numbers that some of the really good acts get lost in the mass, especially if you're looking in from outside of that particular scene.

There have been a few metalcore bands that I could get into, like Himsa and some of Sonic Syndicate's stuff, but I wouldn't personally miss the genre if it disappeared.