metal fans...

[beo]

ok, so i'm going to sonisphere festival tomorrow night, and while there's a few bands i know and am really looking forward to, there's many others on the line up i know next to nothing about. who should i endeavour to see? ignore the wonky formatting, i copied off wikipedia...

Apollo Stage
Saturday   Sunday
Rammstein
Placebo
Good Charlotte
Papa Roach
Anthrax
Lacuna Coil
Family Force Five
Iron Maiden
Pendulum
Alice in Chains
Slayer
Skindred
Karnivool
Madina Lake
Saturn Stage
Friday   Saturday   Sunday
Alice Cooper
Gary Numan
Europe
Turisas
Delain
Mötley Crüe
Skunk Anansie
Apocalyptica
Fear Factory
Soulfly
Sabaton
Iggy and the Stooges
The Cult
Bring Me the Horizon
Dir en Grey
The Fab Beatles
CKY
Bohemia
BIZARRE Friday   Saturday   Sunday
Terrorvision
65daysofstatic
Fastway
Sylosis
bigelf
Black Spiders
Gallows
Corey Taylor
Therapy?
Renegades
Sick of it All
Evile
Katatonia
Polar Bear Club
Heaven's Basement
Futures
Enforcer
Funeral for a Friend
Rollins Spoken Word
Converge
Fightstar
The Union
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Rise to Remain
Voodoo Six
The Defiled
The following acts appear across the whole weekend.
Bohemian Hilarity
Saturday   Sunday
Tim Minchin
Jarred Christmas MC
Andrew O'Neill
Jim Jefferies
Brian Posehn
Sean Hughes
Glenn Wool
Bowtime Bar
And so I Watch You From Afar
All Forgotten
The Bendal Interlude
Bow and Arrow
Bury Tomorrow
Cars on Fire
Chickenhawk
Deaf Havana
Failsafe
Firebug
The Ghost of a Thousand
INME
Inner City Dwellers
Kellermensch
Me Vs. Hero
Outcry Collective
Philip Sayce
Rinoa
Tek One
While She Sleeps
The Worldonfire
The Xcerts
Jagermeister Stage
Earthtone9
Allies
Audrey Horne
Boys With X-Ray Eyes
The Casino Brawl
G.U. Medicine
March of the Raptors
RSJ
Sacred Mother Tongue
Slam Cartel
Throats
The Tom Hollister Trio
Turbowolf
Slaves to Gravity
The Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
After The Ordeal
Army of Freshmen
Don Broco
Blitz Kids
Endless Dark
Fei Comodo
General Fiasco
Japanese Voyeurs
Lights Go Blue
Little Fish
Lower Than Atlantis

[TheOtherBelmont]

You must see Fear Factory, that's a definite.  I've seen Slayer live before and they put on a pretty damn good show, so seeing them wouldn't be a bad idea either. Alice in Chains, Apocalyptica, and Bring Me the Horizon would be pretty cool to see as well.  Haven't heard of a lot of those other bands.  You should go see Motley Crue only if you promise to somehow kill the entire band.

[Quemaqua]

Man, I've hardly heard of any of those groups.  Well, that's not true... I've heard *of* a lot of them, but haven't heard most.  Am I really out of the loop?  I'm nearing 30.  Maybe it's time to realize that I'm no longer relevant.

Fuck.

[Cobra951]

Not relevant at 30?  If it's any consolation, you've got close to 20 years before you get to the age when I thought I was no longer relevant.   

[Quemaqua]

Haha, I don't know if I should take comfort in that or realize that I'm really, really screwed.

[Cobra951]

We're all screwed in the long run.  Heh.

[Quemaqua]

True enough.  I'll have another beer and forget about it.

[K-man]

I hope to hell you saw Iggy and the Stooges.

[beo]

heard, yes - saw, no. when they were playing i was throwing up a camelbacks worth of vodka and cherry coke near my mate's car.

best band i saw the entire weekend was karma to burn. they played the smallest stage there, but fuck, they kicked such a massive quantity of ass. if you like clutch, qotsa, etc, check them out. earthtone 9, who i'd never heard before, really impressed me too - i'll definitely be checking out some of their stuff. also, pendulum, as always, were excellent, i lost count of the amount of breasts that were flashed during their set!

cracking weekend. now i need to scrub an inch of filth off my skin, take a massive dump and then sleep.

[Quemaqua]

Comparing anything to Clutch means I must listen.