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  1. Creeper are a cool band but being booked for the third year in a row whilst other the bands don't get a look in is a piss take.
  2. Probably the same old story. Do Download and you can't do your own dates. Do IOW and you can. Blink 182 might wanna try for a stadium date or 2 alongside a fest so makes sense. Get a decent support bill and they'd probably sell it (especially if they took along someone like The Offspring).
  3. Just looked at Feeders March dates and I'm impressed they are still playing decent size venues and a fair few of them too. Would be a perfect Avalanche headliner.
  4. Dogtooth is the best stage this year so I would be against it going! Problem with running second against main is the sound bleed. It's why I think they do go double main stage they'd need to replace second with a tent.
  5. Yeah the whole Download stage/time set up is poor now I think. I suppose they are restricted by licence. I think they really need to move to a double main stage and stick a giant tent where second is. Keep current Avalalance and Dogtooth but improve sound bleed issues. Give people more options who to see with tents running on later against main headliners. 2023 worked only cuz it was friggin' Metallica and Slipknot. Really most headliners should be playing against at least 1 other band.
  6. Btw if you are including Trivium and BFMV cuz of them teasing album tours then maybe should include Mastodon* and Lamb Of God who have already announced a US tour playing their 2004 albums 🙂 *Obvs you put Mastodon in but didn't put (Leviathan) next to them
  7. Not surprised. Never as big as people thought they were. Haven't done anything for several years then drop a album that splits opinions. Past tours they always took out huge support bands too, so dragged in more casual fans.
  8. The thing I guess might be if Sleep Token decide whether to headline whilst still being lower on the bill elsewhere in Europe, or if they decide to focus on building those markets first and then come back for Download in 2026 when they could potentially headliner or sub other festivals too. They might also want to take the chance to 'get big' in the USA given how lucrative that would be. Wouldn't be surprised to see them do their own dates throughout next year, Europe then South America then a US summer tour (maybe co-headline with a band like Ghost?).
  9. I'm late 30's so not that much older than you. It's not gatekeeping to say it's a double edged sword on a personal level, because I don't enjoy them. I wasn't saying what you claim I was. I meant it literally, that it puts me off going. Me, myself and I. That's all. I understand you misunderstood what I meant so no hard feelings. I welcome the new fans to the scene, though I so wish those with power in the scene would do more to promote a better variety of bands. Simple as that tbh. Enjoy the gig!
  10. You make a lot of incorrect assumptions about my music taste. For the record I like Ghost and Spiritbox. I also like The Offspring. Blink-182 I got bored of but did listen to when I was younger. I never really got into Limp Bizkit, I don't like Trivium, and I dislike AX7. And yeah I did/do like those 'older' metal bands but grunge bands were actually a major gateway for me too, especially Nirvana and Foo Fighters. I have no problem with Sleep Token or those other bands doing well. I'm simply saying from my own perspective I'm not keen on pop influenced metal so on a personal note it's a double edged sword. There is this kind of reverse gatekeeping these days, where people are judged for not liking a band. It's actually ok me and the others who piped up in this thread not to like Sleep Token. None of us are saying they don't belong in the scene.
  11. Yeah I think their fans are pretty dedicated and they deffo do stadium tours still. Depends on European market for them I guess. Could be a Green Day situation as well, Download allegedly doesn't let them do their own dates so they go do IOW instead. I mean if a band can do it then one festival headline plus 3 stadium dates in pretty lucrative! In fact I'd say the whole Green Day European tour this year is probably a model for how MCR would do it if they chose to.
  12. I doubt SOAD ever come back tbh. I'd like them too but if just feels like they are done in terms of any dates outside the US. MCR I think can just do their own stadium dates and be done, like Rammstein.
  13. The 'its a good thing' argument works both ways though. On one hand yes it is a good thing thing that new people get into the scene. On the other it's leading to festivals, club nights etc being full of these poppy metalcore bands that I have no interest in, so I loose interest in going.
  14. Because it's not a 'metal' production style, it's a pop one. And yeah I hate it too, but it's mostly the modern metalcore bands that have it plus Sleep Token obviously. Some don't though, Spiritbox for example have much better vocal production which I think is why I like them but not say Bad Omens. Thankfully for the other newer bands who don't have it either. Svalbard and Green Lung two example of great modern metal bands not going down the poppy vocals route.
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