Graspop 2024

[strudd3rs]

Just realized that Silverstein have sneakily moved from the Friday to the Thursday

[strudd3rs]

Thursday:

 

Night Verses -> Silverstein/Bleed From Within -> Alien Weaponry -> Bury Tomorrow -> Health -> Textures -> Heart -> Crosses -> Alice Cooper/Polyphia -> Tool

 

Friday:

 

Landsdowne -> big gap -> Avantasia -> Fu Manchu -> Turnstile -> Pendulum

 

Saturday:

 

Vola -> Mammoth WVH -> While She Sleeps -> Architects -> Blind Guardian -> Wolfmother -> Bring Me The Horizon

 

Sunday:

 

Future Palace -> Skynd -> Crystal Lake/Dream State -> Black Stone Cherry/Vukovi -> Body Count FT Ice-T -> Of Mice & Men -> Deep Purple -> Scorpions -> Machine Head

[Nicklord]

Full of clashes for me, probably the worst so far 😄 There'll be a lot of looking into setlists and running between stages to see favorite songs it seems 

[strudd3rs]

Might sound like a weird question but do trains “sell out”?

 

Im a bit worried about not being able to book our trains on 29th when they’re released as I’m away and don’t want to end up on a train that makes my connection at Brussels for my Eurostar tighter than it needs to be

Edited May 23, 2024 by strudd3rs

[Nicklord]

No, it doesn't sell out. You can get on any train really going there or back. They're can get pretty full but everyone gets in

Edited May 23, 2024 by Nicklord

[SweetJesus]

Heart is not coming, already cancelled Hellfest, Tons of Rock and some solo gigs

[strudd3rs]

Merch pre order is up on the website.

 

would people say this is worth doing? I’ve seen people talk about the chaos of the queues in boneyard camping for merch 😅

[SweetJesus]

We had a luck and went to the boneyard on day 0 and waited maybe half an hour. But I'll definitively buy online and pick it up this year.

[strudd3rs]

3 minutes ago, SweetJesus said:

We had a luck and went to the boneyard on day 0 and waited maybe half an hour. But I'll definitively buy online and pick it up this year.

Cool, thank you!

[Death By Sexy 2.0]

17 hours ago, strudd3rs said:

Merch pre order is up on the website.

 

would people say this is worth doing? I’ve seen people talk about the chaos of the queues in boneyard camping for merch 😅

There was chaos because there was no pre-order option untill now. It's something new. I would try it. 

 

Merch on the festival site is shite, you could wait for hours. 

[strudd3rs]

Train tickets sorted and Skullies purchased, now just to sort out what to pack!

[SweetJesus]

Inferno camp at Graspop right now

[Archi]

The weather in Belgium is horrible since a few days. Today Graspop announced most of the parkings won't open tomorrow. Camping seems a disaster. I was normally going to the festival on Saturday but haven't bought a ticket on TicketSwap yet... until today, there were a few tickets but not that much: it has changed a lot since this morning! So many tickets for Saturday - but also other - are put on sale. Really curious on how it will end... honestly, I'll wait until Friday to see if I take a ticket or not.

 

Good luck for the people there for the 4-5 days with camping...

[Rico_Pliskin]

2 hours ago, SweetJesus said:

Inferno camp at Graspop right now

Would need an inferno to dry that up

[strudd3rs]

I don’t have a choice as I’m coming from the UK so I guess we’ll have to turn up and hope for the best 🙃

[Nicklord]

I'm arriving first of my group tonight at like 10pm. Hope for the best as well. Seems like it should be sunny today

[gabrielomachado]

Arriving early in the morning tomorrow, my first Graspop and let's pray to not be a disaster

[49Lawson]

1 hour ago, gabrielomachado said:

Arriving early in the morning tomorrow, my first Graspop and let's pray to not be a disaster

I have no idea how you are getting there but just a heads up that they have confirmed that they have closed all carparks all weekend.

 

There is a full section on the GMM website about alternatives for people affected

[gabrielomachado]

35 minutes ago, 49Lawson said:

I have no idea how you are getting there but just a heads up that they have confirmed that they have closed all carparks all weekend.

 

There is a full section on the GMM website about alternatives for people affected

Damn, that's bad. I wasn't going by car anyway but i'm starting to fear about an atrocious weekend

[Archi]

All parkings around the festival will stay closed the whole weekend. Impossible to use them. If you still come by car, you have to go to a parking a bit far away and take the shuttle. They ask to people who come for one day to come back home after the festival and don't use the camping because a part of it is closed: I see some photos of the camping... I don't wanna see the closed part. Based on photos on Instagram, the field seems ok but it's start raining again... It changes all the time: they announce some rain for tomorrow but nothing on Saturday and a big sun on Sunday but it was different when I looked at the meteo 2h ago. Really a sh*tty Summer so far!

[gabrielomachado]

My Band Review

My Mrs and I stayed in an Airbnb/Hotel, so we didn't go through the nightmare of camping.

Thursday

Arrived really late, couldn't see the first bands.

• Kerry King (6/10): Slayer by numbers but Osegueda is a great singer.
• Babymetal (7/10): Funny gimmick, never got to see them live.
• Crosses (10/10): Blew me away.
• Polyphia (8/10): So much better than I expected, liked how much it had crowd interaction despite it being an instrumental set.
• Tool (9/10): Watched from afar and it was cold, so we didn't enjoy it properly. Anyway, huge band with a great set, my second time seeing them and first time seeing them in full darkness.

Friday

• Fear Factory (8/10): New singer is good, had a few great sing-alongs.
• Bruce Dickinson (6/10): Poor setlist choice, great band though.
• Electric Callboy (10/10): So much fun, biggest non-headline crowd of the weekend.
• Turnstile (10/10): Them just after Callboy with the crowd going like that, wow. This band is going places.
• Judas Priest (6/10): Only caught half of their set as I went to drink. Liked what I saw though.
• Five Finger Death Punch (5/10): One of my favorite bands in high school, but, man, they are dull as f**k live. Had a great sing-along with some tunes because I was drunk, but that was not a proper headline set.

Saturday

• Steel Panther (3/10): Seriously, this isn't funny anymore. That Ozzy thing made me cringe, not laugh.
• While She Sleeps (7/10): Don't like their new songs, the majority of their set, but good for them to get such a good spot in a major festival outside the UK.
• Architects (8/10): So much better than when I saw them last year.
• Limp Bizkit (10/10): Set of the weekend, SO. MUCH. ENERGY..
• Avenged Sevenfold (9/10): Love the new album, so I'm all here for it.
• Bring Me The Horizon (10/10): Now they are definitely a bonafide festival headliner. They have the tunes, the energy, the crowd, the production, everything. The Linkin Park of the new generation.

Sunday

• Ihsahn (9/10): Brilliant set by one of the most underrated metal songwriters out there.
• Malevolence (10/10): Stayed in the pit the whole time.
• Corey Taylor (8/10): Don't like his solo stuff at all but great sing-along, he seemed to be having a good time as well.
• Slaughter to Prevail (7/10): Deathcore by numbers but damn, Alex is an impressive frontman.
• Machine Head (9/10): What a way to end the weekend. It's a shame they burned their chances of being a regular major festival headliner, but they still have everything to be it. Fun from start to finis.

 

 

[Archi]

Been to Saturday and Sunday but without the camping. I didn't have to sleep in this apocalypse. The show from Limp Bizkit was f**kin' insane. I expected to enjoy it of course but not that way. I was my 10th time at Graspop and it's rare to see such an crazy crowd from the barrier to the sound-desk. BMTH was so good too, even if I expected a set-list a bit more different from the UK tour earlier this year. I enjoyed Vukovi, Make Them Suffer, Corey Taylor, While She Sleeps and Steel Panther more than expected. Architects did a great show as always but the sound wasn't powerful enough and I did prefer the show from 2023. My deceptions were Avenged Sevenfold because of the setlist and Body Count because the whole set wasn't that good between an old Ice-T, his kids moving around for nothing and a set-list not that good. Huge difference between both 2015 and 2018 sick shows and this year.

[SweetJesus]

The Accacia Strain kebab video 🔥

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8m0TXOJqK3/?igsh=eTU1aGZqd3B0Z28=
 

Edited June 26, 2024 by SweetJesus

[Booster]

Graspop smashed it out the park. Again. This really is an absolutely superb festival in every way, with a line-up catering for (just about) everyone's tastes across the rock/metal spectrum. Thought the organisers handled all the rain really well on the festival grounds (wasn't camping so can't speak to that), queues for anything were negligible and it was a really friendly party atmosphere. Band of the WE - A7X, followed by LB, Cooper, Priest, Turnstile, Steel panther, Megadeth, Bodycount, Last Interntionale and a special word for Brian Downey: played in the pouring rain to a microscopic crowd, but still gave it everything in a belter of a set. Only disappointments were the prices - eyewateringly expensive for a tiny portion of mediocre festival fare - and Deep Purple, who clearly didn't care how bad they were. They really were abysmal. But still, an absolute 10/10 for me - a truly magnificient time.