Rock am Ring 2025

[just_one]

1 minute ago, Mondo-kun said:

They did exactly that in 2019.

And they announced us before europe? Even when the europe shows were before the us ones?

[charlierc]

11 minutes ago, just_one said:

MCR will probably do europe in 2026. Cant see them doing europe before the us and not announce it

I guess we'll see. MCR fans think they've worked out another announcement video is in their YouTube playlist for publication late this week/start of next, so there might be something. We just don't know yet.

[charlierc]

5 minutes ago, just_one said:

And they announced us before europe? Even when the europe shows were before the us ones?

Well if nothing else they have prior form for not announcing things at the same time.

[Ausländer]

 

2 minutes ago, paulcou80d said:

So does anyone have any ideas as to who the remaining two logo acts could be if Linkin Park are definitely ruled out? Am I right in worrying that an underwhelming and familiar Die Toten Hosen headline slot could be on the cards here? And maybe Korn for the Slipknot day? Other than Muse I don't see any other possibilities unless they pull another Europe exclusive like BMTH

Die Toten Hosen and Volbeat are always a option, but since they aren't announced already it would be clear that they are a last minute replacement. The MCR guess isn't the worst in my opinion. A name that hasn't been thrown in the ring I could see is The Cure.

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, Ausländer said:

 

Die Toten Hosen and Volbeat are always a option, but since they aren't announced already it would be clear that they are a last minute replacement. The MCR guess isn't the worst in my opinion. A name that hasn't been thrown in the ring I could see is The Cure.

I think if it's anyone like MCR we would know. It's already known or highly suspected they got asked to play by Download and pulled out so they would have been around had they not. I'm not sure why they would pull out if they were doing a festival in Germany close by. 

[sisco]

2 hours ago, charlierc said:

I guess we'll see. MCR fans think they've worked out another announcement video is in their YouTube playlist for publication late this week/start of next, so there might be something. We just don't know yet.

They were actually putting themselves around to do festivals in 2025 and 2026.  So guess it’s still possible 

[MusicFan_1]

Could be Muse too. They just popped out of nowhere. My guess as to why it didn’t leak is they probably thought they had LP but pulled out and RAR is scrambling to find someone as a replacement. 
 

If its true that 75,000 tickets at the ring have already been sold, announcing a smaller 3rd headlining band when the first 2 aren’t exactly huge wouldn’t go over well by ticket holders, fair or not.

[charlierc]

9 hours ago, MusicFan_1 said:

Could be Muse too. They just popped out of nowhere. My guess as to why it didn’t leak is they probably thought they had LP but pulled out and RAR is scrambling to find someone as a replacement. 
 

If its true that 75,000 tickets at the ring have already been sold, announcing a smaller 3rd headlining band when the first 2 aren’t exactly huge wouldn’t go over well by ticket holders, fair or not.

I'd have thought the fact Muse did RaR/RiP in 2018 and 2022 meant 2025 would be too soon to contemplate a return. But stranger things have happened.

[Mondo-kun]

New names on 04.12.

[charlierc]

47 minutes ago, Mondo-kun said:

New names on 04.12.

It's been suggested elsewhere that this includes the outstanding headliner. That the case?

[Goon_Mqgee]

16 hours ago, paulcou80d said:

Is there any realistic chance of Linkin Park being the last headliner? I know they have the German stadium shows but could they have possibly made an agreement with RAR to hold off this announcement until the stadiums sold out maybe?

 

(It's going to be Toten Hosen though 🤦‍♂️)

As much as I'd love to retain a glimmer of hope, I think the fact that there's 5 shows in Germany and some of them in very close proximity to RaR pretty much rules them out. At this point I'm expecting Korn to be the final headliner, the gap between Sweden Rocks and Novarock in their schedule along with them being bumped to headliner across the festival circuit just seems to fit.

 

I love Korn, but having seem them countless times it would be underwhelming as the final headliner, so I hope I'm wrong.

[King101]

4 hours ago, Goon_Mqgee said:

As much as I'd love to retain a glimmer of hope, I think the fact that there's 5 shows in Germany and some of them in very close proximity to RaR pretty much rules them out. At this point I'm expecting Korn to be the final headliner, the gap between Sweden Rocks and Novarock in their schedule along with them being bumped to headliner across the festival circuit just seems to fit.

 

I love Korn, but having seem them countless times it would be underwhelming as the final headliner, so I hope I'm wrong.

The days haven’t been confirmed yet but it seems like Korn are playing Sweden Rock on 7th June, which would rule them out of either of the TBA slots at Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park.

Edited November 30, 2024 by King101
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[Goon_Mqgee]

On 11/30/2024 at 3:09 PM, King101 said:

The days haven’t been confirmed yet but it seems like Korn are playing Sweden Rock on 7th June, which would rule them out of either of the TBA slots at Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park.

Ah, fair enough. Hadn't realised that Korn was looking like 7th June. Appreciate the clarity 🙂 Now I'm intrigued! 

[SweetJesus]

https://www.morecore.de/news/rock-am-ring-rock-im-park-exklusives-interview-mit-matt-schwarz-ueber-rekordvorverkauf-festival-booking-veraenderungen-fuer-2025-und-linkin-park

[Karlos12345]

44 minutes ago, SweetJesus said:

https://www.morecore.de/news/rock-am-ring-rock-im-park-exklusives-interview-mit-matt-schwarz-ueber-rekordvorverkauf-festival-booking-veraenderungen-fuer-2025-und-linkin-park

No Linkin Park if anyone was still hoping for them.

Edited December 2, 2024 by Karlos12345

[charlierc]

Kings of Leon just announced a show in England for June 8th, so it's looking like it won't be them.

[MusicFan_1]

I think it’s gonna be Muse

[FeverDream]

Well, looks like it was Korn. BFMV and Weezer also added amongst others 

[charlierc]

Did they really need to defer announcing Korn given they were pretty front & centre for the Download announcement the other week?

[charlierc]

22 hours ago, MusicFan_1 said:

I think it’s gonna be Muse

Apparently not.

 

The trail with them seems to have gone quiet again after the brief flurry where they were announced for Finnish, Norwegian and Dutch shows tbf. I'm assuming the machine is being fired up for more than just those 3 shows.

[FeverDream]

Just now, charlierc said:

Did they really need to defer announcing Korn given they were pretty front & centre for the Download announcement the other week?

That’s what surprised me. Unless they thought they had someone else lined up? But even so, bizarre. Built all that hype for nothing 😕 I’m still considering this over Download, mind you. 

[SweetJesus]

23 minutes ago, FeverDream said:

That’s what surprised me. Unless they thought they had someone else lined up? But even so, bizarre. Built all that hype for nothing 😕 I’m still considering this over Download, mind you. 

Maybe the story about Nova Rock boss going to LP's show in London and paying extra money to get them to Nova Rock and not to play RAR/RIP could be truth.

 

From LP live:

 

"This is interesting because the NovaRock promoter was at the London show and the rumor has been that NovaRock paid exclusively to get LP and for LP to not play at Rock am Ring/Rock im Park.

 

But the tour was changed according to that one article about a month ago; wonder what they dropped."

Edited December 4, 2024 by SweetJesus

[FeverDream]

55 minutes ago, SweetJesus said:

Maybe the story about Nova Rock boss going to LP's show in London and paying extra money to get them to Nova Rock and not to play RAR/RIP could be truth.

 

From LP live:

 

"This is interesting because the NovaRock promoter was at the London show and the rumor has been that NovaRock paid exclusively to get LP and for LP to not play at Rock am Ring/Rock im Park.

 

But the tour was changed according to that one article about a month ago; wonder what they dropped."

Certainly sounds most likely. I can’t see a scenario in which Rock am Ring/im Park didn’t approach LP initially 

[Ferda]

The LP story is simple as told by RaR/RiP CEO in the interview - they preferred doing own shows vs. festival. 5 sold out German stadiums speak for itself.

I don't believe in another festival paying extra money to prevent an artist playing a festival in a different country. It doesn't make sense, you just go for an exclusivity, e.g. ST and BMTH here. Just my 2c...

Edited December 4, 2024 by Ferda

[King101]

Is there any word of who is on what stage at this point?

BMTH, Prodigy and Biffy on the Friday looks great but I feel like they may clash.