Monday, March 7, 2005

Opeth on new outdoor fest tour?

Exclusive: Sounds of the Underground - 18 Band Tour - June 25 through July 29 - Lamb of God, Opeth, Unearth, Clutch, and more.. posted on 03-07-2005 @ 2:11 AM by - siN

SMNnews.com can reveal more exclusive news regarding the 18-band packaged Summer tour that is set to rival this years OZZFEST 2005 that we first posted about yesterday . The tour will take place from June 25th through July 29th and will be dubbed the "Sounds of the Underground Tour", with tickets ranging in cost from $20 to $25.

Bands tipped to participate include:

LAMB OF GOD (main stage headliner)
GWAR (second stage headliner)
UNEARTH
OPETH
CHIMAIRA
CLUTCH
ALL THAT REMAINS
NORMA JEAN
THROWDOWN
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD
A LIFE ONCE LOST
DEVILDRIVER
EVERY TIME I DIE
TERROR / MADBALL
(half of the tour each)

The tour will be held at mostly outdoor complexes. The only confirmed city at this point is Denver, CO. More information will be released shortly!

"There is no forgiveness in these eyes for any of you but just one"-OPETH

Hmm. Opeth playing outdoor venues with a bunch of nu metal hardcore bands???!!!

OK. for all of us diehard Opeth fans, this is weird. For one, I don't like outdoor fests. Rain, mud, eww, yuk, bad behavior. Reminds me of my horrid expereince at Woodstock '94.

Outdoor fests are bit out of the way (being outdoors) and harder to get to by way of public transportation. Try using a porto potty and holding your lunch at an outdoor music fest.

Although this "Sounds of the Underground Festival" is supposed to "rival OZZFEST", the lineup is almost indentical to OZZFEST.

How long what Opeth's set be?  Maybe Opeth's set would be 40 minutes wich is just a few songs considering the length of Opeth's tunes.  Opeth may even play a shorter set time unless they practically headline and the nu metal kids go home early for thier parents curfew.

Why should Opeth pander to these nu metal/emo/hardcore kids?

How about some serious, UNDERGROUND death, black,thrash, grind metal on this fest to rival the Maryland Death Fest in Baltimore.

The only bands I would be willing to see on this "Sounds of the Underground Festival" are Strapping Young Lad, Gwar, and obviously  OPETH,  all of whom I've seen live before.

I could do without the nu metal/hardcore crap, specifically outdoors. I would rather see Opeth indoors with let's say SYL and ENSLAVED (theoretically).

This person posted in the comments section on SMNNews.com. that this tour COULD be hitting up the Albany, NY area.:

posted by - jebus christ This is coming to Albany, NY. A promoter here announced a fest with this name and said it has Opeth, Clutch, and Devildriver on it so it's pretty obvious what he was talking about.


Screw this, I'm hungry, later. 

Thanks-Stay Metal-Stay Brutal-Tee \m/ -l-