http://pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=7649

i still probably wont go. you couldn't pay me to sit through half the bands that will be on the lineup.

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wow, i never expected that from that fucking money-eating bitch

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This sounds way too good to be true. If the lineup is anything like last year, I'm still not going.

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Yea good thing the better bands are going first in this case. Id go to see BTBAM, SYL, BLS, and Red Chord; I wouldn't if it wasn't free.

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Someone's gotta pay something, I mean this is capitalism... I'm guessing there will be a shitload of advertizing - mostly in the forms of bands on stage (ha..ha...ha...)

True dat, yo.

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Ozzfest last year was alright, except for the heat and the majority of bad bands. I might go if the main stage lineup is any good. Otherwise, no.



I'm just realizing something; to go to Ozzfest is going to be free, but that doesn't mean food and shirts and shit will be free. Something tells me they might compensate somehow by raising the prices at consession stands and stuff. Sneaky.

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Haha word.

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If Ozzy is really "giving back" after 30 years, the prices on food/shirts will be normal and he would be taking the hit on the money part of the deal. Not like he can't afford it or anything.

Or advertising, like people said before.

Oh, I just noticed that the bands will not be paid. Makes you wonder what the final lineup will be.

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Either good bands that don't care about money..or shitty rich bands that can afford not getting paid.

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Maybe some of the melo death bands will crawl up from the ashes and bring forth a new age of mainstream metal, blowing the remaining weak hardcore metal and nu-metal bands away, sending them to the soldering center of the Sun where their flesh and bones will burn for all eternity.... or until the sun goes nova.



I do, however, think the following should be at Ozzfest, second stage or main stage;

Black Sabbath (duh)
Iron Maiden (another duh)
Slayer
Cannibal Corpse
Judas Priest
Megadeth
Kreator
Venom

Bands I personally would like to see there;

Disturbed (Didn't see them last year, and yes I did make that comment just above about nu-metal band, but I can't help but love them.... but in a conventional way).
Dark Tranquillity
Amon Amarth
Neaera
Arch Enemy
Old Man's Child
Lunatic (Doubtfully, considering they've been broken up for years, but would be pretty cool!)
Opeth

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hah...........keep dreaming fool. amon amarth are too talented to doing a benefit tour. opeth aren't touring.....did you just throw random bands in the lineup?

the lineup is gonna be like

Norma Jean
Norma Jean
Unearth
Norma Jean




....the corpse that was OZZY.

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Might actually go to ozzfest for once in my life now...

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Don't kill the dream, man!

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I may go, I want Dio to be there.

That is the most hilarious list I've ever seen.

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I'm just thinking off the top of my head, which btw the view is very bad from there.

Iron Maiden, though, HAS to be there. ONe of the bands I need to see before I die.

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Are you kidding?! After the soap opera that was last year's ozzfest I don't think iron maiden will be allowed within 500 feet of either ozzy or sharon.

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Huh? Did I miss something? What happened?


Nevermind, just looked it up. Wow, Sharon is a bitch.

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Give me the link please

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfes...ncident_of_2005

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so uh, where are the tickets being distributed? Because hot damn they're gonna go quick!

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Shit, man, I just heard something from one of my friends. He said he heard from someone that instead of charging for tickets, they are going to charge you for how long you stay there. If this is true, then the free tickets are a corporate ploy to get even more money!!!

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That shit was funny as hell. They should invite Yngwie this year.

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Concur do I.

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My brother said In Flames was going, but I think he's just full of shit.
I hope they have some older bands like Slayer, Maiden, and Priest because I want to see them before they start dying off. The newer bands I hope to see are The Red Chord, Strapping Young Lad, Cannibal Corpse, and Disturbed (yeah, yeah, STFU!)

HAHAHAHA! How fucking ridiculous!

As for ozzfest being free, I hope it is a good year for you all with some bands much better than Unearth and all that shit. If only Inferno Fest could be free! Just once! I dream of that day every night.

Inferno Fest? What's that?

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Inferno Fest is a show we have in Oslo with mostly black and death metal bands playing. Everyone gets so wasted though and we all forget how the show was.

DAMN! All the good shows happen outside of America. I need to move to Europe.

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yes you do.

obscene extreme is another example, 3 days full of the sickest goregrind bands in the woods in poland with a pint for just 50 cents

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And Wacken in Germany is another example (i'm sure you've all heard of it by now, but just in case...). Wish I can go someday.

Yeah, I think it's safe to say Europe has better shows.

n0b

whoever mentioned abut you paying for how long you stay, i guess that could be a way around it. i honestyl cant see it being completly free and shit theres gotta be some catch. raise in prices on shirts and food and shit could be one way. or if the bands are not getting paid then that might be going to pay for the cost of the shows

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Yeah, nothings really free. I don't think they wouldn't pay the bands, but you never know. Maybe all the bands playing are in an Ozzy cult and the only way to please their god is to take it in the ass and not get paid at ozzfest....

or maybe they'll just charge a huge sum of money for merch and food.

yeah i'm going there every year since the last three years (so this summer the fourth time! (hell yeah)

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that wouldnt surpise me if they didnt pay them. i remember a few years ago the bands actually had to pay to be on the tour.

doc your a lucky bastard you know that

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Argh, still going to blow. I'll stick with Wacken, Summer Breeze and Ragnarok thankyou.

Perhaps Ozzy and Sharon are going to provide all the money needed to cover the expenses (Tour buses, venues, etc.) so prices don't have to be raised and everyone can have a good time (like Ozzy wanted ). Lord knows the two of them have more than enough money.

Maybe this year Sharon will get piss drunk, walk on stage, strip, and then trip and fall into a mosh pit. Ridiculous, you say? Well, after reading about that Iron Maiden incident, that bitch needs ta go down, nigga.

I do hope this is the last Ozzfest, or I'm assuming it is. This way it's end can pave the way for a better music festival; Necrofest, where only Death Metal, Black Metal, some thrash, and grindcore play, and it won't be the same corporate-whore-out that Ozzfest turned out to be...... theoretically.

I'm sorry, I just woke up, and am a little groggy.

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im perfectly aware of that

Kreator, Celtic Frost, Legion of the Damned and Watain next week!
And Cannibal Corpse two weeks later!

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in one show? fuck thats killer man

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yeah its an awesome tour i reckon, co-headlining tours own

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main stage:

ozzy
system of a down
disturbed
A7X
hatebreed
lacuna coil
dragonforce

second stage:

BTBAM
black lable
ateyu
unearth
bleeding through
norma jean
full blown chaos
bad acid tripp
walls of jericho
red chord
a life once lost
straping young lad
all that remains



theres like 5 maby 6 worth seeing

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thats about the same list as last years

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u would have to pay me to go

all the good bands tour through here anyway so im not at all hyped

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I can't even tell you how sorry I feel for you guys there who have hoped for a good show....

Move to Europe!!! Beer, Beer, Beer, and Metal all around!!!!!

Yeah i think thats last years.

I dont think a 2007 line-up has been announced yet.

I would see BTBAM and maybe Dragonforce, but really, who would want to see the rest of that? Not to mention the whole crowd is gonna be a whole bunch of karate-kicking pussys.

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I'd like to see Dragonforce, Lacuna Coil, BTBAM, Unearth, The Red Chord, SYL, and All That Remains but it's not worth the annoying mallgoths in the crowd, plus the hardcore dancers. And if it's free, it will be first-come-first-serve, I don't want to waste gas driving to something that I may not see or even want to see.

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That is last year's line-up. I doubt they'd use the same line-up again.

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2007:
Main Stage
Ozzy Osbourne, Lamb of God, Lordi

Second Stage:
Hatebreed, Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator

Second Stage (rotating slots):
Nile, Ankla, Circus Diablo, The Showdown

From Wikipedia.

I dont think this is all thats on there.

Dude, I'd so go just to see Nile. Unless they can find more better bands for the mainstage, I'll probably just go see Nile, one other second stage band, and then leave.

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Id go to see Nile, LOG, and Hatebreed and maybe others if they get some good fucking music. Id like to see As I Lay Dying on the line up, one of the only decent Metalcore bands out there.

Hopefully Sounds Of The Underground will be better.(if they have it of course)

I like LOG too, but I'm not about to wait all day in the FUCKING HEAT for the main stage bands to play if they're the "best" available. In fact, why the hell is Nile on the second stage while LOG gets mainstage? Fucking Sharon Osbourne, I hope she dies.

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HAHAHA, Lordi is SHIT

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did that really need asking?
because the media makes log look talented, and nobody knows who the fuck nile is. If you want to be famous, stop writing songs about plague, and curses and whatnot, and switch to politics and relationships.
Nobody at ozzfest is gonna know who the fuck nile is, and theres gonna be scene kids in the pit, who will promptly be fucking plowed....by me.....

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Heres my Ozzfest-

(i know im getting heat for this)

Black Sabbath
Behemoth
An At The Gates reunion!
Slayer
In Flames
Nile

Second-
Chimaira
Job For A Cowboy
Cradle Of Filth
As I Lay Dying
Dark Tranquility
Cannibal Corpse
Deftones
Venom

Rotating-
Soilwork
Chilren Of Bodom
Arch Enemy

Throw Venom in there and take out Deftones and I'll hug you.

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if there was an at the gates reunion, i'd go..otherwise i think i'm going to pass..free or not. parking probably isn't free and i know gas isn't free...neither is the water or any food. in the words of my roommate "i'll just get drunk and listen to better music in my room."

Oh, how I agree with you!

haha, an At The Gates reunion.......one could only hope. I might it amazing how The Haunted is getting more terrible with every album....they fucking suck these days.

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How about just leave Deftones and add Venom anyway?

Because I don't like Deftones.

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Oh wellz, post your dream line up.

FINE! I WILL!..... bitch.

Main Stage;
Disturbed
Opeth
Venom
Necrophagist
Ozzy (dur)
Iron Maiden (who will have an escort of 50 or 60 armed Iron Maiden fanboys ready to repel any eggings or attacks by Bitchy Osbourne)
Between The Buried and Me
Nile

Second Stage:
Dark Tranquility
Cannibal Corpse
Dying Fetus
Soulfly
Black Dahlia Murder
Converge
In Flames
Neaera
Pig Destroyer
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Napalm Death

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Nile, 3 inches of blood, and Death will be some of the bands on stage 2. I think that would be worth it accually.


edit: Daath not Death.

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So yeah.............BEHEMOTH IS ON THE SECOND STAGE, NON ROTATING!!!

really? holy crap this is shaping out to be pretty metal

\m/ Fuck yeah \m/

Sounds Of The Underground 2007 rumors for anyone who cares-

GWAR(which have already signed up for the new tour), 36 Crazyfists, Shadows Fall, Every Time I Die, Amon Amarth, Killswitch Engage, King Diamond, and Machine Head are rumored to play.

Nile, Cthonic, Behemoth, Oh em geee!!!

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notbad, Amon, King, Gwar, and MH, pretty good, none of my fav's though

How is behemoth doing sotu and ozzfest at the same time?

I dont think behemoth is playing sotu this year, just trust me dude for the love of metal, boycott sotu 07

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So much for free, I guess the first "chance" at tickets will be found in his new album or some crap like that. Hah.

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I have no intention of going, I just see it on the sotu site that Behemoth is in it this year....

EDIT: Oh okay, they're only playing on one day for sotu..

Aren't Nile and Behemoth gonna be playing this year? If so, I would have gone strictly for those bands, then GTFO.

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