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Grey Daze - UK tour: 12-18 May

99% of the discussion here is for the expected and very boring headliners... whoever they are... Don't think anyone in this forum is actually exited for SOAD, Blink, 30stm, Slipknot, etc. - Yeah anounce them, fine.

BUT
A lot more exciting would be to have a strong undercard and bands like: Wage War, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Bleed from whitin, Loathe, Lorna Shore, Code Orange... throw one Crosses here, maybe potential APC and Boom! there you go - best RaRiP line up in a decade no matter the heads.
Do you guys really care about the headliners? Like, really...

Bad Wolves out?!

Graspop Metal Meeting today: "Unfortunately Bad Wolves and Novelists have been forced to cancel. They will be replaced by Blind Channel and Paledusk."

und keine Puscifer...:////

Overall it's a bad lineup for me (not a fan of the German bands) but still holds up okay compared to the rest of the rock festivals like GMM, Download, Nova, Copenhell etc.
The Saturday with Muse is amazing but on Friday I have only Spiritbox...

Do you think other cool international acts could join the lineup>?... like - Royal blood, In flames, While she sleeps, Idles etc.

Puscifer and Gojira ?
If they announce Puscifer I'll buy tickets..

and no Nine Inch Nails in 2022:///

Tag 4?

Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht. Ich entschuldige mich...

Haben Sie empfehlung, wie Sie die Hauptbühne - ZONE A eingeben können?
Ich war bei Rock am Ring 2012 und es war wirklich schwer.

bessere zeit zu gehen ... ? oder...?
Ich möchte nicht zuerst ins 13:00h Zone A eingehen.

Bring me and Slayer must switch places. This is not okay on sooooo many levels... wtf

Palisades - YESSS!!!!
Perfect

The Raconteurs am All points east - May 25th.
...RaR/RiP...?

welche brief...?!

Garbage ins France - Juni 4 und Spain - Juni 5... ...
Rar/Rip?

Montag = Lamb of God...?

Deftones are definitely possible. I hope for them.
NIN - not so much. I doubt they'll tour Europe for 2 months (Mad Cool is mid July).
Bizkit as you said are not. Too many dates in Germany for 2018.
QOTSA also very possible.It'll be interesting where would they fit this line up considering that they're headlining all dates announced so far.
Kasabian have been so many times at RaR/RiP but again definitely possible. Just like the Hives - they tour during this period and are not in the So/Hu line up.
While she sleeps would be great. Also hoping for them.
Editors - they have both dedicated dates + festival in Germany so probably not.
Looking at other lineups so far - these are the bands that interest me. I don't care about Nightwish, Skunk Anansie or things like that... I feel that the 2nd wave will be very weak for my taste. I hope I'm wrong.
I hope for few surprises like Incubus or bands on the alternative front. Still not counting on it...
Expecting this second wave in the next few days. Just like always - few days before the price increase.

I'm expecting new announcements at the end of next week.
Do you think the festival can sell out before that?
I'm still not convinced but few more names in the line up can change the game for me. I'm a bit afraid that it can sell out as they said in FB that tickets are selling very fast...

I do not understand why they don't announce more bands...

If they extend the lower price period, then what is the point to keep booked artist a secret? It's clear that the last wave of bands sold it's capacity and will not sell more tickets. They need an announcement in order to drive additional ticket sales aka. more people to feel that this is the place to go.
I doubt that this extension was planned in the first place. They either expected to sell out till end Jan or made a calculated decision that price over 200 euro will be deal-beaker to too many.

On the other hand if what they booked by now is not attractive enough it's possible that a new announcement will drive potential festival-goers away. I really hope that this is not the case.

Probably the next announcement will be few days before the price increase.
According to previous years RaR will be sold out by that time and the announcement will only drive tickets sold for RiP. No reason for the organizers to rush with more bands in January.
What we have by now is already very good. Still I hope for 5-6 very good bands (especially that the fest is now 4 days) and not only filler bands to complete the line up.