Ozzy Osbourne Announces Monsters Of Rock Headlining Gig -- So What Does This Mean For Ozzfest?
Will there be an Ozzfest in 2008?
It's a inquiry thousands of metalheads throw been asking themselves the last two-and-a-half months — always since Warped Spell originator Kevin Lyman revealed that he'd be putting on his possess metal shows this summer, the Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival, which will feature Disturbed, Slipknot, Mastodont, DragonForce, Machine Head, Suicide Silence and others.
So far, there's been little in the agency of actual information approaching from the Ozzfest camp, which, in recent days, has revealed the traveling heavy metal circus' lineup and routing well before assess time.
On Tues break of day (Apr 15), the motion of whether Ozzfest would be returning for a 13th installment didn't come any closer to organism answered. If anything, Tuesday's declaration from Ozzy Osbourne himself — that he'd be headlining a single, all-day gig in Canada, under the Monsters of Rock banner — only confused matters more.
Notwithstanding, Ozzy will be anchoring the July 26 event, slated for Calgary, Alberta's McMahon Stadium, along with Judas Priest, System of a Knock down frontman Serj Tankian, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Priestess, the Cavalera Conspiracy, Voivod, Testament, 3 Inches of Blood and Zimmers Hole. The card is mostly made up of Canadian bands, and reports paint a picture that the Dillinger Escapism Plan will as well be added to the neb. Tickets for the Monsters of Rock concert go on sale Fri.
So what does all this mean for Ozzfest? Patch none of the sources MTV News contacted could say for certainly, 1 hearsay at press prison term suggested that rather of existence a travel festival, Ozzfest volition be scaled back up to a two-day event in Dallas sometime in July. One source said that an Ozzfest annunciation is expected to be made next week.
Patch non confirmed, hearsay has it that Metallica will be playing this summer's Ozzfest, along with Osbourne and his backing banding. Several others have been rumored for the gig, including Korn (maybe reunited with drummer David Silveria and guitarist Brian "Head" Welch), Alice in Irons, Percolate, Tankian, Slug for My Valentine, Killswitch Enlist, Dimmu Borgir and the Cavalera Conspiracy.
