Download 2005 (a.k.a. Ozzfest 2005)

[TheDarkPrince]

The greatest music festival of the year is drawing closer! This rock festival - for those of you who don't know, is held annually in Donnington each June, and is infamous among the Brittish rock community, and I REALLY WISH I WAS GOING!!!

The line up for this year is so far...

Friday 10th of June:

Main Stage:

Feeder
Garbage
Dinosaur Jr.
Megadeth (last ever UK tour!)
Biffy Clyro
JJ72

Snickers Stage:

Billy Idol
The Used
My Chemical romance
The Bled

Saturday 11th of June:

Main Stage:

Black Sabbath (That's right. BLACK. SABBATH.)
Velvet Revolver
Him
Anthrax
Alter Bridge
Bowling For Soup

Snickers Stage:

In Flames
Chimaira
Lamb Of God
Bullet For My Valentine
Meshuggah
Unearth
Everytime I Die

Sunday 12th of June (the day I really want to go):

Main Stage:

System Of A Down
Slipknot
Slayer
Nightwish
Killswitch Engage

Snickers Stage:

Motorhead
DKT/MC5
Lacuna Coil
Mastadon
Caliban
As I Lay Dying

Is this a great line up or what?! The festival should be renamed "Metalheads Unite!" Now all we need is for Linkin Park, Lostprophets, Rammstein and Metallica to appear out of nowhere and it'll be perfect!

[SKJTapion]

That is an awful lineup. You have three good bands there. Waste of money and time. Go to Beautiful Days instead. Actually, don't. I want it to be good.

[TheDarkPrince]

OK, enlighten me. Which bands are "good?" I knew this would happen

[SKJTapion]

Chimaira, System Of A Down and Motorhead.

[rjxsapri®]

Well, to me it seems like an fine festival...from there, the bands that I would pay to see are:

Garbage
Megadeth
Billy Idol
Black Sabbath...just a little, but seeing them again has to be seen.
Velvet Revolver
Anthrax
Slayer
Motorhead...these last two bands are probably the best from there...

[DeLaRocha99]

rjxsapri® said:

Velvet Revolver

Stone Temple Pilots for the strictly diseased listeners. jk...

I like some of the bands on there. It looks like they are trying to include a little bit for everybody. Black Metal, Nu-Metal, Classic Metal, Emo, Screamo, Rap-Rock.

I would have liked to see some Punk included, like Bad Religion, Dropkicks Murphys, or Bouncing Souls included in a Ozzfest lineup....

[SKJTapion]

Music aside for a second, the atmosphere at that festival is awful. So cruel and intimidating.

[YoshikiRose]

The bands I'd like to see:

TheDarkPrince said:

Garbage
Megadeth
Billy Idol
Black Sabbath
Anthrax
Alter Bridge
System Of A Down
Slayer
Nightwish
Killswitch Engage
Motorhead
Lacuna Coil

Come on, Tapion, there's nothing wrong with a little cruelty every now and then

OMG I LOVE MEGADETH OMG OMG

[TheDarkPrince]

SKJTapion said:

Music aside for a second, the atmosphere at that festival is awful. So cruel and intimidating.

Yeah. That's the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) I like it... captures the spirit of metal perfectly. Seriously though, I went to Download Scotland 2004. Yes, the atmosphere was cruel and intimidating, but all the better for it. Like it says in a poem that I forget the name of: "I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order." It feels good to be away from authority and be able to go absolutely f**king crazy.

I would want to see several bands, for me: Megadeth, Feeder, System of a Down, Motorhead, Slayer, Nightwish, Killswitch, Velvet Revolver, Him and Lacuna Coil. And probably a lot of the bands up there that I've never heard would be just as good.

[SKJTapion]

That ain't what I meant, sorry. I meant that festivals like that attract a bunch of right wankers who do their best to make other people have a miserable time. Same goes for Reading.