Welcome To Rockville – America’s Largest Rock Festival–will kick off the Danny Wimmer Presents festival season in Daytona Beach, Florida Today! The top-notch talent includes headliners KISS, KORN, Guns N’ Roses, and Nine Inch Nails, plus appearances by 80+ additional bands including Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, The Smashing Pumpkins, Breaking Benjamin, Megadeth, Porno For Pyros (in place of Jane’s Addiction,) Papa Roach, Rise Against, Halestorm, In This Moment, Seether, Bush, and many more.
Welcome to Rockville has announced a bunch of new bands for the upcoming 2022 festival! Joining the bill are Bad Omens, Blacktop Mojo, Giovannie & The Hired Guns, Whitechapel, Mike’s Dead, Stitched Up Heart, The Word Alive, Saul, Lacey Sturm, Crobot, Superbloom, Redlight King, Devil’s Cut, Extinction A.D., The Dose, Moon Tooth, Cold Kingdom, and Crooked Teeth. The festival previously announced their 2022 headliners of Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Kiss, and Korn during the 2021 event. Those iconic bands will be joined by Jane’s Addiction, Papa Roach, Rise Against, Halestorm, In This Moment, Seether, Bush and many more. The poster and daily lineups can be seen below! The event will take place at Daytona International Speedway In Daytona Beach, Florida, from May 19th-22nd, 2022. Passes are on sale now! Watch the official Welcome To Rockville announcement video!
Northern Invasion has expanded to two full days – Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15, 2016 at Somerset Amphitheatre in Somerset, WI. The confirmed lineup includes:
Disturbed Rob Zombie Korn Shinedown Chevelle A Day To Remember Bring Me The Horizon Seether Lamb Of God Ghost Sixx:A.M. Pop Evil Clutch Sevendust Hellyeah P.O.D. BABYMETAL Black Stone Cherry Yelawolf Trivium Asking Alexandria Parkway Drive Saint Asonia Butcher Babies Turbowolf Red Sun Rising Beartooth Enter Shikari Aranda Lacey Sturm Avatar Monster Truck From Ashes To New The Glorious Sons Wild Throne Audiotopsy RavenEye City Of The Weak
Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion has been confirmed for May 6, 7 and 8, 2016 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, NC. Confirmed acts so far include:
Disturbed The Scorpions Rob Zombie ZZ Top Five Finger Death Punch Shinedown Deftones Lynyrd Skynyrd A Day To Remember 3 Doors Down Alice Cooper Bring Me The Horizon Cypress Hill Pennywise Lamb Of God Megadeth Ghost Sixx:A.M. Anthrax Collective Soul Clutch The Sword The Struts Asking Alexandria Yelawolf BABYMETAL Pop Evil Bullet For My Valentine P.O.D. Sevendust Hellyeah Between The Buried & Me Parkway Drive Black Stone Cherry Saint Asonia Trivium Escape The Fate August Burns Red Turbowolf Enter Shikari Sick Puppies Filter Candlebox Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown New Years Day Aranda Thousand Foot Krutch Red Sun Rising Texas Hippie Coalition Hands Like Houses Code Orange Failure Anthem Avatar Lacey Sturm The Glorious Sons From Ashes To New Wilson I Prevail Monster Truck Audiotopsy Wild Throne RavenEye
Flyleaf recently completed their first video for ‘Set Me On Fire’ in Los Angeles, CA for their forthcoming record titled Between The Stars, due out September 16, 2014 via Loud & Proud. This is the first song featuring new vocalist Kristen May.
This is the lead single from their forthcoming album, and like the title, Flyleaf went for a song with impact and a theme that longtime fans could easily digest.
“It’s an empowering song,” explained guitarist Sameer Bhattacharya, about the song. “It’s about discovering who you are, discovering your strengths, and your potential.” Following a common theme about positivity in their lyrics, ‘Set Me On Fire’ stuck to that and once again pieced together a song that would win over longtime fans.
“It’s not that we want it for ourselves. I think a lot of people lost hope in themselves and their potential, for their lives. I think it’s important for people to realize that they could be bigger than they could ever dream. The potential is unlimited and that’s real. It’s not some dream you had as a kid or some fantasy. There’s a power out there that’s bigger than themselves and it’s open to you.”
Bhattacharya talked about the making of the video. “One thing we’re not going to do – there’s no CGI,” he said, explaining the making of the video. “It’s something new and very theatrical with backdrops and projections. It’s in real time.”
Flyleaf returns with their fourth full length release Between the Stars on September 16, 2014 via Loud and Proud. Produced by Don Gilmore (Korn, Lacuna Coil) Between The Stars is the first album featuring former Vedera vocalist Kristen May, who joined the band shortly after the release of their prior release, 2012’s New Horizons and the departure of original vocalist Lacey Sturm (formerly Moseby).
“She’s an incredible singer and she clicked very well. Her personality was very important to us because we’re a touring band, made a record and put a song on the radio,” said guitarist Jared Hartmann.
“I think one think that’s always a reoccurring theme in Flyleaf is the freedom in the music, the freedom of expressing yourself, exploring certain feelings of certain parts of your life that would otherwise hold inside and not letting go,” added guitarist Sameer Bhattacharya. “Kristen is such a free spirit. She doesn’t hold back. She is who she is. That’s really important to who Flyleaf is. Before we were Flyleaf, we were called Passerby, because no matter what platform we were given, no matter how tall our soapbox might be that’s given to us – our story’s just as important as anyone else’s. Your story’s just as important as ours. We all have a story to tell. I think Kristen brings that spirit to Flyleaf.”
May came into the band through an extensive search and audition process. “We compiled a list of singers. We had people who were on The Voice. We were reaching out to a lot of different people. She came up and auditioned and clicked very well,” said Hartmann.
“As we went through the list of singers, we were also inquiring about certain singers. The singer had the same booking agent as Kristen, and that’s who we contacted to contact to audition.”
“They said ‘Kristen May was available. Her band Vedera just broke up and I highly recommend her.’ I think she was on the list real early. I think we crossed her off because we thought her band was still together. We contacted each other and she came down to Texas and had a sushi dinner. And from that meeting, it was like ‘wow! What a cool person.’ The next afternoon, we went into the rehearsal space and hit that first note, and what comes out was incredible. Her abilities are unmatched,” added Bhattacharya.
Once they began writing for Between the Stars, they discovered the true magic behind their new vocalist and a new era of the band officially began.
“I felt the writing came very easily,” said Bhattacharya. “There’s this fresh feeling writing this record with Kristen. We need it. You get stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over again. So it’s time for a new perspective in the writing process.”
Once the writing began, Flyleaf found new creative energy working with May. Their first single ‘Set Me On Fire’ gave the public a taste of what is to come.
“I think it’s really doing something new. It’s the first record with Kristen so everything’s real new. It’s becoming a band again,” said Hartmann.
“I’m really getting excited about the songs on this record. There’s this growth in the music. This record transcends so many genres. Every song stands on its own. They’re all really great songs.”
“Every record we’ve done has stood on its own,” said Bhattacharya. “We’ve never gone into a writing process with an agenda or a certain goal in mind other than writing good songs. We approached this record the same way as before.”
