Sonisphere add more bands

Motorhead, Mastodon, In Flames and Parkway Drive are the latest additions to the bill of this year's Sonisphere festival.

As previously announced, Metallica will close the Friday night of this year's festival (July 8), Biffy Clyro will close the Saturday night (July 9) and Slipknot will close the Sunday night (July 10). Also on the bill are Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax.

Tickets are on sale now from www.aloud.com.

Tags: Anthrax, Biffy Clyro, In Flames, Mastodon, Megadeth, Metallica, Motorhead, Parkway Drive, Slayer, Slipknot

Posted by Dan at 12:58PM | January 17, 2011

Big 4, Slipknot, Biffy and now Mastodon, Motorhead and In Flames!! How amazing does Sonisphere look this year. How can they improve it? Rise Against anybody? =D

Posted by Tom | January 17, 2011 1:32 PM | Reply to this

Big 4, Slipknot, Biffy and now Mastodon, Motorhead and In Flames!! How amazing does Sonisphere look this year. How can they improve it? Rise Against anybody? =D

Posted by Tom | January 17, 2011 1:32 PM | Reply to this

Wolfsbane.

Posted by Simon | January 17, 2011 2:59 PM | Reply to this

OMG, my first festival and it turns out to be one of the best festival bills ever. Not overly excited about Motorhead or In Flames but The Big 4, Biffy, Slipknot, Parkway, and Mastodon, jizztastic times lay ahead.

Posted by Tom H | January 17, 2011 3:03 PM | Reply to this

Ahhh Slipknot and Parkway Drive :D All you have to do now is get Architects, Alexisonfire and Five Finger Death Punch then i'll be a happy Pickle :3

Posted by Vikki | January 17, 2011 3:31 PM | Reply to this

R.I.P Download 2011 :L They can't compete with that. :D

Posted by Matt Bromage | January 17, 2011 3:48 PM | Reply to this

The line-up looks immense but I have to say, the current festival line-ups (both Download and Sonisphere) are brimming with repeat bookings. If you're a regular at either fest, chances are you've seen nearly all the bands on the line-up.

Sonisphere looks immense, don't get me wrong. But I'm strangely unenthusiastic. There's only Biffy Clyro I've never seen from that lot. The other bands I've seen numerous times before. I just hope they can bring some originality to the bill. Maybe some bands that don't play the fests as often.

Anyways, good stuff. Download are going to have to pull something huge out of the bag to even get close to competing with this.

Posted by Peter | January 17, 2011 5:11 PM | Reply to this

@peter i 100% agree with u . sonisphere looks like it wins hands down . and some amazing bands but both festival apart from parkway drive rob zombie and a7x i have seen them all . alot of repart bookings we shall download lost out becuase it got to big for its boots and very if ur face fits then we book un . attuide just looks at mcr

Posted by rob | January 17, 2011 5:17 PM | Reply to this

Rise Against please!!!

Posted by Sam | January 17, 2011 5:22 PM | Reply to this

soni is full of repeats, metalica biffy and in flames are only bands that excite me and u cant compare it with download, because download has only annouced 4 bands so of course soni is gonna look better

Posted by lorenzo | January 17, 2011 5:51 PM | Reply to this

And why is that???

Because I bet Download are struggling like fuck to book bands.

It used to be a simple case of Dowload being an easy choice for bands seeing as they are doing a European Festival tour anyway, but with Soni doing a load of Euro festivals themselves, AND them moving their UK date back a month, it's a lot easier for them to drag bands away from Donnington

Posted by Wil | January 17, 2011 6:22 PM | Reply to this