Soundwave 2013 Lineup Announced

After months of rumours and speculation regarding exactly who would be playing Soundwave 2013, the official line up was revealed this morning, bringing some Gen Y/X spanning nostalgia in metal-legends Metallica, pop punk favourites Blink 182, super group A Perfect Circle and the requisite Mike Patton band in Tomahawk announced as headliners.

With a second ‘equally exciting’ announcement yet to come, here are a whole bunch of reasons the festival is expected to sell out in record time:

Metallica
Blink 182
Linkin Park
A Perfect Circle
The Offspring
Paramore
Garbage
Tomahawk
Stone Sour
Kyuss Lives
Anthrax
Sum 41
Dragonforce
Flogging Molly
Ghost
Duff Mckagan’s Loaded
Motion City Soundtrack
Lawrence Arms
Kingdom of Sorrow
Fozzy
Sleeping With Sirens
Cancer Bats
Madball
Vision of Disorder
Pierce the Veil
Periphery
Shai Halud
of Mice & Men
Miss May I
Woe Is Me
the Wonder Years
While She Sleeps
Such Gold
Lucero
Six Feet Under
Deaf Havana
Red Fang
Chunk! No Captain Chunk!
Memphis May Fire

National dates are as follows:
Saturday 23rd February – Brisbane
Sunday 24th February – Sydney
Friday 1st March – Melbourne
Saturday 2nd March – Adelaide
Monday 4th March – Perth

General Public tickets will go on sale Thursday 23rd August at 9am.

Words By Nikki Brogan

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