UPDATE: The official Soundwave 2014 lineup has finally dropped – all the details here!!!
The Soundwave 2014 lineup will be announced this Friday, 23rd August at 1:15pm, allowing fans to get some sleep before they start losing their minds. The drop date was announced via the official Soundwave Festival Twitter page, who tweeted “It’s a Date! Find out who will be gracing Soundwave Stages in 2014 this Friday at around 1.15pm.”
This comes after Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah may just have revealed another band slated for the bill, after a brief Twitter interaction with the American metalcore band Iwrestledabearonce.
After Maddah tweeted “I feel like Will Ferrell’s character in Semi-Pro. What should i do for 2nd announcement, wrestle a bear?” the band responded playfully, saying “bear wrestling you say? you should probabaly just wrestle US. On stage. At Soundwave. Hmmmm?!?” It’s not clear as to whether this means Iwrestledabearonce is on the SW14 roster or if the band is merely coyly vying for a spot.
Further stoking speculation on the nature of this year’s lineup, the notoriously outspoken festival mogul Maddah, once again took to Twitter to announce a potential deal struck with Channel V, tweeting “Cunts at @channelv want me to announce #SW14 line-up live on air this Friday wearing only a diaper… :(”
Still unclear as to what it may mean for the lineup but a reply from Channel V indicates that it’s of the utmost importance, telling Maddah “We won’t let you in the building unless you do it.”
Music Feeds is thinking the headliner might have a particularly extreme stage setup, like we all heard Marilyn Manson did in the 90s.
UPDATE: First lineup is here!
Green Day
Avenged Sevenfold
Stone Temple Pilots (W/ Chester Bennington)
Alice In Chains
Rob Zombie
Megadeth
Placebo
Afi
Korn
Alterbridge
Trivium
Down
Devildriver
Newsted
Biffy Clyro
Rocket From The Crypt
Asking Alexandria
Clutch
Alkaline Trio
Baroness
Five Finger Death Punch
August Burns Red
Testament
Living Colour
Letlive
Motionless In White
Gwar
Black Dahlia Murder
Mushroomhead
Finch
Pulled Apart By Horses
Nancy Vandal
Bowling For Soup
Trash Talk
Skindred
Volbeat
Amon Amarth
Terror
Whitechapel
Tesseract
The Story So Far
10 Years
Ill Nino
Hardcore Superstar
Walking Papers
Coliseum
Your Demise
Heaven’s Basement
Real Friends
It's a Date! Find out who will be gracing Soundwave Stages in 2014 this Friday at around 1.15pm. #SW14 #Excited #BringIt
— Soundwave Festival (@soundwavefest) August 21, 2013
@iamnotshouting bear wrestling you say? you should probabaly just wrestle US. On stage. At Soundwave. Hmmmm?!?
— IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (@iwabo) August 20, 2013
Cunts at @channelv want me to announce #SW14 line-up live on air this Friday wearing only a diaper… 🙁
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) August 20, 2013
