Sailors, start off your next decade in style! 1 Month to go until you are onbroad Round X of The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise. On 70000TONS OF METAL will you get unrestricted festival access for 4-days to 60 Heavy Metal bands performing 120+ live performances, signing sessions, ...

30 days to go and 24 bands to come!

let's make it 23 bands to come as of right.......now!!

Ah yeah, guys, I would LOVE it to be Exhumed. https://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/logo/exhumed-4f971b14bf7b3.png I have not seen them live since they did a small boat around Sydney Harbor in 2003 (I think it was). So it's been ages since. That would be tops! I hope we get a band announcem...

Update (and angry update!) 3 - Devin Townsend 2 - Einherjer 2 - Epica 2 - Candlemass 2 - Moonsorrow 2 - Kampfar 2 - Cattle Decapitation 2 - Æther Realm 2 - Soen 2- Omnium Gatherum 1 - Wintersun 1 - Emperor 1 - Sortilège 1 - Flotsam & some Jetsam 1 - At the Gates 1 - Haggard 1 - Grave Digger 1 - The ...

On 70000 tons Facebook , Archon Angel premiered a new song , nothing out of the ordinary I feel , some may like it , to each his own taste . :| Finally! Between now and sailing, we have 24 bands left to come. Only just getting to know some Archon Angel now. Not much time for the rest to get my ears...

Totally!
Saw them on that 2015 cruise too!
Even though I don't like that small theater they played.
Melechesh are a unique band for sure.
2015 was my last cruise!
2020 booked and ready for the insanity once again!

Melechesh are out!

They begin a tour in January, starting in Germany on the 10th!

https://www.facebook.com/melechesh/phot ... =3&theater

How exciting..ughh. Sorry, I mean, how BORING. Dec. 7th is the cut off hey? Wow! This is really reassuring for everyone. Hardly! 36 bands only so far and 4 days to the cut off for cancellations. Um, yeah, someone at UMC needs to send that message out and get things active again. Far out. 2 and a hal...

I’m really hoping Andy hasn’t had a recurrence of whatever health issue sidelined him for a few months. it's absolutely unprofessional when it's all on one person. time to sell the 70k brand to a professional agency.... mmm...will there even be a 2021 cruise? If this year's an indication, this is i...

36 days to go! 36 bands so far and 24 bands to come. How do we process 24 bands in such a short space of time? Sorry, let me change that question a little. How do we have time to process NEW bands that many sailors don't know, in that time? With Xmas coming, Xmas work parties, wrapping up shit for t...

Well, we got a pool girl update and nothing else!
2 weeks without band updates.
BORING!!

Sad to say that we lost another forum veteran this week. Krystyna Maville (known as KRYS here on the forum) has gone on to join those other souls that have left us and entered the halls of Valhalla. She was an absolute darling of a soul and will be greatly missed, but I hope she has finally found p...

if not now, when?
if not if, what?
if not things, stuff?

If this (supposedly) health issue continues way into December, then what?
I know a way to get better!
Announce more bands!
The perfect distraction from whatever is (perhaps) going on.
Music is the best invention in human history.
Let's get distracted!

I don't recall a gap this long this close to sailing in the past.
Although, I've skipped the last few cruises. So, I wasn't checking periodically the last 4 years or so.









Survivor: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020 (booked).

I also saw some sailors dropping out on the facebook forum. Selling their spots. Already people quitting. I don't think I saw their reasons posted, but it made me wonder. With cabins STILL available all over the decks, what Pellaz was saying, drop one AMAZING band and woosh! They come back. JUDAS PR...

I reckon it is Exhorder! It would be really cool. http://www.mhf-mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Exhorder_logo.png I know they never played on the few cruises I was on, but have they ever been on broad? I was on 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 but I'm way too lazy right now to go digging. No bands for a w...

Maybe the E band could be Exhorder! They have a new album out. Their website has no shows/tours listed, which is really odd. So, maybe the reason is they are waiting for this announcement here before it gets shoved up to their own web page or something. I predict Monday morning we'll get the E we've...

4 days, 5 days...this drought sucks!
It's boring!
Let's E the fukk out of this E band already!

Well, whatever all his reasoning right now, 3 day drought has been a giant mood killer. Not enough time to get to know the band(s) so close to sailing. Imagine for example, Kissin' Dynamite was announced 2 days out from sailing. For me, that's no where near enough time to know the songs. Know the al...

Last dozen on Jan 3-7....damn. I find that very silly. Let's have 53 bands done by Dec 31. Then 1 a day from 2020 Jan. 1st. Which is also silly. I dunno what I am even saying. I just hate the whole 1 band a day thing anyway. I notice Vienna Metal Meeting has been a bit like this lately too. Doubt it...

Goddam!
Today is a let down eh!
50 days to sail and no bands today.

E!
Elimination.....

50 days to sailing and no one's home at the band posting HQ!

50 days to go!!!

Hootinee 3 - Devin Townsend 2 - Einherjer 2 - Epica 2 - Candlemass 2 - Moonsorrow 2 - Kampfar 2 - Cruachan 2 - Æther Realm 2 - Soen 1 - Wintersun 1 - Emperor 1 - Sortilège 1 - Flotsam & some Jetsam 1 - At the Gates 1 - Haggard 1 - Grave Digger 1 - The Agonist 1 - Trollfest * 1 - Kissin' Dynamite ** ...

I need to hear Eternal Tears of Sorrow and Ex Deo. Two bands I am totally unfamiliar with!

And on that note..... we are 50 days to sailing (where I am at least)
So....what do we get on a 50 days to go post?

E and then a JP band?

I think the last time I saw Atheist was @Hellfest in 2007 for me. So this is a 1 setter for me, this time. Who's the E band going to bE? EXHUMED ENSLAVED EARLY GRAVES ELECTRIC WIZARD ELIS (would have been amazing....RIP Sabine :( gone so early....) ENTOMBED AD or ENTOMBED....so silly how that's pann...

one day closer.......to 50 days!
What will we get on that day?

After the A band...a J band!!!

One Day Closer......to what? When Judas Priest is announced on 50 days to go? ha ha A - I just hope this A band is not Atrocity. Although, we would all need a nap at some point! Alien Weaponry, they would love to do the cruise. I am sure. But I will never do the Haka! I have too much respect for the...

One Day Closer....

One step closer to giving us 4 bands in 1 day!
Let's do it Skip!

Fuckin' ... A!

ARCTURUS
ABSU
Amorphis
Acid Witch


With so many 2017 repeats, if I had to choose one of those A bands:
Amaranthe

Gosh....hope it's not Alestorm.

Greetings Eartlhings 3 - Devin Townsend 2 - Einherjer 2 - Epica 2 - Candlemass 2 - Moonsorrow 2 - Kampfar 2 - Cruachan 2 - Æther Realm 2 - Soen 1 - Wintersun 1 - Emperor 1 - Sortilège 1 - Flotsam & some Jetsam 1 - At the Gates 1 - Haggard 1 - Grave Digger 1 - The Agonist 1 - Trollfest * 1 - Kissin' ...

I like Orphaned Land but I find them to be such a let down as well when they tour. They never seem to bring out their female vocalist with them, like Shlomit. Why? I saw them on the cruise before and in Sonisphere in Romania and Sydney and never once with their female vocalist(s). Tour budget? I du...

CARACH ANGREN hahahahaa I don't know them so I watched a video and laughed my balls off at their silly make up. That's a big zero for me there. Was it the one they did on ADULT SWIM? BR00TAL :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBGmLy9Stc hA! oh mate, that was hard to watch! New respect for them now...

Wobloomsy! 3 - Devin Townsend 2 - Einherjer 2 - Epica 2 - Candlemass 2 - Moonsorrow 2 - Kampfar 2 - Cruachan 2 - Æther Realm 2 - Soen 1 - Wintersun 1 - Emperor 1 - Sortilège 1 - Flotsam & some Jetsam 1 - At the Gates 1 - Haggard 1 - Grave Digger 1 - Archon Angel ??? 1 - The Agonist 1 - Trollfest ** ...

I like Orphaned Land but I find them to be such a let down as well when they tour. They never seem to bring out their female vocalist with them, like Shlomit. Why? I saw them on the cruise before and in Sonisphere in Romania and Sydney and never once with their female vocalist(s). Tour budget? I dun...

O.........yeah!

Let's roll O..ut the O band!

I've never heard of Bloodbound! Its fun, cheesy, typical power metal - songs about dragons and stuff. Obviously right in my ballpark. Check out their first couple of albums - Nosferatu and Book of the Dead. And I LOVE their latest album, Rise of The Dragon Empire. As I mentioned earlier they went t...

53 days to sailing....
I wonder, when it's 50 days to go...what band(s) get announced on that day!!

Buenos dias! 3 - Devin Townsend 2 - Einherjer 2 - Epica 2 - Candlemass 2 - Moonsorrow 2 - Kampfar 2 - Cruachan 2 - Æther Realm 2 - Soen 1 - Wintersun 1 - Emperor 1 - Sortilège 1 - Flotsam & some Jetsam 1 - At the Gates 1 - Haggard 1 - Grave Digger 1 - Archon Angel ??? 1 - The Agonist 1 - Trollfest *...

I've never heard of Bloodbound!

I don't even know where to begin.
I guess, I'll listen to Stormborn track first up.
See how things go from there.

Suffo' - well, how many singers is this now?