For what it's worth, one of the recent social media posts did say 'start off the new year in style' while advertising 70K 2021. This was in the same post that teased dates being announced soon. This would lead me to believe the intention is still to sail in Jan or Feb next year...

June 6

Godflesh wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 7:50 pm

+ALIEN WEAPONRY
6 thrash

Yeah, AW definitely doesn't register as thrash to me either. Having tried them both on record and live, I also can say that i truly don't understand the hype at all. Maybe the groove metal sound just doesn't do anything for me anymore?

Breakdown of the top 105 by genre. Hope you are taking note skipper! 22 POWER METAL. Over 20%! And 4 THRASH :P 22 Power 21 Melodeath 12 Black 10 Folk 7 Death 7 Prog 6 Symphonic 4 Doom 4 Thrash 3 Extreme 2 Pirate 2 Tech Death 2 Viking 1 Dad 1 Goth 1 Post Metal And further breaking down, via country:...

Razor Ramon wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:03 pm

What is at Turks? I got off, walked on the beach, went in whatever restaurants were there and took a look, realized there wasn't shit else, then got back on the ship.

The Margaritaville swim up bar sells it for me... right next to the port.

Dallas,

Please add a vote for Finsterforst

OUT? - Because they cost too much Gojira (might *just* be within budget) given that they were due to be on board in 2017 and haven't released anything since 2016's Magma I do hope they are still within budget... Right, but their announcement came RIGHT after that album came out. They have experienc...

They are much more likely to be out due to doing MORC than because of their cost. They are regulars on On The Blue cruises. Qyeensryche is on Kiss Kruise 10 coming up around Halloween this year ! If you look at the cost to book Queensryche, they are higher than any band that's played 70K. Yes they ...

Abbath Aephanemer Aetherian Alestorm Allegaeon Amon Amarth Amorphis Andy Gillion Animals as Leaders Annihilator Arkona Armageddon Arsis Ashes of Ares Battlecross Behemoth Be'Lakor Belzebubs Beyond Creation Black Crown Initiate Blind Guardian Bloodbath Bloodred Hourglass Borknagar Brymir Carcass Chil...

I was wondering if Children of Bodom will make some sort of line up changes. I can't see those guys staying out for long. I mean, I stopped caring about them like 10+ years ago, just thinking that they'll return eventually Sounds like there's some definite legal complexities to deal with before tha...

Aborted - 1 Aeternam - 3 Aether Realm - 2 Archon Angel - 0 Atheist - 1 Axxis - 0 At the Gates - 3 Bloodbound - 0 Brujeria - 0 Candlemass - 0 Cattle Decapitation- 1 Carach Angren - 2 Cruachan - 1 Dark Matter - 1 Devin Townsend - 3 Edenbridge - 0 Einherjer - 1 Emperor - 2 Ereb Altor - 2 Epica - 3 Exod...

I’ve been hoping like hell for Wilderun. My excitement has suddenly gone way up for next week!

thanks for the info. That's pretty much what I thought, that the storms would be quick if they came at all. Sounds pretty much like Wisconsin weather. the 10 day forecast is useless. the 10 minute forecast is usually accurate. Sitting here in Kenosha right now, I would tend to agree with you. :lol:

If living in the midwest has taught me anything it's that you can't predict the weather more than about an hour away, and yet, I still look at 10 day forecasts as if they're factual. It looks like thunderstorms are predicted for the day in Cozumel and possibly the return trip. So, I ask the experie...

Stormsleeper wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:49 pm

Hell yeah.

First time on board and blessed with 100% of my wish list.
Thanks 666 times.

I smell a troll here...

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:22 pm

Cripper bands!

No Raza doesn’t qualify, since they played in 2016, correct?

It is ridiculous at this point. We've had a run of 17 North American bands, with 2 of them being a 'W' announcement. Wilderun just released a great new album, is heavily requested, and best buds with Aether Realm. it seemed like a slam dunk! Don't forget that they really want to do it as well. I've...

If you ever find yourself floating in the Bermuda Triangle WITHOUT WAVES , then you just might have entered a parallel dimension! In this dark, twisted reality 70000TONS OF METAL does not exist. Fortunately for you, that is not the case because you live in the real world! Round X begins on January ...

Also: ..... Up next we have something special: 3 different bands from 3 different continents representing 3 different styles of metal. ..... SO my map helped then? :D Only if we have an announcement from the Republic of Congo. The funny part is they are presenting it as something special, when real...

Andy, pls include Be'lakor from Australia continent and you will make lots of people happy. I would be over the moon for Be’lakor, but I really don’t expect we’ll get them as a 3 pack announcement. They would be a huge announcement amongst the 70K crowd. A first time, top wishlist band that rarely ...

Here Skipper. Allow me to help you out. You seem to have forgotten that there are a world of countries OUTSIDE of North America where bands ALSO come from. I've drawn you a picture in the hopes that it jogs your memory. See the circled blue bit? Bands come from out there too: https://i.imgur.com/Ti...

Do you play to win? STRIKER certainly does, and they'll be playing on broad Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise! Once on our outbound voyage to beautiful Cozumel and again on the way back. There's no better place in the "W"orld to start off the new ye...

If its going to be all american bands can we AT LEAST have something lighter to balance out the extreme? Ashes of Ares, Circle II Circle (we've already got zak on broad!), Iced Earth of course, Theocracy(!!!), Symphony X (since we already have Mike Lepond), Seven Kingdoms, Seven Spires. I caught th...

Aborted - 1 Aeternam - 3 Aether Realm - 2 Archon Angel - 0 Atheist - 1 Axxis - 0 At the Gates - 3 Bloodbound - 0 Brujeria - 0 Candlemass - 0 Cattle Decapitation- 1 Carach Angren - 2 Cruachan - 1 Devin Townsend - 3 Edenbridge - 0 Einherjer - 1 Emperor - 2 Epica - 3 Exodus - 2 Finntroll - 5 Flotsam an...

Since the last power metal band, 19 announcements ago, we've had: Death, Melodeath, Black, Grind, Death, Symphonic(!!), Death, Doom, Thrash, Thrash, Tech-Death, Melodeath, Thrash, Trad, Trad, Thrash, Melodeath, Thrash, Extreme. And: USA, Israel, The Netherlands, USA, USA, Austria, USA, USA, USA, US...

Ethrivas wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:40 pm

Be'lakor, Brymir or Belzebubs to end the streak of NA bands....

Belzebubs is ruled out, as Niilo already has a gig booked with Insomnium during the cruise.

Sailors, we are delighted to welcome AETERNAM back onbroad Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise. That's not all... AETERNAM will host a listening session onbroad for their upcoming album, "Al Qassam" and they will even premiere some of these songs live...

Really just phoning these announcements in. I guess we know what's been going on these last 5 weeks. On the phones to all american bands to fill the running order. I just HOPE that at some point he starts announcing NON American bands that have been locked in for a while.... I mean... American band...

Really just phoning these announcements in. I guess we know what's been going on these last 5 weeks. On the phones to all american bands to fill the running order. I just HOPE that at some point he starts announcing NON American bands that have been locked in for a while.... I mean... American band...

Wow, so many American bands that we can see all the ducking time. GSO are good, but you know we don't go on 70k for the American bands. I dunno about you, but most of these announced bands have not been to vancouver in many years, some of them never. It's a pretty sweet run of bands from across the...

Beware of THE FACELESS as they invade the high Seas! Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise is about to kick off starting on January 7th, 2020. We're excited to begin the new decade with all of you Sailors! And since it's the holiday season we have more ...

Beware of THE FACELESS as they invade the high Seas! Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise is about to kick off starting on January 7th, 2020. We're excited to begin the new decade with all of you Sailors! And since it's the holiday season we have more ...

Six out of Seven from the USA so far. This is exceeding my low expectations. And not in a good way :roll: I’ll honestly be shocked if we get any at this point who aren’t from the US. I really don’t think they’ll all be domestic. For 2016, there were 15 bands announced very late in the game (days to...

Danny24601 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 6:22 pm

If we're looking for American bands who would go over well with cruisers, fingers crossed for Wilderun. And they're pals with aether realm so this would be a good year for it.

Yes, THIS! An inexpensive domestic band who has an album of the year contender. Make it so!

Looks like there are 10 private cabins left: 1N Quad - appears to be two left 2D Double - appears to be one left 1D Triple - appears to be only two left J3 Double - appears to be only two left J3 Triple - appears to be only two left J3 Quad - appears to be only one left Type / Double / Triple / Qua...

Wow, we're approaching the end of this week and no announcements yet. Consider me officially stunned. And yet, cabin categories continue to magically get marked as sold out...... :? Maybe this was a new marketing strategy... by not announcing any bands at all, it is impossible for them to announce ...

WOW. Online check in before 40% of the lineup is known. This is gonna take some beating in future years..... But 20 days out is great ,I think this might be a notion of defeat for selling more cabins.I imagine sending the information to Royal Caribbean before Christmas was another motivation,2 holi...

Online Check-in started 18 December,that is early and a good sign /bad sign.Good sign that people will realize,you be on the boat.Bad sign ,I don’t see any band announcements until after Christmas at least. Nah, that doesn’t mean anything. Remember, they announced on sale dates before any announcem...

I would be very much okay with that if it were to come to pass :) The guitar player is also in Omnium Gatherum. Guess they are going with a replacement? Historically Insomnium have always had two guitar players, over the last years that was Ville and Markus. Ville decided he didn't want to tour any...

Yeah cannot say those that have been added or those that were revealed and not added so far. Don't want to compromise my sources. Lets just say some pretty big names across multiple genres that would have surely moved cabins. As you say, MAYBE if big names got added now, at least it might help the ...