October 31st! Happy Halloween!

The most metal moment for me was seeing Aether Realm perform the whole of The Sun, the Moon, the Star, when Evan from Wilderun coming out to sing the ending chorus for them. His voice is amazing, that chorus is amazing, and it was the absolute cruise highlight for me.

There's been some speculation about a bigger boat but given how this year seemed to struggle to sell out I doubt it will happen this year. I'd guess they'd want another year or two of solid sellouts like 2018-19 before they think about upping the ship class. As per the dates, I didn't realise the Su...

The Running Order for Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise is now online. To see the running order, please click here . https://70000tons.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020_RUNNINGORDER_SQUARE.jpg Nice! No major conflicts, though some very late nights...

The Running Order for Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise is now online. To see the running order, please click here . https://70000tons.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020_RUNNINGORDER_SQUARE.jpg Nice! No major conflicts, though some very late nights...

5 - Wilderun - 2 4 - Aether Realm - 2 4 - Soilwork - 2 4 - Omnium Gatherum - 2 4 - Epica - 2 4 - Soen - 2 4 - Orphaned Land - 2 4 - Moonsorrow - 2 4 - Ihsahn - 2 4 - Novembers Doom - 2 3 - Aeternam - 2 3 - Wintersun - 2 3 - At the Gates - 2 3 - Finntroll - 2 3 - Bloodbound - 2 3 - Cruachan - 3 2 - E...

Holy shit he did it! What an absolute mad lad. Ok that's it, this lineup is dope. Up till this week I was excited, but this was shaping up to be the weakest lineup since 2015. But now, two of my wishlist bands I've never seen back-to-back, this is off the charts. This is why we preach stupidly about...

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. Looks like you are the one who started it. I was just thinking yesterday during the day, Wilderun are local US, unsigned, a...

5 - Wilderun - 2 4 - Aether Realm - 2 4 - Omnium Gatherum - 2 4 - Epica - 2 4 - Soen - 2 4 - Orphaned Land - 2 4 - Moonsorrow - 2 4 - Ihsahn - 2 4 - Novembers Doom - 2 3 - Aeternam - 2 3 - Wintersun - 2 3 - At the Gates - 2 3 - Finntroll - 2 3 - Bloodbound - 2 3 - Cruachan - 3 2 - Emperor - 2 2 - Ca...

Well we really couldn't help ourselves, Sailors. 60 bands playing 120 concerts on broad our 154,000ton luxury cruise ship, the Independence of the Seas, is simply not enough METAL! This is 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise and are so excited to partake in Roun...

5 - Aether Realm - 2 4 - Omnium Gatherum - 2 4 - Epica - 2 4 - Soen - 2 4 - Orphaned Land - 2 4 - Moonsorrow - 2 4 - Ihsahn - 2 4 - Novembers Doom - 2 3 - Aeternam - 2 3 - Wintersun - 2 3 - At the Gates - 2 3 - Finntroll - 2 3 - Bloodbound - 2 3 - Cruachan - 3 2 - Emperor - 2 2 - Candlemass - 2 2 - ...

Now that the lineup is complete(?), I gotta say that I'm pretty impressed. While there may be fewer "5 on the Scale" bands than in previous years for me, overall there's far more bands I want to see than I'm going to have time for. I'm particularly impressed, given our concerns that the end of the l...

Looks like we're light on 60 min bands at the moment, so I'm guessing that some of Ross (that Manowar hype, plus he plays big venues on his upcoming tour), Orphaned Land (60 all years but 2017), Moonsorrow (pretty hype name and already bumped to 70 for one set), and Cattle Decapitation (last album w...

The Facebook page is claiming that the random capitals are just an accident, so this may be it for the lineup. On the other hand, they haven't come right out and said that this is it, so we shall see. Ereb Altor is cool, at least. TBH, while I'm a big fan of the big and mid level bands Andy gets out...

On first spin, FirstBourne is pretty solid hard rock/power metal action. I may see them if there are no conflicts.

Pellaz wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:00 pm

Danny24601 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:37 pm

I should toss myself on this, I don't think I've met most of you yet and this seems to be as good a time as any.

Awesome. You'll be easy to recognize, with that fine white fur and all.

Sadly I'm not nearly as cute in real life.

5 - Aether Realm - 2 4 - Omnium Gatherum - 2 4 - Epica - 2 4 - Soen - 2 4 - Orphaned Land - 2 4 - Moonsorrow - 2 4 - Ihsahn - 2 4 - Novembers Doom - 2 3 - Aeternam - 2 3 - Wintersun - 2 3 - At the Gates - 2 3 - Cruachan - 3 2 - Emperor - 2 2 - Finntroll - 2 2 - Candlemass - 2 2 - Devin Townsend - 2 ...

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:26 pm

Updated attendee list, FinnPete will not get on the boat unfortunately

toby
cegr80
Pellaz
slayergeek
taketheday
Ethrivas
bodomdragon
Bob
Amalu
Statsman
AstridDragon
Danny24601

I should toss myself on this, I don't think I've met most of you yet and this seems to be as good a time as any.

Don't forget that they really want to do it as well. I've spoken with them a few times about it and they are so down. I know they're an unsigned band (for some unknown reason). I wonder if that makes things easier or harder to coordinate for something like 70K. Maybe... Aether Realm signing with Na...

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...

At this rate we may have to modify the requirements for the Cripper award this year, or just not worry about it! With 9 bands to go, still none that qualify. Sortilege - only 7,000 last.fm listeners, haven't been on before, no famous members. But a cult band that formed 40 years ago isn't in the 's...

cowboy71 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:03 pm

Latest 3 - all 45s? Or does Ross get 60 because, Manowar?

My money is on Ross getting 60, looking at the lineup so far.

5 - Aether Realm - 2 4 - Omnium Gatherum - 2 4 - Epica - 2 4 - Soen - 2 4 - Orphaned Land - 2 4 - Moonsorrow - 2 4 - Ihsahn - 2 4 - Novembers Doom - 2 3 - Aeternam - 2 3 - Wintersun - 2 3 - At the Gates - 2 3 - Cruachan - 3 2 - Emperor - 2 2 - Finntroll - 2 2 - Candlemass - 2 2 - Devin Townsend - 2 ...

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...

Who's the boss? ROSS THE BOSS is! Follow your new metal leader up the gangway to board Round X of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise and you'll have the time of your life, sailing through the "V"ast Caribbean towards our dream destination, Cozumel. https://7000...

We're back to having more announcements than days left, so hoping to get some more names (rotting christ?) tomorrow!

Godflesh wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:30 pm

Only 1 of these bands got 60mn in 2019, but in 2017, 3 of them did.

Note that 2017 had to make up for the last minute loss of Gojira and Nile. It is not representative.

progsteph wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2019 12:40 pm

its weird because i read this all the time and seem to "know" some guys.

This is one of the weird things about online forums, i feel it so much.

Anyhow, hello and welcome!

Assuming that we get 3 cripper 3-packs, we have 9(?) announcements to go! Which means that we once again have more announcements than days, and so announcements must cease again for a few days.

Godflesh wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 25, 2019 7:59 pm

We're overdue for RAVEN:


Rhapsody 2018
Rhapsody Of Fire 2016

That would make me slightly sad. I'd love to see rhapsody, tho i think that we'd get them as a T at this point.

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...

cowboy71 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:13 pm

Six out of Seven from the USA so far. This is exceeding my low expectations.

And not in a good way

As long as they're good US bands I'm good with it. And so far, they seem pretty great

Do some people REALLY expect to see Watain on the cruise?! :lol: Give up guys, you'll see NAMBLA ads on Fox Kids before this ever happens. I think they're more likely than Wolves in the Throne Room. While they'd be a sweet ad, their ideology as revealed through interviews makes me think you wouldn'...

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.

Oh fuck yeah!!!!! A beloved band I've never seen before! What a big hit!

Well, would you look at that? Edenbridge is unsurprising but solid nightwishcore, and incantation will please those who desire the caveman riffs. Looks like Havok has gone the way of Candlemass and Borknagar.

So...... bets on whether we'll reach the legendary 2 bands left per day mark?

Its what, five days away?

Wow, we're approaching the end of this week and no announcements yet. Consider me officially stunned.

I simply must inquire, whomst the fuck is playing at this festival of ours

cowboy71 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:32 pm

Really expected announcements to start up again by now......

Yeah I'm pretty easygoing by the standards of this forum and if we don't get Edenbridge/Expain/Ex Deo/whoEver announced sometime (early) this week I'm going to be legitimately concerned.