[cowboy71]

LETS DO THIS!!!

A refresh of the rules/guidelines if you will :-)

1 - Keep your wishlist formatted to one band a line. It's easier for me to work with than comma separated (ie band a, band b, band c, band d)
2 - Happy for people to make additions to their wishlists! I just ask that you make them as a new post, as I cannot detect if you've gone back and edited your initial post
3 - No rules on numbers (you can make 1 request, you can make a thousand!) but please no "ballot stuffing" by requesting the same band multiple times. That's not cool.
4 - No limits on what you request either! You want to request Iron Maiden even though there is zero chance of them doing 70K? Go for it!
5 - No 'deadline' either - I'll keep compiling the data right up until the date of sailing, 2025. As always I will at some point "formally" submit the list to the skipper though, maybe around time the tickets go on sale depending on when that is of course.


2025 we had over 9,000 requests from 193 different people, and 2,638 different acts. There were 12 bands from the top 100 on broad, and 12 with zero requests.

Lets see if we can beat all of that (except the zero requesters!) for 2026.

[AverageMetalDrummer]

LETS DO THIS!!!

A refresh of the rules/guidelines if you will :-)

1 - Keep your wishlist formatted to one band a line. It's easier for me to work with than comma separated (ie band a, band b, band c, band d)
2 - Happy for people to make additions to their wishlists! I just ask that you make them as a new post, as I cannot detect if you've gone back and edited your initial post
3 - No rules on numbers (you can make 1 request, you can make a thousand!) but please no "ballot stuffing" by requesting the same band multiple times. That's not cool.
4 - No limits on what you request either! You want to request Iron Maiden even though there is zero chance of them doing 70K? Go for it!
5 - No 'deadline' either - I'll keep compiling the data right up until the date of sailing, 2025. As always I will at some point "formally" submit the list to the skipper though, maybe around time the tickets go on sale depending on when that is of course.


2025 we had over 9,000 requests from 193 different people, and 2,638 different acts. There were 12 bands from the top 100 on broad, and 12 with zero requests.

Lets see if we can beat all of that (except the zero requesters!) for 2026.

You don’t waste any time, we’re still on the boat

I’ll put mine together after I get home. It might be good therapy for post-cruise depression.

[cowboy71]

Helps me deal with not being on boat

Here is my initial list for 2026


A Sound of Thunder
Ad Infinitum
Aephanemer
Aether Realm
All For Metal
Almanac
Alterium
Amaranthe
Ancient Bards
Arch Enemy
Ashes of Ares
Atlas Pain
Avantasia
Battle Beast
Battlelore
Beast In Black
Believer
Beyond The Black
Black Veil Brides
Blackbriar
Brainstorm
Breaking Benjamin
Brothers of Metal
Brymir
Burning Witches
Cage
Catalyst Crime
Cemetery Skyline
Chthonic
Circus Maximus
Civil War
Claymorean
Cobra Spell
Confidential
Countless Skies
Cradle of Filth
Dark Moor
Dark Sarah
D'Artagnan
Deathless Legacy
Demon Hunter
Diabulus In Musica
Diamante
Dragony
Eclipse
Edge of Paradise
Edguy
Electric Callboy
Elvenking
Elyose
Evertale
Evil Invaders
Ex Libris
excalion
Exit Eden
Fellowship
Feuerschwanz
Flames of Fire
Flood
Follow The Cipher
Formanyreasons
Frozen Crown
Furor Gallico
Galderia
Gamma Ray
Gladenfold
Glasya
Glyph
Grailknights
Hammer King
Heavatar
Hiraes
Ignea
Impellitteri
Imperial Age
In This Moment
Induction
Jaldaboath
Kaledon
King's X
Kobra and the Lotus
Labyrinth
Lacuna Coil
Lagerstein
League of Distortion
Living Sacrifice
Lovebites
Metalite
Moonlight Haze
Narnia
Neopera
Nestor
Nightmare
Nocturna
Northern Kings
Orden Ogan
Orpheus Omega
Paladine
Pathfinder
Penumbra
Phantom Elite
Pirate Queen
Power Paladin
Powerquest
Powerwolf
'Pythia
Queensryche
Rexoria
Running Wild
Sabaton
Savatage
Scorched Moon
Secret Rule
Semblant
Serenity
Serious Black
Seven Spires
Shewolf
Sigh
Silver Bullet
Sleeping Romance
Sojourner
Tarja
Tarot
Ten
Thaurorod
The Big Deal
The Dark Element
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Night Flight Orchestra
The Privateer
The Unity
Theocracy
Thunder
Tribunal
Trick or Treat
Trillium
Turisas
Unisonic
Valhalore
Valkeat
Van Canto
Vandroya
Vanishing Point
Verikalpa
Volbeat
Volturian
Walk In Darkness
Wig Wam
Within Temptation
Ye Banished Privateers
Zaria

[DrinkMoxie]

21 Lucifers
A Canorous Quintet
A Storm Of Light
Ablaze My Sorrow
Acid Bath
Acod
Acrassicauda
Aephanemer
Agalloch
Agathodaimon
Agretator
Alastis
Alcest
Algebra
Alligator
Alluvial
Amsvartner
Anacrusis
Anata
Anciients
...And Oceans
Angelus Apatrida
Annihilator
Anodyne
Anthrax
Arkona
Armageddon
Armored Saint
At The Gates
At War
Atheist
Atoma
Axamenta
Bal*Sagoth
Barn
Battlecross
Beseech
Bethzaida
Beyond The Embrace
Black Earth
Black Kirin
Blackguard
Blinded Colony
Blo.Torch
Blood Feast
Blood Stain Child
Bodyfarm
Bolt Thrower
Borknagar
Buckethead
Burden Of Grief
Buried Dreams
Burnt By The Sun
Burst
Caecus
Callenish Circle
Candiria
Cannae
Capharnaum
Car Bomb
Carcariass
Carcass
Cardinal Sin
Carnal Forge
C.B Murdoc
Cellador
Cemetery Skyline
Ceremonial Castings
Ceremonial Oath
Cipher System
Clawfinger
Cloak
Compos Mentis
Condition Critical
Conjurer
Construcdead
Coroner
Corporation 187
Corrosion Of Conformity
Countless Skies
Crematory
Crest Of Darkness
Crisis
Crisix
Cromlech
Crowbar
Crowpath
Crucible Of Hate
Cryptosis
Cyclone
Cyperna
Dagon
Dalriada
Damaged
Dark Angel
Dark Matter
Dark Tranquillity
Darkane
Darkest Hour
Darkness Remains
Daylight Dies
Dead Serious
Dead To Fall
Deadguy
Deadsoil
December
December Aeternalis
Deception
Deep
Delian League
Demolition Hammer
Descend Into Nothingness
Despised Icon
Destroy Judas
Destroy Them
Desultory
Devastation
Devil's Force
Devin Townsend
Dew-Scented
Dimension F3H
Dimension Zero
Disarmonia Mundi
Disbelief
Discreate
Disembodied
Disfear
Disillusion
Dispatched
Dissimulator
Downpour
Dragonland
Dyscarnate
Dysrhythmia
Ebony Tears
Edge Of Sanity
End
End Of All
End Of Green
Enforsaken
Entwine
Ephel Duath
Epoch Of Unlight
Equilibrium
Eternal Lies
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
Eucharist
Euphoreon
Eviscerate
Excretion
Exhorder
Exhumation
Extinction A.D.
Eyes Of Fire
Face Down (Sweden)
Fall Of Serenity
Fatal Embrace
Faust Again
Fires In The Distance
Firewind
Flying
Folkearth
Fragments Of Unbecoming
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
Frost Giant
Frosty Eve
Frozen
Gardenian
Gates Of Ishtar
Geezer
Ghoul
Ghoulunatics
Gnostic
Goatwhore
God Dethroned
God Forbid
Godthrymm
Gojira
Gospel Of The Witches
Graveripper
Green Carnation
Grey Skies Fallen
Greywalker
Grimfist
Grip Inc.
Guidance Of Sin
Hacride
Harboured
Hatesphere
Heaven Shall Burn
Heidevolk
Herod
High Parasite
Hinayana
Host
Hoth
Hypocrisy
Illogicist
Imperanon
Impious
In Battle
In Extremo
In Mourning
In~Quest
In Ruins
In Thousand Lakes
In Thy Dreams
Inanna Unveiled
Inner Thought
Insanity Alert
Intronaut
Ion Dissonance
Iotunn
Ithilien
Itself
Jaldaboath
Japanische Kampfhorspiele
Julie Laughs Nomore
Just Cause
Khonsu
Kirk Windstein
Korpiklaani
Kreator
Kull
Lake Of Tears
Legion Of The Damned
Lich King
Liers In Wait
Light This City
Living Sacrifice
Living Wreckage
Lord Humungous
Lorde Of All Desires
Lostsouls
Love History
Majesties
Manipulated Slaves
Meadows End
Melechesh
Mental Home
Metaspherical
Midvinter
Mindreaper
Mindrot
Ministry
Minsk
Miscreant
Misery Index
MMXX
Morbid Saint
Morgion
Mortal Vision
Mother Of All
Mumakil
Múr
My Hidden Sin
Myrath
Mysterium
Nail Within
Narsilion
Neaera
Neck
Necrocomiccon
Neglected Fields
Nekrogoblikon
Neocracy
Neon Nightmare
Neuraxis
Neurosis
Niden Div. 187
Night In Gales
Nightfall
Nightrage
Ninnuam
Node
Nonexist
Non-Human Level
Norther
Nostromo
Nothgard
Nothnegal
November 17
Num Skull
Nyktophobia
October Noir
October Tide
One Man Army And The Undead Quartet
Opera IX
Ophidian I
Orden Ogan
Orgone
Orphaned Land
Oubliette
Ozzy Osbourne
Panacea
Paradise Lost
Paria
Pentagram (Chile)
Piah Mater
Pillory
Pissing Razors
Plague Bringer
Porphyria
Powerwolf
Prayer For Cleansing
Pre-Human Vaults
Pretty Maids
Psycroptic
PsyOpus
Raunchy
Re-Armed
Reclusion
Red Harvest
Reflux
Revocation
Ritual Sacrifice
River Black
Ryujin
Sacrifice
Sadus
Sam Black Church
Sargon
Sauriel
Scarve
Scholomance
Sculpture
Seducer's Embrace
Seemless
Sevenday Curse
Shadow
Shadows Fall
Shangren
Sheol
Shores Of Ithaka
Shores Of Null
Sigh
Sikasa
Silva
Sins Of Omission
Six Reasons To Kill
Skeletonwitch
Skid Row(w/Sebastian Bach)
Skyfire
Slapdash
Slumber
S.O.D.
Sodom
Soilent Green
Solefald
Solemn Vision
Solstafir
Solstice
Somnus
Souldrainer
Spiral Architect
Stampin' Ground
Star Viper
Starwraith
Stortregn
Strapping Young Lad
Subterranean Masquerade
Suicidal Tendencies
Suidakra
Sulaco
Summer Dying
Swashbuckle
Taetre
Tartharia
Ten Masked Men
Tenet
Terra Odium
Terrifier
Terror 2000
Testament
Textures
The Absence
The Accursed
The Circle
The Crown
The End
The Excrementory Grindfuckers
The Forsaken
The Great Deceiver
The Halo Effect
The Haunted
The Red Chord
The Resistance
The Sins Of Thy Beloved
The Year Of Our Lord
The Zephyr
Therion
Thine Eyes Bleed
This Ending
Thornlord
Throne Of Chaos
Through The Eyes Of The Dead
Till The Dirt
Today Is The Day
Tormentor
Trepalium
Tribulation
Triton Enigma
Twisted Into Form
Ultraspank
Unanimated
Undying
Unruh
Uphill Battle
Upon Stone
Urkraft
Vampire Mooose
Vicious Blade
Vildhjarta
Vinterland
Vintersorg
Voivod
Voluspaa
Warbringer
Warmen
Whispered
Whitesnake
White Zombie
Wilderun
Witchery
Withered Beauty
Withering Surface
Witherscape
Within Y
Without Grief
Without Waves
Wraith
X-Cops
Xentrix
Yakuza
Zimmer's Hole
Zyklon

[Jabberwock]

Book a few of those (and preferably announce them more than a week in advance) and I'm in:

Aara
Ad Infinitum
Ancient Bards
Beyond The Black
Charlotte Wessels
The Dark Side Of The Moon
D’Artagnan
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Empress
Exit Eden
Fellowship
Feuerschwanz
Graceless
Hath
Havukruunu
Kanonenfieber
Lovebites
Lowen
Mansion
Mephorash
Patty Gurdy
Plan Nine
Schammasch
Sojourner
Temperance

Although I think Beyond The Black are already ruled out due to touring conflicts, but anyway.

[cowboy71]

Although I think Beyond The Black are already ruled out due to touring conflicts, but anyway.

Wow, a year out and ALREADY one off my wishlist is ruled out? THIS doesn't bode well LOL.

Fucking top tier wishlist btw - Ancient Bards, D'Artagnan, Exit Eden, Sojourner.... Some epic bands there that would be an insta-book for me if they got on the lineup.

[Jabberwock]

Although I think Beyond The Black are already ruled out due to touring conflicts, but anyway.

Wow, a year out and ALREADY one off my wishlist is ruled out? THIS doesn't bode well LOL.

Fucking top tier wishlist btw - Ancient Bards, D'Artagnan, Exit Eden, Sojourner.... Some epic bands there that would be an insta-book for me if they got on the lineup.

Fingers crossed! I feel like Ancient Bards may have a good shot with their comeback, or maybe that's just wishful thinking.

[Waydims]

Here's mine:

Aeon
Amon Amarth
Antichrist Seige Machine
Author & Punisher
Autopsy
Bell Witch
Blasphemy
Brocas Helm
Carnivore AD
Cavalera
Crescent
Cryoshell
Cryptosis
Cult of Fire
Darkestrah
Dark Funeral
Dethklok
Devin Townsend
Eaten by Sharks
Entropia
Everdawn
Fall of Stasis
First Fragment
Ghost Ship Octavius
Green Druid
Hammerhedd
Hellwitch
Hooded Menace
Horrendous
Kanonenfeiber
Marduk
Massacre
Master
Mercyful Fate
Messiah
MGLA
Monstrosity
Obvurt
Oceans of Slumber
PORTAL (AUS)
Possessed
Powerwolf
Protokult
Pyrexia
REVENGE (CAN)
Satyricon
Sithlord
Skinless
Sleep
Spectral Wound
Taake
Thantifaxath
Turilli/ Lione Rhapsody
Venom Inc
Vio-lence
Vital Remains
Voivod
Wolves in the Throne
YOB
Zuriaake

[rocking apple]

BORN FROM PAIN
GET THE SHOT
TERROR
RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR
LIONHEART
MADBALL
HATEBREED
HEILUNG
PANTERA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phoenix]

I've been informed that Andy said some things in his Thank You speech that could mean better communication going forward. I want that to be the case, and if we see it I'm much more open to going next year. But for now, I'll post the main three bands I want to see, and I'll add more later if I wind up booking.

ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW
LOVEBITES
SOILWORK

[Ishamael]

Epica
Ancient Bards
Xandria
Lacuna Coil
Amaranthe
Draconian
Seven Spires
Kamelot
Haggard
Cradle of Filth
Dark Tranquility
Visions of Atlantis
Cellar Darling
Leaves' Eyes

Also, for less known bands:
Flaming Row
Meschera (Мещера)

[AverageMetalDrummer]

Here you go, Statsman! And now we wait...

200 Stab Wounds
A Sound of Thunder
Abysmal Torment
Ad Infinitum
Aenimus
Agathodaimon
Amiensus
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Analepsy
Anciients
Anomalie
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
Armored Saint
Ashes of Ares
Atræ Bilis
Avantasia
Axamenta
Behemoth
Be’lakor
Beyond Twilight
Black Sun
Blackthorn
Bloodbath
Bloodorn
Bloody Hammers
Blynd
Brainstorm
Borknagar
Brodequin
Burning Witches
Cage
Cannibal Corpse
Carnation
Carnophage
Carved in Blood
Category 7
Cattle Decapitation
Cavalera
Celebrate the Bloodshed
Cellar Darling
Celtian
Cemetery Skyline
Confess
Creation’s End
Crowbar
Crypt Sermon
Crypta
Cytotoxin
Dark Tranquillity
Darkest Hour
Death Angel
Death Dealer Union
Death to All
Deathyard
Dethklok
Dimmu Borgir
Disbelief
Dream Evil
Dying Fetus
Elegant Weapons
Eluveitie
Engulfed
Ensiferum
Fates Warning
Faun
Feuerschwanz
Fifth Angel
Fires in the Distance
First Fragment
Flaming Row
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Forbidden
Furor Gallico
Gaerea
Ghost Ship Octavius
Go Ahead and Die
Godthrymm
Grand Cadaver
Graveshadow
Heilung
Heir Apparent
Helga
Helker
HELL:ON
Hour of Penance
Hinayana
Hindarfjäll
Hiraes
Hrothgar
Hypocrisy
I am the Intimidator
Ignea
Illumishade
Illusion Suite
Immortal
In Vain
Infinity’s Ashes
Innerwish
Insomnium
Interloper
Into Eternity
Iron Savior
Jelusick
Jorn
Kalandra
Kataklysm
Katalepsy
Katatonia
Kimaera
Kvaen
Lacuna Coil
Lahmia
LeFay/Morgana LeFay
Lowen
Månegarm
Masterplan
Mental Cruelty
Meshera
Meshuggah
Miseration
Misery Index
Mob Rules
Myrkur
Mystic Prophecy
NEKKBREAKKER
Nervosa
Nevermore
Nightmare
Nile
Oak, Ash, & Thorn
Obituary
Oceans of Slumber
Opeth
Orbit Culture
Orden Ogan
Oubliette
Pentakill
Persefone
Phantom Elite
Pissing Razors
Poison the Preacher
Pro-Pain
Pyramaze
Queensryche
Redemption
Reliqa
Remina
Rivers of Nihil
Saltatio Mortis
Sascha Paeth’s Masters of Ceremony
Savatage
Scar Symmetry
Sensory Amusia
Seven Spires
Severe Torture
Skeletal Remains
Skinless
Skull Fist
Slechtvalk
Sons of Apollo
Sorcerer
Steel Attack
Steel Prophet
Stormlord
Suidakra
Sunburst
Symphorce
Tad Morose
Testament
The Grandmaster
The Halo Effect
Therion
Throne of Thorns
Thyrfing
Tribulation
Triosohere
Trobar De Morte
Tryglav
Tyr
Unto Others
Valhalore
Vale of Pnath
Vanir
Verikalpa
Vintersea
Voidgazer
Votum
Vulvodynia
Wardruna
Whom Gods Destroy
Wind Rose
Winterborn
Winters Bane
Withering Scorn
Witherfall
Witherscape
Wretched Fate

[MuzakMaker]

First round of wishlist.
With a good chunk ruled out by this year's boat, I'm going to need a band high on my bucketlist as well as some proof of those promises from Andy's "thank you" to be convinced to drop a couple thousand for this

3 Inches of Blood
Ad Infinitum
Adamantis
Aether Realm
AfterTime
Alien Weaponry
Allegiance Reign
Amaranthe
Amiliyah
Amorphis
Amusie
Ancient Bards
Andy Gillion
Anneke van Giersbergen
Anthem
Apocalyptica
Archon Angel
Arkangela
Ascension
Atavistia
Auridius
Avantasia
Axxis
Battle Beast
Batushka
Beast in Black
Blind Guardian
Blood Stain Child
Bloodbound
Body Count
Bridear
Butcher Babies
Cains Offering
Carach Angren
Carcass
Celestial Wizard
Challenger Deep
Civil War
Cobra Czar
Conquer Divide
Corsair
Cran Aranaria
Crimson Shadows
Crobot
Cybertronic Spree
Cyhra
dArtagnan
Dead Icarus
Dear Mother
Deathless Legacy
Dethlehem
Devin Townsend(in any iteration)
Dialith
Dovas
Dragonforce
Dragonland
Dragony
Dream Evil
Droids Attack
Edge of Paradise
Edguy
Electric Callboy
Eluveitie
ElvenKing
Empress
Ensiferum
Enterprise Earth
Epica
Exit Eden
Fellowship
FeuerSchwanz
Firewind
First Fragment
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Freedom Call
Gaerea
Galneryus
Glyph
Gone in April
Grailknights
Grand Magus
Grave Digger
Graveshadow
Green Death
Greyhawk
GreyLotus
Gyze/Ryujin
Heavatar
Helion Prime
Helloween
Hellryder
Hoaxed
Idol Throne
Illumishade
Immortal Guardian
In Flames
Infected Rain
Inferi
Intrinsic
Iron Kingdom
Iron Savior
Japanese Folk Metal
Jeff Scott Soto
Jinjer
Jorn
Kamelot
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Knight of the Round
Knightmare
Lacuna Coil
Lame Genie
Lizzy Borden
Lord of the Lost
Lordi
Lords of the Trident
Magic Sword
Magnum
March in Arms
Master Sword
MaYaN
Mega Colossus
Meshuggah
Mithya
Moonlight Haze
Morningstar
Myrath
Naitaka
Nekrogoblikon
Night Demon
Nightmare
Nightwish
Oak, Ash, & Thorn
Of Romulus
Ok Goodnight
Omnium Gatherum
Oracle
Orden Ogan
Overkill
Paladin
Patriarkh
Plague of Stars
Pretty Maids
Psychostick
Queen of Dreams
Reaping Asmodeia
Sabaton
Sascha Paeth's Master of Ceremony
Seeker Pearl
Seige Perilous
Seizure
Serenity
Seven Spires
Shield of Wings
Skelator
St. October
Starkill
Starwraith
Steelhammer
Striker
Tarot
Tenacious D
Terra Atlantica
Testament
The Motion Mosaic
The Wise Man's Fear
Theocracy
Throne of Iron
Tower Hill
Tragedy
Traveler
Turisas
Tyr
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
Untoothers
Valhalla
Van Canto
Visions of Atlantis
Volbeat
Vuur
Warkings
While She Sleeps
Wilderun
Wind Rose
Within Temptation

[sflheadbanger]

Amon Amarth
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
Be'Lakor
Burning Witches
Bewitcher
Death Angel
Dragonlord
Exodus
Frozen Crown
Galactic Empire
Gamma Ray
Ghost
Helloween
Hooded Menace
Malist
Municipal Waste
Nailed to Obscurity
Nightrage
Paranorm
Powerwolf
Sabaton
Sacred Reich
Skeletonwitch
Sonja
Stratovarius
Suicidal Angels
Tribulation
Unto Others
Van Canto
Visigoth
Hatriot
ne obliviscaris
Metal riser
Draconian
Tribunal
Solemn Vision
Absolute Darkness
Scorched Moon
Warmen
Cemetery Skyline
Exmortus
Beyond the Hate

[SonataForever]

My wishlist for 2026
Some of these are from disbanded bands and extremely unlikely bands, but regardless it'd be sweet to see these bands and their music in some way.

Adagio
Amorphis
Anaal Nathrakh
Anacrusis
Anathema
Angra
Arch Enemy
Artension
Astral Doors
At the Gates
Avantasia
Axenstar
Ayreon
Battle Beast
Beast in Black
Before Eden
Biomechanical
Blind Guardian
Brainstorm
Brymir
Cain's Offering
Children of Bodom
Circus Maximus
Conception
Cyclone Temple
Cynic
Dali's Dilemma
Dark Tranquillity
Darkane
Death
Devil Doll
DGM
Diabolical Masquerade
Dragony
Dream Evil
Dream Theater
Edguy
Elvenking
Enforcer
Enslaved
Eternal Champion
Evergrey
Evil Masquerade
Exmortus
Falconer
Falkenbach
Fates Warning
Fellowship
Freedom Call
Galneryus
Gamma Ray
Heathen
Helloween
Hibria
Hollenthon
Human Fortress
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
In Flames
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Kamelot
Katatonia
Keldian
Leaves' Eyes
Leprous
Lost Horizon
Luca Turilli
Manticora
Megadeth
Metal Church
Metallica
Mind Odyssey
Moonlight Agony
Mors Principium Est
Myrath
Nightwish
Olympos Mons
Opeth
Opus Atlantica
Orphaned Land
Overkill
Pain of Salvation
Power Quest
Primordial
Pyramaze
Queensryche
Rhapsody
Rigor Mortis
Riverside
Sabaton
Savage Circus
Savatage
Saviour Machine
Shadow Gallery
Sigh
Skull Fist
Skyfire
Soilwork
Spheric Universe Experience
Steel Attack
Strapping Young Lad
Testament
Therion
Thought Chamber
Threshold
Thunderstone
Turisas
Unexpect
Unisonic
Vanden Plas
Virgin Steele
Vola
Voyager
Warrior Path

[thebluelizard]

NEW BANDS:
Ὁπλίτης
!T.O.O.H.!
1349
200 Stab Wounds
Absu
Acid Bath
Aephanemer
Agalloch
Ahab
Alkaloid
Anata
Anciients
Angel Witch
Animals as Leaders
Arka'n Asrafokor (Togo)
Arsis
Asphyx
Aspid
Be'lakor
Between the Buried and Me
Bison BC
Boris
Blind Illusion
Blood Incantation
Blotted Science
Blut Aus Nord
Borknagar
Carpathian Forest
Cephalic Carnage
Chthe'ilist
Chthonic
Circus Maximus
Conan
Cryptic Shift
Dark Angel
Dark Moor
Darkane
Decrepit Birth
Deströyer 666
Dethklok
Dew-Scented
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Dimmu Borgir
Dismember
Dragonlord
Droid
Edge of Sanity
Edguy
Epoch of Unlight
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
Eucharist
Evile
Falls of Rauros
First Fragment
Forbidden
Fossilization
Funeral
Galneryus
Gama Bomb
Gamma Ray
Gatecreeper
Gojira
Gorgoroth
Gorguts
Gorod
Grave Miasma
Haken
Harakiri for the Sky
Hate Eternal
Helms Alee
Hibria
High on Fire
Hirax
Immolation
Immortal
Imperial Crystalline Entombment (I.C.E.)
In Flames (if you can get them to play old shit)
Infant Annihilator
Inferi
Infernäl Mäjesty
Into Eternity
Intestine Baalism
Intronaut
Iron Reagan
Kanonenfieber
Kiuas
Krallice
Kvelertak
Kylesa
Leviathan
Limbonic Art
Mare Cognitum
Martyr (Canada)
Mekong Delta
Ministry
Misery Index
Morbid Saint
Morrigan
Myrath
Nocturnus AD
Norther
Old Man's Child
Opeth
Paladin
Panopticon
Paradox (Germany)
Pelican
Persuader
Primordial
Psychotic Waltz
Sarcófago
Scale the Summit
Seth
Shatter Messiah
Skeletal Remains
Skeletonwitch
Skyfire
Shadow Gallery
Sigh
Sleep
Slugdge
Soreption
Spawn of Possession
SubRosa
Summoning
Tenacious D
The Chasm
Tomb Mold
Toxic Holocaust
Triptykon
Vektor :'(
Vinterland
Vital Remains
Wardruna
White Ward
Xentrix
Yyrkoon
Zimmer's Hole
Zyklon

REPEATS:
Amon Amarth
Anaal Nathrakh
Artillery
Atheist
Behemoth
Benediction
Carach Angren
Convulse
Coroner
Death to All
Devin Townsend
Grave
Gyze
Havok
Heathen
Jag Panzer
Kampfar
Moonsorrow
Municipal Waste
Ne Obliviscaris
Novembers Doom
Pestilence
Psychostick
Susperia
Toxik
Vader
Whiplash

UNLIKELY BECAUSE ON HOLD / SPLIT UP / DON'T TOUR BUT YOU NEVER KNOW!:
Bolt Thrower
Dark Forest (Canada)
Demigod
Drudkh
Hexen
Lykathea Aflame
Necrophagist
Nuclear Assault
Quo Vadis
Strapping Young Lad
Weakling
Woods of Ypres
Xasthur
Yattering
Zyklon

[caddee313]

2026 Wishlist
Agalloch
Ancient Entities
Anciients
Avernus
Bedsore
Be'lakor
Blackbraid
Cattle Decapitation
Cephalic Carnage
Ceremonial Castings
Clouds
Cradle of Filth
Darkest Hour
Despised Icon
Devin Townsend
Dying Fetus
Exhorder
Exodus
Finality
Forbidden
Gaerea
Gorguts
Gorod
GWAR
Horna
Huntsmen
Job for a Cowboy
Kanonenfeiber
Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches
Kurokuma
Kvelertak
Loudness
Lowen
Marduk
Martyr
Midnight
Nile
Novembers Doom
Oak, Ash, & Thorn
October Noir
Primordial
Sacrifice
SIGH
Silvertomb
Taake
Testamnet
The Skull
Today Is The Day
Uada
Ulcerate
Unto Others
Vektor
Vintersea
Voivod
Vvon Dogma
White Ward
Witch Mountain
Without Waves
Yakuza
Патриархь (Patriarch)

[Metalhead_80s]

Updated 70K wishlist!

3 Inches of Blood
Accept
Acid
Angel Witch
Annihilator
Arch Enemy
At The Gates
Avantasia
Beast in Black
Bewitcher
Bloodbound
Blood Feast
Burning Witches
Bütcher
Cradle of Filth
Danzig
Dark Tranquility
Death Angel
Demolition Hammer
Destruction
DORO
D.R.I.
Draconian
Ensiferum
Evil Invaders
Exodus
Exumer
Firewind
Forbidden
Gamma Ray
Ghoul
Havok
Heavy Load
Helloween
Hellripper
High Command
Hiraes
In Flames
Iron Reagan
Jag Panzer
KK's Priest (please!!!)
Legion of the Damned
Legions of Doom (ex-Trouble members)
Laaz Rockit
Lizzy Borden
Loudness
Lucifer
Manilla Road
Metal Church
Michael Schenker
Midnight
Midnight Dice
Moonspell
Nasty Savage
Over Kill
Pagan Altar
Pestilence
Power Paladin
Praying Mantis
Pretty Maids
Primal Fear
Raven
Razor
Reinforcer
Rhapsody of Fire
Riot V
Riot City
Sacrifice
Saidan
Satan
Savage Master
Savatage (please!!)
Saxon
Solicitor
Sortilège
Spell
Suicidal Tendencies
Tarja
The Skull
Tokyo Blade
Tower
Toxic Holocaust
Toxik
Traveler
Venom
Venator
Victory
Vio-lence
Visigoth
Visions of Atlantis
Vulture
Warbringer
Watain
Whiplash
Wintersun
Wraith
Yngwie Malmsteen w/ Jeff Scott Soto
X-Japan

[rocking apple]

POWER TRIP !!!

[zboy]

impelliterri
axel rudi pell
witherfall
paradox
jag panzer
cradle of filth
michael schencker
lacuna coil
paradise lost
annhilator
depressive age
nile
abbath ( pipe dream)
agalloch
if these trees could talk
elder
monster magnet
novembers doom
helstar

[aleyeahed]

Alright, in keeping with the at least 1 band from the Metallian roster and requesting half of the bands from the Continental roster to ensure wishlist hits I present the following, and as always, thanks for compiling Dallas:

1914
3 Inches of Blood
200 Stab Wounds
Acerus
Acid Bath
Act of Impalement
Aephanemer
Ætheria Conscientia
Afsky
Afterbirth
Agalloch
Air Raid
Alkaloid
Amalekim
... And Oceans
Anaal Nathrakh
An Abstract Illusion
Ancient Empire
Ancient Mastery
Angrrsth
Antioch
Antrisch
Arkheron Thodol
Ashenspire
Atavista
Attic
Atvm
Autonoesis
Avantasia
Be'lakor
Belzebubs
Blackbraid
BlackRain
Black Soul Horde
Blackslash
Blitzkrieg
Bolt Thrower
Blut Aus Nord
Borknagar
Bütcher
Caladan Brood
Carach Angren
Carpathian Forest
Castrator
Cave Sermon
Challenger
Chapel Of Disease
CHTHE'ILIST
Cinderella
Cirith Ungol
Concrete Age
Corpsessed
Countless Skies
Crypts of Despair
Crystal Coffin
Cursebinder
Daath
Daeva
Demiser
Demon
Demon Spell
De Profundis
Diabolic Oath
Diabolizer
Diamonds Hadder
Disguised Malignance
Dissimulator
Dordeduh
Dormant Ideal
Draconian
Duskmourn
Elderwind
Empyrium
Enforced
Enforcer
Eternal Storm
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
Evil Invaders
Evoking Winds
Faceless Burial
Faithxtractor
Fossilization
Frozen Dawn
Gaerea
Gallowbraid
Gevurah
Gravesend
Griffon
Grima
Hands Of Goro
Hath
Havukruunu
Heilung
Helloween
Hellripper
Hinayana
Hot Graves
Houle
Huntsmen
Hybrid Nightmares
Inconsessus Lux Lucis
Inherits The Void
Into Eternity
Iron Savior
Judas Priest
Judicator
Kanonenfieber
Kardashev
Keel
King Diamond
Klagelieder
Kostnatění
Kvaen
Kryptos
Lamp Of Murmuur
Legion Of The Damned
Leiþa
Lizzy Borden
Loviator
Lowen
Lurid
Malformity
Malokarpatan
Mānbryne
Manticora
Mare Cognitum
Marrasmieli
Megaton Sword
Mephorash
Metal Church
Moisson Livide
Molten
Mortiferum
Musk Ox
Misþyrming
Moonlight Sorcery
Necropanther
Necrophobic
Nestor
Non Est Deus
Nothingness
Nox Doloris
Obsequiae
Omnicidal
Operus
Overkill
Oxygen Destroyer
Panzerfaust
Perliaxe Occlusion
Raider
Rimfrost
Riot City
Riot V
Running Wild
Sacred Outcry
Second to Sun
Selvans
Schammasch
Selbst
Sgàile
Shylmagoghnar
Sidus Atrum
Sisyphean
Sojourner
Spectral Voice
Starlight Ritual
Stormkeep
Stygian Crown
Suffering
Hour
Sulphur
Aeon
Sumerlands
Summoners Circle
Sur Austru
The Committee
The Night Eternal
Thron
Thundering Hooves
Tómarúm
Tower
Traveler
Tribunal
Triumph
Tzompantli
Udande
Ulfúð
Ultha
Unfelled
Véhémence
Vengeful Spectre
Venator
Visigoth
Vorga
Vorna
Vredhammer
W.A.S.P.
Warbringer
Warcrab
Wardruna
Wayfarer
Wayward Dawn
Wheel(Germany)
White Ward
Wings Of Steel
Witch Vomit
Wormwitch

[Ethrivas]

Dear statsman, here is my initial list for 2026:

1914
ABLAZE MY SORROW
AEPHANEMER
Aeternam
AETHERIAN
Agathodaimon
ALESTORM
ALLEGAEON
AMORPHIS
Anaal Nathrakh
Amon Amarth
AVATAR
Behemoth
BE'LAKOR
Belzebubs
BLACKBRAID
Brymir
CLOAK
Cryptosis
DÅÅTH
DARK OATH
DIMMU BORGIR
EDGE OF SANITY
Ensiferum
FIRES IN THE DISTANCE
Foretoken
Gaerea
GROZA
Hinayana
Hiraes
Hypocrisy
Ignea
In Aphelion
Iotunn
KANONENFIEBER
King of Asgard
KVAEN
Lucifer's Child
MELECHESH
Mezarkabul(Pentagram)
MGŁA
MOONSHADE
MÖRK.GRYNING
NAILED TO OBSCURITY
Necrophobic
NETHERBIRD
NON EST DEUS
Old Man's Child
Orbit Culture
PERPETUAL NIGHT
PSYCROPTIC
Rhapsody(Turilli-Lione)
SATYRICON
SETH
SHADE EMPIRE
SHYLMAGOGHNAR
SODOMISERY
STORTREGN
SYLOSIS
Testament
THE COMMITTEE
THE CROWN
THE GREAT OLD ONES
The Halo Effect
THE SPIRIT
THULCANDRA
Tryglav
TRIBULATION
Trivium
Turisas
ULFVEN
Unanimated
Voidfallen
VREID
Warbringer
Wintersun
Wolfheart
Wormwitch
WORMWOOD
ZORNHEYM

Thanks in advance...

[Downvod]

Abbath
Aborted
Aephanemer
Aeternam
Agalloch
Alcest
Alestorm
Allegaeon
Amorphis
Andy Gillion
Angelus Apatrida
Animals as Leaders
Annihilator
Arkona
Armageddon
Arsis
Ashes of Ares
At the Gates
Behemoth
Be'Lakor
Belushi Speed Ball
Belzebubs
Blackbraid
Blind Guardian
Bloodbath
Bloodred Hourglass
Borknagar
Caligula's Horse
Carcass
Cattle Decapitation
Conjurer
Countless Skies
The Crown
Cthonic
Dalriada
Dark Funeral
Dark Tranquillity
Death Angel
Death to All
Deception (Norway)
Deeds of Flesh
Destruction
Devin Townsend
Disillusion
Dordeduh
DGM
Dimmu Borgir
Draconian
Dragonlord
Dust Bolt
Enshine
Ensiferum
Enslaved
Equipoise
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Evergrey
Evocation
Exodus
Exmortus
Finsterforst
Fires in the Distance
First Fragment
Foretoken
Fractal Gates
Fugitive
Gaerea
Galactic Empire
Gatecreeper
Ghoul
God Dethroned
Gojira
Harakiri for the Sky
Havok
Hellripper
Hiraes
Hypocrisy
Immortal
Inferi
Insomnium
Intronaut
In Mourning
Intronaut
In Vain
Kampfar
Killer be Killed
Kreator
Kvelertak
Lovebites
Manegarm
Marduk
Mastodon
Melechesh
Meshuggah
Midnight
Mgla
Mol
Monuments
Moonsorrow
Myrkur
Mystic Prophecy
Naglfar
Necrophagist
Necrophobic
Ne Obliviscaris
Nevermore
Night Demon
Nile
Norrskold
Old Man's Child
Omnium Gatherum
Opeth
Orden Ogan
Osyron
Paradise Lost
Primordial
Psycroptic
Rage
Redemption
Refuge
Revocation
Rivers of Nihil
Rotting Christ
Sadus
Serenity
Skeletal Remains
Soen
Soilwork
Sojourner
Solstafir
Solution.45
Sulphur Aeon
Sunburst
Suotana
Sylvatica
Taake
Temic
Tesseract
Testament
Thulcandra
Thyrfing
Tribulation
Uada
Vader
Vallenfyre
Vektor
Verikalpa
Vltimas
Vreid
Warbringer
Watain
Wheel
Wilderun
Winterfylleth
Winterhymn
Wintersun
Witchery
Witherscape
Wolfheart
Wolves in the Throne Room
Wombbath
Words of Farewell
Xerath
Yoth Iria
Zeal & Ardor

[VeganMetalhead]

Here is my list for 2026, hopefully next year I won't have to leave the boat before it departs.

1914
200 Stab Wounds
3 Inches of Blood
Aara
Ad Infinitum
Agalloch
Alcest
Amiensus
An Abstract Illusion
And Oceans
Avantasia
Aviations
Belakor
Blackbraid
Can Bardd
Cavalera Conspiracy
Celeste
Circus Maximus
Countless Skies
Cradle of Filth
Dance With the Dead
Dark Funeral
Darkest Era
Daylight Dies
Dodsrit
Downfall of Gaia
Draconian
Duskmourn
Dying Fetus
Ellende
Eluveitie
Eternal Storm
Evergrey
Fellowship
Feuerschwanz
Fires in the Distance
Frozen Crown
Frozen Soul
Gaerea
Gatecreeper
Ghost Bath
Harakiri for the Sky
Hath
Heaven Shall Burn
Helloween
Heretoir
High Command
Hulder
IOTUNN
Kanonenfieber
Karg
Khemmis
Leipa
Leprous
Lords of the Trident
Mental Cruelty
Midnight
Misery Index
Mol
Mors Principium Est
Nazghor
Ne Obliviscaris
Nocturnal Rites
Non Est Deus
None
Oceans of Grief
Ophidian I
Orden Ogan
Pagan's Mind
Pain of Salvation
Panopticon
Pyramaze
Secret Sphere
Seth
Seventh Wonder
Skeletoon
Soen
Sojourner
Spectral Wound
Stormruler
Svalbard
Sylvaine
The Morningside
The Night Flight Orchestra
The Spirit
Theotoxin
Thyrfing
Totalselfhatred
Trold
Tzompantli
Uprising
Visigoth
Wayfarer
White Ward
Windfaerer
Winterfylleth
Wintersun
Wolves in the Throne Room

[Razor Ramon]

Draconian
My Dying Bride
October Tide
In Mourning
Lacuna Coil
Wintersun
Haggard
Therion
Bloodbath
Tsjuder
Naglfar

Never been on 70K:
Abysmal Torment
Aeonian Sorrow
And Oceans
Anneke Van Giersbergen
Autumnal
Battlelore
Be’lakor
Bloodred Hourglass
Borknagar
Bowel Fuck
Carpenter Brut
Counting Hours
Daylight Dies
Demonical
Depressed Mode
Devour The Fetus
Dawn Of Solace
Drab Majesty
Eivør
Fluids
For I Am King
Fuck I’m Dead
Funeral
Golgotha
Grand Cadaver
Hangman’s Chair
Hamferd
Harakiri For The Sky
Hanging Garden
Heaven Shall Burn
High Parasite
Kælan Mikla
Karg
Klimt1918
Kontinuum
Konvent
Lik
Letters From The Colony
Midnight Odyssey
Milking The Goat Machine
Minipony
MØL
Myrkur
Noumena
Old Man’s Child
Perturbator
Rainover
Remina
Rotten Sperm
Seth
Shape Of Despair
Skepticism
Sojourner
Suldusk
Sulphur Aeon
Sylvaine
The Gathering
The Old Dead Tree
The Wounded
Throes Of Dawn
Tomb Of Finland
Tyranny
Ultar
Venom Prison
Viscera Infest
Within Temptation
Wormrot
Wormwood

[leomar]

My wishlist

Alestorm
Amaranthe
Amorphis
Apocalyptica
Arion
Avantasia
Battle Beast
Beast In Black
Brother Firetribe
Cyhra
Dynazty
Gloryhammer
Himmelkraft
Kamelot
Majestica
New Horizon
Nightwish
Northern Kings
Pain
Peyton Parrish
Psychework
Sabaton
Stell Panther
Sonata Arctica
Thunderstone
The 69 Eyes
VV

[BugaB]

Hi,

My wishlist for 2026:

Accept
Adamantine
Anthrax
Annihilator
Arch Enemy
Archaic
Assassin
Atheist
At the Gates
Avatar
Beermacht
Behemoth
Black Fast
Blind Guardian
Bütcher
Carnifex
Crisix
Crossfaith
Deadborn
Deathstars
Death to All
Destruction
Devilment
Devildriver
Domine
Doro
DRI
Ektomorf
Electric Callboy
Exul
Exumer
Forbidden
Gruesome
Helloween
Infernal Majesty
In Flames
Jungle Rot
King Satan
Kreator
Legion of the Damned
Meliah Rage
Molybaron
Morbid Saint
Necrophobic
Nekrogoblikon
New Years Day
No Cure
Obituary
Orbit Culture
Orgy
Overkill
Paradox
Persefone
Possessed
Pyracanda
Running Wild
Static-X
Stormwitch
Suicidal Angels
Unto Others
Testament
Thanatos
The Accüsed
Thy Catafalque
Udo
Voivod
Witchery
Xentrix

[manooel]

Brief whislist of first timers for 2026:

Aephanemer
Alluvial
Be'lakor
Black Crown Initiate
Eye Of The Enemy
Fractal Gates
Frantic Amber
Gojira
Graveworm
Myrath
Noumena
Parasite Inc.
Stormlord
Tribulation

[Derketa]

My Wishlist 2026:
-----------------
1914
Abbath
Ablaze my sorrow
Aephanemer
Aeternam
Alestorm
Allegaeon
Amorphis
Anaal Nathrakh
Amon Amarth
Avatar
Behemoth
Be'lakor
Blackbraid
Brymir
Cloak
Dååth
Dimmu Borgir
Ensiferum
Fires in the distance
Groza
Hypocrisy
Ignea
In Aphelion
Kanonenfieber
Kvaen
Lucifer's Child
Melechesh
Mgla
Moonshade
Mörk gryning
Nailed to obscurity
Necrophobic
Orbit Culture
Panzerfaust
Perpetual night
Psycroptic
Rhapsody of fire
Satyricon
Shade empire
Shymaghognar
Sylosis
The crown
The spirit
Tribulation
Trivium
Turisas
Watain
Wintersun
Wolfheart

[Cymoril]

2026 will be my first time on board!

Please find here my wishlist:

Alcest
Ancient
Black Oath
Blind Guardian
Carpenter Brut
Deathless Legacy
Domine
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Firewind
Forgotten Tomb
Freedom Call
Gamma Ray
Goblin
Heavenfall
Helloween
Hiems
Labyrinth
Moonlight Haze
Nanowar of Steel
Rhapsody of Fire
Savatage
Temperance
The Rite
Trick or Treat
Twilight Force
Vision Divine
Wind Rose
Wintersun

[MMatti]

Only the bands I am most keen on getting announced.

Agalloch
Ahab
Anciients
Be'lakor
Black Crown Initiate
Blood Incantation
Chapel of Disease
Crimson Glory
Cult of Fire
Cult of Luna
Dool
Frozen Soul
Hamferd
Mgla
Myrath
Onheil
Rivers of Nihil
Schammasch
Solstafir
Stortregn
Sweven
The Ocean
Thy Catafalque
Ulcerate
White Ward
Zuriaake

None of these great bands have been on the boat before, AFAIK. While I enjoy discovering the "new & unknown" bands that are on every year (ideally with more than a few days' time to listen to them..), it is this category of "new but (fairly) well known" bands that I want the skipper to tap from more in coming years.

[Sgt. B]

Nice list Matti, except for your lack of Sulphur Aeon.

Solstafir was on the Barge to Hell.

[aleyeahed]

Already adding to mine Stats, not sure how I left them off, this injustice must be rectumfried:

Thy Catafalque

[MMatti]

Nice list Matti, except for your lack of Sulphur Aeon.

Solstafir was on the Barge to Hell.

I almost put Sulphur Aeon on, just for you.

Interesting that Solstafir was on Barge to Hell. Not what I would have expected, not brutal enough.
Anyway, they don't strike me as cruise loving people, but I hope they had a good time and would consider coming back. I can see their music working well on the pool deck at night.

[Sgt. B]

Solstafir did play the pool deck. If I remember correctly, it was around 10am.

[MuzakMaker]

All this talk about Electric Callboy in in rumours and predictions and I realized I left off a band

We Butter the Bread With Butter

WBTBWB walked so EC could run and are definitely more likely to be in Andy's budget than EC

[Yukara9]

Aborted
Aephanemer
Agalloch
Amorphis
Andy Gillion
Arkona
At the Gates
Be'Lakor
Belzebubs
Borknagar
Cattle Decapitation
Dalriada
Devin Townsend
Disillusion
Dimmu Borgir
Draconian
Dragonlord
Evergrey
Fires in the Distance
Gaerea
Gatecreeper
Ghoul
Gojira
The Haunted
Hiraes
Infected Rain
Insomnium
In Mourning
In Vain
Jinjer
Killer be Killed
Lords of the Lost
Meshuggah
Midnight
Mgla
Myrkur
Mystic Prophecy
Ne Obliviscaris
Night Demon
Nile
Old Man's Child
Omnium Gatherum
Opeth
Osyron
Paradise Lost
Primordial
Redemption
Rivers of Nihil
Rotting Christ
Serenity
Soen
Soilwork
Solstafir
Temic
Tesseract
Uada
Vader
Vltimas
Warbringer
Wheel
Wilderun
Wintersun
Wolfheart
Zeal & Ardor

[homer907]

Here's looking forward to 2026.

1349
Agalloch
Akercocke
Allegaeon
Anaal Nathrakh
Archspire
Behemoth
Blut Aus Nord
Borknagar
Cannibal Corpse
Carnal Forge
Cattle Decapitation
Cephalic Carnage
D'Artagnan
Diviner
Draconian
Dying Fetus
Dyscarnate
Electric Callboy
Eluveitie
Enforced
Enslaved
Exumer
Fracturus
Gaerea
God Forbid
Harakiri For The Sky
Hatesphere
Havok
Heresy
Hypno5e
Kanonenfieber
Legion of the Damned
Mercenary
Meshuggah
Mgla
Misery Index
Nevermore
Nile
Nine Treasures
Nordjevel
Old Man's Child
Orbit Culture
Paradise Lost
Psycroptic
Psygnosis
Raunchy
Rivers of Nihil
Saltatio Mortis
Seth
Soilwork
Stortregn
Twelve Foot Ninja
Tyr
Une Misere
Vredehammer
White Ward
Wolves in the Throne Room
Wrath of Logarius
Zeal & Ardor

[Chippy]

Jordsjuk
nordjevel
Trollfest
Dark Tranquillity
Black Therapy
Manegarm
Munarheim
Der Weg einer Freiheit
Dark the suns
Mors principium est
Aether Realm
aversions crown
shadow of intent
belzebubs
dark oath
dawn of disease
duskmourn
electric callboy
we butter the bread with butter
eternal tears of sorrows
fragments of unbecoming
genus ordinis dei
havamal
in mourning
kanonenfieber
marianas rest
meadows end
moonsorrow
morgarten
non est deus
shylmagoghnar
this ending
thyrfing
tylangir
tyrmfar
voidfallen
words of farewell
zornheym

[cowboy71]

OKAY FIRST CUT!

2025 we ended up with only 12 bands from the top 100, and 12 with zero requests. And over 9,000 requests from 193 different people.

I'd like to see us beat all those numbers for 2026 (EXCEPT the zero requestors).

Note that ORANGE are bands that have NOT been on previously, and RED will be bands that are ruled out already, GREEN will be for announced repeating bands, and BLUE will be for announced bands playing 70k for the first time!

Cutting off at 5 requests for now. It only gives us the top 77 but there are almost that many again on 4 requests.

13 Be'Lakor

10 Aggaloch, Kanonenfeiber

9 Aephanemer, Gaerea, Helloween

8 Amorphis, Avantasia, Behemoth, Borknagar, Draconian, Ensiferum, Testament, Wintersun

7 Dark Tranquillity, Devin Townsend, Fires In The Distance, Gamma Ray, MGLA, Tribulation

6 Amon Amarth, Anaal Nathrakh, Arch Enemy, At The Gates, Blackbraid, Blind Guardian, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Dragonland, Eternal Tears Of Sorrow, Hiraes, Hypocrisy, Lacuna Coil, Myrath, Nile, Old Man's Child, Orden Ogan, Psycroptic, Sojourner, White Ward

5 Ad Infinitum, Alcest, Anciients, Annihilator, Beast In Black, Belzebubs, Cattle Decapitation, Countless Skies, Electric Callboy, Elvenking, Fellowship, Feuerschwanz, First Fragment, Forbidden, Gojira, Harakiri for the Sky, In Flames, In Mourning, Meshuggah, Midnight, Misery Index, Ne obliviscaris, Necrophobic, Opeth, Orbit Culture, Overkill, Paradise Lost, Primordial, Rhapsody, Rivers of Nihil, Savatage, Seth, Sigh, Soilwork, Turisas, Unto Others, Warbringer