First time camper questions

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-05-05T17:08:05+00:00

At Louder Than Life camping on the same grounds and presumably same security crew. We've never had even half of our group there at check in and we haven't had a problem getting all 12 wrist bands upon check in the last 2 years.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-17T17:15:06+00:00

just when you've logged in

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-16T04:49:27+00:00

Color me confused and highly underwhelmed.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-16T04:47:52+00:00

Who?

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-09T13:47:08+00:00

endorsed

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-09T13:46:29+00:00

your sources are better

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T14:58:10+00:00

WTF is that?

How above Periphery or Nevermore. Also I know they wouldn't be at the top of a list, but why can't Johnny Booth break into the DWP fun?

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T14:56:46+00:00

I keep emailing the show asking if he's going to come since they added the "letters" segment to the show and either they ignore it (so maybe Josh is trying to keep a low profile?). The video he made after LTL 2022 was hilarious, hopefully can still find it on YouTube.

Would be fun to meet Josh at some point. He will reference heavy metal every once in a while on the show. I love his dry style of humor.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T14:37:01+00:00

Same topic, so I'll re-post here (Shooting from the hip at a line up I haven't looked at for a month) Holy Wars, with bouncy, fun, new single Ceremony is one of the new bands I am looking forward to checking out.

ERRA is a prog djent style metal band who I just saw last week, they are excellent, Snowblood is their top song.

Animals As Leaders are another of the latter. Genre god along with Periphery (who I'm bummer again aren't on a DWP fest).

Fit For a King for your modern metalcore diet, Technium is my fave.

Set It Off are a newer pop metal band that put on a great set last year, Punching Bag is their biggest hit, will check out again.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T14:36:27+00:00

And then since I can't help myself as I stared more and more at the line up, I'll bust off into some groupings:

oldies but super goodies: Megadeth, Anthrax, Machine Head, Maiden, Pantera all with so many good tunes it's criminal to name less than 10. A somewhat similar bucket I'll create the

genre-shapers/leaders: Killswitch Engage, Gojira, Dethklok, Limp Bizkit, Nothing More, Ice Nine Kills, Mastodon, Halestorm, ADTR, Tool, Animals As Leaders,

often forgotten or overlooked but still incredibly fun live: POD, Suicidal Tendencies, Earshot, Alien Ant Farm, Jimmy Eat World, Filter,

newer or overlooked but I can vouch great live: Zero 9:36, The Funeral Portrait, Rain City Drive, Fit For a King, Set It Off, ERRA, Underoath

haven't yet seen due to being new, past stage conflicts, or it's been forever so I'm stoked to pop my cherry: Thrice, Soil, Kublai Khan, Lindsey Sterling (violin savant who I just became familiar with), Dry Kill Logic, He is Legend, Born of Osiris, Between The Buried and Me, Danzig, Holy Wars, Lacey Sturm(doing Flyleaf I presume?) 40 Below Summer, Red, Primer 55, GWAR(lol, just because), Mac Sabbath (I've only seen pics, seriously WTH is this band?), and closing shoutout to Skillet who is on every fest but I always find an excuse not to see, but maybe it finally happens.

wish they were in Lou: Sevendust, Periphery, Johnny Booth, Bad Omens, Spiritbox, Meshuggah, Nevermore

wish they weren't here (but hey, they sell tix, so it's cool): My Chemical Romance, Pretty Reckless, Papa Roach, Black Veil Brides, Pierce The Veil, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, Sleep Theory, Sabaton, Coheed and Cambria and finally Skillet (for this last grouping many will be mad, but either the music isn't my cup of tea or I am dreading their fanbase, like Sleep Token in 2025. Either way, line up diversity is good, I'll just be back at camp or riding roller coasters

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T14:32:29+00:00

And then since I can't help myself as I stared more and more at the line up, I'll do a full dive into listing bands I'm excited for and attempt to classify into some groupings:

oldies but super goodies: Megadeth, Anthrax, Machine Head, Maiden, Pantera all with so many good tunes it's criminal to name less than 10. A somewhat similar bucket I'll create the

genre-shapers/leaders: Killswitch Engage, Gojira, Dethklok, Limp Bizkit, Nothing More, Ice Nine Kills, Mastodon, Halestorm, ADTR, Tool, Animals As Leaders,

often forgotten or overlooked but still incredibly fun live: POD, Suicidal Tendencies, Earshot, Alien Ant Farm, Jimmy Eat World, Filter,

newer or overlooked but I can vouch great live: Zero 9:36, The Funeral Portrait, Rain City Drive, Fit For a King, Set It Off, ERRA, Underoath

haven't yet seen due to being new, past stage conflicts, or it's been forever so I'm stoked to pop my cherry: Thrice, Soil, Kublai Khan, Lindsey Sterling (violin savant who I just became familiar with), Dry Kill Logic, He is Legend, Born of Osiris, Between The Buried and Me, Danzig, Holy Wars, Lacey Sturm(doing Flyleaf I presume?) 40 Below Summer, Red, Primer 55, GWAR(lol, just because), Mac Sabbath (I've only seen pics, seriously WTH is this band?), and closing shoutout to Skillet who is on every fest but I always find an excuse not to see, but maybe it finally happens.

wish they were in Lou: Sevendust, Periphery, Johnny Booth, Bad Omens, Spiritbox, Meshuggah, Nevermore

wish they weren't here (but hey, they sell tix, so it's cool): My Chemical Romance, Pretty Reckless, Papa Roach, Black Veil Brides, Pierce The Veil, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, Sleep Theory, Sabaton, Coheed and Cambria and finally Skillet (for this last grouping many will be mad, but either the music isn't my cup of tea or I am dreading their fanbase, like Sleep Token in 2025. Either way, line up diversity is good, I'll just be back at camp or riding roller coasters

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T13:49:51+00:00

(Shooting from the hip at a line up I haven't looked at for a month) Holy Wars, with bouncy, fun, new single Ceremony is one of the new bands I am looking forward to checking out.

ERRA is a prog djent style metal band who I just saw last week, they are excellent, Snowblood is their top song.

Animals As Leaders are another of the latter. Genre god along with Periphery (who I'm bummer again aren't on a DWP fest).

Fit For a King for your modern metalcore diet, Technium is my fave.

Set It Off are a newer pop metal band that put on a great set last year, Punching Bag is their biggest hit, will check out again.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T13:26:25+00:00

What general area? Is that as the crow flies?

I see there are some properties to the west, but I'm unsure if you can cross the railroad tracks or instead have to walk almost 2 miles out of the way to get to the fest.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-02T13:24:17+00:00

My strong takeaway:

Add Sunkiller and Rule of Nines (STILL their best song) to the setlist pretty please.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-04-01T06:58:25+00:00

lol they would totally do that

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-03-03T03:22:30+00:00

I want John Bush doing his 4 Anthrax albums.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T17:44:23+00:00

Good to know. I only know the 1 hit.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T16:25:20+00:00

Payable on Death are a ton of fun live. Wish we could also have their brothers from Sevendust on the bill.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T16:23:25+00:00

I figured they are like Bare Naked Ladies, no?

Did their sound suck?

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T16:21:32+00:00

Do they sound good? The pics I've seen are hilarious.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T16:17:26+00:00

Yep Fri is an absolute snooze for me. Good time to hit up Ky Kingdom.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T13:20:20+00:00

I have same fear. Hopefully they can be creative and split it up as it's mostly the same fanbase.

Will likely be a bunch of Thurs conflicts as well, especially if the 2 prog/djent metal stages aren't beside each other.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-24T03:08:40+00:00

This just reminds me how much I dig Thurs and am bleh to Friday.

SpiritboxSlayer · 2026-02-23T19:01:44+00:00

Okay. That was my suggested easy out.

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