Metallica Regretfully Cancels Sonic Temple & Louder Than Life Performances To Support James Hetfield’s Recovery; Red Hot Chili Peppers & Tool Join Slipknot As Sonic Temple Headliners

by | Feb 26, 2020 | Festivals, News, Tour

Metallica has regretfully had to cancel their headline performances at Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival in Columbus, OH (May 15 & 17) and Louder Than Life in Louisville, KY (September 18 & 20) to allow singer James Hetfield to continue his road to recovery. 

Click here to read James Hetfield’s statement: www.metallica.com/news/2020-02-24-a-note-from-james.html

Metallica reassures its fans that Metallica will appear at Danny Wimmer Presents festivals Epicenter (May 1 & 3), Welcome to Rockville (May 8 & 10) and Aftershock (October 9 & 11) as scheduled.

Multiplatinum and Grammy winning bands Red Hot Chili Peppers (recently reunited with guitarist John Frusciante) and Tool have been announced as new headliners for Sonic Temple,joining Saturday’s multiplatinum, Grammy winning headliner, Slipknot for the May 15 – 17 festival at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline Friday, May 15 while Tool will headline Sunday, May 17.

Danny Wimmer Presents founder and festival creator Danny Wimmer says, “First and foremost, I want to say how much I respect and support James for taking care of himself, and for his commitment to getting healthy. At the same time, I am also deeply devoted to providing our festivalgoers with the biggest and best festival experience in the world. As disappointed as we all are to lose Metallica, I am thrilled that Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tool, dear friends of both DWP and Metallica, are stepping up on short notice to join Slipknot, keeping Sonic Temple on track to be the greatest rock festival in America.”

Sonic Temple and Louder Than Life pass holders who would like to exchange their passes to see Metallica at another Danny Wimmer Presents festival, or would like to receive a refund, will be able to do so starting this Friday, February 28. An email will be sent out to purchasers from Front Gate Ticketing on Friday at 10:00 AM EST with complete exchange and refund details.

Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival and Louder Than Life are produced by Los Angeles and Louisville-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination festivals in America. Additional DWP events include Aftershock, Bourbon & Beyond, Epicenter, Hometown Rising Country Music & Bourbon Festival, and Welcome To Rockville. They’re also the co-creators of Rock On The Range, America’s largest and most acclaimed rock festival, which celebrated its 12th and final year in 2018 with 140,000 in attendance.

Red Hot Chili Peppers And Tool Announced As The New Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival Friday & Sunday Headliners, Slipknot To Headline Saturday

Sonic Temple & Louder Than Life Pass Exchanges And Refunds Will Be Available Beginning Friday, February 28th At 10:00 AM EST

For more information on Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, visit:

Website: https://sonictemplefestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sonictemplefestival
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonictemplefest
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sonictemplefestival

For more information on Louder Than Life, visit:

Website: www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ltlfest
Instagram: www.instagram.com/louderthanlifefest

Traverser signed for RoSfest 2019

by | Jun 17, 2018 | Festivals, News

US progressive rock band, Traverser, is confirmed to appear at ROSFest 2019.

Traverser was formed back in 2005 and has two albums to their name at the time of writing with “Redshift” from 2014 as their most recent production. At this point, the band is active in the studio preparing material for their third studio album. Traverser has built themselves a name and a reputation for being active in the live circuit and have a reasonably high degree of success as an independent band. Their second album has sold 1000 physical copies which is quite a lot for a non-label band in this era of streaming and digital sales. Musically, they belong on the harder side of the modern progressive rock landscape citing bands such as Porcupine Tree, Tool and Protest the Hero among the cited sources of inspiration. Or, as the band describes themselves; “A unique mix of progressive, alternative rock and metal”.

We were lucky to find Traverser among a long list of Florida bands as their music appealed to us on such a high level, we knew we had to sign this band for the 2019 edition of RoSfest. This is a band that hadn’t been on our radar previously and we look forward to sharing their music with our RoSfest audience. They are a seasoned live band with strong, quality music, which will prove to be a very pleasant surprise for many of our regular festival attendees.

RoSfest 2019 will take place on May 3rd through 5th, 2019 at the Sarasota Opera House, Florida. The final line-up and schedule for the festival is still TBA. Confirmed bands to appear so far are: Riverside (headliner), Karmamoi, and Traverser.

Rosfest http://rosfest.com/
Traverser website: http://traverser.band
Traverser Facebook: http://facebook.com/traverserband
Traverser Bandcamp Red Shift album: https://traverser.bandcamp.com
Traverser Instagram: http://instagram.com/traverserband
Traverser Youtube: http://youtube.com/traverserportal

Video:
Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lTeLu3SyNk&t=1366s
Album update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H7LbKZOogg