The Blue Ridge Rock Festival, set for Sept. 8 to 11 at the Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia, is releasing its 2022 lineup one act a time. Ninety-eight of a reported 171 acts have been announced as of March 25.
On social media, festival organizers have said there will be 12 reunions, seven “special performances,” two debuts, one farewell and, for VIP ticket-holders, 12 acoustic sets.
For tickets and more information, go to www.blueridgerockfest.com.
The following acts (in alphabetical order) have been announced since our last update:
- Adelitas Way
- Alpha Wolf
- Candlebox
- Alice Cooper
- Dying Oath
- Enter Shikari
- From Ashes to New
- GFM (Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh)
- I Prevail
- Icon for Hire
- Knocked Loose
- Norma Jean
- Nothing More
- Sion (global live debut)
- Small Town Titans
- Tetrarch
- Unearth
- Volumes
- Whitechapel
The following acts were announced previously:
- 3 Doors Down
- The Acacia Strain
- Afterlife
- All That Remains
- The Amity Affliction
- Anthrax
- Attack Attack!
- Attila
- Bad Omens
- Bad Wolves
- Black Veil Brides
- Bleeding Through (first East Coast show in four years)
- Buckcherry
- Butcher Babies
- Chelsea Grin
- Cold
- Comeback Kid
- Crazy Town
- Crowbar
- Darkest Hour
- A Day to Remember
- Demon Hunter
- The Devil Wears Prada (performing the “Zombie” EP and more)
- Down
- Erra
- Eskimo Callboy (exclusive U.S. festival performance)
- Fear Factory (first show in six years)
- Fire from the Gods
- Fit for an Autopsy
- God Forbid (reunion show)
- Gwar
- Hawthorne Heights
- He Is Legend
- Hed PE
- Hollywood Undead
- Ice Nine Kills
- In Flames
- In This Moment
- Islander
- Jelly Roll
- Jinjer
- Killswitch Engage
- Kittie (reunion show)
- Kublai Khan TX
- Lacuna Coil
- Lamb of God
- Memphis May Fire
- Motionless in White
- Municipal Waste
- Nonpoint
- Otherwise
- The Plot in You
- Puddle of Mudd
- Red
- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Redlight King
- Saliva (exclusive reunion with original singer Josey Scott)
- Saving Abel (featuring the return of original lead singer Jared Weeks)
- Sevendust (performing “Animosity” in full and more)
- Shadows Fall (reunion show)
- Silverstein
- Skillet
- A Skylit Drive (original lineup reunion)
- Slaughter to Prevail
- Sleeping with Sirens
- Smile Empty Soul
- Starset
- Stick to Your Guns
- Story of the Year
- Lacey Sturm
- Suicide Silence
- Tenacious D
- Terror
- Texas in July (reunion show)
- Theory of a Deadman
- Thrice
- The Union Underground (first show in five years)
- Upon a Burning Body
- We Came as Romans
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