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. One hundred sixteen of a reported 178 acts have been announced as of Friday, April 1.
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:
- HOST: Jose Mangin
- Alien Ant Farm
- Apocalyptica
- Badflower
- Blacktop Mojo
- Braincell
- Close Your Eyes (reunion)
- Counterparts
- The Dead Daisies
- Grandson
- Hoobastank
- Left to Suffer
- Like Moths to Flames
- Orbit Culture
- Nita Strauss
- Stray from the Path
- Traitors
- Vended
- Zero 9:36
The following acts were announced previously:
- 3 Doors Down
- The Acacia Strain
- Adelitas Way
- Afterlife
- All That Remains
- Alpha Wolf
- 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
- Candlebox
- Chelsea Grin
- Cold
- Comeback Kid
- Alice Cooper
- Crazy Town
- Crowbar
- Darkest Hour
- A Day to Remember
- Demon Hunter
- The Devil Wears Prada (performing the “Zombie” EP and more)
- Down
- Dying Oath
- Enter Shikari
- Erra
- Electric Callboy (exclusive U.S. festival performance)
- Fear Factory (first show in six years)
- Fire from the Gods
- Fit for an Autopsy
- From Ashes to New
- GFM (Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh)
- God Forbid (reunion show)
- Gwar
- Hawthorne Heights
- He Is Legend
- Hed PE
- Hollywood Undead
- I Prevail
- Ice Nine Kills
- Icon for Hire
- In Flames
- In This Moment
- Islander
- Jelly Roll
- Jinjer
- Killswitch Engage
- Kittie (reunion show)
- Knocked Loose
- Kublai Khan TX
- Lacuna Coil
- Lamb of God
- Memphis May Fire
- Motionless in White
- Municipal Waste
- Nonpoint
- Norma Jean
- Nothing More
- Otherwise
- The Plot in You
- Puddle of Mudd
- Red
- The 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
- Sion (global live debut)
- Skillet
- A Skylit Drive (original lineup reunion)
- Slaughter to Prevail
- Sleeping with Sirens
- Small Town Titans
- Smile Empty Soul
- Starset
- Stick to Your Guns
- Story of the Year
- Lacey Sturm
- Suicide Silence
- Tenacious D
- Terror
- Tetrarch
- Texas in July (reunion show)
- Theory of a Deadman
- Thrice
- Unearth
- The Union Underground (first show in five years)
- Upon a Burning Body
- Volumes
- We Came as Romans
- Whitechapel
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