The Blue Ridge Rock Festival has announced Slipknot and Disturbed as two of its four night-closing headliners. According to social media posts, Slipknot has received more requests from fans than any other band in the festival’s history and was described as the biggest band the festival has ever booked.
Unlike most other festivals, Blue Ridge, 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 fifty-three of a reported 178 acts have been announced as of May 9.
On social media, festival organizers have said there will be 12 reunions, nine “special performances,” two debuts, two farewells 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:
- Crystal Cages
- Dayseeker
- Dead Fervor
- Disturbed
- Falling in Reverse
- Get the Shot (U.S. debut)
- Hollow Intent
- Last Nights Villain
- The Lonely Ones
- Mushroomhead
- Nelly (Club Experience headliner)
- Next Attempt
- No Resolve
- Queensryche
- Pop Evil
- Silvertung
- Slipknot
- Spiritbox
- Van Go Go
- Varials
- We Demand Parachutes
- The Word Alive (replacing Volumes)
The following acts were announced previously:
- HOST: Jose Mangin
- 3 Doors Down
- The Acacia Strain
- Adelitas Way
- Afterlife
- Alien Ant Farm
- All That Remains (performing “The Fall of Ideals” in full and more)
- Alpha Wolf
- The Amity Affliction
- Anthrax
- Any Given Sin
- Apocalyptica
- Attack Attack!
- Attila
- Bad Omens
- Bad Wolves
- Badflower
- Black Veil Brides
- Blacktop Mojo
- Bleeding Through (first East Coast show in four years)
- Braincell
- Buckcherry
- Butcher Babies
- Candlebox
- Chelsea Grin
- Close Your Eyes (reunion)
- Cold
- Comeback Kid
- Alice Cooper
- Counterparts
- Crazy Town
- Crowbar
- Darkest Hour
- A Day to Remember
- The Dead Daisies
- Demon Hunter
- The Devil Wears Prada (performing the “Zombie” EP and more)
- Down
- Dying Oath
- Dying Wish
- Electric Callboy (exclusive U.S. festival performance)
- Enter Shikari
- Erra
- Fear Factory (first show in six years)
- Fire from the Gods
- Fit for an Autopsy
- Fit for a King
- From Ashes to New
- GFM (Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh)
- God Forbid (reunion show)
- Gojira
- Grandson
- Gwar
- Hatebreed
- Hawthorne Heights
- He Is Legend
- Hed PE
- Holding Absence
- Hollow Front
- Hollywood Undead
- Hoobastank
- 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
- Left to Suffer
- Like Moths to Flames
- Memphis May Fire
- Motionless in White
- Municipal Waste
- Nonpoint
- Norma Jean
- Nothing More
- Orbit Culture
- Otherwise
- Pierce the Veil
- 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)
- Seether
- Sevendust (performing “Animosity” in full and more)
- Shadows Fall (reunion show)
- Siamese
- Silent Planet
- 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
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Story of the Year
- Nita Strauss
- Stray from the Path
- Lacey Sturm
- Suicide Silence
- Tenacious D
- Terror
- Tetrarch
- Texas in July (reunion show)
- Theory of a Deadman
- Thrice
- Traitors
- Unearth
- The Union Underground (first show in five years)
- Upon a Burning Body
- Vampires Everywhere
- Vended
- Wage War
- We Came as Romans
- Whitechapel
- Zao
- Zero 9:36
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