UPDATE: The official Soundwave 2014 lineup has finally dropped – all the details here!!!
Ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, currently fronting his eponymous outfit Newsted, has confirmed he will be bringing his new act to Australia as part of the Soundwave 2014 lineup.
Speaking with May The Rock Be With You, Jason first confirmed that Newsted would be making their Australian debut in “the third week of February 2014”, which the interviewer noted “sound a lot like Soundwave time”. “It sure does,” shot back Newsted.
He then went on to confirm his involvement with the festival when talking about how the success of the outfit’s brand-new album Heavy Metal Music will affect their ability to play bigger and better gigs:
“Hoping the record does even better and then I get a little leverage for offers for the band for live performances, obviously the Soundwave one was appropriate and we’ve already agreed to that. We got Japan shows I think are going to follow the Australian shows.”
Newsted quit Metallica in 2001 after friction between him and frontman James Hetfield came to a head concerning Newsted’s side project, Echobrain. The bassist left the band just as they were about to hit the studio for their eighth studio album, St Anger.
Newsted are the first band to officially confirm their involvement with Soundwave 2014, though there are a bunch of highly likely contenders and hot tips from promoter AJ Maddah. Get keen for the full lineup, coming in just “a few days”.
UPDATE: First lineup is here!
Green Day
Avenged Sevenfold
Stone Temple Pilots (W/ Chester Bennington)
Alice In Chains
Rob Zombie
Megadeth
Placebo
Afi
Korn
Alterbridge
Trivium
Down
Devildriver
Newsted
Biffy Clyro
Rocket From The Crypt
Asking Alexandria
Clutch
Alkaline Trio
Baroness
Five Finger Death Punch
August Burns Red
Testament
Living Colour
Letlive
Motionless In White
Gwar
Black Dahlia Murder
Mushroomhead
Finch
Pulled Apart By Horses
Nancy Vandal
Bowling For Soup
Trash Talk
Skindred
Volbeat
Amon Amarth
Terror
Whitechapel
Tesseract
The Story So Far
10 Years
Ill Nino
Hardcore Superstar
Walking Papers
Coliseum
Your Demise
Heaven’s Basement
Real Friends
