Soundwave 2014 Line-up, Rumours And Info

UPDATE: The official Soundwave 2014 lineup has finally dropped – all the details here!!!

Everyone is still coming down from the buzz of the massive Soundwave 2013, so all the more reason to keep the ball rolling for Soundwave 2014. We’ve sourced and put together for your fact-checking pleasure a list of bands who have been locked in, who most likely will be locked in, who have a chance of being locked in, and who just won’t be locked in in the slightest.

We’ve already been told that 2014 won’t be topping this year (2013). AJ has explained that he hopes to book around 60 or so bands for the festival, directly addressing the issue of clashing sets as another key reason for downsizing.

What’s more, the festival will also be home to a Japan Stage, which will host an array of heavy Japanese acts – some already confirmed, with more on the way. There is also a chance that the stages will now be named rather than numbered, making life easier for us all.

So here is the list; it’s time to check it out. It’s a bit of an indicator of the direction they will be taking, and be sure to note that they won’t be ruling out acts that would otherwise be considered as not Soundwave material. It’s already shaping up for a crazy year, once again.

We’ve got this shit on lock these days, and I will personally be pumping all the latest goss that goes down with Soundwave 2014 as it happens via our Soundwave 2014 Facebook page. Shit’s gonna be sweet.

UPDATE: The first Soundwave 2014 lineup announcement is here!

Gallery: Soundwave 2014 lineup – in pictures!

Soundwave 2014 – first lineup announcement:


Rumours Updates:

Soundwave 2014 Dates And Venues

Saturday 22nd February – Brisbane

RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane

Sunday 23rd February – Sydney

Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney

Friday 28th February – Melbourne

Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne

Saturday 1st March – Adelaide

Bonython Park, Adelaide

Monday 3rd March – Perth

Claremont Showgrounds, Perth

Gallery: Our final lineup predictions before the announcement!

THE LIST! Last update 22/08/2013

Note: Nothing on this list is 100% confirmed until the festival’s official announcement.

Confirmed

Newsted

Pretty Much Confirmed:

Nine Inch Nails

Bowling For Soup – Jaret Reddick tweet

Shinedown

Crashdiet

Godsmack

Volbeat

X-Japan – Now ruled out

Maximum The Hormone – now ruled out with alternate tour dates

Very Likely:

Finch

Your Demise

Our Last Night

Avenged Sevenfold

A rap group like Public Enemy, Body Count, Immortal Technique

The Pretty Reckless

Papa Roach

Deez Nuts

Street Light Manifesto

Real Friends

KoRn – talking to management

Motionless In White

Alice In Chains (But not as headliners)

10 Years

The Porkers

I Call Fives

Sevendust

Alter Bridge

HIM

The Unguided

Bevar Sea

Twelve Foot Ninja

Skunk Anansie

Zebrahead

Senses Fail

Children Of Bodom (If they don’t tour beforehand)

Dir En Grey

Disturbed (thanks to @Curlyy666)

36 Crazyfists

Pansy Division

Tarja Turunen

Dirty Rotton Imbeciles

Fall Out Boy – looking unlikely now

Twin Atlantic

Bobaflex (Unless they headline)

Tonight Alive

I Killed The Prom Queen (This, or Warped)

DevilDriver

Mastodon

Potential:

Young Guns

Pop Will Eat Itself

Living Color

Red Fang

Architects

Arcane Roots

Trophy Scars

Upon A Burning Body – Would consider them

Screeching Weasel – Would like to have them

Black Veil Brides – Trying, tour might also be possible

Black Dahlia Murder – Slim chance

Candlemass – In talks

Trivium

Good Charlotte

House Vs Hurricane – Suggestion to do Soundwave as a part of farewell run

The Bunny The Bear

AFI

Crown The Empire

Skindred

Infectious Groovies

Stone Temple Pilots

Operation MD

Panic! At The Disco

All That Remains

Anarbor – were on the Warped shortlist

Tesseract

Andrew Jackson Jihad

Bohemoth

Abandon All Ships

Make Them Suffer

Eyes Set To Kill

Godflesh

Hollywood Undead

Rob Zombie

Pure Love

VersaEmerge

Terror – On the shortlist

The Color Morale

All-American Rejects – Would have for SW but Frontier would handle a tour

The Ready Set

Black Tide

Iron Maiden – Maddah talking to them

Fishbone

Bad Brains

Heaven’s Basement

Suffocation – Only if other things don’t pan out

Dream On Dreamer

The Acacia Strain

Theory Of A Deadman

Hyocrisy

Dry Kill Logic

Soilwork

The Faceless

Cattle Decapitation

As I Lay Dying

Pop Will Eat Itself

Deftones – Might be asked back after tour

Clutch

Hatebreed

Device

Kadavar

Upon This Dawning

Capture The Crown

Crown The Empire

Glassjaw

Sabaton, Hammerfall, Helloween, Stratovarius, Manowar – One might happen

Wintersun

Gwar

Tumbleweed

The Maine

Butthole Surfers

We Are the In Crowd

Anathema

D.R.I

Set Your Goals

Sparta

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Filter

The Starting Line

Porcupine Tree

Nonpoint

The Defiled

Deaf Havana

Mushroomhead

Powerman 5000

Something Corporate

This Century

Four Year Strong

Heaven Shall Burn

Lord – Will find them a national spot if they’re interested

Go Radio

Baroness

High On Fire

Torche

Kylesa

Strife

The Agonist

Devil Wears Prada

The Pretty RecklessNow looking very likely

The Rocket Summer

Veara

In Hearts Wake

Issues

Lights

Don Broco

Lower Than Atlantis

Millencolin

Protest The Hero

Richard Cheese – As a novelty

Jimmy Eat World

Lacuna Coil

Skillet

12 Foot Ninja

Bloodhound Gang

Boysetsfire

Hot Water Music

Alkaline Trio – If they stay away from an tour until then

Breathe Carolina

Caliban

Amon Amarth

Cherri Bomb

Chevelle

Enter Shikari

The Cab

CKY

Opeth

Dead By April

Witchcraft

Electric Wizard

Boris

Grand Magnus

Down

Tool

We The Kings

Asking Alexandria

Halestorm

Marilyn Manson

Placebo

Sepultura

Rancid (There is always hope)

Slash (thanks to @Curlyy666)

Megadeth (thanks to @Curlyy666)

Hollywood Undead

Conditions

Testament

Exodus

Chiodos

The Story So Far

Dope

Hardcore Superstar

Black Label Society

No Dice:

The Specials

Social Distortion

Paramore – headline tour announced

You Me At Six – Touring with Paramore

Puddle Of Mudd

FLAG

Emmure

Sleeping With Sirens

Pierce The Veil

P.O.D

NOFX – to tour

Bullet For My Valentine

MXPX

Fall Out Boy

Morbid Angel

Slipknot – Maybe SW15?

Angels & Airwaves

Kings Of Chaos – Not this time

Hoobastank

Escape The Fate

Storm The Sky

Dio Disciples

Saxon

Scorpions

Blue Oyster Cult

Lamb Of God – to tour

Meshuggah – to tour

Of Mice & Men – to tour

Fozzy – Tour more likely

Korpiklaani – remote but no

Gorilla Biscuts

Forever The Sickest Kids

Breaking Benjamin

AC/DC

All Time Low

311

Kreator

Accept

Sodom

Venom

Orchid

Bury Tomorrow

A Rocket To The Moon

In Fear And Faith

Carcass

Simple Plan

Alice Cooper

No Doubt – tried and failed too many times to get them

Three Days Grace

Tenacious D

Sublime

Intronaut

Skyway

Queens of the Stone Age

Our Lady Peace

Incubus

Betraying The Martyrs

Handguns

Cute Is What We Aim For

The Veer Union

Flyleaf

Hail The Villain

Bring Me The Horizon – To tour

Breakdown Of Sanity

Marianas Trench

Sixx:A.M

Soundgarden

The Bronx

Firewind

Dillinger Escape Plan

In This Moment – 2015 more likely

Alestorm

Huntress

Leaves Eyes

Turisas

Trapt

12 Stones

System of a Down

Three Inches Of Blood

Kontrust

Joan Jett

Silent Civilian

Spineshank

Die Antwoord

Limp Bizkit – tour more likely

X-Japan

30 Seconds To Mars – To tour

Airborne

Foo Fighters

Dream Theater

Taking Back Sunday

Anti-Flag

Brand New – Headline tour instead

Skylit Drive

Five Finger Death Punch

Falling In Reverse

Wolfmother/Stockdale

Blessthefall

Staind

The Used – Warped more likely

A Day To Remember – Headline tour instead

Dethklok

Cannibal Corpse

Parkway Drive

System Of A Down

Rise Against

Green Day

Evanescence

Gojira – To tour

Comeback Kid

Unwritten Law

Henry Rollins and Black Flag

Mayday Parade

Bad Religion

Motorhead

Buckcherry

Attack Attack (UK)

My Chemical Romance

Hinder

Nightwish

Steel Panther

Anything Corey Taylor

The Darkness

Wu-Tang Clan

Rammstein

Van Halen (thanks to @Curlyy666)

Arch Enemy (thanks to @Curlyy666)

Judas Priest (thanks to @Curlyy666)

Blur

Abiotic

City in Ashes

Them Crooked Vultures

Kvelertak (headline tour)

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