Ladies and gentlemen, it seems we have the first 2009 tour dates.

Thrash Hits reports that Metallica and Linkin Park are booked to headline a new two-day festival at Knebworth (UK) this summer. They said that LP will headline the second day and added that the festival is going to be touring Europe, visiting possibly six countries across Europe. Official announcement is apparently going to be made at 10am on Monday.

The dates of either 01-02 or 08-09 August have been penciled in. Sonisphere is going to be touring Europe. This would back up claims made by a Finnish newspaper that a Metallica/Linkin Park headlined festival will be taking place this summer in the Finnish city of Pori."

We have to wait for the official confirmation, but if it's true, this means a 2009 European Tour. The third band that will join Metallica and Linkin Park is Lamb Of God. Other rumored bands include: Alice In Chains, Anthrax, Machine Head, Nine Inch Nails, Mastodon, Slipknot, and Pendulum. Apparently there are 11 total acts that will play the festival.

Awesome! Thanks to LPTimes for the news.

dude, this has already been said in the Finland tour thread....no point in making another one

Already been said that Metallica & LP will headline an UK festival ? In LPLive News? o.O where?

(Sorry if this it's already posted)

its on the main page of LpLive.net says something about finland, someone posted a comment in there saying pretty much exactly what you have just said

EDIT: here is the thread i am talking bout!

Oh... Yes, i didn't viewed it.. But this is a news of a different show, i think it have to be posted on the home :\

April had to post it here, not in the Finland thread

haha its alright, probably best we have a new thread for this anyway, people are more likely to view it with that title

Awesome

*waits for Lithuania or Poland date*

lol watch this be the 2 day PR festival Chaz was talking about haha. but im pretty sure Tallica would play night 2 but we will see. hmm this is interesting stuff

No, don't flame this guy. What we had before was a rumor, and even though this builds on it, it's unlikely that all of this is going to come out as false. Sweet, we have some 2009 tour dates.

Confirmation is on the 10th of February... 5 more days until it's official.

Slipknot is also playing at a Danish festival, it is called "Roskilde Festival". It is a vary big festival there are 75.000 people at the 4 days festival.. Maby Linkin Park also play at Roskilde Festival:D

Maybe they can play at Roskilde, Rock Werchter and Open'er Festivals

 Awww sorry, you're right!  I thought it was about Finland.

So what do we have - two festivals or only one will be confirmed?

Come on, Germany, Rock am Ring/Hurricane or something (x Whatcha think BC? ;D

It's a traveling festival - England and Finland are being discussed as two of the places it's going to. So it's more than one location but the same lineup, etc.

Okey, now it's clear!

Hopefully they debut some new material. A song or 2, even a bside would be nice similar to Qwerty in the summer sonic show in Japan a few years ago.

if you check out knenworth house web site (were the festival will be held) http://www.knebworthhouse.com/events/events.html and look at the calender on the riight it says

SUMMER SEASON 2009
OPEN DATES
(orange indicates house
and park are open)

and the 1st 2 3rd of august the place is closed to the public and I am certain Lamb of God are playing.

In the rules of the competition this appears a little way down under the prizes title...

"Two (2) tickets to attend a rock festival in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, UK featuring Lamb of God scheduled to take place in August 2009"

Couldn't really ask for any better proof. I would probably call it a self confirmation.

http://www.lamb-of-god.com/officialrules/

Well we'll know if this is true in 5 days but if it is WOOT!!! Hopefully LP's set is more metal related since this is Metallica. And the rest of the lineup is freakin amazing! NIN, Slipknot, Lamb of G-d, Pendulum!!!

Good enough for me! Lamb Of God is confirmed! Fuck yeah this is awesome. I bet this will be a godly tour, lol. I've never heard of a traveling 3 day festival - that's insane. It's like a traveling Rock am Ring with all your favorite bands. Wow.

I might have to go to Lamb of God on 4/17

good news
i wonder how they will handle Linkin Park's tour and Chester's album..

maybe there wont be tours for DBS?

chester has already confirmed there will be a tour for DBS

Heck Yes! Freakin nice tour lineup so far too. I hope to hear some new LP to get me and im sure the LP fanbase up again!

What a badass lineup.
Lamb of God - amazing.
Nine Inch Nails - one of my top 5 bands. still haven't seen them live.
Mastodon - saw them last summer, amazing, AMAZING band.
Slipknot - saw them at the same show as Mastodon, awesome show, great band
Machine Head - saw them at the same show as the above 2, had never heard them before, LOVED their show.
Pendulum - never heard of them lol

plus Metallica and LP? can't beat either one of their shows.

LP are awesome, as are Slipknot and Machinehead......and Lamb of GOd...omg! very quickly becoming my fav band.....or up with LP and SK anyway....im seeing them in 3 weeks time, and i honest to god, cant wait! there only on stage for a hour tho, i wish they would play a full show, but aw well!

This is crazy! Lets hope for the best with Sweden and Denmark, its about time i get to see them! (Linkin Park that is). Great that Slipknot is confirmed for Roskilde already, they got a bunch of new tour dates on their official website, im probably going to Roskilde and the upcoming date for Sweden.

YES!!!!! It will be perfect!!! Wait until it's totally confirmed!!! Hope to come in Athens, Greece again! We expected to see Metallica cause in their last concert here (2006) Lars said "From now on, you don't have to wait 8 years to see Metallica. We will come again very soon!" Hope to be this year with LP!!!!!!!!! LP COME IN ATHENS AGAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

if that's true I'm going there.DAMN!!!!!!!!!!

Yes PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE

"Holy shit! This is fucking amazing" - CB's words

It is really fucking amazing. Linkin Park, Slipknot, Metallica, NIN!!! Oh, yeah.

they should def play in sweden or germany or even better... DENMARK!!! but if they play in sweden or germany my parents allowed me to go :D i live 20 min from roskilde where SlipKnot is playing but wasn't allowed that, but sweden oh well although my mom specified that if linkin park AND slipknot played at roskilde I could go even better if killswitch engage and bullet for my valentine came

If they are still making the new album at the time of the festival (which is more than likely knowing LP) and they just take a break from recording to play these shows, like the Summer Sonic & Japan shows is 06, then hopefully they'll preview a new track (like with Qwerty) or play an old one (like Reading My Eyes) .

Quite a unique little tour and we might actually get to witness something special/one off.
For once it's good to be an LP fan from the UK... Although the Milton Keynes PR show was one of a kind...

holy shit.. of course yes lol

I already bought my ticket for Rock Am Ring.. Would be great if they'll come there

DUDE, i am fucking seriously deciding wether to go to a show...i mean....Linkin park slipknot machine head lamb of god...un fucking beatable....wow!

Metallica, NIN, and LP in the same place? I can't see this happening, it's too good. Just wow, if it ever happened.

I'm fan from Lithuania but I'm definatly going to UK this summer.

its not a 3day its a 2 day says so on that thrash hits, looks like its gonna be 1st and 2nd of august cose thats the only time knebworth house is closed to the public plus i rang to book a hotel and the one i rang is in the festival grounds said there booked up cose of the festival on the 1st and 2nd of august so its all true

and on efestivals web site (there realy good with there info on festivals) has more
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/othe...re/lineup.shtml

this is what it says

to be confirmed Linkin Park
to be confirmed Metallica
to be confirmed Alice in Chains
to be confirmed Lamb of God
strong rumour Machine Head
to be confirmed Mastodon

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Maybe lp will play with Metallica in Germany
http://www.eventim.de/cgi-bin/tickets.html...;whichArtist=13
Its called Metallica and friend
lets see

hell yeah wtf xD Perhaps this kinda is the festival and it's coming to Germany? xP Would perhaps be even better than playing at Rock am Ring because ALL rumored bands are fucking good ^^
but i'm still not sure, it really is too good to be true.

this is awesome !!! they must played older songs because FORGOTTEN been last played in 2002 PR With you last in 2006 By Myself in 2004 Figure 09 in 2004 IT s GREAT songs i don t know why LP don t play this songs.PLS new sets!!!

ANyone know how much pounds it might cost?Just a average price. And where can I get tickets when they're available?

2day festivals are normaly about £80 and about £95 or £100 with booking fee you can normaly get tickets when there out here www.ticketmaster.co.uk

It's damn cheap for UK people and fu*king expensive for lithuanians compared to cash we earn, but I'm going there.

Thanks for info.

yeah i know dosint work cheap for other ppl i been saving up for months cose i new LP would play a festival this year

http://www.knebworthhouse.com/rock/rockconcerts.htm

Knebworth Park, Knebworth, UK Looks like it'll be August 2nd for LP. I'll throw the date up on the 2009 page.

So far for 2009:

02.08.2008  Knebworth, England, Knebworth Park, Sonisphere Festival
xx.08.2009 Pori, Finland, Kirjurinluoto Park, Sonisphere Festival

I assume Pori is at that park since the Jazz festival is held there, but there's other spots. A German date is rumored.

yeeha

such an awesome start in the weekend

LP, metallica andSlipknot would be amazing man, hope this be true

woop woop!!

http://www.sonispherefestivals.com

20 hours to go or so

i tried a bit of detecitve work by just typing /*insertnameofband* onto the end of the website address. Out of all the rumoured bands there are pages waiting to go live for Linkin Park, Metallica, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Mastodon for sure, but couldnt find any for the others . . . yet

http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/music/inte...umentid=9562973

aaaaaaanndd in the interview with lars on here, right at the end he says that the 6 countries the festival will be going to are:

Holland
Germany
Finland
Sweden
Spain
UK