I'm afraid you're all wrong.
The first ten will be all girlie bands and old school death metal now that it seems I'm not going after all.

Fuck. Just when I was starting to realize I would be going on 70k, because my mum wanted to go, life throws another curve ball at me. My mum was taken to a hospital on Saturday and went through an emergency surgery on Sunday. Not going into detail, but this pretty much rules out her, and I suppose ...

Fuck. Just when I was starting to realize I would be going on 70k, because my mum wanted to go, life throws another curve ball at me. My mum was taken to a hospital on Saturday and went through an emergency surgery on Sunday. Not going into detail, but this pretty much rules out her, and I suppose m...

Guess my next gig will be Tuska starting tomorrow.

I'd love to see Chiara Tricarico's new band, Moonlight Haze , onbroad. Their debut album, De Rerum Natura, is amazing. Also, the new Memoriam sounds solid. And it's about time we got With the Dead on 70k (are they even active?). There. Girlie metal, old school death metal and doom metal. Oh, wait, f...

Am I the only one annoyed by the misspelling on the subject line?

Flights are booked for me! So I'm in (2020) Guess I'll see you there then. Mum wants to go, so I guess after sitting the last two rounds out, I'm making my return in January. Andy will probably book Sabaton & a lot of thrash metal in honor of your return. ;) Most likely. :lol: At least Arkona and H...

Does this rule Myrkur out for 2020? Cancellation: Myrkur 19.06.2019 Unfortunately we have to announce that MYRKUR has cancelled the gig at SUMMER BREEZE 2019. Our apologies to all those who were looking forward to seeing them. MYRKUR comments: “Unfortunately I will not be able to perform at this yea...

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Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:39 am

Flights are booked for me! So I'm in (2020)

Guess I'll see you there then. Mum wants to go, so I guess after sitting the last two rounds out, I'm making my return in January.

How about Ayreon? It is widely known that Arjen is unfortunately some sort of hermit. Although he has been showing up in public more often in the past 3 years with all these Ayreon special shows in Tilburg. Somehow I see it extremely difficult that he would show up on the boat - or on any boat at a...

Entombed (not Entombed L.G.) is not that far fetched. They (Nicke, Uffe and Alex) have played shows for, what, three years now. Would most definitely be an amazing announcement. How about Ayreon? The Gathering with Anneke (Mandylion 25th anniversary show!)? Better yet, The Gathering with Anneke and ...

Now that Heike has gotten her permanent residency in Sweden and is able to travel, we should get Draconian onbroad again.

Last show was Steelfest in Hyvinkää over the weekend. Damn, Immolation on Friday was mind-blowingly good, and Asphyx wasn't much behind on Saturday.
Next show is Symphony X on Friday.

Decided to update the list in my signature. Guess this means Andy'll book all the bands in the previous version?

I was on the first seven cruises (70k, not Barge), and it looks like I'm forced to go again next year.

Seeing how my mum wants to do 70k again in 2020, I guess that pretty much means I have to go too. And that means I should update my wish list in my signature. :lol: Quite a few of my favourites were on this year, and that sucks, but I guess there are a few bands I'd like to see. From Finland: Crimso...

Swallow the Sun announced their new album and shows in Finland starting suspiciously on February 7th. Maybe they're the next S band? They were the first band to play three sets, so it would make sense (in the 70k way of making sense) that they are the first back to back band on 70k.

Shit.

I've noticed that on desktop computer and on my phone in landscape mode (just now with the megathread).

Accept - 1 Arkona - 0 Coroner - 0 Dark Funeral - 0 Delain - 2 Eluveitie - 0 Ensiferum - 0 Fleshgod Apocalypse - 0 Gloryhammer - 0 God Dethroned - 1 Grim Reaper - 0 Heidevolk - 0 In Vain - 0 Kalmah - 0 Mayan - 2 Ne Obliviscaris - 0 Nile - 2 Obituary - 1 Onslaught - 0 Persefone - 0 Pestilence - 1 Riot...

I'm too lazy to go to gigs nowadays, so I guess my next gig will be Within Temptation and Beyond the Black in Warsaw in three weeks. I do have three beer events before that - and the Warsaw Beer Festival on the same day as the gig (next to the venue even), so I guess my laziness only extends to goin...

My deposit was about 2000 euros in Iceland. They took it off the same day I returned the car though. Unlike in Denmark in July, where Hertz had the deposit (about 600 euros) blocked on my card for well over a month. Called them twice and the only response I got was that it will clear in a week or tw...

Accept - 1 Arkona - 0 Coroner - 0 Dark Funeral - 0 Delain - 2 Eluveitie - 0 Ensiferum - 0 Gloryhammer - 0 God Dethroned - 1 Grim Reaper - 0 Heidevolk - 0 In Vain - 0 Kalmah - 0 Ne Obliviscaris - 0 Nile - 2 Obituary - 1 Onslaught - 0 Persefone - 0 Pestilence - 1 Soulfly - 0 Subway to Sally - 0 The Bl...

Accept, Delain, Vomitory and Visions of Atlantis so far for me. Still not booking.



disclaimer: I reserve to right to change my mind at any time between now and the end of January 2019.

1 - Accept
0 - Arkona
0 - Coroner
2 - Delain
0 - Eluveitie
0 - Ensiferum
0 - Gloryhammer
0 - Persefone
0 - Soulfly/Max & Iggor Cavalera Return to the Roots
0 - Subway To Sally
0 - The Black Dahlia Murder
1 - Tiamat
2 - Visions Of Atlantis
2 - Vomitory
0 - Warbringer


8/30

Not really. At 4 am, your choices are pizza, those little sandwiches at the Promenade Cafe, and room service...which you might finally receive at 5 am. :D Was the late night buffet not open in 2018? In 2017 that was perfect for some late night snacks. They kept the Windjammer open until, umm, late.

I didn't get a notification for Arkona, but I'm hoping it was kept from me on purpose.

Candlemass just announced the return of Johan Längqvist to the band. As some of you remember, he was a guest of the band on their second set in, umm, 2012, when they played Epicus Doomicus Metallicus in its entirety. Seems logical to celebrate him becoming a full-time member by doing 70k again.

I'm gonna go ahead and add Vomitory to the predictions. They're reuniting for select gigs to celebrate their 30th anniversary next year. They were supposed to play already a few years back, but then Andy went missing for six months, and they never made it on the boat. 70k would be a great way to st...

At this point, if the first band is not Disturbed, it'll be a huge disappointment.

Still the Independence of the Seas did sell out every year. Or, rather, so UMC claims. Which year was it when there were like twenty open categories left a week before sailing and all of a sudden two days before the cruise it was announced that the cruise is now sold out. Sure it is... As for there...

There are a lot of 70k veterans who'd be glad to see a return to the Majesty, and it would make a lot of people return to 70k. And, if they did 70k and Barge back to back, people would get (if they did both) 80 bands instead of 60, but keep the nice atmosphere we had on that little old boat. Going o...

I wouldn't be surprised if in 2020 they did 70k and Barge back to back to Cuba on the Majesty. This would get them more tickets to sell (4000 instead of 3000) and the thrash folk would get their Barge II - and Andy would fulfill his dream of going to Cuba (twice even!). And some people would do both...

I have a good feeling about my guess.

Damn, that actually makes sense. He did fall quiet rather conveniently.
I guess we have to wait until next week to see if the first announcements are made on the 27th.

I used Skype for Business for the first time ever today. Surprisingly it didn't take long for the others in the meeting to figure out I had disabled my camera and microphone.

Godflesh wrote:Are you considering coming back for 2019, Memnoch?

Not really. But I guess I wouldn't rule myself out until, well, the ship has sailed.

Besides, they removed the chapel on the Independence, so no way would MegaDave go on a Satanic boat like that.

Thankfully my new employer isn't like that so I can take leave whenever I want it which is great! I tend to prefer working over the xmas period as the office is much quieter :) I like to work during the summer, because most people are on their vacation. That's why I still have four weeks of summer ...