ANNOUNCEMENTS! ...please? Funny that your announcement day guess is gonna die the same day that Tool releases its catalog to all streaming platforms Since the new TOOL album after 13 years comes on August 30th, it’s likely now that we’ll get it before the first announcement, which is ironic, becaus...

Hasn't the taxes part almost doubled from the first cruise? I kind of remember them being in the 200's something. Correct. $249 for the first cruise. In kind of answer to your almost unasked question, I think this is the most important part of the clause about that cost: "...including, without limi...

In retrospect, I realize the main reason (other than dates) I’m passing next year is that this year sucked for me, especially with the huge sticker shock that I described previously: - Due to late announcements I didn’t even finish filling up my band spreadsheet like I do every year, I stopped at 52...

Shitrocked kept the first week of February, but departs from NOLA.
I suppose our ship is too big for the NOLA port?
Their boat sucks...

1000 posts! I’m an Ensign now.

This is a very, very expensive vacation after all, so I need my money's worth. I ran the totals for this year, and with all expenses included (travel insurance, numerous transfers, etc), it ended up costing more for 5 days than a month of net salary for both my wife and I. Wow. With cat boarding ex...

That sucks. But what were you waiting for? I've booked my vacation dates as well, and they coincide with Jan. 7-11. I've also coincidentally booked flights to Ft. Lauderdale in the same time, and have hotels booked for a few days pre- and post-cruise. If you want to be on 70K, you have enough infor...

The clock has run out for me. I've set my vacation dates, so I'm officially not going next year, unless something extraordinary happens during the next week. That sucks. But what were you waiting for? I've booked my vacation dates as well, and they coincide with Jan. 7-11. I've also coincidentally ...

The clock has run out for me. I've set my vacation dates, so I'm officially not going next year, unless something extraordinary happens during the next week.

Statsman! If we got our announcement today, how long would each survivor tier have to book until the next tier opened, assuming they followed a similar timeline/structure as previous years? I hope I worded that right **SNIP** We are now at 41 days so an update. 50 days between emails to Golds and c...

FROG LEAP looked like a lot of fun at the European festivals (https://youtu.be/aQVPcFwdAn0), and they play the CRANBERRIES version of “Wash your hands”!
They would fit the gimmicky bill nicely, IMO.

I’m officially adding GUTALAX to my wish list (just discovered them from the Brutal Assault reports, and I love them), even though between a show at 5:15am and a show in the Lounge, I would probably never actually *see* them if they were onbroad.

I'm sure someone here will have a statistic about how many bands have been announced in the first 48 hours after the first band for each year, right? ;) It varies wildly year on year, heavily dependent on how long between first band/s and sailing. 2011 - 6 bands first up (over a year out from saili...

GWAR is on tour until November, and I think they would be a fine addition as the gimmicky band. I don’t listen to them though. They’re the only CD I broke in half after buying in the early 90s, that’s how much I hated it. From what I heard on the radio, they seem to have improved though. They’re tou...

No, because 2020 is the TENTH YEAR of 70K, not the 9th. Maybe the below will help.. 1. 2011 2. 2012 3. 2013 4. 2014 5. 2015 6. 2016 7. 2017 8. 2018 9. 2019 10. 2020 SOOOO... Ten years of Design Your Universe AND ten years of 70K. EPICA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of this album, which came o...

What’s so special about having them come back 9 years later? Shouldn’t this logic apply to 2021? “Guys, this was great, let’s promise to meet again every nine years” No, because 2020 is the TENTH YEAR of 70K, not the 9th. Maybe the below will help.. 1. 2011 2. 2012 3. 2013 4. 2014 5. 2015 6. 2016 7...

Epica just announced a short run of NA dates with a suspicious gap between January 5th and January 12th........ I give them 90%+ chance of being on 70k next year. I say 100%. They have just (pretty much) confirmed it by replying to my comment. :lol: :lol: :lol: Further evidence.. it's both Design Y...

Guys, it's a phpBB forum. Moderator Control Panel -> [thread] -> "Select Desired Action" drop-down - "Change to Sticky" - Submit. Edit: slightly different steps may be required depending on whatever Skin is being used. This can most certainly become a pinned thread / the Megathread. --Except that A...

The 2020 Megathread, this explicitly is not.
This beckons one or three more weeks before such a deed occurs, I reckon.

cowboy71 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 06, 2019 4:53 pm

$AUD1,591 via Kayak.

How much via plane?

THUS, according to forum time, Andy posted the Accept announcement here on Friday 31st of August 2018 at 6.15am. Using the 5pm 31st January as the cutoff time, that would make the announcement 153 days 10 hours and 45 minutes from sailing. Currently we are 153 days and 23 hours and 40 minutes from ...

So, what do you think it will be? Will it be like the earliest (apart from cruise one when the first announcement was over a year from sailing), which was the 2015 cruise when the first announcement was mid March, 313 days from sailing? OR, will it be like the latest, 2019, when the first announcem...

Also, the new logo was posted on the day of announcements (someone mentioned this in the freshly created megathread).

Here's a simpler way to put it: - Last year, announcements were done 5 months before sailing (August 31st - January 31st) - This year, 5 months before sailing is August 7th (January 7th). The problem with this kind of reasonning is that it does not account for the fact that Andy seems to be doing t...

MERCYFUL FATE is back, playing Europe in June, and Wacken.
Holy. Shit.
January seems a bit early for them to be ready, but I added them to my sig anyway.
Now *that* would be a first announcement worthy of #RoundX!

My analysis. Last year, First bands announced Sept 1st, emails to Gold Survivors sent around Sept 3rd, booking for Gold survivors started Sept 5th, and I believe silver opened on Sept 15th, and public sales Oct 3rd. Cutoff for the 4-payment-plan was Oct 24th. So if the same sort of timelines held f...

Small correction: announcements started on the Friday (8/31 or Saturday 9/1 for you), and the email was on the Sunday (9/2, or Monday 9/3 for you), so 2 days later.

161 days to go! One more week, and we will break the 2019 cruise 'record' for shortest amount of time between first announcement and sailing!!! :lol: :roll: First Announcements: 2019 cruise - August 31 (154 days to go) 2018 cruise - July 3 (213 days to go) 2017 cruise - July 8 (211 days to go) 2016...

I was hoping that someone here was at HeavyMTL this weekend and can go wonder on over past the hot tubs and see what's on display. Any news etc? Seems that there is nothing to report. So far. Someone reported on FB that Andy said no announcements this weekend (“Not THAT soon... but soon”). More imp...

He can still win if announcements come before Friday, so technically not dead yet.

I can still win if the announcements are on Thursday (yeah, right!).

Wow, I remember when 70000 likes on the FB page was an achievement, now it’s at 165000!
The cruise definitely got bigger in the last few years.

The first announcements will be either on Friday (last year they came on a Friday) right before HM, or Saturday *at* HM, on YouTube.
Either way, bodomdragon will be the winner.

Thanks. How do I file feedback or bugs?

The social media team replied in a comment on Facebook that "before end of July" was something possible.
I think bodomdragon will be the winner.

Pellaz wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 2:59 pm

cegr80 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:24 am

Still Among The Living:

July 16th Sgt. B
July 20th Pellaz

I FEEL THE ICY FINGERS OF DEATH RAPIDLY APPROACHING!

The death card has been signed, committed into hell
All thoughts of being saved you can't allow
The icy grip of death's upon you now

Godflesh wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:45 pm

Which ones of the 75ers were announced in the top 10 (first announcement in bold)?

Found the data:

2019 Accept, Eluveitie
2018 Meshuggah
2017 Anthrax
2016 Iced Earth, Children of Bodom
2015 Blind Guardian
2014 Symphony X, Fear Factory
2013 In Flames
2012
2011 Amon Amarth

Pellaz, you have experience with cruise prices: is Megacruise much more expensive than 70K, or in the same ballpark?

Apart from MEGADETH and SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, there isn’t much on the Megacruise that we haven’t seen on 70K, including most of the same bands at once in 2017 (which was epic for thrash fans).

I’ll throw in another prediction: one of SACRED REICH/DARK ANGEL/VIO-LENCE/POWER TRIP.
But only one.