Sonisphere Day Splits Announced
Find out who’s playing on what day in here!
The day splits for Sonisphere have been laid out as follows:
SATURDAY
MAIN STAGE
Linkin Park
Heaven & Hell
Coheed & Cambria
Fear Factory
Taking Back Sunday
& Special Guests
SECOND STAGE
Bullet For My valentine
Airbourne
The Used
Anthrax
& Special Guests
Skindred
SUNDAY
MAIN STAGE
Metallica
NIN
Machine Head
Lamb Of God
Mastodon
Killing Joke
SECOND STAGE
Avenged Sevenfold
Alice In Chains
Feeder
Thin Lizzy
& Special Guests
The Sword
Third/Bohemia stage bands are yet to have their days confirmed.
Sonisphere will be headlined by Metallica and Linkin Park and will take place on August 1st – 2nd at Knebworth. Also on the bill will be Heaven & Hell, Nine Inch Nails, Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Machine Head, Lamb Of God, Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Anthrax, Airbourne, Thin Lizzy, Killing Joke and The Sword.








Regret buying a weekend ticket. Saturday’s lineup is pretty damn awful.
Both the second stages are awful bar anthrax tbh and also i like how fear factory are on after taking back sunday. lol
What a cynical attempt to force people to go for both days. Why oh why not have Heaven & Hell and Metallica on the same day?! Thousands of people would have bought a day ticket for that and similarly thousands more would surely rather see NIN and Linkin Park. How many people are going to buy a day ticket to see both Heaven & Hell and Linkin Park? Not many I am sure. This has simply split the audience down the middle in an attempt to get more cash. Shame, could have been a great day.
I completely agree with Void, if Heaven & Hell and Metallica played the same day I would have bought a day ticket, as things stand I won’t be going at all.
a pretty strong line up has become piss poor
Not awful, but the organisers should NEVER have hyped this festival so much at the start, ‘cos they just have not delivered the line-up I expected (and it seems a lot of others!)
People are complaining about this? Jeez
you whingers are all cocks!! lol
I personally think the line up is great, it’s diverse and well spread enough for everyone to have a great weekend
shame they aint doin day tickets as id pay a ton for sundays line up at main stage, well i don`t know killing joke but for the rest ftw!
yeah if they do day tickets, sundays a def, metallica, lamb of god, nin and machine head, all in one day.
Am i reading that wrong or are Bullet For My fucking Valentine higher up the bill than Anthrax ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I may go down and shoot the organisers myself if thats the case
Thank fuck for Bloodstock. That Saturday mainstage is rather ‘Kerrang’ I fear. Hopefully the 3rd stage will not be a disappointment in the metal stakes.
If you go on the Sonisphere site it says:
“The exact running times are still being finalised , but as previously announced the outdoor stages will be running alternately to avoid scheduling clashes, meaning you will be able to see all 24 of the two main stage bands.”
….so I really don’t get why everyone is complaining!
Thin Lizzy at the bottom of the second stage. Have the organizers ever listened to ‘Live & Dangerous?!’. And don’t get me started on how Anthrax are below The Used… And how this festival’s headliners are not Metallica + Heaven & Hell…
From the way they originally described the festival, id be more annoyed not by the fact linkin park are headliners, but because stages will run alternately, bullet will play above heaven+hell, and avenged sevenfold above NIN!!! What the fuck were they thinkin!?! Probably still buyin a ticket though…
Why the fuck is Lamb of Motherfucking God playing BEFORE Machine Head?!?!
WTF you guys really are a bunch of whining cocks!! This has probably got one of the best line-ups I’ve ever seen! Sure there are bands I dont wanna see, and Linkin Park headlining isnt a good choice. But its got Metallica, Lamb of God, Machine Head, Alice In Chains. Stop your winging, either go or dont!! What I’m annoyed about is still the lack of day tickets, as I cant go for the weekend due to my sis’ wedding on the sat!! Hope they release them soon!
shutup people its a good lineup alltogether and you get to see everyband play unlike most festivals
switch fear factory with feeder and sunday would look pretty damn sexy..