Machine Head hardly plays any festivals these days, but they're making an exception for Blue Ridge Rock Festival. When asked in a recent interview why Machine Head avoids playing festival, frontman Robb Flynn said he simply doesn't feel much of a connection to the crowd.
"To me, music is so much about a connection — it's about making a connection with people. That's always the goal with what we're doing," said Flynn. "We stopped playing festivals for eight years. [The surprise set at Bloodstock Open Air festival] was my first festival in the U.K. in 10 years.
"And I stopped doing festivals 'cause I didn't feel that connection with the audience anymore and I just needed to get my break from it. Obviously if every festival was like yesterday [at Bloodstock], I'd be like, 'Fuck yes! This is fucking sick.'"
Other bands included in the new additions are Catch Your Breath, Rain City Drive, and I Set My Friends On Fire. Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023 will take place between September 7 and 10, with early tickets available here. The full lineup so far is as follows:
- 10 Years
- Adema
- After The Burial
- Alpha Wolf
- Atreyu
- Attila playing About That Life
- Avatar
- Beartooth
- Bodysnatcher
- Born Of Osiris
- Bury Tomorrow
- Caskets
- Catch Your Breath
- CKY
- Coal Chamber
- Cold (20th anniversary Year Of The Spider)
- Crown The Empire
- Dayseeker
- Dope
- Dropout Kings
- Drowning Pool
- Escape The Fate
- Eva Under Fire
- Finger Eleven
- Fit For An Autopsy
- Flyleaf
- Gemini Syndrome
- Heartsick
- Highly Suspect
- I Set My Friends On Fire
- Jinjer
- Kublai Khan TX
- Like Moths To Flames
- Machine Head
- Megadeth
- Motionless In White
- No Resolve
- Nonpoint
- Paleface
- Pantera
- Parkway Drive
- Patient Sixty-Seven
- Rain City Drive
- Scott Stapp
- Senses Fail
- Spiritbox
- Stabbing Westward
- Static-X
- Stephen Pearcy
- Tantric
- Taproot
- Tech N9ne
- The Amity Affliction
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Ghost Inside
- TRUSTcompany
- Upon A Burning Body
- Vince Neil
- VV
- Woe, Is Me
