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Christian hard rockers STRYPER have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

AGENT STEEL
BUCKCHERRY
CLUTCH
DAN REED BAND
DESTRUCTION
ELECTRIC WIZARD
FLÄSKET BRINNER
GHOST
GROUNDHOGS
HELLOWEEN
JASON & THE SCORCHERS
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
JUDAS PRIEST
MASON RUFFNER
MOLLY HATCHET
MOONSPELL
MR. BIG
MUSTASCH
OVERKILL
OZZY OSBOURNE
RAGE (acoustic)
RAUBTIER
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
ROB ZOMBIE
SAXON
STRYPER
STYX
THE CULT
THE DAMNED
THE HAUNTED
WALTER TROUT
WHITESNAKE

This is gonna be great! Sweden Rock Festival is the leading Metal Festival in Scandinavia and every year 30-35 000 metalheads gather there.

FormerDJMike wrote:Christian hard rockers STRYPER have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

AGENT STEEL
BUCKCHERRY
CLUTCH
DAN REED BAND
DESTRUCTION
ELECTRIC WIZARD
FLÄSKET BRINNER
GHOST
GROUNDHOGS
HELLOWEEN
JASON & THE SCORCHERS
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
JUDAS PRIEST
MASON RUFFNER
MOLLY HATCHET
MOONSPELL
MR. BIG
MUSTASCH
OVERKILL
OZZY OSBOURNE
RAGE (acoustic)
RAUBTIER
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
ROB ZOMBIE
SAXON
STRYPER
STYX
THE CULT
THE DAMNED
THE HAUNTED
WALTER TROUT
WHITESNAKE

This is gonna be great! Sweden Rock Festival is the leading Metal Festival in Scandinavia and every year 30-35 000 metalheads gather there.

That should be a really cool show.

I'd argue that 90% of metal fans have a soft spot for Styx. Every metalhead I've introduced to Styx loves them.

The big news there is the Dan Reed Band. Cool. Wonder if it'll be the Network or a new band, I'd guess the latter playing stuff people haven't heard.

Archetype wrote:I'd argue that 90% of metal fans have a soft spot for Styx. Every metalhead I've introduced to Styx loves them.

I think your estimate is high. I smell a repeat of their Texas Jam experience.....

FormerDJMike wrote:Christian hard rockers STRYPER have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

AGENT STEEL
BUCKCHERRY
CLUTCH
DAN REED BAND
DESTRUCTION
ELECTRIC WIZARD
FLÄSKET BRINNER
GHOST
GROUNDHOGS
HELLOWEEN
JASON & THE SCORCHERS
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
JUDAS PRIEST
MASON RUFFNER
MOLLY HATCHET
MOONSPELL
MR. BIG
MUSTASCH
OVERKILL
OZZY OSBOURNE
RAGE (acoustic)
RAUBTIER
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
ROB ZOMBIE
SAXON
STRYPER
STYX
THE CULT
THE DAMNED
THE HAUNTED
WALTER TROUT
WHITESNAKE

This is gonna be great! Sweden Rock Festival is the leading Metal Festival in Scandinavia and every year 30-35 000 metalheads gather there.

And JY's long standing dream that Styx be a "metal act" has finally come true.....of course many of their ex-fans would never bought into or wanted Styx to be anywhere near "heavy metal". Way to go JY - continue to ruin the band and the brand....

Toph wrote:

FormerDJMike wrote:Christian hard rockers STRYPER have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

AGENT STEEL
BUCKCHERRY
CLUTCH
DAN REED BAND
DESTRUCTION
ELECTRIC WIZARD
FLÄSKET BRINNER
GHOST
GROUNDHOGS
HELLOWEEN
JASON & THE SCORCHERS
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
JUDAS PRIEST
MASON RUFFNER
MOLLY HATCHET
MOONSPELL
MR. BIG
MUSTASCH
OVERKILL
OZZY OSBOURNE
RAGE (acoustic)
RAUBTIER
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
ROB ZOMBIE
SAXON
STRYPER
STYX
THE CULT
THE DAMNED
THE HAUNTED
WALTER TROUT
WHITESNAKE

This is gonna be great! Sweden Rock Festival is the leading Metal Festival in Scandinavia and every year 30-35 000 metalheads gather there.

And JY's long standing dream that Styx be a "metal act" has finally come true.....of course many of their ex-fans would never bought into or wanted Styx to be anywhere near "heavy metal". Way to go JY - continue to ruin the band and the brand....

I can see it now.... JY sitting by the phone after the gig anxiously awaiting a call from VH1 Classics' "That Metal Show" looking to book him as their next guest.

Their Texas Jam experience NEVER happened. At least 90% of the auidence LOVED them & the show.

All the booing & near riot was caused by no bathrooms, excessive heat, The enforcement way way to early of the now defunct Texas Blue Laws, and Dr. Rightous( the crowd was suppose to boo).


What was depicted( crowd objecting to Styx & The Kilroy concept) NEVER happened.

Boomchild wrote:

Archetype wrote:I'd argue that 90% of metal fans have a soft spot for Styx. Every metalhead I've introduced to Styx loves them.

I think your estimate is high. I smell a repeat of their Texas Jam experience.....

Journey was embraced by the Download festival in England; a festival that is generally played by the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest. Additionally, Styx won't be doing any ballads; Journey played some of their ballads at Download fest, and the metalhead crowd ate it up and begged for more.

I smell error in your speculation.

yogi wrote:Their Texas Jam experience NEVER happened. At least 90% of the auidence LOVED them & the show.

All the booing & near riot was caused by no bathrooms, excessive heat, The enforcement way way to early of the now defunct Texas Blue Laws, and Dr. Rightous( the crowd was suppose to boo).


What was depicted( crowd objecting to Styx & The Kilroy concept) NEVER happened.

I was aware of that, just was joking. I thought it was shitty of MTV\VH1 to show that booing clip from CTA on BTM as if that was shot at the Texas Jam show(s).

Archetype wrote:

Boomchild wrote:

Archetype wrote:I'd argue that 90% of metal fans have a soft spot for Styx. Every metalhead I've introduced to Styx loves them.

I think your estimate is high. I smell a repeat of their Texas Jam experience.....

Journey was embraced by the Download festival in England; a festival that is generally played by the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest. Additionally, Styx won't be doing any ballads; Journey played some of their ballads at Download fest, and the metalhead crowd ate it up and begged for more.

I smell error in your speculation.

Well, all I can say is that all of the metalheads I've known or met had no love for Styx at all. They wouldn't be caught dead going to a Styx show let alone being caught listening to anything Styx. That's been my experience.

The booing probably did occur at the jam, but it was a result of the P.A. announcement of alcohol sales being cut off, or the introduction of Dr. Rightous. All the fighting occured from far too much heat, alcohol, no available restrooms, stupid police arrests or being escorted out of The Cotton Bowl for urinating in public.............................................

Styx was GREAT. They were a GREAT headline act. People knew what they were coming to see and what they were going to get. Alot of things went against them that night, but their music, the Kilroy concept, and the actual show was not a problem at all.

Behind The Music, Cahil & Tommy should be ashamed for saying something that is 100% false.

Metal Show? Rock show maybe. But definitely not a Metal show. Especially not by Sweden Standards. Swedish metal is stuff like

Dimmu Borgir
Cradle of Filth (which is a really, REALLY good band)
Behemoth
Children of Bodom

but seriously

Mr Big? --- not metal
Joan Jett? --- not metal
Buckcherry? --- not metal (although they are some killer rock and I love em)

The closest thing to real metal on this list is Overkill, Rob Zombie and maybe... MAYBE Saxon. (Ozzy is an honorable mention merely for his legacy... he's definitely not metal anymore). Helloween had some metal moments - and are a popular act in Europe, but even they aren't really metal.

Now if they said "Hair Metal" then you might have a better description, but I wouldn't even call Styx Hair Metal. They were a pop/prog/rock band. Even in their best of times they weren't a metal band.

For the 1970's bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Ozzy, Kiss, Nugent, The Scorpions, Van Halen (pre 1984 Van Halen), Judas Priest. Styx really wasn't even in that category.

Not sure what the obsession with making Styx out to be what they never were and never have been.

I'd love to see TS and JY get a new bunch of guys and do something akin to Five Finger Death Punch (ex Killswitch Engage and WASP players) and produce something different sounding, yet amazingly heavy. But I don't think they have that in them anymore. TS maybe does with the Bluegrass stuff which I'm looking forward to, but... not sure about the heavy music end of it.

FormerDJMike wrote:Christian hard rockers STRYPER have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in Sölvesborg in southern Sweden.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

AGENT STEEL
BUCKCHERRY
CLUTCH
DAN REED BAND
DESTRUCTION
ELECTRIC WIZARD
FLÄSKET BRINNER
GHOST
GROUNDHOGS
HELLOWEEN
JASON & THE SCORCHERS
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
JUDAS PRIEST
MASON RUFFNER
MOLLY HATCHET
MOONSPELL
MR. BIG
MUSTASCH
OVERKILL
OZZY OSBOURNE
RAGE (acoustic)
RAUBTIER
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
ROB ZOMBIE
SAXON
STRYPER
STYX
THE CULT
THE DAMNED
THE HAUNTED
WALTER TROUT
WHITESNAKE

This is gonna be great! Sweden Rock Festival is the leading Metal Festival in Scandinavia and every year 30-35 000 metalheads gather there.

Styx set list.

Grand Illusion
Too much time
Lady
Walrus
Lorelei
Suite Madam Blue
I'm OK
Queen of spades
Fooling yourself
Drum solo
Miss America
Come sail away
Blue Collar

Encore
Renegade.

Looks like a quiet night.

Oh man hope they didn't take out castle walls for good. Good to see queen of spades still in.

gr8dane wrote:Styx set list.

Grand Illusion
Too much time
Lady
Walrus
Lorelei
Suite Madam Blue
I'm OK
Queen of spades
Fooling yourself
Drum solo
Miss America
Come sail away
Blue Collar

Encore
Renegade.

Looks like a quiet night.

Man the head bangers probably didn't know what hit them when all those head banging Styx songs came out of the speakers.....total metal dude!!!!

Toph wrote:

gr8dane wrote:Styx set list.

Grand Illusion
Too much time
Lady
Walrus
Lorelei
Suite Madam Blue
I'm OK
Queen of spades
Fooling yourself
Drum solo
Miss America
Come sail away
Blue Collar

Encore
Renegade.

Looks like a quiet night.

Man the head bangers probably didn't know what hit them when all those head banging Styx songs came out of the speakers.....total metal dude!!!!

www.swedenrock.com
They got all sorts of rock there.
Author of this topic was slightly off with the metal bit.