While an official announcement isn’t expected until the end of the week, multiple sources tell Variety that Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Tool, and Iron Maiden are working on a new festival called Power Trip from Coachella founders Goldenvoice. Will start
Sources say the festival will take place in October at Coachella’s home base, the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. The news was first reported by Hits, Desert Sun, and music blog SceneStar, and apparently from the organizers via an apparently candid teaser campaign.
Despite the Coachella connection, the festival is more like a hard rock version of Goldenvoice’s 2016 Desert Trip festival, which featured the classic-rock dream team of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Who and Pink Floyd co-headlining. Founder Roger Waters.
The “teaser” campaign — if that can even be called that — debuted earlier this week with a video posted to a new website and Instagram account called Power Trip, featuring Gibson SG guitars, stacks of amplifiers, and cactus builders. Iconic metal images are included. “Devil horns”; The video was shared on the accounts of many of the above artists.
The teasers suggest that an announcement is coming on Thursday (March 30). CineStar says the festivities will take place over the weekend of October 6-8; According to Hits, Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden will perform on Friday, AC/DC and Osbourne on Saturday, and Metallica and Tool on Sunday.
The acts are all multi-decade veterans and most have been actively touring in recent years. The health of Osbourne, 74, has been a constant concern and he even announced his retirement from touring earlier this year, but he usually finds stamina when the moment calls for it, and a one-off concert may have been less of a challenge than a full tour (they also did their first “retirement tour” in 1992). Other works have either recently hit the road or are already slated for 2023 tours.
The artists have also performed together several times – in fact, in their rough days, Guns N’ Roses were kicked out of the opening slot of the Iron Maiden tour in early 1988, because their bad habits brought no humility. Might as well say, not that it did any harm to his career. But Metallica and Guns N’ Roses visited the stadium as coheadliners in 1992, and GNR lead singer Axl Rose filled in for ailing AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson for North American dates in 2016, with generally impressive results. with.