February 11, 2004
THE FIRST ANNUAL FLORIDA METALFEST
BODY COUNT, TESTAMENT, AND OBITUARY TO HEADLINE SUN N’ STEEL
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. – Body Count (featuring Ice-T), Testament, and Florida’s own death metal legends Obituary will headline Sun n’ Steel, the First Annual Florida Metalfest, to be held Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7 at the Pinellas Expo Center in Pinellas Park, Fla.
Also scheduled to perform is a N.W.O.B.H.M. (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) All Star Band featuring Al Atkins (Judas Priest), Jess Cox (Tygers Pan Tang), and Dennis Stratton (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis).
Other bands slated for the bill are Deicide, Jon Oliva of Savatage, Yeti, M.O.D., Raven, Premonition of War, Jag Panzer, Seven Witches, Divine Empire, Macabre, Rob Rock, Agent Steel, Iron Cross, Noctuary, The End, Unholy Ghost, Trivium, Entombed, Severed Existence, Dark Shift, October 31, Neomortem, Stone Vengeance, Black Widow, Spearhead, Laceration, Conquest, Meth Sessions, Premonition, Equinox, Ion Shift, Arcadia, Tenebrae, Parabellum, The Apostacy, Left in Ashes, Sixt6, Chronzon, Prong, Hate Eternal, Nasty Savage, Hell on Earth, Metal Militia, Demoncy, Dopamean, Exit39, Ruin, Black Dahlia Murder, Anal Blast, Burning Inside, 3 Inches of Blood, End Unseen, Orphan Soul, Cold Summer Society, Magus Beast, Force of Habit, Beyond Glory, HGH, and Burning Inside. Additional bands will be announced.
Like its counterparts, the long-standing Milwaukee Metalfest and New Jersey’s March Metal Meltdown, Sun n’ Steel will host a Vendorville Marketplace full of CDs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia, autograph signings with the performing artists, and a food court.
Sun n’ Steel is an all ages event with a beer garden open to those with proper I.D.
Tickets are $35 for a single-day pass and $55 for a two-day pass. Tickets may be purchased at Ticketmaster locations, charge by phone (727-898-2100), the Pinellas Expo Center box office or at the following locations: Atlantic Sounds (Daytona Beach), Sound Exchange (Pinellas Park, North Tampa, Brandon), Psychotic Ink Tattoos (Clearwater Beach, St. Petersburg), and Boomerz (Seminole).
Sun n’ Steel is presented by Jack Koshick and Rob Grohl.
Directions, hotel, and car rental information is available at www.metalfest.com.
All talent subject to change.
Posted by MK Magazine at February 11, 2004 06:05 PM