UPDATE (Jan. 7, 2023): Legendary thrashers Megadeth are actually the 52nd act formally introduced for this 12 months’s Blue Ridge Rock Pageant! They’re at present supporting their chart-topping latest document, ‘The Sick, The Dying… And the Lifeless!’ which made Loudwire’s listing of the 50 Finest Rock + Steel Albums of 2022. Current additions to the pageant additionally embrace Match for an Post-mortem, Dope, Landmvrks, Bodysnatcher and Gemini Syndrome.

UPDATE: You’ll be able to add the Pantera celebration to the large 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Pageant lineup. As has occurred lately, it has been a gentle act-by-act reveal of the Blue Ridge Rock Pageant invoice with Pantera changing into the twenty first act named to the invoice. Different additions since our unique story embrace Jinjer, Dropout Kings, The Ghost Inside, Beartooth, Escape the Destiny, Born of Osiris, Tantric and CKY.

Plans for the 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Pageant are already underway, with pageant organizers persevering with the rollout fashion of earlier years giving close to every day bulletins of recent acts becoming a member of the lineup. For individuals who’ve been counting, we’re now as much as 12 with Flyleaf changing into the most recent act to affix the 2023 invoice.

Flyleaf will definitely draw some curiosity, with vocalist Lacey Sturm returning to the band for his or her 2023 efficiency on the pageant. This additionally brings issues a bit full circle for Blue Ridge organizers who kicked off this 12 months’s lineup bulletins by revealing that Taproot can be reuniting for a 2023 set on the pageant. There’s additionally two different reunions of observe amongst their early reveals for 2023 and that is Coal Chamber and Woe, Is Me taking the stage.

Offering particular moments like reunions is nothing new for Blue Ridge organizers, who’re additionally welcoming Chilly for a full album set celebrating their Yr of the Spider album and the reside return of H.I.M. frontman Ville Valo as a solo artist.

Different newly named additions to the 2023 lineup embrace Finger Eleven, Adema, Senses Fail, Dayseeker, Tech N9ne and Like Moths to Flames.

The 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Pageant returns to Alton, Virginia, the weekend of Sept. 7-10, 2023. Get particulars on ticketing, tenting, lodging and keep updated with the lineup right here. And take a look at all of the artist bulletins thus far under.

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