ShipRocked 2015 Lineup Announced
Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 12:01AM ShipRocked--the ultimate rock music cruise vacation--will sail roundtrip between the Port Of Miami and Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas from February 2-6, 2015 onboard the Norwegian Pearl.
ShipRocked 2015--fueled by Monster Energy--will be headlined by Limp Bizkit, featuring Fred Durst, Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, and John Otto.
Fred Durst says, “Limp Bizkit? New album? Sunshine? Metal party? Phil Anselmo? Unlimited lobster? Half-naked women? No rules? Loud music? Every day? Every night? Repeat five times in a row? You don't have to ask me twice. I'M IN!!!!! See you there, Bizkit heads!!”
The sixth ShipRocked will also feature Chevelle, heavy metal all-star band Metal Allegiance, Black Label Society, Buckcherry, P.O.D., Sevendust, Tremonti, Andrew W.K., Living Colour, Filter, Lacuna Coil, Nonpoint, Otherwise, Zach Myers of Shinedown with J.R. Moore & Zack Mack, Crobot, Thousand Foot Krutch, Wilson, Islander, Andy Wood, Letters From The Fire, Cilver, and DJ Lippy Rage.
For the first time, ShipRocked guests are invited to start their vacation early with the ShipRocked Super Sail Away Pre-Party on February 1, 2015. The Pre-Party will feature Chevelle’s only ShipRocked performance, as well as sets from Sevendust and Wilson.
For the Super Sail Away, cruise guests will avoid boarding lines by checking into their cabins during the day on February 1. The cost is about the same as a hotel room, food is included, the Super Bowl will be shown on big screens, bands will perform, and guests can check out the bars, get pampered in the spa, and gamble at the casino (while at sea).
For the Pre-Party, the Norwegian Pearl will set sail in the evening on February 1 and will return to pick up additional ShipRocked guests the next morning. Those already onboard will have the luxury of sleeping in while others are boarding. Cabins for ShipRocked 2015 are on sale now at www.ShipRocked.com.
Metal Allegiance--featuring singers Philip Anselmo (Down, ex-Pantera) and Joey Belladonna (Anthrax), guitarists Chris Broderick (Megadeth), Scott Ian (Anthrax), and Gary Holt (Slayer/Exodus), bassists Frank Bello (Anthrax) and David Ellefson (Megadeth), and drummers Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and Mike Portnoy (The Winery Dogs, ex-Dream Theater)--will put their spin on a scorching set of heavy metal’s most influential and recognizable songs.
"It'll be a blast to rejoin my fellow badass Metal Allegiance compatriots on ShipRocked 2015,” says Philip H. Anselmo of Metal Allegiance. “Expect more blasts from the past, plus some killer musicians amongst the awesome atmosphere of jamming on the water! Come out and jam with us!"
Mike Portnoy of Metal Allegiance explains, "After the recent debut of Metal Allegiance, we couldn't wait to get back together and throw down again! We're fans just like everybody on the other side of the stage watching us. We all love this music and Metal Allegiance gives us a chance to hang, jam and have fun with this unique brotherhood of metal!"
“ShipRocked is about great live music, and it's about the fans. The way that crowds have responded to Limp Bizkit's return to the stage – and the way the band has embraced its fans during those performances – truly epitomizes that spirit. And Metal Allegiance is a band of world class musicians, heavy metal legends in their own right, performing not just for the fans, but AS fans of the great hard rock and metal tradition that's helped to shape so many of the bands that we have on board this year,” says event producer Alan Koenig of ASK4 Entertainment.
Reader Comments (14)
I can be tone deaf though. For those who have gone in the past, does this strike you as a step down? Still, reanimating _Mother Love Bone's_ singer is a pretty neat trick (I kid).
But your larger comment is, it strikes me, far more spot-on re: what we have in store. Many of the bands--pick your tier--won't simply be undone by nostalgia for grunge (and, granted, I do enjoy some of the bands from that genre as well). No, they will be undercut by that least biased of judges: time.
Start scanning the rosters of bands that people consistently comment on on this site, and on sites such as Metal Sludge, and start figuring out how old so-and-so will be in 10 years. Halford? 73. Brian Johnson? 77. Heck, Michael Monroe of Hanoi-fame and Keifer of Cinderella will be 63 . . . Bret Michaels only two years behind and likely no closer to a new set-list or album with Poison.
Point is, this has been a decade-plus cycle where we have been lucky to see some of the bands of the 80s still in fighting shape, by and large, some more than others, and so on.
So, while (a) AEG-style commodification of festivals and cruises brings as many, if not more, cringe-inducing lineups as it does surprising new finds (Dead Sara, for me at least, at Aftershock; see my review); and (b) many of the up and coming bands that carry the torch come from abroad (Sweden, Italy, Germany, Australia); (c) a grunge revival will only have a partial impact on the sorts of bands we know and love, and are losing, to the sands in that damn hourglass.
You can take this a bit further and start searching out those newcomers (_Tremonti_ comes to mind and was referenced above) like Metalboy! routinely does. But I think we can all agree that we are aging right alongside the bands we love. The new bands will do in a pinch, even as they are boxed in by the logistics of producing new work that gets to wider audiences (Gene Simmons was actually more right than wrong if you take what he said in context and translate out the bluster).
But another Zeppelin? AC/DC? Sabbath? Crue? Nope. And that isn't my "get off my lawn" old coot side talking. So get ready for Nickelback on the Lido Deck, while Tommy Thayer's KISS performs in the Magenta Lounge, Axl's and Roth's and Neil's heads floating in jars--ala _Futurama_--in the Hall of Dead Metalists, right next to the theater where a hologram of Klaus Meine is trying to "Rock You Like Hurricane." Luckily, the franchising of Tommy Lee's Dub Step Fantasy Camp" will be a smashing success.
. . . so are the days (and crazy, crazy, crazy nights) of our lives.
Aging is always a depressing topic for me though. I for one am not ready to let go of my love of this music, and as Bob so eloquently put it, the "loud screaming guitars, wild parties, and big poofy hair". If anything, now that I have been through a number of difficult life challenges of late, I need to hang onto this like there is no tomorrow , as it remains one of the few things in life that really gives me pleasure. I'm sure I'm not the only one on that.
None of us can avoid aging, but I will be kicking and screaming the whole time. And I don't want to think about life 10 years from now and who might or might not still be here. A short-sighted view, perhaps, but too depressing otherwise.
Thanks for always making this an interesting forum for these types of discussions.
Poor Buckcherry, the only legit Rock'n'Roll band on the cruise. I'm sure Metal Allegiance will be more than amusing, as well, as*clown Scott "Unibrow" Ian excepted.
p.s. Rita, Great to hear you are powering through it. No matter what life throws at us, the Grunge Boys or Popmeisters will NEVER replace our METAL!
Please don't mistake my realism for cynicism. I, like you, have soldiered through some pretty dark days. On the strength of the music that both you and I love, I have turned some tragic moments into smiles, some sad ones into times to reflect, and some somber ones into chances to regroup.
To be quite honest, I am at the age where I don't need another AC/DC, or GnR, or Crue (and on and on). I have them, and I have my memories, and I make new ones on the back of the old ones. While I occasionally chance upon a band or a song that strikes me (Royal Blood's "Figure It Out," some of the stuff from Arctic Monkeys, the old school grind of Mastadon, etc.), I will admit: my music--past and present--is past by and large. And I am okay with that.
Age, paunch, wrinkles, aches, pains, even death? Inevitable. But you know what? Ratt's "Back For More," Crue's "Primal Scream," Dokken's "Mr. Scary"? Timeless. They exist in spite of me and yet they have--in a very real way--sustained me. Rita, I can't get back all the things that I have lost. But nothing can take my music from me, or from you. It exists out of time in the best places we as humans have to collect and store things: our hearts and our minds. No list on the internet, or podcast, or gif can duplicate that odd moment where the past swings back into our present to help set us right. I am here--in a variety of senses--because of that fact.
To paraphrase Axl, I might not walk so proud or talk so loud. But the music of my youth is still my music. Yours too, Rita . . . and Metalboy!'s, and bkallday's, and Fletch'a. In spite of where I might be in another decade, it makes me smile today. And that, in a pinch, counts for something.
Thanks for sharing Rita. I do hope you get a chance to read this.
And you are so right. Those memories we made will always be with us, and if we're lucky, we'll continue to make new ones off the back of old ones, as you said, for a few years to come. As an example, my BFF Carolyne and I made some really good ones a few weeks back when we saw Judas Priest and Steel Panther, and we will remember those forever, as well as the ones from 20 years back.
And I don't know if its a mid-life crises or not, but it's hard not to think back sometimes to when life was carefree and much more fun and not be a bit nostalgic. Maybe that's one of the reasons we continue to listen to the music of our youth as it continues to serve as a time machine, to an extent.
And thanks again for taking the time to respond. Really appreciate it.
Viewed from the outside, older/younger generations can't understand why that specific song, or that specific band, creates sparkles in the eyes of those who love them. Well, that isn't entirely true. They can sometime catch a glimpse of why we love a particular song or band, might even come along for a bit of the ride. My Mom (a Catholic, anti-abortion, pro-same sex marriage jumble of lovely contradictions and loving guidance), for instance, always looked into what I was listening to and grabbed some of it for herself. She came to love "Who Made Who," would exercise to "You Got Another Thing Coming," and would always recognize when "Uncle Ozzy" (back in his sparkling outfits and paunchy days) came on the radio or the stereo.
But it isn't really the same sort of love, or admiration, or fanboy awe that I sometimes accuse others of or get accused of myself. They don't forgive the band or artist their faults, or overlook their shortcomings as they age. It's like a photo album: for us, all the pictures are there, beautifully laid out; for them, only a couple of really good snapshots.
So it is nostalgia, Rita. Has to be. We aren't who we were and they aren't either. It helps us feel young even if it eases us into growing older. I could get a bit maudlin if I wanted. But I won't. Let me just say this: you and I (and everyone who has found this great site that Allyson created for us) are lucky to have the great memories we have. Let's continue to make as many more as our time here allows.
Thanks again Rita. Your posts on this topic reminded me of a lot of things I never want to forget. And I will leave it at that.