Metallica.com had this info on the specials: The Sonisphere Festival is a series of rockin' summer music festivals taking place across Europe and features some of the biggest and best bands in Hard Rock and Metal.
Part 1 of the 2009 festival premieres Saturday, 9/5 and features performances by artists such as Metallica, Linkin Park, and Anthrax.
Part 2 of the 2009 festival premieres Sunday, 9/6 and features performances by artists such as Machine Head, Limp Bizkit, and Alice in Chains.
Please check your local listings. Pallaidia tv can be found here: http://www.palladia.tv
Final artists featured are as follows: (schedule subject to change)
Prog 1 (Saturday 9pm EST)
Linkin Park - New Divide
Dead By Sunrise - Crawl Back In
Heaven & Hell - Bible Black
Taking Back Sunday - New Again
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
The Used - Hospital
Alient Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Anthrax - Safe Home
Anthrax - Anti Social
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Metallica - Fuel
Prog 2 (Sunday 9pm EST)
Metallica - Hit The Lights
Alice In Chains - Dam That River
Machine Head - Struck a Nerve
Machine Head - Halo
Limp Bizkit - My Generation
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong
Linkin Park - In The End
Metallica - Fade To Black
We're taking a short break now, but you can catch three songs from the last summer show at Knebworth airing in the UK on Channel 4/Blink TV on this Friday night just after midnight, (guess that's technically Saturday, August 15) at 12:10 AM. Check out the Sonisphere special airing then . . . there will be other cool bands too.
See you in a month from North America!
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