Make up a tour/festival with seven bands you'd want to see.

[TraneDeracs]

Not counting openers of course.

Iron Maiden
Blind Guardian
Opeth
Katatonia
Primordial
Jag Panzer
Sabaton

Such would be a dream come true for me.

[The Rider Of Rohan]

Let's not make it a tour, but a travelling festival like Ozzfest. This would mean that in my imagination you would have beer, sun, women, tents, and the following bands:

Manowar
Iron Maiden
Blind Guardian
Iced Earth with Ripper
Onkel Tom
Savatage
Megadeth

[Gandalf de Grijze]

Ideally i'd prolly put something like this together:
(headliner down to starter)
Blind Guardian (135 min)
Savatage (110 min)
Riverside (90 min)
Kamelot (75 min)
Pagan's Mind (75 min)
Banco del muto soccorso (75 min)
Lazuli (60 min)

Which means that on one stage, you'd have a great festival from about 13.00 untill somewhere between 2 and 3 am.
On two stages, you'd have a great festival from about 14.00 untill between 1 and 2 am.

giving some room for playing a tad longer than planned.

[Andreas]

Decending from favourite to least favourite:

Rammstein
HammerFall
Blind Guardian
Sabaton
Rhapsody
Sonata Arctica
Kamelot


Normally I would add ToTo, but since they're not metal at all and they don't exist anymore, they don't really fit in with the others.

[spamel]

Maiden
(Original line up) GnR
(Black album and prior) Metallica
Led Zeppelin
BG (obviously!)
Rhapsody
Mr Gaga (For the toilet break and time to get food, so I don't miss the bands I want to hear!)

[corrupted old gnom]

Eläkeläiset ("aftershow-party")
Judas Priest (never seen'em so far - it's a shame!)
Avantasia (who know's if they'll ever play live again?)
Sanctuary (new album...new tour?)
Wuthering Heights (they tour even less than falconer)
Lost Horizon (who knows what they are worth anymore...once they finally find a new singer)
Steel Attack (they're back in their original line-up playing only songs from the first two records)

[Kalmari]

Powerfest 2010

01.Blind Guardian
02.Symphony X
03.Rhapsody Of Fire
04.Demons & Wizards
05.Star One (New album coming this year!)
06.Iced Earth
07.Manowar (I would like to see them as a support act to everyone else )

[Dentarthurdent]

Teutonic Terror Open Air 2011:

Blind Guardian
Destruction
Grave Digger
Rage
Sodom
Accept
Tankard
Headdeatch

Fuck yeah!

[Bender B. Rodriguez]

Megadeth
Nevermore
Opeth
Blind Guardian
Cavalera Conspitacy
Moonsorrow
Acid Drinkers

[somnia]

Blind Guardian
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Orphaned Land
Therion
OSI
Riverside

[MarchOfTime]

Whoo, MarchOfTime-Fest 2010!!!!!

1. Symphony X
2. Blind Guardian
3. Arjen A. Lucassen w/ Either Star One, or by some magical alignment of the heavens, his entire guest cast from either Electric Castle or Universal Migrator (those 2 albums seem like they'd be fun live )
4. Iron Maiden
5. Tarot (Metal on Ice 2.0!)
6. Avantasia
7. Devin Townsend (along with Anneke Van Giersenbergen from Addicted!), maybe bring Ziltoid up on Stage for good measure.
End the festival with SYL's "Satan's Ice Cream Truck" and Herman the Planet Smasher


It'll be Like Power-Prog USA but with 10x the Epic

05.Star One (New album coming this year!)

I KNOW!!!!! the sample video sounds amazing; I always love Arjen's Crazy-spacey Synth-Metal music

[Desert_Storm]

Not a favourite bands list here, but more bands that would combine nicely:

1. Dream Theater
2. Transatlantic (Portnoy stays)
3. Neal Morse (Morse and Portnoy stay)
4. Spock´s Beard [reunited] (Morse stays)
---break---
5. Iced Earth
6. Demons&Wizards (Schaffer stays)
7. Blind Guardian (Hansi stays)

The cool thing would be, that within the two groups, at least one musician would stay on stage and the others being replaced, so you would have a nice continuity.

[End Of An Era]

(sort of random order)

Metal Church
Bloodbath
Virgin Steele
Sodom
Amorphis
Lamb Of God
Megadeth

[Lord Borbak]

Motorhead
Sodom
Venom
Turbonegro
Darkthrone (don't play live, I know)
Toxic Holocaust
Rammer

Or :

Electric Wizard
Kyuss (reunion)
High on Fire
Orange Goblin
Down
Goatsnake
Dixie Witch

[Orodaran]

So many bands to see, so I will make a triple stage festival

(All festival days from headliner to opener)

The classic stage:
IRON MAIDEN
Savatage (reunion tour)
Iced Earth
Rage
Kamelot
Edguy
Grave Digger


The prog/power stage:
DREAM THEATER
Therion
Symphony X
Shadow Gallery
Sonata Arctica
Threshold
Andrè Matos


The folk stage:
IN EXTREMO
Schandmaul
Eluveitie
Elvenking
Folkstone
Saltatio Mortis
Turisas

[yamasidious]

Iron Maiden
Blind Guardian
Megadeth
Ensiferum
Wintersun
Iced Earth
Keep of Kalessin

[Little Dragon]

hmm, let's see

- The New Black (8))
- Týr (a little touch of viking atmosphere)
- Sólstafir (time to get mindblown)
- Powerwolf (in blood we trust, hallelujah!)
- Volbeat (rocknroll!!!)
- Onkel Tom (wheeeeeeee FUN)

and as my personal highlight:

- Dezperadoz (of course, what else )

and where do i put anathema, pagan's mind, riverside, the boss hoss, amorphis, therion, eläkeläiset, orphaned land, dirty deeds, minor sin and all that nonmetal bands i like to see?

[West Virginia Mule]

I would never sit through seven bands. Jeesus-pleezus. Booooring.

I would, however, like Jethro Tull to perform seven songs for me in my bathroom. It has good acoustics, and you don't have to walk far to pee.

[Cerbere]

Ensiferum
Wintersun (If that new album ever comes out )
Moonsorrow
Rhapsody (Emerald Sword Series only)
Blind Guardian
Hammerfall
Stratovarius

[MythsOfMetal]

Off the top of my head here's what I'd like to see, though some might be unrealistic.


Blind Guardian
Sigh
Manegarm
Absu
Mondstille
Wintersun
Gallowbraid


I tried to pick ones which I like most of the discography of. So I left off some bands which may have some great albums, but may not be consistent in my eyes. Also I'm unsure if all of these bands play live because one is a one man band, though some bands like that have special members who only perform with the main band member in live settings. This isn't supposed to be the most realistic set list.

[Joost]

QUEEN (with Freddie)
IRON MAIDEN
Rainbow (with Dio and Cozy)
Judas Priest
Savatage (with Jon and Criss)
Crimson Glory (with Midnight)
Skyclad (with Martin, even though he isn't dead)

[Greektrooper]

Hmm.....let's go:

Iron Maiden
Blind Guardian
Motorhead
Accept
Eluveitie
Ensiferum

God......I'd leave my body in that battlefield!!!!!!

[Jon The Wise]

Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Blind Guardian
Sodom
D.R.I.
Immortal
Destruction

-Already seen all these bands but if I could pick a festival of any seven metal bands.

[Frozen within]

Opeth
Keep of Kalessin (but only if they're playing old stuff)
Iron maiden (but only if they're playing old stuff)
Scar Symmetry
Circus Maximus
Foo Fighters
Muse

[Jon The Wise]

Got to see Sodom and D.R.I. together in June in Montebello, QC. Short sets but at least saw two of them together.

[Dentarthurdent]

Avantasia (who know's if they'll ever play live again?)

This is quite funny in retrospect.

[Max]

Blind Guardian
Gamma Ray
Helloween (Jericho to Keeper 2)
Iced Earth
Pyramaze
Evertale
Manowar

No order here, only the band's named.

[Shadow_Zero]

My top 4 would without a doubt be:
Metallica
Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Stratovarius

Then I'd currently add:
Serenity
Evil Invaders
The Wounded


These didn't make it:
Sabaton
Evile
Epica
Nightwish
Sonata Arctica
Amorphis
Powerwolf
Seven Kingdoms
Anathema
Therion

[Catanduva]

[Ryu]

Blind Guardian, of course, it goes without saying
A suite of Dethklok and Brendon Small's Galaktikon
Strapping Young Lad+Some Devin Townsend Band/Project
Dream Theater
Orden Ogan
Scar Symmetry