It’s a poster that has something to make all heavy metal and heavy rock fans salivate. For three days, in the Californian desert, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses and Tool will follow one another on stage during the first presentation of the Power Trip festival.
The gods of rock/metal and their loyal and passionate admirers meet in Indio, in the Coachella Valley, from October 6 to 8, where the famous Coachella festival is held each spring.
This is not the first time that this site has received such an assembly of legends in the fall. In 2016, the Desert Trip festival brought together, over two weekends, nothing less than Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, The Who, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
Of course, all of this has a price. General admission tickets for all three days of Power Trip will start at US$599 plus fees. For VIP packages, there is nothing below US$1599.
Bruce et Axl
DIDIER DEBUSSCHERE/JOURNAL DE QUEBEC
Bruce Dickinson in Quebec, in March 2022. DIDIER DEBUSSCHERE / JOURNAL DE QUEBEC
On October 6, the kick-off will be given with a Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden double.
It will be interesting to know if singers Bruce Dickinson and Axl Rose will exchange pleasantries.
In an interview at Journal, in 2015, Bruce Dickinson had reported having had trouble with Axl Rose during a concert at the Coliseum in Quebec during which Guns N ‘Roses provided the first part of Iron Maiden. Rose had insulted spectators because they spoke French to her.
“I should have got on stage and punched him. How dare he talk to my audience like that? I have always regretted not having done it, ”he confided.
AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne will follow them on stage on October 7th. Metallica and Tool will be the stars of the last evening.
New Metallica Song
Speaking of Metallica, the Quebec darlings, expected at the Olympic Stadium for two nights this summer, presented a new extract from their album on Thursday 72 Seasonswhich will be released on April 14.
Over seven euphoric minutes, the album’s title track bridges the gap between the thrash Metallica of the 1980s and the more hard rock and melodic accents of the 1990s. Screaming Suicide, Eternal Light et If Darkness Had a Sonalready known to the public.
The title 72 Seasons refers to the first 18 years of our existence, those that form “our real or false identities, the concept that our parents told us who we were”, says singer James Hetfield, quoted in a statement by the group’s record company .
Metallica’s world tour kicks off April 27 in Amsterdam.