I paid $29 for a lawn seat at Ozzfest 2000. Pantera (original lineup) Ozzy, Godsmack, Soulfly, Static X and even mainstream rock bands like Incubus and Queens of the Stone Age were on it. The prices are absurd nowadays even with the worst inflation scenario it still doesn’t make sense.
take inflation into consideration, it's still about the same I'm gonna pay to see sevendust, disturbed and three days grace on their tour. this is nuts for a single day event.
Who owns every one of these companies? You know who… and yet you wonder why they are ripping off the planet? Hint: It’s not “Ticketmaster”, it’s not “Live Nation”, it’s not even the acts, it’s the OWNERS. They have something in common. What could it be? Small h a t s?
That's the problem with American culture in society, it's the land where everyone thinks that someone singing some songs on a stage, is worth more than doctors literally saving lives in an operating room.
We the people need to band together and boycott live nation/ticketmaster, with their "legal " scalping!! Resale tickets should be banned! Bots buy all available seats on release and resell them for three to five times the original price, sometimes more than that, and ticketmaster/live nation condone and support this!!!! We need to stop this monopoly and take our shows back!!!!
+1 THIS. New Law in every single state: Any tickets >> they can only be sold to the person listed on the ticket, NO GENERIC anyone tickets! Just like a flight ticket, its to the person, AND ONLY the person listed. Either that or ALL unspecific tickets have to be sold AT THE GATE! NO EXCEPTIONS! (lol the chaos ensues).
@@markchaosmassacre Exact this, the paygap between bands is insane, people blame ticket master ect. but man, the bands and their management is another level
Saw Metallica in '08 for about $60, great show. Saw Linkin Park in 2012, didn't have to pay for that ticket and saw a double long set with Chester because Incubus cancelled. Good times :) I don't envy the kids in the concert scene these days. Prices are getting so intense.
Honestly that lineup was kinda weak especially for 500 bones. It always should have been at least two days. Too many bands for four stages and 60,000 people in a relatively small venue means you're only going to see 10-20 acts and not very close for the headliners unless you bulldoze through the crowd like an asshole. Also the dread of $18 beers and $45 t-shirts knowing you're being fiscally irresponsible with a bunch of other materialistic debt-slave losers equates to a bad time.
Why is no one mentioning the fact that they cancelled their other festival BESAME MUCHO in LA as well just weeks before it was to take place on December 21, 2024 at Dodger Stadium. They gave the same excuse for this cancellation as well "Unforeseen Circumstances"
@@AngelPerez-dw8ou Ohh okay. I remember TankTheTech talked to the promoter at Blue Ridge and he said they hired Production Staff from Sick New World. Tank said the staff was completely shit but it might be because they were treated like crap and were given absolute hell conditions from actual managers of the festival
I saw Metallica, Limp, Linkin, Deftones, Mudvayne for 80$ pit tickets in 2003... had no problem saving up for that and had enough for a t shirt and food.
Yeah well the state of Alaska gives us annual dividends so I got paid 2500$ to go see as I lay dying and Korn then the next day the star wars exhibit at the museum!!! DROPS MIC*
Its funny in 2020 I paid $75 to see Metallica, Korn, Kid Rock, SOD, Powerman 5000 all at 1 venue. They are blind and believe everyone is making 6 figures! Id never pay that
Damn I remember seeing that same lineup at the summer sanitarium. When I was twelve back in 1999/2000, the same price for pit at the colossus here in LA
I honestly believe it was because of poor ticket sales because tickets were $400 a pop and they were trying to give two bands Metallica and Linkin Park 5 million dollars a piece and they just couldn't afford it and then. If you think about it VIP tickets for $1,800 That's not including people flying their people buying food and people like getting gas for cars rental cars all that stuff so you're looking at a massive amount of money to go to that Festival
Tickets to SNW earlier this year we're similar prices. And it sold out pretty fast. I don't know what changed since then. I went to the last one because I liked that lineup even though there too many bands to see in 1 day. The lineup for 2025 wasn't nearly as good imo. Metallica would have been cool to see again I guess. I haven't seen them since the 80's, but I didn't really like their music after the 80's either. I wouldn't pay $400+ to see them though.
There's a HUGE gap between these "Top Names" and the struggling "rest of us", these days. Completely out of touch with what made them. Now, they get these rich audiences, more focused on taking the perfect selfie to post on instagram, instead of that old mosh pit mentality where the whole crowd pulsated with the music. As much as I love the music, i am disheartened by the millionaire mentality they seem to now have.
Look, I'm a HUGE and life long Metallica FANATIC but THEY DON'T NEED $5M FOR A SINGLE SHOW!!! Having said that, if they don't need it, the NEW LP DAMN SURE DOESN'T NEED IT EITHER!!! I mean that's just INSANE for one ONE gig that wouldn't probably even be a full 2 1/2 hr set like Metallica normally plays. I've seen them 5 times over the 30 years I've been obsessed with them. IMO that's TOO MUCH FOR ANY BAND to get for a situation like that and Metallica SHOULD'VE offered to take LESS in order to make the show happen....as should Linkin Park!
Idk how new Lincoln Park is worth 5 mil. If it was with Chester I'd understand but they literally just came back with a new singer. A new singer in a band with their first new album just coming out with said singer isn't worth 5 mil.
I saw Pantera and White Zombie with Deftones opening back in 1996 for $25. Slipknot with Mudvayne opening in 1999 for $15, just to name a couple. 😁 Miss those days. I'd never pay what they ask for nowadays. Nope.
Metallica been killing it since the 80s .... Linkin park not even the same band that we grew to love.. how on earth do they get the same pay as Metallica 😅
Mettalica isna't even popular like lp now a days 🤣🤣🤣 actually it is lp who are killing it in the era of pop music. Metallica will never be able to achieve what lp is doing right now
@@preetamsengupta1900 LP isn’t even coming close to achieving what pop bands like Imagine Dragons or Coldplay have done & are doing, why not invite them instead?
They're PART of the problem and if you don't think so then I would suggest going and listening to the Senate hearings from a couple years ago about it.....
Yes Slayer who just came out of retirement can help but I don't know if they can gather 60,000 people paying over $400 a person on there own they would need another big name who won't take 5 Million dollars as guaranteed money
That's very expensive for one day concert. The economy hurts people in the lower and middle class the worse. People in Entertainment need think more about caring for there fans. Not be greedy.
This shouldn’t be in Vegas in my opinion. Rent out a plot of land in the middle of nowhere. Literally anywhere. If it’s dope enough of a line up, which this is, people will come. Way cheaper to do that than host in Vegas, I’m sure. Make it a 3-4 day camping style festival. Have late night slots after the headliners be prime slots for bigger bands. It’s an amazing line up. It’s just simply not worth the cost to see all these bands for 20 minutes, tho, or see a fraction of the bands you want to see that you’re still paying for. Set it up so you literally have all day and night so people can get their money’s worth. The camping aspect makes it way more affordable than staying in Vegas….and it’s just more fun. More of a trip. More of an experience. More of a vibe. Whatever. I love this lineup. I would never pay what it would cost to do it tho. For two days? Simply not worth the travel. And I could afford to do it too. It’s not about the money. It’s about the value. …and it is also about the money. Don’t price the kids out! They’re the ones that need it the most!
Pretty sad for these 2 bands to command so much money when other bands are struggling… what can you buy with the millions you have without needing the additional millions??
With prices that high it should be cancelled. A festival shouldn't be more than 150 to 200 for a couple days. I remember seeing shows for 30 with like 4 big bands. The big problem is that I won't go to a show of Ticketmaster is involved, as they are driving up prices. A 3 band show shouldn't be more than 60 to 80 dollars in this day.
"Ticket sales were very low this year, even though you had Metallica and Linkin Park" Not sure why that's so surprising. Your average music nerd usually only likes the first couple Metallica albums and LP is a mainstream band through and through. And this was a niche genre fest aimed at music nerds. The most excitement I saw was for Acid Bath and something tells me there isn't an Acid Bath fan alive that loves Linkin Park
I'm not sure how it's particularly niche, beyond of course typically being a nu-metal-era-throwback focused festival in the past, of which LP are the biggest act. I dunno, maybe this year was different, but certainly Linkin Park was the 'obvious' missing name from previous line-ups that looked like it could have been compiled as a dream line-up from a nu-metal Reddit sub.
5 million each band or band member? Do they even make that much on any other venue?! How could a festival have that kind of money anyway?? that's insane! Now I really need to know what artists were turned down for these costly headliners. I don't understand why they can't just decline Metallica and Linkin Park and just go with the rest of the bands already coming. I hope the bands can still come perform in Vegas somehow, I was really looking forward to so many of them!
Went to the first SNW and it was a bad experience, I literally spent the rest of the year going to see the bands that I wanted to see at the festive that had their sets cut down or had sound issues or their sets overlap on their own tours. Not surprised this is cancelled.
Snw was always a mess .. the first nu metal only show was cool idea but still always thought too many bands for one day. Short ass set lists having to choose between 2 or 3 bands you like but can only see one etc
Rock Feed big guy .... back in the day 14 year ago I use to go to shows like this all of the time and never broke the bank ... today I can't even go to shows anymore because it cost soooo much. Its sad ...I dont know how you do it.
That’s a lot of bands for one day. In Australia we had a rock/metal festival that used to have around 100 bands playing on the one day. So dumb. Impossible to see all the bands you want to see.
Can you please get to the point faster? It's irritating hearing you rephrase the same backstory and speculation multiple ways before you eventually get to the actual content
I was looking at tickets to see linkin park in my Area and I was shocked to my core to see how outrageous ticket costs were ! I’m like dudes you just came back and you have half a park ! You’re touring with a new drummer new singer and Brad isn’t touring with you so this other dude is new . Only Mike Joe and Dave are the original members and a decent seat not even a great one was going to cost me over 600 dollars or more for just one ! And if I wanted to have a good seat I’m looking at 800 or more dollars a ticket ! I was like okay linkin park has been my fave band since the very beginning but I’m not paying that much for half the park !!! No effin way !
these prices are nuts. just to draw a comparison...sevendust, disturbed, three days grace are doing a tour in 2025. all the ticket prices are around or less than 100 bucks, even their show at madison square garden.
It is not super uncommon, from my understanding GnR was paid like 7 million to do Download in 2018. That said the festival also sells out or almost out every year. lol
SNW spending $10,000,000 alone on 2 artists means starting at $166 per ticket... that's not even counting the additional value of EVERY OTHER band playing. This was a logistically benign deal.
Since Covid hit the world concert prices have been jacked up so much much more high demand not just for the band but for the crew that works behind the scenes tour bus crews the ticket sellers over charging it’s crazy I saw Metallica in 2017 tickets for me and my girl was 300 for mid stadium seats which wasn’t bad now a single ticket for nose bleeds is like 200 bucks in a stadium insane
This news is angering to say the least. I was REALLY looking forward to this. As someone that doesnt live near any major festivals, and has to have a minimum travel time of 5 to 6 hours, I had planned much of my spring around this. I feel bad for all the performing bands as well, as not only is this a financially strong show for them, but I know its a major lynchpin to their tour. That being said, I saw that Machine Head, In Flames, Lacuna Coil, and Unearth will be doing a show together in Vegas that same day as kind of a makeup.
This is not Metallica and Linkin Park's fault. They were offered that amount by the organizers, so is the organizers fault. Blaming on the bands is wrong and misleading. Common Rock Feed no need to stir things up! The main issue here was the amount of money in total being paid to all the bands which was astronomical. There were just too many bands booked at an very high cost!
So nany artists tried warning us. They said streaming would/and is killing the business. Touring and merchandise has overtaken album sales as the breadwinner. The supplier passes costs to the consumer. We consume cheap or free unlimited music, and now have to pay exuberant prices for live shows. It's not JUST the bands trying to cash in big (that's only a little bit of it), but the costs of touring are insane as well, which have caused many great preformers to not even try. I hope people stop buying up tickets, makes waiting in those stupid online queues easier. But again this was foreseen and warned about, but hey we're a reactionary, not a proactive, species.
Those multi-million dollar guarantees which bands demand up front these days is part of what has made tickets ridiculously expensive. And the promoters (read: Live Nation) are determined to make it back anyway they can.
In recent years, finding booking prices has become more difficult and reasons given are things like venue size, location, performance length, etc... ...But, several years back, I read an online article that stated Metallica's booking price was at least $1 million or they do not show up. Note: I also checked KoRn, and it stated KoRn booking was $100,000. Of course, since the plandemic, things could have changed. I do not remember the source as it has been years sine I researched this. I cannot find that info now. Granted, I'm just checking for this comment and did not dive deep into a google search.
With what happened at Blue Ridge Music Festival and most recently at Capulet Fest can you blame people for not wanting to purchase tickets in advance? When you need to pay to have your attorney review the T&C's to know exactly how bad you're going to get screwed when/if things go tits up! Especially when the price of tickets ranged from $250 per/+ fees to nearly $20,000 with fees (~$2,000/per person, limited to 10 VIP Cabana) That is just the cost for the show. That doesn't include airfare, or lodging. Sick New World 2023 was absolutely mental and I loved every second of it. I am hoping that they can regroup and find a happy medium for 2026.
I’m from CA but currently living/working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. MDLBeast is a 3 day festival here that cost $50usd. Metallica was here last year. Linkin Park will perform this year. Eminem. Big names. DJ’s. For fifty bucks. The US greed needs to change.
5:25 thats exactly why i dont pay for these big line up festivals. You have Band A performing and band B will start while band A is still playing their set. Sometimes even Band C will start. Hard to see those bands all at the same time so why pay the price to see them all at the same time
The event and concert industry has been on a 15-year bull run. Continuing to raise prices would eventually reach a negative return point. Linkin Park toured with Metallica in 2003 for the Summer Sanitarium Tour. It also included Mudvayne, Deftones, and Limp Biskit. All huge bands at the time. I paid $75 for a floor ticket. My friends and I were able to buy our tickets by saving one paycheck from our dumb part-time jobs working in fast food 20 hours a week while we were in high-school. You think a high school student today working part-time for minimum wage at a Taco Bell could go see Metallica or Linkin Park with his friends and get floor tickets? I just saw Linkin Park this year and it wasn't even a floor ticket; cost me $275. While we're at it, I paid $35 for a Warped Tour ticket in 2007. The free market is bound to work this out.
My first concert was in 1987 at the Omni in Atlanta..tickets were $17.50..Motley Crue with Guns N Roses opening..no one really knew who they were , touring for Appetite For Destruction & Crue was Girls, Girls, Girls tour..times change but the prices I see now are ridiculous..I was 15 yrs old &made $3.35 an hour part time at Pizza Hut..so bout$80-$90 a week ,so about 20% of my check & worth it..if tickets are $500 then I’d have to make $2500 a week for it to be 20%..so if I’m lucky I’ll make $1000a week as a finish carpenter..so that’s half my check..50%..if you work at Pizza Hut part time (basing it on a 30 hour week) & make $10hr..although federal minimum wage is $7.25hr that’s $300 a week..so it’s almost double your weekly pay..insane but as long as people pay them crazy amounts they’ll keep charging crazy amounts..
For ticket prices like that, I better see everyone that I want to see, and there lies the issue, you’re not going to. It’s more likely that 2-3 of the ppl you want to see are playing at the same time at a show like that. Which really sucks in my opinion
While I understand 5 mill sounds crazy, you gotta think of all crew they fly out, book rooms for, insurances, bus fees, etc, etc. each person in Metallica pry would see less than 100k of that. Still a shit ton in its own right.
Metallica is worth the 5 million but I wouldn't give 5 cents to see Linkin park. All of these festivals are crap with the majority promoting shitty bands. On top of all that the ticket prices are stupidly outrageous.
They need to lower the GA to 200 a day and 600 for the whole event. Aint no one paying over a thousand for anything anymore, specially for a festival in this economy. More people would attend if it was cheaper, its common sense.
Concert ticket prices have become obscene over the past almost decade. As the average person/family are living paycheck to paycheck or basically off credit cards, the direction this whole thing is going is clear. I pretty much stopped going to any major concerts. We can thank the scumbag thieves at Ticketmaster and live nation for their monopolistic practices and for all of the entities who allowed this garbage to happen.
reports have come in that Lars Ulrich heard about the v.i.p. tickets being $1,800. in a fit of rage, Lars screamed "THAT'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY!" and cancelled the whole thing.
I saw Metallica in Detroit on New Years Eve 1999 Y2K. I can't remember the cost, but im sure it was like 40-50 bucks. Same setlist they've been playing for decades. I'm good.
As someone who was a life long Linkin Park fan, this comeback doesn't feel natural. It feels more corporate and uncanny. The new music feels like they are trying to mimic old school LP mixed with their mainstream sound. Linkin Park was always an evolving band. I expected them to come out with a new experimental sound. Before Emily was announced, I just assumed that that they would pivot more into Mike being the main vocalist because they known for making rap vocals and hard rock instrumentals work. Mike is a good singer as well. I expected them to feature some rock vocalists. But man... I don't think I would be excited to see them live because Rob completely removed himself from the band and Brad doesn't even want to perform live. This doesn't seem like a passionate decision. They aren't the same band. They should have just started a new band at this point. LP always preached that it is for the fans but damn... I guess if the pay isn't good enough then they won't show up. They could have taken a pay cut and just filmed their set for UA-cam content for the fans which they would generate revenue on as well but no...
For anyone really following this band's comeback (especially those who have seen them live), 'doesn't seem like a passionate decision' is about as far from what it seems. That band are at the most enthusiastic they've been in years, if not over a decade or more.
I just saw The Expendables play at the Ventura Music Hall for $30 and it was in the same town I work in. That’s worth the price. The only way I’m paying that kind of money for a festival is if it’s hotel package. $400 for one day is a joke, almost like they’re laughing with each other about how much they can rip fans off for.
Look. I’m 33. At this point in life, I like to watch where my money goes and see what it is doing. I’ve gotten to see pretty much every band I’ve ever wanted to see other than newer acts. Not only were these band even better live 20 years ago, I also was seeing them for a fraction of what they are now. It’s just not worth it. I got to see MCR on the black parade tour with great seats for like $100. As much as I’d like to see the album played in its entirety, you would have to be okay with basically burning a pile of money. Why?
Im really hoping to see more push back against ticketmaster, livenations, management, and the artists greed with these crazy inflated ticket prices.
If tipping culture has taught us anything, it's just to ask for money.
Don't blame the bands for those guarantees, it's the festival.
People love paying out the ass tho....otherwise this wouldn't have got to now
The ticket scrappers are now stuck with tickets 😂😂😂
@@omarmoran3097 Looks like they're the ones who got scalped this time.
Most artists are little fascist lapdogs for BlackRock and WEF etc. They act like they care about people, but covid propaganda showed they don't.
I paid $29 for a lawn seat at Ozzfest 2000. Pantera (original lineup) Ozzy, Godsmack, Soulfly, Static X and even mainstream rock bands like Incubus and Queens of the Stone Age were on it. The prices are absurd nowadays even with the worst inflation scenario it still doesn’t make sense.
take inflation into consideration, it's still about the same I'm gonna pay to see sevendust, disturbed and three days grace on their tour. this is nuts for a single day event.
they are asking almost half a grand for a SINGLE ticket. f that. I'll pay less than 100 to watch bands I actually like at the madison.
Who owns every one of these companies? You know who… and yet you wonder why they are ripping off the planet? Hint: It’s not “Ticketmaster”, it’s not “Live Nation”, it’s not even the acts, it’s the OWNERS. They have something in common. What could it be? Small h a t s?
yeah today you pay those 29 dollars for a single beer at a show, totally gauging us >< it is why I haven't been to any live shows last year.
Saratoga/SPAC?
Nobody in music is worth 5 million for one gig.
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That's the problem with American culture in society, it's the land where everyone thinks that someone singing some songs on a stage, is worth more than doctors literally saving lives in an operating room.
This happens everywhere weirdo. Europe Canada etc @@trophyscene5015
@@philvelasco1363 Tyler swift isn’t worth 5 cents for a gig.
@@trophyscene5015 leave if you don’t like it then.
We the people need to band together and boycott live nation/ticketmaster, with their "legal " scalping!! Resale tickets should be banned! Bots buy all available seats on release and resell them for three to five times the original price, sometimes more than that, and ticketmaster/live nation condone and support this!!!! We need to stop this monopoly and take our shows back!!!!
Good luck
+1 THIS. New Law in every single state: Any tickets >> they can only be sold to the person listed on the ticket, NO GENERIC anyone tickets! Just like a flight ticket, its to the person, AND ONLY the person listed. Either that or ALL unspecific tickets have to be sold AT THE GATE! NO EXCEPTIONS! (lol the chaos ensues).
We can’t the government owns em.
@@travislongwell we shld do away w bots and AI. Than? The problem will take care of itself. 😜
They blew their budget booking all those big names on the one bill. No big surprise there.
Exactly... Bad planning.
Or certain bands asking too much to play the show. Maybe?
@@markchaosmassacre Exact this, the paygap between bands is insane, people blame ticket master ect. but man, the bands and their management is another level
Greedy bands. You got openers probably barely breaking even to play when Metallica.. a band that’s already rich making 5 million. Shame on them
@@drummerTBMshame on them? Shame on the booking people for blowing their budget.
Saw Metallica in '08 for about $60, great show. Saw Linkin Park in 2012, didn't have to pay for that ticket and saw a double long set with Chester because Incubus cancelled. Good times :) I don't envy the kids in the concert scene these days. Prices are getting so intense.
Ticket prices are absolutely ridiculous these days.
Honestly that lineup was kinda weak especially for 500 bones. It always should have been at least two days. Too many bands for four stages and 60,000 people in a relatively small venue means you're only going to see 10-20 acts and not very close for the headliners unless you bulldoze through the crowd like an asshole. Also the dread of $18 beers and $45 t-shirts knowing you're being fiscally irresponsible with a bunch of other materialistic debt-slave losers equates to a bad time.
I went to the first one and hated that environment, and it was a hundred degrees out
Dude there's not a band alive or lineup that's worth $500 single day general admission
You just nailed it.
Why is no one mentioning the fact that they cancelled their other festival BESAME MUCHO in LA as well just weeks before it was to take place on December 21, 2024 at Dodger Stadium. They gave the same excuse for this cancellation as well "Unforeseen Circumstances"
Also aren't they the one's who run the shitshow that was Blue Ridge Rock Fest?
@@jctheii No they don't run Blue Ridge
Low ticket sales is indeed an unforeseen circumstance
@@AngelPerez-dw8ou Ohh okay. I remember TankTheTech talked to the promoter at Blue Ridge and he said they hired Production Staff from Sick New World. Tank said the staff was completely shit but it might be because they were treated like crap and were given absolute hell conditions from actual managers of the festival
My older sister saw Ozzy and Metallica in 1986. Ticket cost? $17!
Yup I actually paid $12. It was the Master of Puppets tour.
40 years ago.....
In 1894 its was $.20 cents!
I saw Metallica, Limp, Linkin, Deftones, Mudvayne for 80$ pit tickets in 2003... had no problem saving up for that and had enough for a t shirt and food.
Yeah well the state of Alaska gives us annual dividends so I got paid 2500$ to go see as I lay dying and Korn then the next day the star wars exhibit at the museum!!! DROPS MIC*
Its funny in 2020 I paid $75 to see Metallica, Korn, Kid Rock, SOD, Powerman 5000 all at 1 venue. They are blind and believe everyone is making 6 figures! Id never pay that
Damn I remember seeing that same lineup at the summer sanitarium. When I was twelve back in 1999/2000, the same price for pit at the colossus here in LA
I paid 80$ for pit tickets total to see Metallica, Limp, Linkin, Deftones, and Mudvayne in 2003...and had enough for food and a shirt.
I would ask for your money back if you had to sit through kid rock. Class action suit 🤣
Paid 11 bucks for the Ride the Lightning tour, with armored Saint and Wasp. Lol
The ticket prices are way too high. $400 for one day? No thank you.
*_PRICES ARE TOO DAMN HIGH_*
5 million dollars each for Metallica and Linkin Park. It took 6 and a half minutes to say this...
Let the man make his money
Caught Metallica when I was 16 in 2002 and it cost like $25-$30 a ticket... prices today are nuts!
Jump to the 5:00 mark to get to the actual story.
Nice
Thank you hahaha
I'm a grown ass man, I can't afford these prices, how are kids(teens) going to afford this?
Adults over the age of 25-35 are paying for these 😅 teens don't go here unless parents pay for it😅
They beg their parents
ACID BATH fans are definitely disappointed. That pay day is ridiculous, no band deserves that much for one show.
especially 'Tallica, considering they make that much in a week on the current tour anyway
I honestly believe it was because of poor ticket sales because tickets were $400 a pop and they were trying to give two bands Metallica and Linkin Park 5 million dollars a piece and they just couldn't afford it and then. If you think about it VIP tickets for $1,800 That's not including people flying their people buying food and people like getting gas for cars rental cars all that stuff so you're looking at a massive amount of money to go to that Festival
Tickets to SNW earlier this year we're similar prices. And it sold out pretty fast. I don't know what changed since then. I went to the last one because I liked that lineup even though there too many bands to see in 1 day. The lineup for 2025 wasn't nearly as good imo. Metallica would have been cool to see again I guess. I haven't seen them since the 80's, but I didn't really like their music after the 80's either. I wouldn't pay $400+ to see them though.
I went to both prior Sick New Worlds. Was super fun.
Got tickets to this one. The line-up was definitely sus.
Refund is now inbound.
I just paid $785 for three tickets to Metallica in April…not best seats either. Ticket prices are nuts…
12.50 back in the 80s for the Puppets Tour. No way i would pay what they want now...
I miss how cheap festivals used to be. Lawn seats were always the best
That's like 1 day of pay for me after taxes
Metallica isn’t even good live
Tell me about it.
Tickets prices are out of control. It needs to stop. Ticketmaster shouldn’t be the only one in charge of the whole monopoly 👎🏻
I wouldn't pay 5 bucks to see "linkin park" in 2025.
Tix prices are outrageous!!
Sound wave australia booked metallica and linkin park
They claimed bankruptcy 2 years later
I find it curious that 2 festivals that sold tickets through Front Gate Tickets got cancelled within days of each other 🤔
I say we start a conspiracy theory around this! 😂
There's a HUGE gap between these "Top Names" and the struggling "rest of us", these days. Completely out of touch with what made them. Now, they get these rich audiences, more focused on taking the perfect selfie to post on instagram, instead of that old mosh pit mentality where the whole crowd pulsated with the music. As much as I love the music, i am disheartened by the millionaire mentality they seem to now have.
Look, I'm a HUGE and life long Metallica FANATIC but THEY DON'T NEED $5M FOR A SINGLE SHOW!!! Having said that, if they don't need it, the NEW LP DAMN SURE DOESN'T NEED IT EITHER!!! I mean that's just INSANE for one ONE gig that wouldn't probably even be a full 2 1/2 hr set like Metallica normally plays. I've seen them 5 times over the 30 years I've been obsessed with them. IMO that's TOO MUCH FOR ANY BAND to get for a situation like that and Metallica SHOULD'VE offered to take LESS in order to make the show happen....as should Linkin Park!
Idk how new Lincoln Park is worth 5 mil. If it was with Chester I'd understand but they literally just came back with a new singer. A new singer in a band with their first new album just coming out with said singer isn't worth 5 mil.
and she intimated sa victims that danny masterson had raped while they were in court she sucks bad
Yeah that’s insane, I’m shocked people are willing to pay so much to see a worse version of the band with half their iconic members gone
@@garym2293care to provide proof of that or you just repeating comments you’ve read?
Not even worth a mil these days
@@py16667half? Brad is literally the co-producer and rob didn't leave, he retired. Also, apparently it was rob who introduced Emily to Mike.
I saw Pantera and White Zombie with Deftones opening back in 1996 for $25.
Slipknot with Mudvayne opening in 1999 for $15, just to name a couple. 😁 Miss those days. I'd never pay what they ask for nowadays. Nope.
But that was when they still made money off albums.
I wouldn't pay to see linkin park regardless of the band member line up. 😴
Metallica been killing it since the 80s .... Linkin park not even the same band that we grew to love.. how on earth do they get the same pay as Metallica 😅
Probably cause they’re real big in popularity right now and a lot of they’re songs are in the top charts
Linkin Park is dead without chester
Mettalica isna't even popular like lp now a days 🤣🤣🤣 actually it is lp who are killing it in the era of pop music. Metallica will never be able to achieve what lp is doing right now
@@preetamsengupta1900 LP isn’t even coming close to achieving what pop bands like Imagine Dragons or Coldplay have done & are doing, why not invite them instead?
Lol metallica stopped "killing it" after St Anger dude 🤣😆
that $5 mil number can't be real.
that just makes no sense.
Im curious why tickets are so expensive. Im sure its that evil Ticketmaster doing, right guys?
They're PART of the problem and if you don't think so then I would suggest going and listening to the Senate hearings from a couple years ago about it.....
It’s all greed
Slayer could’ve saved this festival
Real
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Yes Slayer who just came out of retirement can help but I don't know if they can gather 60,000 people paying over $400 a person on there own they would need another big name who won't take 5 Million dollars as guaranteed money
SNW is a numetal-focused festival, so they should have more like SOAD, Korn, Deftones and Limp Bizkit than Slayer.
Could
That's very expensive for one day concert. The economy hurts people in the lower and middle class the worse. People in Entertainment need think more about caring for there fans. Not be greedy.
Linkin Park became a tribute band to themselves...not the same drummer, not the same guitarist, not the same vocalist
And they are not worth even one million.
But still number 1 rock band in the world with the number 1 album in the world and sold out stadium tour. Not bad for a tribute band!
This shouldn’t be in Vegas in my opinion. Rent out a plot of land in the middle of nowhere. Literally anywhere. If it’s dope enough of a line up, which this is, people will come. Way cheaper to do that than host in Vegas, I’m sure. Make it a 3-4 day camping style festival. Have late night slots after the headliners be prime slots for bigger bands. It’s an amazing line up. It’s just simply not worth the cost to see all these bands for 20 minutes, tho, or see a fraction of the bands you want to see that you’re still paying for. Set it up so you literally have all day and night so people can get their money’s worth. The camping aspect makes it way more affordable than staying in Vegas….and it’s just more fun. More of a trip. More of an experience. More of a vibe. Whatever. I love this lineup. I would never pay what it would cost to do it tho. For two days? Simply not worth the travel. And I could afford to do it too. It’s not about the money. It’s about the value. …and it is also about the money. Don’t price the kids out! They’re the ones that need it the most!
I can’t believe this . 5M is insane
5 million for a band like "Linkin park" without the original singer replace by a girl that sucks that are pretty much a cover band is insane !
Pretty sad for these 2 bands to command so much money when other bands are struggling… what can you buy with the millions you have without needing the additional millions??
Where does it say they demanded that much?
Gojira should be headlining,for sure.
It's all make sense
People don't have the cash to spend on a $450.00 one day festival. That amount of money is ridiculous.
With prices that high it should be cancelled. A festival shouldn't be more than 150 to 200 for a couple days. I remember seeing shows for 30 with like 4 big bands. The big problem is that I won't go to a show of Ticketmaster is involved, as they are driving up prices. A 3 band show shouldn't be more than 60 to 80 dollars in this day.
Seems the industry needs to be reworked.
"Ticket sales were very low this year, even though you had Metallica and Linkin Park"
Not sure why that's so surprising. Your average music nerd usually only likes the first couple Metallica albums and LP is a mainstream band through and through. And this was a niche genre fest aimed at music nerds. The most excitement I saw was for Acid Bath and something tells me there isn't an Acid Bath fan alive that loves Linkin Park
I'm not sure how it's particularly niche, beyond of course typically being a nu-metal-era-throwback focused festival in the past, of which LP are the biggest act. I dunno, maybe this year was different, but certainly Linkin Park was the 'obvious' missing name from previous line-ups that looked like it could have been compiled as a dream line-up from a nu-metal Reddit sub.
5 million each band or band member? Do they even make that much on any other venue?! How could a festival have that kind of money anyway?? that's insane!
Now I really need to know what artists were turned down for these costly headliners. I don't understand why they can't just decline Metallica and Linkin Park and just go with the rest of the bands already coming.
I hope the bands can still come perform in Vegas somehow, I was really looking forward to so many of them!
Went to the first SNW and it was a bad experience, I literally spent the rest of the year going to see the bands that I wanted to see at the festive that had their sets cut down or had sound issues or their sets overlap on their own tours. Not surprised this is cancelled.
Snw was always a mess .. the first nu metal only show was cool idea but still always thought too many bands for one day. Short ass set lists having to choose between 2 or 3 bands you like but can only see one etc
Rock Feed big guy .... back in the day 14 year ago I use to go to shows like this all of the time and never broke the bank ... today I can't even go to shows anymore because it cost soooo much. Its sad ...I dont know how you do it.
That’s a lot of bands for one day. In Australia we had a rock/metal festival that used to have around 100 bands playing on the one day. So dumb. Impossible to see all the bands you want to see.
Can you please get to the point faster? It's irritating hearing you rephrase the same backstory and speculation multiple ways before you eventually get to the actual content
I was looking at tickets to see linkin park in my Area and I was shocked to my core to see how outrageous ticket costs were ! I’m like dudes you just came back and you have half a park ! You’re touring with a new drummer new singer and Brad isn’t touring with you so this other dude is new . Only Mike Joe and Dave are the original members and a decent seat not even a great one was going to cost me over 600 dollars or more for just one ! And if I wanted to have a good seat I’m looking at 800 or more dollars a ticket ! I was like okay linkin park has been my fave band since the very beginning but I’m not paying that much for half the park !!! No effin way !
They definitely don’t sound good enough live anymore to justify their prices
I got 3 pit tickets for the Chicago show next year for $212/piece with fees
@@philvelasco1363 can’t imagine paying that much to see LP songs get butchered with only half their core lineup
@ionznz8540 disposable income bro
@@philvelasco1363 Yeah I’d rather spend my disposable income on a good show tho lol
This event only needed Metallica and LP as Co headliners and 15 bands thats it.
Thatd of made more sense
these prices are nuts. just to draw a comparison...sevendust, disturbed, three days grace are doing a tour in 2025. all the ticket prices are around or less than 100 bucks, even their show at madison square garden.
It is not super uncommon, from my understanding GnR was paid like 7 million to do Download in 2018. That said the festival also sells out or almost out every year. lol
Bring Powertrip back!!🤘🏼😎🤘🏼🎸🔥
SNW spending $10,000,000 alone on 2 artists means starting at $166 per ticket... that's not even counting the additional value of EVERY OTHER band playing. This was a logistically benign deal.
In 2017 I paid $125 for Metallica floor tix. That same ticket costs triple now. In the same exact NFL stadiums where they play.
Since Covid hit the world concert prices have been jacked up so much much more high demand not just for the band but for the crew that works behind the scenes tour bus crews the ticket sellers over charging it’s crazy I saw Metallica in 2017 tickets for me and my girl was 300 for mid stadium seats which wasn’t bad now a single ticket for nose bleeds is like 200 bucks in a stadium insane
$450 for just a single day regular entry ticket is crazy. I paid less than that for 4 different days at Sonic Temple.
Plus hotels flex their rates depending on the event. My friend's hotel in Vegas went up 4x from the quoted rate once the Eagles were announced.
Eehhhh. Not gonna lose any sleep over this.
Bro losing his weight for a second before Christmas. Wow! did you just used treadmill before this?
Damn dawg, you dragged that one out
New LP isnt worth it. Re united three days grace is better.
This news is angering to say the least. I was REALLY looking forward to this. As someone that doesnt live near any major festivals, and has to have a minimum travel time of 5 to 6 hours, I had planned much of my spring around this.
I feel bad for all the performing bands as well, as not only is this a financially strong show for them, but I know its a major lynchpin to their tour.
That being said, I saw that Machine Head, In Flames, Lacuna Coil, and Unearth will be doing a show together in Vegas that same day as kind of a makeup.
Just recently paid $480 for 2 tickets to Linkin Park concert in Nashville next August.
This is not Metallica and Linkin Park's fault. They were offered that amount by the organizers, so is the organizers fault. Blaming on the bands is wrong and misleading. Common Rock Feed no need to stir things up! The main issue here was the amount of money in total being paid to all the bands which was astronomical. There were just too many bands booked at an very high cost!
This isn't the bands' fault, this is the promoters not doing their due diligence on the financials of their plans.
So nany artists tried warning us. They said streaming would/and is killing the business. Touring and merchandise has overtaken album sales as the breadwinner. The supplier passes costs to the consumer. We consume cheap or free unlimited music, and now have to pay exuberant prices for live shows.
It's not JUST the bands trying to cash in big (that's only a little bit of it), but the costs of touring are insane as well, which have caused many great preformers to not even try.
I hope people stop buying up tickets, makes waiting in those stupid online queues easier.
But again this was foreseen and warned about, but hey we're a reactionary, not a proactive, species.
Those multi-million dollar guarantees which bands demand up front these days is part of what has made tickets ridiculously expensive. And the promoters (read: Live Nation) are determined to make it back anyway they can.
In recent years, finding booking prices has become more difficult and reasons given are things like venue size, location, performance length, etc...
...But, several years back, I read an online article that stated Metallica's booking price was at least $1 million or they do not show up. Note: I also checked KoRn, and it stated KoRn booking was $100,000. Of course, since the plandemic, things could have changed. I do not remember the source as it has been years sine I researched this. I cannot find that info now. Granted, I'm just checking for this comment and did not dive deep into a google search.
With what happened at Blue Ridge Music Festival and most recently at Capulet Fest can you blame people for not wanting to purchase tickets in advance? When you need to pay to have your attorney review the T&C's to know exactly how bad you're going to get screwed when/if things go tits up! Especially when the price of tickets ranged from $250 per/+ fees to nearly $20,000 with fees (~$2,000/per person, limited to 10 VIP Cabana) That is just the cost for the show. That doesn't include airfare, or lodging.
Sick New World 2023 was absolutely mental and I loved every second of it. I am hoping that they can regroup and find a happy medium for 2026.
The one day event was a killer for me as well. Too much money for that chaos. Sick New World can do better in my opinion.
I’m from CA but currently living/working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. MDLBeast is a 3 day festival here that cost $50usd. Metallica was here last year. Linkin Park will perform this year. Eminem. Big names. DJ’s. For fifty bucks. The US greed needs to change.
5:25 thats exactly why i dont pay for these big line up festivals. You have Band A performing and band B will start while band A is still playing their set. Sometimes even Band C will start. Hard to see those bands all at the same time so why pay the price to see them all at the same time
There is literally no show I would pay $472 to see!
linkin park died...just a cover band now...
The amount of times you repeat yourself in reports is annoying.
That was the problem booking 2 headliners at once
These prices are costly in any climate.
The event and concert industry has been on a 15-year bull run. Continuing to raise prices would eventually reach a negative return point. Linkin Park toured with Metallica in 2003 for the Summer Sanitarium Tour. It also included Mudvayne, Deftones, and Limp Biskit. All huge bands at the time. I paid $75 for a floor ticket. My friends and I were able to buy our tickets by saving one paycheck from our dumb part-time jobs working in fast food 20 hours a week while we were in high-school. You think a high school student today working part-time for minimum wage at a Taco Bell could go see Metallica or Linkin Park with his friends and get floor tickets? I just saw Linkin Park this year and it wasn't even a floor ticket; cost me $275. While we're at it, I paid $35 for a Warped Tour ticket in 2007. The free market is bound to work this out.
My first concert was in 1987 at the Omni in Atlanta..tickets were $17.50..Motley Crue with Guns N Roses opening..no one really knew who they were , touring for Appetite For Destruction & Crue was Girls, Girls, Girls tour..times change but the prices I see now are ridiculous..I was 15 yrs old &made $3.35 an hour part time at Pizza Hut..so bout$80-$90 a week ,so about 20% of my check & worth it..if tickets are $500 then I’d have to make $2500 a week for it to be 20%..so if I’m lucky I’ll make $1000a week as a finish carpenter..so that’s half my check..50%..if you work at Pizza Hut part time (basing it on a 30 hour week) & make $10hr..although federal minimum wage is $7.25hr that’s $300 a week..so it’s almost double your weekly pay..insane but as long as people pay them crazy amounts they’ll keep charging crazy amounts..
Metallagreed!
Come on, haters say it's Ronnie's fault...
For ticket prices like that, I better see everyone that I want to see, and there lies the issue, you’re not going to. It’s more likely that 2-3 of the ppl you want to see are playing at the same time at a show like that. Which really sucks in my opinion
While I understand 5 mill sounds crazy, you gotta think of all crew they fly out, book rooms for, insurances, bus fees, etc, etc. each person in Metallica pry would see less than 100k of that. Still a shit ton in its own right.
Metallica is worth the 5 million but I wouldn't give 5 cents to see Linkin park. All of these festivals are crap with the majority promoting shitty bands. On top of all that the ticket prices are stupidly outrageous.
They need to lower the GA to 200 a day and 600 for the whole event. Aint no one paying over a thousand for anything anymore, specially for a festival in this economy. More people would attend if it was cheaper, its common sense.
Concert ticket prices have become obscene over the past almost decade. As the average person/family are living paycheck to paycheck or basically off credit cards, the direction this whole thing is going is clear. I pretty much stopped going to any major concerts. We can thank the scumbag thieves at Ticketmaster and live nation for their monopolistic practices and for all of the entities who allowed this garbage to happen.
reports have come in that Lars Ulrich heard about the v.i.p. tickets being $1,800. in a fit of rage, Lars screamed "THAT'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY!" and cancelled the whole thing.
yeah ngl linkin park shouldn’t have headlined this , I love them so much and this era but this shit looked like a wreck from the get go:/
regardless I’ll be seeing them in Mexico , London & in LA
@@gabrielaparicio9230
I’m assuming that
is at minus,
Chester Bennington prices?
They are topping the charts and just announced an arena tour…they are killing it
@@gabrielaparicio9230 Don’t bother unless you’re just dying to see LP, the ticket prices are not worth how much worse they sound live now
@@BadChuky88 I paid $190 for pit tickets at their shows recently so idk how prices are working for everyone else:/
I saw Metallica in Detroit on New Years Eve 1999 Y2K. I can't remember the cost, but im sure it was like 40-50 bucks. Same setlist they've been playing for decades. I'm good.
As if these 2 rich bands need more money.
As someone who was a life long Linkin Park fan, this comeback doesn't feel natural. It feels more corporate and uncanny. The new music feels like they are trying to mimic old school LP mixed with their mainstream sound. Linkin Park was always an evolving band. I expected them to come out with a new experimental sound. Before Emily was announced, I just assumed that that they would pivot more into Mike being the main vocalist because they known for making rap vocals and hard rock instrumentals work. Mike is a good singer as well. I expected them to feature some rock vocalists. But man... I don't think I would be excited to see them live because Rob completely removed himself from the band and Brad doesn't even want to perform live. This doesn't seem like a passionate decision. They aren't the same band. They should have just started a new band at this point. LP always preached that it is for the fans but damn... I guess if the pay isn't good enough then they won't show up. They could have taken a pay cut and just filmed their set for UA-cam content for the fans which they would generate revenue on as well but no...
For anyone really following this band's comeback (especially those who have seen them live), 'doesn't seem like a passionate decision' is about as far from what it seems. That band are at the most enthusiastic they've been in years, if not over a decade or more.
I just saw The Expendables play at the Ventura Music Hall for $30 and it was in the same town I work in. That’s worth the price. The only way I’m paying that kind of money for a festival is if it’s hotel package. $400 for one day is a joke, almost like they’re laughing with each other about how much they can rip fans off for.
Look. I’m 33. At this point in life, I like to watch where my money goes and see what it is doing. I’ve gotten to see pretty much every band I’ve ever wanted to see other than newer acts. Not only were these band even better live 20 years ago, I also was seeing them for a fraction of what they are now. It’s just not worth it. I got to see MCR on the black parade tour with great seats for like $100. As much as I’d like to see the album played in its entirety, you would have to be okay with basically burning a pile of money. Why?
This sounds like "our bookers do coke together " problem