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Ozzfest......The Destination Festival??

By Wayne Graham

According to Blabbermouth, rumours abound of Ozzfest making a transition from a single day traveling metal festival to a two-day fest in Dallas this year. As you may recall, last year's go-around was free to attendees, with costs offset by corporate sponsors. That resulted in a pretty strong second stage with a lot of hungry up-and-comers (3 Inches of Blood, Behemoth, Nile) and---with the exception of the show stealing Lamb of God---an extremely lousy mainstage.

Yeah, guess that didn't work. Given the success Rocklahoma had last year, combined with this year's excitement around the upcoming Mayhem Fest with Slipknot, Mastodon, DragonForce and other popular bands that might have participated in an Ozzfest tour, I guess Ozzy and Sharon felt like they wanted to get into the ever-growing stationary festival racket.

None of this is official, so no lineup choices have been released, but we can count on solo Ozzy since Heaven and Hell may be recording soon. And, I dunno, I'm sure Zakk Wylde and The Neverending Pinched Harmonics will probably be there.