Event
Information:
The Orion Music +
More is a upcoming music festival in
Atlantic City, New Jersey. On
February 7th , American thrash
metal/heavy metal band Metallica
announced plans to launch the
festival, which will take place at
Bader Field in Atlantic City on June
23 and 24, . At least 22 bands
and artists are scheduled to perform
at the festival. Bands from a wide
variety of genres, ranging from
thrash metal and black metal to
indie rock and experimental rock are
slated to perform. Metallica
confirmed that they will headline
the festival on both days and will
perform two of their most critically
acclaimed albums in their entirety:
their 1991 eponymous fifth release
one night and 1984's Ride the
Lightning the other.
Atlantic City is
a city in Atlantic County, New
Jersey, United States, and an
internationally renowned resort city
for gambling, conventions and
leisure. The city also served as the
inspiration for the American version
of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic
City is located on Absecon Island on
the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As
of the 2010 United States Census,
the city has a population of 39,558.
There were 274,549 people living in
the Atlantic City–Hammonton
Metropolitan Statistical Area as of
the 2010 Census.
Atlantic City
officially became a city in 1854.
The new city contained portions of
Egg Harbor Township and Galloway
Township. The three routes into
Atlantic City are the Black Horse
Pike/Harding Highway (US 322/40),
White Horse Pike (US 30) and the
Atlantic City Expressway. Atlantic
City is roughly 132 miles (212 km)
south of New York City by road, 55
miles (89 km) southeast of
Philadelphia. The city borders
Absecon, Brigantine, Pleasantville,
Ventnor City and West Atlantic City
(part of Egg Harbor Township).
Line Up for Orion
Music & More include:
Metallica
Arctic monkeys
Avenged sevenfold
Modest mouse
The gaslight anthem
Eric Church
Cage the elephant
The jim breuer heavy metal comedy
tour
Best coast
Hot snakes
Titus andronicus
Gary clark jr.
Lucero
Roky erickson
The black angels
The sword
Wooden shjips
A place to bury strangers
Liturgy
Ghost
Soul rebels
Shuli egar
Charred walls of the damned
Suicidal tendencies
Sepultura
The black dahlia murder
Torche
Red fang
Kyng
Landmine marathon
Black tusk
Thy will be done
Letlive
Volbeat
Baroness
