The Orion Music + More is a upcoming music festival in Atlantic City, New Jersey. On February 7th 2012, 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, 2012. 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 2012 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
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