June 30, 2009 18:00

Limp Bizkit added to Sonisphere line-up

More acts added to Knebworth rock bash bill

Limp Bizkit have been added to the line-up of the forthcoming Sonisphere festival.

The reformed US rockers, led by Fred Durst, recently returned to the UK festival scene, playing at Download festival earlier this month.

They will now also play on the Sunday (August 2) of Sonisphere.

The rock bash takes place at Knebworth Park on August 1 and 2 with Blackhole, Exit Ten, The Dead Formats and Blakfish among other new acts added to the line-up today (June 30).

Some of the acts will be performing on the newly-announced Jagermeister Stage, which will feature unsigned acts playing across the two days of the festival.

The festival will be headlined by Linkin Park and Metallica.

The Sonisphere line-up is:

Airbourne
Alice In Chains
Anthrax
Attack! Attack!
Avenged Sevenfold
Blackhole
Blakfish
Bullet For My Valentine
Cancer Bats
Corey Taylor Acoustic Set
The Crave
Dear Superstar
The Defiled
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Dirty Little Rabbits
Exit Ten
Failsafe
Feeder
Fighting With Wire
Fin
Flood Of Red
Heaven's Basement
Lauren Harris
Killing Joke
Lamb Of God
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park
Machine Head
Mastodon
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails
Rise To Remain
Rolo Tomassi
Skindred
Slipknot
Sylosis
Taking Back Sunday
Telegraphs
The Chapman Family
The Sword
Thin Lizzy
Twin Atlantic
Young Guns

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