Now that Beady Eye, The Hives, and Deftones have been sorted as the Blur replacements on the Big Day out 2014 lineup, festival promoter AJ Maddah has turned his attention back to Soundwave 2014.

The annual hard and heavy festival already has a hefty 88 bands on the bill, but as Maddah previously hinted at the time of the second massive lineup announcement, there is likely to be a third addition of bands to the Soundwave 2014 lineup.

In fact, one of them has been confirmed but is now having troubles overcoming immigration issues to get Down Under to perform at the festival.

Post-hardcore act Falling In Reverse are set to play Soundwave 2014 but polarising frontman Ronnie Radke is having issues with his visa, as Maddah revealed on twitter overnight, as FasterLouder points out, noting he “won’t announce” the confirmation until its sorted. (Isn’t tweeting the same as announcing? That’s a chicken/egg conundrum.)

It seems Radke’s visa troubles have been grounding the band for some time. Maddah had indicated Falling In Reverse’s Australian visit as far back as September in a tweet saying they were “confirmed“, putting them in the rumour mill as part of this month’s just-wrapped Vans Warped Tour. “Fuck you to anybody who says that I can’t do what I want to do.”

“Coming to Australia is all I think about but I’m just waiting until we can go,” Radke told Tone Deaf in an interview way back in June about the band’s second album, Fashionably Late, with the heavily tatooteed frontman defending himself against ‘the haters’ of the band’s genre-muddying brand of hardcore (as heard in ‘Alone‘).

“I expected the reaction that we received, how could I not when you’re talking crap to people,” says the 27-year-old vocalist come rapper, whose band mixes elements of trap, metal, hardcore, and even J-pop, country, and dubstep.

“Fuck you to anybody who says that I can’t do what I want to do,” added Radke. “I expected people to be mad, but we’re doing something right if it is causing such a rift… People are so shocked, and honestly I have interpreted that as the band doing something right.”

Aside from his perceived musical misdemeanours, Radke also has a string of criminal convictions and arrests, including domestic assault against his girlfriend, aggravated assault at a concert, and a two year prison term, from 2008, after violating parole on a drug possession offence, which may or may not be contributing to the visa snag (interestingly it’s not the first time that a band with drug arrests has caused problems with an Aussie festival lineup).

Whether Falling In Reverse have their visa issues cleared in time or not, the third Soundwave 2014 lineup announcement – which “will have a few internationals” according to Maddah – could arrive before the end of th year. A recent tweet from the Big Day Out/Soundwave/Warped promoter indicating he was “hoping to announce before Christmas.”

As for who could be on it, expect two yet-to-be-announced Melbourne bands to make the cut – namely the award-winning thrash group King Parrot, all but confirmed in September, and self-described “Psychedelic Reggae Ska Doom Metal Punk Rock From Hell,” The Bennies.

Soundwave 2014 Lineup

A Day To Remember
Mastodon
HIM
Pennywise
Glassjaw
Panic! At The Disco
Eagles Of Death Metal
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Less Than Jake
Mayday Parade
Sevendust
Crosses
Suicide Silence
The Porkers
Gojira
Black Veil Brides
Zebrahead
Satyricon
Dream On Dreamer
Mutemath
Desparecidos
Stiff Little Fingers
Thy Art Is Murder
Graveyard
Dir En Grey
Deez Nuts
In Hearts Wake
Breathe Carolina
Defiler
I Call Fives
Hacktivist
Devil You Know
Soil
The Boss Hoss
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Nostalghia
Upon A Burning Body

Joining the already announced lineup of:

Green Day
Avenged Sevenfold
Stone Temple Pilots (with Chester Bennington)
Megadeth
Alice In Chains
Rob Zombie
Megadeth
Placebo
AFI
KoRn
Alterbridge
Trivium
Down
DevilDriver
Newsted
Biffy Clyro
Rocket From The Crypt
Asking Alexandria
Clutch
Alkaline Trio
Baroness
Five Finger Death Punch
August Burns Red
Testament
Living Color
Letlive
Motionless In White
Gwar
Black Dahlia Murder
MushroomHead
Finch
Pulled Apart By Horses
Ill Nino
Nancy Vandal
Bowling For Soup
Trash Talk
Skindred
Volbeat
Amon Amarth
Terror
Whitechapel
TesseracT
The Story So Far
Hardcore Superstar
10 Years
Walking Papers
Our Last Night
Coliseum
Your Demise
Heaven’s Basement
Real Friends
+ more to be announced.

Soundwave 2014 Dates & Tickets

Tickets on sale Thrusday 9th September at 9am
via: soundwavefestival.com, oztix.com.au & other outlets

Saturday 22nd February – Brisbane, RNA Showgrounds
Sunday 23rd February – Sydney, Olympic Park
Friday 28th February – Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse
Saturday 1st March – Adelaide, Bonython Park
Monday 3rd March – Perth, Claremont Showgrounds

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