During a recent interview, Fozzy's Chris Jericho said that he doesn't think there are a lot of new rock and roll bands who could be future festival headliners. He told YouTube/Music Industry Expert Rick Beato, “So the scary thing's this. I was talking to U.K. concert promoter Andy Copping on 'Talk Is Jericho' when Download got canceled in 2020, which is the biggest festival in England — a hundred thousand people. And I said to Andy, 'Who is going to be headlining Download in 10 years?' 'Cause now you can still rely on METALLICA and AC/DC and IRON MAIDEN and SYSTEM OF A DOWN reunited or FAITH NO MORE or those types of bands. AVENGED SEVENFOLD are building and SLIPKNOT.”
He continued, “But who is the next generation of these bands? Because with the exception of a GRETA VAN FLEET and THE STRUTS and a couple of others, there's not a lot of new rock and roll bands. Whereas before, there'd be 40 or 50 and you couldn't keep up with all of them.”
