Who's who at Rocklahoma?

Rocklahoma - the annual 80's metal festival held in Pryor, Oklahoma - is coming up. There are some killer glam metal bands playing, if you can make it to the South this July then this should definitely be on your list of things to do.

Check out this guide to who is who on the main stage.

- Thursday July 9th

Anthrax

The New York thrash metal band who made Madhouse and Caught in a Mosh

Saxon

New Wave of British Heavy Metal giants hailing from Yorkshire - Biff Byford and Paul Quinn are the only members remaining from their best known albums

Overkill

New Jersey punk-based thrashers, now touring their fourteenth studio album

Metal Church

Speed metal legends hailing from the American Northwest, still going strong after reforming ten years ago

Leatherwolf

LA hard rockers with a triple guitar attack

- Friday July 10th

Ratt

Most probably the defining Los Angeles hair metal band, second only perhaps to Mötley Crüe

Night Ranger

Californian hard rock group fronted by Jack Blades, Chief Counsellor at the Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp

Warrant

LA Glam Metal 5-piece, famous for their albums with lead singer Jani Lane, now fronted by Robert Mason, formerly of Lynch Mob

Danger Danger

A glam band form New York who made a whole career out of repeating the same word twice, with their hits "Naughty Naughty" and "Bang Bang"

Helix

Canadian hard rockers now in their 25th year running

Hericane Alice

A hair metal band from the '80s who broke up not long after they were signed, now reformed

- Saturday July 11th

Stryper

Probably the world's most famously christian metal band, named for a verse in the bible.

Thin Lizzy

Irish hard rock pioneers, formed and led by the late Phil Lynott for most of their career, now fronted by ex-Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes

KIX

The tongue-in-cheek hair metal band who recorded "Blow my Fuse"


- Sunday July 12th

Twisted Sister

An iconic glam band, although singer Dee Snider once cheekily took issue with this, saying: "I don't think Twisted Sister is "Glam" because that implies glamour, and we're not glamorous. We should be called "Hid" because we're hideous."

Skid Row

Legends of the late '80s who made hair metal about as heavy as it could be, most fans however will be missing original lead singer Sebastian Bach.

This is just some of the bands playing Rocklahoma, for a complete and up-to-date list check the Rocklahoma Web Site