Organizers behind the 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise have always gone above and beyond to bring their sailors exclusive, once in a lifetime shows, and this year will be no different. Just announced - former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo will be bringing his brand new band Dead Cross on board The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise. Having only played a couple of warm up shows in California, this will be the newly formed band's first show in front of a Global audience.

Says Lombardo: “Check it out! I'm taking it back to where the chaos began. Uncompromising, explosive, hard-core punk. Joining me in this adventure, Justin Pearson (Head Wound City, The Locust, Retox), Gabe Serbian (Cattle Decapitation, The Locust, Retox) and Mike Crain (Retox, Festival Of Dead Deer).”

70000 Tons Of Metal, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, will sail Thursday, February 4, 2016 aboard the Royal Caribbean Independence Of The Seas from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale near Miami, FL and will not return to the real world until Monday, February 8, 2016.

This year's lineup for 70000 Tons Of Metal now holds: Ancient Rites, At The Gates, Belphegor, Blood Bath, Carach Angren, Children Of Bodom, Cradle Of Filth, Dead Cross, Delain, DragonForce, Epica, Firewind, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gamma Ray,  Hammerfall, Holy Moses, Iced Earth, Insomnium, Lacuna Coil, Moonspell, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Raven, Rhapsody Of Fire, Rotting Christ, Samael, Sodom, Susperia, Thyrfing, Turisas, Týr, Vader, Visions Of Atlantis, and more.

Ticket prices start at USD 666 plus USD 348 Taxes and Fees per person and include all on board entertainment, most non-alcoholic and non-carbonated beverages, all meals in the dining rooms, most on board restaurants and even 24 hour room service!

Public sales are now underway. Check out 70000tons.com for more information.