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Faith No More, Klaxons, The Horrors and Miike Snow Added To Exit Line Up

• 14th Apr 2010

The acts just keep on coming for this year's EXIT Festival, with all hands on deck to deliver another eclectic and exciting line up for 2010.

Legendary Californian rock band Faith No More will bring a slice of metal history to life with an eagerly anticipated performance on the Main Stage. Also announcing The Klaxons, adding some dance punk to the mix and on the indie and rock tip, the 'holy grail' of punk rock Bad Brains will vibrate the fortress walls to the max with UK indie rock band The Horrors and Slovenian punk band Elvis Jackson in support. And the elusive DJ Shadow and delightful Ms Dynamite are also set to join the already confirmed Chemical Brothers, LCD Soundsystem, Mika, Missy Elliot, Placebo, Royksopp and Pendulum live.

The mighty Dance Arena adds Canadian funksters Chromeo live and Zombie Disco Squad to the already massive line up of David Guetta, Crystal Castles live, Ricardo Villalobos, Josh Wink, Moderat live, Crookers, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, A-Trak, SebastiAn, Busy P, DJ Mehdi, Laidback Luke, Dirty South, Riva Starr, Black Rose, Ost & Kjex live, Solomun, Ida Engberg, and Wannabe A Star.

EXIT is a also huge supporter of Drum & Bass with 4 nights of big bassline sounds, the Main Stage after 2am program features the scene's top artists including; DJ Zinc & Dynamite MC, DJ Friction & MC I.D, Breakage & Stamina MC, London Elektricity & MC Wrec, Foreign Beggars, DJ Randall & MC Moose, Mistajam & MC Majestic, Plastician, DJ Chef & MC Flowdan, South Rakkas Crew feat Serocee & Lady Chann.

And if that wasn't enough, EXIT is crammed with 20 stages featuring a broad and staggering array of artists. The Fusion Stage is where you will find cool bands featuring New York experimental rocksters Yeasayer, Sweden's trio Miike Snow, Berlin based indie punk band Bonaparte and Croatia's TBF joining the already confirmed Does it Offend You Yeah?, Midnight Juggernauts, Jamaica, Antenat and Bambi Molesters to name but a few.

While the Happynovisad Stage in association with Resident Advisor this year continues to showcase some of the best cuttings edge and upcoming talent from the world of electronic, featuring;
Warp Records feat Hudson Mohawke, Clark live, Time Exile live and Rustie,
Bristol Takeover feat Joker, Pinch, Gemmy and MC Nomad
Sound Pellegrino feat Brodinksi, Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, and L-VIS 1990 Club Automatic feat D-Bridge, Instra:mental and MC:SP

The Suba Stage features a whole variety of musical genres from around the world with the likes of Rui Da Silva, Cinnaman, Jonty Skrufff & Fidelity Kastrow, Juha, Papercutz, Stereo Addiction, The Gaslamp Killer, Too Young To Love, and Trance Balkan Desorganisation

The Elektrana stage features the best in electronic up & coming bands such as The Twelves, We Have Band, Tesla Boy, Sexy Sushi, Starsmith, Jevelen, Romantic Jurgen and many more.

And for those who like their music a bit harder, the Explosive Stage brings you the best in hardcore and thrash metal. Newly confirmed acts Cathedral and Murder will join Behemoth, Suicidal Tendencies, The Exploited, Al & The Blackcats, Ex Deo, Decapitated, Inspector Cluso and a whole lot more!

Taking place from Thursday 8th – Sunday 11th July, in the magical Petrovaradin Fortress overlooking the river Danube, EXIT has a variety of stages to appeal to absolutely everyone, cheap food and drink onsite and the best campsite entertainment whilst bathing in the hot Balkan sunshine. EXIT festival ticks all the right boxes and is still the best value festival ticket around!

EXIT is one of the most highly regarded festivals in Europe, being nominated for 'Best Overseas Festival' in the UK Festival Awards for the past 3 years and winning the coveted title in 2007. In addition EXIT was nominated for 'Best Major Festival' in the inaugural European Festival Awards that took place in The Netherlands in January 2010. Exit's 10th Anniversary was also one of the most spectacular events of 2009 with all advance four day tickets selling out in advance.

Launched 11 years ago as a student initiated protest against the communist Milosevic regime, EXIT has proved that music is a universal language that can connect and bring people together to make the world a better place. EXIT continues to evolve and bring like minded people together and although it gets bigger each year, the sentiment and unique vibe remains the same.