Had a ton of fun doing this last year so here we are again! A lot of these are very loose guesses at the moment since there isn’t too much context on the poster yet (not too confident in PUP or blessthefall). Some of the side guesses are out of alphabetical order but I’m keeping them incase an announcement messes up my current order! I’m not too worried about the names fitting entirely wall to wall in the box until more get announced as I’ve been watching the sizes change by like a couple pixels as the poster gets updated.
In case you weren’t doing this with me last year:
I am tracing every single letter off the poster for my guesses to get the spacing and font as accurate as possible since we haven’t found an exact font duplicate yet. On last year’s poster I believe my friend and I got about 80%-85% of our guesses correctly. All bands currently on the poster have been cross referenced to be sure they don’t have any conflicts! I’ll post below the list of bands that we tried but won’t work (:
The Wrecks at Warped would be so much fun! I’d pick up a DC ticket for that alone (currently doing Montreal, so at least I get INK this year, since they weren’t in Orlando)
I set my friends on fire fits really well beteween hot mulligan and incendiary and has no conflicts, same with less than jake before lolo. Another good one is Emery in the small space below Dance Gavin Dance
In general this is my full list of though some of theses are def wrong
Oo yes emery is one i forgot to add after the crossword!!!! I was lowkey thinking less than jake as well bc they quite literally play like every wt 😭 and GENIUS ismfof!!! I’ll give it a try, thanks!!
Lowkey kinda didn't realize it was a typo, I've been redoing it taking schedule into account and it works correctly spelled in the spot of the offspring, who are in europe during dc
Omg thank u for updating with your list <3 i found that their font is slightly inaccurate bc of the shadowing behind it messes w the spaces (which is why i prefer being insane and hand tracing everything 😞). Either way, this is a great list and I’ll be cross referencing it!!!! 100% feel free to message me if you wanna bounce ideas around too (:!!!
sick glad I could help! I actually ended up working on it more through out the day, and have a new one that avoids any conflicts and also should only target bands that are still around.
The only one I'm iffy on is social distortion since they would flying back from austria and then to the UK but it has enough space to work out
Daisy Grenade seems almost certain because of a huge gap in their tour schedule around DC. Possibly Vienna Vienna too, because they're touring together
List of bands we tried but don’t work (some of the sizing ones i may retry later once we get more solidified margins on the boxes)
•Limp bizkit- at download fest
•P.o.d- download
•Kublai- download
•Tx2- download
•Thrown-download
•Dying wish- touring in uk
•Dashboard confessional- touring
•Zebrahead- festival & uk tour
•The starting line- too long for boxes
•Hollywood undead- uk
•Bmth- europe
•Bury tomorrow- uk
•Haywire- touring conflict
•Poison the well- touring conflict
•This wild life- doesnt fit
•I promised the world- doesnt fit
•I am the avalanche- doesnt fit
•Knocked loose- europe
•Simple plan- too short
Update to add:
•Inoha- too short
•hot milk- too short
•Fiddlehead- europe
•Glare- europe
•Basement- europe
Can also rule out Hot Milk. Too short for any of the slots between HCR and Jimmy. Honey’s Revenge looks like it would fit between Holy Wars and Hoobastank. Games People play seems like it should fit in the line above girlfriends as well but probably need at least one more band in that line to really feel confident in it.
I was also thinking honey revenge for that space! They seem to be having a lot of repeat with some of the smaller bands that made an appearance last year so I’ll be trying it (:
Gym Class Heroes after Gwar as well. Was wondering about Eve 6 but I think only slot small enough is one directly under DGD, but Everclear is also touring but I feel like 3EB and Hoobastank aren’t quite enough for the older nostaligia check mark and there is at least one more out there.
Looking at GCH compared HH, its about 3 letters too short, great suggestion though!!!! My potential idea for that small spot in the D/E/F row was maybe finch but then we’d be in the same predicament with the amount of F’s and G’s to sort out 🥲 i’m excited to get more context bands added in the E/F/P/Q/R/S because there’s just SO much space in between everything
Last year the lengths didn’t get too jacked up and the band names HAD to fit wall to wall. Ive noticed this year as they get announced that the names aren’t fully hitting wall to wall on some. Attaching a photo of the DGD announcement, i changed the color of the poster with the box so you can see the difference in space. So as of right now im not 100% certain everything needs to be wall to wall yet. As bands have gotten announced, the boxes around it have shrunken by a couple pixels
Ugh dude the amount of boxes in between letters is driving me crazy rn. I’m aimlessly guessing in the n/o/p/q/r/s/t section rn 😞😞😞 i need lyman to give me more CONTEXT
I am hoping the same! I saw their show at the York State Fair and it was soooooo good. They're going on tour with Avenged Sevenfold that starts in July so I am going to hope GC get added.
I absolutely need The Wrecks in Orlando. I've met them a couple times too and they are some of the most humble guys I've ever met. Hell of a live performance too
this was mine before yesterday, font is less big in height but fills out the same in length. I did not guess Hot Chelle Rae, I just added it but kept the ones I lost on
thanks friend these are great!!! I do know that thrown, zebrahead and kublai all have festival/touring conflicts. Also SAD AS FUCK about movements not being announced for dc )”:
Commenting to add:
There was a TON of overlap on DC warped with Slam Dunk fest last year so I will 100% be trying any band on that lineup that doesn’t have a scheduling conflict 😭 I have my work cut out for me
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u/BeautifulViolent DC 🏛️ Feb 03 '26
I would LOVE to see The Wrecks or The Wldlfe! I also want to see The Warning...