Who will be the big headliners of the future from that early 2000s hbb/uranium wave?

[the_thrashing]

So a lot of my favorites like Ozzy, Sabbath, Slayer etc have been retiring in recent years and who knows whos going to be next. It looks like only Slipknot has stepped up to the plate as far as NU bands to head new tour/fests. I'm not their biggest fan but Slipknot did have knotfest which seems like an obvious replacement for ozzfest. SoaD and Korn have headlined ozzfests but when they put together their own packages they always have rap and emo acts on their tours, they've never headlined and put together their own metal tours/fests. I really don't see them changing that either.

What I want to know is who will be the big headliners from that wave of bands that came out with videos on the new headbangers ball and uranium in the early-mid 2000s? There were a lot of emerging genres like core, bm, nwoahm, mathmetal, melodeath, deathcore etc. Tons of bands that had videos. I mean the new bands of that time that had videos or that had been around a few years prior but were unheard of until blowing up after hbb/uranium promotion. that wave of new bands we got immediately after numetal, the core wave (don't have to be core, just that time period)..

 

My picks are Mastodon, High on Fire (I don't care if its Sleep right now I see HoF coming back) and Meshuggah as I think they will be around a long time, get even bigger, are consistent quality wise (in my opinion). I don't see them putting any emo or rap bands on their tour packages. I think they'll fly the flag. All of them are already fairly popular. But what do you guys think? Who will be the next big headliners from that 2000s wave of bands? By the way, I think we'll see tours come back next year, this corona crap can't last forever.

[blaaacdoommmmfan]

Thanks for bringing this up.?  I'm not a fan of night wish or within temptation but they could be.I think there are 2000 ish band, they already have big shows, music is fairly easy listening so they could be. gojira as headliners would be cool. Not sure if there quite big enough to do this though but I love there music. Mastodon would be good near the headline slot too. Seen them live and they are very tight musically and like there music.  They weren't very good with the crowd though last time I saw them as headliners at bloodstock and made very little effort to build up any rapport which I think would help. Once they did that easy they could be.