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Rock am Ring and Rock im Park belong the biggest festivals in Germany and Europe. With Kings Of Leon, Bring Me The Horizon, Rise Against, Limp Bizkit und Incubus additional bands have been confirmed and here is the alphabetical list of bands of the 2023 edition of the legendary festival: Apache 207 Arch Enemy Architects AViVA... Continue Reading →
Undertow have been one of the most respected bands in the German metal underground over the last 30 years. With great albums, the guys have rightly brought themselves into the limelight again and again, gaining a very solid fan base. Many of these fans are located in the north of Germany, a region where the... Continue Reading →
Wacken is a small village in northern Germany with a population of 1,800. Wacken would not be very well known if a few guys had not decided in 1990 to follow their passion for heavy metal and set up a festival themselves. We all know that what started small has become one of the most... Continue Reading →
Elbriot, the legendary one-day festival at Grossmarkt, Hamburg is back after a pandemic-based two years pause. The 2022 edition of the festival will take place on August 20th, 2022 and first bands are announced. So far confirmed are: BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ACCEPTFEVER 333JINJERALESTORM CALIBANKISSIN‘ DYNAMITE ...and there are more to come. More information and... Continue Reading →
Bad news reach us from the Bullhead City festival. Due to the current COVID situation the organizers of Bullhead City 2021 just announced that the festival is cancelled for 2021. Here is the official statement (in German): „Liebe Metalheads, es fällt uns schwer, euch diese Nachricht zu Bullhead City zu übermitteln, aber wir mussten feststellen:... Continue Reading →
The wait has been extremely long, and the absence of live shows was one of the big downers over the last months. The longing for heavy music, played live in front of an audience was huge and that’s one of the reasons why the announcement of the ‘Revolt! Goes Planten un Blomen’ was received so... Continue Reading →
Great news from Wacken. Not that long ago, the 2021 edition of the legendary festival in the Northern parts of Germany had to be postponed and moved to 2022. Today some good news reaches the metal world from Wacken. On September 16, 17 and 18, Bullhead City will premier. The three single days festival is... Continue Reading →
The line-up for Rock Hard Festival 2021 gets sharp and form. It looks pretty much the same as what was planned for 2020, with a nice addition. Progressive Metal heroes Psychotic Waltz will perform at RHF 2021, which makes things even more exciting. Here's the list of so far confirmed bands: ACCEPT BLUE ÖYSTER CULTSACRED REICHPHIL... Continue Reading →
Century Media Records, in cooperation with EMP, proudly present the ISOLATION FESTIVAL. The Century Media ISOLATION FESTIVAL is a free online festival that will be hosted on Century Media’s YouTube channel on May 14th, 2020. The stream will begin at 8pm CET / 2pm EST / 11am PST and is going to be online for 24 hours.Even though there... Continue Reading →
Today five additional bands have been confirmed for the 2020 edition of Rock Hard Festival. Legendary Blue Öyster Cult will play at Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen as well as Finnish Punk’n’Roll icon Michael Monroe is confirmed too. Suicidal Angels will be a treat for Thrash Metal fans while Neck Cemetery and Harlott take over the opening... Continue Reading →
In view of the horrifying images of burning forests, the team of the Wacken Open Air decided in December 2019 to refrain from sending the usual physical Christmas greetings. Instead, the metal festival joined forces with the German branch of World Wide Fundfor Nature (WWF) and the Instituto Terra to initiate a fundraising campaign in benefit of the Mata Atlantica region in the Brazilian rainforest. The declared purpose of this campaign was the reforestation of an... Continue Reading →
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