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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 →
Rock Hard Festival announce today three more bands being part of the 2020 edition. Insomnium, Axxis and Sorcerer will play at the well-known festival and there are 9 more acts announced over the coming weeks. So far confirmed are: ACCEPTSACRED REICHPHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS play MOTÖRHEADGRAVE DIGGERINSOMNIUMALCESTTHE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRAHEATHENATLANTEAN KODEXAXXISRAZORSORCERERNIFELHEIM Rock Hard... Continue Reading →
Today at noon first bands have been announced for the 2020 edition of Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Metal pioneers Accept will play at RHF as well as Thrash Metal veterans Sacred Reich and German Metal warriors Grave Digger. So far also confirmed are Alcest, Nifelheim and Razor. Rock Hard Festival 2020 will take... Continue Reading →
Stormy rain clouds and some sun have been the weather conditions of the second day of Rock Hard Festival and is Sunday that live up to one’s name. Sun rays make the scenery again to a bright place and it’s The Spirit that brings everybody into the right mood for another day full of exciting... Continue Reading →
Tyler Leads is around since a few years and the first time I saw them was in December last year when the guys opened for Hank Von Hell. Being impressed by their show it is a ‘must’ to be in time at Rock Hard Festival day 2. The benefit of being a local act is... Continue Reading →
Whit weekend means Rock Hard Festival since 2004. The open air festival at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen has kept its family spirit with many fans of Metal and Rock returning to Gelsenkirchen every year. Also Markus‘ Heavy Music Blog is present and here‘s the report of the great 2019 edition. It is with Vulture a local act... Continue Reading →
With the announcement of two more bands the 2019 edition of Rock Hard Festival has a full line-up. Next to The Spirit it's US metal pioneers Lizzy Borden being part of the festival. Here are all the bands and the days they perform: Friday, 7.6.WATAINLIZZY BORDENTYGERS OF PAN TANGTHE IDIOTSCHAPEL OF DISEASEVULTURESaturday, 8.6.GAMMA RAY CANNIBAL... Continue Reading →
The dust settles more and more when it comes to this years Rock Hard Festival. With Chapel Of Disease, Vulture and The Obsessed three more acts have been confirmed and here is the entire billing, confirmed to date: ANTHRAXGAMMA RAYWATAINCANNIBAL CORPSEPOSSESSEDMAGNUMSKID ROWSYMPHONY XCARNIVORE A.D.FIFTH ANGELTHE OBSESSEDLONG DISTANCE CALLINGHEIR APPARENTTYGERS OF PAN TANGVISIGOTHTHE IDIOTSCHAPEL OF DISEASETHE... Continue Reading →
Two more bands have been confirmed for the 2019 Rock Hard festival. Thrash pioneers Anthrax and classic rocker The Vintage Caravan will perform a show the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen.
First bands are announced for the 2019 edition of Rock Hard festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Bands that are confirmed already are promising. Death metal pioneers Cannibal Corpse are part of the festival, as well as US metal legend Fifth Angel and prog metal heroes Heir Apparent. Furthermore it is German instrumental postrockers Long Distance Calling, NWoBHM icon... Continue Reading →
The 2018 RHF edition comprised of a significant amount of Swedish bands and it was one of those that helped Day 3 to get of the boxes. Thundermother was the adrenalizer needed to kick-off things on final day. The four girls from Sweden were a real energizer and their groovy hardrock awoke even the ones... Continue Reading →
After a furious first metal party yesterday, it was Swabian rising stars Traitor who kick-started a new hot RHF day. Their Swabian thrash metal blew away any tiredness and got everybody‘s metal heart to work again after a long day on Friday. The quintet is one of the recent rising stars and being the opener... Continue Reading →
The Rock Hard Festival (RHF) in Germany belongs to one of the most established open airs. The first edition took place in 1990 in Lichtenfels, Bavaria with German Rock Hard magazine being the organizer and sponsor. In 2003 the Rock Hard Festival moved location. The Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen became the new venue, a great location that... Continue Reading →
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