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Sodom at DONG 2013

A DONG update:
Thrash metal in your face!
Sodom are going to bring their brand new album “Epitome of Torture” to the thirteenth Dong Open Air! The pioneers of German thrash metal will be supported by the French metal core missiles of In Arkadia, Frankfurt based ball squeezers of Elvenpath and last but not least Orphan Hate from Berlin, who released their latest alternative metal disc last December.
Do you want more? No worries: Including these announced bands, less than half of the upcoming Dong Open Air billing has been unveiled! We will continue to feed you more in the next few days. Get into the festival mood by checking out the profiles of the bands we have booked so far and listen to the audio samples.
Best,
Your Dong Team

Link:
http://www.dongopenair.de/

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WFF Newsletter – Anniversary list is updated!


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Hello friends, the huge birthday party of your favourite festival is getting closer and closer, and the last slots are yet to be filled. Here are the candidates who have just confirmed and want to help destroying the birthday cake: The congratulants ALL THAT REMAINS are bringing melodic metalcore from Springfield/Massachusetts with them. For the first time on stage at the Full Force they’re shooting their heavy stuff onto the folk. We are glad that it finally worked!***Headbangers with masks – everyone is thinking of Slipknow. But also in Germany, especially in Franconia, there is a band that sets great value upon their music and is therefore performing completely masked: There is talk of HÄMATOM, the trash metal – and „Neue Deutsche Härte“ –band. And the band members with the name Nord, Ost, Süd und West have planned to fire you up properly.***He became famous as bassist of the legendary Metallica. In the meantime, Jason Newsted is concentrating on his solo career and he is having a new own band ready: NEWSTED. One more reason for us to invite this very new project to our anniversary.***HC post punk, new school hardcore – whatever you may call it, but the Swedes of RAISED FIST are swinging their heavy racket and only that counts. Also being a guest at the WFF for the first time, the old Swedes are bringing their axe with them to hack the candles on the cake into pieces. No armpits will remain dry.***Unfortunately there are bad news from the house of BARONESS: The band have cancelled all their planned and also already confirmed Europe gigs due to health reasons. They are asking for your understanding.***More news are about to follow as soon as we have them ready for you. Your WFF Team

Link:
http://www.withfullforce.de

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7 more for “Sold Out”-Wacken!


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And here are the news from the latest Wacken newsletter:
7 new band confirmations
After a short lean period we like to announce the next bounce of bands for this year’s W:O:A billing. We have seven new bands for you, which never played in Wacken before. Their musical styles ranges from traditional heavy metal through power and progressive elements to New German Hardness.
Dunderbeist – The Norwegian whiz kids are considered as one of the hottest newcomer bands from Scandinavia. They just released their third album “Songs Of The Buried” which will be used to conquer Europe for sure. And on their way to this goal, they will also enter the Wacken Open Air!
Eisbrecher – – New German Hardness at the W:O:A. After they left Megaherz and founded Eisbrecher about 10 years ago, the duo Wesselksy & Pix used to get started again – with huge success. With their fifth album, released in 2012, the band entered position 3 in the German album charts.
Kärbholz – the German rock/punk band Kärbholz was founded in 2003 and released five albums so far. Every album raises their fan base and their last album “Rastlos” made it to position 16 in the German charts.
Kryptos – the band from India was founded in 1998 and is part of the spearhead of the metal music and scene in their country. Since their establishment they released three albums which generated a lot of furor. A record deal in 2007 led to support shows for bands like Iron Maiden, Kreator, Amon Amarth and Satyricon. In 2010, they came to play some shows in Europe as the first Indian metal band ever. In 2012 they released their third album “The Coils Of Apollyon”. They play straight eighties metal inspired by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Candlemass – if you like this music, you must check ´em out!
Null DB –resulting from an under-18 school band, Null DB are striving to the top with their independent sound. You could try to categorize the band between Nu Metal and New German Hardness, but you shouldn’t draw a parallel like “they sound like…” – it will not work out. In 2008 they first attract attention when they won a German rock music award and shortly afterwards they published their first real release “Im Auge des Sturms”. By now they also released their second work “Endzeit”.
Rebattered – this band is living the metal! The band Rebattered focuses on grooving thrash metal now, after they tried some musical experiments with for example progressive elements in their beginning. Founded in 2002, the band won several band competitions and awards, played countless live-shows and released their debut EP “Wheel of Misfortune” in 2007. In 2012 they released their second EP “We Eat People” and by now they are working on their first album.
Secret Sphere – from Italy plays progressive power metal, which is often also categorized as symphonic power metal. Whatever you call the genre, the band which was founded in 1997 has the finger on the pulse. In 2012 they released their sevenths Album “Portrait Of A Dying Heart”. And in 2013 they will release a new version of their second album “A Time Never Come”.

Link:
http://www.wacken.com

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Dong 2013 – Soulfly and four more!

Good news from Dong 2013:
Ladies and Gentlemen!
A quick heads up to begin with: Up until Wednesday you can get your ticket to the Winter Party at the reduced pre-sale price! Get your ticket or ticket/t-shirt bundle now to get a great deal!
And now for the truly important stuff: If you rocked out to Sepultura last year or still think they were so much better when Max Cavalera was still around, you shall be happy! Soulfly will play at the Dong! The Brazilian-American thrash and nu metal legend among whose outspoken fans are people like Dave Grohl, are looking forward to a quaint show up on the hill – back to the primitive! We’d also like to present you some of the selected and best applications we have received for 2013: Superbutt form Hungary are going to enchant you with some smoking alternative rock and a voice like no other. Kadavrik from Wesel, Germany will serve you outstanding melo death, while Fyrnreich from Cologne, Germany invite for a pagan feast with mead and beer. Act of Worship are also from Cologne, but are much less inclined to associated with mead drinking, but rather with bloody butchery. Check out the info and audio material of the bands on our website. We’ll keep working on setting a beautiful and diverse metal table for you!
Best,
Your Dong Team

Official site:
http://www.dongopenair.de/