WITH FULL FORCE 2007
The With Full Force 2007 was supposed to be a special one to us: It marked our fifth participation in a row with one of our favourites beginning in the year of 2003 when the WFF celebrated its tenth anniversary. Since then we had reported about the unique Open Air-event hosting Hardcore, Metal and Punk as equal partner sub-genres which results in a great mixture of hard music including its fans you can only find in Roitzschjora.
This year the billing impressed even more, but the ticket prices still stayed the same. Thumbs up for that! So it didn’t become a big surprise the festival’s attendance raised in comparison to the year before when the WFF had occurred while the world soccer championship had taken place in Germany.
At the airfield of Roitzschjora played 63 bands in 64 appearances on two stages in three days for about 30000 visitors.
Friday
Main Stage
Gorilla Monsoon The winners of the Metal Battle-band-contest 2005 started the 2007-edition of With Full Force. And the band from Dresden showed why they won this high acquired competition by a cool Stoner Rock-performance lead by the cool guitar-playing fronter Jack Slater.
Swallow The Sun I was very curious about one of the best newcomers and how their fantastic Death / Doom Metal would work on stage. And I got disappointed. Musically I had nothing to worry about. The Finish performed compositions like “Descending Winters”, “Out Of This Gloomy Light” and the new “Hope”-track “These Hours Of Despair” in a very confident way. But the live appearance was none. While the keyboarder and one sixstringer rocked headbanging on the left side of the stage the rest seemed to play Mikado (Who moves first, loses!). Especially vocalist Pasi Pasanen nearly remained in numbness! Hopefully this sympathic band will improve its live-abilities. Their music deserves it!
One Man Army & The Undead Quartet The band around ex-The Crown-fronter Johan Lindstrand did a much better live job. Presenting their second longplayer “Error In Evolution” the fivepiece from Gothenburg did a better live-job. Combining old (“Bulldozer Frenzy”) and new (“Mine For The Taking”) 40 minutes of Swedish Death Metal found its end in their hit “So Grim, So True, So Real”.
As I Lay Dying So long the Shooting Stars from overseas had let their European fans been waiting to see them live. And what followed had a character of a headliner show, besides its limited length of course. The great killer-songs from the recent album like “Shadows Are Security” “Reflection”, “The Darkest Nights”, “Through Struggle”, “Confined” as the “Frail World’s Collapse”-classics “94 Hours” and “Forever” blew me as the huge crowd totally away by its combination of total heaviness and great melodies. The hungry audience celebrated this performance by singing, jumping and several pits. The band itself handled their instruments outstanding and redefined the issue of live-action. Reinforced by the new bassist as backing-vocalist Josh Gilbert the band from San Diego celebrated with their fans a 40 minutes lasting live triumph.
Ektomorf Same procedure as every (festival) gig: The Soulfly-copy from Hungary didn’t enthuse the writer of these lines at all, but a bunch of fans celebrated them and tracks like “I Know Them” and “Outcast”. Okay, they had fun, I hadn’t. Let’s conclude: Innovation won’t ever be their issue!
Brujeria The appearance of the Thrash-/Death-commando was a real exclusive one. Their first European festival-gig motivated many interested visitors on the Main Stage-area watching the two Spanish-shouting frontiers assisted by well-known musicians as guitarist Jeff Walker (ex-Carcass), bassist Shane Embury (Napalm Death) and drummer Adrian Erlandsson (ex-At The Gates). All of them wore Mexican-western-bandido-oldstyle-masks which wouldn’t help Shane a lot doing a bank robbery staying incognito. Somehow the show had a cool attitude, but after a while it became boring. The “Macarena”-cover which became renamed in “Marihuana” was a nice show close.
Cannibal Corpse The Florida-Grind-institution did another good job. Hundreds of hairs were flying in windmill-mode while “Make Them Suffer” or “Maniacal” from the current “Kill”-release as celebrated classics like “I Cum Blood”, “Stripped, Raped And Strangled” and “Hammer Smashed Face”. Especially last both mentioned ones were a real pleasure to their supporters after years of censorship. The band completely banged like its fans and brought a tight performance to the airfield.
Hatebreed Probably the leaders of the new Hardcore-wave from New York City are the second favoured band of the WFF-audience after Slayer. The festivalsite was crowded when Jamey Jasta and Co began their show. The crowd got absolutely mad jumping and creating different moshpits to new “Supremacy”-stuff (“Defeatist”, “To The Threshold”) as to the old classics (“Live For This”, “I Will Be Heard”). Possibly next time we’ll see Hatebreed in a headliner position.
Korn After they were forced to cancel their headliner-slot at the WFF 2006 the origin of so-called Nu Metal filled this role one year later. And they did it well. The band started with “Here To Stay” and “Good God” into their set to let follow “Coming Undone”, “Falling Away From Me” and “Somebody Someone”. The band filled the whole Main Stage. The focus lay on the original members consisting of the convalesced vocalist Jonthan Davis, guitarist James “Munky” Schaffer and bassist Fieldy which stood in the foreground assisted by Slipknot’s drummer Joey Jordison, a percussionist and a second sixstringer. Those performed a cool medley combining the bagpipe-instrumental “Shoots And Ladders” with the Metallica-cover “One” after which the Californians continued with “Divine”, “Got The Life”, “Throw Me Away” and with “Evolution” a song from the forthcoming “Untitled”-release which marked the end of the regular set. The band returned with the encores “Twisted Transistor”, “Freak On A Leash” and their debut-hit “Blind”. Korn performed an inspiring headliner show which even convinced people who had hated them ten years ago. Just take care you don’t meet guys knowing the setlist and letting all neighbours know which song will be played next right before. Anyway, a cool show which earned a lot of support!
Tent Stage: Hardbowl
Neaera The Metalcore-shooting stars from Münster with clear Death and even Black Metal-references needed to enter the stage ten minutes before the official time. Their popularity was easy to perceive: The Hardbowl tent was filled up with fans which went wild to smashers like “The World Devourers”, “Scars Of Gray” as some song from the forthcoming “Armamentarium”-album which seemed to be a clacker one. In the beginning of the appearance singer Benny made an announcement to security as fans to take care about each other. Sympathic as exemplary!
Maroon The popular band which can be counted to the German Metalcore-triumvirat together with Caliban and Heaven Shall Burn played in the early evening in front of a crowded tent. The band rocked, played tight and the supportership went wild to “Endorsed By Hate”, “Watch It All Come Down”, the Schleimkeim-cover “Keine Wut Mehr” and the final punch “Wake Up In Hell”. Besides that the guys from Nordhausen performed with “My Funeral Song” a new track from the forthcoming album “The Cold Heart Of The Sun”, and it wasn’t just its title sounding pretty Death Metal. Great performance of a sympathic band whose front-madman André Moraweck motivated to do chants for Ektomorf who meanwhile appeared on the Main Stage.
Earth Crisis I was pretty curious for the comeback-show of the reunited Hardcore origin. I don’t share their strict Straight Edge-ideology, but musically they’re still an important band. So shouter Karl Buechner passed on preaching for his ideals and nobody threw meat on the stage. After I had eaten my barbecue steak I went with two bears (It’s not a coincidence we call two hands our own! ) into the tent and enjoyed a strong show. So did the fans to musical statements like “New Ethic” or “Forced March”. In the end Maroon fronter André Moraweck entered the stage to perform one song together with his american idols (No, not from the TV show! ;-)).
Tent Stage: Knüppelnacht
Satyricon I had never been a fan of the Norwegian band, after this gig Satyr, Frost and their live-musicans won one more supporter (Probably much more!). They opened with “Hvite Krists Dod” and earned huge support, especially to tracks from their very strong new album “Now Diabolical” like its title track, the video-single “The Pentagram Burns” and the strong hit “K.I.N.G.”. With the band-hymn “Mother North” the Black Metal-icon finished a strong appearance, and the best one of the Knüppelnacht.
Naglfar The Swedish neighbours from Umea weren’t able to hold the high level. Many spectators had left the tent and they probably had known why. The Black Metal-band around its leader Kristoffer W. Olivius introduced the new output “Harvest” to its fanship, but they got bored after a short while.
Kampfar Back to Norway: The fourpiece from Fredrikstad prefered simple Black Metal with little Folk-ingredients. And it worked, the fans celebrated even new “Kvass”-material like “Ravenheart”. Just the live-action sucked: Fronter Dolk ran like Forest Gump and his bandmates moved like dead trees.
Rotten Sound Now it was up to a Finnish band to rock the Knüppelnacht. And the Death Metal/Grindcore-attack definitely did. The band bludgeoned their set very tight, the live-presentation was cool and the crowd went wild to hammers like “Burden” or “Targets”. A cool live-band we hopefully see soon again.
Vomitory The Swedish Death Metal-band did a good job, too. Otherwise the Tent Stage wouldn’t have been covered with banging heads to the title track from their brandnew album “Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize” and the “Blood Rapture”-classic “Chaos Fury”. While that a friend of mine lived the band’s name in its original meaning.
Pungent Stench On this position should have followed with Mayhem the third Knüppelnacht-act from Norway, but they cancelled and got replaced by the Austrian Death Metal-experts around Martin Schirenc. For those few maniacs in front of the stage this performance became like a party organized by a motivated band performing classics like “Fuck Bizarre”. With the cool Manowar-cover “Gloves of Metal” the band finished its short-term-appearance successfully.
Saturday
Main Stage
Volbeat One year ago the Danish Elvis-metalheads rocked the Tent Stage in the Saturday Night Fever. Because of that they returned to Roitschjora to appear on the Main Stage. And their day opener position caused a pretty crowded festival area in the early afternoon. In contrast to last year’s performance the band had a bigger song choice because of their new album “Rock The Rebel / Metal The Devil”. And its songs like “The Garden’s Tale” and “Sad Man’s Tongue” got the same support like the “The Strength / The Sound / The Songs”-hits “Always Wu”, “Pool Of Booze, Booze, Booza”, “Soulweeper” or the Dusty Springfield-cover “I Only Wanna Be With You” to which frontman Michael Poulsen tried to jump into the crowd, but landed painfully on the ground. But he stood up and continued his crowdsurf attempt. Because of the canceled Dagoba-gig which should have started after them Volbeat had the chance to extend their set up to nearly an hour which satisfied their numerous fans.
Benediction The British Death Metal-institution had been struggeling for 19 years, are well-known, but they are a special scene band without that much innovation. That’s why grunter Dave Hunt & Co didn’t count that much supporters on the festival area than the Danish Dynamite had been able to do. But those got their headbanging fuel by “Jumping At Shadows”, “Nightfear” and the final “The Dreams You Dread”.
Lamb Of God The biggest positive surprise should have been marked by the grooving shooting stars from Richmond. 20 minutes later than planned they entered the stage, and from the first tone it became clear they would kill. Despite the bad sound in the beginning of the set the bearded fivepiece around the agile fronter Randy Blythe left no doubt about their live ambition from the opener “Laid To Rest” over “Now You’ve Got Something To Die For”, the “Sacrament-single “Redneck” and “Ruin” which caused a huge heavy pit. A great gig by an aggressive band I will keep an eye on.
Zuul FX After Static X had canceled their appearance because their tour-bus had been burned up the French Industrial Metal-band around ex-No Return-fronter Steeve “Zuul” Petit replaced them after they had appeared as a Hardbowl-band on the Tent Stage the day before. Anyway, his formation bored by some Fear Factory-sound, but for the rural population. And the Main Stage area became much emptier than before.
Caliban Germany’s leading Metalcore-band had become a steady guest of the WFF. And this year’s participation became their best one. Very tight as motivated it was easily to determine the fivepiece from Essen, completely suited in red-blooded white shirts, was prepared very well. Guitarist Denis Schmidt seemed to had been training his voice a lot, so his backing vocals weren’t a shink anymore. They opened their set by the “The Split Program 2”-track “The Revenge” and the “The Undying Darkness”-hit “It’s Our Burden To Bleed”, and the motivated fans started several circle-pits as the wall of death. The massive support didn’t decrease while “I Will Never Let You Down” from their brandnew “The Awakening”-album and increased while the band-hymn “The Beloved And The Hatred”. Strong appearance!
Amon Amarth Too less live-presentation, especially on live-festivals, is a reproach nobody can use against the Viking Death Metal-band. And the Swedes still fascinated numerous supporters by their bombastic pyro-filled live show as by their songs like “Valhall Awaits Me”, “Runes To My Memory”, “Death In Fire” or the final “Pursuit Of Vikings” causing headbanging as even moshpit action.
Sick Of It All After they had been nominated for WFF 2006 short time before where they had performed excellent the New York City Hardcore-legend around the two Koller-brothers returned to Roitzschjora where they ruled again. The crowd went crazy to “Uprising Nation”, “One Step Ahead”, “Sanctuary” and of course to the Hardcore-hymn “Scratch The Surface”, and the fourpiece showed how live-action works on stage.
Children Of Bodom I was pretty surprised the Finnish Melodic Death Metal-band got the Saturday’s headliner-slot. It wasn’t only my opinion the WFF is much too big to be headlined by the fivepiece. And after this appearance I felt absolutely right with my opinion. Too much routine, all those ridiculous “Fuck”-talks of mainman Alexi Laiho and a setlist with no surprises held my pleasure on a modest level. Of course the die-hard fans celebrated “Are You dead Yet?”, “Hate Me!”, “Needled 24 /7”, “Angels Don’t Kill”, “Sixpounder”, “Every Time I Die” and “Mask Of Sanity”. So did Lamb Of God-fronter Randy Blythe who assisted the band while “In Your Face”. But Alexi himself didn’t seem to be that lucky with their headliner appearance as he smashed his guitar on the floor while leaving the stage. Or does anybody have another interpretation?
Tent Stage: Hardbowl
Sworn Enemy The Hardcore-formation from New York City with a Metal-accent in their sound rocked the tent. Shouter Sal Lococo and his bandmates earned a lot of respect as following by the pretty filled-up tent with “One Way Trip”, “We Hate” and “As Real As It Gets”. Cool appearance!
Terror Saturday’s Hardbowl-headliner was the L.A.-Hardcore-machine which killed the tent’s crowd by “Spit My Rage”, “Push It Away”, “Always The Hard Way”, “Last Of The Die Hards”, “Better Off Without You” and “Overcome”. The fans went mad in different circlepits, and a few even tried to climb the tent’s pillars and to jump into the fans. What a blasting show by fronter Scott Vogel & Co!
Tent Stage: Saturday Night Fever
Knorkator After the disappointing headliner the Berlin humor rockers were in the situation to welcome a full tent of unsatisfied and hungry fans. And Stumpen, Alf Ator, Buzz Dee and their two rhythm-section-sidekicks took their chance. Beginning with the “Schlechtst Of Knorkator”-debut-intro “Absolution” and the following “Ding Inne Schnauze” the band rocked the tent with one of the best performances of this weekend. Suited completely in white, except for guitarist Buzz Dee who wore a red bath robe, the very tight band continued with the new “Alter Mann”, “Es Kotzt Mich An” and the also new “Für Meine Fans” and the single “Wir Werden Alle Sterben” from the recent “Das Nächste Album Aller Zeiten”-masterpiece. After “Geschlechtsverkehr” and “Kurz Und Klein”. The band chose cool show elements like a vegetable sling shot (“Does anybody want a bit radish?”) or a big dimensioned balloon which got destroyed by the fans. After their first hit “Böse” (including some spark-spreading effects) and “Weg Nach Unten” performed with a World Trade Center-metapher this gig ruled.
Neville Staple’s Center The band around ex-The Specials-vocalist Neville Staple took care about the variety in the Saturday Night Fever-program with their Ska. The tent got much emptier, but a respectable crowd partied to this sound alternative.
Peter Pan Speedrock The Rock ‘n’ Roll-formation from Eindhoven raised the speed in comparison to the act before. Rocking through their own Rock-history by “Rocketfuel” or “Hosed” they also introduced material from their forthcoming release “Pursuit Until Capture” and the motivated crowd felt well-entertained.
Moonsorrow I was pretty curious about the Viking Death Metal-band which had become praised a lot for their new “Hävitetty”-album. And so the Finish around the outstanding fronter Ville Sorvali earned much support from the audience for the new songs “Jäästta Syntynyt / Varjojen Virta” and “Tuulen Ajettu Ma” as for classics like the “Voimasta Ja Kunniasta”-hymn “Kylän Pässä”. Probably the band who has been more suitable in The Last Supper-program than to appear after three non-Metal-acts. To me it was a great highlight to conclude Saturday night musically.
Sunday
Main Stage
Manos While the sun was shining hot the Eastern German Comedy Grind-band started the last day. While his two colleges in nonsense looked serious at least, bassist Eule wore a bandana and had fixed a toilet flush and a bird cage on his bass with tape. Their fifth WFF-appearance began by “Genocide”, and it was pretty easy to notice the trio has a big fanbase in their region celebrating “Bockwurst” (including according giveaways), “Seniora”, “Fuchslied”, the Karel Gott-cover “Biene Maja” known from a German animated series about a bee called Maya from the 80ies. Before that song the band organised the change between band and spectators. The band performed from the photo pit and around 30 fans ran with umbrellas imitating the bee’s fly over the stage. After using some tree as another weired show element the band passed by “Wer Hat An Der Uhr Gedreht?”
Unearth Can anyone explain me why the Boston shooting stars had such an early billing position. I have always said Unearth are a definite WFF-band and they should devastate the airfield. The killers from the current “III – In The Eyes Of Fire” – album like the opener “Giles”, “This Glorious Nightmare” and “Sanctity Of Brothers” caused a huge circle-pit and the smashers from their breakthrough masterpiece “The Oncoming Storm” as “This Lying World”, “Zombie Autopilot”, “Endless”, “Black Hearts Now Reign” (including the best poser-gesture I’ver ever seen by guitarist Buz McGrath) were supported even wilder while the band including new drummer Derek Kerswill gave their physically best on stage. This was the best appearance of the weekend!
Sonic Syndicate The very much promoted newcomers from Falkenberg had their first big international festival appearance. And in spite of the high expectations and pressure, the sixpiece around the three Sjunesson-brothers astonished by their live-performance which looked like much routine. The Swedes convinced by their debut-songs, whereof many have hit-character like “Aftermath”, the single “Denied”, “Double Agent 616”, “Enclave”, “Blue Eyed Fiend” and “Psychic Suicide”. The vocals were sung great and the instrumental section played tight. A hard day for all the grudgers. More of that!
Chimaria The US-groove-machine returned to show they’re still hot. This was easy to notice by their numerous supporters celebrating songs from the new release “Resurrection” like “The Flame”, “Needle” and the title track as older classics 1ike “Pure Hatred”, “Power Trip” or “Severed” (performed by the voice-assistance of Unearth-sixstringer Ken Susi. After some sound problems in the beginning of the set Mark Hunter & Co can consider this appearance as an absolute success!
The Bones The Rock ‘n’ Roll-band from Sweden performed another cool Rock-party nobody could worry about. But probably their sound which is pretty familiar to Social Distortion would have made more sense on the Tent Stage. Anyway, a cool show by the quartet from Karlskrona who had published another cool record by “Burnout Boulevard”.
Pro-Pain When the NYHC-institution appear in Roitzschjora you can be sure to experience a hammer-show by an agile band. Both sixstringers had fun jumping and moving like many fans had to “Foul Taste Of Freedom”, “In For The Kill”, “All For King George”, “State Of Mind”, “FOAD”, “Fuck It”, “Unamerican” and the final Böhse Onkelz-cover “Terpentin” sung by hundreds. So a huge audience about 20000 spectators saw another live triumph of Gary Meskil & Co.
Ill Nino The South American sixpiece settled in New Jersey had a top billing position, this fact counts a lot for a band that doesn’t have a current label contract running. Their Latino-Crossover seemed to be still popular. The fans moshed and partied to “God Save Us All”, “What Comes Around”, “Corazón Of Mine”, a drum-intermezzo after which a new track from their forthcoming album “Enigma” followed, “This Is War”, “How Can I Live”, “Liar”, “What You Deserve”. The charismatic vocalist Christian Machado praised the festival’s attitude to unite Metal, Hardcore as Punk and added they consider themselves right between in the middle. The band bringing the most dreadlocks on stage played the last gig of their summer tour and succeeded at all!
Dropkick Murphys The Boston Folk Rock-band as the Sunday’s co-headliner? Well, I had lost my doubts even before the first tone was played. Masses of fans wearing the band’s merchandise pilgrimaged to the Main Stage to support their heros. This support began minutes before the show by “Let’s Go Murphys”-chants what reminded me on soccer- or hockey-matches. The sevenpiece had the easy mission to satisfy the hungry crowd by “Citizen C.I.A.”, “The Warrior’s Code”, the singalong “The Wild Rover”, the ballad “Forever” and the finishing hit “Shipping Up To Boston”. What a show of the bagpipe-band!
Slayer The favourite band no. 1 of the WFF-visitors performed a much better show than they had done in 2005. Opening by “God Hates Us All” and “War Ensemble” the four guys started into a mighty set. After “Disciple” they played by “Jihad” a track from the new output “Christ Illusion” from which they also performed the single “Eyes Of The Insane”. The crowd became even more wild in several moshpits while “Seasons In The Abyss”, “Die By The Sword”, “Silent Scream” and the finishing trio consisting of “Raining Blood”, “South Of Heaven” and “Angel Of Death” were played. A good show lead by the fronter Tom Arraya who grinned from the first song and who took care of strengthening the conversation with the audience. But: What about the recent fitness of drummer Dave Lombardo who showed timing as speed problems? What about Tom Arraya renouncing the songs off different voice parts? What about Kerry King and Jeff Hannemann playing the solos totally wrong. And why did the last named one chose his guitar with the strange symbols? The best gig I’ve seen of them, yet. But there’s still a lot to approve.
Tent Stage: Hardbowl
Barcode The Danish Hardcore-institution had the disadvantage to play against Unearth who meanwhile appeared on the Main Stage. The band around shouter SS Graveyard and Jacob Bredahl (also known as the Hatesphere-fronter) played a best-of-set combining the band’s four full-length-albums by “Rise Of Dignity”, “Snowsoaker” and “All Out War” which inspired the Tent Stage-audience to move.
Fear My Thoughts Freiburg’s finest had evolved from metalcore to Melodic Death Metal without ignoring their roots. The fivepiece performed a brilliant live-show which entertained a lot by the cool statements of fronter Matthias who pointed out right after “In The Hourglass” that headbanging is much better than the circle-pits and walls of death because of the circulated air as a contribution against global warming. The fans eco-headbanged and moved in little pits to new “Vulcanus”-killers like “Accompanied By Death” and “Survival Scars” as to “Sweetest Hell” or the “The Greatest Collapse”-classic “Reign”. A great show of a very talented band whose well-entertaining vocalist Matthias announced this had been one of his last performances for the band.
Die Kassierer The undisputed kings of Comedy Nonsense Punk achieved the most filled-up tent of the whole weekend. After the usual Star Wars-intro the band entered the stage to the sound of their song “Mein Schöner Hodensack”. In contrast to other shows vocalist Wölfi came on stage purely naked and began to dress himself. But because of the fan protests he took of his shirt and continued performing just with pants. The fourpiece from Wattenscheid began with “Besoffen Sein”, “Sex Mit Dem Sozialarbeiter”, “Mein Gehirn, Dein Gehirn”, „Mein Vater War Ein Hurenbock“ and earned fanatic reactions. This setting continued while “Blumenkohl Am Pillemann”, “Stinkmösenpolka” and similar hits. So this was a primitive as very well-entertaining set of the steady WFF-guests. Don’t miss them the next time!
Tent Stage: The Last Supper
Onkel Tom Angelripper The first WFF-appearance of Onkel Tom who usually is the mainman of Sodom was one of the best I have seen of him and his sidekicks in the latest years. They performed their metal-interpretations of old German drinking songs as “Trink, Brüderlein Trink”, „Karamba, Karacho, Ein Whiskey“ “In München Steht Ein Hofbräuhaus”, “Schnaps, Das War Sein Letztes Wort” or “Es Gibt Kein Bier Auf Hawaii”. Onkel Tom regretted the WFF-organization had advised him not to invite fans on stage as usually and emphasized how important the fans are and that they come from stage after the show to party with them. Even while the show Onkel Tom came from stage to sing from between the spectators. Cool appearance as attitude!
Turisas The Finnish Viking Folk Metal-group just entertained a small crowd which enjoyed “To Holmgard And Beyond”, One More”, “In The Court Of Jarisleif” and the final band-hymn “Metal Battle”, but no one else. Most people tried to flee as fast as they could. Just me needed to stay to write how horrible these 40 minutes had been.
The Vision Bleak And the horror continued. After the cancelation of Crematory I had hoped to see something more interesting, but it even became worse. After they had stuck on my nerves on the WFF 2004 the Germans showed no mercy and did it again with “The Lone Night Rider” and “The Deathship Symphony”. This was the kind of Gothic Metal I don’t need at all!
Pain A dignified closure the WFF found by the Swedish Industrial Metal-band of Hypocrisy-leader Peter Tägtgren whose band acted very motivated while the tent got refilled again. The formation presented by “Nailed To The Ground” and “Zombie Slam” tracks from their new “Psalms Of Extinction”-album and earned applause. But of course they caused more dancing as headbanging action while the more familiar songs like “It’s Only Them”, “On And On”, “Same Old Song”, “On Your Knees”, “End Of The Line”, “Just Hate Me”, “Shut Your Mouth”, the Beatles-cover “Eleanor Rigby” and the hit “Shut Your Mouth”. The band got celebrated a lot and fulfilled their mission to play as the last one. A wonderful gig!
Conclusion:
This was our personal five-years-WFF-anniversary! For another time the With Full Force 2007 became a great well-organised festival. We had our fun with a high-class-billing. Nobody worried about the two short-term-cancelations of the smaller bands Dagoba (Probably the millennium falk had technical problems!) and Crematory! By the way we had luck with the sunny weather for another time. In all those five years we’ve never made a bigger rain-experience in Roitzschjora! We hope this rainless story will be continued!
The prices for food and beverages had been for another time as fair as the WFF is well-known for it (e.g. 2,40 Euro for a 0,4l beer or softdrink).
We appreciated the WFF for another time and we are looking forward to With Full Force 2008!!!
Special thanks go out to Wolf, Sure Shot Worx and the WFF-team!!!!!
At the With Full Force 2007 rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Issel and Linda!!!!!