With full force 2006
The unique festival in East Germany is able to present the coolest bands of any hard music sub genre, whether they are from the Hardcore-, Metal- or Punk-sector, year by year. This year the WFF happened while the best soccer national teams of the world played the world championship (quarter finals while that weekend) in Germany (Seems like the same pattern the WFF-concept works!). Like two years ago while the European soccer championship happened the WFF- organizors offered a big screen behind the Hardbowl and also showed the Germany quarter final match without sound on the Main Stage-screen while Trivium, Stone Sour and Madball appeared next to it. Despite those offered extra opportunities the ticket prices didn’t rise which speaks for the WFF-team who offered a well-organised Open Air. Well done! At the airfield of Roitzschjora played 64 bands on two stages in three days for about 22000 visitors.
Friday
Main Stage
The Anti Doctrine The Metalcore-quintet from Düsseldorf wasn’t too complicated. No, they were too weird. The tracks from their longplayer-debut “A World Elite And Its Downfall” (Before that the fivepiece just published an EP “Patterns Of Liquid Red”.) didn’t convince at all. Hopefully the Roadrunner-signing can improve its sound a lot to avoid such a confused performance like in Roitzschjora.
Bloodsimple Metalcore with Neurosis-influences from Long Island invaded the stage. With success! The band around ex-Vision Of Disorder-members Mike Kennedy and shouter Tim Williams caught the meanwhile 10000 spectators by material from their “A Cruel World”-debut like “Straight Hate”, “What If I Lost It” or the final “Path To Prevail”.
Devildriver Coal Chamber or Devil Driver? I definitely prefer Devil Driver! The new band of Dez Farfara rocks much more! So they did on the WFF: The Neo-Thrash-act performed a well-balanced set concluding songs from their self-named debut as from their current “The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hand” like “Die (And Die Now)”, “Hold Back The Day” as of course the hit “I Could Care Less” and got much applause.
Trivium Much more than just applause was earned by Florida’s finest. The young boys from Orlando are definitely the rising Metal-band nowadays. The Thrash-hopefuls had just one opponent: The suspending quarter final between Germany and Argentina. The WFF-organisation decided right to show the match on the Main Stage-screen, too. So the crowd was able to watch the match as to celebrate smashers like “Like Light To Flies”, “Pull Harder The Strings Of Your Martyr”, “A Gunshot to the Head Of Trepidation” well performed by Matthew Heafy & Co. I just hope to watch them returning to the WFF without appearing against any soccer game!
Stone Sour Other band, same problem! Supported by a bombastic sound the side-band of Slipknots fronter Corey Taylor and sixstringer James Root performed a cool set between material from their self-titled debut (“Bother”, “Inhale”) and a few songs of their forthcoming album “Come What(ever) May” (the title track, “Reborn”). But the atmosphere on the spectatorside got disturbed by the 0:1 for Argentina. And the crowd got even much more concentrated on the video screen. So Corey got suddenly surprised when Germany shot the 1:1. Supported by the German national team the rest of the set became a big party on the festivalsite which got finished by “Get Inside”.
Madball So after the match had ended in a draw the New York City-Hardcore-institution appeared while the overtime. Those visitors who (also) focused the stage might have noticed soccer wasn’t the only exciting topic this sunny afternoon. But against the final penalty shootout in such an important match even the most powerful sound is without any chance. A matter the also powerful Dutch-Metalcore-band Born From Pain had to arrange with in the Hardbowl tent meanwhile whose national team had even quit the championship a round before, huhu. Ignoring the cricumstances Roger Miret’s semi-brother Freddy Cricien and his comrades Hoya, Miggs and Rigg Ross demonstrated their style and rocked the stage.
Kreator Green smoke covered the whole Main Stage. Time for the attack of the German Thrash Metal-legend around the one and only Mille Petrozza! Starting with the title track of their new album “Enemy Of God” and “Impossible Brutality” Essen’s finest showed another intense appearance. In its middle two biplanes flew over the festival crowd for several times to cover the heaven above finally with red smoke. The best-of-set left no wishes open by “Phobia”, “Terrible Certainty”, “Violent Revolution”, “Extreme Aggressions”, People Of The Lie”, “Terror Zone”, “Pleasure To Kill”, “Flag Of Hate” and the set closing surprise “Betrayer”.
Soulfly While the second soccer quarter final Italy against Ukraine (3:0) Max Cavalera and his combo played a routined set. No more, no less! The co-headliner excited its fans with songs from the new output “Dark Ages” (“Arise Again”, “Babylon”), familiar Soulfly-tracks from the past releases (“Fire”, “Back To The Primitive”, “The Prophet”, “Seek ‘N’ Strike”, “Prophecy”) and good old Sepultura-classics (“Roots”, “Troops Of Doom”). So far, so cool! But Max stuck on my as many others’ nerves filling up the stage with family members and whoever felt able to use drumsticks to start a total unnecessary percussion-jam-session. As superfluous as solos while festival shows!
Celtic Frost After the Swiss legend had been forced to cancel their Rock Hard-headliner-slot due to sanitary problems it was up to them to headline the WFF-Friday seperated the crowd into two contrary sides. The especially younger spectators didn’t mind about this kind of sound and went away. The Die Hard-fans got tears in their eyes when their idols began after an atmospheric intro with “Procreation (Of The Wicked)”, “Dethroned Emperor” and “Jewel Throne”. Fronter Thomas G. Fischer, bassist Martin Eric Ain, drummer Franco Sesa and live-guitarist Erol Unala didn’t renounce any big light or pyro show elements and let the music do the talking by classics like “Necromentical Screams”, “Into The Crypt Of Rays”, “The Usurper”, “Circle Of The Tyrants” and the final “Triptych”. That was probably the WFF-headliner with the fewest supporters, but possibly with some of the happiest ones.
Tent Stage: Hardbowl
Deadsoil The Metalcore-hopefuls from Duisburg had the honour to open this year’s WFF-Hardball-tent. And they were definitely worth it! The Lifeforce-signing mainly concentrated on their strong new album “Sacrifice” without ignoring material from its predecessors “Forever The Enemy” and “The Venom Divine”. After motivating the crowd to pretty massive pits the band left the stage after heir new hit “Unspoken”.
Boysetsfire The Emo-Core-band headlined the Hardbowl on the WFF-friday. The fivepiece from Delaware had become much more popular the months before. So the tent was pretty filled up with curious fans including a big female supportership. Ignoring the second soccer quarter final between Italy and Ukraine (result: 3:0) they went wild to the melodies of their heros around shouter Nathan Gray. Just a few weeks later the band announced their split. Sad but true!
Tent Stage: Knüppelnacht
Dismember While friday-headliner Celtic Frost still appeared on the Main Stage the Knüppelnacht started with classic Death Metal from Stockholm. Supported by a powerful sound the fivepiece performed very motivated hammers like “Tragedy Of The Faithful”, “Override Of The Overture”, “Casket Garden” or “Soon To Be Dead” which was celebrated by a pretty crowded tent.
Napalm Death The Grindcore-legend from Birmingham raised the speed as sound brutality and crushed the filled up tent. The crowd didn’t care about having one hour past midnight and started a wild moshpit. The right soundtrack to the pit scenes consisted of material from the current “The Code Is Red…Long Live The Code”-release (“Don’t Believe In Nothing, Just Believe In Yourself”, the title track), cover versions of Warpath (“Politician”) and Dead Kennedys (“Nazi Punks Fuck Off”) and own classics (“Harmony Corruption”, “Siege Of Power”, “You Suffer”, “Scum”). Despite the undifferentiated sound a cool gig!
Mystic Cricle The Knüppelnacht included three Death Metal- as three Black Metal bands and the best Black Metal-performance was shown by the threepiece from Worms. Of course they didn’t have the same huge crowd as the two bands before, but they convinced with their best-of-set containing just one track from their new album “The Bloody Path Of God” (“Unholy Terror”) and their hits “God Is Dead – Satan Arise”, “Open The Gates Of Hell” and “Medina (Satan’s Whore)” earned pretty much support, especially from the wild fanatics in the first row!
Dark Fortress Much worse felt the gig of the Blackies from South Germany. The tent became much emptier while fronter Azatoth and his comrades performed mostly tracks from their current third output “Stab Wounds” like “When 1000 Crypts Awake” and “Self-Mutilation”. The litlle die-hard-group was entertained, me wasn’t.
Disbelief Like two years before the fivepiece from Hessen (Central Germany) replaced a band which had cancelled its festival participation before. This time they replaced Deicide and for another time they did a great job! Supported by a brutal sound they created their grooving Death Metal-monsters and covered the tent which became fuller again with their unique psychedelic atmosphere. The crowd celebrated newer hits like “Sick” and “Rewind It All (Death Or Glory)” from the “66Sick”-album as older ones like “Misery” and “To The Sky”, so this gig became a big late night highlight! Because of time problems they weren’t allowed to play the last song. Hoppefully next time Jagger & Co get engaged earlier to get a planned position on the billing! They deserve it!
Endstille At 4:35 p.m. the third German Black Metal-band and the last one for the following few hours entered the stage. The gig was pretty similar to the one of Dark Fortress, just without keyboards and (because of the late/early time) a smaller spectatorship. The few fans were happy/evil about older tracks like “Frühlingserwachen” (from the so-titled release) and newer material like “I Bless You… God” (“from the current “Navigator”-output). To me the best moment of this gig from this wannabe-evil-band was its end at 5:15 p.m.. So I wen’t to sleep!
Saturday
Main Stage
A.O.K. My first time watching a performance of the Nonsense-core was supposed to become an entertaining one. Just in the beginning of their show the two shouters who were suited like soccer fields and who brought Germany fan flags on stage threw much salad into the crowd. After two songs one fronter announced the next track “Hinterlader” by showing his butt. From this on the two shouters often showed nearly everything of their bodies. While the third song “Baguette” Jochen Graf took a few of those, crumbled them over his penis as his butt and threw it into the audience. Hm, delicious! Cool was the 10 seconds lasting track “Stromausfall” showing the band acting and posing just without any sound. After another huge cabbage-battle and their parodies of Motörhead and Manowar the chaos combo made their final stand by “Butzemann Slayer”.
Raunchy The following appearance of the fivepiece from Danmark should become the best one until The Last Supper-acts! Supported by a bombastic sound and a lot of samples the five guys around the new singer Kasper Thomsen and their producer Tue Madsen on the second guitar blew me and my weak impression of their Wacken 2004-performance totally away. Besides playing material from their self-titled debut (“Twelve Feet Tall”, “Drive”) and their breakthrough album “Confusion Bay” (“Join The Scene”, “Watch Out”) the Dans concentrated on their new masterpiece “Death Pop Romance” by “Abandon Your Hope”, “Remembrance” and “Phantoms” after which they left the stage and a satisfied crowd.
The Haunted While those hot temperatures under a cloudless sky the Swedish Thrash Metal-machine gauranteed sweat on stage as on the spectators’ side. They convinced by songs from the current “Revolver”-album like “No Compromise”, “99” or “Abysmal” as by their classics from their three earlier longplayers like “Hate Song”, “Dark Intensions” / “Bury Your Dead” and “Shadow World” and let their fans forget the sun for 40 minutes till they noticed themselves as totally wet after the band had played their last tone marked by a fragment from Slayer’s “South Of Heaven”! Three words: Hot! Wet! Great!
Heaven Shall Burn Different band, same luxury-problem! With their new guitarist Alexander Dietz the East German Metalcore-institution expressed pure energy on as in front of the stage. Ignoring the heat the fans went wild in different circle- or whatever-pits to smashers like the hammer-opener “Echoes (Intro)” / “The Weapon The Fear”, “Voice Of The Voiceless”, “Behind A Wall Of Silence”, “The Only Truth” (supported by a huge wall of death) and the final “Unleash Enlightenment” while I went to the safe canopy of my chosen beer-refill-station and enjoyed the fine gig the relaxed way this time!
Obituary Just one year after their latest appearance in Roitzschjora the time had come to obey the Death Metal-icons from Tampa, Florida again. And to me personally this year’s performance seemed improved in comparison to last year’s one. Anyway, supported by a powerful sound smashers like “Threatening Skies”, “Til’ Death”, “Turned Inside Out”, “Chopped In Half”, “Slow Death” and the final classic “Slowly We Rot” got celebrated – while another soccer championship quarter final between England and Portugal (result: 1:3 a.p.) happened – by a crowd which was still hungry for Obi(No, not Wan Kenobi! )-live-action. It looked like the support was even higher than last year which shows their importance. But one argument: A little bit more motion please, Mr West!
Clawfinger Since their latest WFF-appearance before in 2003 I haven’t taken a notice about the Swedish Crossover-kings. But back in Roitzschjora fronter Zak Tell, Jocke Skog and Co presented another overwhelming live-show. Convincing with newer songs from their latest three releases like the title track of their current album “Hate Yourself With Style”, “Recipe For Hate” or “Bigger Than The Best” the hits from their first two albums of course earned the loudest jubilation. So the most crowdsurfers during their set I was able to count while “Nigger”, “Rosegrove” and “The Truth”. Besides the songs Zak communicated a lot with the crowd including a polite congratulation to the German soccer team while Portugal defeated England with 3:1 after penalty shootout.
In Extremo With an interesting stage set representing a medieval ship the German Folk Rock/Metal-kings began their show by the suitable “Raue See” to let follow “Horizont”. Behind a steering-wheel vocalist Das Letzte Einhorn motivated bandmates as fans to move which both sides did to “Spielmannsfluch”, “Wind”, “Krumma Visur”, “Vollmond” and the set closing “Omni Sol Temperat”. Supported by a cool pyro-, effect-show the sevenpiece satisfied their fans for another time! Probably I had seen them to often to be that enthusiastic, but the performance convinced.
Agnostic Front 15 minutes after the official showtime-start the New York City Hardcore-legend around fronter Roger Miret entered the stage to celebrate a big Hardcore-party with their fans. Besides presenting newer material like “Peace” and “Fall Of The Parasites” the five guys earned the most support to classics like “New Jack”, the band-hymn “Gotta Go” (including the wildest mosh-pit) or “Toxic Shock” and left the crowd after an intense as short performance. So nobody felt the need to worry, but: More than enough would have enjoyed to watch them the hour they were planned on the running order. Or did the musicians watch the kick-off of the last soccer wc-quarter final between Brasil and France (result: 0:1)?
In Flames The evolution of the Melodic Death Metal-founders from Gothenburg found another highlight in the Saturday’s headliner-slot on the WFF after they had appeared last year as the WFF-Friday-co-headliner before Slayer. So the five Swedes appeared in front of much more fans than Celtic Frost had done the night before. “The Quiet Place” marked the beginning of an amazing 75 minutes lasting set only consisting of hits. So the crowd sang to “Take This Life” (from their new album “Come Clarity”), “Bullet Ride”, the oldie “Behind Space”, “Only For The Weak”, “Cloud Connected”, “Pinball Map”, “Colony”, “Trigger”, “Touch Of Red” and the mighty final “My Sweet Shadow”. Supported by a bombastic pyro- and light-show which was suitbale to the fantastic show as very entertaining because it was created very diversified this show became to a highlight of this year’s WFF as of my numerous In Flames-shows I had seen. Fronter Anders Fridén showed for another time his entertainer qualities congratulating the crowd for the German soccer-team and doing different irconic statements.
Tent Stage: Hardbowl
Ignite Two years ago I watched the Melodic Hardcore-institution from Orange County to get a first impression about them and I got totally blown away by one of the most impressive live-acts I have ever seen. A fluke? Not at all! The band returned with the very strong “Our Darkest Days”-album and started with its “Intro (Our Darkest Days)” to let follow its opener “Bleeding”. They offered a well-balanced set consisting of further new hits like “Fear Is Our Tradition”, “Let It Burn”, the homage to the Hungarian national uprising against communism fifty years before “Poverty For All”, “Save Yourself”, cover songs like Johnny Cash’s “My Judgement Day” and U2’s “Sunday, Bloody, Sunday” which was sung by thousands of voices and newer classics like “Bullets Included No Thought Required”, “Who Sold Out Now?”, “Run”, “By My Side”, the set finishing “A Place Called Home” as older ones like “Call On My Brothers”. Like two years before I missed the “You”-oldie. But anyway: An intoxicating wonderful show moderated by fronter Zoli Teglas who did a few different intelligent political statements!
Tent Stage: Saturday Night Fever
Ostkreutz A band from Berlin I had never heard of irritated the tent-spectatorship by a surreal show on a stage equipped with a couple of TV screens showing some projections. The multilingual Electro-Rock was performed in German, English and Russian. Some dudes felt like dancing, I felt bored.
Volbeat The Danish newcomers may be the next shooting stars in the Rock-/Metal-universum. The debut album “The Strength / The Sound / The Songs” earned much applause from press as from the consuments. Their appearance reinforced this impression. In contrast to the act before the quartet showed much stage-action and performed songs like “Caroline Leaving”, “Another Day, Another Way”, “Something Else Or…”, “Soulweeper”, “Firesong” and “Caroline #1” supported by a powerful sound (No, it wasn’t fellow countryman Tue Madsen, he watched the show right next to me!). Another characteristic trademark of the Volbeat-sound is the wonderful voice of Michael Poulsen remembering to Elvis Presley as to Life Of Agony’s Keith Caputo. So the band finished their appearance by the Dusty Springfield-cover “I Only Wanna Be With You” and their party-hit “Pool Of Booze, Booze, Booza” and much applause for their show.
Synthetic Breed The next band to follow was very strange, but in contrast to Ostkreutz still interesting. The Australians presented a mixture of older Fear Factory-, Meshuggah- and strange Industrial- as Progressive Metal-sounds. So many spectators stood there with the mouth wide open trying to concentrate on the complex compositions, a few other ones slept in. Sometimes their sound seemed too extremely strange, but generally I’m looking forward to their debut-longplayer.
Die Krupps In the 90ies the Industrial-band from Düsseldorf was pretty big and might had played in a good position on the Main Stage, after their reunion they had a much more difficult role to act on the Tent Stage as Saturday’s last band at 3:00 a.m.. After opening with “High Tech / Low Life” they let follow classics by “Isolation” and “Crossfire” which motivated the crowd to move. The band around the very agile mainman Jürgen Engler continued performing a best-of-set by “Black Beauty White Heat”, “The Dawning Of Doom”, “Metal Machine Music”, “Bloodsuckers”, their biggest hit “To The Hilt” and my fave “Fatherland”. The band even played an encore and left an outpowered fanship.
Sunday
Main Stage
Mambo Kurt & Bossa Babes After appearing the night before in the VIP-tent which is an every-year-WFF-procedure the organ-maestro returned to the Main Stage where he had appeared in 2003 for the latest time. Supported by his Bossa Babes consisting of guitarist Andrea Odenthal (she is also known from Peter Tägtgren’s band Pain) and a female drummer Mambo Kurt entertained by his hammond organ-versions of “The Final Countdown”, “Enter Sandman” or “I Was Made For Loving You” and motivated the early-noon-crowd to organise a conga line.
The Real McKenzies The Canadians performed a Scottish Folk Punk Rock-show like they had done at the same place two years before. The group realised a party many visitors felt invited to whether they played material from their current “10,000 Fists”-release or older stuff. But because of the bad sound it was pretty hard to take a notice of their bagpipes. The formation took care of a visual effect showing they didn’t wear any underwear under their kilts.
Holy Moses Sabina Classen & Co replaced Soilwork which didn’t really find many supporters. Of course, their sound is much too different. So I was very disappointed, too because the running order change became public a few hours before and I had high expectations to Soilwork which Holy Moses couldn’t fulfill. Nevertheless I need to praise the spontaneous reaction of Holy Moses who played a solid gig which they finished by “Too Drunk To Fuck”!
Gorefest The return of the Dutch Death Metal-insitution began with two tracks from their current “La Muerte”-album (“For The Masses”, “When The Dead Walk The Earth”) to continue with an oldie from “False” (“The Glorious Dead)”. Tracks from their middle era (“Low”, “Freedom”, “Chapter Thirteen”) found as much support as the final “False”-classic “Reality / When You Die” did. The only thing that didn’t work was the sound. Besides that the Gorefest-reunion is one of the few making sense in my opinion.
Arch Enemy The sound got much improved in contrast to Gorefest, but sometimes it seemed like the German grunter Angela Gossow lost her voice for a few seconds. The Swedish instrumental fraction around guitarist Michael Amott compensated it. The concert mainly contained tracks from the current release “Doomsday Machine” like the opener “Nemesis” or “My Apocalypse”. Classics like “Ravenous”, “Dead Eyes See No Future”, “Burning Angel” and the last played title “We Will Rise” earned the biggest positive reactions from the audience being happy the hot temperatures had gone a little bit down in the early evening.
Bullet For My Valentine While the 20 minutes lasting changeover it wasn’t difficult to regognize the shooting stars from Wales are a band with a high female and/or younger fan factor. But that doesn’t mean they’re the new Pop/Rock-princes. No they rocked the WFF with an astonishing live-power. Supported by roadie Kevin Papworth who replaced the ordinary bassist Jason James for this show there was no doubt about the live-presentation of “Poison”, “4 Words To Choke Upon”, “Suffocating Under Wings Of Sorrow”, “Hand Of Blood”, “Cries In Vain”, “All These Things”, “Tears Don’t Fall” and the set closing “No Control”. Roadie Kevin who looked like the father of his companions was grinning during the whole show while the well entertaining fronter Matt Tuck and his guitar college Michael Paget took care of the stage posing part while drummer Michael Thomas produced power from his kit. Not too bad for a young band just having released one longplayer album yet!
Sick Of It All Because of Korn’s cancelation Motörhead got promoted to the headliner position and Sick of It All replaced them. Probably there mightn’t be any reserve band replacing another one which still counts that many supporters their own. So this appearance became an hour of triumph. Celebrating their 20th band anniversary the Koller brothers & Co caused a huge wall of death and several circlepits becoming one big moshpit by “Uprising Nation” from their forthcoming release “Death To Tyrants”, “Sanctuary”, “My Life”, the band-hymn “Scratch The Surface” and the final “Us vs. Them”. In contrast to the band before where both sixstringers had had too many vocal parts Sick Of It All have the freedom to run and jump on stage as much as they want to, and that’s what they did! Mostly very near to the edge of the stage which was a pleasure for every photograph!
Motörhead Last year Motörhead were forced to cancel their headliner appearance at the WFF due to sickness reasons. This year they promoted from the co-headliner-position back to the position they belong to. The threepiece opened by “Doctor Rock” and “Stay Clean” a greatest-hits-set which included with “Killers” and “In The Name Of Tragedy” two tracks from their latest longplayer “Inferno”. But while guitarist Phil Campbell and especially Mickey Dee did an excellent live-job mainman Lemmy Kilmister didn’t seem to be in a good mood. Motionless and seemingly exerted he performed hammers like “No Class”, “Sacrifice” (containing a drum solo in its middle) or the “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.”-tribute. Just in the last part of the show when they bid the fans in front of the Main Stage farewell by the strong killers “Killed By Death”, “Ace Of Spades” and “Overkill” (the last two ones as encores) the appearance took a fine end.
Tent Stage: Hardbowl
Die Lokalmatadore Because of a band change of Sunday’s Hardbowl running order (Anti cop replaced Liar!) the planned Hardbowl-headliner played earlier. The Fun Punkrock-fourpiece from Mühlheim an der Ruhr entered the stage wearing fun merchandise pointing out on the German soccer team entertained by “In Den Arsch”, “Fußball, Ficken, Alkohol” and the hit “Pillemann, Fotze, Arsch” including a singalong improvisation which would sound in English: ‘Hey, hey, who doesn’t jump is Italian” confronting Germany’s semi-final opponent Italy. The audience was mainly amused as I was, too.
Tent Stage: The Last Supper
Lumsk The most exotic act in The Last Supper was the Folk Metal-sevenpiece from Trondheim which had composed their two longplayers in Norwegian language supported by a violin as a synthesizer besides the ordinary Rock / Metal-instrumentation. Performed by the nice voice of songs like “Perpalsa” or “Nidvisa” sounded well whether it was a hard contrast between Motörhead right before and this formation.
Opeth ‘Two words: Fuck and Scheiße!’ mainman Mikael Akerfeld was not amused. The band’s luggage including their instruments got lost on the flight to Leipzig. Motörhead were so nice to lent them their ones. With this anger the genuises were very motivated and offered for another time an excellent show which began by “The Grand Conjuration” from the current masterpiece “Ghost Reveries” and which ended with “Deliverance”. 40 minutes – 4 songs: That’s Opeth! Like on the WFF 2003 the artists from Stockholm performed the best show of the whole festival in my opinion!
Graveworm They are a typical live-act. Their recordings are nice, but after improving their live-qualities over the years the band from Italy express their full energy on stage. So they did on the WFF. The four guys and lady Sabine on keyboards caught the mob with songs from the new album “(N)utopia” like its title track, “Hateful Design” or “Never Enough” as neckbreakers from the album before named “Engraved In Black” like “Legions Unleashed” and “Dreaming Into Reality”. Fronter Stefan Fiori wore an Italian soccer jersey of the forthcoming German semi-final opponent! Why, I thought people from South Tirol don’t feel Italian?
Amorphis The 2007-edition of the WFF ended with another highlight. The band from Finland had found back to their sound from the “Elegy”-phase. The main reason: The new dreadlocked singer Tomi Joutsen who convinced by his voice as by his stageacting. They started with the new “Leaves Scar” into their set in which they also performed by “House Of Sleep” and “The Smoke” two other songs from their great new album “Eclipse”. Even bigger support the band earned for classics like “The Castaway”, “Alone”, “Against Widows”, “In the Beginning” “My Kantele” and “The Way”. While that many fans partied and headbanged to one of the best showcases of the WFF 2007!
Conclusion: What is one of the best places to be at while the biggest world championship of the world takes place in Germany? It’s the With Full Force! A great peaceful party with numerous nice fans and of course lots of cool performances.
The cancelations of Korn, Soilwork, Deicide and Liar the WFF-organizors answered with engaging Sick Of It All, Holy Moses, Disbelief and Anticops and the promotion of Motörhead to the Sunday headliner position.
The prices for food and beverages had been for another time as fair as the WFF is well-known for it (e.g. 2,30 Euro for a 0,4l beer or softdrink).
The weather was almost too good. Till the evening it was really hot and because of the weeks before had also been sunny and dry the festivalground was dustier than it usually is.
Whatever, the www.metal-festivals.com – team enjoyed the With Full Force 2006 a lot and we are looking forward to the WFF 2007, our fifth one in a row!!!
Special thanks go out to Wolf, Sure Shot Worx and the WFF-team!!!!!
At the With Full Force 2006 rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Helga and Nicole!!!!!