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Wacken Newsletter 19/2011

And here are the news:
Wacken newsletter 19/2011

Registration for the METAL MOBILE WC
After the amazingly good development in 2010, we again are starting the unique rental service for the METAL MOBILE WCs. In 2010 all 150 WCs where booked up within 4 hours! So better buck up in 2011!

Shuttle bus plans online
The new shuttle bus plans which are providing you with the complete arrival and departure times from Itzehoe to Wacken and back are online now. You can download them either as coloured or black/white version in PDF format on the official site.

The American pioneer of Heavy Metal Comedy comes to Wacken!
Known for his famous “Heavy Metal Man” stand up comedy tour, and movies such as “Half Baked,” Jim Breuer will perform on Wacken stages for the first time. In addition to Saturday Night Live and his movie roles, Breuer has been seen on VH1, MTV, Disney and Comedy Central, and heard on the airwaves with his own radio show! We are very happy to welcome Mr. Breuer at Wacken Open Air where he’s performing a really special debut show on Thursday and Friday at W:O:A´s Bullhead City tent. Below you can watch a callout Jim did and also a video of one of his shows from his youtube channel.

Metal Party of German military police in Afghanistan
Also in Kunduz – in the north of Afghanistan – you may meet Metalheads. A group of Germany soldiers from the “25. Deutschen Einsatzkontingent” are not only metal fans but also fans of Wacken Open Air Festival. We heard that those guys organize a metal party for their comrades and of course we will support them with a huge metal package! We´re looking forward to receiving pictures from your party!

More news about W:O:A and more you will find on the W:O:A Homepage: http://www.wacken.com

And now we still wish you some peaceful and restful days:
SEE YOU IN WACKEN – RAIN OR SHINE!
Your W:O:A Team

For more information check out the official site:
http://www.wacken.com

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Wacken newsletter 17/2011

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Wacken newsletter 17/2011,
W:O:A Hymn 2011 – Wacken Will Never Die
Also this year the W:O:A will be accompanied into battle by an appropriate hymn. Following Doro in 2009 and U.D.O in 2010 now Grave Digger will compose oneself to present the Wacken Open Air with their hymn “Wacken Will Never Die”. Vocalist Chris Boltendahl and his comrades follow in the footsteps of their two ancestors without any trouble and present another powerful hymn which knows how to transport the spirit of Wacken to their fans. This piece of music can be pre-listened at the facebook and MySpace-Seite of W:O:A. There you can also listen to “We are the Metalheads” (Doro) and “Heavy Metal W:O:A” (U.D.O.). The purchasable single will be available during the upcoming festival and in stores after the end of W:O:A 2011. As in the last year the Wacken Foundation will get all the receipts of the single.

Relentless Energy on board with the world’s biggest metal festival
Wacken, northern Germany – probably not the kind of place you’d expect to find the world’s largest metal gathering. But 21 years since its inception, the Wacken Open Air Festival remains an annual fixture in this small, sleepy town. Taking place from 4 – 6 August 2011, it’s set to be another huge occasion. Headliners include the mighty Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead, Avantasia, Children of Bodom, Suicidal Tendencies, Airbourne and Mayhem – enough to justify the ticket price alone. There are also various weird and wonderful curios worth checking out, like the annual opening show from the Wacken Firefighters. As their name would suggest, they’re fire-fighters who just happen to love metal and can thrash out a song or two. On top of the established talent, aspiring metal acts have the chance to perform alongside their heroes thanks to the Wacken Open Air Metal Masters online video competition. This year Relentless Energy are on board to help spread the word and give this opportunity-of-a-lifetime contest their full backing. Bands that think they can cut it live can upload a video of themselves in action to the WackenTube website (check the link below). Users then vote on their favourites. The winners get a slot on the Wacken Wet Stage – also known as Headbanger’s Ballroom.
The festival is already sold out, but the Relentless Energy community have a chance to win a trip to this immense metal nirvana – keep your eyes peeled to the site and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to find out how around the beginning of June.

New confirmed bands:
DANKO JONES
DIR EN GREY
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE
MOONSORROW

Green´n´Clean Award – Environment-friendly Festival according to Green’n’Clean Guidelines
The Green’n’Clean Award distinguishes environment-friendly festivals. This initiative guarantees that measures to save energy and protect our natural resources are implemented and openly communicated. Music festivals have a large impact on the environment. Traffic, noise, water, effluents, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions all come with the fun of the festival and the gathering of large crowds in general. We believe that by implementing measures to keep our environmental impact low, we can also provide our audience with a maximum of pleasure during its stay. This includes making public transport available, using renewable energies and limiting air travel to a minimum.
Our festival has been honoured with the international Green’n’Clean Award, which distinguishes environment-friendly festivals. This initiative guarantees that measures in the fields of sustainable management, transportation, waste management, energy efficiency and power, catering as well as purchasing are implemented. Protecting our natural resources and communicating these efforts to sponsors and the audience are key to being green and clean. The Green’n’Clean Award was developed by Yourope – the European Festival Association.

More news about W:O:A and more you will find on the W:O:A Homepage:
http://www.wacken.com

And now we still wish you some peaceful and restful days:
SEE YOU IN WACKEN – RAIN OR SHINE!

Your W:O:A Team

For more information check out the official site:
http://www.wacken.com

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New bands and 2nd stage for Area4 2011

And here are 15 (!!!) new bands: The Kooks, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Face to Face, Panteón Rococó, Hot Water Music, Ignite, Thees Uhlmann & Band, Blood Red Shoes, Underoath, The Bronx, Veara, Karnivool, Friska Viljor, The Metzingers and Airship.

For the first time there will be a 2nd stage at the Area4. So ther will be many more bands this year… 🙂

Check out the official festival site for more information:
http://www.area4.de

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With full force – 3 new bands, 1 cancellation!



Here´s the official news:
Hello friends, unfortunately also in 2011 we get cancellations of bands. Mr. Barnes and his men of SIX FEET UNDER cancelled all gigs, inclusively the WITH FULL FORCE. We are extremely disappointed, but we can`t change that. *** But we found an alternative: IDSIDIOUS DISEASE, the All Star Death Metal band with members of DIMMU BORGIR, MORGOTH, NAPALM DEATH, NILE & OLD MAN`S CHILD. The will perform an exclusive Europe gig at the WFF KNUEPPELNACHT. The guys founded the band to perform their favourite band genre, the good Old School Death Metal. The result is an extreme Metal weapon! *** The german answer of Old School Death Metal is DISBELIEF. After a few years WFF abstinence the guys will rock again the WFF crowd. Relax your neck – that will be hard! *** And we can announce another cult band. Since 1983 the SPERMBIRDS perform their own Punkrock – Hardcore sound as one of the first german hardcore bands. So it`s time to invite Lee Hollis and his guys again. All further confirmed bands, tickets, Fanshop et cetera you`ll find at www.withfullforce.de, yours WFF team.

Check out the official site for more information:
http://www.withfullforce.de

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Summer Breeze Newsletter No.9


Here it is:
Dear SUMMER BREEZE Community!
1.: Only 5,000 tickets left!
The ticket presale for SUMMER BREEZE 2011 has gone into the home stretch! Last year the festival sold out in mid May. Due to the similarly strong demand, this year we expect to run out of tickets at roughly the same time. Already there are ONLY 5,000 TICKETS left! So if you’re still hesitating you should go to www.silverdust-shop.de now and secure the 3-day ticket for an unbeatable 72.- Euros (incl. parking/camping, excl. pre-sale fee), so you’re not left empty-handed. Don’t miss the metal party of the year! Be quick or be dead!

2.: More bands announced
We are happy to announce the following bands, which we have added to the SUMMER BREEZE 2011 bill in the last few weeks:
-IGNITE, leaders of melodic hardcore from sunny California
-ATHEIST, grand masters of progressive, technical death metal
-GRAVEYARD, the new retro-rock sensation brought to you by Nuclear Blast
-OBSCURA, next in line to occupy the throne of technical death metal
-SECRETS OF THE MOON, one of Germany’s most original black metal bands
-NERVECELL, exotic metal from Dubai
-TOTAL CHAOS, who, in true punk-core tradition, live up to their band name

With these additions, the complete billing for SUMMER BREEZE Open Air 2011 reads as follows:
IN EXTREMO – HAMMERFALL – HATEBREED – BOLT THROWER – TARJA – ARCH ENEMY – AS I LAY DYING – J.B.O. – SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – KATAKLYSM – SODOM – CALIBAN – CORVUS CORAX – SALTATIO MORTIS – MARDUK – SONIC SYNDICATE – PRIMORDIAL – IGNITE – FARMER BOYS – HAIL OF BULLETS – TURISAS – ENSLAVED – COMEBACK KID – THE HAUNTED – MOONSORROW – VADER – DESTRUCTION – EINHERJER – SMOKE BLOW – NEAERA – POWERWOLF – TÝR – GOD DETHRONED – EMIL BULLS – WITCHERY – MELECHESH – DECAPITATED – ATHEIST – MAD SIN – DEADLOCK – HACKNEYED – KVELERTAK – SKELETONWITCH – DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL – SCAR SYMMETRY – EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS – VOMITORY – KALMAH – GRAVEYARD – SEVENTH VOID – OBSCURA – SECRETS OF THE MOON – ROTTING CHRIST – BLITZKID – VREID – THE OCEAN – HELRUNAR – KAMPFAR – ENGEL – WOLF – POSTMORTEM – SWASHBUCKLE – A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH – THE SORROW – ABORTED – REVAMP – SYLOSIS – FACEBREAKER – DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT – TOTAL CHAOS – BENIGHTED – YOUR DEMISE – NERVECELL – TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED – MOTORJESUS – IMPERIUM DEKADENZ – 9MM ASSI ROCK’N’ROLL – DEMONICAL – CRIMINAL – INTERMENT – REV 16:8 – CRIPPER

3.: Band cancellation: CROWBAR
Unfortunately, New Orleans’ sludge/doom/core heroes CROWBAR have to cancel their scheduled appearance at SUMMER BREEZE Open Air 2011. There has been a death in the band’s closer circle which has forced them to change their plans for July/August. A big sorry goes out to all those who were looking forward to seeing Kirk Windstein and his crew. We will not rest until we are able to book the band for SUMMER BREEZE in the years to come.

see the rest of the newsletter here

For more information check out the official site:
http://www.summer-breeze.de

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Krach am Bach and Phoenix Open Air

My personal festival highlight of 2010 was Krach am Bach (Unfortunately the festival will be on Wacken weekend this year 🙁 )!!!

Right now they published a review video of 2010. Check it out here. Also check out our Pics of KaB 2011. This year´s 18th edition of KaB will be on the 5th and 6th of August. Already confirmed are the following bands: Amplifier-Who Knew-Blackmail-Long Distance Calling-Captain Planet-Wallace Vanborn-Kiemsa-Kapelle Petra-The Hirsch Effekt-Coogans Bluff–Jeff Aug-BlackboxRed-Miss Thomson-Freiburg-Hans Dampf-Light Those Eyes

http://www.krachambach.de

Another small festival is the Phoenix Open Air. We promise to be there this year and see great bands like Mr. Irish Bastard, Born from pain, Motorjesus and more…

http://phoenixopenair.de/

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Rock Hard Festival – Running order online

Rock Hard Festival - http://www.rockhardfestival.de

And here it is:

Friday – 10. Juni
15:00 – 15:35 CONTRADICTION
15.55 – 16.40 PROCESSION
17.00 – 17.45 POSTMORTEM
18.15 – 19.15 PRIMORDIAL
19.45 – 21.00 ENSLAVED
21.30 – 23.00 TRIPTYKON

Saturday – 11. Juni
12.45 – 13.25 DREAMSHADE
13.45 – 14.25 IN SOLITUDE
14.45 – 15.25 DISBELIEF
15.50 – 16.35 EPICA
17.00 – 17.45 BULLET
18.15 – 19.15 MORGOTH
19.45 – 21.00 AMORPHIS
21.30 – 23.00 ICED EARTH

Sunday – 12. Juni
12.00 – 12.40 VANDERBUYST
13.00 – 13.40 ENFORCER
14.05 – 14.45 ATLANTEAN KODEX
15.10 – 15.55 METAL INQUISITOR
16.15 – 17.10 ANACRUSIS
17.40 – 18.40 VICIOUS RUMORS
19.10 – 20.25 OVERKILL
20.40 – 21.00 KARAOKE-GEWINNER-JAM
21.30 – 23.00 DOWN

And to get into the right mood – here´s the official festival trailer:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQCpeSfAm8Q

Check out the official festival site for more information:
http://www.rockhardfestival.de