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“Megadeth has canceled immediate tour plans as bassist David Ellefson and his family mourn the loss of his brother, who passed away on May 19, in Minneapolis, Minn. after battling cancer.”
R.I.P
UPDATE: Testament will be headliner on sunday!!!
Check out the official festival site for more information:
http://www.rockhardfestival.de
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News from our Wacken friends:
New band announcements!
We had a lot of band announcements within the last days. With bands like Slayer, Death Angel, Hell, Van Canto or Hämatom (amongst many others) we have enlarge this years Anniversay billing once more. A complete overview of new bands can be found on our homepage.
Hamburg Metal Dayz – Dark Tranquillity will take part and the running order is online!
The last band for this year’s Hamburg Metal Dayz is no other than the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity! The Band was found as Septic Broiler in the late 80s and changed its name to Dark Tranquillity in 1990. Coming from thrash metal, the band developed the famous Gothenburg metal sound together with In Flames and At The Gates, which means they kick-started the melodic death metal itself. In 2013, the band released its 10th studio album, called Construct, which confirmed the status of the band once more. We’re looking forward to welcome the band at Hamburg’s Markthalle this year! The list of bands for 2014 is complete by now! You want to know the playtimes of the bands? Check out the running order, which is now online too!
Tickets for both days and day tickets for Friday and Saturday are available at Metaltix.com!
Two new bands for the Full Metal Cruise II
Ahoy Metalheads,
There’s a new addition to the Full Metal Cruise II billing:
Since the 80’s Peter “Peavy” Wagner, Victor Smolski and André Hilgers of Rage are rocking the stages worldwide. Now they’re planning to rock the “Mein Schiff 1” as well. The same also applies for the legendary Axxis, who will ensure a heavy sea with their mixture of Melodic Heavy and Power Metal.
See you an board!
Link:
http://www.wacken.com
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A new metal festival rises in the darkest forrests of the Sauerland… 😉
Friday: BULLET (SWE)-CUSTARD (D)-GLORYFUL (D)-EVIL INVADERS (BEL)- ERADICATOR (D)
Saturday: GRAVE DIGGER (D)-FREEDOM CALL (D)- CAGE (USA)- METAL INQUISITOR (D)- BLOODBOUND (SWE)- WARRANT (D)- BILLION DOLLAR BABIES (SWE)- DRAGONSFIRE (D)- IRON FATE (D)- SPLIT HEAVEN (MEX)- JAVELIN (D
Support our friends of the BäääM festival. Friday tickets cost 12 EURO, Saturday 25 EURO, 35 EURO for both days!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh8jKCDrt5k
You can buy tickets and look for information on the official homepage!
Link:
BäääM Festival
Our friends of the DONG Open Air have news:
Dear friends of thinking outside the box, listen up!
You may already have come across this phenomenon: Last year Heino released his album „Mit freundlichen Grüßen“ and sang side by side with Rammstein at the Wacken Open Air, earning his first stripes on metal terms. When the news reached us last week, we were very pleased to hear that the schlager music icon would yet again raise the horns in 2014.
We were even happier when we found out the Dong Open Air would be his first stop for the live tour. Find out more details in the official memo of his management:
“We have a number of gigs lined up with the German power metal icons of Grave Digger. Their singer, Chris Boltendahl, met Heino at the beginning of his Grave Digger career. ‘Despite the great musical differences we had, we also never ceased to foster a strong mutual respect,’ Boltendahl reports. ‘After Heino’s first excursions into heavier music, we would like to nurish this exceptional cooperation to create something entirely new!’
The odd couple is already planning a number of festival shows for this coming season, and so far the year’s premiere has been comfirmed: a show at the Dong Open Air, in the beautiful scenery, 100m above the ground on an artificial hill at the lower Rhine. Grave Digger are booked as headliners.”
We are excited as can be about this new addition to the lineup and cannot wait to see if the Dong mob is going to break party records when we get to “Metal Icon meet Schlager Legend.”
Stoked and happy,
Your Dong Team
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http://www.dongopenair.de/
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Summer Breeze Newsletter No.08 is out:
1.: More bands confirmed
2.: Reserving camping space
Check out the complete newsletter here!!!
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Caliban is the last confirmation for FortaRock 2014!
This completes the line-up, all eighteen bands are announced. The rest of the line-up consists of headliner Iron Maiden, Slayer, Alter Bridge, Dimmu Borgir, Anthrax, Carcass, Trivium, Sabaton, Gojira, Behemoth, Ghost, Graveyard, Vandenberg’s Moonkings, Skillet, Deafheaven, Blood Ceremony, The Charm The Fury were announced earlier on.
The sixth edition of FortaRock takes place Saturday May 31st 2014, in Goffertpark – Nijmegen. Tickets cost € 75 (excl. € 5 fee).
Link:
http://www.fortarock.nl/
Our friends of the DONG Open Air have news:
You thought we were already done, right?
In your face: Milking The Goatmachine is the reason it smells like the countryside on the Dong hill – and it sounds like death metal!
But this is it for now. If you don’t know how to pass the time until the ticket sale this coming Sunday, you can a) set up an account in our online shop or make sure the one you have is still there or b) check out our youtube playlist which we filled with our acts for 2014. Arch Enemy, Annihilator, Grave Digger, Hail of Bullets, Satan, Iwrestledabearonce, Grailknights, Milking the Goatmachine, and about 20 more noise makers are waiting for you!
Metal on!
Your Dong Team
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http://www.dongopenair.de/
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Here are the next bands for WFF 2014:
For The Fallen Dreams, Protest The Hero, Ignite and Der Weg einer Freiheit
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New bands for WFF 2014:
Carnifex
Death Before Dishonor
Defeater
Long Distance Calling
Malignant Tumour
Stick To Your Guns
The Ocean
Being As An Ocean
Blackest Dawn
Moonspell
Hundredth
Discipline
Volksmetal
Architects
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A bunch of bands for WFF 2014:
Hatebreed; Eskimo Callboy; Blessthefall; Stick To Your Guns; Nails; Obey The Brave; Raised Fist; Psychopunch; Grand Supreme Blood Court; Emil Bulls; Comeback Kid; Massendefekt; Finntroll; Sepultura; Of Mice & Men; We Butter The Bread With Butter; Dritte Wahl; Milking The Goatmachine; Rogers; His Statue Falls; Amon Amarth; We Came As Romans; Callejon; The Black Dahlia Murder; Dew-Scented
