{"id":1342,"date":"2013-06-06T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=1342"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:24:24","slug":"with-full-force-2012-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=1342","title":{"rendered":"With full force 2012 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITH FULL FORCE 2012<\/strong>
\nSo now this was our tenth WFF-participation, an anniversary we all were looking for. Besides that the organizers took care about the soccer fans by a huge screen showing the German semifinal before the festival on thursday and the final on sunday. And of course the billing presented for another time attractive acts from the subgenres Metal, Punk and Hardcore. Machine Head, Heaven Shall Burn and Soulfly headlined this year’s With Full Force. The rare gigs of Lamb Of God, Winds Of Plague and Gojira got canceled which sucked, but wasn’t the fault of the WFF-team. The Saturday Night Fever in the Tent Stage got aborted because of the storm mentioned in the next lines. So for security reasons Smoke Blow as The Turbo AC’s had no chance to appear. The festival area as the campgrounds looked much different in comparison to one year before. These changes needed to be done because of the neighbored lake which had grown by the producing gravel quarry in the meantime. So for example the Main Stage and the Tent Stage switched their sides.
\nAfter having the first eight years hot up to extremely hot summer weather and in 2011 cold as rainy storms this year’s climate showed another environmental extreme. Short time after the headliner Heaven Shall Burn had appeared a terrible thunderstorm attacked the festival area and injured 51 visitors. A few of them needed to get reanimated. In the end everybody survived. A big respect goes out to the organization which was probably the main reason for the emergency doctors getting to the victims strucked by lightning as fast as necessary and that everybody survived! Nevertheless numerous spectators got their tent destroyed and left the festival in the night or sunday morning. We had more luck, just the pavillons got damaged. So we were able to report the whole three days. On the airfield of Roitzschjora appeared 61 bands on two stages in three days for about 30.000 visitors.<\/p>\n

Friday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nSkeletonwitch<\/strong> After the WFF-spectators had more or less handled the surprising semifinal-loss of Germany’s soccer team they had the opportunity to bang their frustration out of their heads with Black Thrash Metal from Ohio. Their title \u201cThis Horrifying Force (The Desire To Kill)\u201d couldn’t have found a better place than on this festival.
\nDevilDriver<\/strong> After the opener the Californians were under pressure to score with their modern interpretation of Thrash Metal. But the fans celebrated \u201cClouds Over California\u201d or \u201cResurrection Blvd.\u201d. In contrast to those ones I didn’t get convinced by their too uninspired sound.
\nInsomnium<\/strong> After the two Thrash formations the Melodic Death Metal quintet just attracted a fewer number of fans which was pretty grotesque because the band had earned the reputation of an energetic live band. But in Roitzschjora hymns like the \u201cInertia\u201d-intro, \u201cThrough The Shadows\u201d, \u201cUnsung\u201d, \u201cOne For Sorrow\u201d, the predicting \u201cDown With The Sun\u201d and \u201cWhether The Storm\u201d as the final \u201cThe Killjoy\u201d and \u201cMortal Share\u201d would have worked much better in The Last Supper. Great band, wrong stage!
\nMadball<\/strong> The following 40 minutes were probably the biggest highlight for every present Old School Hardcore fan. Shouter Freddy Cricien and his three comrades started with \u201cGet Out\u201d and \u201cFor My Enemies\u201d in an agile performed set. The filled place in front of the stage became the moshpit zone and the fans celebrated the title track of the current release \u201cEmpire\u201d, \u201cAll Or Nothing\u201d, the Agnostic Front tribute \u201cIt’s My Life\u201d and the final consisting of \u201cInfiltrate The System\u201d, \u201cHeavenhell\u201d and \u201cHardcore Still Lives\u201d.
\nAugust Burns Red<\/strong> After NYC-Hardcore followed Metalcore from the neighbored Pennsylvania. Instead of the stamping riff-monsters of Madball the fivepiece brought more melodies, but not less brutality. This was easy to recognize by the pit-action on the festivalsite. The crowd raged wild while \u201cBackburner\u201d, \u201cInternal Cannon\u201d and \u201cComposures\u201d.
\nPennywise<\/strong> To my own surprise the Californian Punk veterans got supported by Ignite vocalist Zoli Teglas who joined the band. This combination worked very well beginning from \u201cEvery Single Day\u201d over \u201cSociety\u201d, \u201cLiving For Today\u201d and the final \u201cBro Hymn\u201d.The fans partied while Zoli had to act with the disadvantage of terrible pain in his back. But he did a fantastic job, so the show rocked.
\nEmmure<\/strong> This position in the billing was supposed to get filled by Lamb Of God, but just one day before vocalist Randy Blythe got arrested by the police in Prague. In the meantime he was proved not guilty, but nevertheless their WFF-appearance due to those circumstances became impossible. So the planned Tent Stage headliner got the chance to move over onto the Main Stage to perform there. But Emmure weren’t able to replace Lamb Of God musically.
\nSuicide Silence<\/strong> And the next US-Deathcore-combo was just about to follow. And it became even more boring while \u201cWake Up\u201d, \u201cBludgeoned To Death\u201d and \u201cFuck Everything\u201d attracted especially younger fans creating several pit as crowdsurfing actions. A co-headliner without any substance!
\nMachine Head<\/strong> What then followed was an example of a headliner performance! Supported by several pyro-effects and a clean as bombastic sound the band performed an impressing show. The songs of their recent \u201cUnto The Locust\u201d – album \u201cLocust\u201d, the intro \u201cI Am Hell (Sonata In C#)\u201d and the new single \u201cDarkness Within\u201d inspired the crowd to headbang and mosh as classics like \u201cOld\u201d or \u201cImperium\u201d or the younger familiars \u201cBeautiful Mourning\u201d and \u201cAesthetics Of Hate\u201d did. Besides that fronter Robby Flynn showed entertainer qualities in his statements although bis \u201cawesome\u201d-comments as his beer cup throwing stuck a bit on my nerves. Nevertheless: A great show which found its dignified end in the epic \u201cHalo\u201d and the band hymn \u201cDavidian\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tent Stage: Hardbowl
\nEyes Set To Kill<\/strong> One of the big surprises of this year’s WFF was the fivepiece from Arizona. A young band playing Metalcore with alternating shouts as clean vocals isn’t nothing that spectacular, especially in the Hardbowl. But the Rodriguez-sisters turned \u201cBroken Frames\u201d, \u201cFalling Fast\u201d, \u201cHeights\u201d and \u201cThe Secrets Between\u201d to something special. Cool melodies, great female voice!<\/p>\n

Tent Stage: Kn\u00fcppelnacht<\/strong>
\nDark Funeral<\/strong> The fivepack from Stockholm introduced their new German grunter Nachtgarm who presented himself well integrated. So classics like \u201cVobiscum Satanas\u201d were no problem to him. But after the Main Stage headliner Machine Head their Black Metal sound was just ridiculous.
\nDying Fetus<\/strong> The Grindcore institution from Maryland showed a high tech show which must have astonished every ambitioned musician watching this. The trio around John Gallagher interpreted \u201cOne Shot, One Kill\u201d as \u201cKilling On Adrenaline\u201d very tight. Just the action became a bit too static.
\nEndstille<\/strong> Supported by their new second sixstringer B.Killed the Black Metal commando from Kiel had much more guitar power to perform \u201cDominanz\u201d, \u201cBastard\u201d and other wannabe-evil tracks. Black Metal acts like Endstille are pure circus to me.
\nNasum<\/strong> The reunion of the Grindcore institution to do a farewell tour without original vocalist Mieszko who had died because of the Tsunami at the Indian Ocean nine years before was a often-discussed one. Anyway, their appearance was a very convincing one regarding several classics. And the new live-fronter Keijo Niinimaa from Rotten Sound did a good job on the microphone.
\nAborted<\/strong> Belgium’s finest in Brutal Death Metal presented a pretty similar level of technical quality as Dying Fetus had done. Older classics as tracks from the new release \u201cGlobal Flatline\u201d like \u201cThe Origin Of Disease\u201d motivated the fans to headbang.
\nDebauchery<\/strong> The German answer on or copy of Six Feet Under finished the Kn\u00fcppelnacht. Their monotony didn’t really keep the crowd awake, just their final \u201cBlood To The Bloodgod\u201d with some naked lady on stage earned bigger applause.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nElsterglanz<\/strong> The East German Comedy ensemble enthused by their sympathic attitude, the cool stage setting including backdrop as by songs like their final played classic \u201cKaputtschlahn\u201d.
\nExcrementory Grindfuckers<\/strong> And the next Comedy weirdos followed. The festival ground became a bit emptier because they’re from West Germany. Anyway those ones who stayed had their fun with the Grindcore interpretations of Europe’s \u201cThe Final Countdown\u201d or David Hasselhoff’s \u201cLooking For Freedom\u201d.
\nCarnifex<\/strong> From now on brutality replaced comedy. The breakdown battery from San Diego pulverised the stage by \u201cUntil I Feel Nothing\u201d, \u201cHell Chose Me\u201d as \u201cIn Coalesce With Filth And Faith\u201d and animated the crowd to several circle-pits.
\nI Killed The Prom Queen<\/strong> The Australian Metalcore quintet held the heavyness level, but added by the clean vocals of guitarist Jona Weinhofen a suitable contrast to shouter Jamie Hope. Songs like \u201cMemento Vivere\u201d or \u201cSay Goodbye\u201d reached the present spectators positively.
\nEktomorf<\/strong> What shall I say? This pure as poor Soulfly copy has no substance, is boring, but still alive. And they attracted numerous fans jumping and moshing to their best of set containing \u201cI Know Them\u201d as \u201cFuck You All\u201d.
\nMeshuggah<\/strong> The Swedish Tech Death Metal pioneers were one of my personal highlights, especially after the cancelation of Gojira’s slot. But it started with fucked up technics. The microphone didn’t work at all until the middle of the second song. So Jens Kidman shouted with no acoustic effect on the fans who turned back holding their middle fingers to the sound tower. \u201cI Am Colossus\u201d, \u201cDemiurge\u201d and \u201cBreak Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion\u201d from the new \u201cKoloss\u201d – masterpiece worked as fantastic as classics like \u201cBleed\u201d, \u201cRational Gaze\u201d or \u201cNew Millenium Cyanide Christ\u201d. Sad effect because of the technical problems was the fact there was no time left to play the last title as band hymn \u201cFuture Breed Machine\u201d. The technics sucked, Meshuggah rocked!
\nCannibal Corpse<\/strong> The following blastbeed inferno couldn’t hold the high level of Meshuggah, but the Grindcore legend from Florida kicked ass and entertained the left windmill headbangers especially by their classic’s final consisting of the formerly in Germany censored \u201cHammer Smashed Face\u201d and \u201cStripped, Raped And Strangled\u201d. If they had played new \u201cTorture\u201d material I wouldn’t have understood it acoustically.
\nImmortal<\/strong> The Norwegian Black Metal icon impressed by a bombastic sound. But this one sucked in the middle of the set while \u201cDamned In Black\u201d and caught a ten minutes lasting break while fronter Abbath’s mood didn’t become better. \u201cSons Of Northern Darkness\u201d, \u201cTriumph\u201d, \u201cAt The Heart Of Winter\u201d, \u201cTyrants\u201d, \u201cKingdom Cold\u201d, \u201cCall Of The Wintermoon\u201d and \u201cOne By One\u201d didn’t fill up the half empty festival ground, but entertained the few fans.
\nHeaven Shall Burn<\/strong> When the quintet began their first With Full Force headliner show by \u201cEndzeit\u201d they didn’t know what this title announced. While the following Edge Of Sanity cover \u201cBlack Tears\u201d several lightnings were seen on the horizon and strong rain as even hail followed pretty soon. Numerous spectators flew to their tents, but many still stood in front of the stage where their heroes didn’t care about the rain until the electricity broke down for a while at the end of the show. So they came back with the encores \u201cThe Weapon They Fear\u201d and \u201cVoice Of The Voiceless\u201d, supported by ex-guitarist Patrick Schleitzer and right after this the mentioned climate catastrophe began.<\/p>\n

Tent Stage: Hardbowl<\/strong>
\nThe Sorrow<\/strong> The Austrian Metalcore quartet replaced the usually planned Winds Of Plague and for another time the guys around the fronting Matthias \u201cM\u00e4tze\u201d Schlegel knew how to win the people. Their sympathic performance as catchy songs like \u201cWhere Is The Sun?\u201d, \u201cFar Beyond The Days Of Grace\u201d, \u201cCrossing Jordan\u201d, \u201cMy Immortal Guardian\u201d \u201cKnights Of Doom\u201d, \u201cSaviour Welcome Home\u201d and \u201cDeath From A Lovers Hand\u201d attracted many supporters in the tent.
\nEvergreen Terrace<\/strong> A sympathic aura and catchy songs can also be called their own by Evergreen Terrace. \u201cFriend Request\u201d, \u201cWolfbiker\u201d, the \u201cMad World\u201d – cover as of course the hits \u201cWhen There Is Fire We Will Carry Gasoline\u201d and \u201cChaney Can’t Quite Riff Like Helmet’s Page Hamilton\u201d produced masses of crowdsurfers which stood for its own. Cool party!<\/p>\n

Tent Stage: Saturday Night Fever<\/strong>
\nThe Browning<\/strong> While the lightnings raged outside the Electro Metal offered a nicer alternative. The fourpiece from Dallas played their first show ever in Germany and got celebrated like they probably had never expected it. They of course concentrated on their debut longplayer including their video-singles \u201cBloodlust\u201d and \u201cStanding On The Edge\u201d.
\nThe Carburetors<\/strong> The Hardrock fivepiece came to take care of a Rock ‘n ‘ Roll party, but the gig needed to get aborted because of the inferno outside. Some guy of the WFF-team did the announcement to evacuate the tent because the wind strength was on level 11 and nobody would be safe there (!).
\nSmoke Blow<\/strong> Canceled because of the thunderstorm.
\nThe Turbo AC’s<\/strong> Canceled because of the thunderstorm.<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nGuns Of Moropolis<\/strong> The next day showed the devastation and on the live screens the WFF-team explained what had happened, how they had reacted and that everbody was safe. So the German trio tried to take care of a better mood by tracks from their debut record \u201cIn Dynamite We Trust\u201d and introduced by \u201cUnder the Sun\u201d a track from the forthcoming output.
\nNeaera<\/strong> Instead of the canceled Gojira the Deathcore quintet from M\u00fcnster showed themselves as a well-confirmed replacement. By a best of setlist containing \u201cLet The Tempest Come\u201d, \u201cArmamentarium\u201d, \u201cWalls Instead Of Bridges\u201d and \u201cHeaven’s Descent\u201d took care for the pit-action in front of the stage. So they finished a jubilated gig by \u201cSpearheading The Spawn\u201d.
\nKill Devil Hill<\/strong> The all-star-band consisting of drummer Vinnie Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven And Hell), bassist Rex Brown (Pantera, Down), guitarist Marc Zavon (WASP, Ratt) and singer Jason Bragg (Pissing Razors) must have been pretty astonished just to appear for a few hundred spectators. But those ones shouldn’t regret their presence. The rockin’ songs from their self-titled debut album entertained well. Especially Bragg’s voice rocked while \u201cHangman\u201d and \u201cStrange\u201d.
\nUnearth<\/strong> What followed was a demonstration of pure live power. From the first minute the fans were in motion raging in several circle-pits celebrating songs from the recent album \u201cDarkness In The Light\u201d breakdown attacks like \u201cWatch It Burn\u201d, \u201cShadows Of The Light\u201d and \u201cEyes Of Black\u201d as more familiar ones by \u201cThe Great Dividers\u201d, \u201cThis Glorious Nightmare\u201d, \u201cZombie Autopilot\u201d or \u201cMy Will Be Done\u201d which got high-dosed jubilation. Vocalist Trevor Phipps thanked the audience and told his respect to the festival visitors after last night. The new drummer Nick Pierce convinced, the agile musicians in front of him did it anyway. This year’s best performance at With Full Force!
\nPro-Pain<\/strong> You know what you get watching a Pro-Pain show. Old School Hardcore that kicks ass. And so the band did again by \u201cIn For The Kill\u201d, \u201cUn-American\u201d, \u201cFuck It\u201d, \u201cFoul Taste Of Freedom\u201d and \u201cMake War Not Love\u201d. Gary Meskill and his three comrades also showed by the tribute for MCA of the Beastie Boys by \u201cEgg Raid On Mojo\u201d they are able to surprise.
\nTrivium<\/strong> The quartet creates the right mixture between melody and heavyness for the WFF audience. So it didn’t astonish the area in front of the Main Stage was pretty packed. Starting with the intro \u201cCapsizing The Sea\u201d and the title track of the new masterpiece \u201cIn Waves\u201d inspired the fans to spontanous pit-action. Older (\u201cThe Deceived\u201d, \u201cRain\u201d) or younger classics (\u201cThroes Of Perdition\u201d, \u201cDown From The Sky\u201d) as besides the opener further new songs (\u201cBlack\u201d, \u201cDusk Dismantled\u201d) and the sympathic performance of this quartet took care about a very positive atmosphere in the crowd.
\nBroilers<\/strong> I have never shared the fascination for the group from D\u00fcsseldorf. Their german language Rock was too extranous to convince me. \u201cNur Die Nacht Wei\u00df\u201d, \u201cTanz Du Noch Einmal Mit Mir\u201d, \u201cWie Weit Wir Gehen\u201d and the band hymn \u201cMeine Sache\u201d got the applause of their die-hard-fans, but that was it.
\nChildren Of Bodom<\/strong> The Finnish fivepiece first seemed to be at the wrong place, but while \u201cFollow The Reaper\u201d, \u201cWarheart\u201d and \u201cBodom Beach Terror\u201d the mainly sceptic spectators did a few steps forward and took part in. The band around fronter Alexi Laiho seemed as motivated as the audience and showed a best of setlist containing \u201cBlooddrunk\u201d, \u201cSixpounder\u201d, \u201cNeedled 24\/7\u201d and \u201cHate Me!\u201d as the encores \u201cBodom After Midnight\u201d, \u201cHatecrew Deathroll\u201d and the final \u201cAre You Dead Yet?\u201d.
\nSoulfly<\/strong> While Spain beat Italy in the soccer final and won the european championship the headliner appeared earlier because of Germany’s non-participation in this match and probably due to the incidents of last night. They opened their slot by \u201cBlood, Fire, War, Hate\u201d and the crow was still able to jump and to produce action. Respect! Besides Soulfly songs as \u201cSeek ‘n’ Strike\u201d, \u201cProphecy\u201d and \u201cBack To The Primitive\u201d of course the Sepultura classics \u201cRefuse\/Resist\u201d and \u201cRoots, Bloody Roots\u201d earned the most support. \u201cEye For An Eye\u201d marked the end of a good show.<\/p>\n

Tent Stage: Hardbowl<\/strong>
\nComeback Kid<\/strong> The four guys from Winnipeg are always ready for a great show full of sweat and motion. So they did in Roitzschjora. From the beginning marked by \u201cDo Yourself A Favour\u201d over \u201cPartners In Crime\u201d, \u201cBroadcasting\u201d, \u201cThe Concept Stays\u201d, \u201cG.M. Vincent & I\u201d, \u201cBecause Of All\u201d, until \u201cWake The Dead\u201d the fans sang along the choruses and took part in circle-pits. Cool show!<\/p>\n

Tent Stage: The Last Supper<\/strong>
\nEl\u00e4kel\u00e4iset<\/strong> The last chance to dance was offered by the Humppa kings from Finnland. Take several Metal as Rock songs in a Humppa version and Vodka and you’ll have the result of this show. Nice!
\nEinherjer<\/strong> The following Norwegians were much less party. Their epic Viking Metal was atmospheric, nice, but also a bit boring. Reunited three years ago they presented a well-balanced set between old and new.
\nFleshgod Apokalypse<\/strong> The quintet from Rome finished this year’s With Full Force with Prog Death Metal including Black Metal reminiscenses which was too complicated for several spectators, others enjoyed \u201cThe Forsaking\u201d, \u201cThe Imposition\u201d and \u201cThe Violation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>
\nIn our long festival history we have never experienced such a weather inferno than this year. We just need to point out our big respect to the WFF team for the impressing crisis management and the visitors who helped each other in this case of emergency!!! The prices were still very fair to the fans (e.g. 2,50 \u20ac for a 0,4l beer or softdrink)!
\nAnd as fair worked the prices for food! Our special thanks go out to Wolf-R\u00fcdiger M\u00fchlmann, Bogo Ritter and the WFF-team!!!!! At the With Full Force 2012 rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Helga, Nicole, Alex and Nicole!!!!! So we’re looking forward to With Full Force 2013, including its 20th anniversary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WITH FULL FORCE 2012 So now this was our tenth WFF-participation, an anniversary we all were looking for. Besides that the organizers took care about the soccer fans by a huge screen showing the German semifinal before the festival on thursday and the final on sunday. And of course the billing presented for another time … <\/p>\n

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