{"id":196,"date":"2011-03-07T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2011-03-07T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:52:41","slug":"summer-breeze-2007-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=196","title":{"rendered":"Summer Breeze 2007 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Birthday Summer Breeze!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Summer Breeze Festival celebrated its first full decade! So they said: Ready for round 10! The festival took place in Dinkelsb\u00fchl for the second time, including the Pain and the Main Stage. This year it had been extended for a further day. The Festival was being rocked for 4 days non stop! Bands like \u201eFinntroll\u201c, \u201eIn Extremo\u201c, \u201eSoulfly\u201c and \u201ePain\u201c arranged for music going with the atmosphere of Summer Breeze, from Wednesday, August 15, to Saturday, August 18. Inside the party tent, which has been there for the first time, they rocked along to music from the stereo as well as to live music from different bands.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, August 15, 2007: Day of arrival!<\/strong>
\nThe weather god had mercy upon the metalheads. However, there was a never ending traffic jam in front of the festival area, but it did not harm the revelers\u2019 mood at all. The Summer Breeze Festival had invited to a newcomer challenge inside the party tent. Although it was Wednesday, the fans accepted the invitation in great quantities and opened the party marathon from 4 pm at full throttle!
\nThe party tent was scene of the band battle. They rocked for the festival opening on Thursday. The newcomer bands had been chosen online.
\n\u201eBreschdleng\u201c was responsible for the first tunes of Summer Breeze no.10. The fans of the swabian strawberry were down to the end right from the beginning. They welcomed their heroes by shouting \u201ewe want more\u201c even before \u201eBreschdleng\u201c had started playing. \u201eUnblest\u201c, \u201eMight of Lilith\u201c, \u201eStitch\u201c, \u201eKarma. Connect\u201c, \u201eLast One Dying\u201d, \u201cJustice\u201d, who prove their musical talent once more on Saturday, \u201cPowerwolf\u201d and \u201cImpious\u201d made the party tent bounce far into the night. Solidly the party tent survived this band hurricane and the jury, made up of record labels and music press, chose \u201eStitch\u201c to finish first and therefore should open the festival on the following day. The metalheads tried to make the party tent collapse until 4 am. However, thanks to the well going supply of beverages, the party tent made many a party fan collapse.
\nCheers!<\/p>\n

Thursday, August 16, 2007: Beginning of the festival!<\/strong>
\nAs promised, “Stitch\u201c<\/strong>, winner of the preliminary of the night before, took over the festival opening. Also the audience dared to go to the Pain stage in the morning. Those who wouldn\u2019t eat the breakfast they had brought along could start the morning with different breakfast buffets from the supermarket: \u201e2,5 the original\u201c, in cans of course, or even \u201e5,0 the original\u201c in cans as well. It was the turn of \u201cSwallow the Sun\u201d to play the background music to this wonderful morning. “Fear My Toughts\u201c, a real live hit which only a few visitors wanted to hear. Although “Immolation\u201c had a very early gig, they delivered a perfect performance. A Gig worth seeing. \u201eLacrimas Profundere\u201c did a great job with their new singer, but the dutch band \u201cAfter Forever\u201d, which was founded in 1995, played their trump card, singer Floor Jansen, ingeniously as well. Ji-In Cho, singer of \u201eKrypteria\u201c, couldn\u2019t outdo this strong-voiced gig either, despite wearing a red corsage and flashing sexy glances. From 5.20 pm, the band \u201cRage\u201d, founded in 1984, satisfied the visitors on their muddy seats.<\/p>\n

Party on!<\/strong>
\nAfter that, the American death-core band \u201cThe Black Dahlia Murder\u201d rocked the Pain stage. \u201cDoro\u201d, the drawing card, attracted the crowd to its musical pole in front of the Main stage. \u201cSuffocation\u201d made the earth around Dinkelsb\u00fchl shake due to their death-metal and also \u201eNevermore\u201c made the local church bounce. It became medieval when the German band “Tanzwut\u201c(founded in 1999) -the name says it all- called for dancing Schiarazula. The Swedish vikings, \u201cAmon Amarth\u201d, put the heat on the audience with their appropriate scenery. Singer Johan Hegg satisfied with his phenomenally loud organ. \u201cDornenreich\u201d shined by a banner gig, which was not only the end of thursday evening, but also the end of the band\u2019s hitherto cast.
\nMelodic- Death- Metal Bands like the German formation \u201cDeadlock\u201d,the Swedish-Greek band \u201cNightrage\u201d, founded in 2000, \u201cFall of Serenity\u201d and the likewise German guys of \u201eWar From A Harlots Mouth\u201d made the beer foam over in the party tent.<\/p>\n

Friday, August 17:<\/strong>
\nThe black center! They knocked back the first, second or even third beer to the sound of \u201eKarkadan\u201c. Although you could find quite a few coffee cups among the early birds, \u201eKarkadan\u201c was anything else than breakfast music. Frontman Robby made up for the best rooster in the whole of Dinkelsb\u00fchl and called for rocking. Those who were still asleep at that time, would have been beaten out of their tents by \u201eDagoba\u201c at the latest. Those guys promised an effective facial wash. Becoming awake guaranteed! The Swiss band \u201eEluveitie\u201c, founded in 2002, performed their Pagan- Metal, even if the last place in front of the Main Stage wasn\u2019t taken yet. The Norwegian black-metal band \u201eKoldbrann\u201d had their own fan club with them and put their whole hearts in it for them. After that it was \u201eIlldisposed\u201c\u2019s turn with challenges for noon as well as \u201eDisillusion\u201c\u2019s. The German band \u201eEisbrecher\u201c presented the very best of their albums and shined by a performance which dwarfed many a band. The finnish guys of \u201eHevein\u201c even topped it by calling Max Lilja, cellist off Apocalyptika, for help to deliver a musically perfected gig. The crowd was yowling when \u201eSirenia\u201c brought their show with too much playback and too little metal character onto the Main stage.<\/p>\n

The Swedish \u201eNecrophobic\u201c hit the right tunes after this botched try, which brought the revelers\u2019 mood in line again. The guys of Finntroll attracted their fans to the Metal Hammer Bus with their autograph session, so you could see a lot of green in front of the stage when \u201eL`\u00e1me Immortelle\u201c was performing. The Germans of \u201eEnd Of Green\u201c stepped in for Crematory on short notice and made up with a melancholicly new program. \u201cFinntroll\u201d satisfied the mad metal people with headliner qualities as is so often. \u201cVolbeat\u201d made the boxes crack just as Fintroll did. \u201cBolt Thrower\u201d showed at their exclusive gig in Germany for this year what they had going for it.<\/p>\n

As the openers of In Extremo \u201cPoisonblack\u201d had a hard time keeping the metal heads in front of the Pain stage, as \u201cIn Extremo\u201d did their headliner title credit as expected. They called even the last visitor from the camping ground. The great number of hits and the appropriate Pyro-Show had no one kept still and allured to sing along. \u201cDark Funeral\u201d ended up the program on the festival area with smashing tunes.
\nThis day the party went on in the party tent as well, and this time they had the AFM- Lable night going. The German bands \u201cBlack Messiah\u201d (Pagan metal), \u201cSquealer A.D.\u201d (Melodic-Power-Trash-Metal), \u201cAbsolute\u201d and \u201cPresident Evil\u201d put the heat on the unfavorable tent.<\/p>\n

Saturday, August 18: Final spurt!<\/strong>
\nThe last day of the 4-day head banging started with \u201eSycronomica\u201c who invited to free alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks in the morning. The band \u201eHelrunar\u201c sang one hymn after the other to the visitors, but unfortunately their singing did not satisfy that day.\u201eJustice\u201c was allowed to play a second time on stage, but not in the party tent this time, but on the Main stage, where they surprised the audience with their own creations for the first time.
\n\u201eMachinemade God\u201c came up with new tunes, but, however, they did not always express them so well. By an increasing number of metal fans in front of the Main Stage and the mood increasing too, \u201cSecrets of The Moon\u201d let the manes rotate. The frontman of \u201eMaroon\u201c was of the opinion that the visitors got to hear the best Black-Metal-band within Germany when \u201cSecrets of The Moon\u201d were having their gig.<\/p>\n

At 2.25 PM \u201cCommunic\u201d tried to put the heat on the fans which then \u201cBlitzkid\u201d took over with catchy tunes, posing and a bassist from the audience.
\nThe Swedish \u201cHardcore Superstar\u201d rocked the Main Stage and were spreading party atmosphere for 45 minutes non-stop. But \u201cXandria\u201d razed this atmosphere to the ground.
\nThe following band \u201eApokalyptischen Reiter\u201d showed \u201eXandria\u201c the ropes. Party, Party, Party over again! The band achieved this by providing the crowd with toys. Huges balloons and confetti were among those toys as well as rubber dinghies with which the band had a bath in the crowd themselves. In the end even more visitors were on the stage than in front of the stage.
\nOn the Pain stage the German Trash-Metal band \u201cTankard\u201d had their third gig at this Festival. The Fans really held the Swedish guys of \u201eDark Tranquillity\u201c high. Stage- Diving at its best.
\nThe finnish vikings of \u201eMoonsorrow\u201c saw a mad crowd in front of the Pain stage which unfortunately increasingly lost heat as the guys kept playing.
\nWhen \u201eOomph!\u201c entered the Main stage the crowd was breaking up and so the question came up whether the band was not only mistaken with their pale clothing but even with the Festival. Dero prove his talent for singing by singing \u201estranger in the night\u201c a cappella, which unfortunately half of the visitors didn\u2019t appreciate that evening.
\nA huge part rather favored \u201cBambi onto stage\u201c instead of \u201eOomph!\u201c.<\/p>\n

\u201eCaliban\u201c, the following band, was better received by the fans. The short guest appearance of singer Flow Velten (Machinemade God) and the show on stage were self-evident.
\nOn the Main stage \u201cSoulfly\u201d disappointed the audience the voice of Soulfly, Max Cavalera, was chipped. So it wasn\u2019t the best gig of Soulfly. Last but not least \u201cPain\u201d had themselves celebrated by the metal heads. Rightly. The shining end of the festival\u2019s birthday Pain had delivered was emphasized by the organisers by banner fireworks.
\nThe crowd ran to the last party of Summer Breeze 2007 inside the party tent or started out to get home in order to avoid the traffic jam the next morning.
\nThe gannets among the Metal fans could let off steam for a last time at the \u201eMetal Hammer Party\u201c inside the party tent.<\/p>\n

Other things worth knowing:<\/strong>
\nThis year, Bambi had a battle with Spiderpig ( The Simpsons). The beer-can-Bambi had the virtue of being the plastic pet and had a mass appeal rallied behind itself just as the year before. Spiderpig was missing all day long. People shouted \u201cSpiderpig\u201d over and over again, but in vain. Whether it was found? *grin* The party tent has been there for the first time. This idea had neither been new nor bad, but, however, this kind of tent has to be rethought. Those who felt like monkeys in a circus after their 10th beer could be sure that sober guests didn\u2019t feel different either.<\/p>\n

A big top which wooed probably everybody to loosen some belts. You couldn\u2019t talk of Feng Shui. The party tent was easy to find, just as easy as the piece of plastic where you lived in. The camping ground was ordered very well, as the through roads were parallel and always met in a right angle. Furthermore there were alphabetically ordered and clearly visible towers to which you were geared well. You could take the great camping ground home on an A2 sized photo. Only those who rendered a full garbage bag got this aerial photograph of the camping ground. Thus they fighted for the garbage. Everyone wanted to have a share in cleanliness. <\/p>\n

While we\u2019re at cleanliness:<\/strong>
\nThis festival is a very unhygienic festival. The port-a-Johns have been a horror movie of a class of its own!!!! Let alone the door the port-a-Johns brought about. Toilet coaches would be appropriate urgently and furthermore they should arrange additive port-a-Johns. As there is no tree on the whole festival area, they peed all over the place. This was the only tree. But he was brought by the metalheads!<\/p>\n

A shuttle bus drove to Dinkelsb\u00fchl every 30 minutes. The drug store sold condoms as never before, Mc Donalds had an increase of turnover of 150% and also stores like Rewe or the gas station benefited from Summer Breeze. The Dinkelsb\u00fchler didn\u2019t really complain about the respectable metal heads. Those who didn\u2019t make use of the free shuttle bus could as well buy their stuff in the festival\u2019s own supermarket. There was an additional merchant\u2019s mile on the festival area where you could buy anything from tees to chain mails. But let\u2019s not forget the food mile. Many a stomach liked this range of different meals from all over the world.
\nIn turn, some couldn\u2019t tolerate this food and decided to slide on it! This sport is called \u201eSauerkrautsurfing\u201c. Everyone could proof itself in front of the festival entrance. As there are not only grown up metal fans but children as well, a special holiday program was offered, so they could enjoy the VIP-area and a look into the backstage area. The guards saw to it that no visitor would accompany the kids. They took care of all the respectable metal heads. The guards kept themselves awake with coffee, milk and lots of sugar. The ambulance was also on the ground and dispatched the alcohol out of many a persons body. It may be said that 20 000 visitors per day visited a successful festival.<\/p>\n

Prices:<\/strong>
\n 3-Day- Ticket, camping+ parking incl. => 60 \u20ac
\n 1-Day-Ticket, without Camping => 30 \u20ac
\n Festival T-Shirt => 15 \u20ac
\n Program => 1 \u20ac
\n Beer (0,4 L) => 3 \u20ac
\n coffee => 2 \u20ac
\n Whiskey- Cola (0,2 L) => 2,50 \u20ac
\n D\u00f6ner, Flammkuchen, Fries, Burger, Wedges, Pizza, Bratwurst, Chinese Wok food,
\n Waffles with cream & cherries => from 2,50 \u20ac to 6 \u20ac<\/p>\n

Note of the co-chief-editor:<\/em>
\nThanks a lot to the writers of the article, Vera and Petra!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Birthday Summer Breeze! The Summer Breeze Festival celebrated its first full decade! So they said: Ready for round 10! The festival took place in Dinkelsb\u00fchl for the second time, including the Pain and the Main Stage. This year it had been extended for a further day. The Festival was being rocked for 4 days … <\/p>\n

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