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Summer Breeze<\/strong>
\nSame procedure as every year: A good festival summer is complete after finishing it by the final highlight Summer Breeze. The second largest Metal-related festival of Germany has evolved to one of the most important ones of the world. Lead by the headliners Slayer, Parkway Drive and Sabaton the organization achieved for another time confirming a well-balanced billing offering attractive shows even on the early positions as on the smaller stages. And if there is a bigger individual gap in the personal running order, you can create as print on the SB-website, you still got the opportunity to visit the lovely town of Dinkelsb\u00fchl with its frame houses, the medieval wall, etc..
\nThe weather was much better than the forecasts had predicted. The organization convinced for another time. Holding this familiar atmosphere during this huge event ist a remarkable effort. The most appreciable change was the Campsite Circus, a little tent located on the campsite close to the festival area offering a cover art exhibition, (unplugged) shows and live karaoke. On this year\u2019s Summer Breeze 121 bands appeared on four stages (without the Campsite Circus) in four days for about 40000 visitors (Sold out!). <\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/strong>
\nT-Stage<\/strong>
\nBury Tomorrow<\/strong> The Metalcore fivepiece from Southmpton assembled lots of fans in the tent which became pretty much packed. Considering \u201eMemories\u201c, \u201eLast Light\u201c, \u201e301\u201c (assisted by Hatebreed fronter Jamey Jasta) as the final played title track from their new album \u201e Earthbound\u201c or older ones like \u201eLionheart\u201c, \u201eMan On Fire\u201c and \u201eOf Glory\u201c the fans didn’t care and celebrated any song played. It wasn’t probably supposed to be, but this show was the one with the biggest as most interacting crowd.
\nGrand Magus<\/strong> The Doom Metal trio from Stockholm decided for a best of set. Their new release \u201eSword Songs\u201c just got considered by \u201eVarangian\u201c. The rest of the hour got dedicated to the past as by \u201eSteel Versus Steel\u201c and the bombastic final consisting of \u201eIron Will\u201c as \u201eHammer Of The North\u201c while this numerous fans joined the choir parts and sang along.
\nAgnostic Front<\/strong> The NYHC-Hardcore-legend set the tone by their simple, but hard riffing sound. The fans celebrated \u201eMy Life, My Way\u201c, \u201eFor My Family\u201c, \u201eNever Walk Alone\u201c as the anthem \u201eGotta Go\u201c by joining moshpits and singing along. The conjunction between Roger Miret, Vinnie Stigma & Co worked very well.
\nVader <\/strong>The final band on this stage of the evening, and classic Death Metal was the right decision to set the final point. The quartet from Poland raised the heaviness factor, and so there were many fans headbanging to \u201eTriumph Of Death\u201c, \u201eThe Witcher\u201c, \u201eCome And See My Sacrifice\u201c and the new \u201ePrayer To The God Of War\u201c from the forthcoming album.<\/p>\n

Camel Stage<\/strong>
\nNovelists <\/strong>Somewhere between Djent and innovative Metalcore the five guys from Paris were the right band at the right place to attract many curious spectators. And they took their chance: The opener \u201eVoyager\u201c, \u201eGravity\u201c and \u201eEchoes showed complexity can be listenable as danceable and definitely works live. By the way: The moment fronter Matt put down his cap le looked a bit like System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian. Anyway: The crowd headbanged, jumped and joined the final action before \u201eTwenty Years\u201c to get down for a collective jump starting the riff. Awesome!<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nToxpack <\/strong>Punk Rock in german was about to attract the first curious visitors on the infield, and that was the right decision. Lead by the distinctive voice of fronter Schulle the formation from Berlin did their job by \u201eBastarde\u201c, \u201eFriss\u201c as \u201eWas Uns Verbindet\u201c to wake up the audience. Well done!
\nMonuments <\/strong>From the first tones of \u201eOrigin Of Escape\u201c the Djent set the audience under motion. Headbanging, circle pits and a completely jumping audience showed how an early slot can work. Chris Barreto did it his way by crowdsurfing. The US-boy in the British band knew how to inspire the audience for \u201eDegenerate\u201c, \u201eAtlas\u201c as \u201eRegenerate\u201c and finally motivated the crowd to move down to jump collectively to the riff of \u201eI, The Creator\u201c.
\nEmmure <\/strong>After several member changes last year the fourpiece from New York returned with \u201eBring A Gun To School\u201c on the Summer Breeze stage. But somehow their brutal Deathcore didn’t work. The sound sucked and the band didn’t really act in time. So their final title \u201eWhen Keeping It Real, Goes Wrong\u201c felt a bit ironic.
\nExodus <\/strong>For the following hour the veterans showed that Bay Area Thrash Metal still counts. Without Gary Holt being busy with Slayer, fronter Steve ‘Zetro’ Souza got the main focus of the fans, and those followed him headbanging as moshpit participating to the smashing final consisting of \u201eA Lesson In Violence\u201c which got dedicated to the passed Lemmy Kilmister from Mot\u00f6rhead, \u201eBlacklist\u201c, \u201eWar Is My Shepherd\u201c, \u201eBonded By Blood\u201c, \u201eToxic Waltz\u201c and \u201eStrike Of The Beast\u201c.
\nAt The Gates<\/strong> The founders of Gothenburg Melodic Death Metal sound left no doubt about their live qualities. Lead by the Bj\u00f6rler-brothers and a very agile fronter Tompa left no doubt about it by new material (\u201eDeath And The Labyrinth\u201c, \u201eAt War With Reality\u201c, \u201eThe Circular Ruins\u201c, \u201eHeroes And Tombs\u201c, \u201eThe Book Of Sand (The Abomination)\u201c, \u201eEater Of Gods\u201c) and especially the classics (\u201eSlaughter Of The Soul\u201c, \u201eCold\u201c, \u201eThe Swarm\u201c, \u201eUnder A Serpent Sun\u201c, \u201eSuicide Nation\u201c, \u201eNausea\u201c) So the mighty \u201eBlinded By Fear\u201c and \u201eNight Eternal\u201c finished a jubilated show. Just to ask the fans after a few songs causing much headbanging as pic action if they like Death Metal was kind of a ridiculous question
\nAirbourne <\/strong>The Australian fourpiece started strong with \u201eReady To Rock\u201c and \u201eToo Much, Too Fast, Too Young\u201c getting support from the beginning. By \u201eBreakin’ Outta Hell\u201c they introduced a new track from the forthcoming release. Of course their music sounded like a little brother of their fellow countrymen from AC\/DC, but the interpretation as especially the live performance of band leader Joel O’Keefe was spectacular enough. And this got raised when his brother left the drums to start a siren on stage for \u201eLive It Up\u201c before \u201eRunnin’ Wild\u201c set the final point for the appearance and the start for a strong rain.
\nSabaton <\/strong>Usually Power Metal isn’t a subgenre that really works. The fivepiece from Sweden is an exception. The infield was filled and thousands of fans ready to celebrate their war-themed-tracks. Supported by a fireworks of pyros choreografed to the rhythm of \u201eCliffs Of Galipoli\u201c, \u201eThe Art Of War\u201c, \u201eAttero Dominatus\u201c, \u201eTo Hell And Back\u201c and \u201eThe Art Of War\u201c the show became spectacular visually. By \u201eShiroyama\u201c and \u201eThe Lost Battalion\u201c they presented two new tracks from the new output to be released the following day. The fans got what they wanted and sang along the whole gig.<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/strong>
\nLord Of The Lost<\/strong> The fivepiece from Hamburg started with \u201eThe Love Of God\u201c from \u201eEmpyrean\u201c, which had just been released three weeks ago, to let follow a best of their older tracks. But somehow it became clear for another time Gothic Metal doesn’t work that good in the noon. Just the Backstreet Boys cover \u201eEverybody\u201c animated the visitors to take part in.
\nOmnium Gatherum<\/strong> Guitarist Markus Vanhala’s other band besides Insomnium convinced by their inspiring Melodic Death Metal. Its great melodies harmonized by the dark growls of fronter Jukka Pelkonen. More than enough headbangers celebrated the opener \u201eThe Pit\u201c, \u201eSkyline\u201c and \u201eFrontiers\u201c from the new \u201eGrey Heavens\u201c album as older songs.
\nDeez Nuts<\/strong> The first titles \u201eShot After Shot\u201c, \u201eWhat I Gotta Do\u201c and \u201eTonight We’re Gonna Party\u201c was the answer to all questions about the following act. The fourpiece from Melbourne and their ‘Kangaroocore’ convinced the jumping crowd, and it didn’t take too much time till the first moshpits.
\nEquilibrium <\/strong>Germany’s leading Pagan combo from Munich attracted an astonishing number of supporters filling the infield. And those partied with the fivepiece even when they introduced by the opener \u201ePrey\u201c, \u201eBorn To Be Epic\u201c, \u201eKatharsis\u201c as by the set finishing \u201eEternal Destination\u201c titles from the brandnew output \u201eArmageddon\u201c.
\nAsking Alexandria<\/strong> A little contrast between Melodic Death Metal and Heavy Rock wasn’t the worst idea. The very modern Metalcore with melodic hooks for singalongs worked very well on the second largest stage. The opener \u201eI Won’t Give In\u201c, \u201eLet It Sleep\u201c and the title song of the new album \u201eThe Black\u201c got as much support as the more familiar \u201eThe Death Of Me\u201c, \u201eClosure\u201c, \u201eTo The Stage\u201c and \u201eA Prophecy\u201c. The fans jumped and sang along choruses they majorly hadn’t known minutes before. Well done!
\nFear Factory<\/strong> The Industrial Metal institution started while rain with \u201eDemanufacture\u201c into a strong set containing \u201eShock\u201c, \u201eEdgecrusher\u201c, \u201ePowershifter\u201c as the awesome \u201eArchetype\u201c. The only weak factor was for another time Burton C. Bell’s voice during a few clean vocal passages. In the end the rain stopped, reaching the right atmosphere for the final \u201eRessurection\u201c, \u201eReplica\u201c and \u201eMartyr\u201c.
\nTestament <\/strong>Bay Area Thrash Metal for the second time this day, and this was up to become a special one: For the first time after a longer while I experienced Testament with clean as powerful sound which set their great composition in a completely different light. \u201eRise Up\u201c, \u201eMore Than Meets The Eye\u201c, \u201ePractise What You Preach\u201c, \u201eDark Roots Of The Earth\u201c, \u201eInto The Pit\u201c and \u201eD.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate)\u201c animated the crowd to headbang and create moshpits followed by loud jubilation each time. So \u201eDisciples Of The Watch\u201c and \u201eThe Formation Of Damnation\u201c finished a memorable concert as festival day on the main area.<\/p>\n

T-Stage<\/strong>
\nHeart Of A Coward<\/strong> The Progressive Metalcore quintet with Djent-influences from London opened this day’s T-Stage program spectacular. Moshpits and crowdsurfers while the first band in the noon aren’t usual, but the starter \u201eHollow\u201c, \u201eShade\u201c as \u201eDeadweight\u201c animated the mentionable number of spectators to move.
\nSwallow The Sun<\/strong> This slot deep in the night right after 2 a.m. definitely dealt with the right atmosphere for the Death Doom of the six Finnish musicians. They opened by \u201e10 Silver Bullets\u201c as \u201eRooms And Shadows\u201c from their current \u201eSongs Of The North\u201c masterpiece. \u201eHate Lead The Way\u201c caused even more headbanging before the ballad \u201eCathedral Walls\u201c enthused by its aura.After \u201eNew Moon\u201c the classic \u201eSilence Of The Womb\u201c turned the tent into a collective headbanging temple. Overwehelming!<\/p>\n

Friday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nVersengold <\/strong>The wake-up-call sounded like an acoustic torture. The medieval Folk ensemble from Bremen stuck on the nerves of all the \u201eHalunken Betrunken\u201c on the campsite.
\nFeuerschwanz <\/strong>Another folk combo bored me as more than enough other present visitors. The sixpack from the close town of Erlangen presented by the opener \u201eKetzerei\u201c and \u201eSex Is Muss\u201c of the new output to be released the following day.
\nK\u00e4rbholz <\/strong>Honestly!? After the two Folk formations the Onkelz-wannabes bored by their Rock in german language. \u201eLass Mich Fliegen\u201c and \u201eNichts Mehr Zu Verlieren\u201c inspired a small couple of supporteers singing along over the whole show, including the Mot\u00f6rhead cover \u201eKilled By Death\u201c.
\nQueensryche <\/strong>Finally: Four years after Todd La Torre replaced the original voice Sharon Tate the quintet decided for the right setlist considering the best band phase around \u201eOperation: Mindcrime\u201c and \u201eEmpire\u201c: After the new \u201eGuardian\u201c as the starter followed \u201eOperation: Mindcrime\u201c, \u201eBest I Can\u201c, \u201eThe Mission\u201c and \u201eEmpire\u201c. Wow! \u201eJet City Woman\u201c rocked and \u201eEyes Of A Stranger\u201c set the final point for a phenomenal concert.
\nArch Enemy<\/strong> The Swedes started strong with \u201eYesterday Is Dead And Gone\u201c, \u201eWar Eternal\u201c and \u201eRavenous\u201c. The new guitar duo consisting of bandleader Michael Amott and ex-Nevermore-sixstringer Jeff Loomis can be counted to one of the best of the nowadays Metal scene. But the main focus belonged to front amazone Alissa White-Gluz who gave \u201eMy Apokalypse\u201c, \u201eYou Will Know My Name\u201c and \u201eAs The Pages Burn\u201c the thrill letting the fans freak out.
\nCarcass <\/strong>The Grindcore icon from Liverpool returned to Dinkelsb\u00fchl starting with \u201eUnfit For Consumption\u201c. Especially the medleys \u201eBlack Star\u201c \/ \u201eKeep On Rotting In The Free World\u201c and \u201eCorporal Jigsore Quandary\u201c \/ \u201eThe Sanguine Article\u201c caused much banging heads as lots of fists in the air. Jeff Walker, Bill Steer & Co performed another greatest hits set of their history and finished another convincing appearance by the mighty \u201eHeartwork\u201c.
\nSlayer <\/strong>For the very first time the Thrash Metal legend appeared at Summer Breeze, and a completely filled infield was ready to go crazy for the following 90 minutes. Tom Araya, Kerry King & Co opened by the title track of the recent release \u201eRepentless\u201c to let follow a best of set containing \u201eWar Ensemble\u201c, \u201eMandatory Suicide\u201c, \u201eDead Skin Mask\u201c, \u201eSeasons In The Abyss\u201c, \u201eHell Awaits\u201c, \u201eSouth Of Heaven\u201c and the band hymn \u201eRaining Blood\u201c. The mainly red illuminated stage got a new Jeff-Hanemann-memorial-backdrop for the final \u201eAngel Of Death\u201c. This show was nothing special, it was pretty usual Slayer live, and that’s what the fans wanted!<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/strong>
\nGrailknights <\/strong>The four colorful uniformed superheroes were still on their search for the holy grail as in a battle against Dr Skull. Finally of course they won and bid farewell by \u201eGrailquest Gladiators\u201c.
\nDeadlock <\/strong>The first real highlight became the Bavarian quintet. Their Melodic Deathcore attracted numerous fans which celebrated \u201eThe Brave \/ Agony Applause\u201c, \u201eEarthlings\u201c and \u201eCode Of Honor\u201c as the opener and title song, \u201eBerserk\u201c and \u201eBackstory Wound\u201c from the new album \u201eHybris\u201c. And that was just one new introduction, the other one was the new female singer Margie Gerlitz. She convinced totally by her voice, but she should reduce her euphoric announcements in too high tones. Anyway, \u201eEnd Begins\u201c did just that after a great gig!
\nDying Fetus<\/strong> The Grindcore trio from Maryland showed their tightness, supported by clear as powerful Death Metal. So the new \u201eInduce Terror\u201c from the forthcoming release as \u201eOne Shot One Kill\u201c and \u201eGrotesque Impaled\u201c caused numerous headbangers as several moshpits.
\nSoilwork <\/strong>The Melodic Death Metal sixpiece welcomed an astonishing number of supporters by \u201eThe Ride Majestic\u201c and \u201eNerve\u201c. By as after this start the number of headbangers as crowdsurfers increased enormously culminating in \u201eBastard Chain\u201c and \u201eRejection Role\u201c, The Swedes seemingly enjoyed this visual audience feedback and finished a jubilated show by \u201eStabbing The Drama\u201c.
\nMastodon <\/strong>After they had to cancel their last year’s appearance in Dinkelsb\u00fchl the fans didn’t seem to have forgotten them. Actually the infield was well-filled. Lead by Brent Hinds as by Troy Sanders the quintet fascinated from the opener \u201eTread Lightly\u201c over \u201eChimes At Midnight\u201c, \u201eMother Puncher\u201c, \u201eThe Wolf Is Loose\u201c to the final \u201eBlood And Thunder\u201c. The innovative musical performance left several fans’ as musicians’ mouths open.
\nEisbrecher <\/strong>I don’t know why or how this Rammstein-for-the-countryside-population-clone got this billing position, but many participating bands would have deserved it much more. Anyway, in the front rows celebrated a little community \u201eWillkommen Im Nichts\u201c, \u201eEiszeit\u201c as the final cover of the fronter’s ex-combo Megaherz \u201eMistst\u00fcck\u201c while all the others waited Slayer on the neighbored Main Stage.
\nSatyricon <\/strong>This was supposed to become a special live experience: Right after midnight Oslo’s finest played their breakthrough album \u201eNemesis Divina\u201c to its 20th anniversary in its full entirety. And after getting celebrated for \u201eThe Dawn Of A New Age\u201c, \u201eForhekset\u201c and \u201eNemesis Divina\u201c itself Satyr, Frost & Co satisfied their fans by the hits \u201eMother North\u201c, \u201eBlack Crow On A Tombstone\u201c, \u201eFuel For Hatred\u201c and \u201eKing\u201c from the other masterpieces. Memorable!<\/p>\n

T-Stage<\/strong>
\nObscura <\/strong>Technical Death Metal comparable to the mighty Death got offered by the quartet from Munich. The set was mainly focussed on the new album \u201eAkroasis\u201c like the opener \u201eTen Spiroth\u201c, the title song or \u201eSermon Of The Seven Sons\u201c, just the mighty \u201eAnticosmic Overload\u201c and the final \u201eCentric Flow\u201c got considered as older tracks. Anyway, the astonishing filled tent celebrated all live well-performed compositions by collective headbanging.
\nCoheed And Cambria<\/strong> These are the slots why I enjoy the Summer Breeze so much each time: Bands with extra class you don’t get to see everywhere appear on some stage, you just have to find out before. So did the Prog Rock band from New York which could have deserved more visitors. But the first half of the tent was populated and celebrated the starter \u201eIn Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth 3\u201c, the hit \u201eA Favor House Called Atlantic\u201c as \u201eIsland\u201c and \u201eEraser\u201c from the current \u201eThe Color Before The Sun\u201c. By \u201eWelcome Home\u201c vocalist ‘Mr Hair’ Claudio Sanchez and his bandmates left a happy audience.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/strong>
\nGoitzsche Front<\/strong> Stupid german Rock with stupid announcements was an even harder wake-up-call than the day before. This try to sound like the east german pendant of the Onkelz failed.
\nBeyond The Black<\/strong> The North Germans seemed to be today’s first real attraction. Many supporters went to the stage and didn’t get disappointed. Lead by Jennifer Haben the Gothic Metal with Rock approach convinced by the opener \u201eLost In Forever\u201c, \u201eSongs Of Love And Death\u201c, \u201eIn The Shadows\u201c and the final \u201eRunning To The Edge (Love’s A Burden)\u201c.
\nLetzte Instanz <\/strong>The German Gothic Rock sevenpiece turned out to another competition to me. The most interesting issue about this gig was when they played Van Halen’s \u201eJump\u201c riff. But their community celebrated \u201eWir Sind Eins\u201c, \u201eLiebe Im Krieg\u201c and \u201eTr\u00e4nen Aus Stein\u201c while I tried to get more and more distance between the stage and me.
\nKorpiklaani <\/strong>The Finnish Folk Metal combo returned and was awaited by numerous fans. And those ones partied to \u201eJourney Men\u201c, \u201eRuuminmiinmulta\u201c and especially the alcoholic final consisting of \u201eWooden Pints\u201c, \u201eVodka\u201c and \u201eBeer Beer\u201c.
\nSubway To Sally<\/strong> Germany’s leading Folk Metal ensemble started after an intro with \u201eAlle Psalta Cum Luya\u201c into their set. The sevenpiece had appeared for several times at Summer Breeze, and by raising their popularity in general, so the infield was filled and ready for \u201eMephisto\u201c, \u201eHenkersbraut\u201c, \u201eKleid Aus Rosen\u201c, \u201eFalscher Heiland\u201c, \u201eSieben\u201c, \u201eVeitstanz\u201c and \u201eJulia Und Die R\u00e4uber\u201c which got sung by thounsands of fans minutes after the band had left the stage.
\nSteel Panther<\/strong> For friends of bare-naked breasts as shirt-lifting beauties as non-beauties the Glam Rock fourpiece was a must to watch. From \u201eEyes Of The Tiger\u201c the ironic show madness reigned, and sometimes the show became a parody of its own. But it entertained the masses who got what they wanted to see: Pure entertainment finished by \u201eDeath To All But Metal\u201c.
\nParkway Drive<\/strong> A real show madness could be experienced on the headliner position in the following. A bit like In Flames the Australians decided to pimp the special effects enormously: High light traverses surrounding the drum riser as the middle of the stage, diagonal as straight-up flame throwers, paper streamer and pyros nearly everywhere resulted in an impressing fireworks against the chanceless rain. But the main attraction still was the agile band and their songs who caught every present person jumping and and singing along with \u201eCarrion\u201c, \u201eVice Grip\u201c, \u201eIdols And Anchors\u201c, \u201eKarma\u201c, \u201eWild Eyes\u201c and \u201eBottom Feeder\u201c. The stage seemed covered in flames while \u201eCrushed\u201c after which \u201eHome Is For The Hearless\u201c finished this highlight of the festival summer. Very impressive!<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/strong>
\nCoppelius <\/strong>The sixpack from Berlin sounded somewhere between Folk, Gothic and Rock. There were moments the lyrics seemed a bit naive, but they had an original sound. So \u201eMitten Ins Herz\u201c, \u201eTo My Creator\u201c as \u201eRisiko\u201c attracted the first curious visitors to walk in front of the stage and spend applause.
\nPsychopunch <\/strong>The Swedish fourpiece is a familiar band to the Summer Breeze audience. So the people knew what they were about to get. Beginning by \u201eI’ve Been Around\u201c, \u201eOn A Night Like This (Hell Yeah)\u201c as \u201eSitting By The Railroad\u201c it became the Punk ‘n’ Roll performance everybody had expected.
\nUnearth <\/strong>What followed were 55 minutes of complete energy. The quintet from Boston started powerful by \u201eThe Great Dividers\u201c and \u201eWatch It Burn\u201c, and the whole infield in front of the stage went crazy. And so did the band, agile as always, especially the guitarists Buz McGrath as Ken Susi ran the stage up and down while moshpits raged to \u201eZombie Autopilot\u201c, \u201eThis Lying World\u201c as \u201eGiles\u201c. The band acted tight and knew how to hold the fans in motion. So they finished by \u201eMy Will Be Done\u201c and \u201eBlack Hearts Now Reign one of the absolute summer gig highlights.
\nD:A:D<\/strong> Danmark’s finest in Hardrock was back. Fronter Jesper Binzer announced just to play old songs and added, there would follow no nostalgy, just energy. And he was right: The opener \u201eBad Craziness\u201c, \u201eGirl Nation\u201c, \u201ePoint Of View\u201c and \u201eJihad\u201c transferred energy to the supporters whose jubilations got louder each song. The loudest peak of course happened during the final hit \u201eSleeping My Day Away\u201c. Attraction besides that were the basses of Stig Pedersen. Cool band!
\nPain <\/strong>Peter T\u00e4gtgren & Co decided for a classic set starting with \u201eSame Old Song\u201c. More than enough supporters ignored the rain and celebrated the danceable Industrial Metal like \u201eEnd Of The Line\u201c, \u201eIt’s Only Them\u201c and \u201eDirty Woman\u201c. So their hit \u201eShut Your Mouth\u201c finished a cool show.
\nBlues Pills<\/strong> Last time appearing in the tent on the opening day and this year co-headliner of the latest day could be interpreted as a big development of the four Swedes. No wonder, lead by \u201eHigh Class Woman\u201c Elin Larsson and her powerful voice as the sympathic performance attracted numerous fans in front of the stage. Those ones ignored the rain and experienced the live interpretation of Tony Joe White’s \u201eElements And Things\u201c as \u201eJefferson Airplane’s \u201eSomebody To Love\u201c. The own hit \u201eDevil Man\u201c marked the end of another cool show.
\nKatatonia <\/strong>For another time the organizers put the five Swedes on the perfect position on the Pain Stage right after midnight. An hour of atmosphere and intensity was guaranteed as fulfilled for sure. By \u201eSerein\u201c and \u201eOld Hearts Falls\u201c they presented two compositions from their new masterpiece \u201eThe Fall Of Hearts\u201c. Besides that the best-of-set containing the opener \u201eJuly\u201c, \u201eDeliberation\u201c, \u201eMy Twin\u201c, \u201eSoil’s Song\u201c as \u201eOnward Into Battle\u201c got celebrated. For another time the optimal final of the final festival 2016.!<\/p>\n

T-Stage<\/strong>
\nIlldisposed <\/strong>These 45 minutes became a demonstration of pure ‘danish dynamite’: Their new album just got considered by \u201eIn Light Of The Moon\u201c, the fivepiece had decided for a best of program by the opener \u201eI Believe In Me\u201c, \u201eWeak Is Your God\u201c, \u201eDark\u201c, \u201eThrow Your Bolts\u201c as \u201eA Child Is Missing\u201c. Between the songs front-grunter Bo Summers, suited in a ‘Je Suis Illdisposed’ – shirt, entertained with his comments, for example explaing his need to shit into a forest because of a traffic-jam on the Autobahn next to it. So after the classic \u201eSubmit\u201c they finished a smashing as funny Death Metal performance by \u201eNow We’re History\u201c.
\nMy Dying Bride<\/strong> Doom Metal of its best was offered in the night by the sixpiece from England. Vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe entertained with his British humor and acted tight with the band. By \u201eAnd My Father Left Forever\u201c, the title track and \u201eTo Shiver In Empty Halls\u201c they presented even three songs from the current masterpiece \u201eFeel The Misery\u201c causing much applause and headbanging. This got even raised by the more familiar opener \u201eYour River\u201c, \u201eFrom Darkes Skies\u201c, \u201eThe Cry Of Mankind\u201c and the final \u201eFeel The Misery\u201c which got sung along by the whole tent. Awesome!<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>
\nThe Summer Breeze was the relaxed as well-organised event as known and finished the summer festival season being a highlight for another time. The weather was pretty cool with a bit rainy last day, but there might be different perspectives as personal preferences. Most of the time it was dry and it wasn’t too hot. The food mile offered for another time a variable choice. The prices for food and drinks were the same as last year (e.g. 3,50 \u20ac for a 0,4 l can of beer or softdrink). Besides that the Summer Breeze published the first confirmed bands for the 2017-edition: Heaven Shall Burn, Children Of Bodom, Behemoth, Hypocrisy, Wintersun, Arch Enemy, Caliban & J.B.O.!
\nSo we are looking forward to Summer Breeze 2017!!! Special thanks go out to David Gregori and the Summer Breeze team!!!!! At the Summer Breeze rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Dennis The Menace, Flamenco-Ines & Cypsilonthia!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer Breeze Same procedure as every year: A good festival summer is complete after finishing it by the final highlight Summer Breeze. The second largest Metal-related festival of Germany has evolved to one of the most important ones of the world. Lead by the headliners Slayer, Parkway Drive and Sabaton the organization achieved for another … <\/p>\n

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