{"id":254,"date":"2011-03-07T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:15:07","slug":"summer-breeze-2009-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=254","title":{"rendered":"Summer Breeze 2009 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUMMER BREEZE 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Summer Breeze marks the traditional close-off of the open air festival season each year!
\nAnd it had evolved, especially in the latest years since the Summer Breeze had moved to Dinkelsb\u00fchl. This year the Summer Breeze had reached by 25000 visitors a new record and became the second biggest Metal festival! The organizers obviously invested a lot in their new area, they had bought. The ground of the car entrance to the campsite had been tarmaced. So no more weather handicap which meant there was no longer traffic jam. The organization on the festivalssite worked very well as it had done the years before!
\nThe program began by a newcomer contest and the following Metal Blade label night in the Party Tent, the regular billing started with the newcomer contest winner on thursday.
\nAnd again the Summer Breeze presented a very varied billing of good taste showing you highlights like Kreator, Backyard Babies, Life Of Agony, Amon Amarth, Volbeat, Voivod or Opeth!
\nAt this year\u2019s Summer Breeze 90 bands appeared on three stages in four days for about 25000 visitors (Sold out!)<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/strong>
\nPartytent<\/em>
\nCyrcus<\/strong> The tent was astonishingly filled when the quintet opened the festival as the newcomer competition by \u201cFrom The Ashes\u201d. The band from near by D\u00fcsseldorf impressed by a very own style sounding modern between Rock and Metal and even the song \u201cSomething Inside\u201d in which middle section they integrated the Doro-hymn \u201cAll We Are\u201d had catchy hit character.<\/p>\n

Sheephead<\/strong> The Bavarian fivepiece rocked the tent by their pretty Swedish orientated Deathcore. Probably that’s why one track was named by its capital \u201cStockholm\u201d. In the end their fronter searched contact to the numerous fans in the photo pit celebrating the somehow home competition.<\/p>\n

Dreamshade<\/strong> The pretty young sixpack from Switzerland showed a more keyboard dominated Prog Death Metal – sound enthusing the tent crowd by the opener \u201cAs Serenity\u201d, \u201cBuried\u201d, \u201cWide\u201d and the final \u201cRevive\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cypecore<\/strong> The five young guys had some kind of a home match, too. After they had surprised me a lot on the smaller Queens Of Metal two months before they impressed me again by their tight as agile performance. The songwriting of the played titles \u201c\u201dEverdying\u201d, \u201cThe Origin Of Hate\u201d, \u201cMission\u201d, \u201cInnocent\u201d and \u201cSomething Inside\u201d showed some In Flames \u2013 relation, but a high quality one. Just some friend of the band played the loud speaker clown what wasn’t necessary at all, the band killed anyway!<\/p>\n

Second Relation<\/strong> The last band of the competition surprised by its age as by its high talent. All five members were teenagers and played a silent style with a high approach reminding to the mighty saturday headliner Opeth. The only negative aspect was perhaps they didn’t show that much stage action while playing \u201c18:27\u201d, \u201cDiscolour\u201d, \u201cMisery Of Time\u201d and \u201cOblivion\u201d (all from their brand new demo \u201cLynette\u201d). But that didn’t disturb the jury nominating this young band from Austria as the competition winner. Congratulations! And our personal note that this year’s competition was much better than last year’s one!<\/p>\n

One Way Mirror<\/strong> After some hint of my buddy D-nine I decided to watch the all star band of fronter Guillaume Bideau (Mnemic), drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork), bassist Loic Colin (Scarve) as the sixstringer brothers Franck and David Potvin (Lyzanxia, Phase 1) it became clear pretty fast this band rocked focussing on their self-titled debut. \u201cKeeping Me Away\u201d or \u201cEmpty Spaces\u201d showed hit character and the performance didn’t leave any wish open.<\/p>\n

Razor Of Occam<\/strong> The next act presented some Black Thrash sound from their longplayer debut \u201cHomage To Martyrs\u201d which didn’t work that well in its live interpretation. It became monotonous after a while. Cool was the final Whiplash \u2013 cover \u201cSpit On Your Grave\u201d.<\/p>\n

Vomitory<\/strong> The Swedish Death Metal commando showed how many people were present on the warm up day. The tent was completely filled as many fans stood outside behind the entrances to even see a bit of the show. That one worked pretty well playing by the opener \u201cThe Carnage Rages On\u201d and \u201cSerpents\u201d two songs of the new release \u201cCarnage Euphoria\u201d as familiar ones as \u201cTerrorize, Brutalize, Sodomize\u201d, \u201cChaos Fury\u201d, \u201cBlood Rapture\u201d and \u201cUnder Clouds Of Blood\u201d.<\/p>\n

God Dethroned<\/strong> The Dutch Death Metal institution which had switched the billing position with Cataract continued killing, musically of course. Presenting new \u201cPassiondale \u2013 tracks like \u201cUnder A Darkening Sky\u201d \u201cPoison Fog\u201d, \u201cDrowning In Mud\u201d or the title track showed the new variety of Henry Sattler singing clean for a few passages. But they hadn’t lost their brutal factor at all.<\/p>\n

Powerwolf<\/strong> The orchestral band started by their usual opener \u201cWe Take It From The Living\u201d. They showed a very active performance full of motion and joy presenting by \u201cRaise Your Fist, Evangelist\u201d, \u201cWerewolves Of Armenia\u201d including ‘Hu, Ha!’ – choirs and \u201cResurrection By Errection\u201d material from their new hammer album \u201cBible Of The Beast\u201d. The full tent celebrated them, some spectators even held high a flag of Romania! \ud83d\ude00 So vocalist Attila Dorn blessed the audience and left together with his vampires by \u201cKiss Of The Cobra King\u201d which some person might have taken too verbally. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Cataract<\/strong> The Metalcore \u2013 fivepiece showed an appearance full of energy mobilising the left stamina of the audience. Besides \u201cThe Separation Of Life And Time\u201d and \u201cDoomed Steps\u201d from the current self-titled output the band concentrated on their \u201cWhen Triumph Comes Loss\u201d – and \u201cKingdom\u201d – phase containing \u201cWar Of Cultures\u201d, \u201cKilling Tool\u201d, \u201cTongues Spitting Hate\u201d and the ordinary final \u201cNothing’s Left\u201d.<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/em>
\nKatra<\/strong> The day began horrible on the festival’s biggest stage: The Finish Gothic Rock \/ Metal band tortured my ears by an untight band as a female vocalist singing that much out of tune the steaks on the barbecue of my colleges on the campsite buckled. So their own music some Loona \u2013 dancefloor cover didn’t work at all. So the ridiculous question of the bassist (\u201cAre you ready for some serious headbanging?\u201d) could only be answered by \u201cFor your sound seriously not!\u201d<\/p>\n

Vader<\/strong> After some sound problems in the beginning of the show the Death Metal \u2013 commando from Poland demonstrated their immense live experience. They renounced playing material from their just released \u201cNecropolis\u201d and killed by \u201cEpitaph\u201d, \u201cRaise The Undead\u201d, Shadowfear\u201d and \u201cThis Is The War\u201d.<\/p>\n

Unheilig<\/strong> The Gothic Rock sound completely performed in German found a respectable audience consisting of black suited pairs exploring their very own kind of romance spending applause. Not my can of beer!<\/p>\n

J.B.O.<\/strong> Okay, everybody has probably seen a show of the Bavarian Comedy Metal band. They wore pink, appeared for an astonishing big crowd, took care about the harmony factor on the festivalsite and got celebrated for the opener \u201cIm Verkehr\u201d, \u201cBolle\u201d and the last title \u201cEin Fest\u201d. Nice, but nothing special!<\/p>\n

Kreator<\/strong> No more comedy ruled when the Thrash \u2013 attack from Essen entered the stage to show a massive live destruction. The fourpiece offered a well-balanced set between newer (\u201cHordes Of Chaos\u201d, \u201cPhobia\u201d, \u201cEnemy Of God\u201d, \u201cViolent Revolution\u201d, \u201cWarcurse\u201d) and older (\u201cTerrible Certainty\u201d, \u201cBetrayer\u201d, \u201cPleasure To Kill\u201d, \u201cExtreme Aggressions\u201d, \u201cComa Of Souls\u201d, \u201cFlag Of Hate\u201d, the final \u201cTormentor\u201d) smashers. Some announcement of Mille sounded to extreme when he mentioned after the one before \u201cPleasure To Kill\u201d he motivated to kill everybody and added not to do it in real. Funny! The performance ruled! Kreator defended their inofficial title as the Thrash Metal kings of Germany.<\/p>\n

Cantus Buranus<\/strong> The medieval orchester bombast theatre call-it-something of Cantus Buranus just interested a few spectators who wanted go get asleep before reaching their tent. So nevermind, to some of you it was something exotic. But most of the spectators went to the partytent leaving a bored audience no more able to move.<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/em>
\nSecond Relation<\/strong> The teenager Dark Prog band which had won the newcomer contest the day before performed the same set to open the regular open air billing. Nice!<\/p>\n

Deadlock<\/strong> The first great appearance of the day was done by the young Bavarian Deathcore \u2013 sixpack. After some Techno \u2013 intro they started with \u201cMartyr To Science\u201d into their set offering by \u201cThe Brave \/ Agony Applause\u201d and \u201cDeathrace\u201d further songs from their new masterpiece \u201cManifesto\u201d which killed as the older \u201cCode Of Honor\u201d, \u201cDark Cell\u201d and \u201cAwakened By Sirens\u201d did. The performance rocked, just one track one guitarist missed his part for three times. The alternating shouts of Joe Prem and the female clean vocals of Sabine Weniger built a cool sound construction giving the songs the right vibe. A sympathic as rocking show of a talented band.<\/p>\n

Grand Magus<\/strong> Songs about wolves are even in Dinkelsb\u00fchl an exotic element. The Stoner Rock \/ Doom \u2013 trio from Sweden talked as sang about this issue like in the opener \u201cWolf’s Return\u201d. They didn ‘t reach that many spectators as Deadlock or Vader, but those once left seemed to be okay with Doomsters like \u201cIron Will\u201d or \u201cKingslayer\u201d.<\/p>\n

Equilibrium<\/strong> The probably most popular Pagan Metal \u2013 formation in Germany caught many fans in front of the stage which celebrated \u201cSturm\u201d or \u201cNordheim\u201d a lot. The active fronter Helge took care of that fact during the set.<\/p>\n

Walls Of Jericho<\/strong> After J.B.O.’s Comedy Metal on the neighbored stage the Hardcore pitbull around the female shouter Candace Kucsulain turned out to a total contrast in comparison to the atmosphere before. The Hardcore \u2013 community reacted with pit action to \u201cA Little Piece Of Me\u201d, \u201cAll Hail The Dead\u201d and of course to the title track of the latest output \u201cThe American Dream\u201d. But it seemed to be a pure die-hard-fan-thing.<\/p>\n

Backyard Babies<\/strong> Time for Rock ‘n’ Roll. The Swedish fivepiece didn’t take long to convince the audience to party. \u201cCome Undone\u201d, \u201cDegenerated\u201d, \u201cDysfunctional\u201d or \u201cPeople Like Us\u201d didn’t give the crowd another chance. By the way fronter Nicke advised several times to the gig of their friends of Entombed the following day.<\/p>\n

Katatonia<\/strong> The Swedes played one of the very mighty shows of this festival summer. The non-reversible Dark Prog Metal (Or just call it Katatonia-sound!) caught the attention of the audience when they performed perls like \u201cTeargas\u201d, \u201cI Am Nothing\u201d, \u201cGhost Of The Sun\u201d, \u201cMy Evil Twin\u201d. The numerous fans reacted with massive headbanging or just dreaming. So the quintet bid farewell with the acoustic triumvirat consisting of \u201cJuly\u201d, \u201cEvidence\u201d and the old Death Metal \u2013 classic \u201cMurder\u201d. I just missed \u201cFor My Demons\u201d, but anyway this show ruled!<\/p>\n

Partytent<\/em>
\nSylosis<\/strong> Supported by a powerful sound this new Thrash Metal \u2013 hopeful from Great Britain played a killing show in the tent in the afternoon. Their set was concentrated on their debut-longplayer \u201cConclusion Of An Age\u201d containing \u201cEgypt\u201d, the title track, \u201cWarbitch\u201d, \u201cSilence\u201d and the final hammer \u201cTeras\u201d. The band transported lots of live energy and the both guitarists impressed by their abilities leaving several mouths open. Great show!<\/p>\n

Suffocation<\/strong> After the action on the two big stages had ended the final program of this brutal night began in the Partytent. The brutal ensemble from New York City blew the fans away with \u201cBlood Oath\u201d, \u201cCatatonia\u201d and \u201cInfecting The Crypts\u201d. What a blast! Just grunter Frank Mullen seemed a bit drunk and talked a bit too much.<\/p>\n

Carnifex<\/strong> Another blast was created by the younger Deathcore \u2013 attack from San Diego. The tight fivepiece did this from the opener \u201cIn Coalesce With Filth & Faith\u201d till the final \u201cLie To My Face\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Faceless<\/strong> What happened in the end of the thursday program deep in the night is difficult to describe. The Prog Death Metal \u2013 newcomer played one of the most outstanding shows of this year’s Summer Breeze. Especially compositions from the new masterpiece \u201cPlanetary Duality\u201d like \u201cPrison Born\u201d, \u201cSons Of Belial\u201d, \u201cLegion Of The Serpent\u201d, \u201cXeno Christ\u201d and \u201cThe Ancient Covenant\u201d impressed the fans including me a lot. Awesome!<\/p>\n

Friday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/em>
\nUnsun<\/strong> The day began as the day before with Katra: With an untalented Gothic Rock \/ Metal \u2013 band – this time from Poland – with a female vocalist missing her tones much too often.<\/p>\n

The Cumshots<\/strong> The musical atmosphere became much better when the Norwegians entered the stage to perform their Death ‘n’ Roll. Party-hymns like \u201cLike Pouring Salt On A Slug\u201d, \u201cPunchdrunk On Death\u201d and \u201cI Drink Alone\u201d took care of a relaxed atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Callejon<\/strong> The first attraction of the day for the Metalcore \/ Screamo \u2013 community were the Zombies from D\u00fcsseldorf provoking the first circle-pits by \u201cZombified\u201d, \u201cJohn Wayne\u201d and the final \u201cPorn From Spain\u201d. Nice gig!<\/p>\n

The Other<\/strong> Horror Punk was up to follow, and that’s how the band was suited like wearing blooded masks and white butchers’ skirts. Musically their show rocked by \u201cTarantula\u201d as by \u201cWe Are The Other Ones\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Haunted<\/strong> Shouter Peter Dolving had grown himself a big bushy beard letting him look even more weird. With a sympathic combination between sympathy and aggression band as fronter performed their show in which the new smashers \u201cLittle Cage\u201d (as opener), \u201cMoronic Colossus\u201d interrupted by the band with a cool statement of Dolving and \u201cTrenches\u201d in which Dolving went in the crowd animating a wall of death as the following pit rocked as familiar ones like \u201cThe Flood\u201d, \u201cD.O.A.\u201d, \u201c99\u201d and the final double-hammer \u201cDark Intensions \/ Bury Your Dead\u201d. The band left with the outro of Tom Jones’ \u201cIt’s Not Unusual\u201d. Peter Dolving rules, and so do The Haunted of course!<\/p>\n

Schandmaul<\/strong> It looked like a home match for the Folk Rock \u2013 sevenpiece when they appeared in front of a filled up festivalsite in the early evening hours. And those spectators weren’t just there, they all seemed to know the lyrics of \u201cVogelfrei\u201d, \u201cLeb!\u201d or \u201cKrieger\u201d. Very sympathicc was the dedication of their last title \u201cDein Anblick\u201d to a victim of a school amok massacre. Thumbs up for this great gesture!!!<\/p>\n

Life Of Agony<\/strong> Wow, the innovative NYC Hardcore heroes of the 90s in Dinkelsb\u00fchl, I had thought long time when they got confirmed months before the Breeze. And they kicked ass by a hammer start rocking \u201cRiver Runs Red\u201d, \u201cThis Time\u201d and the great backing vocals matchup \u201cMethod Of Groove\u201d from their monster debut. But also the following \u201cLove To Let You Down\u201d, \u201cOther Side Of The River\u201d and \u201cWeeds\u201d rocked the crowd. Vocalist Keith Caputo impressed for another time by his incomparable voice although he looked pretty strange. But the band should have deserved more audience. Anyway the present one celebrated a massive appearance and got left with the classics \u201cThrough And Through\u201d and \u201cUnderground\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amon Amarth<\/strong> The vikings did the same procedure as every festival they participate, positively of course: They offered a great show filled with effects as lots of pyros and performed by the intro \u201cTwilight Of The Thunder God\u201d, \u201cRunes To My Memory\u201d, \u201cGuardians Of Asgaard\u201d, \u201cVictorious March\u201d, \u201cPursuit Of Vikings\u201d as by the encores \u201cCry Of The Black Birds\u201d and \u201cDeath In Fire\u201d a celebrated best of show the band earned a lot of support for.<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/em>
\nThe New Black<\/strong> The new German hope in Rock ‘n’ Roll showed their members had collected lots of live experience in their former or still parallel bands. The main aspect besides instumental abillities of the rocking sixstringers or the cool voice of singer Markus who also played the mouth organ in \u201cSimplify\u201d. No, the main issue are rockers like \u201cMore Than A Man\u201d, my personal fave \u201cWelcome To Point Black\u201d and the final \u201cEverlasting\u201d.<\/p>\n

Battlelore<\/strong> After having fun with Rock ‘n’ Roll Pagan Metal followed, and this didn’t rock at all. Fantasy lyrics as Pagan style didn’t seem to reach that many kids than the years before. So it was much emptier in front of the stages than it had been the bands before while the Finish appeared.<\/p>\n

Nim Vind<\/strong> The people didn’t come back to watch by the Canadiens the next Rock ‘n’ Roll attraction.. They presented catchy songs, but a live show always includes stage action besides the songs.<\/p>\n

Psychopunch<\/strong> The Rock band from Sweden had played several times on the Summer Breeze and returned with another strong show presenting material from their new longplayer \u201cDeath By Misadventure\u201d. The spectatorship took part in the party and celebrated a cool Rock show.<\/p>\n

Entombed<\/strong> After a cool intro presenting a preacher concluding that satan exists on tape the band entered the stage to open by the title track of the latest album \u201cSerpent Saints\u201d. And the crowd reacted headbanging and applauding to \u201cWhen In Sodom\u201d, \u201cDamn Deal Done\u201d, the mighty \u201cChief Rebel Angel\u201d and the almighty \u201cWolverine Blues\u201d always motivated by fronter LG Petrov with his short sympathic \u201cHallo! Alles gut?\u201d – communications. By the way: Ex-Satyricon-sixstringer Victor Brandt replaced the ordinary guitarist and new father Nico Elgstrand well. Old classics were missed.<\/p>\n

Sabaton<\/strong> True Metal of the convenient kind got presented by the Swedes. And a band broaching the issue of war of course completely performs in camouflage pants. So did them playing \u201cPanzer Battalion\u201d, \u201cThe Art Of War\u201d and \u201cPrimo Victoria\u201d. The fans liked the songs as the sympathic performance, especially the one of vocalist Joakim Brod\u00e9n who didn’t disregard the fun factor.<\/p>\n

Amorphis<\/strong> \u201cWhat’s that?\u201d – \u201cIt’s blue light!\u201d – \u201cWhat does it do?\u201d – \u201cIt turns blue!\u201d These \u201cRambo\u201d – passage would have fit to the wonderful light show of course also regarding other colours. Supported by this visual effect the Finish performed a magic show leaving no wishes open: The mentioned visual effects, the tightness, the voice, the stage action! All aspects of a live show got performed maximum-skilled. Numerous of fans celebrated from the opener \u201cLeaves Scar\u201d, \u201cAgainst Widows\u201d, \u201cThe Castaway\u201d, \u201cThe Smoke\u201d, \u201cMy Kantele\u201d and \u201cHouse Of Sleep\u201d as compositions from the new album \u201cSkyforger\u201d like \u201cFrom The Heaven Of My Heart\u201d, \u201cSampo\u201d and \u201cSilver Bride\u201d. Awesome!<\/p>\n

Haggard<\/strong> Awesome is a word I wouldn’t pull together with the orchestral Gothic Metal appearance of the Bavarians. It became obvious again Asis Nasseri & Co hadn’t evolved over the last decade. Newer as the many performed older tracks bored the same way. Dating for the cinema might be much more exciting! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Partytent<\/em>
\nObscura<\/strong> This German quartet is definitely on a rise to higher levels. The technical high skilled Prog Death Metal convinced in its live performance as well. They concentrated on the songs of their current album \u201cCosmogenesis\u201d like its as the live opener \u201cAnticosmic Overload\u201d, the hit \u201cIncarnated\u201d reminding to the mighty Death, \u201cNoospheres\u201d or \u201cCentric Flow\u201d. The number of (astonished) spectators raised as well as the number of active headbangers.<\/p>\n

Cynic<\/strong> After half of the show of the mighty Life Of Agony I went down to the Partytent to watch the returned kings of Prog Death Metal and it turned out to the absolute right decision. The compositions of the current \u201cTraced In Air\u201d – masterpiece held the same quality (\u201cThe Space For This\u201d, \u201cEvolutionary Sleeper\u201d, \u201cAdam’s Murmur\u201d, \u201cIntegral Birth\u201d) as the meanwhile 16 years old songs of the milestone \u201cFocus\u201d (\u201cCelestial Voyage\u201d, \u201cVeil Of Maya\u201d, \u201cHow Could I?\u201d), the performance was tight and the band reached lots of applause and support.<\/p>\n

The Sorrow<\/strong> The tent was pretty filled when the Austrian Metalcore shooting stars played their catchy tracks as \u201cWhere Is The Sun?\u201d, \u201cFar Beyond The Days Of Grace\u201d, \u201cSaviour, Welcome Home\u201d as the final \u201cKnights Of Doom\u201d and \u201cDeath From A Lovers Hand\u201d which caused a circle pit as a wall of death. So the crowd seemed satisfied.<\/p>\n

Protest<\/strong> The Hero Progressive Metalcore? Is that possible? Yes, it is definitely, realised by the fivepiece from Canada. From the beginning they had problems with the sound, especially the too low vocals of singer Arif. But this high talented band was on a mission and played a phenomenal show. And it looked like technical masterpieces as the opener \u201cBloodmeat\u201d, \u201cNautical\u201d or \u201cLimb As Limb\u201d had found new fans.<\/p>\n

Raunchy<\/strong> After two members of the band had lost a match on the kicker soccer table against my brother in crime Krusher and me (Danmark 5, Germany 6 :-)) the band enthused musically in the Partytent. They played a best of set besides considering material from the current album \u201cWasteland Discotheque\u201d by \u201cThe Bash\u201d, the Rockwell-cover \u201cSomebody’s Watching Me\u201d and \u201cWarriors\u201d besides older hits like \u201cRemembrance\u201d, \u201cI Get What I See\u201d, \u201cJoin The Scene\u201d and \u201cWatch Out\u201d. That kicked ass and the tent celebrated them. Just the sound sucked.<\/p>\n

Elvenking<\/strong> The last band of the day presented True Metal with the exotic variation of a violin. But after a while this didn’t count that much any more. So just about hundred spectators left in the tent to watch the Italians.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/em>
\nBenighted<\/strong> Instead of beginning the day again by a Gothic \u2013 band with a horrible singer the last day of this year’s Summer Breeze started with Grindcore grunting about interesting issues like \u201cSlut\u201d or \u201cGrind Wit\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Storm<\/strong> It became much lower and melodic when the Danish songwriter duo reinforced by guest musicians. It was a nice alternation, but after a while they felt too harmless. The highlight happened when Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen entered the stage to perform with singer Pernille Rosendahl \u201cMary Ann’s Place\u201d.<\/p>\n

Grave<\/strong> Wow, the Death Metal \u2013 legend from Sweden played a real classics’ best of set probably leaving no wishes open. Beginning with \u201cDeformed\u201d and \u201cObscure Infinity\u201d fronter Ola Lindgren and his three comrades inspired to massive headbanging action in the audience. Further highlights: \u201cInto The Grave\u201d and the last played title \u201cSoulless\u201d.<\/p>\n

Born From Pain<\/strong> The Dutch fivepiece killed in front of a big crowd organising a huge wall of death and several circle pits in the sunny afternoon. The powerful sound supported \u201cRise Or Die\u201d, \u201cBehind Enemy Lines\u201d, \u201cSons Of A Dying World\u201d, \u201cThe New Hate\u201d and \u201cStop At Nothing\u201d. Just the sympathic as seemingly well-educated fronter Rob who lives in Essen and speaks German fluently talked a bit too much, about society circumstances as about unnnecessary aspects on which festival the sun had disturbed him the most. But that was probably just a symptom of the adrenaline which took care about this killing gig.<\/p>\n

Brainstorm<\/strong> The Swabian fivepiece can be announced as a steady guest at the Summer Breeze, and as one of the very few Power Metal \u2013 bands which have many fans in the Breeze \u2013 community. Their melodic American \u2013 related Power Metal and the very agile as sympathic performance of their voice Andy B. Franck must be announced as the main reasons for this fact. \u201cBlind Suffering\u201d, \u201cWorld’s Are Coming Through\u201d, \u201cShiva’s Tears\u201d, \u201cFire Walk With Me\u201d, \u201cEnd In Sorrow\u201d, \u201cHighs Without Lows\u201d with some animated la-ola-action rocked, and after some ‘dis-the-singer-game’ the band left with \u201cAll Those Words\u201d and \u201cHow Do You Feel\u201d.<\/p>\n

Moonspell<\/strong> Gothic Metal while light and hot temperatures doesn’t work? This seemingly law got imposingly disproved by the Portuguese quintet. Fernando Ribeiro got the point announcing: \u201cGood songs are good under moon and sun.\u201d And so his band rocked in an astonishing relaxed instead of pathetic atmosphere by \u201cOpium\u201d, the newer \u201cScorpion Flower\u201d, \u201cFull Moon Madness\u201d, \u201cAlma Mater\u201d and \u201cFull Moon Madness\u201d enthusing the masses. Thumbs up for this exemplary appearance.<\/p>\n

Volbeat<\/strong> The masses of spectators showed the enormously raised popularity of the Danish band. They started by \u201dGuitar Gangsters\u201d with a track from the new album \u201cGuitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood\u201d into their set filled with lots of hits like \u201cRadio Girl\u201d, \u201cSad Man’s Tongue\u201d, \u201cPool Of Booze, Booze, Booza\u201d after which Pernille Rosendahl entered the stage to perform with Michael Poulsen \u201cMary Ann’s Place\u201d as they had done it about six hours ago while the show of Pernille’s band The Storm. After some new unreleased title \u201cThe Human Instrument\u201d, \u201cThe Garden’s Tale\u201d and \u201cCaroline\u201d finished a great gig inspiring the fans to several singalongs with the band.<\/p>\n

Opeth<\/strong> The great masters of brain-affected Metal with high approach had a bad day, not talently but technically. While the first song \u201cHeir Apparent\u201d the guitar amp of Fredrik Akesson sucked. So Mikael Akerfeldt reacted with some small talk as by some jamming. And those problems continued. But also this time the quintet had as much technical bad-luck as nearly possible they convinced by their live performance interpreting masterpieces like \u201cGhost Of Perdition\u201d, \u201cHarvest\u201d, \u201cThe Leper Affinity\u201d, \u201cThe Lotus Eater\u201d, \u201cDemon Of The Fall\u201d and \u201cThe Drapery Falls\u201d. The high amount of fans filling the festivalsite was convinced, banged their heads and celebrated this wonderful live band.<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/em>
\nBlack Sun<\/strong> Aeon Double impact: Before Tuomas Saukkonen appeared with his main band he had introduced his second one. The astonishing number of seemingly interested spectators saw an intense Melodic Death Metal show. The song titles followed some concept being named as \u201cChapter 1 (A Song For My Introduction)\u201d, \u201cChapter 3 (A Song For My Demons)\u201d, \u201cChapter 8 (A Song For My Funeral)\u201d, etc.. A very interesting band we’ll hopefully hear more from in the future.<\/p>\n

Before The Dawn<\/strong> After the changeover break including a band on the neighbored Main Stage Tuomas returned with his regular band. This is probably the more melodic one, but also this appearance didn’t let miss any intensity or heavyness. \u201cFaithless\u201d, \u201cDisappear\u201d and \u201cDeadsong\u201dconvinced the audience as its live performance did containing the variety between Tuomas grunts and Lars Eikind’s wonderful clean vocals. Six years after I had watched the band for the first time being on tour with Katatonia the Finish rocked again. Seems like Mr. Saukkonen has two hot bands on the run.<\/p>\n

Krypteria<\/strong> The German fourpiece around their female voice Ji-In-Cho showed for another time why they are just another superfluous Gothic \u2013 band. Sorry, but \u201cSomebody Save Me\u201d or \u201cDevil Down\u201d have nothing new or interesting. That must also have been the opinion of the crowd, the most people went away.<\/p>\n

Epica<\/strong> Better Gothic Metal was offered by the Dutch band around the charismatic singer Simone Simons although her yodel parts stuck pretty much on my nerves. But the spectatorship took it with grace applauding to the opener \u201cIndigo\u201d, \u201cCry Of The Moon\u201d and the final \u201cConsign To Oblivion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Evergreen<\/strong> Terrace The five guys from Florida didn’t care about the sun and the hot temperatures they’re used to and enthused by their Metalcore with a cool Skatepunk \u2013 element. The band enjoyed having so many supporters in front of the stage celebrating the \u201cBig Lebowski\u201d – related \u201cNo Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist\u201d, the title track of their current release \u201cWolfbiker\u201d, its hit \u201cChaney Can’t Quite Riff Like Helmet’s Page Hamilton\u201d, by \u201cEnemy Sex\u201d a track from the forthcoming album and the Tears For Fears \u2013 cover \u201cMad World\u201d.<\/p>\n

Legion Of The Damned<\/strong> A week after they had convinced me for the probably first time live the Dutch Thrash Metal \u2013 hopefuls bored me again. The show didn’t really seem spontaneous performing \u201cSons Of The Jackal\u201d, \u201cCult Of The Dead\u201d or \u201cWerewolf Corpse\u201d which caused some headbanging action in the first rows, no more no less.<\/p>\n

Voivod<\/strong> It had taken a long long time to see the Canadiens pioneers in experimental Metal. It should had happened in Wacken 1998, but an accident avoided this, and after many tragic occurences, especially the death of Denis \u201cPiggy\u201d d’Amour, it finally came true. His successor Daniel Mongrain did a good job. And perls like \u201cTribal Conviction\u201d touched in combination with the wonderful light show probably everyone of the too small crowd in front of the stage who initialized Piggy \u2013 chants in the end of the show. Amazing! <\/p>\n

Deathstars<\/strong> The Gothic Rock \u2013 act from Sweden started with \u201cNight Electric Night\u201d into their set in which I didn’t have the impression the music was more important than the outfit. Comprehensible when listening to \u201cTongues\u201d, \u201cNew Dead Nation\u201d or \u201cBlood Stains Blondes\u201d.<\/p>\n

Partytent<\/em>
\nNarziss<\/strong> Narziss always means Metalcore with german lyrics, a tight band and an intense live show. And so it happened again. Band as fans didn’t seem to care about the very hot conditions in the tent and created several pits while \u201cMeine Kleine Seele\u201d, \u201cUnd Du Verblasst\u201d which got dedicated to all hippies and \u201cEntstelltes Bild\u201d. Exemplary was the action of shouter Alex to take care about the supporters by bottles of water. He also invited a few fans to come on stage.<\/p>\n

Excrementory Grindfuckers<\/strong> To my surprise it was nearly a mission impossible to get into the tent to watch the grind-weirdos. Those who were in had fun with the David Hasselhoff \u2013 tribute \u201cLooking For A Grindcore\u201d, \u201cStaatsgrind Nr. 1\u201d, \u201cVater Morgana\u201d and with the Europe \u2013 related \u201cFinal Grinddown\u201d. So in the end they organized a Metal \u2013 polonaise. Funny band, but for the next time I would prefer a bigger stage.<\/p>\n

Hate<\/strong> The Polish Death Metal massacre entered the stage corpsepainted and wore skirts. Besides this unfitting outfit the music ruled. \u201cMalediction\u201d, \u201cHex\u201d or \u201cThrenody\u201d are old school Death Metal bulldozers of its best which provoked a lot of headbanging action!<\/p>\n

Dagoba<\/strong> The very innovative fourpiece from Marseille started after the \u201cAbyssal\u201d – intro and the title track of the current \u201cFace The Colossus\u201d – album massively into their set. The pit-action increased by modern sounding monsters like \u201cThe Man Your’re Not\u201d, \u201cThe Nightfall And All Its Mistakes\u201d, \u201cFall Of Men\u201d and \u201cThe Things Within\u201d. Fronter Shawter and his three bandmates impressed by their independent style as by their live \u2013 performance. Hope to see and hear more of them soon!<\/p>\n

Secrets Of The Moon<\/strong> The in my opinion best german Black Metal \u2013 band had the exercise to play the last show of this year’s Summer Breeze. And they surprisingly concentrated on the still unreleased forthcoming longplayer \u201cPrivilegivm\u201d performing by the opener \u201cSulphur\u201d, \u201cQueen Among Rats\u201d and \u201cBlack Halo\u201d three of five live tracks. The other two epics were \u201cSeraphim Is Dead\u201d and the final \u201cLucifer Speaks\u201d from the latest release \u201cAntithesis\u201d. Although the band didn’t move that much their apperance became mastetic.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>
\nThe Summer Breeze 2009 turned out to a big success. It was sold out months before. The organization on the festivalsite convinced as it had done before. The investments in the bought area took care about much improved conditions at the entrance for wednesday. And most visitors arrived on wednesday without to have wait too long to get in. This fact might be a reason to enlarge the Partytent for the warmup. The ways between the stages were pretty short, the hill on its way got ballasted again. The concept with the two open air stages alternating each other and the parallel tent stage showing you bands until the deepest night and worked very well. For another time the Summer Breeze offered a well-balanced billing concerning the quality as the variety of music. The food mile also impressed by a big variety and the prices for food and beverages were fair (e.g. 3,- \u20ac for a 0,4 l can of beer or softdrink). We appreciated the Summer Breeze 2009 and will return in 2010 for sure! So see you there! Special thanks go out to David Gregori and the Summer Breeze-team!!!!!
\nAt the Summer Breeze rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Yvi, Vera and Verena!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SUMMER BREEZE 2009 The Summer Breeze marks the traditional close-off of the open air festival season each year! And it had evolved, especially in the latest years since the Summer Breeze had moved to Dinkelsb\u00fchl. This year the Summer Breeze had reached by 25000 visitors a new record and became the second biggest Metal festival! … <\/p>\n

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