{"id":3456,"date":"2024-05-21T19:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=3456"},"modified":"2024-05-21T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:40:55","slug":"full-force-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=3456","title":{"rendered":"Full Force 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Full Force<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After returning to live action with the first as successful post-pandemic edition one year before Full Force rocked the city of iron again. More than good to know our Ferropolis-fave becomes quite regular again as it had been before.
In its very beginning the 2023-edition had to deal with some strong rain, so the Morecore-warm-up-party had to be canceled and most arrived visitors warmed up at their camps. The rain stopped nearly in time shorty after the program had started on friday afternoon. From then on the sun reigned, so the fans just had to deal with a couple of puddles.
The set-up of the festival ground got a bit rearranged to offer the spectators shorter as quicker ways between the Mad Max Mainstage and the Medusa Seastage including a nice viewpoint to watch the shows at the beach. After adding the Backyard Stage on the festival area the organizers continued the four-stage-program being lead by Papa Roach, Gojira and Electric Callboy. This year a gaming area was part of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferropolis peninsula where we saw several fans playing race games, ego-shooters, etc. while viewing this new part of the festival area.
The last year invented chip payment system being integrated in the wrist-bands got continued withanother service providing partner. This worked very well again. Visitors could easily load their wrist-bandamount while this system made payment actions much easier and probably avoided several thefts. Alsomentionable was the shuttle bus schedule driving the visitors in even smaller intervals.
Besides that we noticed Beck’s instead of last year’s Krombacher was the beer to enjoy and have fun with. On the way between the festival area and the camp grounds the new sponsor Burger King had a festival branch next to all the other food options.
As mentioned above when the program started and the sun came out everything was set for anotherunforgettable weekend on the peninsula. In Ferropolis 73 bands appeared on four stages for about 20000 visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mad Max Mainstage<\/strong>
Annisokay <\/strong>After Polaris-guitarrist Ryan Siew had suddenly died four days before it was up to thefourpiece from the close city of Halle to open the Mainstage-program of this year’s Full Force instead. Their melodic Metalcore motivated several fans to defy the still rainy weather as sing along from \u201cLike A Parasite\u201d over \u201cUnaware\u201d, \u201cGood Stories\u201d to \u201cComa Blue\u201d and \u201cSTFU\u201d.
Caliban <\/strong>Without bassist Marco Schaller the Metalcore-icon assembled many fans despite the rain to move. Supported by pyro as smoke effects numerous crowdsurfers celebrated the newer \u201cVirUS\u201d as the classics \u201cWe Are The Many\u201d, \u201cDavy Jones\u201d and \u201cMemorial\u201d.
Motionless In White<\/strong> Finally the rain stopped and to my surprise the fivepiece from Pennsylvania filled up the area in front of the stage. Supported by a digital backdrop mainly showing a crystal ball balancing in someone’s hand the crowd jumped and let follow the first wall of death of this weekend. To me it was the first time watching the band with its horror-make-up, others seemed to be more experienced singing along with the opener \u201c Disguise\u201d, \u201cScoring The End Of The World\u201d, \u201cVoices\u201d, \u201cReincarnate\u201d and \u201cEternally Yours\u201d.
Jinjer <\/strong>To have become a co-headliner of the Full Force Festival shows the rise ot the Ukrainian ambassadors in hard, groovy as experimental Metal. Starting with \u201cPerennial\u201d left no doubt how much they deserved it while getting celebrated by the motivated crowd which got in consequent motion by the following \u201cWords Of Wisdom\u201d, \u201cCall Me A Symbol\u201d and \u201cI Speak Astronomy\u201d. Lead by the variable voice and the presence of Tatjana Shmayluk the quartet totally convinced in front of the backdrop held in the Ukrainian colors blue and yellow.
Electric Callboy<\/strong> The Madmax Mainstage area got pretty filled up by curious supporters to celebrate their Electro Metal. From \u201cTekkno Train\u201d, \u201cMC Thunder (Dancing Like A Ninja)\u201d and \u201cSpaceman\u201d on the crowd jumped and sang along. To me this was a bit too party-orientated, but the audience was in the right mood for this. So animated by their two fronters Kevin and Nico the sixpack knew how to catch the crowd by the Cascada-cover \u201cEverytime We Touch\u201d the Scooter-reminder \u201cHypa Hypa\u201d as \u201cI Want It That Way\u201d (Backstreet Boys). So they finished 90 minutes of joy by the encores \u201cPump It\u201d and \u201cMindreader\u201d as by the bonus encore \u201cWe Got The Moves\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medusa Seastage<\/strong>
Spiritworld <\/strong>In front of the backdrop showing the cover of their current output \u201cDeathwestern\u201d the Thrash Metal formation from Las Vegas tried to animate the audience to move while rain on the beach which worked for a couple of headbangers in the first rows.
Unearth <\/strong>This worked much better with the Metalcore original from Boston with new compositions from their brandnew masterpiece \u201cThe Wretched: The Ruinous\u201d like its title song, \u201cInto The Abyss\u201d and \u201cDawn Of The Militant\u201d as classics like \u201cThe Great Dividers\u201d, \u201cGiles\u201d, \u201cBlack Hearts Now Reign\u201d and \u201cMy Will Be Done\u201d. It didn’t take long till the first circle-pit got started. Lead by the shouts of fronter Trevor Phipps and the riffs of guitarist Ken Susi they kept the crowd in motion by headbanging and moshpits during strong rain. Awesome!
ZSK <\/strong>A complete acoustically change was up to follow by the fourpiece from Berlin. Their Street Punk chilled the beach, on the other hand their was less party after the rain than it had been during the wet Metalcore show before.
Decapitated <\/strong>Back to brutal sounds: The technically skilled quartet from Poland attracted the headbangers back to the beach. And those ones got a lot to do to \u201cEarth Scar\u201d, \u201cLast Supper\u201d and \u201cSpheres Of Madness\u201d as the title track of their recent release \u201cCancer Culture\u201d.
Mantar <\/strong>The Sludge duet from Hamburg could have been the right act to create some evening atmosphere at the beach, but somehow this didn’t work that much. Just the first rows celebrated their static sound until \u201cEra Borealis\u201d and \u201cWhite Nights\u201d.
Bloodbath <\/strong>This worked much better during the following 50 minutes of pure Death Metal. The opener \u201cSo You Die\u201d made clear lots of necks were supposed to ache the next morning. Nick Holmes and his comrades created a brute atmosphere on the beach in the night by \u201cBreeding Death\u201d, \u201cOutnumbering The Day\u201d as \u201cCancer Of The Soul\u201d. Moshpits as headbangers everywhere turned the seaside to a battlefield, so the all-star-collaboration between Katatonia, Opeth and Paradise Lost fulfilled a brilliant set by \u201cCry My Name\u201d and \u201cEaten\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardbowl Tentstage<\/strong>
Terror <\/strong>The Hardcore institution from Los Angeles returned to Full Force and showed for another time why they are counted to one of the biggest icons of the Hardcore scene. Headlining the Hardbowl Tentstage shouter Scott Vogel and his four comrades inspired their supporters to jump and to take part in circle-pits to \u201cCan’t Help But Hate\u201d like the title track from their current output \u201cPain Into Power\u201d as to classics like \u201cOne With The Underdogs\u201d, \u201cAlways The Hard Way\u201d, \u201cStick Tight\u201d and \u201cKeepers Of The Faith\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mad Max Mainstage<\/strong>
Blind Channel <\/strong>The double-fronted sixpack from Finland were the right opener to spread positive vibes onto the festival ground. By the opener \u201cHappy Doomsday\u201d and \u201cFlatline\u201d they introduced two new songs from their forthcoming album. The present audience celebrated those ones as probably more familiar tracks as the final \u201cBalboa\u201d and \u201cDark Side\u201d. For sure they did by the Anastacia-cover \u201cLeft Outside Alone\u201d as the reactions of the audience showed.
Vended <\/strong>The band of the two sons of Corey Taylor and Shawn \u201cClown\u201d Craham from Slipknot, Griffin and Simon, who actually sing and drum in their band as well didn’t really surprise by performing some kind of Nu Metal. They attracted a couple of curious spectators that probably found out the sons aren’t even close to their fathers’ sound yet.
Lionheart <\/strong>After Terror the night before another one of the fewer West-Coast-Hardcore bands appeared on the peninsula. The fivepiece from Oakland grooved and thrilled by the newer \u201cHell On Earth\u201d and \u201cLive By The Gun\u201d as by classics like \u201cHail Mary\u201d and the finisher \u201cLHHC\u201d. Another highlight became their interpretation of Beasty Boys’ \u201cFight For Your Right\u201d.
While She Sleeps<\/strong> Like in 2019 Sheffield’s finest in Metalcore attracted lots of fans in front of the Mainstage. They started intensively by \u201cSleeps Society\u201d and \u201cAnti-Social\u201d. Numerous jumping fans, moshpits as singalongs supporting fronter Mat Welsh especially during \u201cYou Are We\u201d and \u201cSilence Speaks\u201d made these 50 minutes very furious ones. Just sad there was no time left to play \u201cKnow Your Worth (Somebody)\u201d.
Hatebreed <\/strong>The openers \u201cTo The Threshold\u201d and \u201cCall For Blood\u201d were the signal for the most active moshpits of the day. Lead by chief shouter Jamey Jasta the East Coast Hardcore fivepiece from Connecticut had quite a home game and kept their supporters in motion to their evergreens \u201cLive For This\u201d, \u201cThis Is Now\u201d and the final \u201cI Will Be Heard\u201d.
Gojira <\/strong>The main attraction of the day assembled lots of fans on the festival ground looking forward to theperformance of one of the most innovative bands in Metal. And after a countdown shown on the video walls those ones got caught from the first tones of \u201cBorn For One Thing\u201d after which the classic \u201cBackbone\u201d left no one in the audience passive by headbanging and\/or participating in the moshpits. Lead by the Duplantier-brothers behind the microphone and the drums the French quartet appeared on a multilevel-stage-set in front of the digital backdrop showing videos like the official one of \u201cAnother
World\u201d or illustrations like one completely held in red. In combination with the amazing light show and the smoke as fire effects \u201cStranded\u201d, \u201cFlying Whales\u201d, \u201cSilvera\u201d and \u201cThe Art Of Dying\u201d deployed its full effect. Before \u201cThe Chant\u201d vocalist Joe Duplantier taught the audience how to singalong by \u201cwhahaha\u201d instead of \u201cwhohoho\u201d which worked very fine as well during the song. So \u201cVacuity\u201d marked the end of the best show of the whole weekend as probably of the whole festival summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medusa Seastage<\/strong>
Milking The Goatmachine<\/strong> In front of five little single backdrops showing the band logo in the middle and goat faces combined with the make-ups of the band Kiss the fourpiece with the grunting drummer tried to wake up at the seaside by their Grindcore. Surprisingly many spectators were present to experience their personal \u201cDing Dong\u201d.
Konvent <\/strong>The following female band from Copenhagen surprised with deep as brutal Doom-Death. \u201cPipe Dreams\u201d and \u201cPuritan Masochism\u201d as the grunting voice of Rikke Emilie List left no doubt who reigned the beach.
Born Of Osiris <\/strong>After being sad about the canceled appearance of Loathe on the Seastage this feeling got totally blown away by the progressive Metalcore quintet from Illinois and the opener \u201cBow Down\u201d. \u201ePoster Child\u201c, \u201eAngel Or Alien\u201c as \u201eWhite Nile\u201c showed the new material from their current album kills, too. Lead by fronter Ronnie Canizaro and the agile keyboarder\/co-shouter Joe Buras the motivated fans applauded and participated in moshpits. So \u201cOpen Arms To Damnation\u201d and \u201cMachine\u201d marked the end of a successful performance.
Insomnium <\/strong>There probably wasn’t any band matching that much with the Seastage as the quartet from the land of the thousand lakes. Especially in the evening their stage set with the white trees on the back drop created some tremendous atmosphere. By its title song, \u201cWhite Christ\u201d, \u201cGodforsaken\u201d and \u201cLilian\u201d the Finns considered half of the set from their new album \u201c1696\u201d. Those ones worked pretty well, the classics \u201cWhile We Sleep\u201d and \u201cMortal Share\u201d even did better showing much headbanging action on as in front of the stage.
Igorr <\/strong>The experimental fourpiece from Paris showed their mixture consisting of nearly everything between Death Metal and Electronic Music. By time this sounded a bit too confused, meanwhile Sleep Token were the much better option at the Tentstage to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardbowl Tentstage<\/strong>
Dog Eat Dog<\/strong> The Crossover heroes from the 90ies were supposed to have kind of an home game at the Hardbowl, but the tent wasn’t really crowded, maybe because they got confirmed a few weeks before replacing another band. The fivepiece including saxophonist performed motivated and obviously enjoyed to let the present supporters move to \u201cWho’s The King?\u201d as \u201cPull My Finger\u201d. Fronter John Connor also announced to remember the passed former guitarist Sean Kilkenny. \u201cRocky\u201d and the band hymn \u201cNo Fronts\u201d left no doubt about the band’s still able to rock.
Sleep Token<\/strong> The masked shooting stars from London filled up the tent, so on each side there were lots of curious spectators when the quartet opened by \u201cChokehold\u201d, besides \u201cGranite\u201d, the brutal \u201cVore\u201d, \u201cThe Summoning\u201d and \u201cRain\u201d from their new masterpiece \u201cTake Me Back To Eden\u201d. For even those new ones the audience majorly seemed to know the lyrics they sang with vocalist Vessel. They celebrated classics like \u201cAlkaline\u201d \u201eThe Offering\u201c or \u201cHigher\u201d as well, so this became a triumphant show. Next time they’ll
surely appear on the Mainstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mad Max Mainstage<\/strong>
Stray From The Path<\/strong> It was up to the New York City Hardcore fourpiece to start the last day’s action on the Mainstage. And they did well, from the opener \u201cNeedful Things\u201d on the energetic shouter \u201cDrew York\u201d ran and jumped over the stage, and so did the crowd in front of it. Their social as political issues in songs like \u201cGoodnight Alt-Right\u201d and \u201cFirst World Problem Child\u201d matched as well, so this was a good start into the final day.
Skindred <\/strong>In front of a backdrop showing several amps and the band logo the Welsh Reggae Metal commando seemed to enthuse every present person on the festival ground. By the opener \u201cSet Fazers\u201d and \u201cL.O.V.E. (Smile Please)\u201d they even let the people interact with two new as still unreleased songs from the forthcoming album. By \u201cRat Race\u201d, \u201cKill The Power\u201d, \u201cPressure\u201d, the final \u201cWarning\u201d, some T-Shirt-action and several \u201cWhoopwhoops\u201d by fronter Benji Webbe this show entertained pretty well.
Spiritbox <\/strong>The time had come to watch the shooting stars from Vancouver around ex-members ofI wrestledabearonce and As I Lay Dying. Many spectators seemed to be curious about that moving, jumping and singing along from the start consisting of \u201cRule Of Nines\u201d and \u201cHurt You\u201d on. The tight show became even more sympathic when vocalist Courtney LaPlante emphasized they don’t give the audience instructions what to do, they should decide themselves what to do. After \u201cSecret Garden\u201d and the much celebrated \u201cCircle With Me\u201d they performed Holy Roller together with the fronter of Stray From The Path, \u201cDrew York\u201d. Hopefully we’ll see them again soon.
The Halo Effect<\/strong> The next formation with just one debut album, but many well-known musicians was about to rock the Mainstage area. The collaboration of (ex-)members from In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. Actually guitarist Jesper Str\u00f6mblad was missing, Jensen from The Haunted replaced him while bassist Peter Iwers appeared with a leg splint. Of course their setlist mainly consisted of songs from their \u201cDays Of The Lost\u201d – debut record from the opening title track to the final \u201cShadowmind\u201d. In the middle of their set the Swedes introduced by \u201cBecome Surrender\u201d one song from the next album. Lead by the agile as usual front entertainer Mikael Stanne this show thrilled a lot.
Meshuggah <\/strong>The slow intro including switching lights to each tone showed the mighty Tech Death masters were coming to start with \u201cBroken Cog\u201d. From then on there was a moshpit in front of the stage raging on and on. By \u201cLigature Marks\u201d and \u201cThe Abysmal Eye\u201d further compositions of the recent album \u201cImmutable\u201d got considered. The charismatic as unique riffs of the sixstringers, the exactly tight rhythm section and the vocals of Jens Kidman left no wish open. The cool light show and the varying stage set supported this first class show. Highlights became \u201cRational Gaze\u201d, \u201cDemiurge\u201d and the final classic \u201cFuture Breed machine\u201d closing an outstanding show. In the end Jens Kidman asked the crowd to stay alive to meet again. Okay, we’ll do so.
Papa Roach<\/strong> What should follow after this? The fourpiece from Sacramento which showed an energetic performance from the oepener \u201cKill The Noise\u201d on. The band played tight and fronter Jacoby Shaddix entertained very well leaving no doubt they deserve the headliner slot. \u201cGetting Away With Murder\u201d, \u201cBetween Angels And Insects\u201d and \u201cBroken Home\u201d including some Rap-beginning got enormously celebrated as their interpretation of Prodigy’s \u201cFirestarter\u201d did. So the band hymn \u201cLast Resort\u201d finished a strong headliner show as another excellent Full Force Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardbowl Tentstage<\/strong>
Aviana <\/strong>The Djent-\/Metalcore-quartet from Gothenburg attracted an astonishing number of visitors in the afternoon. And they didn’t just come to watch, band as them harmonized brilliant mainly celebrating songs from their new album \u201cCorporation\u201d. Just the \u201cEpicenter\u201d-tracks \u201cErased\u201d and \u201cMy Worst Enemy\u201d made it into the setlist. In front of his masked bandmates vocalist Joel Holmquist convinced shouting, singing as entertaining. So after the melodic \u201cAnomaly\u201d and the harder \u201cObsession\u201d the fronter counted to three and asked the crowd then to shout \u201cSchei\u00dfe\u201d for the final photo.
Landmvrks <\/strong>After the successful show at Full Force last year the organizers invited the fivepiece from Marseille to rock the Tentstage again. And so they did beginning by \u201cLost In A Wave\u201d and \u201cRainfall\u201d. During \u201cDeath\u201d vocalist Florent Salfati got support by Stray From The Path \u2013 fronter \u201cDrew York\u201d. The following \u201cVisage\u201d as \u201cSay No Word\u201d became further highlights for the jumping and shouting fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backyard Stage<\/strong>
Our Mirage<\/strong> The quartet enthused by their melodic sound. Singer Timo Bonner announced how glad they were to be in Ferropolis which was easy to see as well. Mainly considering songs from their recent release \u201cEclipse\u201d the highlight of the show became the jump-interaction for \u201cHelp Me Out\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>
The four-stage-concept got well-established since last year. Band cancelations got managed as replaced well by the organizers. Besides that the organization worked well for another time by taking care about the safety of the visitors while the windstorm on thursday as by offering enough water supply over the sunny hot weekend. Besides that the awareness team was there for visitors feeling unsecure or needing help in any way.
The prices stayed the same as in 2022 (e.g. 5,50 \u20ac for 0,4 l beer), the variety of food guaranteed a big choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our special thanks go out to Tobias Zwiebel, Vincenzo Sarnelli, Matthias Lumm, Good Live GmbH and the FF-team!
In the city of iron rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi and Wirwa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Full Force After returning to live action with the first as successful post-pandemic edition one year before Full Force rocked the city of iron again. More than good to know our Ferropolis-fave becomes quite regular again as it had been before.In its very beginning the 2023-edition had to deal with some strong rain, so the … <\/p>\n

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