{"id":463,"date":"2011-03-09T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2011-03-09T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:05:15","slug":"summer-breeze-2005-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/new.metal-festivals.com\/?page_id=463","title":{"rendered":"Summer Breeze 2005 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer Breeze 2005<\/strong>
\nFor another time the Summer Breeze symbolised the conclusion of a great festival summer. The weather was pretty different. Hot sunshine alternated with rainy phases. But the conditions were much better than 2004 and will hopefully return to the usual sunshine-festival in 2006 as we know. Then the Summer Breeze which was sold out on all three days will perhaps take place on another bigger area. But these are still rumors. We\u2019ll keep you informed in our news-section.
\nAt the Summer Breeze 2005 played 60 bands on two stages which rotated with each other for 12000 visitors.<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/em>
\nBorn From Pain<\/strong> Metalcore is another evidence for the successful integration of different new styles on the festival\u2019s billing. After Heaven Shall Burn in 2004 and Cataract last year the organizers noticed their acceptance those bands earned from the open-minded Summer Breeze-audience. So this year four Metalcore \/ Hardcore – bands stood on the festival-billing. The first were the Metalcore-attack from the Netherlands. They presented by \u201cJudgement\u201d and \u201cThe New Hate\u201d new stuff from the \u201cIn Love With The End\u201d-album which convinced the crowd as older material like the \u201cSands Of Time\u201d-smasher \u201cDay Of The Scorpio\u201d. So while the appearance of the sympathic and very active fivepiece the first moshpit of the festival got created.<\/p>\n

The Bones<\/strong> This moshpit was continued while the Swedish Punkrockers surprised with their cool show. \u201cHey Baby\u201d, \u201cDo You Wanna\u201d and \u201cSlick\u201d made the decision easy to stay and to party with the crow. The main voice switched between three band members (except for the drummer) and with their attitude the band took care of a good mood.on the spectaors\u2019 side. But the next time the musicians should be better informed before asking the question: \u201cHow do you feel in Bavaria?\u201d Anyway: Cool performance which found the spectators\u2019 acceptance pretty soon!<\/p>\n

Pink Cream 69<\/strong> Then the time had come for Melodic Metal \/ Hardrock. Karlsruhe\u2019s finest opened with the title track of their latest release \u201cThunderdome\u201d. Classics like the following \u201cDo You Like It Like That\u201d or \u201cTalk To The Moon\u201d are made to be played on festivals, but somehow in the beginning of the set most people didn\u2019t really care about. Because of their live power the band around the wonderful voice of David Readman won more and more interested spectators which finally celebrated \u201cShame\u201d, \u201cKeep Your Eye On The Twisted\u201d ( including singalong-games between band and fans), a Reggae-medley and the Police-cover \u201cSo Lonely\u201d.<\/p>\n

Therion <\/strong>It was a long time ago I had seen the bombastic Swedish band which got supported from three female and one male classic singers. The metal-vocals were sung by the well-known Mats Lev\u00e9n (At Vance, ex-Abstrakt Algebra, ex-Treat, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, etc.). With \u201cBlood Of Kingu\u201d and \u201cUthark Runa\u201d the formation around mastermind Christoffer Johnsson started into a one hour lasting best of-program consisting of \u201cInvocation Of Naamah\u201d, \u201cRiders Of Theli\u201d, \u201cSeven Secrets Of The Sphinx\u201dand \u201cThe Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrha\u201d. While some fans were disappointed because of the more dominant bombastic element in Therions\u2019s sound most supporters celebrated one of the most innovative bands of the Gothic Metal-scene. So whith their biggest hit \u201cTo Mega Therion\u201d the musicians dismissed a happy audience.<\/p>\n

Amon Amarth<\/strong> To this appearance I need to conclude: The same procedure as every month (or even weak)! After I had seen them on this year\u2019s Rock Hard Festival, Bang Your Head and Party San I watched the vikings for the fourth time in the festival summer. By \u201cAn Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm\u201d and \u201cPursuit Of Vikings\u201d from the current \u201cFate Of Norns\u201d-longplayer and supported by a clear sound fronter Johann Hegg & Co won the crowd easily. As no band of the world plays four totally different shows in ten weeks of course many things repeated. But objectively I need to recognize the very sympathic fivepiece were the right headliner for the first festival\u2019s day. So they finished by their hit \u201cVictorious March\u201d a much jubilated show. Actually there were no doubts, just convinced metalheads!<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/em>
\nImpious <\/strong>After years dwelling in the underground the Death Metal-fivepiece from Saab-hometown Trollh\u00e4ttan got a Metal Blade-deal where they had released \u201cHellucinations\u201d. So they showed their excellent live-qualities mainly by songs from this record (\u201cInject\u201d, \u201cWicked Saints\u201d, \u201cShow Me Your God!\u201d) as by their wild live-show. Cheers to the band that also knows how to party!<\/p>\n

Macabre <\/strong>After this appearance I can stress: I don\u2019t share the fascination about this trio! The singalongs of their average Speed \/ Death Metal may be special, but that\u2019s it! And comedy stories about serial killers like Jeffrey Dahlmer may correspond to somebody\u2019s flavour, but not to mine. Besides that this performance was a total disappointment!<\/p>\n

Haggard <\/strong>Another disappointment became the appearance of the formerly innovative Bavarian band around Asis Nasseri. The Pain Stage was pretty crowded by the 16 musicians who performed a greatest hits-program. But like a few weeks before on the With Full Force the show offered nothing inspiring and the female singers outed themselves again as enemies of some melodies. In the end they got stopped in the middle of a song because of exceeding the curfew.<\/p>\n

Friday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/em>
\nEmil Bulls<\/strong> For the second time after 2002 the Crossover-band appeared on the Summer Breeze. Since then I haven\u2019t heard anything about them before they returned to Abtsgm\u00fcnd and succeeded. Again they impressed with an intense performance supported by a grooving sound. Especially the Megadeth-cover \u201cSymphony Of Destruction\u201d earned the support of the most spectators.<\/p>\n

Dark Tranquillity<\/strong> A highlight became the appearance of the G\u00f6teborg-Melodic Death Metal-icon. Neverminding the rain the band around Mr Activity Mikael Stanne became celebrated from the opener \u201cThe Treason Wall\u201d on. They also presented a couple of songs from the new album \u201cCharacter\u201d like \u201cLost To Apathy\u201d, \u201cThrough Smudged Lenses\u201d, \u201cThe New Build\u201d and \u201cMy Negation\u201d. The band concentrated on younger classics like the opener, \u201cWhite Noise, Black Silence\u201d, \u201cThe Wonders At your Feet\u201d, \u201cMonochromatic Stains\u201d, \u201cThereIn\u201d and the (in its deepest sense) final \u201cFinal Resistance\u201d to which the crowd went as crazy as they had done to the only performed oldie \u201cPunish My Heaven\u201d before. This time they didn\u2019t play the live-evergreen \u201cHedon\u201d. A very strong song choice just consisting of killers! And a killer show in deed!\u201d<\/p>\n

Opeth <\/strong>To me as to many other fans the Progressive Death Metal-band from Stockholm was the true headliner! Starting with \u201cDeliverance\u201d the enormous crowd celebrated one of the nowadays most innovative bands of hard music. Hits like \u201cThe Drapery Falls\u201d, the \u201cDamnation\u201d-ballad \u201cTo Rid The Disease\u201d, the new opus \u201cThe Grand Canjuration\u201d from the forthcoming album \u201cGhost Reveries\u201d and the set closing and fan-fave \u201cDemon Of The Fall\u201d made the decision easy to headbang and to party. The humour of frontman Mikael Akerfeldt seemed to be too difficult for the supporters being in ecstasy. Nobody understood when he passed the ball with the chorus of Manowar\u2019s \u201cMetal Warriors\u201d to the supporters to complete it. The guest-drummer Martin Axenrot (known from Bloodbath) fitted to the line-up like the new keyboarder Per Wiberg. Despite my high expectations Opeth ruled whith one of the very best shows of this year\u2019s festival-summer!<\/p>\n

In Extremo<\/strong> One of the biggest medieval Folk Rock\/Metal-formations or maybe even the biggest one began with \u201cErdbeermund\u201d and \u201cHiemali Tempore\u201d and were supported by one of the hugest audiences with a high portion of women. Besides introdocing a few tracks from the new \u201cMein Rasend Herz\u201d-output like the title track \u201cPoc Vecem\u201d and \u201cNur Ihr Allein\u201d of course they preferred playing classics like \u201cVollmond\u201d, \u201cSpielmannsfluch\u201d, \u201cOmnia Sol Temperat\u201d, \u201cGier\u201d, \u201cAi Vis A Lo Lop\u201d, \u201cPal\u00e4stinalied\u201d and \u201cHerr Mannelig\u201d. People felt animated to dance and party. Supported by a lot of pyro effects this performance should have satisfied all show approaches. For another time the band gave all to make their fans happy and after 75 minutes a cool show was done.<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/em>
\nMaroon <\/strong>It was up to the Metalcore-fivepiece from Th\u00fcringen to be my personal wake up-call Friday morning and this plan shouldn\u2019t fail. From the first tone there was action on stage as in front of it. This was necessary because of the 30 minutes the band just had. Shouter Andr\u00e9 Moraweck outed himself again as a spitting front-lama and a wonderful entertainer: \u201cHallo \u00d6sterreich (Hello Austria)!\u201d And they were one of the few lucky Friday-bands playing while sunshine.<\/p>\n

Norther <\/strong>Melodic Death Metal similar to Children Of Bodom was celebrated in the afternoon. Of course I\u2019m talking about the Finnish band Norther around fronter Petri Lindroos who is also known from his second group Ensiferum. They won many people to support them and showed the reproach only being a copy of COB is exaggerated. The band I also enjoyed supporting Dimmu Borgir and Hypocrisy on club tour a few years ago convinced me again.<\/p>\n

The Exploited <\/strong>After the phenomenal Opeth-appearance on the Main Stage usually the British Punks couldn\u2019t have impressed me. But with their simple attitude they actually did. And obviously most visitors had been caught by the performance of the hyperactive fronter Wattie and Punk-hymns like \u201cFuck The System\u201d, \u201cBeat The Bastards\u201d and \u201cSex & Violence\u201d because suddenly most people were singing its simple choruses. There weren\u2019t that many Punks or The Exploited-fans around. Cool gig!<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong>
\nMain Stage<\/em>
\nBarcode <\/strong>My saturday\u2019s wake up-call was the Hardcore-institution Barcode from Aarhus who brought stuff from the new album \u201cShowdown\u201d. The boys including Hatesphere-fronter Jacob Bredahl who played guitar had fun acting on stage and motivated some madmen to create a moshpit between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. Is this the new world record of the earliest moshpit? With the final Judas Priest-cover \u201cBreaking The Law\u201d they appreciated the metal-factor of this festival.<\/p>\n

Caliban <\/strong>In the afternoon the metalcore-genre leaders welcomed a big audience. By \u201cRevenge\u201d from the new \u201cThe Split Program 2\u201d (a split-cd shared with the other leading German Metalcore-band Heaven Shall Burn) as by \u201cI\u2019ve Sold Myself\u201d, \u201cSenseless Fight\u201d, \u201cMy Little Secret\u201d, \u201cStigmata\u201d (including a wall of death) and the last played song and new hit \u201cThe Beloved And The Hatred\u201d the fivepiece feeded the hungry crowd. Combined with classics like \u201cForsaken Horizon\u201d and some organized circlepits the fans had the opportunity to freak out. The new fourstringer Marco replacing Boris who had decided to concentrate on his own band Deadsoil fitted to the band. Just the backing vocals of guitarist Denis weren\u2019t the real thing. For several times he missed the tones, in contrast to my neighbour who surprised me singing all vocals clearly whithout missing one tone. Not every band can call such fans their own.<\/p>\n

Such A Surge<\/strong> In contrast to the nowadays esteemed Caliban Such A Surge\u2019s very successful era happened in the end of the 90ies. But the music hadn\u2019t changed whether the group around the two fronters Olli and Michel is trendy or not. After all the rain there had developped a little pond in front of the stage. By the title \u201cAlles Muss Raus\u201d some madmen got animated to jump through it most time of the gig. Like that one the group concentrated on material of the younger days. Courageous because to noone\u2019s surprise they earned the most support for their rare played classics like \u201cUnder Pressure\u201d, \u201cGegen Den Strom\u201d and \u201cSchatten\u201d. Besides that fronter Michel and bassist Axel were spontaneous and appeared with corpsepaint. Nice joke!<\/p>\n

Subway To Sally<\/strong> For the first time a festival band which didn\u2019t own a headliner position took care just to let exclusive partners in the photo pit. Because of the rain-caused sea in the Main Stage photo-pit most media didn\u2019t care. But by the way this behaviour is more than ridiculous. The show was much better than their 2003-Summer Breeze headliner-appearance had been. While their openers \u201cVeitstanz\u201d and \u201cKnochenschiff\u201d they had fight against a horrible sound which got improved while the next numbers. By \u201c7\u201d the Potsdam-sevenpiece introduced the new single from the album \u201cNordNord Ost\u201d two days before its release date. The rest of the concert Eric Fish layed an accent on their Folk Rock\/Metal-classics like \u201cMephisto\u201d, \u201cHenkersbraut\u201d and the oldie \u201cSag Dem Teufel\u201d animating the bunch of people to participate in the singalongs. With \u201cFalscher Heiland\u201d and the often demanded \u201cJulia Und Die R\u00e4uber\u201d the sevenpiece closed a jubilated show.<\/p>\n

J.B.O.<\/strong> The Comedy Metal-band from Erlangen appeared for the third time in Abtsgm\u00fcnd. Despite some routine aspects \u2018the pinkest band ever\u2019 became celebrated for another time. From their first title and Manowar-hommage \u201cVerteidiger Des Wahren Bl\u00f6dsinns\u201d over the Luciano Pavarotti meets Sepultura-version of \u201cRoots Bloody Roots\u201d as the own compositions \u201cBolle\u201d and \u201cEin Guter Tag Zum Sterben\u201d till the final song \u201cEin Fest\u201d (held in the melody of the Pet Shop Boys-hit \u201cGo West): The spectators were amused and partied which was probably the best way to forget the rainy day and the wet clothes.<\/p>\n

Lacuna Coil<\/strong> After two years being on tour, mainly in the USA including the Ozzfest, the sympathic Italians had evolved a lot. So the headliner position was absolutely justified. They mainly focussed on their still current longplayer \u201cComalies\u201d by \u201cSwamped\u201d, \u201cHumane\u201d, \u201cTight Rope\u201d and the final video-single \u201cHeaven\u2019s A Lie\u201d. But also the older albums found their consideration by \u201cNo Need To Explain\u201d, \u201cMy Wings\u201d, \u201cHalflife\u201d, \u201cSenzafine\u201d and \u201cTo Live Is To Hide\u201d. Milano\u2019s finest attracted a number of fans and let them go crazy like I had never expected it. The very tight and profedsional evolved band around female (Christina Scabbia) and male (Andrea Ferro) singers also presented a very interesting song which showed the band\u2019s progress they had made while their US-tours. It had some alternative so-called Nu Metal-parts without denying Lacuna Coil\u2019s roots. By the way it was also interesting to observe how especially young female fans in the first rows held up high self-labeled transparents with inscriptions I usually expect at casting-band-shows. Anyway, the new song as the whole concert made me curious about their forthcoming album!<\/p>\n

Pain Stage<\/em>
\nSuidakra <\/strong>What happened? After their triumphal shows as last year\u2019s Dong Open Air-headliner and on Wacken\u2019s smallest stage this year I expected another live-triumph in Abtsgm\u00fcnd by the Melodic Death Metal-fivepiece from D\u00fcsseldorf. But somehow it didn\u2019t work. Although supported by a piper their performance became boring by the time. Guitarist Matthias apologized himself to some backstage-catering-persons because of his behaviour the night before. Whatever happened, short time after the festival he got kicked out of the band for some personal reasons. Hopefully the next time they can entertain more musically!<\/p>\n

Disbelief <\/strong>The perhaps best German Dark Metal-band of our times came with a new killer album with the nice title \u201c66Sick\u201d and played a well-balanced set between songs from this release like \u201cSick\u201d or \u201cRewind It All (Death Or Glory)\u201d and older ones like the \u201dSpreading The Rage\u201d – video-single \u201cTo the Sky\u201d or the oldie \u201cGod? Master!\u201d from the self-titled debut-longplayer and left no live-action-wishes open. The only obstacle was the rain. But those fans who decided to stay got rewarded by fronter Jagger and Co with a fantastic gig.<\/p>\n

Symphorce <\/strong>While the other band of Brainstorm-singer Andy B. Franck it really rained a lot. And also this formation kicked ass with original Power Metal like there is no other in Germany except for … Brainstorm. Andy showed his agillity again running around always busy to entertain the crowd supported by his brilliant voice. His bandmates took also care about the stage-action and with \u201cNowhere\u201d they offered a brandnew song. And so they finally reached their goal to let the people forget about the weather for 45 minutes. My personal irony was: I had three opportunities to watch Symphorce on a Summer Breeze-festival (2001, 2003, 2005) and of course I reached my goal while that appearance when just the monsun was coming down. Whatever, they were worth it!<\/p>\n

End Of Green<\/strong> This band from the close town of Aalen had been a steady guest in Abtsgm\u00fcnd. And this year they should perform an especially strong show while the place in front of the Pain Stage was crowded. The fivepiece presented songs from the new great longplayer by \u201cNo Coming Home\u201d, \u201cDead End Hero\u201d and \u201cDrink Myself To Sleep\u201d to which they got celebrated as to the hits of their former albums like \u201cHighway 69\u201d and \u201cDeath In Veins\u201d. The band was happy throwing a lot of T-Shirts into the audience. A very strong appearance!<\/p>\n

Tristania <\/strong>The Norwegians showed like they had done in Wacken two weeks before they had found back to their old live-form. Front-beauty Vibeke Stene was supported by two male vocals again and caught many male eyes with her moves on stage. Besides performing some new \u201cAshes\u201d-material it – of course – were the older tracks like some \u201cBeyond The Veil\u201d-material and the debut-track \u201cAngina\u201d which got played as the last title sounding more familiar and earning the loudest reactions.<\/p>\n

Pain <\/strong>First of all PeterT\u00e4gtgren\u2019s Electric Metal-band surprised by female musicians on guitar as on bass, actually both are even from Germany. Whatever: Most men being the latest two hours before visually spoiled by Vibeke Stene and Christina Scabbia didn\u2019t feel bad about this change. Musically the fourpiece started into a furious set by \u201cSupersonic Bitch\u201d and \u201cEnd Of The Line\u201d. With the title track, \u201cBye \/ Die\u201d and \u201cSame Old Song\u201d they also introduced material from the new album \u201cDancing With The Dead\u201d, covered The Beatles by their familiar interpretation of \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d and of course their set contained a best of-section with hits like \u201cGreed\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s Only Them\u201d, \u201cShut Your Mouth\u201d and the set finishing \u201cOn And On\u201d and \u201cSuicide Machine\u201d. After their first Summer Breeze-appearance in 2002 when they finished Friday this year Pain closed the whole festival, both of course on the fitting Pain Stage. And almost like three years ago it was a cool gig!<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>
\nMy personal little jubileum of my fifth Summer Breeze became one cool party agai!. It also set the conclusion of the summer festival season for another time. The weather was much better than the year before, but it wasn\u2019t the familiar Summer Breeze-holiday-heat like usually. Nevertheless the festival felt like holiday again because of a nice as relaxed Summer Breeze-team and visitors fulfilling the same qualities. About the speculations if the organizers will move to another bigger place than in Abtsgm\u00fcnd we can just imagine it will be a hard decision anyway: A bigger festival ground could guarantee the opportunity to host more visitors, camping grounds directly right next to the festivalsite and generally more new organizing options. On the other hand the old place has been one important factor for the typical Summer Breeze-flair and most of the nice helpers come from there or neighbour towns and villages. Like I pointed out it will be a hard decision! Anyway we will be there to keep you informed celebrating the 2006-edition of the Summer Breeze wherever it will take place! See you there!<\/p>\n

A very special thanks go out to David Gregori, Andrea Blum & Timo and the brothers Grimm (no joke, that are their names)!!!!!
\nAt the Summer Breeze 2005 rocked, drank and partied Tobi Wan Kenobi, Issel, Linda and B\u00f6rgers!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer Breeze 2005 For another time the Summer Breeze symbolised the conclusion of a great festival summer. The weather was pretty different. Hot sunshine alternated with rainy phases. But the conditions were much better than 2004 and will hopefully return to the usual sunshine-festival in 2006 as we know. Then the Summer Breeze which was … <\/p>\n

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