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Photos online

The first photos are online, check them on Caroline Traitler Photography’s facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/photopit

More pics will follow!

Big thanks to Caroline!

Authorities had to cancel BEHEMOTH and KREATOR shows yesterday due to heavy rain!

Due to the heavy rain yesterday (Thursday) authorities had to cancel the shows of BEHEMOTH and KREATOR, since „the physical safety of visitors could not be guaranteed anymore“, according to the statement of the official safety authority office in charge.

We would have loved to present both bands to you and have them do their shows as planned of course, but there´s nothing we or anyone could have done about it.

Today the program continues as planned and the show goes on with IN EXTREMO, W.A.S.P, FEAR FACTORY, DARK TRANQUILLITY, STEELWING and many others…

Running order Metalfest AT:

Tickets are available at the festival box office!

We´ll see you at METALFEST! Have fun and a great time there!

IN METAL WE TRUST!

Today festival kick off in Dessau and Mining with Megadeth, W.A.S.P., Hypocrisy, Kreator, Behemoth, Kyuss Lives! and many others!

Finally, today´s the METALFEST kick off in Dessau and Mining as they open their festival gates! 3 days of pure entertainment at its best! And it starts right away with some true highlights such as the performances of Megadeth, W.A.S.P, Hypocrisy, Kreator, Behemoth, Kyuss Lives! and so on… Check out the killer line up and running order for both festivals here:

Tickets are available at the festivals box offices!

We´ll see you at METALFEST! Have fun and a great time there!

IN METAL WE TRUST!

Please note:
Unfortunately KRYPTERIA had to cancel all Metalfest appearances due to illness of their singer. We wish her all the best, get well soonest!

Official Metalfest trailer:

Krypteria had to cancel

Unfortunately KRYPTERIA had to cancel all Metalfest appearances due to illness of their singer. We wish her all the best, get well soonest!

Only 2 days to go until Metalfest! Tickets at the box offices available! Tomorrow warm-up day!

Only two more days to go until the party of the year in Dessau and Mining kicks off and it´s again: IN METAL WE TRUST! Already tomorrow there´ll be a warm-up day with lots of heavy music and program at both events:

Aftershow-Bash in Mining:

In Mining, the aftershow DJ tent tomorrow and Thursday is hosted by DJs of Escape Metalcorner Vienna and Friday/Saturday by DJs of Wurmfestival. Look forward to a killer party marathon with the greatest heavy music blasting!

Tickets are available at the festivals box offices

We´ll see you at METALFEST!

IN METAL WE TRUST!

Buildup photos online

The first buildup photos from Mining are online.

Check them here:

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More coming soon

Weather check! Sunny outlook!

You can hardly wait to kick off this Summer´s festival season? You want the sun to shine bright and have an icecold beer while listening to some fine metal tunes? Alright then, all that you can enjoy in one week from now at METALFEST Dessau and Mining, since the weather forecast has promised perfect festival weather for all metalheads!

Mining:
http://www.wetter.com/wetter_aktuell/wettervorhersage/16_tagesvorhersage/?id=ATAT30375

Couldn´t be better, so be there at METALFEST with a killer line-up and perfect sunny weather! The weather forecast for Metalfest Loreley we´ll announce next week then, closer to the event.

Tickets are available at the festivals box offices, at all official eventim pre-sale offices or online via www.eventim.de

Ticket links via eventim.de:

Metalfest Mining:
http://www.eventim.de

Signing sessions times announced! Tickets available at the festivals box offices or online at eventim.de!

In about one week it´s finally METALFEST time! See the final signing session times for all bands and festivals below:

Be there and make sure to meet and greet your favorite bands! KREATOR for instance will give away a poster for free, exclusive and limited, while stock lasts!

Tickets are available at the festivals box offices, at all official eventim pre-sale offices or online via www.eventim.de

Ticket links via eventim.de:

We´ll see you at METALFEST!

Ticket pre-sale will end this coming Monday! Get your tickets now!!!

Get your tickets for this year´s festival highlight now – Special price fan-package with ticket, shirt and CD available! 1-day-tickets are also available now for only 42 Euros plus pre-sale fee, and 50,00 Euros at the festivals box office.

The pre-sale for Dessau and Mining will end on Monday, May 21st and on Monday, May 28th for Metalfest Loreley! So you had better go straight to www.hardticket.eu to order your tickets for a special offer and price right now!

We´ll see you at METALFEST!

IN METAL WE TRUST!

Exclusive KREATOR signing sessions with free and limited poster!

KREATOR will unleash their new beast called „Phantom Antichrist“ on June 1st and will not only play exclusive festival shows at METALFEST but also do exclusive signing sessions. There you are able to grab a free and limited KREATOR poster (while stock lasts), so be there!

Confirmed signing time:

Metalfest Mining: 15.00 – 16.00 h

Find more new KREATOR stuff here:

Video:

Lyric Video:

1. Trailer

2. Trailer:

 

Aftershow-Parties with DJ-Teams

Aftershow-Bash in Mining:

In Mining, the aftershow DJ tent on Wednesday and Thursay is hosted by DJs of Escape Metalcorner Vienna and Friday/Saturday by DJs of Wurmfestival. Look forward to a killer party marathon with the greatest heavy music blasting!

Running order available! Single/daily tickets now available for pre-order!

The RUNNING ORDER of Metalfest Germany and Austria is now available. Check the following link for the exact time tables:

Starting today single/daily tickets for the festivals can be purchased for a price of 42,00 Euros plus pre-sale fee. At the festivals´ box office the single/daily tickets will be available for 50,00 Euros.

Official METALFEST 2012 trailer:

METALFEST 2012 – 6 new bands announced! Eluveitie, Heidevolk, Omnium Gatherum, Leng Tch’e and others!

ELUVEITIE

Swiss folk-metal-maniacs ELUVEITIE started a new, aspiring and flourishing era of heathen metal – “New Wave Of Folk Metal” – with their output “Spirit”, released in 2006, and turned everything upside down within the whole scene. Influenced by Celtic music and mysticism, this pagan circle reached to unite two total different styles. ELUVEITIE play traditional, authentic folk combined with modern melodic death metal in the classical Göteborg-vein. Nevertheless the band also concentrates on topics and stories behind their songs, which are about the daily life and the spirituality of the Helvetic Celtic tribe, like they did on their masterpiece “Everything Remains (As It Never Was)”. They just released another chart breaking album called „Helvetios“ and they are in perfect shape after the Paganfest tour to rule at METALFEST 2012!

HEIDEVOLK

The warrior-sextet of HEIDEVOLK is characterized by undeviating love to mother nature and the pagan spirit within. This pagan horde hailing from the Dutch Gelderland fights for its believe in heathenism, always rising up high the flag of Wotan and the gods of war. Now the group is ready to enter the battle at METALFEST 2012, prepared to write history once again. Armed with axes, swords and drinking horns, this faithful brothership join this march of the century. Their new album „Batavi“ is out now!

OMNIUM GATHERUM

Since 2002 OMNIUM GATHERUM are an active component within the metal-scene and provide Finnish coldness in progressive outfits to their fans. Enthralling melodies, bold death metal brutality and highly imaginative progressive-passages are only some of the band’s most highlighted qualities. “New World Shadows” is the title of the creative quintet’s brandnew album, which abounds in modern and breathtaking metal-hymns. Mixed by death-metal-grandmaster Dan Swanö, this magnum opus is definitely the most complex and sophisticated work of music within the band’s releases. A must-have for all fans of dark and aggressive sounds! Get yourself also convinced of the live-performance-power of OMNIUM GATHERUM at METALFEST!

LENG TCH‘E

The Belgian town Gent could be so lovely and peaceful – if a band like LENG TCH`E hadn`t decided to show up and piss on everybody`s party! The grindcore veterans who named themselves after a Chinese torture method in 2001 aren´t afraid of ickiness – especially not in musical terms! Not only did the brutal yet groovy aural onslaughts skyrocket to new heights on cult albums such as “The Process Of Elimination”, the band could also celebrate “10 Years Of Razor Grind” in 2011. Currently the boys are working on new material for the successor to “Hypomanic”. Submit to the torture of LENG TCH`E at the METALFEST open airs in Dessau / Germany and Mining am Inn / Austria – pain and pleasure will melt into one!

TOUGH MOTION

„Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof“ is German for something like „Life`s no piece of cake“, and it`s so nice a band finally named an album just that! Austrian act TOUGH MOTION picked that title in 2011 and you could love `em for that alone! Of course you should also embrace their stomping crossover sound that they enrich with harsh German lyrics and electronic elements. This places our underground heroes – who have played shitloads of energetic live shows since they started out in 1998 – in the vicinity of big names like RAMMSTEIN or MARILYN MANSON: they deliver a hefty mixture that`s suitable for both eclectic dancing and headbanging to the crowd at the METALFEST open air in Austria 2012!

FIVE MINUTE FALL

Salzburg-based act FIVE MINUTE FALL are an injection of fresh blood to the scene: the Austrians got together in 2010 to play finest melodic hardcore with post and punk elements! In the same year, the fivepiece released their self-titled debut 5-track-EP which will be followed by brand new studio material soon – the band`s currently busy working on new songs. With that release and a bunch of club shows they managed to get quite a buzz going in the Austrian underground, but now it`s time for bigger things and bigger stages! FIVE MINUTE FALL will introduce hardcore sounds full of heart`s blood to you at the Austrian edition of the METALFEST at Mining am Inn – don`t miss out!

Get the fanpack for special price until March 31!

TICKETS and FANPACKS:
Get the Metalfest fanpack until March 31st for only 74,00 Euro including ticket, shirt and CD. The standard single ticket can be purchased for 64,00 Euro only.

Official METALFEST 2012 trailer:

 

Metalfest Austria DJ Floor hosted by Wurmfestival

The DJs from Wurmfestival will rock Metalfest in Mining am Inn with Rock & Metal in all styles @ aftershow DJ-floor! Beside the many liveshows we will have Dj-floor again, where you can party during and after the liveshows untill the early morning. The aftershow Dj-Metal floor will be hosted this year by our collegues from WURMFESTIVALS’s.

„WURMFESTIVAL“ on 07. April! 10 Stages – party all night: JBO – 3 FEET SMALLER – WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER – JAMARAM – ATTWENGER and many many more…

BLIND GUARDIAN – To headline Metalfest Loreley and Mining!

They are the true gods of melodic and symphonic metal and return with “Memories of A Time To Come”, the first best of release in the history of BLIND GUARDIAN! This German metal legend will surely offer a true highlight set list with hit after hit at METALFEST, a true headliner and you all can look forward to see BLIND GUARDIAN rule at their best!

Watch the video clip for “A Voice In The Dark” from their chart hitting album “At The Edge of Time”:

Tracklisting „Memories of A Time To Come“ CD1:

1 – Imaginations from the Other Side (Remix 2011)
2 – Nightfall (Remix 2011)
3 – Ride into Obession (Remix 2011)
4 – Somewhere far Beyond (Remix 2011)
5 – Majesty (Remix 2011)
6 – Traveler in Time (Remix 2011)
7 – Follow the Blind (Remix 2011)
8 – The Last Candle (Remix 2011)

Tracklisting „Memories of A Time To Come“ CD 2:

1 – Sacred Worlds (Original Version)
2 – This Will Never End (Remix 2011)
3 – Valhalla (New Recording 2011)
4 – Bright Eyes (Remix 2011)
5 – Mirror Mirror (Remix 2011)
6 – The Bard’s Song (In the Forest) [New Recording 2011]
7 – The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit) [New Recording 2011]
8 – And Then There Was Silence (New Recording 2011)

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BARDS WE ARE! BARDS WE WILL BE!

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Brainstorm, Steelwing, Graveworm, Kontrust, Krypteria, Fueled By Fire, Nexus Inferis, Turbowolf, Huntress, Akrea, Emergency Gate, Gurd, Lonewolf plus newcomers confirmed

Dear METALFEST friends! This week we´ll continue with 13 (!) band announcements plus supports/newcomers and we´re happy to offer a wide range of musical styles to you. With this very announcement, the weekly band updates terminate and the METALFEST line-up 2012 is almost final and about 95% done.

From now on we´ll have lots of competitions and specials on Facebook and our official homepage. Check it out!

BRAINSTORM

They are high-rated representatives of the German power metal-community and care for extraordinary and “spicy” hymns of melodic aggression at its best. BRAINSTORM is a band, which has grown upon their own international cult-status in the meanwhile. Their current, still hot release titled “On The Spur Of The Moment”, an album that shows the group’s creativity, joy of playing and musical refinement, is just another evidence for. So BRAINSTORM deal generously in their sound with powerful metal-burner, exciting melodies, impressing atmosphere and aggression. The voice of singer Andy B. Franck makes the sound-scenery complete and gives the band another, unmistakable trademark. Now these guys get ready to storm your dirty metal-brains at METALFEST. Not only a must for power metal-maniacs.

STEELWING

Are you ready for the next roadkill? Unpack your spikes, leather and denim-jacket for this upcoming assault happening at METALFEST 2012. The young full-blood-heavy-metallers of STEELWING will kick your dirtbag-asses live on stage. Recently these old-school-junkies released a new monument full of true-metal-hits titled “Zone Of Alienation”, raping your sense of hearing! So its time for STEELWING to catch your metal-souls and present their brandnew material with damned big balls live on stage. In the past the band already show us, that they got the true metal spirit by mother’s milk. Loud, melodic guitars, storming drums and a voice, that awakes pure feelings of nostalgia, make STEELWING to a kind of modern Iron Maiden with a very special, individual flavour. Just rock on with these dirty bastards!

GRAVEWORM

The Italian dark metallers of GRAVEWORM conquer the metal-world once again with mystical, dark and melodic death music. Their actual album “Fragments Of Death” doesn’t leave any wishes: This dark crew seduces gothic black/death-metal-lovers with intense, emotional and apocalyptic songs, darker and colder than it could be in a monster-worm’s hole. Harsh death-romanticism meets honest conflicts with the burdens of life, freezing your hearts for eternity. GRAVEWORM are still on top with their unique concept of gothic meets extreme metal – just think about classical albums such as ”When Daylight’s Gone”, “Engraved In Black” or “(N)utopia”. GRAVEWORM are simply brilliant and a guarantor for dreadful live-feelings.

KONTRUST

The European music-scene is not to be thought of without the intensive and energetic live-shows of KONTRUST anymore. In hundreds of concerts the six members merged to a perfectly matched unit. With “Time To Tango” KONTRUST brought their power on CD. The album is not only a statement of a band, developed and unique in many ways. Beyond that it sets a new international benchmark for rock music at present time. In 2010 “Time To Tango” and the hit-single “Bomba” reached top-chart-positions in the Netherlands, thanks to the legendary “Bomba”-video-clipand a constantly growing number of KONTRUST-fans. In 2010 KONTRUST is awarded with the AMADEUS Austrian Music Award. The band surprises with unique concepts over and over again. With exceptional ideas, their uncompromising show on stage and their powerful style KONTRUST will continue to amaze in the future

KRYPTERIA

KRYPTERIA is a German-Korean four piece, fronted by lead singer Ji-In Cho. Ji-In, who studied vocals and piano at the renowned Musikhochschule/Cologne, and her trio of band mates form one of Europe’s hottest live acts. KRYPTERIA have a knack for dramatic punch-you-in-the-face songs with sizzling melodies all spiced up with mysterious atmospheres and classical elements such as their trademark Gregorian chants. After teaming up at the end of 2004 the band got off to a remarkable start by scoring a Top3 position on the German charts accompanied by a gold record for Tsunami charity song “Liberatio”. Now the foursome returns to the stage to bring the hammer down again live. That’s when Ji-In will continue to paint sensually on the canvas of emotion, while the guys will work their rears off to rock the living daylight out of the audience. Make sure not to miss this!

FUELED BY FIRE

The thrash-bludgeon strikes back! The Californian floggings of FUELED BY FIRE release their long awaited second output “Plunging Into Darkness” via NoiseArt Records in April 2012. Of course, these mad contemporaries don’t want to waste any time and will convince you of their thrashing qualities at METALFEST 2012. What will await you? An ingenious, old-school thrash assault, that strongly reminds on the sound of old Slayer, Overkill and Testament. Stop praying immediately, because it doesn’t help against these aggressive demons, playing their thrash as tight as being brothers in blood with the horned god himself. Malevolent, brutal and addicted to high-speed, this US-combo beheads all his listeners with the glorious might of thrash metal!

NEXUS INFERIS

There exists one band that truly hates every form of narrow-minded making music: NEXUS INFERIS. This dark trio recently brought a sensational album named “Vision Of The Final Earth” – a true all-time-masterpiece, to the world of metal. This output is definitely not only a simple creation of music. It’s “Future Extreme Metal”, a style invented by the angry men of NEXUS INFERIS, which is composed by a lot of different dark soundscapes. For your imagination: NEXUS INFERIS sound like an innovative and ingenious hybrid of Dimmu Borgir and Meshuggah. In short: Infernal killer-music meets electronic tunes and evil vocals. Hailing from England this combo gives a serious fuck on the self-made boundaries of the scene and are in war with categories and genre-limits. Now the time has come for NEXUS INFERIS to shake up the metal-jungle!

TURBOWOLF

What a pleasure to present you another thick stoner-fume at METALFEST! TURBOWOLF from Bristol/UK is an apparent rock-formation, which doesn’t hesitate to cope with exotic musical elements such as punk, electronic sounds and psychedelia. It’s not surprising that TURBOWOLF sound like a flaring up party-drug, which must not be missed at any event. But attention: If you once get in contact with TURBOWOLFs musical spirituality, you will never get away from it. It will make you become addicted to!

HUNTRESS

HUNTRESS are considered one of THE hottest bands right now! The band was birthed in the underground of Highland Park, California, clawing at the roots of heavy metal. Lead singer Jill Janus is an operatic banshee with an unparalleled four-octave range and lust for the occult. Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains of New York, she toured Europe as a teenage opera starlet. Upon her return to the States, Janus embraced Manhattan nightlife, creating Felliniesque cabarets and parties in a nihilistic club scene. Years later, Janus moved to Los Angeles and began the gestation period of Huntress. In 2009 she met underground metal band Professor. The universe spread her legs and delivered Huntress to Janus, combining former members of Professor, Dark Black and Skeletonwitch. The powerful pentad signed to Napalm Records in November 2011. They unleashed their first music video for “Eight of Swords” in October 2011 and their debut album “Spell Eater” is slated for release April 2th 2012 on Napalm Records.

Watch their amazing video for „Eight of Swords“ here:

AKREA

Maybe it can only be realized at second sight: Yes, there’s Swedish death metal in German language! Although it would be too simple, to reduce a competent band like AKREA to Swedish death, because this German quintet has definitely much more to serve than melody-dominated death steel following the Nordic spirit. Nevertheless it is the affinity and passion the combo has to Scandinavian death-music, which forms primarily the main-character of the band. AKREA lead their listeners into a world of dark fantasies with solid, but melodic death metal nurtured with elements of black and also pagan metal. Join this journey into the wonderland of deadly harmonies.

EMERGENCY GATE

Only a few bands got the power to produce a sound that is marked by extravagance and very special progressive elements within the base song-structures. EMERGENCY GATE belongs to this sort of music-groups who got this speciality. So the German sextet builds up true musical monuments composed by modern, melodic death metal, power metal hymns and a healthy portion of nu metal. Focused on technical virtuosity and experience, EMERGENCY GATE always convince metal-fans of their own individual sound-concept that blows your ears clean. Don’t miss this highlight at METALFEST.

GURD

Basel, Swiss… Hometown of GURD and center of European thrash-metal-culture in 2012. This crazy bludgeon-horde from the Alps is not only a cult-act among the thrash-sector, but furthermore belongs to the hottest present top-acts. By now the flogging boys from Basel can take a review upon 15 years of band-history. Nevertheless the band hasn’t become tired of making brutal music on highest level, a fact they have demonstrated with their last, actual firework-release „Never Fail“, which is characterized by the combo’s trademarks and qualities with an explicit modern side-kick. Enjoy a powerful collection of the band’s fresh and zippy killer-tracks at METALFEST 2012. Get ready for the GURD-effect!

LONEWOLF

If you are not suffering from headbanging-related neck pain following the furious opening tracks “Lonewolf” and “Crawling to Hell” from the French power metal institution’s latest work, “Army of the Damned”, you do not have metal in your veins, nor is your heart made of steel. Lonewolf delivers an outstanding collection of hits to impressively continue a crusade that began in the mid 1990s. Back-to-back anthems glorify the new album, allowing the band to spearhead the power metal scene. From fast double bass attacks to pounding mid-tempo tracks, this latest work has it all: including the catchy choruses imperative to good songwriting. “Army of the Damned” is the perfect album to get you revved up for the band’s upcoming live shows. It will shake the foundations of your living room. Just be sure to play it loud!

Support Bands/Newcomer at Metalfest Austria:

Against Our Burial/ Austria / Metalcore/Deathcore
Dark Reflexions / Austria /Metalcore
Ecliptica / Vienna/Austria / Power Metal
Tulsadoom / Vienna/Austria / Thrash Metal
Sensylis / Vienna/Austria / Thrash/Death
Scarecrow NWA / Austria / Death Metal
U.G.F. / Austria / Thrash/Core
Kill Robot Kill / Austria / Metalcore/Death Metal
Tuxedo / Austria / Metalcore
Dragony / Vienna/Austria / Powermetal
Waldwind / Germany / Black/Folk
Mortal Infinity / Germany / Thrash Metal
Diabolos Dust / Germany / Death/thrash Doulblair / Austria / Metal/Hardcore Heaven Grey / Latvia / Death