DESTRUCTION, MOONSORROW To Headline Ireland's DAY OF DARKNESS Festival
June 7, 2006German thrash metal titans DESTRUCTION will headline the Saturday night of this year's Day of Darkness metal festival. The fifth annual edition of Ireland's premier metal festival will take place in Ballylinan, Co Laois on Friday and Saturday, July 7-8, 2006. The event brings together bands from Ireland's thriving domestic metal scene with a number of their international peers. Tickets are now on sale from www.tickets.ie and selected outlets.
For the first time ever, the festival's format has been expanded to include an additional six hours of metal on the Friday night. Headlining the Friday night will be acclaimed Finnish folk metal outfit MOONSORROW. Also confirmed for the night's proceedings are long running Dublin outfit GEASA and hotly tipped Belfast four-piece SORROWFALL. Irish metal heavyweights PRIMORDIAL, who headlined the first ever Day of Darkness in 2002, will lead the Irish contingent for the Saturday's proceedings in a lineup that also includes reactivated Irish death metal legends MORPHOSIS and Ireland's own thrash metal sensation MASS EXTINCTION. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:
Friday, July 7:
MOONSORROW
GEASA
SORROWFALL
GROUND OF RUIN
MINDS ASTRAY
Saturday, July 8:
DESTRUCTION
PRIMORDIAL
MORPHOSIS
HEXXED
MASS EXTINCTION
AFTERMATH
PRIMED
FOR RUIN
A DISTANT SUN
NOTHING IS SACRED
The festival will also include a mini-metal market with a number of metal stalls form Irish and European metal stores. The festival's first-ever 'official" campsite will be located adjacent to the venue and special "metal buses" will run from all major centers.
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