Search results for 'wacken'

News

Chile's PENTAGRAM: More Reunion Dates Announced

Long-defunct extreme metal pioneers PENTAGRAM from Chile will reunite one last time in 2009 for a Chilean tour and several shows in Europe. The band's lineup will include three original members — Anton Reisenegger (guitar/vocals, also in CRIMINAL),Juan Pablo Uribe (guitar) and Eduardo Topelberg (dr...

News

Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Forced To Move Mini Fests

John Gammon of Pollstar.com reports: The organizers of Wacken Open Air have had to move both their new 15,000-capacity "mini festivals" because local authorities in Aurich, Germany are concerned about the number of people their events will attract and want to move to a larger site. "I hope they're r...

News

SKYCLAD To Perform At Newcastle College

SKYCLAD, the seminal British band which is often referred to as "the originator of folk metal," has issued the following update: "A while back we were asked to play at Newcastle College as part of their 'Summer Music' program. This is part of a two-week festival with a 'Battle Of The Bands' theme ba...

News

DER W Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

DER W, the project led by Stephan Weidner, singer, songwriter, musician, producer and bassist for German hard rock band BÖHSE ONKELZ, has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as foll...

News

EXODUS: More Quality Chicago Footage Available

Quality video footage of San Francisco Bay Area thrash legends EXODUS performing their classic song "Bonded By Blood" on April 17, 2009 at the House Of Blues in Chicago, Illinois is available for viewing at UVTV. It can also be seen below. EXODUS will perform its classic debut album, "Bonded By Bloo...

News

German AC/DC Tribute Band BON SCOTT Confirmed For WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

German AC/DC tribute band BON SCOTT has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 5TH AVENUE AIRBOURNE AMON AMARTH ANTHRAX ASP AXEL RUDI PELL BAI BANG BLOODWORK BON SCOTT BORK...

News

COHEED AND CAMBRIA Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

COHEED AND CAMBRIA has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 5TH AVENUE AIRBOURNE AMON AMARTH ANTHRAX ASP AXEL RUDI PELL BAI BANG BLOODWORK BORKNAGAR BRING ME THE HORIZON...

News

NEVERMORE: New Album Title Revealed

Seattle-based metallers NEVERMORE have set "The Obsidian Conspiracy" as the title of their follow-up to 2005's "This Godless Endeavor", tentatively due late 2009/early 2010 via Century Media Records. Vocalist Warrel Dane writes on his Twitter account, "Spent [Saturday, May 16] at the beach working o...

News

KAMELOT Guitarist Discusses Upcoming Album

The German KAMELOT fan site recently conducted an interview with the band's guitarist, Thomas Youngblood. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Q: KAMELOT will enter the studio in June to record the new album. Will you start recording the new songs at that point, or will you use the time...

News

Chile's PENTAGRAM Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Long-defunct extreme metal pioneers PENTAGRAM from Chile will play another reunion show at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 5TH AVENUE AIRBOURNE AMON AMARTH ANTHRAX ASP AXEL RUDI PELL B...

News

ALESTORM: Footage From 'Black Sails At Midnight' Bonus DVD Posted Online

Professionally filmed video footage of the Scottish folk/power metal band ALESTORM performing the song "Nancy The Tavern Wench" at last year's Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany can be viewed below. The footage comes off the bonus DVD that comes with the limited-edition digipack version of...

News

THE FADING, NERVECELL, VICTIMS OF MADNESS Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR

THE FADING, NERVECELL, VICTIMS OF MADNESS, 5TH AVENUE, THE WALTONS, DRONE, BLOODWORK, RETROSPECT, BAI BANG, UK SUBS, TORMENT (anniversary show),RABENSCHREY and FEUERSCHWANZ have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. T...

News

OVERKILL: Classic Albums Reissued On Colored Vinyl

On Tuesday, May 12, Megaforce Records reissued two classic OVERKILL albums on colored vinyl. * "Feel The Fire" on red/orange marbled vinyl * "Fuck You And Then Some" (first time on vinyl!!) which is a double LP set — one LP on regular black vinyl and the other on black/yellow marbled vinyl with a bi...

News

ANTHRAX Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

ANTHRAX has been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AIRBOURNE AMON AMARTH ANTHRAX ASP AXEL RUDI PELL BORKNAGAR BRING ME THE HORIZON BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE CALLEJON CATHEDRA...

News

ONKEL TOM, THE BOSSHOSS Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

ONKEL TOM (the solo project of Thomas "Angelripper" Such, bassist/vocalist of veteran German thrashers SODOM) and THE BOSSHOSS have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: A...