Search results for 'wacken'

News

BEFORE THE DAWN Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finland's BEFORE THE DAWN has been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXEL RUDI PELL AXXIS BEFORE THE DAWN CA...

News

ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Is 'Looking Forward' To CARCASS Reunion

Finland's HardcoreSounds.Net conducted an interview with ARCH ENEMY/CARCASS guitarist Michael Amott prior to ARCH ENEMY's concert in Helsinki last week. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: HardcoreSounds.Net: How has The Black Crusade tour gone so far? Michael Amott: We are really happy. We h...

News

Japan's GIRUGÄMESH Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

GIRUGÄMESH, which is described as "Japan's answer to SYSTEM OF A DOWN," has been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVA...

News

SCORPIONS: 'Game Of Life' TV Performance Posted Online

According to a posting on the SCORPIONS fan site Scorps News, TV video footage of the band performing the song "Game of Life" live on December 8 before the boxing match between King Arthur Abrahams and Wayne Elcock at St. Jakob Halle Arena in Basel, Switzerland has surfaced on YouTube and can be ...

News

SODOM: 'The Final Sign Of Evil' To Be Released On Double Vinyl

SODOM's new album, "The Final Sign of Evil", will be released as a double vinyl package on February 1, 2008 via SPV Records. The LP features re-recordings of the material from the German thrashers' classic first EP, "In the Sign of Evil", plus no less than seven bonus tracks, all of which were origi...

News

EVOCATION Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish death metallers EVOCATION have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXEL RUDI PELL AXXIS CARCASS C...

News

NIFELHEIM Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Swedish cult metallers NIFELHEIM have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXEL RUDI PELL AXXIS CARCASS CH...

News

BLACK MAJESTY To Support HELLOWEEN In Australia

Australian melodic power metal band BLACK MAJESTY will support HELLOWEEN on the Sydney and Melbourne dates of their Australian tour. The details are as follows: Feb. 28 - Sydney, AUS @ The Metro (w/ PAIN DIVISION) Feb. 29 - Melbourne, AUS @ The Forum (w/ VANISHING POINT) BLACK MAJESTY recently retur...

News

DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: 'Tobsucht – Reitermania' DVD Trailer Available

Germany's DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER has released a trailer for its upcoming DVD, "Tobsucht - Reitermania Over Wacken & Party.San", to be released on February 1, 2008 via Nuclear Blast. The disc will feature the band's complete show at Wacken Open Air 2007 in front of 50,000 metalheads and the s...

News

STRATOVARIUS Bassist To Release New Solo Album

STRATOVARIUS bassist Lauri Porra will release his new solo album, "All Children Have Superpowers" on January 9, 2008. Three songs from the CD — "Release", "Changes in Memory" and "All Children Have Superpowers" — are available for streaming on Lauri's MySpace page. Porra was born on December 13, 197...

News

LORDI Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finnish metal monsters LORDI have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXXIS CARCASS CHILDREN OF BODOM COR...

News

DANKO JONES: New Song Available For Download

A brand new DANKO JONES track, entitled "Code of the Road", is available for download at this location. The song comes off the Canadian rock 'n' roll trio's new album, "Never Too Loud", due in Germany on February 29, 2008 via Bad Taste/Soulfood Music. "Never Too Loud" was recorded at Studio 606 in ....

News

CARNIVORE: Munich Photos Posted Online

Metal District has uploaded more than 200 photos of CARNIVORE's December 6, 2007 concert at Backstage in Munich, Germany. Check them out at this location. CARNIVORE played an exclusive, one-off New York-area show as a warm-up for the group's European tour on November 21 at L'Amour, in the club's rec...

News

ILLDISPOSED Completes Work On New Album

Guitarist Jakob Batten of the Danish metallers ILLDISPOSED has issued the following update: "[Vocalist] Bo Summer and I just returned from Studio Fredman in Sweden where we mixed the [new ILLDISPOSED] album with Fredrik Nordström and his assistant Henke Rövkuk. Fredrik is truly a magician behind the...

News

CORVUS CORAX Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

German folk metallers CORVUS CORAX have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXXIS CARCASS CHILDREN OF BOD...