Bang Your Head Festival 2012

EDGUY & VENOM CONFIRMED AS HEADLINERS FOR BANG YOUR HEAD 2012! VENOM – It was (and still is) a hard struggle to find this year’s headlining acts for the upcoming issue of BANG OUR HEAD!!! fest, as almost each and every artist qualifying for this position seems to be unavailable due to different reasons. Finally, [...]

Wacken Open Air Festival 2012

4 NEW BAND CONFIRMATIONS FOR WACKEN OPEN AIR Djerv – it`s aggressive rock, borderline metal and dangerously catchy! The Norwegian newcomer band Djerv is going to rock the Wacken Open Air 2012 for the first time! As foretaste for their show in Wacken you should listen to Djerv´s debut album. It banged in like a [...]

Hurricane Festival 2012

TWENTY ONE NEW BANDS CONFIRMED FOR HURRICANE FESTIVAL 2012 Love is in the air at least twenty-one times this Valentines Day! Onto the announcement first up is romantic folk-singer Mumford & Sons, with a cargo of atmospheric-electronic sounds of The xx, the cult of poppers from New Order and the ex-Oasis songwriter-mastermind Noel Gallagher with [...]

Southside Festival 2012

TWENTY ONE NEW BANDS CONFIRMED FOR SOUTHSIDE FESTIVAL 2012 Love is in the air at least twenty-one times this Valentines Day! Onto the announcement first up is romantic folk-singer Mumford & Sons, with a cargo of atmospheric-electronic sounds of The xx, the cult of poppers from New Order and the ex-Oasis songwriter-mastermind Noel Gallagher with [...]

Rock Am Ring & Rock Im Park 2012

MORE ACTS CONFIRMED FOR ROCK AM RING & ROCK IM PARK 2012 The latest additions to this year’s twin festival line up include The Hives, Evanescence and Anthrax! Joining them today are A$AP Rocky, Azealia Banks, Beginner, Boyce Avenue, Caligola, Cancer Bats, Cro, Crystal Castles, DevilDriver, Dropkick Murphys, Example, Fiva & Das Phantom Orchester, FM [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

THREE MORE BANDS FOR 2012 – MEGAHERZ, MANIMALS & WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER Beside two German bands we also got one real delicacy from America for the Wacken Open Air 2012. By the way, all three bands will be at the Wacken Open Air for the first time this year. Megaherz – It’s [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

AURA NOIR TO PLAY WACKEN OPEN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2012! 2012 will be the first time for Norwegian band Aura Noir to play Wacken Open Air. The Black/Thrash metal band already released 4 albums, since they were founded in 1993. In 2005, band member Carl-Michael was hurt so bad, that he was paralyzed [...]

Rock Am Ring Festival 2012

ROCK AM RING TICKETS SOLD OUT! Rock am Ring festival 2012 tickets have now sold out, with sister festival Rock im Park also selling at a record pace according to festival organisers Linkin Park, Soundgarden and Gossip were among the most recent acts to be announced for the twin events, with more still to be [...]

Southside Festival 2012

MORE ADDITIONS FOR GERMANY’S SOUTHSIDE FESTIVAL! Following the earlier Cure announcement Southside organisers have also confirmed the following bands for this year’s festival – Kettcar, Garbage, Beirut, PennyWise, City and colour, La dispute and The Bronx For more SOUTHSIDE FESTIVAL 2012 information and line up – click here >>>

Hurricane Festival 2012

MORE ADDITIONS FOR GERMANY’S HURRICANE FESTIVAL! Following the earlier Cure announcement Hurricane festival organisers have also confirmed the following bands for this year’s festival – Kettcar, Garbage, Beirut, PennyWise, City and colour, La dispute and The Bronx For more HURRICANE FESTIVAL 2012 information and line up – click here >>>

Rock Harz 2012 Germany

FIRST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2012 FOR ROCK HARZ FESTIVAL GERMANY! Once they were one of the largest German Death Metal acts, unforgotten are timeless works as “Cursed”. After the dissolution of the band in 1998 like a phoenix from the ashes they reformed in 2011! As if that was not enough the first live release [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

XMAS ADDITIONS TO THE WACKEN LINE UP – TESTAMENT, LENINGRAD COWBOYS, SAXON, SANCTUARY & SCHANDMAUL Five more bands added over the Xmas period to next year’s sold out Wacken Open Air festival, check them out…. Testament – Chuck Billy and Testament return to Wacken to unleash the Bay Area Thrash machine once again on the [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

BEHIND DOOR NUMBER 22 – CRIMES OF PASSION! Next year for the first time in Wacken – CRIMES OF PASSION, with their mix of melodic metal and hardrock they conquered a lot of hearts during the last years. Their newest output “To Die For” which was released in 2011 earned best critics and we are [...]

Rock Harz Festival 2012

SEPULTURA CONFIRMED FOR ROCK HARZ 2012 So, now though! No BIG 4 in sight, which Andreas Kisser would suddenly jump at, so we make it a second attempt – SEPULTURA come again Rock Harz in 2012! They really don’t need many words, because the exploits of the Quartet are known and last year the band [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

DOUBLE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR WACKEN’S DOOR NUMBER 21! Day 21 of Wacken Open Air’s advent calendar and here is the next double announcement – Kamelot & Sylosis KAMELOT – will play at Wacken 2012! In their 20 years long history the US melodic power metal band recorded 11 Albums (including Live records), 1 DVD and several [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

MANTICORA & DELAIN JOIN WACKEN OPEN AIR BEHIND DOOR NO20 Joining the sold out Wacken Open Air festival 2012 today on the 20th December are Manticora & Delain Manticora – The five guys of Manticora support our Line-up with Progressive Power-Metal from Denmark. Founded in 1997 the band has already released 7 albums. Delain – [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

DARKEST HOUR EMERGE FROM BEHIND DOOR NO 19! It will be the first time at Wacken Open Air for Darkest Hour. This year they were touring as support-act for Machine Head and presented their new album “The Human Romance”. For more WACKEN OPEN AIR 2012 information and line up – click here >>>

Wacken Open Air 2012

BEHIND DOOR NO 17 WE HAVE FROM SWEDEN GRAVEYARD! The Swedish Hard Rockers of Graveyard wait behind today’s advent calendar window. After the great success of their latest album “Hisingen Blues” Graveyard decided to re-release their debut album titled “Graveyard”. For more WACKEN OPEN AIR 2012 information and line up – click here >>>

Wacken Open Air 2012

WE OPEN THE 16TH DOOR AND REVEAL AMARANTHE & EISENHERZ! AMARANTHE this swedish/danish band will play next year for the first time at Wacken. They combine elements from melodic death metal & power metal which culminate in an atmospheric mix of dark melodies with deep growls and silent melodic parts accompanied by the voice of [...]

Wacken Open Air 2012

SACRED REICH AND INSOMNIUM TO DESTROY DOOR NO15! Today Wacken organisers are announcing 2 bands SACRED REICH AND INSOMNIUM! SACRED REICH – The US – Thrashers of „Sacred Reich” are well known to everyone who feels familiar to the thrash metal genre because till today they are still one of the most influential bands of [...]