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Published: 25 June 2014

Leipzig, Germany
6th - 9th June 2014
Wave Gotik Treffen 2014 Day 2: Delivered Soul, I-M-R, Albireon, Sieben, Argine, Sonne Hagal, Schneewittchen, Lebanon Hanover, Placebo Effect, The Klinik, Robert Enforsen

We started the day with a visit at the Leipzig automotive fair “Auto Mobil International” – AMI – where for the WGT a special exhibition was installed presenting historic mortuary vehicles. Entrance was for free for WGT visitors. The exhibition presented vehicles from four periods, reaching from a mortuary carriage from 1980 to a mortuary trailer from 1970. Besides carriages from the 19th and 20th century you could also see the Cadillac offering the funeral cortege for Marlene Dietrich. Sadly, we did not have enough time to see the Design de luxe Collection of fashion designer Lucardis Feist from Bad Lauterberg (Harz) at Hotel Fürstenhof Leipzig on this Saturday afternoon. Designer Lucardis Feist creates extraordinary dark and individual wedding outfits.

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Published: 25 June 2014

Amphitheater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
20th to 22nd June 2013
Blackfield Festival Day 1: Austerity Complex, Feuerschwanz, Gothminister, Namnambulu, Saltatio Mortis, Schandmaul

The Blackfield Festival took place for the seventh time and nearly 6,000 people came to enjoy the music, the special atmosphere, were meeting old or making new friends and having altogether a great weekend. The venue is very extraordinary as it is an amphitheatre at the Rhine-Herne Canal. As it is typical for such a theatre the acoustic is of the same quality wherever you are sitting and from almost every seat you have a good view to the stage.

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Published: 24 June 2014

Leipzig, Germany
6th - 9th June 2014
Wave Gotik Treffen 2014 Day 1: Heimataerde, Christian Death, The Eternal Afflict, The Fair Sex, Apoptygma Berzerk & White Lies

The first festival day for us mainly took place at the Agra area and the closely situated Pagan Village (Heidnisches Dorf). But before we enjoyed the concerts at the area, we had a short visit at Clara-Zerkin-Park and the Victorian picnic. There was something new at the picnic: the picnic area was separated by a red barrier tape where no photographs were allowed. The reason most likely was that many attendee dos the picnic felt more and more stalked by the photographers during past years. Anyway around that area you had the chance for some nice photo motifs. [Just visit our gallery].

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Published: 23 June 2014

Leipzig, Germany
6th - 9th June 2014
Wave Gotik Treffen 2014 - General issues & visitor gallery

Already for the 23rd time, the yearly Wave Gotik Treffen was taking place in Leipzig and more than 20,000 people from all over the world – of course mainly dressed in black – followed the call. With about 21,000 people, as promoters announced, this year more people made their way to Leipzig than in the last year, making the WGT a gathering of like-minded people. Many of people travelling to Leipzig even refrained from paying 99 EUR for the festival ticket and used the festival to just meet other Gothic people from various countries.

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Published: 23 June 2014

Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
10th June 2014
Beastfest Festival with Huntress, Battlecross, Thy Art Is Murder, Miss May I, Coldrain, Suicide Silence, Crossfaith, Trivium

It is Tuesday after a long and hot Pentecost weekend, and the heat did not cool down until now. Metal-heads, who could not get enough of making party or who got still enough power for this event, floated into the Markthalle in Hamburg. This day, for the very first time, the Beastfest took place, the warm-up festival and little brother of the Elbriot festival taking place on 16th August. The concerts were alternately in the two rooms of the Markthalle. The beginning was at the MarX, the smaller of the two halls. The only sure about the time table was that the headliner TRIVIUM would play as the last band. Everything else was top secret and no one should know before on which stage which band was playing at which time.

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