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Published: 26 June 2012

Grugahalle, Essen, Germany
25th June 2012
Blink-182, The All American Rejects & Royal Republic

BLINK-182 are back! After an eight-year break and the re-union in 2009, the 6th album of US Punk Rockers, ‘Neighborhoods‘, was released in September 2011. After world-wide hits like ‘All the small Things’ or ‘I miss you’, the new album goes more a progressive way. Marc, Tom and Travis developed further and sound now much more experimental. After the shows were already planned for last year’s June, the band is now finally back in Germany for a few festival dates and three headliner shows. One of them took place in Essen, offering ROYAL REPUBLIC and THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS as support acts.

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Published: 22 June 2012

Leipzig, Germany
25th-28th May 2012
21. Wave-Gotik-Treffen Day 2: Galskap, Eden Weint Im Grab, Nachtblut, Dark Fortress, Aesthetic Perfection, Secrets Of The Moon, Funker Vogt, Amorphis and Combichrist

The second festival welcomed us once more with perfect festival weather. Today, we decided to watch some of the Metal bands at Kohlrabizirkus and compared to that, some of the harder Electro bands at the main festival area, at Agra hall.

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Published: 20 June 2012

Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany
15th -16th June 2012
Zita Rock Festival Day 1: Lord Of The Lost, Oomph! and Evanescence

More than 7,000 fans of gothic and rock music made their way to the Zita Rock Festival 2012 in order to enjoy a weekend filled with great bands including international stars like THE 69 EYES and EVANESCENCE. The Friday began with opening act LORD OF THE LOST who managed to get everybody going and convinced the audience on all levels. Their signing session was therefore packed with people. Next up were OOMPH! who presented their new live crew and gave a first impression of their upcoming tour. EVANESCENCE closed the first festival day with a high class concert. The band already showed their appreciation via Twitter and then used this positive energy to enchant the audience with their sound and Amy’s unique voice.

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Published: 15 June 2012

FZW, Dortmund, Germany
14th June 2012
Evanescence, Rival Sons

A long working day behind us we arrived at the venue where the admission had already begun for the show of EVANESCENCE and RIVAL SONS which had been relocated from Westfalenhalle to the FZW in Dortmund. We were expecting nothing less than a great show…

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Published: 13 June 2012

Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany
04th June 2012
Ozzy Osbourne & Friends, Black Label Society, Steel Panther

Originally, this should be one of the BLACK SABBATH concerts after the reunion in late 2011. The reunion was said to feature an appearance at the 2012 Download Festival and a newly recorded studio album by producer Rick Rubin expected to be released in 2013. In November, the band announced a string of European tour dates to take place in May and June 2012. What started so happy was followed by dark clouds. In January it was announced Tony Iommi had been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma which was not expected to impede the group's activity. He had to start chemotherapy. In February, the band announced that they will not continue the world tour but will play the Download festival in June 2012. Next to the sad news about Tony Iommi, there were differences with Bill Ward, so instead of BLACK SABBATH the tour featured Osbourne and guest musicians billed as "Ozzy and Friends". Ozzy with his special friends Geezer Butler and Zakk Wylde. The Dortmund show started half an hour earlier than planned. The standing area was filled well, but there were a lot of empty seats above… the BLACK SABBATH show was sold-out, but lots of people gave tickets back after the line-up change was announced.

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