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Tanzbrunnen, Cologne, Germany19th to 20th July 2008
Amphi Festival Day 1 Main Stage: Mina Harker, Cinderella Effect, Zeromancer, Welle:Erdball, Zeraphine, Covenant, Deine Lakaien, Oomph!
The weather forecast promised nothing good but the man up in the clouds showed some sympathy for all the Gothic people gathering at the Tanzbrunnen in Cologne for the fourth Amphi Festival. This time, the festival was totally sold out with about 12,000 people each day and so, it was partly pretty packed. Anyway, all the fans of dark music were celebrating a festival with a peaceful and friendly attitude that doesn’t fit to their dark look at first sight. With 34 bands on 2 stages - Open Air as well as in the theatre - the fest offered anything for anyone. The main stage on the first festival day was headlined by OOMPH! who will release their new album soon. Furthermore such big names like DEINE LAKAIEN or COVENANT were on the bill besides some newcomers. [DV]
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Waldrock, Burgum, The Netherlands5th of July 2008
Slayer, 1349, My Dying Bride, Queensryche, Hollenthon, Lordi, Life of Agony, Symphony X, Itenstiid, Biohazard, Morbid Angel, Forbidden, Rose Tattoo, Death Angel, Hail of Bullets, Alchemist, Helmet, Pagan’s Mind, Death By Stereo, Greyline
Waldrock seemed very promising this year. They had managed to gather a great line-up. The weather however seemed to be very poor. On the day of the pre-party the weather turned and it became a wonderful weekend. Maybe 20 minutes of rain but nothing drastic. It was time for some old rockers, some new rockers and even some crazy rockers. As every year the locals stood in front of the gate to look at all these metal head coming and going to the festival grounds. They got to see a lot of smiling faces this year!
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Amphi Theater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany4th to 6th July 2008
Blackfield Festival Day 3: Solitary Experiments, Schelmish, Reaper, Heimataerde, Assemblage 23, Spetsnaz, [:SITD:], Crüxshadows, Schandmaul, Lacrimosa
Already the last festival day has arrived. This day offered – again with very nice weather – lots of electronic acts such as REAPER or [:SITD:] as well as THE CRÜXSHADOWS performing with a totally new line-up. Furthermore you could enjoy the fresh inspiring show of SCHANDMAUL. The evening and with this, a perfect festival, ended with headliner LACRIMOSA.
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Roitzschjora, Delitzsch, Germany
Friday, 4th July 2008
With Full Force Festival Day 1: Misery Speaks, Drone, Caliban, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, War From A Harlots Mouth, Bullet For My Valentine and Machine Head
We arrived there Thursday evening and soon after we finally put up our tent it began to rain. Obviously not the best start for a festival during the summer and, thank god, the weather got better the next day. And this day was meant to be great since big names such us CALIBAN and MACHINE HEAD stood on the plan for this Friday.
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Amphi Theater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany4th to 6th July 2008
Blackfield Festival Day 2: Colony 5, Iris, Solar Fake, Diorama, Northern Lite, Catastrophe Ballet, Modcom, Samsas Traum, Subway to Sally, Nitzer Ebb
The second day of the festival started very warm and sunny. After a good night’s sleep we made our way back to Gelsenkirchen very early and so, we had quite some time to meet up friends before the concerts started. Saturday was my favourite festival day featuring NITZE EBB and DIORAMA - two bands I like a lot.
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- Die Ärzte - Bielefeld 2008
- Unheilig - Amsterdam 2008
- Keltfest - Biesbosch 2008
- Fear Dark Festival - Stuttgart 2008
- Arrow Rock Festival - Nijmegen 2008
- Ministry - Cologne 2008
- H-Blockx - Münster 2008
