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The good news first: NEW MODEL ARMY, the legendary underground cult band is in on the M’era Luna. Even after 28 years, NME lost nothing of their energy and creativity: From Punkrock over Northern Soul, Post-Punk, Folkrock, Politico-Rock, Gothic or Metal, they always prevented themselves from being put in such a genre drawing.

The bad news: APOCALYPTICA have the chance to go on tour with their idols METALLICA in the US and, who could blame them for that, cancelled their performance in Hildesheim. Hopefully they will unpack their instruments at the next year’s M’era Luna again.

Back to the good news: It was all over town for a long time but now its official: PARADISE LOST will provide for healthy dose of Gothic Metal at this year’s M’era Luna. Even in 2008, the band is unquestionable one of the strongest and most influential British rock bands. Musically they’re balancing between brutality and empathy, between horror and beauty.

Furthermore, RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY will send their driving, dark, guitar-driven sounds over the festival grounds. The band around Chris Reed, once dominating the underground and alternative charts, can be proud to have some big names, such as Dave Grohl or Henry Rollins among their fans. At the M’era Luna, they’ll showcase old and new songs out of their rich repertoire.

Showcase is a good cue: As it gets medieval on the M’era Luna 2008 with Jugglery and fiery glow, with chimes and jingles, bathhouse, drinking-horn and chatter.

Medieval Rock has always been a musical them at the M’era Luna and from CORVUS CORAX over SCHANDMAUL and SUBWAY TO SALLY to CULTUS FEROX and IN EXTREMO, the best-known representatives of this style already played there. Also in this year, the festival will pay off for friends of medieval music with TANZWUT, SALTATIO MORTIS and RABENSCHREY. Besides the dancing in front of and on the stage to lutes, drums and bagpipes, the feeling of past centuries will be conjured in the social program as well for the first time in 2008. In cooperation with Kramer, Zunft & Kurzweyl, the medieval times will resurrect at the transition between the camping grounds and the festival area as of Friday evening. The visitors can expect a balanced mixture of trading grocers, guild masters following their trade and those who provide for the much needed pastime.

In past times, the various faces of the medieval times collided at such a spectacle: Relaxed hustle and bustle and deep devoutness. People dressed in noble clothes besides baggers and ‘unfaithful’ people like hangmen, flayers and grave diggers. At the M’era Luna it will rather be the black romantic, role-players or Goth rockers, passing all the jewellery, mask, clothes and food stalls, enjoy the mouse-roulette or ‘ring-the-bell’ or wash up the dust of the day at the bathhouse

Current Line-up:

FRONT 242 | VNV NATION | NEW MODEL ARMY | APOPTYGMA BERZERK | ASP |
PARADISE LOST | DAF | HOCICO | UNHEILIG | MOONSPELL | SAMAEL | MESH | TANZWUT | COMBICHRIST | RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY | SALTATIO MORTIS | THE VISION BLEAK | EPICA | EISBRECHER | ELEGANT MACHINERY | BLITZKID | THE OTHER | AGONOIZE | FRANK THE BAPTIST | CINEMA STRANGE | THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS | PAINBASTARD | ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO | RABENSCHREY | END OF GREEN | ELIS | DELAIN | IRFAN | and many more…


Additional Festival Info

Date: 9th & 10th August 2008
Venue: Hildesheim / Drispenstedt, Airfield
Start: Saturday & Sunday always at 11:00am
Camping: The camping ground opens on Friday 8th Aug. 2008 at 4:00pm. As of Monday 10:00am the clean up will start
Info for public means of transport and accommodations at: http://www.hildesheim.de/
Festival Homepage: http://www.meraluna.de/


Tickets

2 Days with camping cost 64 EUR incl. charges + 5 EUR garbage pledge, which will be refunded, when returning the garbage bag on the spot.

Tickets are available at http://www.meraluna.de/ or http://www.eventim.de/
Ticket Hotline: +49(0)1805-853653

Source: Press Release

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