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Hellraiser, Leipzig, Germany
14th December 2007
METALFEST with SIX FEET UNDER, FINNTROLL, BELPHEGOR and NILE

If you look at the billing of that night, your eyes probably will drop out of your head. Those high-class metal bands performing on one stage at the same night! I can already imagine how the concert will look like: guys with long hair will shake their heads until they’ll just fall off their heads! So, come and bang your head as fast and hard as you can!


SIX FEET UNDER

SIX FEET UNDER (often abbreviated as SFU) is a side project band started by Chris Barnes of CANNIBAL CORPSE and Allen West of OBITUARY. Originally, the band was intended to be a side project only, but Chris Barnes decided to pursue the idea of having a groove-laden death metal band that just wasn't about blast beats and speed. In due time, because Chris was making SIX FEET UNDER a priority band, his original band CANNIBAL CORPSE asked him to leave the band, charging that he never made time to practice with them and that he focused more on SIX FEET UNDER than on CANNIBAL CORPSE. SIX FEET UNDER lyrics are usually apocalyptic and brutal, though Barnes's lyrics are somewhat less brutal than that of his past.


FINNTROLL

FINNTROLL is a folk metal band from Finland. They combine elements of extreme metal with Finnish polka, called humppa. FINNTROLL's lyrics are in Swedish, one of Finland's two national languages, because "Swedish just sounds damn trollish", according to the band's first vocalist, Katla (whose native language is Swedish). FINNTROLL means "Troll from Finland" or "a spotty troll" since the word for spot (acne) and a Finnish person are the same in Swedish.


BELPHEGOR

BELPHEGOR is an Austrian blackened death metal band named after the demon Belphegor (originally Baal-Peor) and formed in 1993. “We don’t give a fuck about anything and don’t let anyone talk us into doing anything. Only the music counts!” That’s their motto and so, BELPHEGOR do their own thing in playing and recording music. Their last album ‘Goatreich-Fleshcult’ was released in 2005. They also played at this year’s Wacken Open Air.


NILE

NILE is a brutal / technical death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, USA assembled in 1993. Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian mysticism, history, religion and art. NILE is noted under a genre named "technical death metal" which is considered a branch of death metal featuring odd time signatures and complex guitar riffs and solos. The band categorizes their music as "ithyphallic death metal", in reference to their epic Egyptian themes. Egyptian and Middle Eastern instruments are featured in some songs as well to help accent the themes more.

Tickets for the festival are available at http://www.eventim.de

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