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Published: 22 September 2015

Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, Cologne, Germany
17th September 2015
Marc Almond

Finally I had the chance to see one of my heroes of my youth performing live at the nice venue Bürgerhaus Stollwerck in Cologne. And apparently I wasn’t the only one who was eager to see him as this place, with a capacity of 500 guests, was completely filled. Most of the audience was roughly my age so you could assume that the people were fans from the early beginning. But before I could finally enter the venue it took me almost half an hour to find a parking place so that I had to fear not to arrive before the show starts. And once again my love-hate for this city was assured. Cologne, you have so many nice venues in different sizes - small ones in pubs that give you almost a living room feeling, midsize ones and then at last the big arenas - but you have a severe lack of parking opportunities or you have to pay a fortune.

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Published: 21 September 2015

Gasteig @DarkNight Festival, Munich, Germany
12th September 2015
Mundtot

A worthwhile finale of the festival season for me became a local metal festival in Munich, called DarkNight. The two day event took place at the Gasteig cultural centre. The location itself seems to be quite interesting even though it’s not so easy to find. As for the festival, it definitely has its moments, presenting a variety of metal genres and subgenres and giving bands, many of which are promising but not so well-known, a chance to show their potential. And I must say that they succeeded. So those who saw shows on the 11th and 12th of September had enough time to head-bang and maybe discover this or that formation, never heard before. Although it will be too hard and long to describe everything, I confine myself to reviewing the set of MUNDTOT, the only band I knew off the whole line-up.

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Published: 10 September 2015

Folken, Stavanger, Norway & Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
22nd & 28th August 2015
Seigmen

What to do when you have never seen SEIGMEN live and always wanted to see them, when you have your annual vacation end of August and when you not know where to travel? Exactly! Plan a road trip to Norway with your beloved one including the show in Stavanger on 22nd August at the beginning of your trip and the Oslo show one week later towards the end of your journey. Back from vacation I have to say: wow! The band and its audience just blew me away! And just when I am writing this report I have the songs of SEIGMEN in my ears and wish me back to those fantastic concert moments…

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Published: 10 September 2015

Kulturpark, Deutzen, Germany
4th to 6th September 2015
Nocturnal Culture Night 10 - Warm-up Party with THE SEXORCIST and KLEQQ DEEJAY EDITION on 3rd September and General Impressions

Nocturnal Culture Night, short NCN, was celebrating its 10th anniversary and that was a good reason to celebrate a special festival including some new installments. For the first time at the NCN, a warm-up party was organized on Thursday 3rd of September and the less we could say is that not so many people were aware of the vent when we were announcing it at the camping entrance, but everybody rejoiced. Besides that, the festival has now four fully played open air stages whereof the Willow-Bow Stage and the Culture Stage are theme stages presenting special kinds of music like Minimal or Neo-Folk as well as authors’ readings and bands that are very new in Germany and where the promoters first want to see how they work on Germany.

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Published: 09 September 2015

Großmarkt, Hamburg, Germany
15th August 2015
Elbriot Festival 2015 with In Flames, Kreator, Opeth, Enter Shikari, Kvelertak, Callejon, Blues Pills, Black Stone Cherry, Eskimo Callboy and Vitja

On this Saturday morning, after a rainy night, the black metal crowd that was on their way from the Hamburg main station to the Großmarkt which is some walking minutes away, was very hopeful that the day stayed nice. There, the Elbriot Festival would be taking place for the third time. And one thing in advance: the Elbriot is so successful that it will get another day of the finest of metal music next year. Like the year before, more than 10,000 metal heads came along to see the shows. But it seemed like the day demanded all the energy of the people since the after party in the Markthalle was pretty empty.

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