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Published: 22 August 2012

Airport Borkenberge, Lüdinghausen, Germany
17th to 19th August 2012
Area4 Festival Day 1: Social Distortion, Neaera, Heaven Shall Burn, Sondaschule, Donots, Saves the Day, Boysetsfire, Darkest Hour, The Joy Formidable, Polar Bear Club, Touché Amoré, Pulled Apart by Horses, Montreal, We are the Ocean

When the sun was burning down and loud guitars were sounding over the plains of the Münsterland, the guitar-affine festival crowd of around 16,000 fans has gathered on the tranquil airfield Borkenberge to celebrate in the “biggest living room of North-Rhine-Westphalia”. As rainy the summer was before, usually the Area4 Festival in Lüdinghausen hast best weather and the sun is shining. Since 2007 it just looks like the weather god likes it hot and sweaty. And so, the biggest living rooms turned somehow into the loudest baking oven with temperatures close to 40 degrees Celsius. So, not only beer flowed freely, also sweat did.

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Published: 21 August 2012

Airport Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
11th and 12th August 2012
M’era Luna Festival Day 2: In Extremo, Hocico, New Model Army, KMFDM, Eisbrecher, Rotersand, Schandmaul, Amduscia, Welle:Erdball, The Beauty of Gemina, Faun, Down Below, Lacrimas Profundere, Absolute Body Control, Lahannya, Eklipse, Les Jupes, The Juggernauts

Not only because of the weather, the festival Sunday was hot. Also because of such bands as NEW MODEL ARMY, LAHANNYA, ROTERSAND or EISBRECHER, who warmed the audience up – first to mention the hot pyro show of IN EXTREMO.

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Published: 17 August 2012

Airport Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
11th and 12th August 2012
M’era Luna Festival Day 1: Placebo, Suicide Commando, Subway to Sally, De/Vision, Fields of the Nephilim, Leaether Strip, Diary of Dreams, In Strict Confidence, Letzte Instanz, Rabia Sorda, Megaherz, Faderhead, Roterfeld, Noisuf-X, Heimataerde, Jäger 90, Grüssaugust, Officers, Invaders, Noyce TM, Symbiotic Systems

Just on the weekend when the children of the night were celebrating their big festival, the sun was shining hot. Crazy and not for the pleasure of DIARY OF DREAMS guitarist Gaun:a who was complaining about the sun shining directly into his face during late afternoon. The rest of the festival attendees just seemed to like such a weather. Already for the 13th time, the M’era Luna festival was taking place in Hildesheim and again, there were more than 20,000 people following the call to gather at the airfield Drispenstedt. There were probably also a lot of day guests on Saturday, just coming for the headliner PLACEBO. And just to let you know already… they could convince once more.

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Published: 14 August 2012

Amphitheater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
23rd and 24th June 2012
Blackfield Festival Day 2: Culture Kultür, Stahlmann, Solitary Experiments, Megaherz, Burn, Funker Vogt, Ignis Fatuu, Welle:Erdball, The Arch, Agonoize, Eric Fish, Combichrist, Secret Discovery, In Extremo

Better late than never! Here's our little round up of the second day of the Blackfield festival at the Amphi theatre Gelsenkirchen. To celebrate its 5th anniversary, the Blackfield had a second stage for the first time ever, so there were more bands to check out than ever before, of course. So here's our summary of the final day of this year's Blackfield, as usual with lots of pics by our photographer Daniela Vorndran.

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Published: 14 August 2012

Messe, Saarbrücken, Germany
10th August 2012
Unheilig, Andreas Bourani & Staubkind

Now concerts of UNHEILIG aren´t a really grateful thing to review, as the reputation of a “commercial whore” some people have in mind for Der Graf is easily transferred to the persons who visit the concert, regardless of how things turn out there really, especially if one dares to comment the event as “good job” - whereas the newer generation of fans often watches the black-clad, more “oldschool” fans somewhat distrustful and doesn´t understand why Der Graf is criticized for what he is doing. Nonetheless, I took the voyage to Messe Saarbrücken to see with my own eyes if the harsh critic Der Graf is confronted with is over exaggerated or justified.

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