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Published: 20 June 2012

Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany
15th -16th June 2012
Zita Rock Festival Day 1: Lord Of The Lost, Oomph! and Evanescence

More than 7,000 fans of gothic and rock music made their way to the Zita Rock Festival 2012 in order to enjoy a weekend filled with great bands including international stars like THE 69 EYES and EVANESCENCE. The Friday began with opening act LORD OF THE LOST who managed to get everybody going and convinced the audience on all levels. Their signing session was therefore packed with people. Next up were OOMPH! who presented their new live crew and gave a first impression of their upcoming tour. EVANESCENCE closed the first festival day with a high class concert. The band already showed their appreciation via Twitter and then used this positive energy to enchant the audience with their sound and Amy’s unique voice.

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Published: 15 June 2012

FZW, Dortmund, Germany
14th June 2012
Evanescence, Rival Sons

A long working day behind us we arrived at the venue where the admission had already begun for the show of EVANESCENCE and RIVAL SONS which had been relocated from Westfalenhalle to the FZW in Dortmund. We were expecting nothing less than a great show…

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Published: 13 June 2012

Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany
04th June 2012
Ozzy Osbourne & Friends, Black Label Society, Steel Panther

Originally, this should be one of the BLACK SABBATH concerts after the reunion in late 2011. The reunion was said to feature an appearance at the 2012 Download Festival and a newly recorded studio album by producer Rick Rubin expected to be released in 2013. In November, the band announced a string of European tour dates to take place in May and June 2012. What started so happy was followed by dark clouds. In January it was announced Tony Iommi had been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma which was not expected to impede the group's activity. He had to start chemotherapy. In February, the band announced that they will not continue the world tour but will play the Download festival in June 2012. Next to the sad news about Tony Iommi, there were differences with Bill Ward, so instead of BLACK SABBATH the tour featured Osbourne and guest musicians billed as "Ozzy and Friends". Ozzy with his special friends Geezer Butler and Zakk Wylde. The Dortmund show started half an hour earlier than planned. The standing area was filled well, but there were a lot of empty seats above… the BLACK SABBATH show was sold-out, but lots of people gave tickets back after the line-up change was announced.

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Published: 11 June 2012

013, Tilburg, The Netherlands
5th June 2012
Evanescence, Cirrha Niva

After a couple of shows in Europe last fall, EVANESCENCE finally made it to the Netherlands for a full show. It is no surprise that this concert was completely sold out. Fans were lining up at venue 013 as early as 6:30 in the morning to make sure they got the best spot in front of the stage. Support will be taken care of by Dutch band CIRRHA NIVA.

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Published: 08 June 2012

Leipzig, Germany
25th-28th May 2012
21st Wave-Gotik-Treffen Day 1: Todtgelichter, Projekt Mensch, Coma Divine, Blazing Eternity, Project Pitchfork, Lacuna Coil and Eisbrecher

It is the weekend of Whitsun and what to Gothics and all followers of dark music do at that time? Right, they are all making their way towards Leipzig to this year's Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT). About 20.000 people mostly dressed in black come to this get-together each year in order to enjoy concerts, theatre performances or operas all over town. Our first day of the WGT started at the Kohlrabizirkus which hold a lot of concert this year again after not being part of the festival last year. Happy about that change, we got into one of the many trams and were looking forward to the first band of the WGT: TODTGELICHTER. Filled with a lot of metal, also PROJECT PITCHFORK made it onto our plan for this day. This day was promised to be good opener for the 21. Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2012.

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