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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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Published: 04 June 2012

Tivoli, Utrecht, The Netherlands
31st May 2012
Killswitch Engage & Axewound

At the start of this year, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE parted ways with their signer Howard Jones. Soon after, it was announced that their original singer Jesse Leach would take up his role again as a front man. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE clearly doesn’t like to waste their time, kicking off with a series of live shows and a new album to be released this summer. Tonight’s show at Tivoli was the first show in The Netherlands with the new formation. Support was taken care of by AXEWOUND.

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Published: 23 May 2012

Matrix, Bochum, Germany
22nd May 2012
Prong & Coal Black

It was a very hot day in May when PRONG were coming to Bochum for a very special event. It was announced that the band was going to play two sets during the evening. In one set, the band would play the entire ‘Beg to Differ’ album and the other one would be a “Best-Of” set including new material as well. It turned out slightly different, but more to that later. As support act, COAL BLACK were opening the evening.

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