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Published: 25 August 2010

Castle, Bolkow, Poland
29th July to 1st August 2010
Castle Party: Christblood, Infinity Pain, Red Emprez, Dusk Watch, Gray/Scale, The Violet Tribe, Wieze Fabryk, Otto Dix, ¯ywio³ak, The Beauty of Gemina, Qntal, Bacio di Tosca, Deviant UK, Alec Empire, Job Karma, And One, The Proof, Noisuf-X, Faith and the Muse, Clan of Xymox

Yet another edition of Castle Party came to an end. As Auerbach once said, Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. I believe the souls leaving Bolkow every year feel decently purified - 2010 was not an exception in this respect. The festival is developing with every subsequent year: it relates not only to the duration- from two to four festival days, but also to the quality of the bands and side program. However, with all the positive changes taking place there are two things that remain the same: first of all variety (the organizers had always been very particular about inviting the band that would break the strictly gothic mode and included the band of a different sort in a line-up - vide metal band BEHEMOT in 2010) and second of all, marvellous atmosphere making Castle Party both a great musical and social event. http://www.castleparty.com/

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Published: 24 August 2010

Flugplatz Borkenberge, Lüdinghausen, Germany
20th - 22nd August 2010
Area4 Festival 2010 Day 1: Placebo, Queens Of The Stone Age, Editors, Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Biffy Clyro, Thrice, Alain Johannes

Already for the fifth time, the Area4 Festival opened its gates, for the fourth time now at the Airfield Borkenberge. Steadily grown over the years, the event welcomed about 23,000 guests at the 2010 edition. Just like in the previous years, perfect festival weather (at least during the first two days) with sun, a few clouds and temperatures around 25°C awaited the fans, most of them already arriving on Thursday to occupy the camp ground and have their very own pre-party. The festival Friday offered a great line-up, at least in my opinion, with PLACEBO, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, my favourite EDITORS or BELA B.

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Published: 23 August 2010

Flugplatz des Aeroclubs Dinkelsbühl, Dinkelsbühl, Germany
18th of August 2010 - 21st of August 2010
Summer Breeze Open Air - Day 2: Insomnium, Swallow the Sun, Triptykon, Endstille

Due to several reasons, I had to skip the first day of this festival and arrived on Thursday at around 5pm. On Wednesday, the first bands had the chance to play in the tent (=party stage) and also a newcomer contest was held. This year’s edition was long ahead sold out and only some day-tickets were available, so around 30,000 metal heads gathered in southern Germany to watch bands from all sorts of metal. After having gotten an overview over the area and the camp ground, I went to the party stage for watching the first bands.

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Published: 19 August 2010

Flughafen Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
7th & 8th August 2010
M’era Luna 2010 Day 2 Hangar Stage: Combichrist, Skinny Puppy, Feindflug, Agonoize, Amduscia, Celine And Nite Wreckage, Colony 5, Ambassador21, Eyes Shut Tight

As little electronic music we had the day before at the hangar, as many hard beats we got today. Headlined by COMBICHRIST, the hangar program offered anything from TBM over Hellectro with AGONOIZE and AMDUSCIA to Future/Synth Pop with COLONY 5 and even pure electronic pop. Highlight for many at the hangar of course was the show of Canadian electro pioneers SKINNY PUPPY.

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Published: 18 August 2010

Wacken Open Air, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
5th- 7th August
Wacken Open Air Day 1: Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe, Iron Maiden

To say that Wacken Open Air is a legend is an understatement. Go to any corner of the globe and ask a metal fan which is the greatest festival on earth and they're all likely to reply WACKEN. Starting way back in 1990 humbly enough with a small attendance to showcase German bands, SKYLINE has the honour of being the first band to ever grace the Wacken stage. How very different it is now with over 85,000 visitors and 70 bands spread across 4 massive sound stages. If you've never been, it's hard to imagine the sheer scale and lunacy of it, because not only is it large it's madly good fun as well, with people of every nationality imaginable, drinking and wearing silly costumes of incredible complexity. For three days I chased around the arenas watching a truly great array of bands and exhausting though it was it could hardly have been better.

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