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Europahalle, Karlsruhe, Germany 12th January 2008
KNOCK OUT FESTIVAL: Within Temptation, Helloween, Paradise Lost, Gamma Ray, Axxis, Epica
The winter months usually aren’t the favourite ones for festival junkies who then tend to dream of warm summer nights with great concerts under a starlit sky. As a little consolation there are nevertheless a few nice events during this time of the year, too - as for example the “Knock out Festival” in Karlsruhe. This year, it took place for the second time and came up with a quite unusual, though very interesting billing. Dark Metal band PARADISE LOST would share stage with the old-school power metal heads from GAMMA RAY and HELLOWEEN, and the nowadays very successful Dutch Symphonic Metal/Rock band WITHIN TEMPTATION were to be this festival’s completion.
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Arena Treptow, Berlin, Germany21st February 2008
Nightwish, Pain & Krieger
Over the past few years, I had grown bored with NIGHTWISH. The album ‘Century Child’ never excited me, the clichéd 80s metal references that I perceived even annoyed me, ‘Once’ sounded a lot better to me again, but I had the feeling that by then I had heard it all. Even though NIGHTWISH has always been great live, I would’ve never been bothered to visit one again. And then, in 2005, the news came that singer Tarja Turunen was thrown out and that NIGHTWISH was looking for a new singer.
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Flösserplatz, Aarau, Switzerland1st March 2008
Diorama, Transit Poetry
Sunday evening short past 7p.m. High above the ground I sit in the plane on my way home from Zurich; the lights down on earth look like huge spider webs crossing the land and glittering in the dark. In my ears, there is still the sound of yesterday; my eyes still see the scenery on stage and already in a melancholy mood I think about the great weekend with DIORAMA and TRANSIT POETRY at the “Schwarzes Treffen” (Black Meeting) in Aarau / Switzerland.
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Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany16th February 2008
HIM & Paradise Lost
HIM opened their “Venus Doom-Tour 2008” in Berlin with an unforgettable concert. They were supported by PARADISE LOST, the Gothic Rock legend from Halifax in England. With the Tempodrom, a quite big venue was chosen for the show in Berlin and it was the right choice because lots of people gathered to see HIM.
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Christuskirche, Bochum, Germany25th February 2008
Letzte Instanz, Anna-Katharina
It was to be something very special. The band LETZTE INSTANZ invited to a very special kind of concert, where songs were presented in a purely acoustic guise. And which venue could be more applicable for such an occasion than a church? Masses of people were already gathering in front of the entrance, but when we finally entered the church we saw that the venue was packed with so many people that it was astonishing.
