hell bent for metal

Another one down… first Wacken sells all 70,000 tick­ets, now Sum­mer Breeze has reached capac­ity too. Although they’re not say­ing how many that is, last year there were around 40,000 so I’m assum­ing this year will be a sim­i­lar size. With a lineup that includes Behe­moth, Can­ni­bal Corpse, Dark Tran­quil­ity, Dream Evil, Obit­u­ary, Sepul­tura and moth­er­flip­pin’ Trip­tykon, the only thing sur­pris­ing is that it took this long.

On the Sum­mer Breeze front, there’s a cou­ple of other things… firstly Skele­ton­witch have can­celled (boo) because they’re doing Ozzfest in the US (hiss). I’m sure the US run is a once in a life­time oppor­tu­nity which any band would jump at and it will be great for them but you know, it all sounds a bit blah blah blah.

Sec­ondly, not only have Despised Icon been announced for the Sum­mer Breeze, but they’ve said it’s going to be their last ever show. I like Despised Icon. Maybe I was late to the craze, but DI was the first band I heard doing pig squeals. I remem­ber I was dri­ving to a meet­ing where Charp used to work, lis­ten­ing to it for the first time, and I brought the CD in with me, gave it to him and said “lis­ten to this and tell me, how the fuck are they mak­ing that noise?”. Sure, it got annoy­ing when other bands that weren’t so good start­ing doing it all the time, but I was bloody impressed by every­thing DI. So while I’m sorry to see the band fin­ish, it’s cool that I will see them both at Wacken and then at Sum­mer Breeze for their final hurrah.

83 days on the clock, peeps!