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Success: Gojira added to Wacken

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Gojira

Either the Wacken organ­is­ers started lis­ten­ing to what I’ve been say­ing for the last three years, or they got sick of my whin­ing – either way, I’m pleased to note that my favourite French envi­ron­men­tal­ists Gojira were added to the lineup in Jan­u­ary. (The thought that I had noth­ing to do with this announce­ment has, of course, not crossed my mind).

I’ve been a huge fan of this band for a cou­ple of years now, and while I have all their releases (includ­ing the ridicu­lously hard to find debut, Terra Incog­nita), my favourite by far is their sec­ond album, The Link, partly because of the amaz­ing per­cus­sion (includ­ing mal­let per­cus­sion) parts. I’m fairly sure that these days we won’t be hear­ing many (if any) tracks off The Link but never mind, it’s all killer stuff.

I’m also a bit of a sucker for accents, and once lis­tened to the begin­ning of an inter­view where the Gojira front­man said “’ello, my name is Jo-seeeeph Du-plant-i-aaaaaair” about 20 times in a row. So cute. Ahem.

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New plans: three festivals

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

 horns!

Well, we decided to harden the fuck up and our 2010 metal extrav­a­ganza tour will now have three stops: Wacken, Party.San and Sum­mer Breeze.

Co-incidentally, this is the same route that Sound­works Metal Fes­ti­val Travel will be tak­ing – but we’re not going with them (although it’s a good deal they’re offer­ing) as we have our own plans before and after.

In the lead up to Anti-Christmas this year, both Wacken and Sum­mer Breeze have been announc­ing a new band every day (in the case of Sum­mer Breeze, quite often two bands are announced). It’s a far cry from last year where Wacken didn’t announce any­thing at all for bloody ages and dis­ap­pointed the hell out of everyone.

We now have an absolutely insane list of bands that we could poten­tially see. Sev­eral of then we will have the oppor­tu­nity to see mul­ti­ple times. It’s absolutely brutal.

Wacken

  • 1349
  • Arch Enemy
  • Can­ni­bal Corpse
  • Cru­ci­fied Barbara
  • Despised Icon
  • End­stille
  • Grave Dig­ger
  • Immor­tal
  • Mot­ley Crue
  • Slayer
  • U.D.O.

And also Alice Cooper, Amor­phis, Cal­iban, Corvus Corax, Die Apoka­lyp­tis­chen Reiter, Edguy, Ekto­morf, Ghost Brigade, Iron Maiden, Kamp­far, Lake of Tears, Orden Ogan, Pri­mal Fear, Stra­to­var­ius, The Devil’s Blood, Tor­frock, W.A.S.P.

Party.San

  • Can­ni­bal Corpse
  • Suf­fo­ca­tion
  • Watain

And also The Devil’s Blood, Demon­i­cal, Aura Noir, Mane­garm, Tribulation.

Sum­mer Breeze

  • 1349
  • Ahab
  • Behe­moth
  • Can­ni­bal Corpse
  • Dark Tran­quil­lity
  • Despised Icon
  • Gor­goroth
  • Hypocrisy
  • Kylesa
  • My Dying Bride
  • Obit­u­ary
  • Ori­gin
  • Sepul­tura
  • War From a Harlot’s Mouth

And also Anath­ema, Asphyx, Bar­ren Earth, Cal­listo, Cumulo Nim­bus, Dark Funeral, Die Apoka­lyp­tis­chen Reiter, Dying Fetus, Eis­brecher, Eis­re­gen, Ensiferum, Feuer­schwanz, Fiddler’s Green, Frei­wild, Gwar, Hail of Bul­lets, Ill Nino, Insom­nium, Kor­pik­laani, Leaves Eyes, Let­zte Instanz, Long Dis­tance Call­ing, Maroon, Mono Inc, Necrophag­ist, Orphaned Land, Pan­theon I, Poi­son­black, Rebel­lion, Sol­stafir, Sub­way to Sally, Swal­low the Sun, The Crown, The Dev­ils Blood, Tracedawn, We But­ter The Bread With Butter.

Tooo… much… metal!

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New announcements?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I was check­ing a cou­ple of facts on the Wacken Wikipedia entry when I noticed that there’s a cou­ple of extra bands listed for 2010 in the entry: Devour The Masses and Cry­sis. They’re not listed on the offi­cial Wacken site (Ger­man or Eng­lish ver­sions – the Ger­man ver­sion often gets updated first) and a Google search does not bring up any­thing. Accord­ing to the edit his­tory of the page, Devour the Masses was added a cou­ple of days ago and Cry­sis at the end of August.

Of course, the fact that it’s on Wikipedia does not make it true (duh). But it’s inter­est­ing nonethe­less, yes?

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Today’s the day

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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Tonight we fly out… excited? You bet!

Last week I got the fan­tas­tic news that Metal As Fuck has been Wacken-accredited which means I can go in the press areas. Ooooohh­hhh :) As well as being very very VERY fuck­ing cool for me, it’s great because the site has only been run­ning for a few months, yet already it’s get­ting recog­nised as a seri­ous, qual­ity source of metal news, reviews, inter­views and gen­eral what-have-yous (haha that rhymes). So it’s yay for me and con­grat­u­la­tions to Leti­cia and Foss and the rest of the MAF team, just for being awesome.

So now we “just” have to pack and then we’re off. Right after I fin­ish upload­ing this client site, answer a few more emails and make some notes for the peo­ple look­ing after our cats, house and business.

And look, I even cleaned and pol­ished my trusty doc martens, which will be my feet’s con­stant and faith­ful com­pan­ion for the next three weeks.

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