So Wacken came, went and fucking destroyed.

My full festival diaries will be coming soon to Metal As Fuck, so I’ll link them here when they’re published. For now though, we just have the inevitable feeling of sadness that it’s over for another year

Sometime while we were recovering from the festival in Hamburg (festival recovery involves numerous hot showers, drinking beer that is actually cold, eating things containing vegetables and sleeping) special “X-mas package” tickets, limited to 10,000 and including a t-shirt, went on sale for Wacken 2010. A mere ten hours later, before we’d even noticed it had started, the X-mas package sold out. That’s nuts.

Fortunately the day we came back an Australian friend noticed that regular tickets were on sale so we snapped ours up. Wacken 2010 here we come!

Over for another year… is a post from: hell bent for metal

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.

Today’s the day is a post from: hell bent for metal

I didn’t look at the pictures but when I was telling Dave, he said was pretty sure they would be the bog standard USB drive with logo on the metal flippy bit like we are getting as promo materials a lot lately.

As it turns out, no. They are freaking BULLET-SHAPED! The news item doesn’t tell you what the capacity of the drive is but these days they’re usually at least 2GB… but who cares how big they are when they’re BULLET-SHAPED?

That’s a pretty cool USB stick is a post from: hell bent for metal

The first band confirmed for Wacken 2009 is… Machine Head.

Good news, we all love this band. Dave and I have seen them at least twice before, and in fact we have tickets to see them next month again (with Slipknot).

The official Wacken web site says that bands will be announced regularly over the next few weeks. Sure. Their definition of “next week” has already been clocked at over three weeks. But we’ll still be checking obsessively, oh yes, precious.

and machine head it is is a post from: hell bent for metal