hell bent for metal

So it’s almost time to start get­ting our shit together for this epic fes­ti­val out­ing. Aside from a pos­si­ble hand­ful of announce­ments, all 3 fes­ti­vals have now revealed their full line-ups and holy shit, they are just amaz­ing. I don’t think I’ve ever looked for­ward to any­thing as much as this.

First up, let’s see what I con­sider as an absolute MUST SEE at Wacken. I would crawl through the mud, bro­ken glass and pos­si­bly the piss ditches to see these bands. As long as I didn’t spill my beer. There are 96 bands on the bill at the moment, which is just mind blow­ing. There are also quite a few head­lin­ers this year, so unlike pre­vi­ous fes­ti­vals where the head­line acts played on a par­tic­u­lar night, we now how big shows over all 3 evenings.

• 1349 
• Arch Enemy
• Alice Cooper
• Can­dle­mass
• Can­ni­bal Corpse – inter­est­ingly, CC have been to Perth twice, and on both occa­sions we have missed them due to a sched­ul­ing con­flict with another band… In Perth?! I don’t know how that hap­pens either.
• Despised Icon – they’ve recently announced their breakup, so this will be the last chance to see them.
• End­stille – totally kicked my ass at Wacken ‘09, so I will def­i­nitely not miss them again. Hope­fully they don’t get a mid­day show again thought, that shit aint right.
• Fear Fac­tory – really can’t wait for this, espe­cially as it’s a night show.
• Frei Wild – this is an odd choice, but any band with antlers in their logo makes me interested.
• Gojira – oh yeah, this will prob­a­bly be the stand­out act for me this year. Strangely they are play­ing the tiny WET stage, but who knows, it might just work.
• Grave Dig­ger
• Immor­tal – any­thing can be made bet­ter with Immortal
• Möt­ley Crüe – they’re old and saggy, but it should still be a good fun show.
• Rot­ting Christ
• Slayer – I’m pre­dict­ing vio­lence from the hard­core Slayer fans on this one. Slayer fans scare me.
• Soulfly
• The Devil’s Blood
• Tia­mat
• UDO
• Varg

Yeah I know – that’s only 20 bands – leav­ing another 76, but I had to cull the list down to what I con­sider an essen­tial watch, and any­thing else is just gravy (on the deli­cious €3.50 steak sand­wich from the Wacken Nacken meat tent). There are bound to be over­laps and sched­ul­ing con­flicts, but tough deci­sions always have to be made – beer makes deci­sion mak­ing much eas­ier. \m/

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