Our beloved Backstage presented during one evening two different ways to receive ringing ears. Either you only listen to death metal in the hall, or you only listen to thrash metal in the club, or you listen to both for 5 hours. We decided to do both, which was possible by purchasing a combination ticket. Both venues were well filled, the average age in the hall was between 45 and 55 years old, and in the club it was around 30 years old, because two generations of metalheads were at the concert.
The Dutchmen presented high-speed technical Thrash-Metal which I heard for the first time. Everything was perfect: the sound, the lights, the ai-created animation and visualization of their music. Their music was more the intellectual approach to music than the urge to play music to stay alive like in the 80´s. Three artists at work and a band worth to see.
Social Media made it possible to discover this festival. I follow Asphyx due their unforgettable performance at the Hellfest 2013 and Destruction and ze German Melodic Death Metal Band Parasite Inc., which we booked 2015 for a gig together with Cripper and Loudblast in our beloved Backstage in Munich. And to receive a message, that these three bands play together on a German festival made me curious to know more about it. So i checked their homepage and the part about us. M.I.S.E. is a...
Full blown Metalcore and Thrash Metal, created by youngsters and monsters. We wanted to see Lost Society after nine years, as the played old school Thrash Metal on Hellfest´s Mainstage and a couple of months later as a support for Destruction. And, of course, Vended, Slipknot light, from Des Moines, Iowa.
Yeah, now it´s complete and the organisation team added Sonja, Voodoo Zombies and Dead Chasm. Check the added Spotify playlist and get your tickets soon.
A festival with bands far away from any mainstream, situated in the centre of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), two clubs, I guess a quite nerdy audience. Check the bands on my self created Spotify playlist.
Andy Kaina, ex-singer of the Swiss extreme metal band Messiah, died at the age of 53 of cardiac arrest resulting in an artificial coma. Andy Kaina collaborated with Messiah from 1990 to 1994, in 2003, and from 2017 to 2021, and was the most present vocalist in the band's line-ups. His biting and well-balanced tone has ruled on albums such as “Choir of Horrors”, “Rotten Perish” and the fabulous “Fracmont”.