Rock Hard Festival 2015 Livestream announced for this weekend

Yes! I've had a eye upon this during the last days and nearly lost the hope but finally the announcement has been made that the german TV station WDR is going to broadcast shows of the Rock Hard Festival 2015 online during a livestream!

So far the schedule for tomorrow, Friday the 22th May 2015 has been confirmed.
You can find the startbutton to the stream itself at the homepage of the Rockpalast. Just hit the button labeled "Live Video". A new window on the PC will open up with the video.

Please not that I include the timetable for the other shows as well but can't say if they are going to be streamed, too. As soon as I've have information on that I'll update the article.

Update 2015/05/28: Some nice stuff has been released after the festival closed it's doors.
You can watch accoustic clips from the BLACK STAR RIDERS, REFUGE, SANCTUARY, AVATARIUM, PENTAGRAM and ARCHITECTS OF CHAOZ that have been recorded in the backstage section right here.

HMTV has put together a nice round-up of the festival. They also included stuff of the bands that were not shown during the stream (SPACE CHASER, DESERTED FEAR, MOTORJESUS, VOIVOD and CHANNEL ZERO). Check it out below:


Update 2015/05/22: It's confirmed! All the bands that are listed here in the timetable will be shown during the livestream. Enjoy! :-)

The links underneath the bandnames will take you to interview video footage that can been seen at the homepage of the TV show that makes the stream possible (it's the legendary Rockpalast show).

Friday the 22th May 2015

21.30 - 23.00 (9.30 pm CEST) Venom
19.45 - 21.00 (7.45 pm CEST) Pentagram
18.15 - 19.15 (6.15 pm CEST) God Dethroned
17.05 - 17.50 (5.05 pm CEST) Flotsam And Jetsam
16.00 - 16.40 (4.00 pm CEST) Architects Of Chaoz

Saturday, 23th May 2015

21.30 - 23.00 Kreator
19.45 - 21.00 Doro (Early Days Metal Show)
18.15 - 19.15 Sanctuary
17.00 - 17.45 Kataklysm
15.50 - 16.35 Avatarium

Sunday, 24th May 2015

21.30 - 23.00 Black Star Riders (mit Thin-Lizzy-Classics)
19.40 - 21.00 Overkill
18.00 - 19.10 Michael Schenker's Temple Of Rock
16.30 - 17.30 Refuge

Full Metal Cruise 2013 documentation still online

Besides the traditional metal festivals with stages and often a proper camping ground these days a new form of festival seems be more and more popular. I'm speaking about all of the cruises that put a bunch of bands, lots of lights and stages plus all the fans on one big ship and let them do a trip of their very own.

Besides other big festivals like the Sweden Rock the biggest one called Wacken Open Air has also done a cruise of their own entitled "Full Metal Cruise". It took place from  5th to 12th  Ma 2013 and did feature 20 Bands on three stage on stage and also at the boarding location. Among others the following bands were performing: KREATOR, SABATON, AVANTASIA, DORO, HEAVEN SHALL BURN und FIREWIND.

If you'd like to see how this turned out, hurry and head over here. The german TV station ZDF did broadcast a 77 min. long documentation about the event that still can be seen for some days in their media streaming service. Check it out!