Rock Hard Festival 2017 livestream confirmed

This weekend has a double-treat coming up for us - not only will the Rock am Ring festival take place but the Open Air of the megazine of the same name (Rock Hard) will also open it's gates.

Anyway it has just been announced that there will be a livestream of this festival, too.
You can watch the shows at the homepage of the legendary TV format "Rockpalast".

So far it's sure that the broadcast times will be as follows:

Friday, 02.06.17: 16:00 – 23:00 h
Saturday, 03.06.17: 14:00 – 23:00 h
Sunday, 04.06.17: 18:30 – 23:00 h

The traditional way live videos were recorded back in the day...

Here's the running order taken of the Rock Hard festival website:

Friday, 2. Juni

21:30 - 23:00 BLUES PILLS
19:45 - 21:00 CANDLEMASS
18:15 - 19:15 THE DEAD DAISIES
17:05 - 17:50 MANTAR
16:00 - 16:40 ROBERT PEHRSSON‘S HUMBUCKER
15:00 - 15:40 DUST BOLT

Saturday, 3. Juni

21:30 - 23:00 BEHEMOTH
19:45 - 21:00 D.A.D.
18:15 - 19:15 EXODUS
16:45 - 17:45 ASPHYX
15:35 - 16:20 SKYCLAD
14:30 - 15:15 THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA
13:30 - 14:10 KETZER
12:30 - 13:10 MONUMENT

Sunday, 4. Juni

21:30 - 23:00 OPETH
19:40 - 21:00 DIRKSCHNEIDER („Farewell To Accept“)
18:00 - 19:10 FATES WARNING
16:30 - 17:30 ROSS THE BOSS („Manowar-Classics“)
15:15 - 16:00 DEMON
14:05 - 14:50 SECRETS OF THE MOON
13:00 - 13:40 BLOOD CEREMONY
12:00 - 12:40 NIGHT DEMON

In addition to all of this there will be a broadcast of shows via german television station WDR. The exact dates are give below:

19.06.17:  00:45 - 04.15 h
26.06.17:  00:45 - 04:15 h
03.07.17:  00:45 - 04:15 h

Check out the full new Exodus album online

Finally Exodus have released a brand-new album entitled "Blood in, blood out" . The album can be seen as a sort of gathering together of some of the old-school heads of the Bay Area Thrash scene.

The song "Salt the wound" features orginal member Kirk Hammett on guitars who contributed a guitar solo to this track. Chuck Billy also took the time to give his outstanding voice to the record with the vocals for the track "BTK". Exodus-guitarist Gary Holt currently is also busy with recording the new Slayer album. However Exodus will be on tour for the rest of the year, playing shows with Suicidal Tendencies. You can find the proper dates at the tourdates section of the bands website.

Yahoo music has been given the honour to stream the full record already in advance. So if you'd like to check out the album before buying it, jump over to the Yahoo Blog entry and give the record a listen.

Mediascope: AC/DC,Exodus,Kreator and Metal Evolution Pt. 2

gAfter quite some time of thinking about it, I decided to open up a new section here on my blog. It will be called "Mediascope". The sense of this is to inform you guys out there about upcoming media stuff that is worth checking out or already online.If you have suggestions for more stuff please leave a comment or email me (look at my profile for the adress please):

I start today with some fine stuff that has recently been spread around, but let's do it step by step.

AC/DC - Live At River Plate

The goog old legend from Australia. Having finished their recent world tour it's surely time for them to recharge their batteries. Live albums often can provide you with the time that is needed to do so.
Currently the legendary Rolling Stone magazine streams the full audio of the actuall live album "Live at River Plate". Just click here to jump to the proper article. Have a good time checking it out. :-)

Kreator - Live at Berlin, Huxleys 2012/12/01

Brutal thrash metal from one of the oldest german thrash bands. They did unleash "Phantom Antichrist" some time ago and wanna give all the people who cannot make it to one of their shows the chance to catch one of their performances that is said to offer a big 3D production. The video stream service www.tape.tv will broadcast their show from Huxleys, Berlin on 2012/12/01 at 22h (german time). Check out the trailer that is already up for that. If I do get more info on this I'll update this posts on the upcoming days.

Update 2012/12/01: The subsite where the streaming will take place has just been revealed. Really looking forward to this! :-)

Update 2012/12/03: For all those who missed the Kreator show on Saturday or simply wanna see it again, here is the full show for watching. Enjoy!

Metal Evolution Part 2

A new documentary talking about the vault's of Heavy Metal produced by Banger films. Actually video music station IM1 is broadcasting this one splitted up into several party. You can watch part 2 talking about the good old new wave of british heavy metal on 2012/11/27 24:00h on IM1 (german time) or watch it online on IM1 website For a first look upon what's awaiting you check out the short trailer below.

Update 2012/11/24:
Exodus @ Desperados Stage Dive

On April 2012 thrash-veterans Exodus went to South America TV station Viva is now broadcasting a special about this tour divided into two parts. Part 1 was already shown on 2012/11/15, but Part 2 is yet tom come on 2012/12/06. There's a little trailer available so you can check out if this is something worth watching.

The show has also a own site present on facebook with more details and info on past and upcoming shows and streams.