WDR to broadcast round-up of With Full Force 2015

The legendary TV show "Rockpalast" has visited the "With Full Force" Festival in 2015 for the first time to show people out there what was going on there.

The german TV station WDR has announced to broadcast the result, a big three hour broadcast of this years edition of The Full Force Festival. The show is running in the night from Sunday, 9th August to Monday, 10th August starting at 0:15h (CEST).

You'll be able to see stuff of the following bands:

Kreator, Heaven Shall Burn, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Die Kassierer, Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All, Pro Pain, Fear Factory, Terror, Heaven Shall Burn, Knorkator, Diablo Blvd., Obituary and Arch Enemy.

Update 08/12/2015: The full package has been added to the on demand archive! Having seen it I can only give many thumbs up for this. They people behind the best of managed to put together a good round-up, it never get's boring and it keeps you on the screen through a good mixture of live and interview footage all along with impressions of visitors of the festival and their opion of what's going on. Enjoy. :-)

The TV station happily has a livestream up and running so I hope many people will be able to check this out.

Another Television station called MDR will show the package for a second time on 19th August 2015, starting at 23.35h (CEST).

Some preview stuff including some live-performances as well as a lot of interview footage is already online over at the website of Rockpalast as well as the newly opened up Youtube channel. 

Here's one example, the interview with Mille from Kreator filmed at the With Full Force Festival 2015.

Rock am Ring 2014 stream will broadcast many shows online

Wow, this is going to be a massive weekend! Just found out that this year happily once more a live stream featuring a lot of the bands playing at Rock am Ring 2014 has been set up for all those who cannot be there.

You can find the stream as well as all updated info on bands and broadcasting times at this location.

Update 2014/06/05
If you're having problems with the stream like I had this evening (but happily found this alternative plus legal site) just go over to this place, hope it works like it did for me. Maiden was great, enjoyed the title-track from Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son so much. Added Metallica since they are set up for streaming on Sunday, hope it will stay this way. (all bands/times are subject to change as the owners of the stream wrote on their site)

As for now the timetable lists the following bands along with times (only internet livestream bands are listed, there is more stuff that is broadcasted through a german TV channel called Eins Plus that can be found at this point .)

Thursday 05.06.14
21h Iron Maiden

Friday 06.06.14
22:20h Kings of Leon

Saturday 07.06.14
19:10h Opeth
20:15h Heaven shall burn
22:55h Linkin Park

Sunday 08.06.14
20:05h Avenged Sevenfold
21:25h Alter Bridge or Milky Chance (tbc)
22:00h Metallica

Groezerock Festival sampler up for free download

So, the Groezerock Festival 2014 in Meerhout, Belgium on May 2nd and 3rd, 2014 is already over. Have you been there this year or on one of the previous editions and want to re-listen to some of the artists (you maybe discovered them there for the first time)?

Then this download compilation of 13 tracks from a selection of Century Media artists playing either this year's or previous editions of Groezrock including TERROR, DEEZ NUTS, IGNITE, CALIBAN, I AM HERESY (feat. Nathan Gray from Boysetsfire on vocals), HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SICK OF IT ALL and BLEED FROM WITHIN is for you.

Just click on this link to reach out to the Samplers website. You need to sign in with your email address to get access to the compilation. It also comes with a 10% discount for www.cmdistro.de but that treat is only valid for all the orders placed today.

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!

Fresh stuff from Stratovarius,Heaven shall burn and Kamelot up for listening

While I'm typing this the snow is falling outside. The perfect weather to enjoy some fine music. Happily nowadays a lot of bands are putting up their new stuff online for listening so you can check them out before you might buy them. Stratovarius just recently did put out their actuall release called "Nemesis". I'm listenig to it while writing this one down. Sounds like the band did tape some very cool tracks which tend more into the powerfull direction. The last record I've heard from them was "Polaris" which turned out great for me but had surprisingly a lot of slow songs on it. So head over here and find out how the new album is.

Heaven shall burn are quite a different kind of music. Their sound is more set in the heavy, raw and hardcore direction. The new album will be called "VETO" and the band has now set up one song called ‘Land Of The Upright Ones’ for free download. There just one thing you need to do before downloading: solve the sound puzzle. Will you solve this quest? Try your luck here. 

The last band in this little round up are Kamelot, a much underrated symphonic powermetal band. Their newest album has been released autumn 2012 and was called "Silverthorn". They recently released two single's from that album and will follow this path with another single called 'Falling Like The Fahrenheit'. Since lyric Videos have become very popular these days the band has decided to set up a proper one for this track. Judging from the lyrics it looks like someone lost someone who he/she was in love with or what do you think? 

Rockpalast to stream shows from AREA 4 Festival

The well-known Rock music show "Rockpalast" from german TV station WDR has announced to stream some of the shows of the AREA 4 Festival taking place at this sunny weekend at Lüdinghausen. The stream will be placed right at the startpage of the internet-presence. The following bands are confirmed to be shown at the stream, here's a list along with the corresponding show-times in german-time (see the livestream picture at the Rockpalast website for CEST times):

21.45 - 23.00  Heaven Shall Burn
20.15 - 21.15  Donots
19.00 - 19.45  Boysetsfire
16.35 - 17.15  Touché Amoré

Bullet for my Valentine (one of the bands from Saturday) 


Sick of it All


Update 2012-08-30: The TV station has put some of the shows in their online archive for free viewing! I've added the links, just click on the name and a new tab will open with the stream. Enjoy!

Wacken Livevideos back online again

There are currently some videos of these years Wacken Open Air back online again. For a limited time (mostly a week) you can watch live footage from Trivium, Motörhead and the amazing Heaven shall burn gig again. Have a good time with these goodies.:-)

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1395110/Wacken-2011-Motoerhead-und-Trivium?bc=kua884716;kua1527208