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.

Graspop Metal Meeting & Hellfest to be streamed this weekend

Two big names in the world of Heavy Metal festivals are broadcasting at least parts of the big festival line-ups - both totally for free!

First to go is the Graspop Metal Meeting which gives you the chance to see some bands on two different channels. You need to have Silverlight installed on your device to be able to watch this.

Underneath of the stream window you can check out the schedule of the bands that will be streamed - check for the green or partly green marked fields in the overview. Those bands will be shown, or at least some tracks from their set.

Keep in mind that the schedule changes over the day - bands may be added to the broadcast list very shortly (just for example: I saw two changes in the few moments of time I took to write this article - so check back often :-)  At the moment I'm typing this these bands are confirmed for today (Saturday 20th June)

Orphaned Land
Morgoth
Danko Jones
Godsmack
Judas Priest

Update 2015/06/22: It's sadly over but there's still a chance to see stuff from the Graspop Metal Meeting at the concert video archive that has been opened up. Go and watch it while it's up!

The next one to check out is the Hellfest from France. There it's a bit more complicated. Leave the guy with the gray face on the top of the page behind and scroll to the six pictures below. Hover over the stream you desire (they are sorted with the date and stage name) to see the bands that are scheduled for the live stream. One more click and you can watch it. Or even better: see the bands you want directly here on my page. Great to see the people from Arte allow embeding streams to other sites. Thanks for that! The streams start at 17:15h today.

Update 2015/06/22: It's sad to see the festival is already over now. :-( But wait, some stuff can be seen again (or for the first time if you missed it out). The Hellfest livestream page is now a archive of some of the festival performances. :-) You can watch shows from Sodom, Children of Bodom, Scorpions, Faith no more and many, many more on the linked page. Enjoy (again)!

This is what is confirmed for the Altar & Temple stage at the moment for this very saturday:

Desultory 17:25
Finntroll 18:15
Coffins 19:10
Ensiferum 20:05
Skinless 21:10
Obituary 23:35
Venom 00:40


This overview shows what will be shown from the main stage:

L7 17:50
Slash 18:40
Killing Joke 19:45
Faith No More 21:45
Scorpions 23:25

Relapse Records celebrates 25th anniversary with free 184 track sampler

Want a massive load of free music? Relapse Records celebrates the 25th anniversary ob Bandcamp with a sampler on a pay-what-you-want basis including not less than 184 tracks from the roster. Their is no minimum or maximum set for this download so you can also get the full package for free.

Included are bigger names like Obituary, Morgoth, Amorphis and Control Denied as well as a wide selection of not so well known names from the whole list of the bands the label hosts. You can also check out the whole offer from the stream below. A massive pack of music, sometimes discoveries of new, cool bands can be found on such releases. Remember that some nice surprises found the way to my ears through that way...

Relapse Records handing out free Sampler with unreleased songs

Do you remember the good old Relapse Records Label? It's the legendary label that brought some classic records to you. One example I remember very well is one of the very first Amorphis albums, Tales from the throusand Lakes. The album really brought some progressive elements to the realm of Death Metal and it made me more aware than ever of this musical style in the Heavy Metal world that I mostly ignored before.

Happily the label is still around and active and provides us this fall with a fresh, annual label sampler that's been set up for free download. You can listen to the full 26-tracks big pack below. Besides already released stuff you'll also get to hear some tracks that give a first impression of upcoming releases of the label featuring Gruesome, Publicist UK, and Ecstatic Vision. If you want to download the songs just go to the Bandcamp site of the record label and do so.

Bloodstock 2014 broadcasts shows through internet livestream

This weekend another fine festival takes place - it't time for the Bloodstock Open Air.

Best of all for those who can't be there: in cooperation with dailymotion a stream has been set up to broadcast some of the shows of the festival. Jump over to the site of dailymotion or check it out right here:



Live Stream - Bloodstock Festival 2014 by BloodstockFestival
The schedule for the stream is as follows (all times CET):

Saturday, August 9th:

Evil Scarecrow - 11.00am
Shining - 12.00
Decapitated - 13:05
Orphaned Land - 14.10
Lacuna Coil - 16.35
Children of Bodom - 17.55
Carcass - 19.40
Emperor - 21:30

Sunday, August 10th:

Arthemis - 11.00am
Aborted - 12.00
ReVamp - 13.05
Biohazard - 14.10
Obituary - 16.35
Amon Amarth - 19.30
Megadeth - 21.15

Full shows from Rock Hard Festival 2014 up for watching online

After putting out the live-stream as well as the big two round-up packages the german TV station WDR surprises us with a bunch of full shows added to the streaming archive of the legendary Rockpalast website.

You're now able to see legendary performances from Sacred Reich, Carcass or Obituary by just clicking on the corresponding link. A new window will open up and you can watch the show or select single songs from the set. The video from Blue Pills has been announced to be added later, I'll put the link here when it's online. Enjoy. :-)

Carcass

Sacred Reich

Obituary

Solstafir

Insomnium

Screamer

Triptykon 

Die Apokalptischen Reiter

Monster Magnet

Annihilator

Orphaned Land

Blue Pills

Round up of Rock Hard Festival 2014 to be broadcasted in two parts

This years Rock Hard Festival was massive, no question. I enjoyed the shows from Sacred Reich and Annihilator a lot. These bands know how to rock. :-)

German TV station WDR will broadcast a round up of the festival in their legendary Rockpalast concert series. It will be divided in two parts. Part 1 will be shown on the upcoming weekend in the night from the 15th to the 16th of June 2014 starting around midnight. Each issue will have a length of over three hours so there's a big bunch of music coming our way.

The following bands are included:

TRIPTYKON
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
MONSTER MAGNET
ANNIHILATOR
ORPHANED LAND
BLUES PILLS

Part 2 is set for broadcasting in the night from the 22th June to the 23th of June 2014 also starting around midnight. These bands are announced for the show:

CARCASS
SACRED REICH
OBITUARY
SOLSTAFIR
INSOMNIUM
SCREAMER

The TV station has a webstream of their programm running on the internet. You can find it here. I don't know about any region lock in there so you need to figure out for yourselves if it works. If you know anything certain please let me know in the comments below.

Update 2014/06/20: If you missed it you might have the chance to watch Part 1 of the best of show anyway. The TV station has uploaded it to the Rockpalast streaming archive. Have fun!

Heavy Metal Home TV were also at the festival to document the shows that were done at Friday. Besides some impressions from the festival and the camping site they also captured footage of the performances from NOCTURNAL, MIDNIGHT, ZODIAC and DECAPITATED. Check it out below:

Rock Hard Festival 2014 live stream shows selected shows

On the upcoming weekend Friday 6th to Sunday 8th June 2014 the Rock Hard Festival will take place. This annual festival is organised by the well-known german Rock Hard megazine and the focus is set on smaller bands playing in the beautifull surroundings of the Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Once again there will be a internet live stream this year showing some of the shows. The stream can be found at the side of the Rockpalast webpage. The following bands have been confirmed so far to be broadcasted along with the timetable:

Update 2014/06/06: Solstafir & Screamer added to the time-table on Saturday since they have been announced to be streamed as well.

Update 2014/06/10: Single videos from the performances of the bands have been uploaded to the Rockpalast homepage. Just click on the band names to jump to the site with the stream.
More stuff like interviews or pictures can be found on the main page of the event. Click on the band name and category to get the stuff you want.


Friday 06th June:

19:45h APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER.

21:30-23:00h TRIPTYKON


Saturday 07th June:

15:45- 16:30h SOLSTAFIR

14:45- 15:25h SCREAMER

18:15- 19:15h OBITUARY

19:45- 21:00h SACRED REICH

21:30- 23:00h CARCASS


Sunday 08th June:

13:00- 13:40h BLUES PILLS

14:05- 14:50h ORPHANED LAND

15:15- 16:00h INSOMNIUM

16:30- 17:40h MONSTER MAGNET

18:10- 19:20h ANNIHILATOR