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

Hellfest livestream coming up next weekend

Finally we arrived at wednesday - the middle of the week. Time to see what the weekend may bring. This time you're in for another treat. :-)

Hellfest 2016 is coming to a screen near you.

The french Hellfest is going to be broadcasted in 2016 and big and small bands have already been confirmed to have their sets shown online. Currently the schedule looks like this:

Friday 17th June 2016 (all times MEST)

Altar & Temple Stage

18:35 Inquisition
19:30 Sacred Reich
20:30 Korpiklaani
21:35 Overkill
22:40 Aura Noir
23:45 Testament
00:45 Abbath

Mainstage

17:40 Turbonegro
18:35 Bullet For My Valentine
19:40 Mass Hysteria (Différé)
20:45 Volbeat
22:05 Dropkick Murphys
00:45 The Offspring


Saturday 18th June 2016

Altar & Temple Stage

17:40 Entombed A.D.
18:35 Archgoat
19:30 Asphyx
20:25 Moonsorrow
21:20 Terrorizer
22:15 Primordial
23:15 Napalm Death
01:00 Dark Funeral

Mainstage

17:40 Sick Of It All
18:35 Joe Satriani
19:30 Disturbed
01:00 Korn


Sunday 19th June 2016

Alatr & Temple Stage

17:40 Insomnium
18:35 Taake
20:30 Empyrium
21:30 Grand Magus
22:35 Enslaved
00:45 Deicide

Mainstage

15:50 Tarja
17:40 Blind Guardian
19:40 Amon Amarth
20:45 Megadeth
22:05 Ghost

You can find the overlook page right here on the ARTE concert page. Just select the date and stage you want to see and the link will take you to a subpage with the stream on it.

Underneath every stream you can also find the updated schedule for each broadcast. Things may be changed so make sure to check in every here and there to keep up to date.

Rock Hard Festival 2016 to be streamed and recorded by Rockpalast.de

The open air festival of the paper magazine Rock Hard has become well known in germany and many other countries around the world. It's based at a small location at a historical theater in Gelsenkirchen and features mostly smaller bands. It's said that the bands don't play there to make some cash in but instead play for the fans and thank them this way.

Most of all the Rockpalast crew confirmed on Facebook that there will be a live stream this year. So far Turbonegro has been announced as a band that has agreed to have their show streamed online.

The Rock Hard Festival 2016 will be streamed and recorded by the legendary TV format Rockpalast

Info on the Festival-Livestream

But there's more to come - here is the timetable for

Friday the 13th 2016 (all times are MEST)

Year Of The Goat       16:00 - 16:40 h
Satan                          17:05 - 17:50 h 
Tankard                      18:15 - 19:15 h
Destruction                 19:45 - 21:00 h
Sodom                       21:30 - 23:00 h

Saturday the 14th 2016 (all times are MEST)

Grand Magus       15:35 - 16:20 h
The Exploited       16:45 - 17:45 h
Kadavar               18:15 - 19:15 h
Metal Church       19:45 - 21:00 h 
Turbonegro          21:30 - 23:00 h

Sunday the 15th 2016 (all times are MEST)

Orden Ogan                                15:15 - 16:00 h
Moonspell                                   16:30 - 17:30 h
Riot V                                         18:00 - 19:00 h
Best Of Rock Hard 2015            19:05 - 21:00 h
Blind Guardian                            21:15 - 23:00 h 

You can find the livestream at the homepage of the Rockpalast web presence.

I'll update the schedule on the upcoming days if things should change. You can also connect with Heavy Metal Underdogs via Facebook - I'll post updates on the streaming schedule there as well.

Update 2016/05/24: In case you missed out the livestream of the Rock Hard festival 2016 or want to watch some of the gigs again follow this link. The first batch of live recordings is online now thanks to the hard working people of the Rockpalast crew.

Update 2016/05/14: Rockpalast has uploaded some live footage as well as interview material and pictures of the Rock Hard Festival 2016 on their homepage.

For all those who can't make it to the festival or watch the stream the legendary german TV format Rockpalast will also make recordings of the performances and air them later via the TV station WDR.

 

Info on the TV broadcast

Here is the TV broadcast schedule for the recorded material (all times are MEST please keep that in mind).
There is a livestream of the TV station available from their homepage but I cannot say if you access it from outside of germany.

Update 2016/05/24: Updated the schedule once again. The show on 27th June 2016 is a completly new announcement.

Update 2016/05/20: Updated the TV broadcast with exact starting and ending times and added the bands that will be shown during the shows.

23. May 2016, 23.55 - 03.25 h @ WDR Fernsehen
Bands:
SODOM
KADAVAR
TANKARD
YEAR OF THE GOAT

30. May 2016, 00.05 - 03.35 h @ WDR Fernsehen
Bands:
TURBONEGRO
DESTRUCTION
THE EXPLOITED

6. June 2016, 00.45 - 04.15 h @ WDR Fernsehen
Bands:
BLIND GUARDIAN
RIOT V
MOONSPELL

27. June 2016, 02.15 - 04.15 h @ WDR Fernsehen
METAL CHURCH
SATAN
GRAND MAGUS
ORDEN OGAN

The following band list shows which other band will also play at the Rock Hard Open Air 2016:

BLIND GUARDIAN
TURBONEGRO
SODOM
CANNIBAL CORPSE
METAL CHURCH
DESTRUCTION („Mad Butcher“-Set!)
MOONSPELL
THE EXPLOITED
RIOT V
TANKARD
KADAVAR
GRAND MAGUS
SATAN
ORDEN OGAN
TRIBULATION
BLACK TRIP
NIGHTINGALE
YEAR OF THE GOAT
SULPHUR AEON
SORCERER
ACCU§ER
DISCREATION

More information on the festival itself can be found on official Rock Hard Festival Homepage.

Avantasia to play at preliminary round for Eurovision Song Contest

Yeah, sometimes news come rushing in you can't believe. This is one of those.

The well known metal opera project Avantasia of Edguy frontsiren Tobias Sammet has announced to play at this years 2016 edition of the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Wow, what a honour. This is a contest with a long tradition. Mostly it is well known for bands and single artists in the pop world but surely it is a great opportunity to promote some metal music on TV. The show is going to take place on 25th of February 2016 and will be broadcasted through TV. I'll add more details here in the article when I run across them, like the exact time for the show as well as (hopefully) links to where you can all watch the event.

Update 2016/02/19: On the website eurovision.de you'll find the livestream of the event.
German TV stations ARD and EinsFestival will broadcast this starting on 20:15h via their frequencies on german television.
You can read more detailed info about all the bands that will participate as well as about how to vote for your favorite band on the website of the Eurovision song contest Stockholm 2016 (sorry, only in german available). 

In the meantime you can already check out the song the band is going to perform at the preliminary round of the ESC. The track is called ‘Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose’.

Until the big event takes place you can listen to the official album trailer for the upcoming Avantasia album "Ghostlights" which will hit the shelves of the CD shops on 29th of January 2016. As always it will feature a massive guestlist. Just hit the play button to be introduced to the line-up as well as the chance to check out the cover art and to check out some info on the various release formats.


Finally here is a list of the upcoming tourdates for the worldtour which will start in March 2016. Some venues are already sold out, so better hurry if you want to get a ticket for one of their shows. Ticket can be purchased over at Avantasia.net

04.03. D - Berlin - Huxley's*
05.03. D - Hamburg - Große Freiheit* - SOLD OUT!!
06.03. D - Bremen - Aladin*
08.03. UK - London - The Forum*
09.03. F - Paris - Le Trianon*
11.03. E - Barcelona - Razzmatazz 1*
12.03. E - Madrid - La Riviera* - SOLD OUT!!
13.03. E - Madrid - La Riviera*
15.03. D - Frankfurt-Langen - Stadthalle*
16.03. CZ - Prague - Forum Karlin*
18.03. D - Kaufbeuren - All-Karthalle*
19.03. D - Bamberg - Brose-Arena*
20.03. D - Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle*
22.03. I - Milan - Alcatraz*
24.03. CH - Pratteln - Z7*
25.03. CH - Pratteln - Z7*
27.03. SK - Banska Bystrica - Ice Stadium*
28.03. SK - Bratislava - Sportshall*
29.03. A - Tröpolach - Full Metal Mountain Festival
31.03. D - Saarbrücken - Saarlandhalle*
01.04. D - Ludwigsburg - Arena*
02.04. D - Fulda - Esperantohalle*
04.04. H - Budapest - Baba Negra*
06.04. RUS - Moscow - Ray Just Arena*
09.04. JP - Tokyo - Shinagawa Prince Stellar Ball*
24.04. BRA - Sao Paulo - Espaco das Americas*
08.-11.06. S - Sölvesborg - Sweden Rock Festival
01-03.07. FIN - Helsinki, Tuska Open Air
06.07. D - Flugplatz Ballenstedt - RockHarz Open Air

Update 2016/01/13: Brand new US/Canada tourdates have just been announced.

APRIL 13 - CANADA - Toronto, Queen Elizabeth Theater
APRIL 15 - USA - New York, Playstation Theater

More dates will be announced. Check in at the band's Facebook site or take a look on their homepage to stay up to date.

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.

Concert blast Sylvester 2014/2015

German TV station 3sat will show Rock and Pop concert recordings the whole day 31st 2014 up to new years eve! Here's a link to the schedule:
http://www.3sat.de/programm/?viewlong=viewlong&d=20141231&dayID=ClnDaN31&cx=95 

There's also a livestream available but I don't know if it also shows the conert recordings outside of germany:
http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=live

For all readers from germany here's the direct link to the 3sat internet livestream:
http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=42667

So far it has been announced that this years edition will feature a lot of old recordings from the first days of bands like Queen, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, Genesis and Phil Collins up to presen show recordings from artists like Muse, Depeche Mode and ZZ Top (mostly 2013 and later).

Have fun and have a safe going over to 2014, read you there!

Update 2015-01-03: Happy new year everyone! Hope you had a good start into 2015.
If you missed out on the previous concert event then you may still be in luck.
TV station 3sat has added a lot of the concert footage to their streaming archive.
Just look at the results of the search page 1 and page 2 to find the show you want. Not all have been added but there's quite a lot of the shows online. Better hurry anyway, since it's mostly online for a limited time only.

Wacken Open Air 2014 internet streams and TV shows announced

Yeah, I am pretty sure a lot of you guys outta there are preparing for the biggest event of the year in the world of Heavy Metal: the legendary Wacken Open Air!!!

For all those who cannot make it there I have good news at hand: also 2014 there will be the chance to see some of the shows! The organisers announced at the festival homepage that there will be a webstream available directly at wacken.com as well as on the sites of the media partners 3sat and arte. The streams will have no region-lock so everybody should be able to see the stuff that will be broadcasted. Read the full announcement right here.

Update 2014/08/07: Timetable for the TV broadcasts of the after-festival specials has been changed so I updated them. You can find them at the very end of this article. Think this is mostly interesting for the german visitors of my blog so I kept the german timestamps in there.

Update 2014/08/04: BIG UPDATE! Added all the links to the streaming on-demand service that the TV station ARTE offers for a limited time of 30 days. So if you missed out a show just click on the band name and a new window will open up with the stream. Added also the timetable for the TV broadcasts on german TV at the very end of the article. Have much fun!

Update 2014/08/01: Last night was great! Accept were my favorites, was a good show that simply put a smile on my face. If you missed the stuff out just click on the bandnames in the streaming schedule below. The shows have been added to the online streaming archive of the TV station!

Update 2014/07/31: These bands have been confirmed to be streamed today (Thursday 31th July 2014, all times german time). You can watch it right below in the embedded stream window of ARTE. Thanks to the people out there putting up such fine goodies as the webstream for us, you rock!

17:00h Skyline
18:00h Hammerfall
19:30h Steel Panther
21:00h Saxon
22:30h Accept

For the other days these bands are currently scheduled for streaming:

Friday 01.08.
16.45h - Heaven Shall Burn
18.00h - Children of Bodom
19.30h - Apocalyptica
21.25h - Carcass
22.30h - Santiano (Recording after Artist-Approval)
00.00h - Saltatio Mortis

Saturday 02.08.:
16.00h - Devin Townsend Project

17.30h - Emperor
19.00h - Amon Amarth
20.30h - J.B.O.
22.00h - Knorkator (Recording)
23.30h - Motörhead (Recording)
00.15h - Kreator
01.45h - Schandmaul

Sunday 2014/08/02:

Update 2014/08/02: In addition 3sat will also broadcast a big round up of the festival on 2th of August 2014. The broadcast will be shown on TV and also as a free webstream at this location.

The timetable for this extra stream goes like this:

20.15h – Slayer (Recording)
20.30h – Apocalyptica (Recording)
21.00h – Motörhead (Recording)
21.35h – Saxon (Recording)
22.00h – Avantasia

Update 2014/07/30: This year it seems to be okay and legal to put the stream also on your own page. I've found this embed code on the ARTE homepage so you'll be able to watch Wacken 2014 also here on my blog. Very cool, so everyone can watch right here. :-)
The exact time-tables are still to be confirmed so please check back at this article from time to time since I will update it with as many information as possible. Some more details (in german language) can be found at the websites of 3sat and ARTE.
You can also have a look at the running order on the festival homepage to see which band is on stage or will be soon.

Some shows have been confirmed to be streamed. Those are listed below:

Hammerfall on Thursday July 31 from 18:00 to 19:15 CET
Accept on Thursday July 31 from 22:30 to 24:00 CET
Children Of Bodom on Friday August 01 from 18:00 to 19:15 CET
Carcass on Friday August 01 from 21:15 to 22:15 CET
Kreator on Saturday August 02 from 00:15 to 01:30 CET

After the festival there will be the chance of watching selected shows through the media channels 3sat and ARTE. 10 shows have been set up for broadcasting through these german TV stations. Under the confirmed bands you can find names like Hammerfall, Accept, Children of Bodom, W.A.S.P., Kreator and Amon Amarth. These have announced to be aired on  9th of August at ARTE and the 11th of August at 3Sat. More info to come...

Update 2014/08/02: The first broadcast times (2 TV stations will sned them on different days and times) of the after-festival shows with recorded concert stuff have been released:

Samstag, 9. August in ZDFkultur
20.15 Uhr Accept
21.15 Uhr Apocalyptica
22.15 Uhr Heaven Shall Burn

Samstag, 9. August in ARTE
23.30 Uhr Slayer

Sonntag, 10. August in ZDF Kultur
20.15 Uhr Saxon
21.15 Uhr Children Of Bodom

Montag, 11. August in 3sat
02.00 Uhr Hammerfall
03.00 Uhr Accept
04.00 Uhr Apocalyptica
05.00 Uhr Heaven Shall Burn

Freitag, 15. August in 3sat
01.45 Uhr Amon Amarth
02.45 Uhr Steel Panther
03.45 Uhr Schandmaul
04.45 Uhr Kreator

Samstag, 16. August in ZDFkultur
20.15 Uhr Hammerfall
21.15 Uhr Amon Amarth
22.15 Uhr Steel Panther

Samstag, 16. August in 3sat
03.40 Uhr Saxon
04.40 Uhr Children Of Bodom

Sonntag, 17. August in ZDFkultur
20.15 Uhr Schandmaul
21.15 Uhr Kreator

Wacken 2013 - see nine hours of stuff from this years WOA.

Starting on Friday the 13th at 20h (CEST) TV station NDR will stream shows and interviews on their website ndr.de The stream won't have a region lock, so everybody should be able to watch this!

Later on at midnight a five hour documentation about the festival will be broadcasted through their TV channel. (You should also be able to see this through the webstream of the TV station at http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/livestream217.html).

For more details on this event like the exact timetable for the mentioned interviews and live-recordings go to www.ndr.de/unterhaltung/events/wacken/wackennacht101.html (sorry, only in german available).

Update 2013/09/16: If you missed the documentation "Alles auf schwarz - Wacken!!!: Sarnau & Hübner bei den Metalheads" then you've got a second chance to see this by checking out this site.
It holds the documentation divided into three parts plus several interviews with well known musicians.

Update 2013/09/13: Some more details in german language about the documentation entitled "Alles auf schwarz -Wacken!!!: Sarnau & Hübner bei den Metalheads" that will be broadcasted tonight plus a trailer can be viewed on this site of the TV station NDR.

Watch Wacken Open Air 2013 via Internet or Television broadcast

Wacken Open Air 2013 will be broadcasted both on television and as online streams! Check this page for more details.

Update 2013/08/06: Another day, another update. :-) Seems like all the 10 performances that zdf kultur is going to show (look at my update from yesterday for details) will also be added to the streaming archive of the TV station. As far as I know it will last for one week only, so better hurry if you want to watch it.

Annihilator Live at WOA 2013 Archive zdf kultur

Pretty Maids Live at WOA 2013 Archive zdf kultur

ASP Live at WOA 2013 Archive zdf kultur

Lingua Mortis feat. Rage Live at WOA 2013 Archiv zdf kultur

Deep Purple Live at WOA 2013 Archive zdf kultur

Anthrax Live at WOA 2013 Archive zdf kultur
 
Alice Cooper / Motörhead Live at WOA 2013 archive zdf kultur


Update 2013/08/05: Is it all over now? Yes, as for the festival itself. But not for the streaming. :-) zdf kultur has announced that they will show 10 performances of the festival following the event. Each day one band will be shown. There's even a stream of that TV station, I hope it works also outside of germany.  So far these bands are said to be streamed, starting with Annihilator Monday night:

Monday 00.15h (CEST) Annihilator
Tuesday 23.20h (CEST) Pretty Maids
Wednesday 07.08.2013 23.35hr ASP
Thursday 08.08.2013 23.50h Lingua Mortis featuring RAGE
Friday, 09.08.2013 23.15h Deep Purple

Monday, 12.08.2013 00.15h (CEST) Anthrax
Tuesday, 13.08.2013 23.30h (CEST) Agnostic Front und Ihsahn

Plus there's a archive on the NDR website with most of the shown band performances of the recent days. Enjoy! :-)

Update 2013/08/04: Changes, changes and even more changes. Here's the daily update to the NDR Wacken Stream, today it's time for the best of Wacken 2013, starting at 18:30h (CEST). Attention: the starting time has changed and is now set for 19:30h (CEST). Here is what you can see today:

Band	Stage
Pretty Maids	True Metal Stage
Doro	True Metal Stage
Deep Purple	Black Stage
Motörhead	Black Stage
Trivium	True Metal Stage
ASP	Black Stage
Lingua Mortis + Rage	Black Stage
Anvil	W.E.T. Stage
Emergency Gate	W.E.T. Stage

If you missed out the ZDF kultur stream last night, don't worry, you can still watch the band performances on the Blog site of the TV station. Just click play on the very first video on the top of the site. Enjoy! :-)

Update 2013/08/03: ...and once more the schedule has changed. :-) So here we go with updated information: first of all don't forget the second stream I already mentioned yesterday. It's located here and will feature bands like Trivium, Alice Cooper,Deep Purple,Doro PLUS they revealed that parts of the Rammstein as well as of the Motörhead show will be shown. Starting time is 20h (CEST). The exact timetable has also been put out:

20.05 Uhr: Trivium (live)
21.00 Uhr: Alice Cooper (live)
21.30 Uhr: Deep Purple (vom Donnerstag)
22.25 Uhr: Doro (vom Freitag)
23.25 Uhr: Motörhead (vom Freitag)
23.45 Uhr: Rammstein (vom Donnerstag)
00.00 Uhr: End of Stream


Next of here's the daily update for the NDR (partly even live) stream from the Wacken shows, starting time is set for 18:30h (CEST). Have fun!

Saturday 2013/08/03

DevilDriver	Party Stage	live
Black Messiah	Headbangers Stage
Legion Of The Damned	Headbangers Stage
Candlemass	Party Stage	live
Ihsahn	Black Stage
Sonata Arctica	Party Stage
ASP	Black Stage

Tomorrow will bring us the highlights of the festival. Currently the bandlists reads as follows:

Doro	True Metal Stage
Lingua Mortis + Rage	Black Stage
Anvil	WET-Stage
Emergency Gate	WET-Stage
Alestorm	Party Stage

Update 2013/08/02: Here's a update of today's streaming schedule. Please note that some bands will be streamed live so don't miss them out. For the exact running order check in at the Wacken Running Order subpage. The stream is said to beginn at 17h (CEST) with Pretty Maids. For all the latest info and the stream itself make sure to check back with this site.

Friday 2013/08/02

Band	Stage
Pretty Maids	True Metal Stage	L I V E
Soilwork	Party Stage	L I V E
Ugly Kid Joe	Party Stage
Corvus Corax	Party Stage	L I V E
Agnostic Front	Black Stage
Thunder	Black Stage
Amorphis	Party Stage	L I V E

Currently the schedule for saturday has also been changed to the following, seems like Rage will be missing while Alestorm and ASP have been added.

Saturday 2013/08/03

Band	Stage
Alestorm	Party Stage
Black Messiah	Headbangers Stage
Legion Of The Damned	Headbangers Stage
Candlemass	Party Stage	L I V E
Ihsahn	Black Stage
Sonata Arctica	Party Stage
ASP	Black Stage

In  addition to this another TV station named zdf kultur will also set up a internet stream on Saturday 2013/08/03. They are going to show recorded stuff from: Trivium, Alice Cooper,Deep Purple and Doro. Starting time is set to 20h (CEST). Check in here to see the stream and find out more details (sorry, only german language available).


Update 2013/08/31: Looks like the streaming and broadcast will be much more massive than last year.
Some more details about the internet stream and broadcasts from Wacken Open Air 2013 have just been announced, check out the link for more informations.

Currently the schedule for today (Thursday 2013/08/01) says that the following bands will be streamed on this page of the german TV station NDR. Please look on the Wacken Running Order Page to find the exact showtimes. (MESZ time given). All dates are subject to change, please check back with the streaming site reugulary.


Thursday 2013/08/01

Infanteria (Südafrika)
BackJumper (Italien)
Asthma (Lettland)
Ophidian I (Island)
Midnight Scream (Slowakei)
Trallery (Spanien)
Utopium (Portugal)
An Apple A Day (Luxemburg)
Overoth (Irland)
Vengha (Schweden)
Crimson Shadow (Kanada)
JT Ripper (Deutschland)
Rotten Souls (Zentral-Amerika)
Mysterious Priestess (Japan)
Evil Invaders (Belgien)
Behold The Grave (Mexiko)
Gnida (Polen)
Industrial City (kaukasische Republiken)
Annihilator	Black Stage

Friday 2013/08/02

Band	Bühne
Agnostic Front	Black Stage
Ugly Kid Joe	Party Stage
Corvus Corax	Party Stage
Pretty Maids	True Metal Stage
Amorphis	Party Stage

Saturday 2013/08/03

Band	Bühne
Black Messiah	Headbangers Stage
Legion Of The Damned	Headbangers Stage
Ihsahn	Black Stage
Candlemass	Party Stage
Sonata Arctica	Party Stage
Devildriver	Party Stage
Lingua Mortis feat. Rage	Black Stage

Sunday 2013/08/04 (Highlights)

Doro	True Metal Stage
Emergency Gate	WET-Stage
Fozzy	WET-Stage

Rock am Ring 2013 Stream and TV broadcast announced

At the upcoming weekend it's time again for the big Rock am Ring festival here in germany. The festival is sold out for quite some time already so I took a look around on the web and happily found out, that parts of the Rock am Ring 2013 festival will be streamed online. Here's the link to the streaming page. Bands and times are still to be concreted/announced. So far you can take a look at the official festival page to see which bands will play at a certain time and on which stage. Of couse I do hope that some of the metal bands that will show up there will be streamed through linked the website. 

Or simply click on the play button in the video frame below to watch since they happily gave permission this year to embedd the stream. There are two streams by the way, one send's directly the band's performances while the other one send's send with a little delay and/or not live but recorded stuff only. The second stream I mentioned can only be seen on the streaming page I linked, so If you want to see it you still need to go there to watch it.




If you do live in germany you might be happy to read that some TV stations over here will do broadcasts of this big festival event. Jump over to this page to see which TV stations and other websites will host stuff from the event. It's all in german language, but I hope it's helps you out anyway.

On a sitenote: if you also want to watch stuff from Rock im Park, the small twin of Rock am Ring just jump over to this page, there you can also see some band performances streamed live. The original streaming site from broadcast station PULS lists the following bands for today's streaming, sadly without times but I guess those are identical with the stage times mentioned here.

• SAM

• Stereophonics

• Hurts

• Blumentopf

• A$AP Rocky

• Bullet For My Valentine

• Kraftklub

• koRn

Update 2013/06/10: Sadly it's all over already again. Anyway, the radio station that hosted the stream currently has some videos up for watching on their site. Thought you might like to know.

Update 2013/06/09: And here's are the streaming times for the third and final day of Rock am Ring 2013, all times Central European Summer Time (MESZ/CEST/CEDT) ). Have fun!

Livestream

Sunday 09.06.2013
Time	Band
16:10	Bad Religion
16:55	Blumentopf
17:05	Best of Hurts
17:25	A$AP Rocky
18:05	Best of Fettes Brott
18:30	Bastille
19:15	Stereophonics
20:00	Broilers
20:55	Limp Bizkit
22:10	Best of Paramore
22:20	Capser
23:30	The Bloody Beetroots Live
22:55	Hurts

Second stream

Sunday 09.06.2013
Time	Band
18:00	A$AP Rocky
18.20	Simple Plan
18:35	Kraftklub
19.40	Dizzee Rascal
20:25	Sportfreunde Stiller
21:25	The Wombats
22:00	Green Day
23:45	Casper

Update 2013/06/08: Here's the bandlist for saturday, all times Central European Summer Time (MESZ/CEST/CEDT) ).

Livestream

Satuday 08.06.2013
Time	Band
16:05 Uhr	Leslie Clio
16:35 Uhr	tba
16:55 Uhr	Jake Bugg
17:25 Uhr	tba
17:55 Uhr	Stereophonics
18:40 Uhr	The BossHoss
19:20 Uhr	tba
20:15 Uhr	Tocotronic
21:05 Uhr	tba
21:15 Uhr	Volbeat
21:25 Uhr	tba
22:50 Uhr	Hurts

Second stream

EinsPlus Live - Saturday 08.06.2013
Time	Band
18:00 Uhr	Filius Nox
18:05 Uhr	Stereophonics
18.40 Uhr	The BossHoss
19:15 Uhr	Biffy Clyro
19.50 Uhr	Stone Sour
20:45 Uhr	Tocotronic
21:15 Uhr	Volbeat
22:30 Uhr	Phoenix
23:20 Uhr	Hurts
0:15 Uhr	The Prodigy
0:30 Uhr	The Killers
02:00 Uhr	Jake Bugg / Leslie Clio
02:20 Uhr	Bloody Beetroots Live

Update 2013/06/07: The bandlist for the internet stream has just been released. Here's what's going to be shown today (Friday 2013/06/07, all times Central European Summer Time (MESZ/CEST/CEDT) ).
I'll update the timetable for the other days as soon as I get the info for it.

Time	Band
16:50  Uhr	Imagine Dragons
17:40  Uhr	A Day To Remember
18:25  Uhr	Bring Me The Horizon
19:05  Uhr	Amon Amarth
19:40 Uhr	Tba
20:05  Uhr	Broilers
20:55  Uhr	Cro
21:20  Uhr	Bullet For My Valentine
22:15  Uhr	Fettes Brot
22:45  Uhr	Limp Bizkit
00:00 Uhr	Tba
00:30  Uhr	koRn

Sweden Rock Cruise 2012 documentation now online

The documentation about Sweden Rock Cruise 2012 in german language from the TV station NDR is now up online for streaming. It mostly shows the atmosphere of the event seen from the perspective of the fans but also features some short cuts from the performances of Morgana Lefay and Rage plus some Interview footage with Rage. Duration app. 30 minutes. Have a look on it here. If you want to know more about what Sweden Rock Cruise is all about, just check out their official site with more info on it.

The very same night the documentation about the Wacken Open Air 2012 was also broadcasted again. As I did already say in my older post, they've also uploaded that documentation to their website, but did cut away the bands performances. Just to put up some complete info for you guys who missed the whole Metal Night Event on the german TV station NDR. Hope they will continue to put out such nice things to us.

NDR to broadcast shows from Wacken 2012 & documentary

Wacken without end! :-) To all those how'd like to fresh up the memories of this years Wacken Open Air the german TV station NDR will help you out.

They will broadcast shows from Wacken 2012 (Graveyard, Leningrad Cowboys and Saxon) as well as a documentary report entitled „Heavy Metal trifft Karniggels” on September 14th 2012 on TV (starting time 21h in germany) and via internet on their Wacken subpage. After the stream the documentary has been annouced to be available as a free stream on demand divided into several small sections that will remain on the linked website. Actually there's already a talk with the director of the documentation online here.

To find your personal starting time of the stream I've discovered a fine website. Just click here and it will show you a selection of countries so you'll easily be able to find the correct time for your timezone. :-)

Update 2012-10-19: Meanwhile the documentary has been uploaded to this location. Having taken a look at the stuff it seems to me that the documentary stuff has been left in but the videos from the band performances have been cut away. Guess that's because of legal rights missing to stream this stuff. Anyway, nice they did put this one up at least as flash videos and additionally also as Windows Media Stream in three qualities.

In Memoriam Jon Lord

On 16th of July 2012 Jon Lord sadly passed away. R.I.P. Jon.

German TV station ARD has shortly changed it's TV schedule and will broadcast in the night from the 20th to the 21st July 2012 a recording of a legendary Deep Purple show recorded on 09.07.1985 in Paris, Palais Omnisports. 

More info on this can be viewed on the homepage of the TV station.

Update 24th July 2012: the concert will be shown again in the night of the 29th to the 30th July starting at 01.15 h (geman time) at the TV station WDR. That station also has a online-stream running, so depending upon the rights of the broadcast you might be able to watch it online if you don't live in germany.

Festival footage online and on TV

The festival season is once more upon us. :-) Also the weather here in germany is a quite mixed thing right now it's time to celebrate the music we all love and adore together with other people while having a little party with it. If you know of more stuff that is up on TV or online please let me know though a comment or email. I'd like to put up as much stuff here as possible.

Vainstream Festival 2012

Some festivals are already over and TV stations have been there to capture some footage of what happened. One of them is iMusic 1 with their show iMusic rocks show. They recently took a look at the Vainstream festival and came back with some interviews and interview stuff (e.g. with Slayer). You can watch it online at their website. It's only 30 minutes long but worth watching it.

Rock Hard Festival 2012

Another TV station here in germany is the WDR. They did visit the Rock Hard festival 2012 here in Germany and will show tonight a cut-together of interview and concert stuff. After that they will also show 2 best of's of the shows from Graveyard and Unisonic. The exact time-table goes as follows:

Sunday to Monday, 15. upon 16. Juli 2012

00.15h Rock Hard Festival 2012
02.15h GRAVEYARD
02.45h UNISONIC

All times are german times. More info on this broadcast (in german) can be found here. In case they should add the stuff afterwards to their archive I'll put the exact links here up,too.

Update 2012/07/16: Happily they did upload the videos! Just click on the links to open a new window with the video in it.

Rock Hard Festival 2012 

Graveyard

Unisonic

Additionally you can watch stuff from the past 2011 Rock Hard festival and also from the 2010 RH festival stuff is still watchable online.

Update 2012/07/16: Just got the info that Heavy Metal Home TV has also taken some footage at the festival and did upload it to youtube for watching. The video is about half a hour long and features the following bands (each one contributes one full song to the vid):

TURBONEGRO, KVELERTAK, KRISIUN, RAM, DEATHFIST



Wacken Open Air 2012

Will there be a stream this year? I have no concrete info about this yet. At least the german TV station zdf kultur has announced to broadcast a four hour special on 4th August 2012, starting at 20h (german time). Maybe the NDR may do a stream. Their Wacken sub-page is still up and running so chances might be they'll do a stream. Let's keep the fingers crossed.

Update 2012/07/27:
There will be a internet livestream from the Wacken 2012 Festival! The following bands already confirmed that their shows will be shown online: Overkill, Dimmu Borgir, U.D.O. und Hammerfall.

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday the stream will be online, starting at 18h (german time) and end at 1h in the night. On Sunday their will be a stream up from some shows of the previous days that hasn't been shown in the time before. More details like the full time-table will follow in the next days. I'll update the related post on the frontpage of my blog when new info arrives, so stay tuned for more!

The internetstream can be seen at this site of the german TV station NDR, thanks to them that they will give us the possibility to take part of this great event also in 2012!

Update 2012/08/03:
ZDF kultur will broadcast some of the shows live through their TV station on 4th August 2012. The following bands will be shown at the mentioned german time:

20.00 Uhr, Amon Amarth (LIVE!)

21.25 Uhr, Volbeat

22.50 Uhr, Scorpions (LIVE!)

23.15 Uhr, Machine Head (LIVE!)

Update 2012/08/05: ZDF kultur has put the video for this online, full four hours of live-stuff!!!
But hurry, it's only up for a week. 

The highlight shows in the week after the Wacken Open Air will contain the following bands at the mentioned days with german timeframe:

Update 2012/08/07: Seems like every show will be added to the on-demand-archive of the TV station for free watching after the broadcast so I'll add the links here as fast as I can. Just click on the desired show and a new window with the chosen on-demand stream will appear. :-) But hurry, every video is only up for a week. Enjoy!


6. August, 17.55 Uhr: Sepultura & Les Tambours du Bronx

7. August, 17.55 Uhr: Hammerfall

8. August, 17.55 Uhr: D.A.D und The Boss Hoss

9. August, 17.55 Uhr: Saxon

10. August, 18 Uhr: Dimmu Borgir & Orchestra

13. August, 17.55 Uhr: Edguy

14. August, 17.55 Uhr: Testament

15. August, 17.55 Uhr: Ministry

16. August 17.55 Uhr: In Extremo

17. August, 18 Uhr: In Flames

More info on the timetable regarding the broadcast on german TV station zdf kultur and the highlight shows can be found on this site  

The TV NDR station has put up the full Show from Cirle II Cirle for seven days on the Wacken subpage. The band performed Savatage's "The wake of Magellan" album in it's entirely so it's something very special.  

Update 2012/08/12: The german Metal Hammer magazine has put together some nice links as a media review shwoing what german magazine's and TV stations did report about the WOA: See the clipping with all the links attached right here. 

Update 2012/10/19: Meanwhile the german documentary "Heavy Metal trifft Karniggels" has been uploaded to this location. Having taken a look at the stuff it seems to me that the documentary stuff has been left in but the videos from the band performances have been cut out. Guess that's because of legal rights missing to stream this stuff. Anyway, nice they did put this one up at least as (optional HD) flash videos and additionally also as Windows Media Stream in three qualities.If you want to know more about the director Detlev Buck, there is another german sub-website from NDR station describing his life and work quite in detail.

In addition to this they also did set up a subpage with all the performances of the bands that played at the "Wacken metal battle" Contest. So if you saw a band there that you liked a lot or just wanna checkt out some fresh new bands, this is the place for you to go. I counted 17 videos on that page. Great so see they support young bands that much.

AREA 4 festival

There was a stream online and now some of the shows are online. Check my corresponding post for details on where to see the stuff. 


Hellfest 2012

German TV station Arte did broadcast a documentation about this Open Air located in France with it's very mixed line-up. It's nicely done, with much livemusic, interviews and some personal insights into the time the both reporters spend at the festival. Check out the movie here. It will be online for about a week. (added the link on August 5th 2012).

Omas Teich Festival 2012

A smaller festival in the eastfrisian region (northern) of germany with mostly Independent band and the like, mostly not with metal bands. ZDF kultur will broadcast a cut-together on 28th Juli 2012, starting at 20h (german time) and some specials in the week after the festival. Read the (german) announcement here. You can get more info about the festival on the official homepage.

Melt, Isle of Wight,Hurricane and Berlin Festival

Besides all of this the ZDF has some concert footage of Melt, Isle of Wight,Hurricane and Berlin Festival in their mediathek service currently online, but only for a week. Go here and click on the image to choose your desired festival stuff.

Graspop Metal Meeting 2012

Adrenaline Mob have uploaded two pro-shot videos of their performance at the Graspop Metal Meeting. Nice stuff, check it out below for yourselfes.