Wacken 2012 documentary and all bands from Wacken metal battle online

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.

If you like to see some interview footage (in german language) there's pretty much online from Wacken 2012. You can see bands like Overkill, Paradise Lost, Hammerfall, In Flames and more talking about their performances right here.

Tenacious D

Ok, let's go on with some fun stuff. A film, a band - Tenacious D was born. Maybe you remember the two guys from the film "The pick of destiny" Kyle Gass and Jack Black. The movie told the story of both coming together and finding their very own way of doing music as a combination of accoustic guitars, vocals and a good sense of humor. It featured a lot of big names in the world of Heavy Metal, to name some Ronnie James Dio, Dave Grohl and Meat Loaf. Here's the trailer for that movie in case you still don't know it. I ran across this movie only by chance as a friend of mine did point me to it.



Besides that the band can be spotted in several videoclips of well known bands like Foo Fighters, Dio, Good Charlotte and the Eagles of Death Metal. Currently the band is about to release their next album entitled "Rize of the Fenix". This time the music seems to be more sort of kick ass since it has a lot of powerfull drums in it. But let's risk a ear for yourselfs:



The band also released a video for "To be the best". I can't watch it over here in germany but you might be more lucky so I put it up here as well.



You might want to check out the band's website for more info and tourdates, that have recently been scheduled. Additionally if you live in germany: there's currently a contest running here that gives you the chance to win a concert of the band in your hometown so you can enjoy them along with all of your friends. :-) There's also a chance to win a trip to the sold-out show in Amsterdam.

Wacken Metal Battle 2011

From time to time I like to take a look at the statistics here on my blog. One of the most clicked one was the "Wacken 2011 revisited" one. I'm glad to see you like it!

As a reward for you here's a little add-on. Taking a closer look on the linked site with the Wacken video I discovered some more interesting stuff dedicated to new young bands. There's a subpage with live video's of yet unknown metal bands which took part in the metal battle contest.

The site is in german,but the style of each band is described mostly in the first sentence of each band describtion. Clicking on "Video starten" starts the video of the band on a new page as flash video. Have a nice time discovering some interesting fresh metal bands!

http://www.ndr.de/unterhaltung/musik_konzerte/wacken/metal_battle/metalbattle107.html