Headbangers Open Air 2013

www.headbangers-open-air.de

Finally spring see's the day of light here in germany. With the sun coming out and the temperature rising I guess a lot of you people out there will think about the upcoming festival season with the chance to hear our beloved music under a open sky along with sharing this moments with other people that have
the same taste of music.

Besides the bigger and well known festival's out there we saw in recent years happily a coming up of festivals of a much smaller style often featuring young and new bands or smaller and not so well known bands. One of 'em just came to my attention through a friend of mine. I'm talking about the Headbanger's Open Air near Hamburg, Germany (exactly in in 25364 Brande) that will take place between 25th of July up to 27th of July 2013.

Why did it got my attention? It's a small festival focussing on providing you with great music but without all of the bigger bands to keep the ticket price as low as possible. The sensation in my eyes is that you only have to pay 48 Euro to be able to go in. These includes presale, camping directly at your car/van and the possibility to see all of the bands!

Nevertheless they managed to confirm Overkill, Metal Church, Vicious Rumors, Praying Mantis, Demon, Iron Saviour, Kissin' Dynamiteand Forte for 2013's festival line-up. These bands are the more known bands. Besides that a bunch of upcoming bands will add to the event such as Game Over, King Leoric or Heretic.

You can get your ticket and all additional information for the festival on the website. If you like stay some more time on the festival, then you might be happy to read that there's even a Warm up party organised on 24th July as well as a Aftershow Party on 28th July 2013. Sounds like this one could turn out to be quite a nice event in 2013 :-).

Sacred Steel / Break the ground festival

Hey, some people seems to have a similar opion to me. You can see some new festivals coming up through the last years, a lot of them dedicated to young bands. That's what I like. :-)

One of them is the Break the ground festival I'd like to intoduce you today. It's a small festival located at Ahnsbeck, Germany and is taking place from 6/21/2012.-6/24/2012. Currently the complete line-up lists the following bands:

Antropophagist
Bloodwork
Cripper
Discreation
Hail Of Bullets
Headshot
Milking The Goatmachine
Mob Rules
Nebukadnezar
Out Of Mind
Plenty Of Nails
Rage
Rezet
Sacred Steel
Steelpreacher
The Vision Bleak

For detailed info visit the festival website that is linked below. Tickets are already on sale. It's quite a fair price, the all-in-ticket goes for 29,95 Euro including camping and entrance fee to the festival for all days.

Break the ground Homepage

One of the bands that plays are called Sacred Steel. They do play true metal of the very core sort. That means it goes back to the old standards, putting hard and heavy hitting guitars together with brutal attacking double-bass drums and most of all you can recall the band for the siren-like vocals of Gerrit P. Mutz. His voice reminds me a lot of the traditional bands of the 80's like Omen or Mercyful Fate. That said it means the band will surely split up the fans, some of them loving them for what they do while others surely hate them. Their optical appeareance along with the Manowar-alike texts do put some more very traditional marks on them. Just check out one of their songs with the video here and let me know what you think.

If you want to know more about this band, that is already around for over twenty yeard then jump to the bands official website