A quick roundup of Zombie Shark Records

Have you ever been discovered a new label but didn't knew how to get a quick idea of all the bands they offer? Sure some of them have a band roster on their site but it's cumbersome to click through to all of the single pages and press the play button of all the videos and soundsnippets.

Zombie Shark Records has found a far better way to give a comfortable overview to you with just one click. The label features Alternative Metal, Nu Metal, Hard Rock and Industrial.

They've uploaded a video to YouTube showcasing and zapping through all the combos that are currently active at the record label's home. In just around 4 minutes you'll quickly get a entertaining idea what they offer.

You can contact the label through their website or give them a shot on Facebook.

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.

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:

Looking back on Bang your head Festival 2012

For all those who attended Bang your head 2012 this is a nice way to look back on the festival, can be read online and even downloaded as pdf file. Nice that the festival organisators spread this freely on the web, in the years before you had to buy it with the "Heavy" magazine.

Find the online mag here.

More stuff without pictures can be found on the official BYH website. Enjoy!