Loudness – Metaldays Festival – Tolmin, Slovenia – July 24, 2017
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Marilyn Manson – Metaldays Festival – Tolmin, Slovenia – July 24, 2017
Marilyn Manson – Metaldays Festival – Tolmin, Slovenia – July 24, 2017 Marilyn Manson put on a performance that reminded me that I am no longer 15, but I stuck around to see what I liked exactly as a teenager. The crowd (at least the people right in front of me) were in their late […]
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ZZ Top – Stimmen Festival – Lörrach, Germany – July 21, 2017
ZZ Top – Stimmen Festival – Lörrach, Germany – July 21, 2017 It was a true honor to have seen ZZ Top play with their support the Red Devils in the Swiss-French-German border city of Lörrach, Germany at the Stimmen Festival, which is essentially a month-long program of nightly concerts in the market square. It’s […]
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Hellfest 2017 – Review
Hellfest 2017 Review by Olga Herndon Thursday The journey from northwestern Germany to northwestern France after a Killing Joke performance the night before was quite a long one. Bus and train and a whole day later, I finally arrived and rested my feet in Nantes on Thursday night. Every sidewalk, every pub was filled with […]
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With Full Force 2017 – Review
With Full Force 2017 Review WEDNESDAY I flew into Berlin Schönefeld from Paris in the afternoon, not long after Hellfest, seeing Monster Magnet in Rouen, and having dinner with a friend. I easily found the train station and made my way to Dessau – I said hello to a couple of Germans who said they […]
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Brutal Assault 2016 – Review
Brutal Assault #22 – August 10-13, 2016 – Review Day 1 – Wednesday I was pumped to have gotten to Brutal Assault! It is held within the confines of an ex-army fortress, Josefov, which is in Jaroměř, a couple of hours northwest of Prague by train, on the Polish border. I knew arriving Wednesday afternoon […]
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Wacken 2017 Preview
Wacken 2017 Preview Olga Herndon Wacken is more than a festival – it’s more like a religion. It’s been called “The Holy Land,” “The Cathedral of Heavy Metal,” “The Summit of Heavy Metal,” and “The Mekka of Heavy Metal” – it’s essentially the final destination of spiritual enlightenment in a metal sense, a place of metal […]
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Wacken 2012 Review
Wacken 2012 Review Chris Steyns Wacken 2012 By Chris Steyns The Journey The pilgrimage began the night before with two of my best friends sitting around in Mitchell’s kitchen, drinking hard (think Mötley Crüe “Girls, Girls, Girls” 1987 era drinking) and listening to metal. At the rate we were drinking, no one was getting up […]
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With Full Force – Out and About – Ferropolis, Germany – June 22-24, 2017
With Full Force – Out and About – Ferropolis, Germany – June 22-24, 2017
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Atari Teenage Riot – With Full Force – Ferropolis, Germany – June 24, 2017
Atari Teenage Riot – With Full Force – Ferropolis, Germany – June 24, 2017 ATR is a German digital hardcore group originally formed in Berlin in 1992. They used the Atari ST computer to create songs and put political punk rock vocals to them. Alec Empire, one of the founders, and Nic Endo, a noise […]
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