MADSEN – not only in Wendland is the name a household name. The indie rock band is also celebrated at DEICHBRAND Festival each time violently. At their shows, you realise what energy they have packed into their live appearances – as well as listening to the amazingly rocky, new album “Light Years”. While softened songs…

On today’s St. Nicholas Day we dare a tiny statement: We don’t care about your gender, we don’t care about your origin. If you like metal, then you are welcome in Wacken. In front of the stage and also on stage. Every year we try to put a colourful Hard & Heavy program on stage and…

Kick ass! That’s the motto of our next confirmation: AIRBOURNE will be our guests at SUMMER BREEZE 2019!  Is it really over ten years ago that AIRBOURNE hit the scene like a bomb with their full debut album? Looks like it!  And the Australians have followed their chosen path ever since – up until the…

In 2019 they are back at the DEICHBRAND Festival: THE PRODIGY!  After shaking the open-air arena at the 10th festival edition in 2014, festival organisers want to repeat this experience with the electropunks for their 15th birthday. The headliners of Liam Howlett, Maxim and Keith Flint, will play tracks from their new album “No Tourists”…

EQUILIBRIUM calls their genre Epic Metal and the name says it all – the mixture of power, pagan, folk etc. is a wonderful success, even the use of orchestral elements seems to be no big challenge for the musicians.  The last album from the band was released in 2016 and we hope to hear some…

For over twenty years, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS have redefined the idea of electronic live music. During this time, their live performance has taken them from modest gigs in London nightclubs to one of the most sought after headlining acts in the world. One thing was always very important for the live act:  The show was…

What does modern Metal sound like in 2018? This is a tough question, but the sound of OF MICE & MEN definitely belongs to the hot candidates. The American band plays a mixture of Alternative Metal, Metalcore and co. and continues to work its way to the top of the genre. THE VINTAGE CARAVAN really…

VERSENGOLD will plunge SUMMER BREEZE into a gold rush once again! We’re bringing the Bremen six to Dinkelsbühl ‘In The People’s Name’ (‘Im Namen Des Folkes’). Because you have been asking for ‘Punch Instead Of Punch’ (‘Punsch Statt Punsch’)! By now, singer Malte and the other ‘Drunkards’ (‘Trunkenbolde’) have a lot of ‘Skeletons In The…

The London Wireless Festival has been writing urban & pop music history for over 12 years. After the acclaimed Germany premiere in 2017, the festival will return to Frankfurt am Main on 5th and 6th July 2019. The Wireless Germany Festival follows a unique musical approach in this country and brings the biggest international and…

When the DEICHBRAND long-time favorites Le Fly with Liedfett and Das Pack come together to create a unique, new live concept, we are honored to announce that this special big event can be experienced live on the DEICHBRAND 2019.  The three Hamburg-based formations have developed a completely new version of the co-headline concept, earning themselves…

Day 4 of the annual advent band release for Summer Breeze Festival 2019!  You can quickly get bruised in the crowd when the band on stage is going for it. Let’s hope that there’s only a limited amount of hematomas after the HÄMATOM show in Dinkelsbühl. Set up as a full concept where music and…

The first Monday of this year’s calendar has it all – okay, there is nothing for Metal purists, but we serve three closely related genres with top-class acts!  When UFO formed in 1969, no one could foresee that the band’s story will not be over in 2019 – 50 years of UFO, what a madness….

Metal icons SLAYER are the main act of the fourth and last “Make Monday Great Again” band announcement wave. As part of their final tour, the Californian cult band will perform at the twin festivals at the Nürburgring and in Nuremberg. These two concerts are likely to be among the highlights of the next festival…

The next confirmation is certainly not for the faint of heart: The infamous DEICIDE will do the honours at SUMMER BREEZE 2019 and open the gates to the very depths of hell with their brutal sound! The four-headed death metal group from Florida delivers a clear and unambiguous message with album titles such as ‘To…

We just can not get enough of these London guys. And even COUNTERFEIT themselves never get enough of their performance on stage – even if they baptized their EP “Enough” released some time ago and after that they had tinkered with their current record for a while. The English band around actor and frontman Jamie…

Day 2 of the annual Wacken Open advent band releases give us one band has already played Wacken Open Air, the other two will make their debuts.  The forbearers of thrash resemble a Lovecraftian brotherhood. They’re the elder gods who set everything in motion for generations to imitate, while still ruling the roost from on…

Where there is a stage to play and an audience to sweep along, you can count on him and his band. FRANK CARTER AND HIS RATTLESNAKES just do not get enough. They have just finished their German tour completely sold out in the run-up, and they are laying back and playing the big festival dates…

It might be an exaggeration to suggest that they saved heavy metal in the mid nineties, but they certainly breathed some new life into a genre that was vegetating. HAMMERFALL!  Their debut was the first ignition for many metal fans to go back to the purest form of heavy metal. And still today, 25 years…

The Waken Open Air Festival X-Mas calendar has started and since midnight the first two new bands for the W:O:A 2019 are ready to be unveiled! GLORYHAMMER – Our Prince Angus McFife and his comrades return to Wacken to compete against the dark wizard Zargothrax once again! The Gloryhammer gig at the W: O: A…

Powerful, majestic, brutal – these words are probably the most accurate to describe the musical works of our next confirmation: EMPEROR are coming to SUMMER BREEZE! The godfathers of black metal have made themselves extremely scarce on German stages in the past few years – their last tour seems like an eternity ago. The band…

BRING ME THE HORIZON are the main act of the third of a total of four Mondays band announcements in November and December for Rock am Ring & Rock in the Park 2019.  Probably the most important new modern metal band of the last decade play their only German festival appearances at the twin festivals…

Alternative rock legends THE SMASHING PUMPKINS return to Rock am Ring and Rock im Park after 12 years. As part of the release of their tenth studio album, original members Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder will play their only festival appearances in Germany at the Nürburgring and in Nuremberg….

Finally the time has come and we get the first names for the line-up of the FULL FORCE 2019!   20 Acts are in the first announcement – 12 of them are coming to Ferropolis for the first time for FULL FORCE! Check out the official announcement video below: As you have already seen, all the…

One of the most famous DJ’s is coming back to Rostock. Three times Best DJ of the World, the first DJ to hang out at an opening ceremony of the Olympics, followed by fans all over the world, voted “Greatest DJ of All Time” and many more superlatives pave his way – no question TIËSTO…

The twin festival appearance will be the only German shows rock-fathers TENACIOUS D in 2019! Also announced today are BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, BEHEMOTH, UNDEROATH, STARSET, WHILE SHE SLEEPS and THE FEVER 333 The rock-fathers Jack Black and Kyle Gass aka TENACIOUS D are honoured to play next year at Rock am Ring & Rock…

It’s done. After seven years, AMON AMARTH will be back on stage at ROCKHARZ! They will only play three festival shows in Germany and organisers are very proud that one of them is at ROCKHARZ.   AMON AMARTH is the most wished-for band in our community, by far!  Furthermore, they will most likely have a new…

They left the much cited genre metalcore behind and found their own (musical) ways years ago, and now they’re coming to Dinkelsbühl for the very first time. We’re talking about the one and only BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE! With the last few albums the Welsh have made it hard to categorise them, which speaks for…

All hail the King! With the next confirmation we will probably increase the heart rate of not just all old school fans among our patrons, because KING DIAMOND have announced they are paying us a visit! The cult group led by its namesake and Mercyful Fate mastermind not only deeply influenced countless bands, but remain…

Over 15 million records sold in about ten years kinda speak for themselves – our next confirmation is hot, very hot: Please welcome OF MICE & MEN! In 2014 the metalcore act from Costa Mesa, California had to cancel their SUMMER BREEZE appearance due to their singer’s health problems, so that OF MICE & MEN…

Today we have a special treat for all friends of the black metallic arts: GAAHLS WYRD are coming to SUMMER BREEZE 2019! As is known, GAAHLS WYRD is the new playground of the former Gorgoroth and God Seed musician Gaahl, where he completely focuses on his particular vision of – who would have thought –…

It’s done. After seven years, Swedish melodic death metal band AMON AMARTH will be back on stage at ROCKHARZ! They will only play three festival shows in Germany and organisers are very proud that one of them is at ROCKHARZ.   AMON AMARTH is the most wished-for band in the Rock Harz community – by far!…

The circus is coming to town – and we mean it literally! Sweden’s AVATAR are coming to Dinkelsbühl for the very first time. Anyone who’s ever seen the guys from Gothenburg play live will attest to the fact that they have much more to offer than super catchy metal anthems. AVATAR really put on a…

In-your-face hardcore is always good, right?! Excellent, because in 2019 a big-balls hardcore band called LIONHEART will celebrate their Dinkelsbühl premiere! Insiders know that there is a high percentage of mosh riffs in the Oakland natives’ music, which should already guarantee a good party at SUMMER BREEZE 2019. Massive beatdowns, a big portion of metal…

With SLIPKNOT and TOOL, two legendary, uncompromising metal bands confirmed for Rock am Ring and Rock im Park exclusively. They join previously announced bands DIE ÄRZTE and MARTERIA & CASPER at the twin festivals at the Nürburgring and in Nuremberg from 7 to 9 June. SLIPKNOT are considered a groundbreaking metal formation. After their memorable…

Good things come to those who wait, they say… For many years they have been high on your wishlists, for many years festival organisers have tried to get them and in 2019 they will finally be at the festival in Dinkelsbühl: MESHUGGAH! With the booking of these gentlemen from Umeå, Sweden, a dream comes true…

What would you beautiful people say, if we tell you that we step up the game even a little more?  That we light up the festival game 2019 like a torch? That we present you ALL the headliners in the first announcement – Does that sound sweet?  So let’s get it on: FOO FIGHTERS, MUMFORD…

Let’s start with the Wacken veterans HAMMERFALL. Already in 1997, barely a month after the release of their debut album, Hammerfall rocked our stage for the very first time. (By the way, their application for W:O:A came as an audio cassette.) Meanwhile, Hammerfall have released 10 studio albums, which contain countless big hits. We look…

The first and only guaranteed performances of Die Ärzte in Germany in 2019 after a six-year live break.  The return of the “best band in the world” from Berlin at the Nürburgring and the Zeppelinfeld, where they triumphed in 2007, is a message that electrifies all fans. Starting Tuesday, June 5th 2018 at 12:00 pm,…

Wacken Open Air 2018 is close to the finish line now, but organisers haven’t stopped yet! Today they have announced some more exciting acts for the upcoming Wacken Open Air. Ready the longboats, ENSIFERUM are returning to Wacken! The Finnish Epic Folk Metal band is ready for battle again. Their new album Two Paths from…

The fourth edition of Lollapalooza Berlin has released its 2018 lineup featuring THE WEEKND, KRAFTWERK 3D, IMAGINE DRAGONS, THE NATIONAL, DAVID GUETTA, KYGO, CASPER, ARMIN VAN BUUREN, LIAM GALLAGHER, BEN HOWARD, DUA LIPA and many more. The festival will take place September 8-9, 2018 at Olympic Stadium and Olympic Park, Lollapalooza Berlin’s new home in…