Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2018: Festival’s final poster; Warm-Up Show and Afterparty line-up; The tickets are sold out

The cult indoor extreme music festival Eindhoven Metal Meeting celebrates 10 years anniversary in 2018! That makes it the the longest-running extreme metal indoor festival of the Netherlands (Black/Death/Thrash/Doom Metal & Grindcore)! The event will take place on Friday 14th & Saturday 15th December 2018 once again at the reputable Effenaar in Eindhoven, NL.

The line-up for the 2018 edition is as follows:

ARCHGOAT (FI)
ATTIC (DE)
BENEDICTION (UK – “Transcend The Rubicon” setlist)
CARNATION (BE)
CHRIS HOLMES MEAN MAN (US)
DARVAZA (NO/IT)
DEAD HEAD (NL)
DESASTER (DE)
FLESHCRAWL (DE)
GAMA BOMB (IE)
HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY (AT)
IMPALED NAZARENE (FI – special “Suomi Finland Perkele” setlist)
INHUME (NL)
IXXI (SE)
IZEGRIM (NL)
KETZER (DE)
MANDATOR (NL)
MARDUK (SE)
MOONSORROW (FI)
MORTUARY DRAPE (IT)
NECROPHOBIC (SE)
OFFERBLOK (NL)
POSSESSION (BE)
SEPTICFLESH (GR)
SHINING (SE)
SISTERS OF SUFFOCATION (NL)
SLÆGT (DK)
SÓLSTAFIR (IS)
TRIPTYKON (CH)
URFAUST (NL)
VALKYRJA (SE)
WIEGEDOOD (BE)

With the surprise addition of KONTINUUM, who SÓLSTAFIR are bringing to Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2018, the line-up for the festival in 2018 is now complete.

The festival tickets are sold out.

The festival weekend starts with the Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2018 Warm-Up Party, which will be hosted by Effenaar on Thursday 13th of December! The bands that will perform are AURA NOIR, DEMONICAL, OBLITERATION and VORBID. Tikets cost 13,50 euro (for EMM ticket holders – show your ticket at the booffice) and 18 euro (excl. service fees). Buy it here: ticketmaster.nl

In other news, with the addition of THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT the line-up of the EMM official afterparty is complete. It has free entrance and starts shortly after the program of the first festival day is over!

Here is the time-schedule:
01:30 – 02:20 THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT
02:45 – 03:30 SIBIIR

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Netherlands Deathfest IV is approaching!

The annual extreme indoor festival Netherlands Deathfest IV attracting fans from around the globe will take place between May 3-5, 2019 at 013 Poppodium, Tilburg, Netherlands.

The bands confirmed by now are as follows (by alphabetical order): 7.H. TARGET, ANAAL NATHRAKH, AUROCH, BETHLEHEM, BUTCHER ,ABC, CENOTAPH, CRYPTOPY, DEICIDE, ELECTRIC, WIZARD, ENCOFFINATION, EXTINCTION OF MANKIND, FATHER BEFOULED, GRAVE, MIASMA, GRAVEYARD, GUTALAX, HOLOCAUSTO CANIBALINCANTATION, INTESTINE BAALISM, JUPITERIAN, KRYPTS, MGLA, MORTA SKULD, NAGLFAR, PESTILENCE, PHLEBOTOMIZED, POSSESSION, PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT, REVENGE, RIPPIKOULU, SEVERE TORTURE, UNLEASHED, VISCERA INFEST, VOMITORY.

More bands will be announced soon!

Tickets (weekend passes) at the price of 123 euro are now on sale at eventbrite.com

Metal Gates Festival 2018 will take place in Bucharest

Metal Gates Festival returns in 2018 with the second edition organized by Final Step Productions held and taking place in Quantic Club.

20 bands from 10 countries will perform live this year, the headliners being ROTTING CHRIST, SHINING and DRACONIAN.

The poster artwork is done by the talented local artist Costin Chioreanu.

Here is the final lineup:

Friday (November 16th):

– MACHIAVELLIAN GOD (RO)
– TENEBRES (RO)
– DARKEST HORISON (DE)
– ADIMIRON (IT)
– VULTURE INDUSTRIES (NO)
– SHINING (SE)
– DOOMAS (SK)

Saturday (November 17th)

– OCEAN OF GRIEF (GR)
– DISTORTED FORCE (GR)
– A TASTE OF FEAR (IT)
– ABIGAIL (RO)
– OCTOBER TIDE (SE)
– DRACONIAN (SE)
– CRIMENA (RO)

Sunday (November 18th)

– DAMAGE CASE (RO)
– WHEN PLAGUES COLLIDE (BE)
– AEONIAN SORROW (GR)
– 1914 (UA)
– CLOUDS (UK/RO)
– ROTTING CHRIST (GR)

Tickets can be found on IaBilet  and Festicket.

3 days passes:
– first 50 tickets / 100 RON (~21 EUR) – SOLD OUT
– until May 1st / 130 RON (~28 EUR) – SOLD OUT
– until September 1st / 150 RON (~32 EUR) – SOLD OUT
– until November 16th / 170 RON (~36 EUR)
– after the festival starts / 200 RON (~43 EUR)

1 day tickets (limited to 100 tickets/day)
– until November 16th / 90 RON (~19 EUR)
– after the festival starts / 100 RON (~21 EUR)

Timetable for the 3 days of the event are also now on.

SPECTRE OF SANITY: debut single and video

The new Bulgarian band SPECTRE OF SANITY presents their debut single. The song is entitled “Monologue” and will a part of their debut ЕР, scheduled for release in the early 2019.

The video is done by Plamena Vladimirova, the vocal parts were recorded in Pepinio Records with Vasko Raykov, the mixing and mastering are done by Dimitris Athanasiou.

The first live performances of SPECTRE OF SANITY will happened:
24.11 Plovdiv – Post-Culture Stage
25.11 Sofia – Live & Loud

Spectre of Sanity

A limited amount of single-day tickets for Varna Mega Rock will be available only from June 1st to June 11th

Due to the numerous inquiries and interest in single-day tickets for Varna Mega Rock, the organizers will give all fans who want to see and hear their favorite bands the opportunity to get single-day tickets only from June 1^st to June 11^th 2018. Single-day tickets number is limited to 3000 and their price will be BGN 60 (approx. EUR 31). Tickets available worldwide at eTicketsMall.

The festival will be held on 18 and 19 August at Port of Varna. The stage will be raised right next to the sea and the view will be stunning! The bands that we will see at the festival are:

August 18: Glenn Hughes with B.T.R., KAMELOT, KIKIMORA and KROSSFIRE
August 19: NIGHTWISH, APOCALYPTICA, KONKURENT and BENDIDA

Tickets for both festival days are available at the special price of BGN 90 (approx. EUR 46) until July 17^th and a month before the festival their price will be BGN 120 (approx. EUR 61).

Free entrance for kids under 12 years of age.

Fans from 14 countries have already booked their summer vacations and will join is at Varna Mega Rock Festival! Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Malta, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom will be represented. Who else is coming?

Meet & Greet at Vienna Metal Meeting 2018

district 19 is inviting you to meet the bands and get your CDs, vinyls etc signed and take a picture with members of TIAMAT, MARDUK, GAMA BOMB, OBSCURA, ENTRAILS, RAGNAROK or GUTALAX!

Here are the times for upcoming Saturday 12th May at Arena, Vienna and the Running Order:

Arena Stage:
15:00 – 15:30 DARKFALL
16:00 – 16:40 GUTALAX
17:10 – 17:55 DESASTER
18:20 – 19:10 OBSCURA
19:40 – 20:30 NIFELHEIM
21:00 – 22:00 TIAMAT
22:30 – 23:30 ABBATH
00:00 – 01:00 MARDUK

District-19 Stage:
14:30 – 15:00 THEOTOXIN
15:30 – 16:00 DISTILLATOR
16:40 – 17:25 DEMONICAL
17:55 – 18:40 RAGNAROK
19:10 – 20:00 DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
20:30 – 21:20 ENTRAILS
22:00 – 23:00 DOOL
23:30 – 00:20 GAMA BOMB

But before we head to this over 10 hours headbang marathon on 12th, we are invited for another special Metal evening at Viper Room Vienna (Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria) for the Vienna Metal Meeting Warm-Up show! It has a headline: “Celebrating 30 years of Smut and a new Pungent Stench Album” and it marks the anniversary of the greatest Viennese band EVER PUNGENT STENCH and the release of their loooooong awaited indeed new album “Smut Kingdom”!

The bands taking part in the pre-party are: SCHIRENC PLAYS PUNGENT STENCH, SPASM, EPSILON, DHARK – where SPASM are replacing TOTENMOND who are not able to make it due to illness as announced earlier.

Tickets for the warm up: Öticket / Jugendinfo / www.metalticket.at

Tickets for the festival here: http://www.metalticket.at / Jugendinfo / Öticket / Sentinel Records (PayPal) and www.viennametalmeeting.com

We’ve already got ours long ago! How about you? Hurry up, don’t be the fool hanging outside Arena when metal madness takes over us inside the venue…

Submitted by Albena Tsolova-Beta

Summer Dying Loud Festival in Poland celebrates 10 years anniversary in September

Let’s try a new festival destination this summer: Cool metal festival Summer Dying Loud in Poland celebrates 10 years anniversary with great line-up!

The small festival Summer Dying Loud seems to take the next level up with it’s 10th edition in 2018. It was going on for 9 years now as a festival in the beautiful city of Aleksandrów Łódzki in Poland. It gives stage to a lot of local bands along with the big international headliners. It takes place next to MOSiR stadium and visitors get to enjoy green grass, the shades of trees and paved front of stage. The event is going on for two days – 7th and 8th September and hosts Death Metal, Doom, Prog etc. bands from different countries.

The capacity of the place is 500 people and the tickets for the event are almost sold out. Get yours at ticketmaster.pl till they last and try a new festival destination this summer.

Here is the line-up for 2018:
– ENTOMBED A.D.
– BEHEMOTH
– INCANTATION
– ORANGE GOBLIN
– EREB ALTOR
– MALIGNANT TUMOUR
– ANGEL WITCH
– SPACESLUG
– MENTOR
– WEEDPECKER
– SAULE
– THE LOWEST
– BLACK TUNDRA
– DOOMSTER REICH
– SYMBOLICAL
– DOOL
– SUNNATA
– FRONTSIDE

The event is organized by Tomasz Barszcs and supported by the government mayor of the city Jacek Lipiński. Let’s go to the festival and buy them both a beer in September!

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Final poster for the Romanian Metal Gates Festival 2018, tickets are on sale

Final Step Production are doing their best to bring great bands and promote quality extreme music in their native land Romania. One of their indoor events is Metal Gates Festival and in 2018 it will take place on 16th to 18th November in club Quantic in Bucharest.

ROTTING CHRIST, OCTOBER TIDE, DRACONIAN and SHINING (Sweden) are among the bands to take part in this year’s edition. Check the final poster for the festival below.

Tickets (for 3 days) are available online at the following addresses via iaBilet.ro:
* first 50 tickets – 100 RON (gone!)
* until May 1st – 130 RON (you’ve missed it)
* until September 1st – 150 RON
* until November 16th – 170 RON
* at the doors – 200 RON

Final line-up of Vienna Metal Meeting 2018 and warm-up show details

We have all the info about the second edition of the indoor festival Vienna Metal Meeting 2018, organized by District 19. The event takes place at the infamous venue “Arena” in Vienna in May.

The festival is on 12th May, but there is also a warm-up show the day before – 11th May. It’s one day festival with 16 bands in total, playing at two stages: one called Arena Stage and the other District-19 Stage, named after the booking agency arranging this Metal holiday for us!

Here are some of the bands of the line-up for Vienna Metal Meeting in 2018: ABBATH, MARDUK, TIAMAT, NIFELHEIM, GAMA BOMB, ENTRAILS, GUTALAX, DESASTER, RAGNAROK, DOOL, DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, DEMONICAL…

We can now also enjoy the official final artwork for this year’s event made by Mr. Paris “Metastazis”.

Check the final poster of VMM18 here:

You can find the Running Order (also available on image) below:
Arena Stage:
15:00 – 15:30 DARKFALL
16:00 – 16:40 GUTALAX
17:10 – 17:55 DESASTER
18:20 – 19:10 OBSCURA
19:40 – 20:30 NIFELHEIM
21:00 – 22:00 TIAMAT
22:30 – 23:30 ABBATH
00:00 – 01:00 MARDUK

District-19 Stage:
14:30 – 15:00 THEOTOXIN
15:30 – 16:00 DISTILLATOR
16:40 – 17:25 DEMONICAL
17:55 – 18:40 RAGNAROK
19:10 – 20:00 DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
20:30 – 21:20 ENTRAILS
22:00 – 23:00 DOOL
23:30 – 00:20 GAMA BOMB

But before we head to this over 10 hours headbang marathon on 12th, we are invited for another special Metal evening at Viper Room Vienna (Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria) for the Vienna Metal Meeting Warm-Up show! It has a headline: “Celebrating 30 years of Smut and a new Pungent Stench Album” and it marks the anniversary of the greatest Viennese band EVER PUNGENT STENCH and the release of their loooooong awaited indeed new album “Smut Kingdom”!

The bands taking part in the pre-party are: SCHIRENC PLAYS PUNGENT STENCH, SPASM, EPSILON, DHARK – where SPASM are replacing TOTENMOND who are not able to make it due to illness as announced earlier.

Tickets for the warm up: Öticket / Jugendinfo / www.metalticket.at

Tickets for the festival here: http://www.metalticket.at / Jugendinfo / Öticket / Sentinel Records (PayPal) and www.viennametalmeeting.com

We’ve already got ours long ago! How about you? Hurry up, don’t be the fool hanging outside Arena when metal madness takes over us inside the venue…

Submitted by Albena Tsolova-Beta

Stockholm Slaughter festival is this weekend!

Heavy Metal maniacs, as Stockholm own Metal festival Stockholm Slaughter is about to happen in a day, we sum it up for you: final poster, timetable and… some mandatory Metal sightseeing.

City/country: Stockholm, Sweden

Date: 27th – 29th April 2018

Age limit: 18 years old (no restricted alcohol areas)

Location for 27th and 28th: Fryshuset Klubben/ Arenan (Mårtensdalsgatan 2-8, 120 30 Stockholm, Sweden)

Location for 29th- it’s a secret one, not yet unveiled.

Tickets: www.tickster.com

Bands performing by days:

Friday 27th: SEPTICFLESH, AURA NOIR, HALLATAR, TSJUDER, THYRFING, DEMONICAL, COUNT RAVEN, ASAGRAUM

Saturday 28th: ENTOMBED A.D., MASTER’S HAMMER, SWALLOW THE SUN, ARKONA, SINISTER, ENFORCER, ONE TAIL, ONE HEAD, DOOL, OCTOBER TIDE, FEJD, ALFAHANNE

Sunday (early shows) 29th: MARDUK, TAAKE, FIDES INVERSA

For the timetable for 27th and 28th please check the image below.

Stage times for Sunday (MARDUK, TAAKE and FIDES INVERSA, The time schedule for) are as follows:

11:30 Doors open
12:15 FIDES INVERSA
13:30 TAAKE
15:00 MARDUK

Here is the final poster for Stockholm Slaughter 2018 after the line-up changes (ENTOMBED A.D. added to it!) and the shitty political intervention due to which the shows of MARDUK and TAAKE had to be moved to a different venue.

Once you get to the mighty metal mecca Stockholm, make sure to visit the legendary record store Sound Pollution and all the local metal bars you could. Also try to find time to go to “Skogskyrkogården”, Stockholm’s Forest Cemetery, hosting the famous stone cross so to take picture in front of it just like Entombed as seen in their “Left Hand Path” album!

We are proud to be part of this event as we have few metalheads from Bulgaria attending. Our country is among the nearly 30 countries presented at the festival this year at it’s second edition! Now that’s a great job, District 19!

Cheers and see you for some serious headbang this weekend!

Please check the other events, organized by this same professional promoter District 19:

Vienna Metal Meeting 12th May 2018

Eindhoven Metal Meeting 14th-15th December 2018

Submitted by Albena Tsolova-Beta