Heaven Shall Burn - Legion Of The Damned - Carpathian Forest - Alcest - Denial Of God - Farsot - Bombs Of Hades

„She boss can’t master the cup“ [BRT]

[Dajana] Our weekend begins with common travel things. Totally relaxed we arrive earlier than last year and avoid the queues at the gate to hell ;) No traffics, ergo more time, more fun and most of all more punch :)
[BRT] Yes, even at the entry there was no rush. Tents got quickly built, the first beer drunk and then the punch to get on the operating temperature. It is rumored that certain persons got knocked out by this…

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[Dajana] And here we are, on time, united and raring to go. While fans slowly flow in :: BOMBS OF HADES :: open the festival and welcome us with bone-crushing old school Swedish Death Metal. Ah yes, how I missed that! The ceremony has begun :)
[BRT] Sounds like classic Swedish Death Metal and the sound isn’t the best but BOMBS OF HADES grows with every new song. I like their Motörhead and Crustcore tinged music.

[Dajana] Excellent avant-garde Black Metal follows with :: FARSOT :: I was skeptic at first if such complex and conceptual music would work on a big open air stage with the sun shining but FARSOT did a great job conjuring an intriguing atmosphere.
[BRT] On CD I like FARSOT a lot. But here I think no real atmosphere gets built up. The stage is too big and it is too light. Excellent musicians they are, indeed!

[Dajana] Same goes for :: DENIAL OF GOD :: who already convinced me with their show at Rock Hard Festival. Again the music focused much on atmosphere instead of shredding guitars. Melodic Black Metal with a touch of Merciful Fate in it. Great!
[BRT] Great! Black Metal meets grumpy NWOBHM. Their record is superb, their show is superb. DENIAL OF GOD manage to bring their very own style of music and atmosphere on stage.

[Dajana] Atmosphere is still the magical word and got hold up, some Black Metal relations too. :: ALCEST :: put a spell on us in a twinkling of an eye with hauntingly beautiful and ethereal melodies and gentle singing. Sooo intense and mesmerizing *sighs*.
[Seda] I so wish it would have been darker now. But, well, you can close your eyes and listen to ALCEST instead. Such a great mood though, and Neige’s velvet voice… I was really happy to hear so many songs from the current album Les Voyages De L'Âme.
[BRT] 3 times Black Metal, 3 times music that couldn’t differ more. Well, at ALCESTs music Black Metal remains marginal. Their sound is nowadays a blend of melancholic Shoegaze the Brits brought to perfection in the 80s. Great sound actually, perfectly suiting the sundown and a nice alternation :)

[Seda] I never saw :: CARPATHIAN FOREST :: and was much excited to catch them finally, and curious what kind Nattefrost would be on stage. At the end it was a surprisingly… calm show…
[Dajana] Yes. One could say that Nattefrost and co. played a well-behaved set. No utterly drunkenness on stage, no staggering and babbling musicians, no antics. Just quiet… so to say…
[BRT] A quiet show??? Maybe I was already comatose… but I found the music rather gruffy and bumpy, somehow Motörhead-tinged, but also quite pale, rather weak and boring…
[Dajana] Quiet in the sense of no scandals…

[BRT] The festival wouldn’t have any poorer without :: LEGION OF THE DAMNED :: Boring as usual. Time to get more beer.
[Dajana] Erm… I realize some memory gaps… Only the fires I can remember…
[Seda] Just wondering if you need to have this kind of L‘Oréal hair to be part of the band and fan-base…
[BRT] *sings* „Ihr habt die Haare schön, ihr habt die Haare schön“… Sorry, that’s all I kept in mind from this show. Uninspired brutal Thrash without any recognition value, not to mention melodies. If you do it the Slayer-style… then do it right, ok?

[Dajana] While we all drift into drunken oblivion let me say that :: HEAVEN SHALL BURN :: is for sure a successful band and a great live band that easily enthuses every Metal affine fan as it was really crowded now on the festival area but I had other desires… Liquid and hoppy ones…
[BRT] After an endless change-over… the first headliner: HEAVEN SHALL BURN. A great show, without doubt, but the music is too dull to me, did nothing for me and went on nerves quickly. Sorry, but this band was misplaced.

[Dajana] And that’s the way the first festival day ends. The NH crew is in high spirits and collectively kicks over the traces. No blackouts this time, just some gaps… and grinning we got between the blankets, one after another…
[BRT] No blackouts this time? Well, you did not experience yourself… ;)