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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is one of the leading summer open air heavy metal music festivals. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 70,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of over 72,000 attendees in 2007, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal and folk metal, from around the world. ... read the rest of WACKEN OPEN AIR 2009 ... De

It takes a lot of balls to put the music you play right in your name: sometimes it works (see: Death) and sometimes it doesn’t (see: the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, which confusingly decides not to include the black metal band with whom they share a name in its roster year after year, or even Methods of Mayhem). Novembers Doom claim ownership of the necessary balls, though: they’re slow, menacing, classy doom metal with a well-integrated melodeth twist, managing to pique interest even in their mos

I am not usually one for the whole post rock sound, it generally bores me to death. Occasionally I will come across some that I like, and that's what happened here. Shoegazey, ethereal, dreamy, so on and so forth. Its nice to sometimes have something like this to balance out all the heavy shit I listen to as well. A great comedown record. From Sea Of Tranquility : Artic Plateau is not a Black Metal act, although it has one point in common. Indeed, this Italian band is actually the work of

Heart and Crossbone is the Israeli noise-rock label which has provided us with much ghastly mirth in the way of evil black filth masquerading as records - for example Barbara, Grave In The Sky, and other great extreme bands with one foot in the Black Metal camp. Raxinasky are a Belgian combo playing the sort of fiercely energetic 21st-century rock noise I was once content to characterise as “mathrock”, but clearly this tag is inadequate when faced with something as insane and assaultive as

Bleeding Through continues their mission to rock off faces and implode ear drums while doing so. Straightedge metalcore sensations Bleeding Through continue their mission to rock your face off and implode ear drums with their latest release Declaration. Combining heavy metal, death metal, punk rock, and even a little black metal, they have their own unique style that is just brutal, and that is ...