Commented promoter Tjerk Maas: "Hell yeah, I am very happy to be able to announce the first names. And not the least! Even though on first impression the focus may seem to be on reunion bands, a lot of these bands have been delivering quality metal for a long while now. Like headlining act SOULFLY. Every album they seem to integrate older SEPULTURA's aggressiveness more balanced into their music and I will be very surprised if anyone will be standing still during their performance. Of course, I'm also very excited to have heroes from a little further away play at the first edition of our festival. LAAZ ROCKIT has made a few appearances over the last years and I've seen them all. I can tell you my grin was as wide as singer Michael Coons'. One of the premiere reunions this year is CARCASS so I am very happy to have them play a Benelux exclusive. Just like SABBAT, who I've never been able to see back in the day. ONLY LIVING WITNESS is a personal favorite of mine and I could care less if it makes 1, 100 or 1000 people happy by having them play. I just had to have them. As well as DARKANE, now that's some good quality Swedish metal. And then there's of course THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE, PILGRIMZ and MOTORJESUS. Bands that make me want to start head banging when the first note exits the PA system. And you don't even want to know what else we have planned. He he, of course you do but you'll have to wait just a little longer for that…"

Tickets go on sale on Saturday, June 21 through Ticketservice. Tickets will cost 45 euros (plus service fees) until July 18 and after that it will be 55 euros (plus service fees).

For more information visit the Loud From The South website : www.loudfromthesouth.com

For more information visit the Dokk'em open-air website : www.dokkemopenair.nl

The organizers of the Magic Circle Festival have announced the complete schedule for this year's event, which will take place July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The festival will feature four days of metal, 20,000 free beers, 20,000 free copies of the new MANOWAR single and four custom-built choppers owned by MANOWAR members to be given away.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

Thursday, July 10, 2008:

17:30 - 18:15 BENEDICTUM
18:45 - 19:45 MSG
20:15 - 21:15 TED NUGENT
22:00 - 23:15 ALICE COOPER

Friday, July 11, 2008:

11:45 - 12:30 KOBUS
12:50 - 13:35 STORMWARRIOR
13:55 - 14:40 JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR
15:00 - 16:00 BRAZEN ABBOT (FEAT. JOE LYNN TURNER)
16:20 - 17:20 DORO
17:40 - 18:40 W.A.S.P
19:00 - 20:15 GOTTHARD
21:00 - 00:00 MANOWAR

Saturday, July 12, 2008:

10:15 - 10:45 WINNER OF THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2008
11:00 - 11:30 SIXTH SENSE
11:45 - 12:30 MOB RULES
12:45 - 13:30 TITANIUM BLACK
13:50 - 14:35 BELOVED ENEMY
14:55 - 15:40 HOLYHELL
16:00 - 16:45 MAJESTY
17:15 - 18:30 DEF LEPPARD
19:00 - 20:15 WHITESNAKE
21:00 - 00:00 MANOWAR

The organizers of the Magic Circle Festival have announced the complete schedule for this year's event, which will take place July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The festival will feature four days of metal, 20,000 free beers, 20,000 free copies of the new MANOWAR single and four custom-built choppers owned by MANOWAR members to be given away.

For more information visit the Magic Circle Festival website : http://www.magiccirclefestival.com/

For more information visit the Arnhem Metal Meeting website at this location.

Tickets are available starting the 1st of September for the price of € 36,-. Tickets are sold at http://www.ticketservice.nl

We hope to see you all on the 1th of December!

Rusty Cage Records will co-organize the 2007 edition of "Arnhem Metal Meeting".

Once again this event will be held at the beautiful 19th century "Musis Sacrum" in Arnhem, the Netherlands at December 1st 2007. Sixteen bands on three stages, 1700 metalfans, a full blown metal related market, meet and greet with the bands and a lot more!

RCR will be setting up a diverse and interesting metal related market where you can reach over 1700 potential buyers, expand your business opportunities and just enjoy this unique event (2006 edition was sold out during pre-sales!). For international partners who aren't able to attend the AMM we'll have a special stand where we can promote your company.

For info about the market and advertising you can contact RCR at markets@rustycagerecords.com

For more information visit the Arnhem Metal Meeting website at this location.

HATESPHERE, MAMBO KURT, W:O:A FIREFIGHTERS, FASTWAY, DRONE, SECRETS OF THE MOON, GUTBUCKET, MENNEN, PHARAOH and FAIR TO MIDLAND have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. The billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

1349 - ALL THAT REMAINS - AMORPHIS - ANIMAL ALPHA - AS I LAY DYING - ELPHEGOR - BENEDICTUM - BLACK MAJESTY - BLIND GUARDIAN - BLITZKRIEG - BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - CANNIBAL CORPSE - CHTHONIC - COMMUNIC - DESTRUCTION - DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - DIMENSION ZERO - DIMMU BORGIR - DIR EN GREY - DISILLUSION - DRONE - ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK - ENSLAVED - FAIR TO MIDLAND - FALCONER - FASTWAY - GRAVE DIGGER - GUTBUCKET - HAGGARD - HATESPHERE - HEAVEN SHALL BURN - ICED EARTH - IMMORTAL - IN FLAMES - J.B.O. - KAMPFAR - LACUNA COIL - LETZTE INSTANZ - MAMBO KURT - MENDEED - MENNEN - MOONSORROW - MOONSPELL - MUNICIPAL WASTE - NAPALM DEATH - NARZISS - NEAERA - NORTHER - PHARAOH - POSSESSED - RAGE & LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTER - SACRED REICH - SAHG - SAMAEL - SAXON - SCHANDMAUL - SECRETS OF THE MOON - SODOM - SONIC SYNDICATE - STORMWARRIOR (feat. GAMMA RAY's Kai Hansen) - STRATOVARIUS - SUBWAY TO SALLY - SWALLOW THE SUN - THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER - THE SORROW - THE VISION BLEAK - THERION - TYR - UNHEILIG - VADER - VITAL REMAINS - VOLBEAT - W:O:A FIREFIGHTERS
 

More infos about the bands: Billing / Bands 2007

72,- Euro plus 7,- ticket fee = 79,- Euro. plus service charge (FULL METAL SERVICE) 20,- Euro - 3-day-ticket costs incl. all shown services from above = 99,- (all in)

Ticketlink http://www.metaltix.com

At www.metaltix.com there are exclusive products, like the new W:O:A 2007 Shirt available.

The pieces are limitated, so you have to be quick, just follow the links to the products:

W:O:A Shirt 2007 - SAXON - ROSE TATTOO
 

In cooperation with DEAN guitars (www.deanguitars.com) we are proud to present the first official W:O:A guitar!

Limited edition: only 100 pieces

Shipment: end of july 2007

Special bonus: for "early birds" their guitar will be signed at W:O:A 2007 by a requested musician and also the W:O:A organizers.

Technical stuff:

Korpus Design - Baby-ML, same Shaping like Dimebag Darrel guitar, downsized
Korpusholz - Linde
Neck - Ahorn wood with Rosewood finger board
Bünde - 22
Mensur - 24-3/4" with 1-5/8" Saddle
Mechanics - Die Cast
Hardware - Black
pick up - original Dean
Neck/Body Konstruktion - screwed neck
Bridge - Tune-O-Matic

Progressive Rock & Metal in Amstelveen!

Only a few weeks to go and the 5th edition of HEADWAY FESTIVAL will take place with big names from the metal-scene! Not only Redemption, but also their American colleagues of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum will play the P60-venue with a theatrical show, filled with a large vary of metal genres. During this 5th edition we will take a look at the previous years as well, with names such as the blackmetal/deathmetal and avant-gardistic Loch Vostok and the progressive Zero Hour. This edition promises to shake the Dutch progressive metal-scene to its foundations!

Line-up:

Friday: Obsidian (NL), To Mera (UK), Sun caged (NL) en zero hour (USA)

Saturday: Redemption (USA), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (USA), Loch Vostok (SWE), Seventh Wonder (SWE), Mörglbl (feat. Christophe Godin) (FRA), Dial (feat. Kristoffer Gildenlöw) (NL), Transmission0 (NL)

Tickets

Friday 6th April € 17,50
Saturday 7th April € 25,-
Combiticket € 35-

This year clinics will take place and guest-musicians will visit the festival. For more information, the latest news and a chance to win free tickets: www.headwayfestival.com  or www.myspace.com/headwayfestival .

Location: P60 venue, Stadsplein 100a, Amstelveen

Tickets are available through Ticketservice (www.ticketservice.nl - 0900-3001250, €0.99/m) and the Uitlijn (www.aub.nl or 0900-0191, €0.40/m).

For more information, Check out the Bospop website.

TERRA GOTHA XIV will take place at Saturday 21 April 2007 at venue De Piek in Vlissingen with electro band XP8 from Italy and gothrockers Pro-Jekt from England.

Terra Gotha XIV headliners are Italy's finest electro band XP8. The roman XP8 is a trilogy.
Marco Visconti, Paul Toohill and Marko Resurreccion. All three play their part in the music making process. Paul writes, and sings the words. Over the years XP8's sound has developed, mutated, and perspired. The sounds have hardened, the energy increased. XP8 aim for the dance floor and they aim for you. Unfortunately Marco won't be able to party with us at Terra Gotha as he will be touring as keyboard player for VNV Nation. But a replacement has been found in our good friend Jos from dutch harsh-electro band Grendel.

UK industrialrockers Pro-Jekt will be support act at Terra Gotha XIV. The band is founded in 2001 and developed and perfected their style over the years. The musical should surely be appealing to fans of Gothminister/Rammstein/Ministry. Although the band already toured the U.K. several times. And also toured in Europe, this Pro-Jekt concert will be their debut gig on dutch soil.

Tickets will go on sale at Thursday 15 March. You can buy tickets at De Bard cd store in Vlissingen or De Spin in Middelburg. You can get a special discount at de Bar-O-Nes gothic clothing shop in Vlissingen when you show them your Terra Gotha XIV ticket (70% discount on clothing, 50% discount on accessories)

You can also order tickets by mail, simply send an e-mail to reserveren@depiek.nl fill in your name and the nr. of people you want tickets for.
In a couple of days you will then receive a confirmation e-mail, print this and take the print with you to De Piek on the day itself. The print will be your ticket.

Doors open: 19.30

For more information visit : http://www.terra-gotha.com