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The scorching Metal inferno – Summer Breeze Open Air 2025
Experience the raw power and unwavering spirit of metal at Summer Breeze 2025, where a sold-out crowd of 45,000 fans braved scorching 35+ degree heat for an unforgettable lineup of world-class bands.
NOAF 2025, Our First Time
Three weeks after the Party.San Open Air, it's time for the second and final encore of my summer festival season. I will be visiting a nearby festival. In fact, it is so close that I had never been before. For 19 years, it was just too close in time to another festival that I had attended regularly for almost a decade. Now, however, the time has come for me to add NOAF in Wörrstadt to my list of local festivals. I will therefore commute between my warm, dry bed at home and the festival.
August 2025 – Single Release News
After summer holidays with 3 festivals in a row and a lot of writing and editing, it seems to be time for a little release update which of course is not complete and never will be.
July15th is the band we start with.
Rockharz 2025 – We Made It
On the first of July, the time has come, I'm getting ready for the third festival in a row without an interruption. It means leaving Rock & Metal Day'z area for Ballenstedt after breakfast to attend the Rockharz Festival. This time, the journey there and back should be more relaxed and without major traffic jams and criss-crossing than in previous years. For the first time, different routes have been specified that lead to the various campgrounds.
Rock & Metal Day’z 2025 – we did it!
On Sunday 22nd June morning I make my way to the second of three festivals. My car is fully packed for a raid to Oschersleben and Rock & Metal Day’z 2025. As last year, it is going to be a demanding 10 days experience. Now I meet with the others who have been eagerly awaiting this weekend for a year. They are the members of MA.D.E.for Kids e. V. and friends who will be hosting Rock & Metal Day'z 2025 from 26th to 28th June. They are very excited about the new location, the Autocross-Rennstrecke An Den Sieben Bergen in Oschersleben. How will the set-up go, will it be too cramped, are there any uncertainties, or will everything run smoothly?
Ulmich om Braand – UOB Festival 2025
What do you do when your favourite Swiss guys from Fire Rose, while on tour in January as support for Bonfire, tell you that they will be playing at a festival ‘just around the corner’ in the summer? Of course, you promise to come along. ‘Just around the corner’ turned out to be 120 km away, in Ulmbach between Frankfurt am Main and Fulda. Nevertheless, I set off on 20th and 21st June. The UOB Festival is to be the start of my two-week festival summer holiday,
Summer Breeze Open Air 2025: Your Summer Escape Awaits! (Preview)
Summer Breeze 2025: Get ready for an epic metal gathering in Dinkelsbühl! Discover the massive lineup, including Gojira, Machine Head, Blind Guardian, In Extremo and many more as well as the unbeatable community vibe that awaits.
Belphegor – The Devils North American Tour 2025 take over the Oriental Theater April 6th, 2025
The stage was set for Belphegor and it was an interesting stage to see. (see photo gallery) With...
All paths lead to Rockharz 2025 – traffic update –
The festival season of 2025 has already begun, with the calendar filling up with events each weekend. I have three festivals scheduled in a row, so it is no different for me:
First is Ulmich om Braand, located between Frankfurt and Fulda on the 20th and 21st of June. From there I will be heading to Rock & Metal Day’z at Oschersleben near Magdeburg, just 50 km away from my last festival on this tour. The festival runs from the 26th to the 28th of June, but I am part of the crew, so I will be there to help with setting up and taking down the festival during the week before and after. Finally, I will be heading to the Rockharz Festival in Ballenstedt from 2nd to 5th July.
UOB – Ulmich om Braand – preview –
The festival season has just started. The weather conditions are still a bit uncertain. I remember spending very cold mornings and evenings on the campsite and infield in the past, even in summer. We have the perfect solution for you: Camping, food and drink stands and an indoor tent stage for the Ulmich Om Braand festival on 20. and 21. June 2025.