August News – More Festivals

It looks like these days everybody in the mainstream world focuses on the Olympic Games. And it looks like these days everybody in the metal world focuses on the big mainstream festivals of August, Wacken and Summer Breeze.

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There is more

We list some lesser known and smaller festivals here. We will report about some of them afterwards. And of course, our list is not complete.

Dark River Festival

Very Finnish Heavy Metal,  Kotka, Finland, 8.-10. August

https://darkriverfestival.com/en/

Festival trailer 2024

 


Party.San Festival

Extreme Metal, Schlotheim; Germany, 8.-10. August

https://www.party-san.de/news

After movie 2023

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Midgardsblot Festival

Extreme-and Folk Metal, Borre, Norway, 14.-17. August

https://www.midgardsblot.no/information

Line-Up

Amon Amarth – Melodic Death Metal, Emperor – Symphonic Black Metal, Testament – Thrash Metal, Astralseid – Folk, Bel Canto – Dream pop/Synthpop/New-age, Destroyer 666 – Black, Death, Thrash, Eldrim – Viking / Medieval / Folk,

Ereb Altor – Viking / Black Metal, Fabbrica 82 – Dark Pop, Fen – Atmospheric Black Metal, Folket Bortafor Nordavinden – Folk / Ancient Music, Grand Magus – Heavy Metal, Doom, Gåte – Progressive Folk Rock, Inculter – Thrash Metal,

Kalandra – Folk | Alternative | Ethereal, Kjell Braaten – Viking Music, Lumsk – Folk Metal, Nytt Land – Nordic Folk, Odium – Symphonic Black Metal, Runahild – Folk Music, Seigmen – Gothic Rock, Alternative Metal,

Songleikr – Nordic Folk, Sâver – Doom, Post-Metal, Texas Cornflake Massacre – Melodic Deathcore Breakdown, Uada – Black Metal, Unleashed – Death Metal, Vader – Death Metal, Vulture Industries – Progressive Metal

 

Have a look at the very complex festival schedule here:

https://www.midgardsblot.no/schedule

Festival trailer

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Riverside Festival

Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, Aarburg, Switzerland, 23.-25. August

https://www.riversideaarburg.com/festival

Friday

UGLY KID JOE, RISE AGAINST, ECLIPSE, DANKO JONES, GOTUS, UNDERCLASS HEROES, BACK ONE OUT, FACING FEARS

Saturday

URIAH HEEP, BEYOND THE BLACK, JACK SLAMER, LORDI, FIGHTER V, FIRE ROSE, HER NAME WAS CLAIRE, ROYAL DESOLATION, 2 SILENT

Sunday

FLOGGING MOLLY, BONFIRE, SAINT CITY ORCHESTRA, CRASHTIME, DARK JANE, HEAD SMASHED

After movie 2023

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Beside these four festivals we would like to recommend the forthcoming release of

Mono Inc.’s “Symphonic Live II”  on 23. August.

Check it out, here is the video of the single “Lieb Mich” as a teaser.

 

 


Please buy physical music or download it from the bands official sources and don’t stream it for free because it steals your artists’ income.


Proof reading  by DeepL

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