I have spent the last ten days here as a member of the crew of Rock & Metal Day’z. Today is the day to move to Ballenstedt and Rockharz Festival for the next five days. Read about each day and watch the pics of bands, fans, crew, evacuation and whatever happened.
The festival once again was worth all the efforts and it proved that metal is not male dominated anymore with the two headliners on Saturday being all female bands, the co-headliner on Friday being female fronted and the audience being a good mix of generations and genders. Metal unites.
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. We focus on some smaller Metal-Festivals in Finland, Germany, Norway and Switzerland instead
If you read our festival reports from 2022 and 2023, you will understand that this is not a "normal" commercial metal festival, but a very special one. The Rock & Metal Day'z is organised by the charity organisation M.A.DE. for Kids e.V. Its mission is to help children and young people in need and their families. One focus is cancer aid. All proceeds and donations go to this charity. So, what's a better reason to go to a metal festival?
For the June News we are going to focus on some open air festivals we have in mind. Here are our recommendations for this month. We will be busy at Rock & Metal Day'z as part of The Crew and at Rockharz Festival, so there will be no July-news, but we will feed your appetite for metal with reports and pics afterwards instead.
Have you ever wondered how much effort it takes to set up a festival from scratch? How everything is set up and how long it takes with how many roadies, assistants, specialists? Then read on to find out how Rock & Metal Day'z 2023 is built from the ground up. To say so, RMD'z from scratch.