A Historic High-Decibel Sell-Out – Summer Breeze Open Air 2026 (Preview)
Experience the fastest-selling edition in festival history. Your ultimate guide to the record-breaking Summer Breeze 2026 lineup 🤘
Amorphis
Amorphis – Borderland
Borderland is unusual for Amorphis but still clearly Amorphis. Some people might miss the rougher side of the band. Others will appreciate this different side to the band. The producer’s softer influence is undeniable. Consider it an experiment in crossing borders. Welcome to the “Borderland”, Amorphis. Welcome to a new shore everybody outside in the world!
Autumn News
Summer is over. Open Air Festival season is over. Winter is coming. We nevertheless stop in between for an autumn overlook.
Party.San 2025 – We Love Hell
For the 29th time nearly 10.000 fans of the more extreme metal genres gathered at the airport Obermehler near Schlotheim in Thuringia to enjoy - with only a handful of exceptions - mostly variants of Death, Black and Thrash Metal peacefully together while having fun and in-depth discussions about the bands. As you can find a more detailed description of the area in the articles from the last two years, this year’s focus will be more on the tight programme and the most important thing, the bands.
Rockharz Festival 2024 – Here We Were
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.
Rockharz Festival 2024 – First Impressions
Wednesday started with a visit to the Teufelsmauer and a view over the campsite but then it was time for some metal music for the next four days.
Rockharz 2024 – get ready!
In 2023 we saw the best line-up ever at the Rockharz Festival near Ballenstedt/Harz, according to the comments of most visitors. You could call it a very successful festival 2023 and 30th anniversary party, which resulted in an already sold-out festival 2024 on August 21st, even though only a few bands were confirmed.
If you could make a festival for yourself? – John Smith Rock Festival 2023 Event Review and Photo Gallery
One day, mysterious Mr. John Smith thought about how nice it would be to have a rock and...
“It maybe makes your life a little bit more interesting”
Interview on a black winter night in Berlin with Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine from Amorphis. How has he been in the pandemic years, the anniversary of Privilege of Evil, English issue of the Amorphis biography and naturally his other bands, such as Barren Earth.
Eluveitie and friends
One of the last double headliner tours 2022 leads us to the visit of Eluveitie and their friends at Wiesbaden’s Schlachthof on 14th of December