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Oelde Open Air 2025
And here’s another small festival to have on your radar: Oelde Open Air takes place on 22nd and 23rd August 2025 at the Vier-Jahreszeiten-Park in Oelde, a small town in the north of Northrhine Westfalia, more or less between Münster and Bielefeld. The two days are rather to be considered two separate concerts, as there are no combined tickets available. Friday’s line up is finest German metalcore / post hardcore with Pentastone, Any Given Day and headliners Annisokay. Saturday is more on the German (Indie) Rock side with Friends Don’t Lie, Kapelle Petra and Madsen. Tickets can be purchased via Eventim or on the event’s website. The tickets are 49€ each.
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Music Forge Festival 2025
Support small festivals. That’s an important motto to keep in mind, given the fact that more and more smaller festivals are struggling with their ticket sales. So let’s give some spotlight to one of those „smaller“ festivals that comes with an insanely good line-up. Headliners this year include Callejon, Crystal Lake and Attila. From August 21st to 23rd, the relatively young Music Forge Festival invites you to party hard for three days. The festival takes place in Lich, a small town close to Gießen. The festival site is close to a public outdoor pool located in a forest, which can be visited for free during the festival days. Camping facilities are close by…
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Shorts: Release Friday – 23 May 2025
I’m a bit late to the party this time, but here’s my personal overview with my favourite releases from this week. Not a Friday release is Lost Society’s new single Dead People Scare Me (But The Living Make Me Sick), which is the first release since their album If The Sky Came Down in 2022 (and the intro to „their new era“). Another favourite of mine is Electric Callboy’s new single Revery, which is thematically on the darker, heavier side while, stylistically, it kinda carries a Power Metal vibe (I’ve read a comparison to older Sonata Arctica and it kinda fits?). One of my favourite Finnish Gothic Metal bands For My Pain…, who have recently started being…
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Tour: Bloodred Hourglass announce special guests for their European tour 2025
News from Bloodred Hourglass: The Finnish Melodic Death Metal band finally announced the special guests for their upcoming European tour this autumn. They will be joined by the Finnish Modern Metal band Luna Kills. After supporting The Halo Effect on their tour in January, Bloodred Hourglass return as headliners this time – with a new album. In October, the two Finnish bands will play 16 shows in a variety of countries: All tour dates: 09.10.25 🇩🇪 Berlin, Cassiopeia 10.10.25 🇨🇿 Zlin, Masters Of Rock Café 11.10.25 🇭🇺 Budapest, Analog Music Hall 13.10.25 🇦🇹 Vienna, Chelsea 14.10.25 🇩🇪 Leipzig, Hellraiser 15.10.25 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Bahnhof Pauli 16.10.25 🇩🇰 Esbjerg, Tobakken 18.10.25 🇩🇪…
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Album review: Eluveitie – ÀNV
It took me a while to finally find the time to review this album, but here we go. I could not not review it, as Eluveitie’s been one of my favourite bands since … I don’t know, 2008 at least. I was waiting for this album with mixed feelings – excitement on the one hand, but also a little worried. Worried because after their decision to continue without a hurdy-gurdy player, I did not know what to expect from the new album. Also worried because when The Prodigal Ones was released, I didn’t quite feel like it sounded much like an Eluveitie song during the first listening. So let’s dive deeper into my final…
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Tour: Annisokay announce Special Guests & Support for the Abyss Pt II Europe Tour
It’s been a while since Annisokay announced their Abyss Pt II Europe tour. Yesterday there finally was a great update: Besides adding two more shows to the schedule, special guests and supports were announced. The entire tour will be supported by The Narrator. The special guest for the first leg of the tour (from 10 October to 25 October) as well as the UK dates in January will be Heart of a Coward. For the second part of the tour (20 November until 6 December), Annisokay will be joined by Our Promise. The two shows added are in Eindhoven (18 October) and Zlin (5 December). All dates: 10.10.25 FI, Tampere: Olympia 11.10.25 FI,…
