ROCK HARD FESTIVAL 2019 – Die Quadratur des Kreises

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Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Anthrax, Black Mirrors, Cannibal Corpse, Carnivore A.D., Chapel Of Disease, Fifth Angel, Gamma Ray, Heir Apparent, Long Distance Calling, Possessed, Rhein-Herne-Kanal, Rock Hard Festival, Ruhrpott, Running Order, Skid Row, Symphony X, The Idiots, The Obsessed, The Vintage Caravan, The Vulture, TuRock Essen, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Tyler Leads, Visigoth, Wacken Open Air, Watain

Oder auch “Das Runde muss ins Eckige” – denn Sport-Allegorien machen im Ruhrpott weitaus mehr Sinn, als klassische Probleme der Geometrie und wer freut sich nicht über Fußball-Zitate? Im Fall des diesjährigen Rock Hard Festivals ist die Mannschaftsaufstellung zwar noch nicht vollständig beschlossene Sache, doch dank internationaler Topspieler, können wir auf ein spannendes Wochenende hoffen. Zwei Positionen sind bisher noch geheim, aber sicher wird hier nicht die Ersatzbank der globalen Metalszene in Anspruch genommen werden. Auch für mich persönlich geht es nach den ersten zehn Spielzeiten dieses Jahr tatsächlich doch noch in die Verlängerung beim alljährlichen Stelldichein im Gelsenkirchener Amphitheater. Auch wenn hier, anders als in der Arena Auf Schalke keine Länderspiele ausgetragen werden, besticht die Location mit ihrer traumhaften Lage am Wasser direkt am Rhein-Herne-Kanal.

Da mir Nachwuchsförderung schon immer sehr am Herzen lag, freue ich mich ganz besonders nach meinem letzten Treffen vor fünf Jahren in Wacken, den isländischen Classic Rock Exportschlager The Vintage Caravan endlich wieder zu sehen. Wer es nicht zu Pfingsten schafft, kann die drei Jungs aktuell auf Tour zusammen mit den Belgiern Black Mirrors sehen. Kommende Woche machen die beiden Bands Halt im TuRock Essen und das pünktlich zum Oster-Sonntag.

Alle bisher bestätigten Bands könnt ihr hier finden – und hoffentlich in den kommenden Tagen mitsamt finaler Running Order auf der RHF Homepage.

ANTHRAX
GAMMA RAY (Erste NRW-Show seit 2015!)
CANNIBAL CORPSE
WATAIN
POSSESSED (Exklusive Festival-Show in Deutschland!) MAGNUM
SKID ROW
SYMPHONY X
FIFTH ANGEL
CARNIVORE A.D.
THE OBSESSED
TYGERS OF PAN TANG
LONG DISTANCE CALLING
THE VINTAGE CARAVAN
HEIR APPARENT
VISIGOTH
CHAPEL OF DISEASE
THE IDIOTS
TYLER LEADS
THE VULTURE

+ weitere 2 Top Acts!

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COVEN – To Headline Roadburn Festival 2017

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Billy Jack, Black Sabbath, Blood Ceremony, Blood On the Snow, Buddah, Chris Neilsen, Coven, Farida Lemouchi, Ghost, Goth Queen: Out of the Vault, In Solitude, Jex Thoth, Jinx Dawson, King Diamond, Mercury, Mercyful Fate, MGM, NEVOC-All, Occult Rock, One Tin Soldier, Ozzie Osborne, Rick Durrett, Ricktor Ravensbruck, Roadburn, Roadburn 2017, Roadburn Festival, Roadburn Festival 2017, Selim Lemouchi, Steve Ross, The Devil's Blood, The Oath, Venom, Warner Bros., Watain, Wicked Woman, Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls

The Netherlands-based festival comes out of the gate with its first announcements for Roadburn 2017 and immediately proves why it’s like nothing else happening on this poor pitiful planet we happen to occupy. To bring Coven back to the stage for the first time in untold decades and for their first European show ever? Come on. I don’t care where you live, that’s worth getting on a plane for.

Coven will play their first show in decades, and for the first time ever on European soil. Devil Horns, the Left Hand Path, Satanic Rituals, Black Magick, Sexuality, and a seminal debut-album that has had a lasting appeal since 1969.  Coven’s Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls was not only ahead of its time, the iconoclastic troupe – helmed by high priestess, and the original wicked woman, Jinx Dawson – heavily influenced future generations of musicians, from Ghost to The Devil’s Blood, from Witchcraft to In Solitude, from Blood Ceremony to Lucifer, and even our festival.

We are equal measures excited, proud and overwhelmed to be able to announce that Coven will thrill Roadburn Festival to it’s darkened core on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Jinx Dawson, and her unholy union will take their cult-ritual to the stage for the first time in decades – and for the first time ever on European soil.

Jinx Dawson commented: “Roadburn Festival’s intrepid ring master, Walter, hath stirred us from our Coven lair. We shall be performing a musickal ritual for the first time in many ages. We are wickedly delighted to travel to the Netherlands for this very special festival concert, and to bring our musickal form of Witchcraft once again to the live stage.”

Known by many classic rock fans for Jinx Dawson’s early seventies hit, ‘One Tin Soldier’, from the counter culture flick Billy Jack, the song was an anthem for hypocrisy and added more mystery to Coven’s occult imagery and aesthetics that laid the groundwork for hard rock and heavy metal.

The band’s diabolical mix of proto-metal paired with dark psychedelica and prog was dabbed in deeply occult lyrics, and has always been a celebration of all things Left Hand Path. Whether it’s the much sought after and talked about Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls, or the band’s third album Blood on the Snow, Coven’s output has terrified peers and audiences, as well as the moral-elite since their incarnation. Their extreme dark and shocking rites, thriving on a strong woman’s sexuality, was unheard of at the time.

Though Coven went clandestine not long after the release of Blood on the Snow, Jinx Dawson, and the band always remained a landmark within the metal community, and hailed as one of the 10 greatest heavy metal front women. Having battled with record companies, management, opposing religious organisations and law officials has only added to Jinx’s legacy to stay genuinely true to her own firm beliefs, based upon a very long lineage of Occult Adepts and Practitioners of the Ancient Arts.

With the release of 2003’s Goth Queen: Out of the Vault, and 2013’s album, Jinx, Dawson rightfully regained her throne as ‘the originator’ of the burgeoning occult rock scene – a movement that we have wholeheartedly embraced at Roadburn over the years, while offering a platform to her children of the damned.

Having the mysterious Jinx Dawson / Coven at Roadburn isn’t only a thrilling once in a lifetime event, it is also our way of paying a humble tribute to a woman that has been such an integral influence on the festival since its incarnation in 1999, and an inspirational heroine to many bands that graced our stages over the years. We couldn’t think of a more fitting ceremony, and welcome all of you to Jinx’s lair on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands  – don’t break the circle, and join us.

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COVEN – Wicked Witch of the Web

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Black Sabbath, Blood Ceremony, Chris Neilsen, Coven, Decibel Magazine, Farida Lemouchi, Ghost, Hexvessel, Jinx Dawson, John Hobbs, King Diamond, Legacy Magazine, Mercyful Fate, Metal Hammer, Ozzie Osborne, Press Clipping, Purson, Rick Durrett, Rosalie Cunningham, Steve Ross, Terrorizer Magazine, The Devil's Blood, The Occult Experience, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, Venom, Watain, Wicked Woman, Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls, Year Of The Goat

IN SOLITUDE to tour with AMON AMARTH in UK and Ireland in March 2012!

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Album of the Month, Amon Amarth, Angel Witch, Behemoth, Decibel Magazine, Gottfrid Åhman, Grand Magus, Henrik Palm, Hornper, In Solitude, Iron Maiden, Kerrang! Magazine, Metal Blade, Metal Hammer, Niklas Lindström, Terrorizer Magazine, The Devil's Blood, The World The Flesh The Devil, Uno Bruniusson, Watain

IN SOLITUDE will join AMON AMARTH and Grand Magus on their spring tour that kicks off in Glasgow on March 13, 2012.

The Swedish outfit return after destroying at their debut UK show at Live Evil in October 2011 and catching the eye of labelmates AMON AMARTH who were looking to bring an intense package to the UK and Ireland.

IN SOLITUDE has been declared “one of the hottest new metal acts around” by Decibel Magazine while Metal Hammer described the band as “Structurally and melodically complex, densely layered yet dynamic and fluid, often enthralling, always engaging, this is a metallic Feast.”

The band’s Metal Blade debut, The World.The Flesh.The Devil was released in May 2011 and stands as a “trad-metal charge of Iron Maiden with doom metal’s ironclad grey” according to Kerrang! Magazine.

Additionally, Terrorizer heralded The World.The Flesh.The Devil as their “album of the month” in issue #210.

AMON AMARTH
+ GRAND MAGUS
+ IN SOLITUDE
13/03/12 – UK – Glasgow – ABC
14/03/12 – UK – Beflast – Mandella Hall
15/03/12 – IE – Dublin – Vicar Street
16/03/12 – UK – Wolverhampton – Civic
17/03/12 – UK – Prestatyn – Hammerfest (only Amon Amarth)
18/03/12 – UK – Cardiff – Solus

IN SOLITUDE will play on the 17th of March as support of ANGEL WITCH and GRAND MAGUS at the Relentless Garage in London!

After these dates IN SOLITUDE will head to the USA where they join Behemoth, Watain and The Devil’s Blood on the Decibel Magazine tour in April.

IN SOLITUDE are:
Hornper: Vocals
Niklas Lindström: Guitar
Henrik Palm: Guitar
Gottfrid Åhman: Bass
Uno Bruniusson: Drums

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