Wacken Open Air 2008 – Review Part 1

The Wacken Open Air 2008 festival took place three weeks ago (N.B.: W:O:A 2009 X-Mas tickets are already sold out!) and the village of Wacken has returned to everyday life again. Here on MFG it’s time to write down a review of what we have witnessed during those 3 days of pure northern Heavy Metal.
Today [...]

Summer Breeze 2008 Review Part 3

Saturday – 16/08/2008
I went to see The Old Dead Tree, a band from France who plays an interesting blend of different genres. The show was not bad, but the singer had some problems to stay on key (probably some issues with the monitor sound setup). Endstille was next and although they are absolutely not my [...]

Summer Breeze 2008 Review Part 2

Friday – 15/08/2008
Friday was my “I couldn’t care less” day, as I didn’t really like any of the bands that much. Not that there weren’t any good acts performing that day, I just didn’t care for them. But it’s a festival, so you hang around the festival grounds most of the time anyway. We caught [...]

Summer Breeze 2008 Review Part 1

“Ich will euch ja nicht die Hoffnung rauben, aber es sieht verdammt beschissen aus!”
This quote was uttered by a guy on his phone, who we passed by, after seven hours of sitting around in a traffic jam, on our way to the festival grounds. Two hours later we had finally arrived. The car jam [...]

Ereb Altor – By Honour (2008)

Some pretend that there exist as many Metal Genres as Metal bands. Well, that might not be true, but fact is that there are always new sub-genres being invented by audacious musicians bringing fresh wind to the scene.
Ereb Altor, for their part, propose us Viking Doom Metal. These guys created a blend of later Bathory [...]

Summer-Breeze 2008 (I’m back!)

Well the Summer Breeze Festival 2008 in Dinkelsbühl has come to an end. It was an amazing weekend, even if it started out pretty shitty, but more on that tomorrow. For now it suffises to say: It was legendary! You can read all about the event, right here, tomorrow afternoon (as soon as I’m capable [...]

Short Primordial @ Wacken Video

Here’s a very short video made by me at Wacken 2008, it features a slice of the song “Heathen Tribes” by Primordial. I was quite surprised about the sound quality, so enjoy it!
Oh yeah and there WILL BE a Wacken review this or next week so stay 100% tuned!!!

Vader – XXV (2008)

Vader, the Death Metal veterans from Poland, paved the way in the early and mid 90s for many Eastern European metal bands. In a country like Poland with deeply rooted religious beliefs, their image, lyrics and thrashing Death Metal sound were put to the test directly from the start. Nonetheless they stood their ground and [...]