![Epica Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2018_04_14_1000_Epica_Tilburg/2018_04_14_Epica/preview/2018_04_14_Epica_Article.jpg)
This year, I will break new ground and visit the M’era Luna for the first time. Already since 2000 the festival of the dark culture is taking place at Hildesheim on the airport and is besides the Wave-Gothik-Treffen at Leipzig one of the biggest of its kind. Also this year there will be up to 25000 people coming for sure when the big ones out of Gothic, electronic music, alternative, medieval-rock and other genres will play on the stages.
![Bleed From Within Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2023_08_15_Bleed_From_Within/Preview/2023_08_15_Bleed_From_Within_Article.jpg)
Last year in August Heaven Shall Burn and Trivium went onto a continuation of their tour they had during the last winter. But despite to then, this time on the Summer Battles 2023 tour the smaller location were on their plan. At the Junkyard at Dortmund it took place in a great frame. In best junkyard atmosphere Bleed From Within was the opener. The Scots really had fun during their gig and so the spark directly leaped over to the audience.
![Red Hot Chili Pipers Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2022_10_22_Red_Hot_Chilli_Pipers_Coesfeld/Preview/2022_10_22_Red_Hot_Chilli_Pipers_Intro.jpg)
Today, there is part 2 of the last and first concerts before and after the corona break. The last bands befor the pause were in November 2019 at the one hand the to me unknown Rosy Vista who were in the past already a quite well known female heavy metal combo, as well as the guys from John Diva And The Rockets Of Love that passed by the Turock at Essen during their "Mama Said Rock Is Dead" tour. It was a lively evening that was really fun.
![Metallica Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2019_08_25_Metallica_Mannheim/Preview/2019_08_25_Metallica_Intro.jpg)
It has been a long time that you heard of me.Many things left so few time to me that it was impossible to write new articles and upload pictures. But here we go again.
Initially, there is a new base for the homepage and the website received a slight facelift.
Content wise the band and concert lists as well as the equipment was updated.
![Rammstein Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2019_05_28_Rammstein_Gelsenkirchen/Preview/2019_05_28_Rammstein_Intro.jpg)
After 10 years it was finally a new album to be released by Rammstein. Appropriate to that they went onto the first stadium tour of their 25 years lasting band history. The first stop was the Veltins Arena at Gelsenkirchen where I joined on the second evening.
![Ice sculpture festival Zwolle Intro](/images/phocagallery/landschaft/2018_12_29_Eisskulpturen_Zwolle/Preview/2018_12_29_Eisskulpturen_Zwolle_Intro.jpg)
First, I spontaneously paid a visit between Christmas and New Year to the small Dutch town Zwolle. At the local exhibition hall respectively a specially built tent next to it a small but very impressive ice sculpture festival took place. After one was able to admire the artworks at arctic temperatures one was finally quite happy to get back into the warm.
![Firkin Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2018_11_03_Firkin_Oberhausen/Preview/2018_11_03_Firkin_Intro.jpg)
In front of a sell-out crowd first the Hungarian band Firkin opened the evening and did not have to do much to make the audience moving. The atmosphere was immediately at the boiling point and did not cool down during the break for changing the stage setup. At no concert up to now I experienced the crowd singing along the songs from tape loudly. At roughly 21:30 Saltatio Mortis finally entered the stage and displayed the fireworks for 2 hours.
![Gojira Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2018_08_01_Wacken_Open_Air/2018_08_04_Gojira/Preview/2018_08_04_Gojira_Intro.jpg)
The last festival day was packing a punch again. Everything was offered: classical heavy metal, medieval rock, symphonic death metal and others. The day started at more comfortable temperatures in front of the Louder Stage.
![Korpiklaani Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2018_08_01_Wacken_Open_Air/2018_08_03_Korpiklaani/Preview/2018_08_03_Korpiklaani_Intro.jpg)
Let’s get to the third festival day, Friday. It was still hot and the water consumption huge. Inapt to this there were nearly only bands from Scandinavia on my schedule (at least 7 out of 10).
![Behemoth Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2018_08_01_Wacken_Open_Air/2018_08_02_Behemoth/Preview/2018_08_02_Behemoth_Intro.jpg)
Due to sickness the Thursday of Wacken Open Air 2018 took unfortunately a little bit longer. But now all of the pictures and reviews of that day are online. It was a nice cross section through the landscape of music starting with newcomer like the Metal Battle winner Die From Sorrow or the third-place finisher Motanka, across better known bands like Oomph! or Vince Neil up to the top bands like Behemoth and Judas Priest.