Friday, January 14, 2011
ENSLAVED, EINHERJER, AND THE OCEAN CONFIRMED FOR SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR-8/18-20, 2011 Dinkelsbuhl, Germany
Norwegian black metal legends ENSLAVED, Norwegian, Pagan/Viking warriors EINHERJER and German extreme metal warriors THE OCEAN have been confirmed for the 2011 SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR set to take place 8/18-20, 2011 Dinkelsbuhl, Germany.
FROM SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR PROMOTERS:
If you were to categorize ENSLAVED, the only option would be the densely populated intersection of black, pagan and viking metal. But this doesn't really do the Norwegians justice. Since the beginning of their career some 20 years ago, the band led by Grutle Kjellson and Ivar Bjornson has possessed a progressiveness and originality which remain unreached by many other groups for their whole existence. Best example would be their eleventh studio album 'Axioma Ethica Odini', a masterpiece of Nordic mythology, epic melodies and great compositions, which deservedly reached the first place in Metal Hammer Germany's 2010 writers' chart. ENSLAVED are miles ahead of all other bands treading the path of Norse mythology. Please welcome for the very first time at SUMMER BREEZE: ENSLAVED!
EINHERJER belong to the veterans of the pagan scene who were already active when that movement didn't even exist as a whole. Up to 2003 the Norwegians pioneered a genre that enjoys an immense popularity today. Then came a shock for their fan base: The band members decided to go separate ways. However, the band reunited in 2008 to play a few selected gigs. But that wasn't going to be it, as a new album is now also in the making. A whole scene is exultant about the return of one of their founding members. We are equally happy to welcome EINHERJER at SUMMER BREEZE for the very first time. Attention, dear pagan/viking metal fans! If you want to know where the roots of your favourite sound lie, put a big mark next to EINHERJER on your running order!
t is almost impossible to put this Berlin sound collective into words! THE OCEAN relentlessly shatter the conventions of extreme metal, revelling in hardcore, competing with postcore icons such as Neurosis and Isis, and releasing the double whammy 'Heliocentric' and 'Anthropocentric' in 2010, a massive conceptual double album – with a fundamental criticism of Christianity at its core – unrivaled in times of soulless plastic music without a deeper meaning. The band, whose members currently reside in Berlin and Switzerland, have left far behind the boundaries of music for the sake of just entertainment and will present their audiovisual impressions as a “gesamtkunstwerk” at SUMMER BREEZE. Great stuff!
2011 SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR LINEUP:
9MM ASSI ROCK'N'ROLL
A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH
ARCH ENEMY
BOLT THROWER
CALIBAN
CORVUS CORAX
CRIMINAL
DECAPITATED
DEMONICAL
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
DESTRUCTION
DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL
EINHERJER
ENGEL
ENSLAVED
EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS
FACEBREAKER
FARMER BOYS
HAIL OF BULLETS
HATEBREED
HAYSEED DIXIE
IMPERIUM DEKADENZ
IN EXTREMO
INTERMENT
J.B.O.
KALMAH
KAMPFAR
KVELERTAK
MARDUK
MELECHESH
MOONSORROW
NEAERA
PRIMORDIAL
REV 16:8
REVAMP
ROTTING CHRIST
SALTATIO MORTIS
SCAR SYMMETRY
SKELETONWITCH
SMOKE BLOW
SODOM
SONIC SYNDICATE
SWASHBUCKLE
SYLOSIS
TARJA
THE HAUNTED
THE OCEAN
THE SORROW
TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED
TURISAS
TÝR
VADER
VOMITORY
VREID
WITCHERY
WOLF
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-