Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 14:00

Written by Valentin B on 08.01.2010 at 13:21

Written by Black Mass on 08.01.2010 at 01:14

Pretty sure Slayer won't be playing. They have cancelled all their immediate shows, Tom is having back surgery

yeah, the things Araya went through these last months have been pretty fucked up.. i hope he'll get better soon though. and if (satan forbid) he decides to take a long break, i hope they manage to get a replacement bass player and vocalist..
it's such a shame that a great live band such as Slayer has to cancel so many shows.

Aha! So now they have the unique chance to get a really cool replacement band for Slayer. Like say ... uh ... from off the top of my head ... maybe a secret special second Germany show of Bloodbath?

Written by Valentin B on 08.01.2010 at 14:11

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 14:00

Written by Valentin B on 08.01.2010 at 13:21

Written by Black Mass on 08.01.2010 at 01:14

Pretty sure Slayer won't be playing. They have cancelled all their immediate shows, Tom is having back surgery

yeah, the things Araya went through these last months have been pretty fucked up.. i hope he'll get better soon though. and if (satan forbid) he decides to take a long break, i hope they manage to get a replacement bass player and vocalist..
it's such a shame that a great live band such as Slayer has to cancel so many shows.

Aha! So now they have the unique chance to get a really cool replacement band for Slayer. Like say ... uh ... from off the top of my head ... maybe a secret special second Germany show of Bloodbath?

LOL you're crazy.. i'd say a good replacement band would be Anthrax/Megadeth, since they're also part of the big 4, and Anthrax would have a leg up since they had to play last year but were canceled.. i was really looking forward to seeing them, instead of JBO.. i have a feeling last year there were too many German in-joke bands as Baz put it.. In Extremo, Schandmaul, Der W, Subway, JBO, and to some degree Doro and Running Wild..

Written by Valentin B on 08.01.2010 at 13:21

Written by Black Mass on 08.01.2010 at 01:14

Pretty sure Slayer won't be playing. They have cancelled all their immediate shows, Tom is having back surgery

yeah, the things Araya went through these last months have been pretty fucked up.. i hope he'll get better soon though. and if (satan forbid) he decides to take a long break, i hope they manage to get a replacement bass player and vocalist..
it's such a shame that a great live band such as Slayer has to cancel so many shows.

Written by Black Mass on 08.01.2010 at 15:26

Written by Valentin B on 08.01.2010 at 13:21

Written by Black Mass on 08.01.2010 at 01:14

Pretty sure Slayer won't be playing. They have cancelled all their immediate shows, Tom is having back surgery

yeah, the things Araya went through these last months have been pretty fucked up.. i hope he'll get better soon though. and if (satan forbid) he decides to take a long break, i hope they manage to get a replacement bass player and vocalist..
it's such a shame that a great live band such as Slayer has to cancel so many shows.

Dude, Slayer without Tom? Are you tripping?

Written by corrupt on 07.01.2010 at 18:32

I spent quite some time hand-sorting the bands by their popularity index on MS.

Written by Promonex on 08.01.2010 at 15:40

Written by corrupt on 07.01.2010 at 18:32

I spent quite some time hand-sorting the bands by their popularity index on MS.

Uhh, I guess I shoulda told you that we can sort the bands by popularity index automatically

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 15:47

Written by Promonex on 08.01.2010 at 15:40

Written by corrupt on 07.01.2010 at 18:32

I spent quite some time hand-sorting the bands by their popularity index on MS.

Uhh, I guess I shoulda told you that we can sort the bands by popularity index automatically

What do you mean by "automatically"? The fontend surely doesn't do it by itself. Anyway, this is confusing and begs to be changed to an either completely manual or completely automatic way.

Written by Promonex on 08.01.2010 at 15:54

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 15:47

Written by Promonex on 08.01.2010 at 15:40

Written by corrupt on 07.01.2010 at 18:32

I spent quite some time hand-sorting the bands by their popularity index on MS.

Uhh, I guess I shoulda told you that we can sort the bands by popularity index automatically

What do you mean by "automatically"? The fontend surely doesn't do it by itself. Anyway, this is confusing and begs to be changed to an either completely manual or completely automatic way.

There's this little checkbox "Rearrange bands by popularity", I don't know whether that's a staff only thing or viewable by everyone, but clicking it results in the order now seen above again.

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 15:11

I would think that if Cynic played Hellfest they'd consider it a home match and also speak french. So what?

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.01.2010 at 18:12

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 15:11

I would think that if Cynic played Hellfest they'd consider it a home match and also speak french. So what?

You lost me on this one.
Cynic played Hellfest in 2007 and, of course, didn't speak a word of French. And why would they consider it a home match? As, you most probably, know, they are a US band (from Florida to be more precise) and now have a Dutch guitarist.

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 18:54


Haha! Good one. Yeah, I didn't mean Cynic, I meant Gojira. I was listening to Cynic earlier today and I'm known to make these associative mistakes. Good thing nobody else noticed

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.01.2010 at 19:12

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 18:54


Haha! Good one. Yeah, I didn't mean Cynic, I meant Gojira. I was listening to Cynic earlier today and I'm known to make these associative mistakes. Good thing nobody else noticed

Aha Gojira now that makes sense if I remember correctly they did indeed address the crowd in French last year. And rightly so I would say. That always pissed me off at Dynamo Open Air that most of the times the ver few Dutch bands playing addressed the crowd in English, ffs, it is a Dutch festival with most people present from the Netherlands. Another thing I found annoying was that, unlike Wacken, Dynamo Open Air didn't give Dutch bands a chance to showcase in front of the large crowd.

As you know, I am not a fan of Wacken, but one thing I do admire is that they book quite a few German bands and give them the much needed exposure. A German fest should promote German bands, a French one French bands, A Dutch one Dutch etc etc,

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 19:28

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.01.2010 at 19:12

Written by corrupt on 08.01.2010 at 18:54


Haha! Good one. Yeah, I didn't mean Cynic, I meant Gojira. I was listening to Cynic earlier today and I'm known to make these associative mistakes. Good thing nobody else noticed

Aha Gojira now that makes sense if I remember correctly they did indeed address the crowd in French last year. And rightly so I would say. That always pissed me off at Dynamo Open Air that most of the times the ver few Dutch bands playing addressed the crowd in English, ffs, it is a Dutch festival with most people present from the Netherlands. Another thing I found annoying was that, unlike Wacken, Dynamo Open Air didn't give Dutch bands a chance to showcase in front of the large crowd.

As you know, I am not a fan of Wacken, but one thing I do admire is that they book quite a few German bands and give them the much needed exposure. A German fest should promote German bands, a French one French bands, A Dutch one Dutch etc etc,

That's my point, yes. But it seems we're alone with that.
I just wrote down the few Dutch bands I know (or that I know for being Dutch). And apart from Ayreon and Textures there's only symphonic bands in my mind. Epica, Autumn, After Forever, Within Temptation etc.. Seems like your country is most famous for the music you despise the most

Written by corrupt on 15.01.2010 at 14:38

Next "band": Metsatöll

Written by Baz Anderson on 20.01.2010 at 19:43

I thought the quotes were funny too. Metsatöll are alright.

Written by corrupt on 20.01.2010 at 20:44

Written by Baz Anderson on 20.01.2010 at 19:43

I thought the quotes were funny too. Metsatöll are alright.

The quotes serve as a means to subtly hint at my deeply rooted, well-established contempt for all folk metal.

(Also I hate generalization!)

Written by Valentin B on 21.01.2010 at 16:29

Written by corrupt on 20.01.2010 at 20:44

Written by Baz Anderson on 20.01.2010 at 19:43

I thought the quotes were funny too. Metsatöll are alright.

The quotes serve as a means to subtly hint at my deeply rooted, well-established contempt for all folk metal.

(Also I hate generalization!)

haha, i had a feeling you'd say that.. so you hate ALL folk metal? are you at least into the standard German bands almost everyone likes there like Subway and In Extremo?

Written by corrupt on 21.01.2010 at 18:15

The German bands you mentioned neither count as folk nor as metal. We're talking about the worst abomination of music ever created: Audible vomit. No real man plays bagpipes. And no band should need to rape violins like these do to give their music a faint hint of ...of what? Quality? Yes, because a violin is such a precious instrument, and any band using one is automatically so deep and emotional. Give me a guinea pig and a set of dissection instruments, maybe a fart-amplifier and I will show you folk metal. And don't get me started on bands using a lyre on stage that then emphasize how hard they really are (no really, they are obviously really hard) in any interview ever conducted.
I understand you speak quite a bit of German. So you at least have a feeling how ridiculously plain and shallow the lyrics of most of these idiotic sorry excuses for bands are. If they didn't sing in german, they'd never sell a single CD anywhere. Not for what they call music. The only reason there is to attract a german audience at the youngest possible age so that this audience gets used to being ear-raped and doesn realize the extreme dimension of simplicity and shallowness they're fed anymore when their minds start to develop and they turn into human beings.
We're talking about indoctrination here.

Seriously that should be punished.

Written by Valentin B on 21.01.2010 at 18:45

nice rant hahahahahaha so Bon Scott wasn't a real man by your reckoning also seems you see IE and StS as some kind of pop bands considering the absurd amount of people i've met there(not only at Wacken) who rave about StS and IE(you know, the groups of 3 girls each with the histrionic make-up, dyed black hair and ripped black pantyhose..) i can see what you're talking about..

for lyrics in languages outside of Romanan i don't care too much how cheesy they are, Manowar is my 5th favorite band after all haha (especially when not talking about English, but languages i don't know too good like German or something, yeah my German may be fun to read but let's face it: it's fucking crap!), so i don't really care for In Extremo's or Subway's lyrics(especially IE's Occitan/weird half french-half spanish songs), i do like Ave Maria and some other songs by IE(not the ones they played at WOA sadly), imo they did manage to turn a religious song into a good metal tune. kinda like the first part of "Revelations" by Maiden.

there IS a very real chance i won't be able to get there this year, due to the German job opportunity in the summer, but to be honest between working some shit job and Wacken, i'll take WOA any day of the calendar.

i'm curious if there is gonna be another big band announcement or this is the final line-up when it comes to headliners. i hope not, they already have a very solid line-up but they can (and should) make it KILLER. Rammstein would be the cherry on top imo. something for the people to say "omg they couldn't have possibly gotten a better string of headliners"

Written by corrupt on 21.01.2010 at 19:01

I disagree. As stated numerous times before, Rammstein doesn't exactly fit into the german metal scene. Yes, most of us have or do still listen to them but at least speaking for myself and a number of friends, that is for entirely different reasons than we listen to metal for. There are big MTV festivals here where they are frequent flyers and there's a pretty well-established industrial scene too. The last thing I would want is to see Rammstein in Wacken. It just doesn't feel right. Plus it would not exactly add to the variety. There are way more interesting bands out there to help with that. There's a good chance for an Arcturus reunion and the woa guys had better keep a slot open there

Written by Valentin B on 21.01.2010 at 19:10

well, it's pretty weird since pretty much every metalhead here considers Rammstein as metal as can be... well, at least the ones who know "Ich Will" and MAYBE "Engel" too and say they're die hard fans which make up for 90% of people who have heard of them here : i've yet to come across a REAL Rammstein fan in Romania who doesn't just know those songs by them. also 99% of the times it's girls who think like that, almost every conversation is like this:

me: so, you listen to rock and metal?
poser: yeah
me: what bands?
poser: Guns n Roses, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Rammstein
me: oooh, Rammstein and Scorpions, what's your favorite songs by them?
poser: uhm... Ich Will and Wind of Change
me: my hard-on has just subsided because of your stupidity

Written by corrupt on 21.01.2010 at 20:02

And I don't even feel like elite myself. In fact I'd like to gather all of these kids in a huge hall and show them all this awesome music that is right at their hands which they'll never listen to because there's also In Extremo...

Written by corrupt on 01.02.2010 at 18:02

Next band: Ill Niño.