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With a package containing Gothenburg's finest THE HAUNTED, a dose of Danish Rock'n'Roll with VOLBEAT and Mr Shockrock MARILYN MANSON, we complete the galleries of this years' Metaltown festival. Day 1 and 2 are now complete. Enjoy!

MY DYING BRIDE and OPETH have been added to Metaltown day 2 gallery.

There we go again with Metaltown updates : EVERGREY, GIRUGÄMESH, MUSTASCH have been added to the gallery of day 2.

First bunch of pics of the SEPULTURA/DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN gig: Local opener MILES TO PERDITION.

It's done, day 1 of METALTOWN Open Air is complete! Jump over to the gallery, to see pics of PILGRIMZ, STERBHAUS and TRIVIUM

Day 1 is almost complete, here are more bands: KONGH, MESHUGGAH, NAPALM DEATH and PAIN.

Another bunch of pics has been added to the METALTOWN gallery, day 1: BULLET, CEDRON, DEAD BY APRIL and DISTURBED.

Huge picture update, we photographed 17 bands in 9 hours, so check out the festival gallery for pics of: ABORTED, ARCHITECTS, AUGUST BURNS RED, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, CALLEJON, DESPISED ICON, FINAL PRAYER, HORSE THE BAND, MAROON, MISERY INDEX, NEAERA, NO TURNING BACK, PARKWAY DRIVE, SALT THE WOUND, TO KILL, WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH, WHITECHAPEL.

Since we're based in Germany AND Finland, it was quite a natural development, that we'd also start publishing reports in Finnish. So here's something new again: you can find the report on KOTITEOLLISUUS playing at On The Rocks in Hellcity in English AND Finnish! Enjoy!
And check out the pics as well!

‘Thanks to Kotiteollisuus' recent extensive touring, it is quite easy to catch them playing at most of the summer festivals anywhere around Finland. However, we wanted to see something more exclusive, so we set our steps to their gig at On The Rocks, Helsinki on the 25th of June. I wasn’t so happy about the location, On The Rocks being a rather small place for all the people eager to see Kotiteollisuus these days. I expected the club to be full, making it quite an uncomfortable experience. Luckily, I was wrong.’
To read the full report click HERE!
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‘Kiitos Kotiteollisuuden ahkeran keikkailun viime aikoina, bändi on helppo bongata soittamasta useimmilta kesäfestareilta ympäri Suomea. Me kuitenkin halusimme jotakin hieman harvinaislaatuisempaa, joten 25. kesäkuuta suuntasimme kulkumme helsinkiläiselle On The Rocks -klubille. En ollut erityisen innoissani keikkapaikasta, On The Rocks kun on melko pieni tila kaikille niille, jotka näinä päivinä tahtovat nähdä Kotiteollisuuden livenä. Odotin klubin olevan täynnä, mikä olisi tehnyt keikkakokemuksesta melko epämukavan. Onneksi olin väärässä.’
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Gallery link: Kotiteollisuus - On The Rocks

We couldn't get into the photopit during SLIPKNOT, but managed to find a decent spot near the soundtower to catch at least some pic of this really impressing show those guys put up there. A turnable drumkit, great performance all in all and a crowd that was going crazy, check out the pics!
Plus AUGUST BURNS RED and CULT OF LUNA have been added to the Metaltown gallery, day 2.

Metaltown update: We caught totally crazy and incredibly fast DRAGONFORCE in Gothenburg, where they obviously had loads of fun on stage.

Update in the Metaltown gallery once again: ALL THAT REMAINS and ALL HELL.

Next update on bands from Metaltown in Sweden: Japanese band DIR EN GREY!

Excuse the little delay in updates during the last week. The rest of the pictures from Metaltown in Gothenburg will be up shortly.
Until then, have a look at our interview section, where we've just uploaded an interview with Marco HIETALA, bassist and vocalist for NIGHTWISH/TAROT.
To read the entire interview click HERE!

The first day of Metaltown Open Air saw some kind of "Danish invasion", since there were three bands from Denmark playing. So here's the first one: HATESPHERE. More pics of day 1 and 2 are gonna follow shortly!

We met the legendary Satyricon drummer Frost and tried to use fifteen minutes given us by the label people in the most productive way. Frost was a great company: perfectly polite, extremely intelligent, and very talkative - something any journalist would be happy about. Narrowing his eyes every now and then like a cat and looking more of a model than of a stereotypical metalhead, Frost commented to us on the recent changes in the band"s life and told us everything he had on his mind about those infamous black metal stereotypes.
To read the entire interview click HERE!

Last weekend we went on a short trip to Sweden to cover this years' edition of Metaltown Open Air in Gothenburg.
We managed to photograph nearly all the bands playing there, so stay tuned for tons of pictures coming up the next days. So here's the first bunch featuring CHILDREN OF BODOM.

On the 9th of May 2009 the doors of Helsinki’s Nosturi were opened to welcome those metalheads who came to see Embreach, Hateform, MyGrain and Profane Omen playing a gig together. The occasion for this event was Teemu Suominen’s (Metalheim agency) 30th birthday. All of the bands are represented by Metalheim agency and were there to greet the man of the moment.

Gallery link: Profane Omen | MyGrain


To read the full report click HERE!

DEVILDRIVER, 2nd gig within one week, this time at Fete de la musique and DAGOBA pics up.

We attended the Fete de la musique in Thionville to photograph INSANE/SCARRED/DAGOBA and DEVILDRIVER on the Metalstage at Place du Luxembourg. So here's already the first bunch of pics featuring INSANE from France and SCARRED from Luxemburg. Check out the pics (and of course bands, if you don't know them yet! :-)).

Up for some Melodeath from Finland? We caught MYGRAIN at their gig in Nosturi, Helsinki! Stay tuned for loads of pics of various events coming up the next days!

As promised, here's the next bunch of pics: DEVILDRIVER and GOD FORBID, who were supporting ANTHRAX at Rockhal in Luxemburg.

"What comes around goes around" that's what allmighty ANTHRAX sing in "Room For One More" - well true. If you put some great band in an obviously great mood on stage, the audience goes crazy as well and it's lots of fun taking pics. See the result by clicking on the pics! Pics of the support bands DEVILDRIVER and GOD FORBID are going to follow!

Dutch MY CITY BURNING supporting MACHINE HEAD at Rockhal in Lux. More pics of a spontaneous aftershooting as well as an equally spontaneous Ibanez promo shoot with bassist Spit will follow!

Sauna Open Air Day 1 featuring DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED, check them out!

On the 2nd of May 2009 Turmion Kätilöt played an explosive gig at Helsinki’s Virgin Oil Co. ‘Despite some disappointment with the lightning technician’s work, the show was rather impressive. Whenever you go to a Turmion Kätilöt’s gig, you can never be sure about what you are going to see on stage, as it will always be a shocking surprise. Every show has something different in it, like Spellgoth’s outrageous outfits or various acts during the songs, like whipping and other pleasant things for your delight. You might also take it as a warning, if you are a sensitive person and get shocked easily, think twice before going there. But then again, Turmion Kätilöt’s shows are not for wussies.’

To read the full report click HERE!

MACHINE HEAD played a headliner gig at Rockhal in Luxemburg, since they weren't able to play their support slot for SLIPKNOT last year in December. So here you go for a bunch of pics! Support bands were CALIBAN and MY CITY BURNING - pics coming up soon as well, along with some pics of a little shooting with MCB!

More from SAUNA OPEN AIR! This time: FINNTROLL! Lots of nice long hair and headbanging! ;-)

Next festival has been on this weekend: SAUNA OPEN AIR in Tampere! Well be uploading pics of various bands during the next days, starting with NIGHTWISH today! So stay tuned for more!

And the last bunch of pics from SUMMER NIGHTS Open Air in Austria. Unfortunately we had to leave quite early that day, so we had to miss KREATOR and some other bands. However, we caught the following bands: EMERGENCY GATE, ALESTORM, ENDSTILLE, BELPHEGOR, EQUILIBRIUM and added some impressions of fans/surroundings to the day 3 gallery as well. Somehow ARCH ENEMY were missing in the gallery of day 2, we added them there now! Check them out!

Update again! There's so much stuff coming up, that we could update the page daily!
This time we present you pictures of allmighty HEAVEN & HELL featuring current and past members of legendary BLACK SABBATH.
Make sure to check out Ronnie James DIO - the voice, Toni IOMMI and Co in our gallery!

EMILIE AUTUMN is not just some concert it's like theatre. Music and lots of costumes and stuff to see. Because of that we couldn't simply get away with taking a few shots, no we took tons of them. Great for bringing back some nice memories and giving those, who haven't been there, a rough idea what to expect at an EMILIE concert!

Take some crazy Finish bands, let's say KOTITEOLLISUUS, a cam and go backstage, what does this result in?
Well, find out by having a look at the backstage/promo section right here: And don't say, we didn't warn you! ;-)

Additional fun: Concert gallery and interview

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