While others may already have been gearing themselves up for Christmas, we celebrated one last weekend of demonic darkness at De Mortem et Diabolum, a two-day indoor black metal manifestation at the Postbahnhof Club in Berlin. This festival concluded what has been a year of some intense head-banging-while-reporting for yours truly, unfortunately with a slight […]
Festival Reports 2016
Festival report: Into Darkness 2016
During the weekend of 2 and 3 December, the Into Darkness Festival opened its gates for black metal enthusiasts. Located in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, the event took place for the third time. With a fine selection of bands covering the whole spectrum of blackened metal, it promised to be a good day.. Read […]
Report: Epic Metal Fest 2016
After the overwhelming success of the first edition of Epic Metal Fest in 2015, Dutch symphonic metal band Epica decided to make it into an annual festival. And what better occasion than the release of their latest album, The Holographic Principle, for a party?.. In contrary to last year’s edition, this time Epic Metal Fest […]
Report: Beyond the Gates 2016
Beyond The Gates has pretty much everything I look for in a festival, and so, once more I found myself changing aircrafts (Damn you, Finnair!) that were late, on my way to the wet and rain-filled soil of Bergen, second largest city in Norway and a personal favourite.. Read all!
Midgardsblot 2016
If you’ve read the 2015 report, you’ll know what Midgardsblot is about; if you haven’t, here’s a short recap: A pagan/black/folk metal festival in Norway, located at ancient Viking (grave) mounds and partially inside of a reconstructed long hall, which not only offers musical shows, but also tours, lectures, a tattoo con, storytelling and games. […]
Ragnard Rock Festival 2016
Every now and then, friends of metal-exposure bump into something that gives them a feeling they just háve to write about it, and so every now and then you’ll find an article on metal-exposure written by guest writers. Last month this happened to Monica van Uffelen (who has already written for metal-exposure before) and Nanette […]
Stonehenge Festival 2016
We’re really happy that the Stonehenge Festival continued after last year’s setback due to the extreme weather. The 2015 edition was cancelled during the day because the market stands were about to be blown away, there was an actual danger of being electrocuted on stage and some headliners that couldn’t make it on time due […]
Prophecy Fest 2016
Fitting for a festival featuring this kind of remarkable music would be an exceptional location. I’ve been to many a festival – some at boring, some at pretty, and a few at exceptionally beautiful locations, and Prophecy Fest obviously belongs to the last category. Why? Well, because it takes place in the Balver Höhle, a […]
Dong Open Air 2016
This year was a special Dong for us – it was Metal-Exposure reporter Ingrid’s 10th Dong Open Air! 10 years of climbing the Dong mountain, ten years of camping in blistering heat or thunderstorms. This was certainly an event to look forward to, and with some very neat headliners, the festival promised to be a […]
Report: Dokk’em Open Air 2016
Dokk’em Open Air – my favorite and only true (as in: with camping and proper atmosphere) open air festival in the Netherlands. Last year we had a blast, so I was anticipating much the same. Though the lineup this year was less interesting to me personally, the promise of some proper Frysian partying and muddified-metal […]