Weird times call for rock & roll – this was the motto for the Dong Open Air festival of 2017. We don’t need to tell you what those weird times are about, as much as we don’t need to tell you how to rock & roll. Because this is done every year at Dong Open […]
Neukirchen-Vluyn
Preview: Dong Open Air 2017

Every time I’m driving on the German Autobahn a57 near Neukirchen, I longingly gaze at the Halde Norddeutschland with its skeleton house landmark where the Dong Open Air festival takes place every year. Oh, the fun times we had on top of that Dong Mountain, sipping beer in the sky lounge and head banging to […]
Dong Open Air 2015
In a few weeks, metal-exposure will be heading towards the Dong Open Air Festival once more. Since 2007, our crewmembers have been visiting this festival, and we haven’t missed a single year after that. We can genuinely say it’s one of our favourite festivals, since the atmosphere is always great and cosy. Besides the fact […]
Report: Dong Open Air 2014
Who remembers Dong 2012? It was the muddiest year the festival has ever known. The rain poured almost non stop and our beloved Dong Mountain turned into one big swamp. This year was quite the opposite and it seemed more alike the very first DOA that Metal-Exposure attented, because it was HOT, very hot! When […]
Dong Open Air 2013
There is one festival that we from Metal-Exposure look forward to especially every year. It is a small festival on a unique location, with one stage, two bars, and just a few thousand visitors. But somehow, it always manages to be the biggest party of the year… We are talking, of course, of Dong Open […]