The weeks before going to Wacken all you do is check the weather. With a motto like “Rain or Shine” it’s always a guess what kind of weather you get. This year however the weather gods took Shine a bit to literally as it was one of the hottest festivals in my memory. However that […]
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Midgardsblot 2019 – first band announcement: HEILUNG
Norwegian festival Midgardsblot has grown into a big festival and expects 8000 visitors over three days in 2019. There is a huge interest in festival passes, and Midgardsblot has already sold more than 1000 passes in just under three weeks. This unique festival, which celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2019, has managed to merge metal, […]
Festival Report: Party San Open Air 2018
For almost ten years now, your metal-exposure crew is visiting Party San Open Air and one thing we can say for sure: it’s an festival of extremes. By that we don’t only mean the music, since Party San is known for having a billing that consists of the heavier kind of metal styles there is, […]
Report: Death Over Drachten 2018
The 23rd of June, Death landed in an otherwise quiet town in the North of the Netherlands: Drachten. Death was there to party to some quality tunes old and new, to kick around some dust ‘n shoulders and have a beer or two in the process. During Death over Drachten, he saw bands such as […]
Preview: Midgardsblot 2018
Norway. Metal. Nature. History. Awesome. Those five words describe, in short, the wonderful and intimate festival that is Midgardsblot. This year the fourth edition will be taking place in the south of Norway, and there is a very good reason why we from Metal Exposure will be making the long trip to the North again…and […]
Preview: Wacken Open Air 2018
The festival season has started and all over the world metalheads are looking for a nice way to spend their hard earned cash. That brings us to Wacken, where the world’s largest metal festival will take place for the 29th time. The whole town of Wacken transforms into the Holy Land for metalheads from all […]
Report: Netherlands Deathfest 2018
Three days of staying alive as undercover black metal fans during Netherlands Deathfest? Bring it on. Beside the master acts of Suffocation, Grave, At the Gates there was enough dark material to bleaken horizon, with the likes of Kjeld, Merrimack and Dragged into Sunlight. Oh, and did I mention Emperor?.. Read our full report here!
Dark Easter Metal Meeting 2018 – preview
A long standing tradition for the Metal-Exposure crew at Easter is not to search for eggs, join our families in merry feasting nor celebrate anything related to Christ. In the past years, we’ve found out that some of the best festivals in springtime are held in the Easter weekend. One of them is Dark Easter […]
Festival report: Party San Open Air 2017
Fast forwarding a few years and we’re Party San Open Air 2017, August. Forecast wasn’t so nice, with rain showers for a few days, but what’s good about the new location is that even if it does rain (and at a certain point it was kiiiiiinda heavy raining), it doesn’t get as muddy as others […]
Dong Open Air 2017
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 […]