X-mass Festivals 2002

[Mocika]

There is two festivals those go around Europe from year by year now... making the fans of extreme music happy. The winter edition is called 'X-Mass festival' and this year the following bands are going to perform there:
Six Feet Under - Marduk - Dying Fetus- Immolation - Kataklysm - Hate Eternal - Impaled Nazarene - Macabre

dates:
12/11 Essen, D Zeche Karl
12/12 Berlin, D Columbia Halle Fritz
12/13 Zwickau, D Alarm
12/14 Vienna, A Planet Music
12/15 Wels, A Schlachthof 12/16 Pratteln, CH Z7
12/17 Munchen, D Babylon
12/18 Hamburg, D Markthalle
12/19 Ludwigsburg, D Rock Fabrik
12/20 Strasbourg, FR La Laiterie *
12/21 Antwerpen, BL Hof Ter Loo*
12/22 Tilburg, NL 013**
* w/ Exodus ** w/ Exodus, Forlorn, & Callenish Circle

I wonder who is going to see them?

ps: I'm going to Vienna!! Opacity?

 

[opacity]

:hotjump: sure!

BUT in vienna it'll be the 15.12. !!!! (sunday)
14.12. is the Wels-date

start: 17.00
ticket: 29 euros

 

[Mocika]

14 or 15? i've checked several sites.. somwhere they write 14th, somewhere it's 15th... anyway we will be there

I'm dying to see Katalysm!!!

Opacity: will we meet?

 

[opacity]

it will definitely be the 15.12.02 for vienna (the venue at least knows their schedule )

yeah, would be awesome to meet you!
you just have to tell me at what time you're there

do you know how to get to Planet Music?

 

[Mocika]

Yes, we've been in Planet before. When will we arrive?.... good question.. i dont know yet when do we leave I will let you know, ok?

 

[opacity]

ok! there's still some time left to decide on details drop me a line (e-mail, icq, PM)

 

[Morgana]

I might go to the show in Essen

 

[Mocika]

@Morg: I hope you will enjoy it

im counting the days till Sunday....

 

[Morgana]

Did not make it to Essen, wouldn't been there in time and I was to tierd after 12 hours work

 

[Mocika]

@Morg: sorry to hear... but opacity and i will tell you what was it like next week.

 

[opacity]

 

[Mocika]

I got a digital camera for the concert...

 

[Mocika]

half of the guys who wanted to come cancelled ... now we wait for another guy if he want to come with a car and only 4 ppl... if not... seems im going to take the train alone...

hey opacity... i may need your help to tell me how to get to Planet from Westbahnhof... we will see...

 

[opacity]

from Westbahnhof you take the underground U6 (direction: Floridsdorf) till Handelskai and from there you can choose either bus 5A (direction: Griegstrasse) or 11A (direction: Heiligenstadt) - whichever comes earlier - either bus: go till Leystrasse.
go around the corner and Planet Music awaits you

you can also get off 1 station earlier (Friedrich Engels Platz), from there you just cross the street

 

[Mocika]

Thanks op!

but if i take the train... i have to wait 5 hours in the morning...

 

[opacity]

is there no train that goes in the afternoon? I mean Budapest-Vienna is not that far...

but if you like, you can come one day earlier and stay overnight at my place

 

[Mocika]

Thanks for the offer opacity! seems we can go by car.. but thats a bit expensive... so i still may take the train...

Anyway, I hope we meet there!

ps: i think i will wear a black-white military t-shirt and I will have a photo camera with me too.. and i don`t speak German so it will be easy to recognize me..

 

[rakatak]

Hi,

there are pics from the X-MASS Festival in Germany online!

Kataklysm

Marduk Pics

Immolation Pics

Antaeus Pics


more pics soon...


enjoy

 

[opacity]

thanks rakatak


well, the Austrian gig started as a little botch-up: it said on the ticket and also at the venue's website, that the start-off is at 17:00, but in fact Ragnarök started at 16:30, which I got to know later
my personal impressions are:
Legion is still a funny drunk bunny onstage this time he even left blood in austria damn nose-bleed.... I havn't seen how come, maybe one of the crazy fans punched his nose while fistbanging or maybe he punched himslef with the spikes? dunno, maybe Mocika has seen details

I noticed almost no banging or moving during Hate Eternal's set --- why? I guess cos all were stunned and stood there jawdropping, watching that guy working (literally) on his guitar -- I'm no musician, but this even impressed me

hm... most fan-action got Kataklysm *me believes so*

Impaled Nazarene .. ok, no words (you really didn't understand anything ) I just noticed that the singer's face turned red and redder, screaming his guts out, but the mike just wouldn't let the audience hear a decent tone... funny, the other microphones beside the main mike were clearly audible and all, only the main one not

it got better after Imp.Naz. though.

I wonder why the fest was at Planet Music, usually such events take place at the Arena, which is 1. the better location/venue/surrounding for such events, and 2. has the more appropriate sound for such.

I hope No Mercy next year remains at the Arena!

 

[Mocika]

Originally posted by opacity

Legion is still a funny drunk bunny onstage this time he even left blood in austria damn nose-bleed.... I havn't seen how come, maybe one of the crazy fans punched his nose while fistbanging or maybe he punched himslef with the spikes? dunno, maybe Mocika has seen details

his nose just started to bleed... nobody hurted him, he was standing alone when it happened.. maybe he is just too old now to headbang

I noticed almost no banging or moving during Hate Eternal's set -

might be the ppl were surprised by such a complex music made by 3 men only

hm... most fan-action got Kataklysm *me believes so*

yeah.. they were the first band who made the crowd enjoy the evening. Maurizio is a great frontman.

I hope No Mercy next year remains at the Arena! [/B]

hm.. actually for me it was better to go to the Planet now... i could wait in the hall till my things were done


SFU also kicked ass to that night. I dont think i need to say anything about Chris Barnes.. his voice is incredible...