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Ett av det sena 1900-talets allra viktigaste band kommer att göra oss sällskap i Slottsskogen i augusti. VI TAR DET I VERSALER NÄR VI NU FÅR ÄRAN ATT VÄLKOMNA INGA MINDRE ÄN PIXIES TILL VÅR LINEUP!

Ett Pixies. Det finns, har funnits och kommer alltid bara att finnas ett Pixies. När Black Francis slog sig i slang med Joey Santiago, Kim Deal och David Lovering i Boston i mitten av 80-talet för att slamra fram konstpunk var det nog ingen som kunde ana att de nu, trettio år senare, skulle räknas som ett av det sena 1900-talets allra viktigaste band. Men så är det. Utan Pixies inget Nirvana, inget Blur, inget Weezer, kanske inte ens ett Radiohead. Vilken fattig värld vi hade levt i.

Men nu lever vi, som tur är, i den värld där Pixies faktiskt inte bara fanns utan också finns...

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Säkerhet, framtid, värdskap och upplevelser var i fokus när den svenska livemusikbranschen samlades på Sweden Live i Linköping den 17-18 januari. Under två dagar med montermässa, föresläsningar, showcase, möten och mingel möttes arrangörer, bokningsbolag och leverantörer.

Sweden Lives stora showcase, onsdagen den 18 jan, inleddes med prisutdelningen av Liveapan – ett arrangörspris instiftat av Sweden Live i samarbete med Livemusik Sverige.

Årets främsta arrangörer korades i kategorierna Årets Arrangör, Årets Venue, Årets Arrangemang, Årets Nyskapare, Hederspriset, samt Livemusik Sveriges pris för Årets insats.

ÅRETS ARRANGEMANG: Sweden Rock Festival, Sölvesborg

Juryns motivering:

Festivalen har i sin nisch blivit en av de ledande i Europa...

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« if you don’t come at Hellfest, Hellfest will come to you »

HELLFEST WARM UP TOUR 2K17 : ONE HELL OF A RIDE
On last October, the Hellfest festival had the opportunity to sell all the 52 000 three days pass before announcing any band’s name. Victim of its own success and daily supported by a huge community of fans, the festival always tried to closely keep in touch with its festival goers, to listen to them and sometimes to meet them.

Waiting for the last weeks before the festival’s opening; the Hellfest Team will eat up the miles with its WARM UP TOUR 2K17: ONE HELL OF A RIDE. 12 dates, 12 unique events in which the team will come to meet fans and friends of Hellfest!

With the tribute 80’hard rock band SHOWTIME, with DK Mike Rock and so many other surprises...

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Starting on the 1st of December, there will be a lot of action going on at Wacken.com, Metaltix.com and in the whole W:O:A network!

We will release new bands for the Wacken Open Air every day until the 24th of December. More than 60 bands are waiting for you in our huge X-mas calendar!

Another part of the calendar is again our big raffle with more than 120 prizes! You can win for example a package of merchandise or a luxury cruise trip. And every day we will draw new winners!

And that’s not all! Every day we will reduce one W:O:A article for 24 hours with a 24% discount at Metaltix.com. If you’re looking for a gift for friends and family, you should check it out!

Last but not least: There will be some special content at WackenTV during the christmas time to sweeten the end of the year a li...

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Idag arrangerades en pressträff i Norrköping. Där gav polisen sin syn på säkerheten under årets Bråvalla Festival och Norrköpings kommun redogjorde för hur de ser på samarbetet med festivalarrangören FKP Scorpio. Dessutom presenterade FKP Scorpio några av de insatser som kommer att genomföras för att höja säkerheten och tryggheten inför nästa års festival.

På pressträffen avslöjades också ett kommande, flerårigt samarbete mellan Bråvalla Festival, Norrköpings kommun och RFSU, som går ut på att diskutera frågor gällande sexualitet, kommunikation och gränser med skolungdomar i Norrköping.

– Sexuella övergrepp förekommer i olika sammanhang och över hela landet, men många blundar för problemen...

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The second round of bands confirmed for BA 2017 is here! This time lets start with Swedish OPETH, unique metal act combining heavy riffs and prog elements for more than 20 years. British SIKTH will finally come to festival to play their influental music to the djent movement within progressive metal.

The other bands also do not need any special introduction: Greek gothic black metal matadors ROTTING CHRIST or American PRONG playing groovy crossover thrash.

Polish tech death metal DECAPITATED announced a special set to 20th anniversary. Another death metal act on the bill DESERTED FEAR is raging fierce take on the genre. Norwegian TSJUDER is known best for their relentless, aggressive approach to Black Metal. American COUGH is bringing their devastating heavy sludge/doom.

Three acts will o...

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The first big batch of bands confirmed for BA 2017 is here! Let’s start first with bands, that were forced to cancel their appearance this year but will come to play for You in 2017: ELECTRIC WIZARD, NILE and TERROR. While ELECTRIC WIZARD are the best stuff the drug-infused sabbathian doom has to offer, NILE helped to reshape death metal with new themes and energy by the turn of the millenium and TERROR are years proven veterans of the HC scene!

But the other bands also do not need any introduction! AUGUST BURNS RED will bring their powerful metalcore, AMORPHIS will present their unique transformation from old school death metal to their distinctive melodic take on the genre, GADGET will bring blasting swedish grindcore and MAYHEM will play the legendary De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in its e...

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Below are the winners of the first round of our #mybrutalassault contest, congratulations! And here comes the second round, this time You can win 5 free festival passes! The rules are the same as the last time. Five randomly selected people, who will share their line-up poster with the ‪#‎mybrutalassault‬ hashtag on facebook, will receive free festival pass. The pass is to be picked up at the festival on Your ID card. Beware, the post must be set as ”public” otherwise we won’t be able to see it so it couldn’t enter the draw. Otherwise it’s pretty simple, just share Your line-up poster on Your timeline or set it as Your cover photo and add the aforementioned hashtag. Find the poster app here! Not familiar with the app? Check this post.

First wave winners:

Maja Gabryelska
Patrik Žák...

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The final five bands to close our line-up are funeral doom BLUES FOR THE REDSUN, wild bandit thrash CATASTROFY, prog metalcore FOX TERRITORY, noisy down-tempo post metal NOD NOD (well they go way beyond the genre limits) and promising post-hardcore electronica THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE. Sadly final change to the line-up is HOLY MOSES replacing WHIPLASH, who cancelled all of their European appearances.

Also we would like to draw Your attention to the very few remaining cheap hostel rooms (including shuttle service), that are available here. And for the last part, first wave of our ‪#‎mybrutalassault‬ campaing is extended till tomorrow, so more fans are gonna have the chance to participate in the contest! For more info follow this link.

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You still got seven weeks of dusting Your bones before the festival hell breaks out, but we have already revealed 95% of the line-up and right now we’re bringing You the festival SCHEDULE, where You can find out which bands play in the respective days.

Also we are again giving You the opportunity to create Your own Brutal Assault poster! Our simple website app lets You pick 10 of Your favourite bands from this year’s line-up and put them in order based on Your preferences. In the next step You can add info about the total number of editions You’ve visited and then we’ll generate the poster for You. The poster is available for download or sharing on Your facebook page...