The 2020 festival acts are beginning to take shape. Download Festival, for instance, has announced Kiss, Iron Maiden, and System of a Down as headliners. I hope Iron Maiden is a headliner at some festival I’m at in 2020 as it’s been too long since I’ve seen them (2012). I have no interest in seeing Kiss (again). Typically, 50-75% of the headliners at Download Festival end up as headliners at Copenhell. I doubt Copenhell will have System of a Down again so soon and without a new album.

Gefle Metal Festival has made several announcements, but I won’t be going in 2020 as it’s the same weekend as Metal Magic. I’m really looking forward to Denial of God at Metal Magic 2020.

Brutal Assault is making a big announcement on October 1. I’m guessing it could be as many as 30 bands.

I’m thinking about doing one or two new festivals in 2020. The short list of possibilities include Bang Your Head (Tankard, Heathen, Riot V, Unleashed, etc.) or Dynamo MetalFest and MetalDays.

Posted on September 26th, 2019 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, brutal assault festival, concert photography, electric wizard, metal, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Brutal Assault band announcement for 2020

@CarcassBand #carcass #brutalAssault2019 #brutalassault

Posted on September 23rd, 2019 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, brutal assault festival, carcass, concert photography, metal, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Metal Monday

@MetalMagicDK @UliJonRoth1

Throwing it back to my first Metal Magic Festival and a love affair that hopefully won’t end anytime soon. The 2020 Metal Magic Festival will happen in early July, and I hope to be there. Blaze Bayley has already been announced as one of the acts. I skipped that era of Iron Maiden so now it’s time to go back and see if I can get into The X Factor and Virtual XI, the only two Iron Maiden releases that I’m not intimately familiar with.

Posted on September 19th, 2019 under Denmark. Tags: concert photography, metal magic festival, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm F2.8 PRO DX, uli jon roth. Comments Off on Throwback Thursday

#primordial

This is my church
It stands so tall
Proud
And has done
For all time
It has no walls
Yet its vast halls
Reach from shore to shore

Posted on September 15th, 2019 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, concert photography, gefle metal festival, metal, Nikon D500, primordial. Comments Off on Sunday thoughts

#brutalAssault2019 #brutalassault #brutalAssault2020 #vampillia @Vampillia

Tickets for the 25th annual Brutal Assault Festival have just gone on sale. The early bird price is just 98 Euros. This festival is an incredible experience and value. 98 Euros will get you four days of music (or more if you do the pre and/or post parties) from 10 a.m. until 4 a.m. Needless to say, the festival will, again, sell out so don’t wait to purchase. Also, the price will go up at some point. The ticket prices aren’t the only value. Everything else is reasonably priced too. Compared to other festivals beer/cocktails are about 1/5th the price, t-shirts are about half price, and food is inexpensive as well. The setting at Fortress Josefov can’t be beat.

Go early or stay late and spend a few nights or a few weeks in Prague before and/or after. The Czech capital turns into a Metalhead Mecca before and after the festival. I was amazed how many complete strangers I met and became BFFs with. People from Netherlands, Egypt, Israel, Denmark, Finland, France, Australia, etc. Even though I purchased a round trip train ticket to the festival from Prague, I was offered rides–both ways–and didn’t end up using my train ticket.

Buy your Brutal Assault tickets here.

And the 2019 after movie:

Posted on September 13th, 2019 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, brutal assault festival, concert photography, Nikon D500, vampillia. Comments Off on 2020 Brutal Assault tickets now on sale