Metaltown Festival – Gothenburg, Sweden
Featuring In Flames, Satyricon, Nightwish, Dimmu Borgir, Monster Magnet, Killswitch Engage, Bullet for My Valentine, Cavalera Conspiracy, Soilwork, Sonic Syndicate, Job for a Cowboy, Converge, Amon Amarth, Nifelheim, Witchcraft and more.
Graspop Metal Meeting – De Boeretand, Dessel, Belgium
Featuring Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ministry, Cavalera Conspiracy, Whitesnake, Helmet, Iced Earth, Novembers Doom, At the Gates, My Dying Bride, Hollenthon, Def Leppard, In Flames, Yngwie Malmsteen, Morbid Angel, Apocalyptica, Testament, Nile, Korpiklaani, Soilwork, 36 Crazyfists, Sabaton, Behemoth, Rotting Christ, Alchemist, Dying Fetus, Sonata Arctica, Forbidden, Bullet for My Valentine, Deathstars, Volbeat, Converge, Comeback Kid, […]
Metal GDL Festival – Parque de Feiras e Exposições de Grandola, Grandola, Portugal
Featuring Testament, Hatesphere, Thanatoschizo, Lay Down Rotten, Man Eater, Switchtense, Concealment, Seven Stitches, Requiem Laus, The Ransack, Corpus Christi and more.
Bang Your Head!!! 2008 – Messegelaende, Balingen, Germany
Featuring Judas Priest, Korpiklaani, Saxon, Lizzy Borden, Obituary, Onslaught, Yngwie Malmsteen, Agent Steel, Age of Evil, Breaker, Contracrash, Ensiferum, Forbidden, Grave Digger, Great White, Rage, Secrecy, Tankard, Tyr, White Lion, Hardcore Superstar, Iced Earth and more.
P. I. F. – Backstage Club, Sofia, Bulgaria
Start – 11 p.m.
Krossfire – Polinero Place, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Start – 10 p.m.
New Disease, Angerpoint – The Club, Sofia, Bulgaria
Start – 9 p.m.
Epizod, Dead Zone – The Stage, Shumen, Bulgaria
Start – 10 p.m.
BluezzFest Rouse 2008 – Russe, Bulgaria
Featuring Unlimited, Koko Blues Band, Hilda Kazasian, Amalia, Dirty Purchase and more.
Graspop Metal Meeting 2008: Been There, Seen That!
This year’s Graspop Metal Meeting was easily one of the best metal festivals around. First, unlike Dowload’s somewhat feeble billing, GMM featured the all three most wanted acts this summer – Judas Priest, Kiss and no other than the mighty Iron Maiden, with the latter headlining the third and final night of the festival in […]