WE'RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE SWEDISH BLACK/DEATH METAL BAND TRIDENT THE FIRST TIME IN GERMANY AT THE UPCOMING FESTUNG OPEN AIR. THE BAND AROUND THE WELL KNOWN EX-DISSECTION/SOULREAPER GUITARIST JOHAN NORMAN CREATES TYPICAL, STRONG SWEDISH GUITAR RIFFS IN A BLACKEND MIND PAIRED WITH THE DIABOLICAL VOICE OF TOBIAS SIDEGARD (NECROPHOBIC). FANS OF DISSECTION OR NECROPHOBIC CAN'T IGNORE THEM AND HAVE TO WORSHIP TRIDENT'S "WORLD DESTRUCTION", THE VERY FIRST TIME LIVE IN GERMANY - PREPARE TO DIE!

ALONG WITH NEGURA BUNGET ON AN EUROPEAN TOUR IN MAY, THE SERBIAN BLACK METAL INDIVIDUALISTS THE STONE ARE CONFIRMED FOR THE UPCOMING FESTIVAL. THE WELL KNOWN UNDERGROUND BAND RELEASED MORE THEN 4 ALBUMS IN THE PAST AND WILL BE THE FIRST TIME AT THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR.
BE AWARE FOR A RAW EASTERN BLACK METAL INFERNO ON SATURDAY.

LET THERE BE ROCK! GERMANY'S MAYBE BEST AC/DC COVERBAND IS CONFIRMED FOR THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010! THE JAILBREAKERS CELEBRATE "THE EARLY YEARS OF AC/DC" IN A VERY UNIQUE AUTHENTIC STYLE. YOU WILL FEEL AS IF YOU WERE BACK IN THE LATE 1970's, WHERE THE SCOTTISH YOUNG-BROTHERS AND THE LEGENDARY BON SCOTT CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH A HARD ROCK PHENOMENON CALLED AC/DC. FINALLY THE JAILBREAKERS WILL CONCLUDE OUR FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY NIGHT.

GOTHENBURG'S BLACK METAL INDIVIDUALISTS KILL CONFIRMED THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010. THE WELL KNOWN SWEDISH BAND WITH MEMBERS OF NECROPLASMA, PAGAN RITES, BESTIAL MOCKERY AND DIABOLICUM INVADES THE FESTIVAL THEIR FIRST TIME. FORMED IN 1998 THEY RELEASED 3 FULL-LENGTH ALBUMS IN THE PAST. WITH THEIR CURRENT RELEASE "NO CATHARSIS" KILL SHOWS AGAIN THAT THEY ARE IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN IN NECROTIZED BLACK METAL. BE AWARE FOR KILL'S "FUCKING (LIVE) DESTRUCTION" !

THE PROTRUDE ROMANIAN BAND NEGURA BUNGET CONFIRMED ON THEIR UPCOMING EUROPEAN TOUR A SHOW AT OUR FESTIVAL. THE FOLK & BLACK METAL BAND SHOWS, SINCE 1996, THEIR OWN CREATIVE INTERPRETATION OF ATMOSPHERE IN THAT GENRE. AFTER THEIR LINE-UP CHANGES IN 2009 THE BAND RETURNS WITH THE NEW ALBUM "VIRSTELE PAMINTULI". NEGURA BUNGET WILL HIJACKE YOU INTO A DARK TRANSILVANIAN JOURNEY ON SATURDAY NIGHT..

KRYPTOS HAS TO CANCEL THEIR SHOW AT THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010. THE BAND FROM INDIA CAN'T COME TO EUROPE IN 2010 AND HAVE TO CANCEL ALL CONCERTS.

GERMANY'S UNHOLY THRASH METAL LEADER NOCTURNAL CONFIRMED THE FOA 2010. WITH SAWING GUITARS AND AGGRESSIVE OLD SCHOOL RIFFING, NOCTURNAL REMEMBERS TO EARLY SODOM AND DESTRUCTION. CHECK THEIR CURRENT OUTPUT "VIOLENT REVENGE" AND YOU WILL BACK IN THE 80's - DEFINITELY! NOCTURNAL IS ONE OF THE SPEARHEADS OF TEUTONIC THRASH METAL AND RETURN TO OUR FESTIVAL THE SECOND TIME.

KETZER IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING BANDS FROM THE GERMAN BLACK/THRASH UNDERGROUND NOWADAYS. THE YOUNG BAND ACTUALLY RELEASED THEIR FIRST FULL LENGTH ALBUM "SATAN'S BOUNDARIES UNCHAINED" AT THE LABEL KNEEL BEFORE MASTER'S THRONE. FANS OF AUSTRALIAN BLACK/THRASH BANDS LIKE DESTRÖYER 666 OR RAZOR OF OCCAM HAVE NO OTHER CHANCE TO SUPPORT THE GERMAN ANSWER, KETZER, AT THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010!

WE'RE VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE AVANTGARDE BLACK METAL BAND NACHTMYSTIUM (US) FOR THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010. AFTER THEIR SHORT-DATED CANCELLATION IN 2009 THE BAND WILL RETURN FOR A SINGLE AND EXCLUSIVE FESTIVAL SHOW IN GERMANY. WITH THEIR LATEST RELEASES LIKE WORDFALL (EP, 2008) AND ASSASSINS (CD, 2008) THE BAND SUBSTANTIATED THAT THEY ARE ONE OF THE SPEARHEADS OF THE AVANTGARDE AND PSYCHEDLIC BLACK METAL SCENE NOWADAYS. AT THE MOMENT THEY ENTER THE STUDIO TO RECORD THEIR NEXT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM WHICH WILL BE ALSO INTRODUCED AT THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR.
DON'T MISS THE CHANCE TO SEE THIS OUTSTANDING BAND FROM ILLINOIS/CHICAGO!

DEATH METAL FROM FRANCE? HM, TECHNICAL AND MODERN SOUNDING WE WOULD SAY - SURE, BUT NOT AFFLICTION GATE !
THEY WORSHIP THE OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL AND TRIBUTE TO THE EARLY CLASSIC RELEASES FROM UNLEASHED, ASPHYX, BENEDICTION, MASSACRE, BOLT THROWER ETC .. THE BAND WILL PRESENT THEIR DEBUT ALBUM "AEON OF NOX" ON THE FIRST EXCLUSIVE LIVE APPEARANCE IN GERMANY AT THE FOA 2010 !

WE'RE VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE NORWEGIAN DOOM METAL BAND SAHG FOR A SINGLE FESTIVAL SHOW AT THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010. SAHG PLAYS AWESOME DOOM METAL, ROCKIN' AND PSYCHEDELIC, WITH A BREATH OF BLACK SABBATH. THE BAND, INCLUDING KING (GORGOROTH, I, OV HELL, AUDREY HORNE ETC.), IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM WHICH WILL BE RELEASED UNTIL THE FESTIVAL IN MAY. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CHECK THE "PYROMANCER" SONG/VIDEO AND BE INFECTED BY THIS NORWEGIAN METAL MASTERPIECE.

THE SWEDISH OLD SCHOOL THRASH METAL LEGION FROM UPPSALA, DIE HARD, CONFIRMED THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010. AS THE BAND NAME SHOWS, DIE HARD BRINGING THE SPIRITS OF THE PAST BACK TO LIFE, STRAIGHT AHEAD IN THE VEIN OF EARLY VENOM, CELTIC FROST, SODOM OR POSSESSED. REINFORCED ON DRUMS WITH Håkan (WATAIN) YOU HAVE TO EXPECT THEIR FIRST  FESTIVAL SHOW IN GERMANY. THRASH TIL DEATH !

BACK TO THE EARLY DAYS OF METAL. BAPHOMET'S BLOOD FROM ITALY WAS FORMED IN 2003 AND KICK YOUR ASS WITH HONESTLY SPEED METAL. WITH THEIR CURRENT RELEASE "METAL DAMNATION" (IRON BONEHEAD) THE BAND REMEMBER TO EARLY NOCTURNAL BREED AND GEHENNAH TIMES, COUPLED WITH VOKILLZ LIKE LEMMY OF MOTÖRHEAD. IT WILL BE THE FIRST FESTIVAL SHOW OF THE BAND IN GERMANY - AND FOR YOU IT'S TIME TO SUPPORT THE METAL WARHYMNS OF THESE DIE HARD MANIACS.
LET THE SPEED METAL WHEEL TURN FASTER & FASTER!

WE'RE VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE NORWEGIAN BAND TULUS FOR THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010. THIS EXCLUSIVE SHOW WILL BE THEIR FIRST GIG OUTSIDE SCANDINAVIA EVER! THE BAND AROUND BLODSTRUP, SARKE AND SIR GRANNUG WAS FOUNDED IN 1993 AND CONVINCED US SINCE THEN WITH ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE RELEASES LIKE "PURE BLACK ENERGY", "MYSTERION", "EVIL 1999" AND LATELY WITH "BIOGRAPHY OBSCENE" IN 2007. DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE TO SEE TULUS EVER PLAYING LIVE, YOU HAVE TO EXPECT A SPECIAL SHOW OF DARK NORWEGIAN METAL!

THE WELL KNOWN NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL BAND GEHENNA CONFIRMED THEIR FIRST SHOW IN 12 YEARS IN GERMANY. THE BAND WAS FOUNDED IN 1993, THE FIRST DECADE OF THE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL AND RELEASED MORE THEN 6 ALBUMS IN THE PAST. WITH DIRGE REP (CRAFT, ex-GORGOROTH, ex-ENSLAVED), DOLGAR, SANRABB (SESSION GUITARIST MAYHEM, SATYRICON) AND AMOK GEHENNA WILL RETURN TO GERMANY FOR AN EXCLUSIVE SHOW SINCE 1996.
DON'T MISS TO SEE THEM PERFORMING LIVE!

YES - THE HORNED AUSSIES ARE BACK FOR A SINGLE FESTIVAL SHOW! THE BAND "SPLIT-UP" WAS ABROGATED FOR THIS SHOW. DOWN UNDER'S BEST BLACK/THRASH ARMADA GOSPEL OF THE HORNS RETURNS TO GERMANY FOR A VERY EXCLUSIVE SHOW, THE ONLY ONE IN EUROPE 2010. GOSPEL OF THE HORNS WAS FORMED IN BRISBANE IN LATE 1993 AND THEY RELEASED WELL-KNOWN ALBUMS LIKE "A CALL TO ARMS" OR "REALM OF THE DAMNED". FOR FANS OF DESTRÖYER 666 OR BESTIAL WARLUST IT'S TIME TO WORSHIP THE POWER OF DARKNESS!

THE SECOND CONFIRMATION FOR THE FESTIVAL FROM DOWN UNDER. VOMITOR WILL JOIN EUROPE THEIR FIRST TIME WITH A SHOW IN GERMANY. THE VOMITOR COMMANDO WILL INFECT YOU WITH DIE HARD DEATH/THRASH METAL, IN THE VEIN OF EARLY SODOM, CELTIC FROST AND HELLHAMMER.

TO EVERY HELL'S HEADBANGER - TAKE YOUR CHANCE AND WORSHIP THEM!

HEAVY METAL FROM INDIA? CORRECT. KRYPTOS WILL BE THE FIRST INDIAN METAL BAND WHICH ENTERS THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT. THE BAND FROM BANGALORE WAS FOUNDED IN 1998 AND PLAYS TRADITIONAL HEAVY METAL IN THE VEIN OF EXCITER, HIRAX OR MANILLA ROAD. BTW THEY SUPPORTED THE MIGHTY IRON MAIDEN AT THE "ROCK'N INDIA FESTIVAL" IN 2009. FINALLY, KRYPTOS WILL BRING THE SPIRIT OF THE ANCIENT AND TRADITIONAL METAL TO THE FESTUNG OPEN AIR 2010!