Extreme festival
General information | |
place |
Hünxe Sankt Pölten Pratteln |
genre | Extreme Metal , Deathcore , Grindcore |
Website | www.extremefest.eu |
The Extremefest is a three-day metal festival that has been taking place in various cities in German-speaking countries since 2007. In the years from 2007 to 2011 it was called "Death Feast Open Air". For the 2012 festival season, the name was changed to “Extremefest”, which met with heavy criticism from festival visitors.
Organized festivals
Death Feast Openair
Death Feast 2007 ( Hünxe )
The following bands played at the premiere event on three days of the festival: Immolation , Sinister , Fetoepsy , Guttural Secrete , Gorgasm , Wormed , Pudrid Pile , Fecal Corpse , Suppository , Despondency , Aversion to Life , Cliteater , Aborted , Resurrected , Happy Face , Mocupus , Irate Architect , Keitzer , Infecdead and Jack Slater . The festival took place from June 7th to June 9th 2007.
Death Feast 2008
One year later the groups Avulsed , Abominable Pudrity , Beheaded , Brodequin , Cock and Ball Torture , Condemned , Cryptopsy , Decapitated , Decrepit Birth , Defloration , Degrade , Deranged , Desecration , Dying Fetus , Fleshless , Gorod , Holocausto Cannibal , played on 3 days . Impaled , Inhumate , Insision , Inveracity , Japanese Kampfhörspiele , Kataplexia , Kronos , Malevolent Creation , Origin , Prejudice , Resurrection , Rompeprop , Sinners Bleed , Sore , Suffocate bastard , Suffocation , The Grieving , Unmerciful , vermis , Waking the Cadaver and World Downfall . The second Death Feast Openair took place from June 11th to June 13th, 2008.
Death Feast 2009
The third round of the festival took place from June 11th to June 13th, 2009 at the Schwarzen Heide near Hünxe . Once again, the greats of Extreme Metal and Grindcore did the honors. It played Asphyx , Begging for Incest , Choked by own Vormits , crepitus , Darkall slaves , Devourment , Disembowel , Ditchcreeper , Embedded , Entombed , Evocation , Fleshgod Apocalypse , Gadget , General Surgery , God Dethroned , GOOD , Haemorrhage , Hate , Infested , Insidious Decrepancy , Katalepsy , Lay Down Rotten , Macabre , Man Must Die , Misery Index , Napalm Death , Nox , Poppy Seed Grinder , Purgatory , Pudrid Pile , Remnants of Flesh , Spawn , Sufferage , The Black Dahlia Murder , Unchallenged Hate and Vomitory .
Death Feast 2010
From June 10th to June 12th 2010 the fourth edition of the Deathfeast Openair took place. The event took place again on the grounds of the Schwarze Heide airport near Hünxe. The following bands could be seen at the fourth edition: Abysmal Torment , Aeon , Amputated , As You Drown , Beneath , Blustery Caveat , Carnivore Diprosopus , Carnophage , Cerebral Bore , Cliteater, Defeated Sanity , Deranged, Dying Fetus, Grave , Grind Inc. , Haemophagia , Hail of Bullets , Human Rejection , Inferia , Ingrowing , Kraanium , Leng Tch'e , Lock Up , Milking the Goatmachine , Necrophagist , Prostitute Disfigurement , Rompeprop Severe Torture , Sinister, Squash Bowels , Suffocation, The Sickening , Vomit the Soul , Vomitous and Waco Jesus .
Death Feast 2011
On June 23, 2011 the fifth and final festival under the name "Deathfeast Openair" took place in Hünxe. The festival came Amagortis , Beheaded , Blasphemer , Bloodsoaked , By Brute Force , Centurian , Dawn of Disease , Decaying Purity , depression , Deus inversus , Devourment , Disavowed , Dismember , Exhumed , Facebreaker , Gorezone , Grave, Impaled , Inhumate , Kastrated , Katalepsy, Krisiun , Last Days of Humanity , Malevolent Creation , Misery Index, Morgoth , Nuclear Vomit , Pandemia , Pestilence , Phobiatic , Pighead , Putridity , Resistance , Stillbirth , The Rotted , Vader and Vomitory.
Extreme festival
Extremefest 2012
In the run-up to the sixth edition of the festival (the first, however, under the new name “Extremefest”), there were strong criticisms from festival visitors about the name change. One fan wrote on Facebook:
“Whoa, folks Arkona and Disawoved on a stage, I'm going to throw up! RIP Death Feast !!!!!! “, 'Fuck off !!! So the best festival we have in Germany is history ... I don’t feel like such a misch-masch shit festival with any black metal honks ... rest in fucking peace Deathfeast Open Air .... ', and " Tzz used to be slam clubs from Vomitous and Devourment, now bad freezing rain and Whitecheapel. Rip, I will NOT go to the Extreme Festival "
On the same day the organizer made his statement about the name change, which can be found on the homepage of the Death Feast Openair. He emphasizes that the lineup will continue to focus on death metal and grindcore . As one of the main reasons, the organizer cited the annually increasing costs for hosting the festival. Among other things, fans accused the organizer of “betraying the scene”. The organizer of the Extreme Festival is Rock the Nation .
The following bands have already been confirmed for the Extremefest, which starts on July 5th, 2012: Cannibal Corpse , Exodus , Suicide Silence , Belphegor , Marduk , Asphyx, Nasum , Suffocation, Eisregen , All Shall Perish , Carnifex , Dornenreich , Cephalic Carnage , Origin, Suicidal Angels , disaster , Milking the Goatmachine , guttural secretions , Wormed , Arafel , TrollfesT , Inquisition , Excrementory Grindfuckers , War from a Harlots Mouth , Aborted , Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult , Empire decadence , Nexus Inferis , Internal Suffering , Condemned , Severe Torture , Hellish Crossfire , Heretic , Eis , Gama Bomb , Helheim , Disavowed, Farsot , Riger , Malignancy , Hellsaw , Der Weg einer Freiheit , Forgotten Tomb , Rompeprop, Benighted , Agrypnie , Ingested , Wormrot , Azarath , Rectal Smegma , Dawn of Disease , Spasm , Hour of Penance , Cephlaic Impurity , Lay Down Rotten , Sabiendas , Toxin, Deadborn , I Chaos , Resurrected , Dyscarnate , Suffelicious , World Downfall , Mor Dagor , Unbreakable Hatred and Ichor . Compared to the “Death Feast Openair”, the Extreme Festival also takes place in Sankt Pölten , Austria and in Pratteln , Switzerland .
On May 31, 2012, the organizer of the Extreme Festival published the running order for this year's festival. In Hünxe the bands will perform as follows:
There were also difficulties in the run-up to the first edition of the Austrian edition of the Extreme Festival. Originally the festival was supposed to take place in Henndorf near Salzburg . Despite a written promise from the residents, the municipality withdrew the offer. A new venue was quickly found in the VAZ in St. Pölten .
criticism
One group tried to influence the festival negatively by accusing the organizer of “glorifying” violence, cannibalism and satanism. The organizer said in an interview with Earshot that although there are “always negative influences”, it also rejected the group's allegations as “character assassination”.
The diocesan bishop Klaus Küng warned in advance of the Extreme Festival in St. Pölten against a mixture of bands with “aggressive-occult band names, allusions to blood and violence and disturbing images”, as well as from the names, in his opinion, offensive to several participating bands, where he is under Cannibal Corpse , Suicide Silence and Hellish Crossfire , among others . He is of the opinion that this mixture is not good for the listener. The organizers were calm about the criticism. They are glad that Mr. Küng has resorted to "the peaceful means of criticism". In addition, he was "cordially invited" to get an idea of how the festival was going.
Web links
- extremefest.eu (German, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sebastian Kessler: Metal Hammer : Extreme Festival instead of Death Feast: Fans protest - The organizer mediates , message from October 18, 2011
- ↑ metal-district.de: DEATH FEST OPEN AIR 2007 - bands known ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ metalnews.de: .: LIVE :: Death Feast Open Air 2007 ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ metal.de: concert report
- ↑ metal-inside.de: concert report
- ↑ deathfeast-openair.de: Lineup 2009 ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ deathfeast-openair.de: Lineup 2010 ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ deathfeast-openair.de: Lineup 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ deathfeast-openair.de: News with the statement ( memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Earshot.at : Interview with the organizer
- ↑ noe.orf.at: Küng wants to pray for death metal fans
- ↑ Sebastian Kessler: Metal Hammer : Bishop warns: Extremefest cannot do people any good - a wink reaction from the organizer