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ENSIFERUM Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival - Dec. 20, 2007

Finnish folk-influenced melodic death metal act ENSIFERUM has been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

AS I LAY DYING
AT THE GATES
AUTUMN
AVANTASIA
AXEL RUDI PELL
AXXIS
BEFORE THE DAWN
CARCASS
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CORVUS CORAX
CREMATORY
DESTRUCTOR
DREAM OF AN OPIUM EATER
ENEMY OF THE SUN
ENSIFERUM
EVOCATION
EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS
GIRUGÄMESH
GOREROTTED
GORGOROTH
HATEBREED
HEADHUNTER
IRON MAIDEN
KAMELOT
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
KREATOR
KRYPTERIA
LORD BELIAL
LORDI
NIFELHEIM
NIGHTWISH
OBITUARY
POWERWOLF
PRIMORDIAL
SABATON
SALTATIO MORTIS
SONATA ARCTICA
THE BONES
VAN CANTO
WARBRINGER

ENSIFERUM recently entered the German chart at position No. 37 with its third album, "Victory Songs". The CD also debuted on the Finnish national chart at No. 6.

"Victory Songs" was recorded at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki with producer Janne Joutsenniemi. A limited-edition version of the album includes an extra track, "Lady in Black", and a bonus DVD. An e-card for the CD can be found here. Check out the video for the song "Ahti" at YouTube.

Watch fan-filmed video footage of ENSIFERUM's November 12, 2007 concert in Sudbury, Canada:

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	COMMENT \| posted by : RiotAct666 12/20/2007 11:03:15 AM

	Looks like a good festival.

	COMMENT \| FUCK posted by : diefortacos 12/20/2007 1:36:04 PM

	fuck fuck fuckity fuckl fuck FUCK I'm just a poor 17-year old with heavy musical taste that was planning to go to Wacken this year, to celebrate the end of school with my metal friends. I was really excited, because such amazing bands such as emperor, mayhem and motorhead had played in this festival. and now what do i see???!!! sonata arctica!!! avantasia!!!!!! nightwish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 gay alexi laiho - look at me i'm so great but i'm really playing power metal with heavy guitars LORDI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! last time they came to greece, before the eurovision contest, they were pelted with fruit form disgusted metal fans, i don't see why the same couldn't be done in Wacken.... oh! i forgot, it's going to be full of gay power metal fans, whose chants would be more at home in a madonna concert (excluding some really good bands such as helloween, blind guardian and kamelot). but truly, this is all you could come up with? gorgoroth, at the gates and primordial are the only bands i would like to see in the line-up, since i already have had my fair share of kreator and iron maiden gigs. If the organizers think I'm going to go through all the expensive trouble of travelling to a small village in Germany to see three bands thar aren't really in my top 50, they are sadly mistaken! and this is not a gratuitous attack, this is a justified complaint by a dissapointed metal fan. Where are the destructions, enslaveds, dimmu borgirs, IMMORTALS!!!, IN FLAMES, MOONSPELLS, OVERKILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, SODOMS and the vision bleaks of the golden years? And all these were only last year!!! Can anyone suggest any better summer metal festivals? Else i'm probably headed to austria/switzerland for the Euro cup finals and then to Britain to continue my studies. with no metal meltdown whatsoever...

	COMMENT \| . posted by : Sam Przyborowski 12/20/2007 1:58:19 PM

	AT THE GATES CARCASS DESTRUCTOR EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS GOREROTTED GORGOROTH HEADHUNTER KREATOR LORD BELIAL NIFELHEIM OBITUARY PRIMORDIAL WARBRINGER Wacken has always had the likes of Nightwish, Children of Bodom, lordi etc play. In fact all three bands HAVE played before. So moaning about them playing is stupid. If you want just bands that shout a lot, go to Obscene Extreme or Inferno or something. Wacken has NEVER been like that. Its alwasy been a good mix and thats one of the reasons I like it.

	COMMENT \| ... posted by : Sontaron 12/20/2007 4:58:25 PM

	Wacken is the best metal festival in the world, I`ve been to 6 of the last 7 of them. There`s always a load of power/trad bands as well as thrash/black/death/doom etc. It`s a right old mixed bag...and there`s plenty of quality already this year, as mentioned in the post above. If you`re looking for a more full on extreme fest go to France...the Hellfest ( or whatever it`s called this year ).

	COMMENT \| ok, ok posted by : diefortacos 12/21/2007 2:29:56 AM

	very few bm and thrash bands, though. those are my 2 favourite genres so it kinda got me down. but bloodred is right, it's still early i guess a lot more bands will be announced in the future. thanks for the suggestions, too!

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