Axel Rudi Pell confirmed for Germany's Wacken Open Air festival
Posted by: Boek on 13/12/'07 19:38
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Category: Festivals&Concerts
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German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell 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
CARCAsS
Children Of Bodom
Corvus Corax
CREMAtORY
Destructor
Dream Of An Opium EAtER
Enemy Of The
Excrementory Grindfuckers
Gorerotted
Gorgoroth
HAtEBREED
Iron Maiden
Kamelot
Killswitch Engage
KREAtOR
Krypteria
Lord Belial
LordI
Nightwish
Obituary
Powerwolf
Primordial
SABAtON
SALTAtIO Mortis
SONAtA Arctica
The Bones
Warbringer

Axel Rudi Pell will release a new double DVD, "Live Over Europe" (cover artwork), on February 25, 2008 via Spv. The set will contain a full show recorded at this year's Rock Hard Festival in Germany plus a bonus Dvd containing "bootleg" footage from the Wacken Open Air and Bang Your Head!!! festivals, among others.

According to a press release, the 75-minute Rock Hard Festival concert "presents the Axel Rudi Pell band in a generous mood, performing haunting versions of their most important tracks, among them 'Strong As A Rock', 'Tear Down The Walls', 'Mystica', 'Rock The Nation' and 'Fool Fool'. The release will include an additional bonus Dvd featuring select footage from the years 2004 to 2006 from Pell's private vaults, including the 2005 Wacken Open Air, the same year's Bang Your Head!!!, the 2004 Sweden Rock Festival and shows in the Uk, Belgium, Switzerland, and his local club, the Zeche in Bochum."

With a total playing time of over three and a half hours, "Live Over Europe" is a comprehensive document highlighting the impressive live qualities of a band which has quite a few things up its sleeve for next year. Pell says: "There will be a new studio album in 2008, plus a number of festival shows, and a headliner tour in autumn."

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