Benedictum confirmed for Germany's Headbangers Open Air festival
Posted by: Mindsaver on 21/02/'08 22:26
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Category: Festivals&Concerts
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San Diego, California-based, female-fronted metallers Benedictum have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 24-26, 2008 in Brande-H�rnerkirchen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

Abandoned
Amulance
Ancestral
Axehammer
Benedictum
Black Hawk
Blaze Bayley
Deadly Blessing
Death Ss
D�tente
Impaler
Lethal
Messenger
Mortal Sin
New Eden
Paradox
Praying Mantis
Rebellion
Resistance
Seasons Of The Wolf
Sodom
Sweet Savage
The Gates Of Slumber
Wild Dogs

A video trailer for Benedictum's sophomore album, "Seasons of Tragedy", can be viewed below. Released in Europe on January 25 via Locomotive Records (March 4 in the U.S.), the follow-up to 2006's "Uncreation" contains 10 original songs plus a cover version of the Accept classic "Balls to the Wall". The digipack edition also includes a cover of Rainbow's "Catch the Rainbow". Guest musicians on the Cd include George Lynch (ex-Dokken), Manni Schmidt (ex-Rage, Grave Digger), Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken, Foreigner) and Craig Goldy (Dio).

"Uncreation" was produced by Jeff Pilson and features guest appearances by Craig Goldy on the nine-minute epic "Valkyrie Rising" and bass legend Jimmy Bain (Dio, Rainbow, World War Iii) on the band's cover of the Black Sabbath classic "The Mob Rules".
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