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Bangalore Open Air kicks off crowd funding with ‘Keep Metal Alive’

Indian metalheads might just create history this year. They will fund what is termed ‘Asia’s largest metal festival’- Bangalore Open Air, in an effort to prove that we do not need sponsors or promoters to keep metal alive! The crowd funding campaign is being spearheaded by the man behind B.O.A.- Salman U. Syed- well known metal DJ, event organizer and manager of Kryptos.

Bangalore Open Air 2014 has a target of Rs. 44 lakhs, and a deadline – Tuesday, the 8th of July, 2014. The idea is to get metalheads to pay for a gig that they might attend, and get rewarded for it. There are multiple packages that can be purchased, which come with T-Shirts, meet and greet options, and also V.I.P passes, among other things.

Read all about the crowd funding campaign in detail on the Wishberry website, and contribute! This time, it’s in all our hands to #KeepMetalAlive!

Also check out the promotional video for the campaign here:

Bangalore Open Air 2014  is powered by Wacken Open Air, which celebrates its 25th edition this year with bands such as Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Carcass and others confirmed. American heavy metal band Megadeth has been confirmed as a headliner and will be playing their first show at the history of the festival.

Wacken-2014-poster

The complete list of bands confirmed as of date are:

A Pale Horse Named Death, Amon Amarth, Apocalyptica & Avanti! Orchestra, Arch Enemy, August Burns Red, Avantasia, Bülent Ceylan, Behemoth, Bembers, Blechblosn, Bring Me The Horizon, C.O.P. UK, Carcass, Children Of Bodom, Chthonic, Crematory, Decapitated, Degradead, Der W, Devin Townsend Project, Dunkelschön, Earth Divide, Emperor, Endstille, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Firkin, Five Finger Death Punch, Fleshgod Apocalypse, For The Imperium, Godsized, Hammerfall, Hatebreed, Heaven Shall Burn, Hellyeah, Iced Earth, ICS Vortex, J.B.O., King Diamond, Knorkator, Kreator, Lacrimas Profundere, Masterplan, Megadeth, Motörhead, Nachtgeschrei, Nailed To Obscurity, Nightmare, Omnia, Onkel Tom, Pampatut, Prong, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Saltatio Mortis, Santiano, Saxon, Schandmaul, Skid Row, Sodom, Steel Panther, The Ocean, The Vintage Caravan, Torment, Vogelfrey, Vreid + Guests and W.A.S.P.

A lot more bands are slated to be confirmed in the coming months.

Check out the trailer for the 2014 edition of Wacken Open Air:

Blind Image to play at Asian Metal Festival, KL

Blind Image recently announced that they will be playing at the ASIAN METAL FESTIVAL in Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia , which is happening on the 9th of June 2013. The festival will be headlined by the legendary Indonesian band – Burgerkill. It also will feature various bands across the Asian sub-continent.

Blind Image did a tour of South East Asia (Part 1) in November 2012 . This will be the second time the band will be touring this region .

Krish, spokesperson for the band says – “We are really excited to be a part of this event. The memories from our last tour are still fresh. We enjoyed every single minute the last time when we toured this place and met some of the best people ever! And fans as well! When we finished the tour in November, we were confident that we have taken a solid first step in expanding our fan base over Asia and I think this just a result of that. The fans over there are just insane and thats the kind of crowd which every band would love to play for. We are also very happy that we will be sharing the stage with Burgerkill which is one of the most established bands from Asia. It’s really awesome to see that finally there is a stage for all the Asian bands to get enough exposure and create their own market. We are also very much looking forward to check out some of the other Asian bands and we hope to meet all the fans who had come for our shows during our last tour!”

Blind Image will also have their new, still untitled album ready by June 2013, and say that their tour will feature some of their new stuff, along with their older songs too, of course.

The band will announce a few more dates as a part of this festival shortly. The boys from Blind Image also released a statement that they will be touring India and few parts of Asia (apart from this particular festival) to promote the album.