19.06. Queens of metal Open air - Kleinwenkheim (GER)

We start our journey to the first festival show after the release of "Bible of the beast" in the early morning. Enjoying the luxury of our Bus we don't even stop at watching the crappy on-board DVD-movies while killing miles on the highway. Don't even remember the names of the movies, but all of them were more boring than a standard catholic sunday morning sermon, I can tell you. After some extra hours on the road due to traffic jams we reach the festival site right in time for a relaxed afternoon in preparation of the things to come. We share our dressingroom with the boys from Whitechapel today, but due to jetlag they all are sleeping on the floor of the dressingroom... they woke up just when Attila finished his makeup - guess it must have been a strange awakening for them staring in our maestro..s painted face, haha...
We enter stage in the early evening and chaos enters with us - at least during the next 45 minutes some rather strange incidents keep the wolves busy on stage... examples? Well, our fabulous step-in drummer Tom experiences that makeup inside his ears makes his earplugs slip away - which caused him loosing the clicktrack and lead to a... let's say "progressive" version of "Catholic in the morning...". Well, it turns out being a nice celebration anyway and The Queens of Metal start shaking their hips and heads when the Werewolves of Armenia showed their claws. We forgot to include "Kiss of the cobra king" in our setlist by accident, which is a kind of cardinal sin we will never commit again. We promise. After the show we spent some time with a nice signing session, talking to a lot of people and just having a good time at this nice festival... until demon alcohol demands its tribute. Not really among the wolves, but among our Label's staff who are present today as well. No details, but it takes all the wolves later at night to prevent some drunk chief-promoters from serious trouble, haha. Well, and then, just when chaos was at the climax we met our friends from Dream Evil, who just arrived - needless to say that the wolves had to celebrate this with Fredrik Nordström and his fellow gangsters... we woke up in our hotel the next morning. No idea how we got there.


20.06. Blieskastel - Bliesgauhalle

Wake up call. Hangover. Headache. At least the great breakfast and litres of coffee in the hotel give back a glimpse of life to the wolfpack. Arriving in Blieskastel in the afternoon that goddamn ten ton hammer is still hammering my head without mercy and I wonder how to survive tonight's headlining 90-minutes set... happy enough I survive soundcheck at first. Well, some hours of rest and a great dinner recharge our batteries and while tonight's show gets started up by the Satanic voices and Srained we celebrate god, satan and ourselves in the dressing room and try to invoke the spirit of Klaus Meine until it's time for some live premieres: We play quite a bunch of "Bible of the beast" songs for the first time today, which always is a thrilling factor. "Panic in the pentagram" and "St. Satan's day" seem to work fine on stage, and the party rushes in. Attila even surprises the rest of the wolves by announcing "Moscow after dark" as a special encore, which we did not plan to play, nor really rehersed it... fun performing it anyway.


26.06. Balingen - Bang your head-Festival

Bang your head - heavy metal heaven!!! We've been looking forward to this since quite a while, as this festival is special for us, and it's a big honour for us to be invited there for the 2nd time. We arrive at the festival site on Friday evening right in time with U.D.O opening up their show with "Metal heart", and there could be no better kick off for a nice party evening at the most relaxed festival arround. We enjoy the great hospitality of Jagger, Horst and his briliant crew, meet a lot of friends and have a great time. Considering we..ll have to get up quite early tomorrow morning, we leave to the hotel arround midnight with the first drops of rain pouring from the heavens. And even though some prayers are held at the hotel it does not stop raining, but instead increases. The morning welcomes us with a nice thunderstorm and heavy rain, and this goddamn rain doesn't stop until our showtime arround noon. So we enter stage with a dense curtain of rain falling in front of it and parts of the stage even drowning in rainwater. But wolves would not be wolves if some rain would prevent us from celebrating the one and only heavy metal - and Bang your head is holy ground! And we are more than surprised to see how many great and dedicated people stand tall against the rain in front of the stage - thanx so much, you're the best!!! Attila spends most of the show on the stage's catwalk and thus in the rain, while giving blessings and benedictions to the ones who don't mind the weather. Great! Later on we have a nice signing session, and there were so many people demanding us to ruin their CDs, shirts and whatever with our edding-scribbled signatures, that the organisation had to extend the signing session from planned 30 mins to 60 mins - you guys are crazy - thanx!!!!! After lunch Attila and me did a funny track attack for Rock hard magazine, which you..ll read in one of the upcming issues! By the way: Guess what happened with the weather? Yes, you're right. It stopped raining soon after the wolves left the stage. Seems like good old Petrus didn't get enough praise on "Bible of the beast", eh? Egoistic bastard. However, we watch Exodus attempts to initialize a wall of death, enjoy their increadible riffing anyway, and leave soon afterwards. In the meantime Tom has started a party of his own eliminating our stock of Ramazotti in the dressing room, which he continues during the travel, and some hours later back in Saarbrücken the Ramazotti is gone and our dear Mr. Diener is drunk as a russian lottery winner... halleluja!


12.08.2009 Dinkelsbühl - Summerbreeze Open air

Playing at Summerbreeze almost feels like coming home for the wolves. This is going to be the 3rd time we have the honour to invoke the metal mass at this wonderful festival. We start our journey to Dinkelsbühl quite early, as this trip was the mighty return of our legendary camper (read the tour diary from the "Metal is our mission-tour), which got a new engine in the meantime. Well, we wanted to make sure to be on the road early enough to compensate any unplanned incidents insulting the ADAC or major technical crushdowns. In fact - nothing happened and we arrived at the festival well and hours before schedule. We spent the travel celebrating the resurrection of the camper, and especially Attila took no prisoners tesing some 10%-beer and its amazing effects on his sanity. Arriving at Summerbreeze Attila was drunk like a vampire in a slaughterhouse and went for some sleep, while some of us visited our friends from Heralder for some more beers enjoying the relaxed festival campsite. Well, and then, right before soberness could control the pack again it was time to enter stage: The tent was packed, the atmosphere was at the climax, and any fresh air in the tent was gone when the wolves invaded the stage a few minutes past midnight. And - what can we say... we knew the Breeze-audience was wild, but we did not expect this total madness going on. Fists in the air until the black horizon and an audience singing along as loud that we sometimes could not hear ourselves on stage... this is how it should be! By the way, directed by the one and only Bomber this show was filmed with 6 cameras, maybe there will be something coming up in the future...However, we feel like leaving a sauna when we went off the stage, but we also felt the satisfaction of having celebrated a great metal mass together with all of you - thanx a lot!!! Afterwards we started a major celebration in and arround our camper, but all I remember is that the night was wild and black magic has its price.
The next day we had a nice signing session at metal.de's, and despite of braincrushing hangover we enjoyed Vader and Grand Magus delivering great performances before our camper started moving towards homeground again. Once again the Breeze was a highlight of the festival season for the wolfpack. Coming up next will be clubshows again - we hope to see you all again on some of the shows for full-lenght bible-studies.