OpenAir 2011 – festival music menu assembled

Yes, exactly so, the summer metal festival MetalGate Czech Death Fest 2011 has now its complete dramaturgy. First of all, it is with great joy that we can announce the Saturday headliner, the one and only Dutch death metal icon PESTILENCE, established in 1986, which will present at this gig its current album “Resurrection Macabre”!

The post of the Friday festival headliner shall belong to yet another big name of the global metal, to the iconic Greek phalanx , which is active on the worldwide metal scene for over 20 years now and thus, belongs to one of the longest playing acts in this dark sub-genre of metal music, and whose performance shall be devoted to the current album “”.

This main tandem shall further be augmented by a special guest of the domestic metal scene, the resurrected death metal squad HYPNOS, coming to us with their current album “Halfway to Hell”.

Two more foreign guests shall also be present, the German black metal heretics ABSTINENZ with their fire show, and the Slovakian death metal devastators DEMENTOR.

The rest of the festival bill shall belong to a unique selection of the Czech metal bands. The roster includes both representatives of death metal and , as well bands presenting other metal styles. Specifically, you can look forward to:

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, TORTHARRY, BBYB, HEIDEN, MELANCHOLY PESSIMISM, RETURN TO INNOCENCE, MINORITY SOUND, INGROWING, ARCH OF HELL, GUTALAX, ABSTRACT ESSENCE, SECRET OF DARKNESS, COLP, ASCENDANCY, BUT, ELYSIUM, INSANE, G.O.R.E., DEATHSTAR, MATER MONSTIFERA, OPITZ, HEAVING EARTH, SIC.ENGINE, MORTIFILIA, as well as to the silver finalist of the second installment of MetalGate Massacre contest.

30 bands in total shall thus enact a truly diverse program, which begins on Friday, 10.6.2011, at 16:00 and continues on Saturday, 11.6.2011, from 10:00, all that in Autocamp Brodský in Červený Kostelec.

The presale of tickets is already up and running. You can get yours via the Ticketportal and Ticketstream network for only 390 CZK till the end of February, afterwards for 450 CZK, or on site for 550 CZK. Festival tickets are also available for purchase at the Tortharry shop with quantity discounts and other benefits! Furthermore, we are of course preparing for you several chances to win free tickets, which will be gradually announced at the festival website.

In short, it is a lot of hard and first of all Czech music for not that much! www.czechdeathfest.cz