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Metal Up Your Christmas 4 – 11.12.2021 – Oetinger Villa Darmstadt

Thomas — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:55:57 +0000

For me, as far as concerts are concerned, the year 2021 concluded with the Metal Up Your Christmas at the Oetinger Villa in Darmstadt on December the 11th. A small festival that I have reported about before, like Metal Up Your Life 10. This time it was the Christmas Edition, which traditionally, as the name might suggest, takes place just before Christmas. It has a smaller lineup than the usual editions. This year the bands Precipitation, Pentastone, ALL WILL KNOW and Dieversity played on stage. Precipitation stepped in at short notice as a substitute, after the guitarist from the originally scheduled Third Wave injured his hand and couldn’t play. It wasn’t the first time they’ve stepped in or played at the MUYL. That’s why they had a lot of experience with the Oetinger Villa stage, which was also reflected in a very cool gig and performance.

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Second came Pentastone who always wanted to play at the Metal Up Your Life. After the Phungo meets Metal Up Your Life 2021 already worked out in the summer and more or less counted as half, tonight was time for them to finally hit the usual Metal Up Your Life stage. You could tell that they were having fun and enjoying themselves, which resulted in a terrific performance.

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] As usual, the band behind the Metal Up Your Life played next to last, the band ALL WILL KNOW. I don’t have to waste a lot of words about the performance, it had its usual high quality. The encore was fun though, much to the annoyance of singer Steve, because they played Last Christmas, where Steve kept saying “I hate you”.

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Headliner was the modern melodic death metal band Dieversity from Würzburg, for whom it was the first gig with the new singer Robin. A fact that neither the band, nor Robin, nor the performance showed.

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Metal Up Your Life 10 – 24.10.2020 – Oetinger Villa Darmstadt

Thomas — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:00:46 +0000

On the 24th of October 2020 the Metal Up Your Life 10 could take place with some corona regulations. Due to these regulations combined with the fact that the Oetinger Villa is not really big, some unusual arrangements where taken and each band played their set three times, each time in front of a new audience. This was a cool experience with the four bands which played there.

At first played the duo He.artwork which are Sami (Singer) and Jascha (Guitar). They make acoustic music with a lot of heart and an incredible voice. Very entertaining and it is always worth to listen to them.

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Next in line was the band Third Wave from Frankfurt, which plays Modern Metal, with some Metalcore influences. This time without their lead singer, because he was ill, but they still rocked.

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Third band of the evening was ALL WILL KNOW, the band of the organizer Jan Jansohn. Playing fine melodic death metal with two singers and one shouter, they had their usual very strong outing to blow everybody away.

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Words of Farewell was the headliner of the night. Coming from the German Ruhr District, they brought progressive melodic death metal to the evening. It was not their first appearance at the Metal Up Your Life, and just like last time, they delivered.

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Metal up your Life 2 – 01.10.2016 – Oetinger Villa Darmstadt

Thomas — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:27:36 +0000

The concert or rather festival that startet it all, the Metal up your Life 2. Invited by Burden of Life, it was the first ever concert I went to, where I could take photos. The bands on the second edition of the Metal up your Life where Precipitation, Burden Of Life, Darkest Horizon, ALL WILL KNOW, Soulbound and SuidAkrA. Precipitation came in as replacement for Difused. The special thing about the Metal up your life is, that it also has an acoustic stage, where some of the metal bands play there normal songs in an acoustic version. Which produces always some very interesting versions and some time result in the bands also making an acoustic album later on, like ALL WILL KNOW. At the second edition, the bands playing in acoustic where ALL WILL KNOW, Soulbound and Burden of Life, who also played a plugged set that evening. The evening started at 7.30 PM with the plugged set by Precipitation and from there on always alternating between the main stage and the acoustic stage, with the last band, SuidAkrA, starting almost at midnight and playing way past 1.00am in the night. It was a really cool evening, with lots of good music and the first of many to come.

Some photos from the acoustic stage:

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Some photos from the main stage:

[See image gallery at catchingmovement.de] Some photos of the audience or the feeling in general:

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