Hide women and children, fix the tents: the vikings are coming! Drinking, bearded men announce themselves for the ROCKHARZ 2012 to sing about battles and myths. That could just mean: AMON AMARTH! The swedes not only landed a gigantic coup with “Surtur Rising”, they always convinced with impressive Melodic Death Metal since the publication of […]
Hide women and children, embattle your tents: the vikings are approaching! Drinking, bearded men announce themselves for ROCKHARZ 2012, to sing about battles and myths. This can only be one band: AMON AMARTH! The Swedish not only scored a great coup with “Surtur Rising”, but convince the fans with impressive melodic death metal since their […]
EMIL BULLS, that we can present you with finally in 2012, are one of the most demanded German alternative metal-bands. The quintet brings to Ballenstedt its current album “Oceanic” as well as earlier hits, of course, and the most important: the party pull that simply comes with every EMIL BULLS show! The reason for PAUL […]
Today we welcome two old friends for ROCKHARZ 2012: last year both artists had to cancel their performances because of different reasons. EMIL BULLS are one of the most famous German alternative metal bands currently. The quintet presents their new album “Oceanic” at Ballenstedt, but of course the former albums and more famous ones as […]
The first Headliner at the ROCKHARZ 2012 is a german band. They don´t have to be honoured any more, cause after more than 20 years they still publish classics. Last year they released the impressive “At The Edge Of Time”. BLIND GUARDIAN will present you an irresistible choice of their songs like the “Bard’s song” […]
The first headliner for the ROCKHARZ 2012 is a German band that doesn´t have to carry its awards before itself as it continues to release hit albums after more than 20 years of band history – last year the impressive “At The Edge Of Time”. BLIND GUARDIAN will belt out an irresistible choice of their […]
2012 – we come! ROCKHARZ 2011 is over. Reason enough to look forward to ROCKHARZ 2012! We know that you are already waiting for the next band confirmations, innovations and the first news with regards for the next year. ROCKHARZ 2012 will take place from 12th to 14th of July, at the usual place, the […]
2012 – we´re coming! The ROCKHARZ 2012 lies some weeks behind by now. That´s enough reason to dedicate ourselves to the ROCKHARZ 2012 with zealous deeds! You are certainly already excited about the next band confirmations, about possible improvements abot the first news regarding the next year. First, we want to announce again that the […]
For the ROCKHARZ 2012 we imrpove our shop system to provide more comfortable orders and a few new features. The pre-sale for ROCKHARZ 2012 starts at the 1st of November 2011!
The first hit and a definitive highlight is no picture, but an entertaining 5 minutes retrospect of the ROCKHARZ OPEN AIR. Long speech, short sense! Here is the video: Rockharz 2011 from oli h. on Vimeo.
Now you are able to get one of the very last rests of the ROCKHARZ shirts 2011. Now in the Rock N shop. There are the articles only as long as stocks last!! Who has missed the choice to protect a garment during the festival, here you’ll find the remaining Merchandise.
Dear ROCKHARZER, we ask for your support for the bachelor exam of Sebastian! It would be great if you could comment this news and click “like” very often!
During the last days we already presented some pictures of the ROCKHARZ 2011 at our homepage! Now we want to see your pictures – send us your best snapshot of the festival, a choice is published at www.rockharz-festival.com! Send the pictures to s.lindner@rockharz.com until 22nd of July 2011, 11:59 pm. Only one picture per participant! […]
Over the last few days, we have already presented to you some photos from ROCKHARZ 2011! Now we want to see your pictures there – send us your best shoot from the festival, a selection will be published by us on www.rockharz-festival.com! The mails with pictures go to s.lindner@rockharz.com. The entry deadline is Friday, July […]
The ROCKHARZ festival has passed too fast once again – many thanks to everybody who participated and celebrated with the bands! The ZDF has accompanied the ROCKHARZ 2011 with a camera team and has put a contribution about the last three days in the internet. It´s about “research for a better enjoyment of festivals”. Watch […]
96 hours after the ROCKHARZ 2011 the first 666 tickets for the ROCKHARZ 2012 are completely sold off! Once again: THANKS for your trust! From now on only 364 days are left to say again: AD MURUM DIABOLI CONVINIEMUS!
ROCKHARZ 2011 is over! In the very first place we want to thank you for the absolutely incredible and peaceful festival! It was an honour to have you as our guests. We hope, that you experienced the festival as greatly as we did and had an extraordinary time. Thanks a lot for the stunning feedback! […]
Melodic Death Metal on position #15 in German album charts: ARCH ENEMY surpassed their previous biggest successes with “Khaos Legions”. So the more we are very excited to be able to welcome this guarantor of energetic live shows on ROCKHARZ 2012. ARCH ENEMY can´t be forgotten. At least since their first albums and with virtuous […]
This year´s ROCKHARZ is over! Thanks to all fans, that were here and made party with the bands under the great sun! We want to give a short impression to all visitors and people who stayed at home by some first photos – before we will upload a more extended package in the next days. […]
Due to the huge amount of requests, we want again point out the bringing along of gas bottles: Self-evidently all gas bottles are permitted, that are firmly installed in trailers or motor caravans and have been tested by the German TÜV-agency! Gas cartridges for camping cookers may of course also be used! All other gas […]
Shortly before ROCKHARZ 2011, the 70.000-Tons-saga by our featured artist CRIPPER also stands shortly before its completion. In the last clip there´s the demand to vist a well-known festival, in German language this time. And then CRIPPER show what it´s all about with this whole thing: Live-scenes, live-scenes, live-scenes!
Esa Holopainen, guitarist, founding member and mastermind of Amorphis, has gathered all his courage and gives you a tip in the following video on which festival you can experience his band this summer. There´s also an insignificant, marginal recommendation for an album – but see yourself:
AMORPHIS around best-coiffured Tomi Joutsen have entered the German album charts with their new album “The Beginning Of Times” – on a sensational 16th position! In Finland of course on position 1, “The Beginning Of Times” continues the series of successes of the band, that has at least since “Skyforger” (2009) secretly blossomed out to […]
The female fronted band that doesn´t sound like “chick vocals” is back and shows to you the fourth part of the 70.000-Tons-Saga: “Cripper TV” at its best! After a wedding the British royals would be jealous of, the journey home can be seen as well as of course haunting recommendations, which band should be visited […]
The stage is their saloon: NASHVILLE PUSSY bring typical rough Southern Rock to Ballenstedt, that has bestowed upon the quartet tours with Black Label Society, Slipknot or Marilyn Manson. When hot wind sweeps over the infield and the sound from the boxes is even more dry than the singer´s announcements, you know what band is […]
You only come to ROCKHARZ for thrash metal à la CRIPPER? Or you are into Finnish-Romanian-Saarland-based power metal hymns and come for HAMMERFALL and POWERWOLF? Or you are Irish people from the 15th century and only want to see FIDDLER´S GREEN and HAGGARD? We make your dreams come true: From today, the day tickets can […]
DREAMSHADE are everything but humble: The Swiss call themselves the “new wave of melodic death metal” and the most important act in this genre from their home country. That DREAMSHADE can convince the audience even outside their domestic few square kilometres prooves the band on the album “What Silence Hides”, and thus we want to […]
The daily schedule from Wednesday to Saturday is only and can be reached here. The detailed playtimes of each band will be announced pretty soon. On Monday the 30th Mai 2011 daily tickets will be available in our Online-Shop. Here you can get straight to the tickets.
Mayan around Epica-mastermind Mark Jansen are quite new to the business, but release their new album on Nuclear Blast and feature on this new disc all kinds of prominence from various known bands. All the musicians can look back on a grave live-history, and so you may look forward to a terrific show by a […]
All good things come in threes: This is why we can announce J.B.O. as the third band of the day! You don´t have to say much regarding the fun-ensemble from Franconia, each festival visitor has already seen the band live and can remember it more or less well. All the more we are glad that […]
Hardly any other band stands for such a selfassured combination of classic and metal music: STRATOVARIUS let their fans often in their band history worry about the band´s future, but are back at the latest since their album “Elysium”, released in January, and stronger than ever. We look forward to the heavenly sounds of the […]
The first band of the day are LONG DISTANCE CALLING. The band from Münster is committed to Prog-Metal, and with growing success: mainly instrumental, they play their way through the monthly and weekly recommendations of all editorials. Every ROCKHARZ visitor can now convince him- or herself of the class of the shown!
Only a few weeks remain until ROCKHARZ 2011, and we have further news for you: Today in the evening we will firstly confim further bands that you can see, hear and experience at the festival! Therewith, the line-up is nearly complete, but some artists are still to come! Tomorrow we will be ready with the day-breakdown and […]
DRINK DARKNESS presents: The ultimate Opening- and Aftershow-Parties This year the obscure bleak-drink DARKNESS runs our festival-opening-party on July 6th 2011 and the aftershow-parties on Thursday and Saturday. LIVE on Wednesday: DAMPFMASCHINE (the ultimate wrecking ball from Osnabrück: Give me the axe!) FEAR OF THE DAWN (Maiden Cover – Eddie jumps out of the coffin […]
Founded 15 years ago by an 11-year-old – can this go well? It can, show SILVERLANE! The 11-year-old from back then is also drummer of Subway To Sally today, but leads SILVERLANE into a completely different direction: The sextet stands for Power Metal with German imprint and developed early its own style beyond Gamma Ray […]
The ROCKHARZ 2011 becomes the home of the biggest metal-band of all times – in a wordly sense: HAGGARD are herewith officially confirmed! Asis Nasseri founded the orchestra in 1991 and since then he deals, in ambitious concept-albums and with much love for the detail, with historic and creative issues. HAGGARD will give a Best-Of-Show […]
Die GUNS OF MOROPOLIS sind derzeit das Heißeste, was Deutschland in Sachen Metalbilly zu bieten hat. Für das ROCKHARZ hat die Band einen kleinen Trailer zusammengschnitten, den ihr hier sehen könnt: For the festivity of day, we raffle 5x the new album “In Dynamite We Trust” that has been released on April 29th 2011. If […]
We are sorry that we have to tell you that SEPULTURA can not play at ROCKHARZ this year due to transport-logistic reasons. As some may already know, Andreas Kisser replaces Scott Ian of ANTHRAX on this year´s Big-4-Tour. Some dates of this tour now overlap with the ROCKHARZ festival. We had searched for a possibility […]
Show your fists: EKTOMORF come to ROCKHARZ 2011! The Hungarians round mastermind Zoltan Farkas let again and again traditional gipsy-elements influence their music and thus create their very own style, with which they express their anger about social grievances and transfer it to the audience. The album “Redemption”, released in late 2010, clearly shows that […]
Hanoverians have in the wild seldomly been documented so detailed: Cripper present to you the third and therewith pen-penultimate part “Cripper TV” from the 70.000 Tons Of Metal Festival. In addition to the beauty of Hanoverians, Cripper show the beauty of Mexico and give hints which band to visit on which festival this summer. But […]
The death-5 right out of lower-saxonys south already jumped on board in 1996 and are a established Death Metal band in the underground. With “The World Is Grey”, the guys of THE ATMOSFEAR around Oliver “Olle” Holzschneider found their way in harder horizons and are going to offer you some of the finest Death Metal in […]
Debaucheries, excesses, bolting horses, wild gunfights – the GUNS OF MOROPOLIS will feel on top of the world at ROCKHARZ! The metalbilly-trio was founded in proper style with whiskey, women and singing and has come to rule, the stage being their saloon, the sound being the taring and feathering. In the dusty, hot city of […]
The Death Metal Idols around mastermind Peter Tägtgren announced that Rockharz would be the one and only Festival Show in 2011 for HYPOCRISY.
The “Schlangensonne” [“Snake Sun”] is in the sky high above the ROCKHARZ 2011: The weather of this year´s festival is firmly in the cold hands of EISREGEN. Since “Krebskolonie” (1998), the Thuringian meathouse-residents assure the occupation of the BPJM with their cross-border German lyrics but however are restrained by nothing. So are we: For the […]
The dirty lot comes to the mountains: VOGELFREY and their Folk Metal mingle with the ROCKHARZ-fans. Over the last years the young band played so to speak on each execution and brings medieval sounds to Ballenstedt in 2011. The outlaw´s luggage includes the current album “Wiegenfest” and the meaningful promise: “There´s fairy meat for dinner!”
True NYHC, in union with a bandhistory of twenty years: PRO-PAIN are on their way to ROCKHARZ! Gary Meskil and the guys do not only have their newest work “Absolute Power” in their bags, they bring their classic debut “Foul Taste Of Freedom” on our ROCKHARZ stage, too. We are very proud to welcome PRO-PAIN […]
Doro, Blaze Bayley, Kamelot, Metalium, all those namesbuzz around the Five of SONS OF SEASON. The new work of the guys around Oliver Palotai and Henning Basse is called “Magnisphyricon” and we hope that it will, though its dark symphonic power, lead the ROCKHARZ through the beloved second season. 😉 In time for the release […]
Part 2 of CRIPPERs carribean adventures is in the beginnig of 2011, the ROCKHARZ featured artist travelled the long road to “70000 Tons Of Metal” and proved everyone what THRASH is all about. Here you should take a look: And here you can find the first part, if you are a slowpoke. And for everone […]
Founded after death of Windir singer Valfar, VREID was brought to life. Rage and wrath are only two possible translations for their powerful black metal. Knowing about their new album “V”, we are even more proud to present these norwegian guys. And you can win again. This time, we raffle 2 disks of their new […]
We guess you guys know it already, but Paul DiAnno is convicted to stay in jail in his homeland England for months. Till today, his management left a chance, that Paul can get his gig through on Rockharz 2011. But now our hopes got smashed! Mr. DiAnno is not able to leave England until the […]
A little pinch of deadly iron is going to be slammed in the masses by the Oldschool-Death Band LAY DOWN ROTTEN. They´ve got their new work right out of Herborn/Hesse in pack and ROCKHARZ is already awaiting it. Now, you can win four hot disks right out of the guys´ discography. If you want to […]
After originating the “ROCKHARZ featured Artist” in 2010, and attending the Band Cast In Silence for half a year with song-releases, we, again, have a ROCKHARZ featured Artist so introduce to you. In 2009, we already were honoured to welcome Hannovers swashbucklers on our stage. The Band is going to serve you a stirring thrash-cocktail […]
For the first time, the US-Americans FOZZY, their frontman Chris Jericho and Rich Ward, STUCK MOJO guitarhero, gonna rock the stage of ROCKHARZ. With such a prominent Wrestler, we hope that all the mudcatching is supported by Ballenstedts firefighters only and not by rain.
Finally it´s done! Since today, you can join the ROCKHARZ-Website in german AND in english. If some texts are still missing or if you find some little mistakes, please excuse us. Soon, the items descriptions in our shop will be available in english, too. If you have any questions concerning orders in english, feel free […]
Loyal to Motorjesus´ slogan “We preach Rockharz ´n´Roll”, we are happy to welcome Mönchngladbach´s boys MOTORJESUS. Their new rockin work is called “Wheels Of Purgatory” and shoud be found in every Pontiac´s basic equipment. You can win one of their new “wheels” right here: You only got to send an email with the keyword “Mototrjesus” […]
Guys, use your swords! The swedish Wolf-Votaries MANEGARM navigate their Dragonship directly on the campground to honor us with their presence. MANEGARM links Black Metal vibes with folkish elements and their native language Swedish. Attack!
They seem to like the Harz. After visiting us in 2009 and taking the pictures for their Album “We are the void” in a field next to the camp, they will come back. We are looking forward to see and hear DARK TRANQUILLITY!
EMIL BULLS cancel their gig on ROCKHARZ 2011, but at the same time, they promise us to come over in 2012. See ya then, guys!
Hot Deathpop! That is what their style of music is called. With songs like “Oh Mama mach Kartoffelsalat” and “Alle meine Entchen”, they will rock us with 90´s style Nintendo-Sound until our ears drop off. Lunacy´s got a new face! Exited to see you guys!
Fully loaded Melodic Death with a bit of Metalcore is awaiting you with NEAERA! After 2008´s gig, they are going to fire up RH. Let´s hope for sunshine this time.
For the third time, we can welcome FIDDLERS GREEN on ROCKHARZ. Their new dvd´s title says: “Folk´s not dead”, and thats what they want to prove. We are hoping for a few impressions of their new Album.
Attention! Do not forget your frocks. CRIPPER already played on ROCKHARZ 2009 and again they gonna push us up with a pretty good combination of good Old School and Modern Rock.
Same price, but more toilets available. The proceed is also still the same. After arriving on the campground, you go to the Rent-A-Toilet-Output and show them your printed request-confirmation, and our team delivers your toilet to your camp. Very easy. You find the Toilets in our Shop.
It gets true! POWERWOLF conquers ROCKHARZ with fully loaded Power Metal. We are damn exited and cannot await their gig. Stay tuned for POWERWOLF!
Now it´s gonna be reality! The Powermetal warriors of POWERWOLF announced their participation in this year’s ROCKHARZ! Till then their new record should be available at your preferred CD shop. We are very happy about that and are also looking forward to their performance at ROCKHARZ 2011! Stay tuned for POWERWOLF! SEPULTURA have joined us […]
We are very happy to welcome Brasilians no. 1-band SEPULTURA for the first time at ROCKHARZ 2011. With songs like “Roots, bloody roots”, “Arise”, “Territory”, “Rattamahatta” and many more, these guys have almost more than you need. Moreover, SEPULTURA is working on a new album, which will be released soon. We are very exited and […]
Tickets including camping and parking for 64,80 € are now avalable in our online-shop. Prices include advance booking-charges.
Our early-birds-packages are sold out. Thanks to all bookers for their confidence. The first shipments have been sent.
IN EXTREMO is our headliner on saturday! Since years, IN EXTREMO belong to the greatest German-speaking bands. With a new longplayer, they will be an unforgettable highlight at the RockHarz 2011.
