Magic Circle Festival
The Magic Circle Festival is a music festival with bands from Heavy Metal, which took place from 2007 to 2010 year. It was launched by Magic Circle Music, the record label by Joey DeMaio and was first held on July 6th and 7th 2007 in Bad Arolsen (Hesse) instead.
Background
This festival by Joey DeMaio, the bassist of Manowar, Germany during the last concert of the Demons, Dragons & Warriors Tour was announced on 31 March 2007 at the Hanns -Martin- Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart. It was designed as a thank you to the Manowar fans, because delaying the release of the album Gods of War and therefore the tour had to be postponed twice ( only from April 2006 to December 2006, then again in March 2007). Hence the small admission price of 10 euros per day.
2007
Originally, the Magic Circle Festival should extend only over one day (7 July 2007), due to popular demand, however, was another day added ( 6 July 2007), with the majority of the bands occurred on both days. In November 2007, a recording of the festival available on DVD. During the Manowar show on 7 July 2007 was announced by Joey DeMaio, that it is not a one-time thank you. Instead, the Magic Circle Festival to establish itself as alljährliches Festival, which is why DeMaio already confirmed the second Festival in 2008 and also details about the festival expiry announced.
2008
The Magic Circle Festival 2008 began on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 with a burning of the old wooden ship from the last tour. On this day, a new Guinness world record was set with 139dB. The festival ended on Saturday, 12 July 2008. On Thursday Alice Cooper played as headliners. During the festival, there was the cancellation of the bands Whitesnake and Def Leppard, originally announced as a co -headliner. Krypteria came for the short term to a gig as a substitute. During the festival Manowar played their first six studio albums live in chronological order and distributed a free single called Die With Honor, which was produced in an edition of 20,000 copies, to their fans.
2009
The supporting program of one-day Magic Circle Festival 2009 July 18, 2009 began on 17 July 2009, inter alia, with an autograph session, a lecture by Wolfgang hollow leg of the project " The Asgard Saga " and the AC / DC cover band Heatseekers. Even during the performance of Manowar Joey DeMaio told the audience that the Magic Circle Festival will not take place at the Loreley 2010. Wolfgang hollow leg had been introduced to Joey DeMaio by former music journalist Ralf Buxa 2007, during the first festival, because this was a collaboration of Manowar and Wolfgang hollow leg in mind. 2008, at the end of the 2nd Festival, Wolfgang hollow leg, his manager Dieter Winkler and Ralf Buxa were presented to the fans and so announced the joint project " The Asgard Saga ". In July 2010, Ralf Buxa got out of " The Asgard Saga " from. He is in the area of 3D movies (eg " Robin Hood Ghosts of Sherwood " ) invest and participate in 3D productions for the free economy and support Wolfgang hollow leg on.
2010
2010, the Magic Circle Festival was first held outside of Germany. It took place in a unique cooperation on 11 July 2010 at the connection to the Metal Camp in Tolmin, Slovenia, held on the same site. The supporting program consisted this year, inter alia, a transfer of the final of the football World Cup in South Africa on a large screen. In addition, Manowar on the day before for a whole day autographs. It was the first appearance of the band in Slovenia. The Ticketkontigent was limited to 12,000 cards. While playing better known metal bands on the main stage, occurred on the second stage on, especially newcomers and lesser known bands.
Festival after years
Gotthard, WASP, Doro, Beloved Enemy, Jack Starr 's Burning Starr, Storm Warrior, KOBUS! , Majesty, HolyHell, Brazen Abbot ( with Joe Lynn Turner), Krypteria, Titanium Black, Mob Rules, Sixth Sense, Cassock
- 2007 - Magic Circle Festival Volume 1
- 2008 - Magic Circle Festival Volume 2