Frozen Rock Open Air 14.07.2007. Prato Dei Popoli (Area Impianti Sportivi), Marcon (Italy)

New extreme metal festival will be held on saturday July 14, 2007 at Prato Dei Popoli in Marcon (province of Venice). Frozen Rock Open Air will round up bands that rarely appear at big festivals. Headliners are Meshuggah, and the rest of the line up includes band such as Entombed, My Dying Bride and Lacuna Coil.

Meshuggah is one of the most influential bands in extreme metal music. Bands such as Tool, Deftones, Lamb Of God… have cited Meshuggah as an influence. Band comes from Umea (Sweden), the same city as post-metal band Cult Of Luna. Their first album was typical trash metal album, but later Meshuggah turned to harsher sound, using eight-string guitars, manic vocals and polyrythmic drum and rhythm structure. Their new album is planned for September of this year. Lacuna Coil is Italian gothic-metal band. They have said they've been influenced by bands such as Paradise Lost, Tiamat, Type O Negative, In Flames, My Dying Bride… For the most part of their career they made midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlayed with prominent keyboard work, and contrasting dual female and male vocal harmonies to help create a melodic detached sound. Their more recent material features a more distinct bass line and a higher mixing of the guitars within the songs. My Dying Bride is british doom/death metal band. The band was formed in 1990. and during that time it was a part of death/doom 'Great Three' together with Paradise Lost and Anathema. Early recordins were pure death metal, but My Dying Bride quickly turned to more doom/gothic stye of metal. They abandoned death metal growls and start to use violins in their songs. ''A Line Of Deathless Kings'' is their last album that came out in the end of last year. Brutal Truth are pioneers of death grind. The band was formed in 1990. in New York by ex-Anthrax and Nuclear Assault bass player Dan Lilker. Brutal Truth was disbanded nine years later. In 2001. they entered the Guinness Book Of Records for "Shortest Music Video" for their video "Collateral Damage," which is 2.18 seconds long. As of late 2006 Brutal Truth has reformed with three-quarters of origina lineup returning. Entombed is a Swedish metal band that was formed in 1987 under the name Nihilist. Their first two albums, featuring a characteristic 'electic saw' guitar sound, established them as one of the best death metal bands. After that Entombed began changing their sound into a mix of hard rock, blues, punk rock and death metal frequently called 'death'n'roll'. This summer Entombed should release their new album ''Serpent Saints''. Schizo was founded by Alberto Penzin in 1984. They are one of the prominent bends in Italian metal scene. Schizo has been disbanded, but was reformed a few years ago, recorded an album and continued with touring.

Natron are one of the most influential Italian death metal bands of the last 15 years. They were one of the first death metal bands to emerge from Italy in the early nineties. With their blend made of early 90's death metal psychotic riffs and unearthly horror moods built on refined and ultra-powerful grinding rhythmic grounds, and massive vocal patterns growling eerie lyrics helped the band to distinguish itself from the mass of hundreds of brutal death bands in the underground metal community. Their second album ''Negative Prevails'' was recorded under supervision of Tommy and Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain). Tickets for the Frozen Rock Open Air are 40 euros.

ana // 14/06/2007