WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA Announces Band Line Up, One Canadian Band To Rule Them All!

April 2, 2013

The world's most prestigious metal festival, Wacken Open Air, known for its elite line up of the globe's best metal bands is bringing the largest metal contest on the planet Wacken Metal Battle to Canada. Recruiting 37 independent Canadian bands after hundreds of submissions to compete, Wacken Metal Battle Canada will select one true champion to represent the nation with highest honour at this summer's 2013 edition of Wacken Open Air Festival in Wacken, Germany.

Being held in Toronto, ON and Montreal, QC during the months of May and June, Canadian metal bands from across the country will challenge one another to join a list of Canadian heavyweights such as Voivod, Exciter, Razor, Annihilator, Anvil,  Kataklysm, Cryptopsy, 3 Inches of Bloods, Despised Icon and Danko Jones who have performed at the festival in years past.

The Wacken Metal Battle Canada line up for the qualifying rounds in Toronto & Montreal is as follows and will be judged by a panel of local music industry representatives.

Qualifying Rounds - Toronto

April 28th @ The Rivoli

Fragile Existence

Website: http://www.facebook.com/FragileExistence/
Video: http://youtu.be/V5ghdt_whbM 

Eclipse Eternal

Website: https://www.facebook.com/EclipseEternal
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OyDOOr5rzc

Deathmarch

Website: www.deathmarch.ca
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8syHuEFZ0

Vernon Howell

Website: www.facebook.com/vernonhowell416
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipDF9YgFZA

May 5th @ The Rivoli

Dreamers

Website: www.dreamerswtf.com
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lbnPWoO08w

Pyramid Theorem

Website: http://www.pyramidtheorem.ca
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YHHRm0wKoM

Crimson Shadows 
Website: www.facebook.com/crimsonshadowsband
Video: http://youtu.be/EtqEiN6AmDI

Adrenechrome 

Website: www.adrenechrome.com 
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3gyx8-Qczs

May 15th @ Hard Luck Bar 


Warmachine

Website: http://www.warmachineonline.com
Video: http://youtu.be/HnUiZgPTwZQ 

Mastery

Website: www.MasteryOfficial.tk
Video: http://www.youtube.com/masteryofficialtv

The Unborn Dead

Website: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unborn-Dead/88574066218

Cecile Monique 


Website: http://www.cecilemonique.com 
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GQyIQToSaA 

Laugh At The Fakes 


Website: www.laughatthefakes.com
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vZX6r097w

May 22nd @ Hard Luck Bar


Spewgore

Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2295859923/members/
Video: http://youtu.be/v9XGE7zKOgE

Nephelium

Website: www.facebook.com/nephelium/app_2405167945
Video: www.youtube.com/nepheliumofficial

Empyrean Plague

Website: https://www.facebook.com/Empyrean.Plague
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mlu74pz0k8

Answer With Metal 
Website: www.facebook.com/answerwithmetal
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMx7wncJyfA

May 26th @ The Rivoli

Panzerfaust

Website: http://www.panzerfaustblackmetal.com
Video: http://youtu.be/Kti6soyL3w4

Embracing Soul

Website: http://www.embracingsoul.com
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jStl80Y7wFU

This Is Death Valley

Website: www.facebook.com/therealtidv 

Slyde

Website: http://www.slyde.ca
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGJ999uBCk8

Qualifying Rounds - Montreal
May 9th @ Katacombes

Dissension

Website: http://www.facebook.com/DissensionMTL
Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/DissensionOfficial

Warcall

Website: https://www.facebook.com/warcallband
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z-xAyTOk0Y

Virulys

Website: https://www.facebook.com/VirulysBand  
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYlydeyRj-Y 

Bookakee 

Website: http://bookakee.bandcamp.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1RDey3NCdk

May 15th @ Katacombes

Trainwreck Architect

Website: http://www.trainwreckarchitect.net/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgA4_Pulj8c

Venomenon

Website: http://venomenon.bandcamp.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/venomenonband

Demise of the Crown

Website: http://www.demiseofthecrown.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPHOWEz1sG4

Fallstaf

Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/fallstaf
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBpyygUzRko

May 22nd @ Katacombes 

Through Death

Website: http://www.throughdeath.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/throughdeathofficial

Crosstitution

Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/crosstitution
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBwuu55c3GE

Murtenscythe

Website: http://www.murtenscythe.bandcamp.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvnEIBppr4

Powered by Death

Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/poweredbydeath
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKPaqa72go

May 31st @ Katacombes 

Valfreya

Website: http://www.valfreyametal.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACJJrLSy4_Y 

Sanguine Glacialis

Website: http://sanguineglacialis.bandcamp.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/sanguineglacialis

Karkaos

Website: http://www.karkaos.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_pDPnqC_o

Hollow

Website: http://www.hollowofficial.com/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZioYfY0nbbQ

Semi Finals - Toronto

May 31 - Hard Luck - Toronto, ON
June 7 - Rivoli - Toronto, ON

Semi-Finals - Montreal

June 7 - Katacombes – Montreal, QC*

* 2 MONTREAL BANDS MOVE TO FINALS - June 22 at Opera House, Toronto, ON

Finals - Wacken Metal Battle Canada

June 22 - Opera House, Toronto, ON

The W:O:A Metal Battle was founded by in Wacken Open Air 2004 to encourage future generations of heavy metal and rock as the festival believes in supporting the future of metal music and its musicians. 

Promo Video - Wacken Metal Battle Canada

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RULES

All bands that wish to participate in the Metal Battle must read the following rules and guidelines. Bands who send in an application automatically agree to the rules and terms.

• Your band doesn't have a record deal and isn't about to sign to a record label in the near future.
• Your band must be able to play a 30 minute set consisting of your own original material.
• PA, lighting, and sound engineer will be provided for all bands by Metal Battle Canada.
• Backline arrangements TBA.
• The bands must bring their own instruments such as guitars, bass, drum breakables, keyboards and effect pedals and may also bring and use their own guitar amps.
• To keep the changeover times as short as possible, bands with left handed drummers will play as first or last band. All bands have to follow the directions given by the promoters or stage manager.
• Jury of respected music industry folk will decide the winners each night.

If a band overruns its allotted performance time, then the band-members should be aware of the fact that in this case their sound will be faded out. The running order for the concert will be released a few days before the event takes place.

About Wacken: 

Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a summer open air heavy metal music festival that takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 80,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of roughly 86,000 attendees in 2011,[2] it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal, folk metal, and even metalcore, nu metal and hard rock from around the world.

The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. By 1998 the event had become the major festival on the European metal calendar and has included over 70 bands from all over Europe, North America and Australia. W:O:A is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days, during which the festival-goers camp on several large camping grounds surrounding the actual festival area. The 70 or more bands perform across four separate stages over the course of the event.

Since 2002, the Wacken Firefighters, the local volunteer fire department band, opens the festival.

The 2009 edition set a sales record when it sold out its 70,000 tickets by December 30, 2008, just 200 days prior to the festival. However, the 2012 edition broke this record; when it sold out on November 29th, 2011, 8 months before the opening of the festival with 75,000 tickets sold. The W:O:A 2012 took place with 137 bands, performing on seven stages.

For more info on Metal Battle Canada, please visit these links:

Official Website: http://www.metalbattle.ca 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetalBattleCanada 

Twitter: @MetalBattleCAN

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/WackenMetalBattleCAN 

*press release via Asher Media Relations