 One Band To Rule Them All! 2016 Band Line Up & Battle Rounds: VANCOUVER ROUND 1 – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.) Mournir Uncle Sid Process Sleepcircle Aetherion ROUND 2 – SUNDAY, MARCH 20 – @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.) Meridius God Said Kill The Fall of Day Drop Dead Fred Majora | WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA is proud to announce this year’s 2016 battle rounds and line up of over 100 bands competing across the country in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. This is WMBC’s fourth year showcasing Canada’s top independent metal talent to the world stage at Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany, which holds an attendance of over 80,000 metalheads from around the world. For the last three years that Wacken Metal Battle has been held in Canada, it has produced two world champions Vesperia (2015) and Crimson Shadows (2013) to triumph at the international Wacken Metal Battle beating out over 30 other representing countries from around the globe. ROUND 3 – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.) Exterminatus The Mountain Man Slaughterhauser Saints of Death Occasionally Dropped VANCOUVER FINAL – SUNDAY, MAY 1 @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.) (winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House) |
| EDMONTON Edmonton bands: Armifera Monarch Sky Mongol Protosequence REDSKULL RITUAL Shadows Of Malice Silent Line Tales Of The Tomb Tessitura These Colours Don’t Run Tides Of Kharon Tyrant Van Halst Vehement dissent Within The Ashes CALGARY ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, JAN 29 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.) Sentient From The Wolves Skymir Awaken The Abstract -- ROUND 2 – FRIDAY, FEB 12 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.) Ripper Alley Terminal Human Condition Stenno Statue of Demur  BLEED WMBC Finals 2015 | ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, MARCH 11 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.) ROUND 2 – SUNDAY, MARCH 20 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.) ROUND 3 – THURSDAY, MARCH 31 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.) SEMI-FINAL – SATURDAY, APRIL 9 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.) EDMONTON FINAL – FRIDAY, APRIL 15 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.) (winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)
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| SASKATOON ROUND 1 – DATE AND VENUE TBA (two bands from round will move on to SK final) Singularity Maelstrom Vale TMHM Corvathra REGINA ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, MARCH 12 @ The Exchange (2431 8 Ave) (three bands from round will move on to SK final) Magnetic Northern Fallout Planet Eater Scythra Deadrot Kelevra SASKATCHEWAN FINAL – FRIDAY, MARCH 25 @ The Exchange (2431 8 Ave) (winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.) | WINNIPEG Manitoba bands: The Void Perilous Inverted Serenity Commencing Human Desperation Speed Demon Ossific Cell Five Hundred Pound Furnace Angstrom ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, FEB 27 @ The Windsor Hotel (187 Garry St.) (two bands from round will move on to MB final) ROUND 2 – SATURDAY, MARCH 5 @ The Windsor Hotel (187 Garry St.) (two bands from round will move on to MB final) MANITOBA FINAL – FRIDAY, MARCH 18 @ The Windsor Hotel (187 Garry St.) (winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16 |
| | HAMILTON ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, MARCH 12 @ This Ain’t Hollywood (345 James St. N.) (winner will move on to semi-final in Toronto on April 16) Lutharo Profaner Act of Sin Full Dead Death Perception | LONDON ROUND 1 – DATE & VENUE TBA (winner will move on to semi-final in Toronto on April 22) Bloodmoon Collective Wind Cries Mary Nothing Left For Tomorrow Bloodless Child Saudade |
TORONTO
| ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, MARCH 4 @ Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen St. W.) Six of Swords My Frost Mental Circuit CrawlPython | ROUND 2 – FRIDAY, MARCH 11 @ Rivoli (334 Queen St. W.) Pyramid Theorem Vodnik Slow Death Lights Devilz By Definition At Dawn’s Edge |
| ROUND 3 – SATURDAY, MARCH 19 @ Hard Luck Bar (772A Dundas St. W.) On The Verge Mirrelia The Parallax Odium Milk Room | ROUND 4 – FRIDAY, MARCH 25 @ Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen St. W.) Dawn Vally Earth’s Yellow Sun Blastomycosis Cellphone Door To Door Human Gore | ROUND 5 – FRIDAY, APRIL 1 @ Rivoli (334 Queen St. W.) Astaroth Strike the Storm Out Of The Ruins Phear Centuries of Decay |
| SEMI-FINAL – SATURDAY, APRIL 16 @ Hard Luck Bar (772A Dundas St. W.) (winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House) -- SEMI-FINAL – FRIDAY, APRIL 22 @ Rivoli (334 Queen St. W.) (winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House) | |
| MONTREAL ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, FEB 26 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.) Seismic Breach Mellevon Ordoxe Kruhl ROUND 2 – SATURDAY, MARCH 26 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.) Distorthead CroMagnum Devora Meet The Mailman ROUND 3 – SUNDAY, APRIL 3 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.) Confined To Oblivion Helpless Requiomend Thistorlord ROUND 4 – FRIDAY, APRIL 8 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.) [Evertrapped] Demise The Crown Starlight Ritual Smirking Revenge | OTTAWA (winner will move on to semi-final in Toronto on April 22) ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, APRIL 9 @ House of Targ (1077 Bank St.) Ominous Eclipse Diabholico Scarecrowz Signs of Chaos A Scar For The Wicked Chariots of The Gods  Nordheim - Toronto Finals 2015 ROUND 5 – SATURDAY, APRIL 16 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.) Skeleris Vantablack Warship Distoriam Sacrificed Alliance |
SEMI-FINAL – SATURDAY, MAY 7 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)
(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)
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CANADIAN FINAL – SATURDAY, JUNE 11 @ OPERA HOUSE (735 Queen St. E.), Toronto, ON
(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)
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CANADIAN FINAL – SATURDAY, JUNE 11 @ OPERA HOUSE (735 Queen St. E.), Toronto, ON
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