9th & 10th of August will see a dark invasion in the german town of Hildesheim when this year’s M’era Luna Festival will once again turn the local airport into romping and stomping gothic aircraft carrier:
Man the lifeboats! Gothic veterans Fields of the Nephilim, Christian Death, Front 242 and New Model Army play right next to musical greatness of VNV NATION, Apoptygma Berzerk, Paradise Lost, ASP and Combichrist!
M’era Luna 08 will give you quite a bang for your buck: at €64 (camping included) for a 2-day ticket you get to see most of the greatest bands the gothic scene has to offer at one place, nicely lined up for your pleasure! Additionally you’ve got another 30000 fellow night dwellers to party with in the evenings, just to make sure you aren’t running out of people to have a good time with
The current lineup is as follows:
PARADISE LOST | DAF | HOCICO | UNHEILIG | MOONSPELL | SAMAEL | MESH | TANZWUT | COMBICHRIST | RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY | LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE | SALTATIO MORTIS |
THE VISION BLEAK | CHRISTIAN DEATH | EPICA | EISBRECHER | ELEGANT MACHINERY | BLITZKID | THE OTHER | AGONOIZE | CINEMA STRANGE | FRANK THE BAPTIST | KLIMT 1918 |
THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS | PAINBASTARD | ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO | RABENSCHREY | END OF GREEN | ELIS | DELAIN | REFLEXION | DIN (A) TOD | various others
Additionally there’ll be DJ sets in the hangars for your nighttime enjoyment:
Friday
10:00 PM – 11:0 PM DJ Paradroid (Bitstream)
11:00 PM – 12:00 AM Dorian Deveraux (Jesus On Extasy)
12:00 AM-01:00 AM Thomas Vogel (Sonic Seducer)
01:00 AM-02:00 AM Ronan Harris (VNV Nation) vs. DJ Krischan Wesenberg (Rotersand) 02:00 AM-03:00 AM Ronan Harris (VNV Nation) vs. DJ Krischan Wesenberg (Rotersand) 03:00 AM-04:00 AM DJ Guenter (Meyer — Siegen / X — Herford)
Saturday
12:00 AM-01:00 AM DJ Uwe Marx (Sonic Seducer / Kato – Berlin)
01:00 AM-02:00 AM Andy LaPlegua (Combichrist)
02:00 AM-03:00 AM Djane Medusa (Sonic Seducer/Schattenreich)
03:00 AM-04:00 AM DJ Krischan Wesenberg (Rotersand)
Also check out the Mera Luna warm up parties which are spread over all of germany!
See You there!
