Rockharz: The Deep-Cut German Fields

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Germany has so many metal festivals that some of the very good ones live almost entirely in the shadow of the giants. Rockharz is one of them: twenty-five thousand people in a field at the foot of the Harz mountains every July, a festival most of the non-German metal world has never quite registered, run with the sort of unglamorous competence that keeps a thing alive for thirty years. I have never stood in that field myself. I have spent enough time in the German festival machine, though, to recognise a deep cut the moment I see one.

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Rockharz: The Deep-Cut German Fields