OK, it's still 1 month and two days till this festival, but I'm anxious to go!
Just found this promotional clip (and myself in it :-) ) from the KIT6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvQGnv04Go

That's a killer show!

No Artillery This just can't be!!


Hi friends,

there have been no news on KIT due to the fact
that my wife gave birth to our first child earlier than planned and we
were totally busy with that. But now we have a not so positive news for
you, cause unfortunately ARTILLERY had to cancel their show at KIT due
to problems with the singer and bassist. The Stützer brothers want to
express, that they are also dissappointed that they couldn’t work it
out finally. Since there is not much time to book a good new band, we
decided to put DESTRUCTOR on the position of ARTILLERY. This will make
lots of fans happy that couldn’t get a ticket for the Friday show. The
band will play a full headlining show on Friday and replace ARTILLERY
on the Saturday and play some different songs than on friday. I hope
you all will be satisfied with our decision.
Next week we will also announce the complete running order including playing times on our homepage.

Metal On,

Oli + Tarek

Where the heck did they dig up PILEDRIVER? I had no idea they were even back together!!

"Metal Inquisition" is a total classic!

Well, actually they're renamed into The Exalted Piledriver It's been a few years since Gord is back!

Yea, I noticed that it's now "The EXALTED Piledriver." Once I saw this thread I went looking to see if there was a Piledriver web site, and was surprised to see how many other bands are out there using that name. I guess that the "real" Piledriver had to change theirs a bit to avoid confusion...

Just 10 hours and we're off to Germany!

OK, Back from the dead

Bands:
Cauldron (formerly Goat Horn): very nice heavy metal surprise! New band which just released their first EP.


Bullet: Decent AC/DC copy. They put out a cool show and also very cool band members!


Twisted Tower Dire: Cool show, but nothing special either. They played my favorite TTD tracks like Axes and Honor so I guess I cannot complain



Defender - fantastic show!!!!! Great attitude, they played with all ex and current members, and not only their own material, but also a Metal Church and Annihilator cover!


The Exalted Piledriver: 2nd best band on festival for me! Great set list (Metal Inquisition, Piledriver, Sex with Satan, The Fire God, The Executioner, Metal Manifesto, Blood Bath). Gord is a legend!! We also took pictures with him while he was posing in his costume in front of the hall


Destructor: Well, it was like Maximum Destruction album to me - a bit
confused Cool show, great guys, but as they said, they did a lot
better show at the warm up show.




Lethal - a decent Queensryche copy on albums, and they didn't do much on stage for me either. To be honest, I only watched a few songs


Sabbat - PERFECT!!!! One of the best shows I've ever seen! Martin sung like he did on the album, plues he's a frontman on Bruce Dickinson level! Set list included Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares, The Best of Enemies, Hosanna in Excelsis, I for an Eye and, for a the end, For Those Who Died.


Diamond Head - I wasn't expecting much so I wasn't disappointed, but friends who paid more attention to their show said that they played really bad, the singer sung wrong, etc.


Laaz Rockit - a very nice surprise after watching Live Untold DVD. Of course Coons' voice was far from albums sound, but it was a show with 110% energy, kinda reminded me on Anthrax with Belladonna two years ago. Standard set list: Euroshima, Last Breath, City's Gonna Burn, Bad Blood, Fire in the Hole, Shot to Hell, etc.


People: Great!!!


Metal market: Financial suicide again! It was cool to hold a 12'' with price 400 eur in my hands! (Warchylde)






Overall: FANTASTIC FESTIVAL!

WOW! That looks like it was awesome! I would LOVE to have been able to dig through those CD boxes!!

I bet that Sabbat set was GREAT! Wish I could have seen them! Was it the entire original line-up of Martin, Andy, Fraser, and Simon?

Yes, it was an original Dreamweaver line up!
Those CD boxes are deadly! I found stuff like Pyracanda (both albums) in excellent condition for 15 eur (didn't pick it because I spent my money on other CDs, which I (mainly) knew before - Inferior to None for 13 eur for example ). Also find both INC on Giant for 15 eur each, but those were bootlegs, as a thrash-specialist friend of mine said, so be careful with these. BTW, here you can see a original list of that guy, but he it's about 2 years old now and he has lots of new stuff ).

NO KIT 9 for me, but I would only (really) want to see one band there. Next year (april, KIT 10) will be obligatory again, I guess!


First of all a huge thank you for this great weekend. This was the most
peaceful KIT ever and also all the bands were really great. We are
actually shocked, that we could sell ALL of the 500 tickets for KIT 9
already yesterday. That of course means that KIT 9 is already SOLD
OUT!! We again want to thank you for the amazing support of the
festival. Here are the details for KIT 9:



KEEP IT TRUE 9

"Triple Axe Attack"



LEATHERWOLF (Original Line Up) (USA)

TOXIK (USA) (CO-HEADLINER!!)

SACRED OATH (USA)

(First Time In Europe)

PAGAN ALTAR (UK)

(First German Show)

STEEL ASSASSIN (USA)

(First Time In Europe)

PORTRAIT (SWE)

ENFORCER (SWE)

Hmm, someone must be booting the original Giant presses now then. Great, gonna make it harder for me to score an ACTUAL original Giant press...

Now that you mention it, though, I saw some INC discs on eBay recently that said they were Giant Records presses, and I thought they looked funny at the time. I've SEEN the original versions, though I don't own them. I'd like to have a good look at these boots.

I have all these DVDs. I love this fest!!!!

Next year: TOXIK!!!!!!!

Awesome pics dude! I drooled at the sight of all those CD vendors in the marketplace. I would never get from one end of that room to the other without totally destroying my credit rating!!

Actually, Toxik will be playing these year, as KIT is organised twice a year, the bigger in april (10-11 bands usually) and smaller in november (7 bands). But it's sold out :)

The guy who said that those were boots also owns originals of them, and yes, they looked kinda funny.

OK, first bands for jubilee KIT X (april 2008) are confirmed, who's coming?!




JAG PANZER (USA)


(Exclusive and ULTIMATE Jag Panzer show (min. 2h) plus very special surprise guest!!)


MANILLA ROAD (USA)


(Exclusive German Show/Mark Shelton back on Vocals!!)


PHARAOH (USA)


(Exclusive european show)


CRESCENT SHIELD (USA)


(Exclusive european show)


BATTLE RAM (ITA)





+ 5 more (1 Co-Headliner!)





April 5th 2008 Tauberfrankenhalle Lauda-Königshofen





Warm Up Show





HEADLINER (USA) (**)


ATTACKER (USA)


(Very Special "Battle At Helms Deep" Show)





+ 2 more




** - The organizers said that one more band, which already played on
KIT in the past will be here ... so that's probably it, and I'm
guessing Helstar, Hallows Eve or maybe Agent Steel ...

Cool, see you there then!



And more great news concerning the tenth edition of the festival!!



ince we got tons of emails concerning the limited amount of tickets for
the friday show in april 2008, we decided to do both days now at the
big hall in Lauda-Koenigshofen, so we will have enough tickets for all
the fans wanting to come to KIT. So we will strengthen up the Friday a
lot more and it won�t be a warm up show anymore. We will do this only
for our jubileum KIT X as a special gift for all the true underground
fans from all over the world. We will now have 6 or 7 bands playing on
friday with starting time 4 or 5 pm. We will only sell tickets for both
days for 30 Euro and there will be daily tickets only at the doors.
Presale will beginn on November 3rd 2007 at KIT 9. We will have four
(!) bands worth being the headliner on the Friday, so it will be a
crushing show. Here is already the first addition to the Friday:
HELSTAR will play in their classic �Remnants Of War� Line Up an
european exclusive show and play the album �Remnants Of War� in its
entirety. So we have the following billing for Friday now:





TITAN FORCE (USA)


HELSTAR (USA)


(exclusive European Gig in "Remnants Of War Line Up" playing the album "Remnants Of War" in its entirety)


ATTACKER (USA)


(exclusive "Battle At Helms Deep" Show)


+ more


Friday April 4th 2008 Lauda-Königshofen Tauberfrankenhalle





Here is also the billing for saturday:





KEEP IT TRUE X


�Reign Of The Tyrant�





JAG PANZER (USA)


(Exclusive and ULTIMATE Jag Panzer show (min. 2h) plus very special surprise guest!!)


MANILLA ROAD (USA)


(Exclusive German Show/Mark Shelton back on Vocals!!)


CAGE (USA)


PHARAOH (USA)


(Exclusive european show)


CRESCENT SHIELD (USA)


(Exclusive european show)


DEMON EYES (FRA)


BATTLE RAM (ITA)





+ 3 more (1 Co-Headliner!)





Saturday April 5th 2008 Tauberfrankenhalle Lauda-Königshofen

And the festival goes officialy crazy: new confirmed bands for friday are Omen and Phantom X!

Friday now definitely sounds the better day to me

Yeah, same to me! (Of all 7 confirmed bands on saturday, only 3 of them
were doing something in the 80s ... the rest are new bands! So there'll
probably be three oldies on the bill more I hope Rumors are about
some "epic doom" band

RAZOR ON KEEP IT TRUE X !!!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT !! A DREAM COME TRUE HAHA



& Metal Inquisitor also.