Grand Magus – Summer Breeze Open Air 2009

Daniel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:53:05 +0000

Grand Magus release ‘Iron Will’ was one of the best Albums of 2008, which gave them the chance to play most of the big Summer Festivals in Germany. After seeing them at the Rock Hard Festival 2009 and unfortunatly missing them at Wacken Open Air 2009, I was quite excited to get another chance shooting them. Early in the morning, with an average amount of people present, watching the guys from Sweden was a blast. In comparison with their gig at Rock Hard the sound today was awesome and so the show was just so much fun.

Shooting Notes
Shooting was done at ISO 200 with a shutterspeed of 1/400 and f4 – simple, easy, sharp… what more do you want?

Grand Magus - Summer Breeze Open Air 2009

Grand Magus, Audrey Horne, Hail of Bullets, Dragonforce – Rock Hard Festival 2009

Daniel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:20:47 +0000

First band of the day was Grand Magus for me. Another highlight I was looking for on this festival, but I got disappointed again. The sound was absolutly aweful and the only thing I was able to make out was the bassguitar, while all the other instruments were not loud enought to compete.

Audrey Horne from Norway rocked the house afterwards and claimed a lot of ground that Grand Magus had lost. Especially singer Toschie and the stand-in Bassplayer were all over the stage.

Hail of Bullets were up next and the made no prisons. With a mighty songs and an extrem sound they were the direct opposite to Audrey Horne.

Now the fun started. The last time I say Dragonforce live was a couple of years ago, while they just started getting famous. A lot has happend since then and the number of plattforms and trampolins multiplied during that time. All of the guys were all over the stage and it was just so much fun shooting them, even though you had to be quite fast no to miss them running from one side to the other.

Shooting Notes
The second day wasn’t much different then the first. Sill normal light during the day, without much trouble and in the evening even worth moody light then the evening before shooting Opeth… during the morning the 11-16 was used a lot to capture the fast moving Hails of Bullet and Dragonforce and get some extrem perspectivs.

Grand Magus

Audrey Horne

Hail of Bullets

Dragonforce

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Grand Magus – Summer Breeze Open Air 2009

Grand Magus, Audrey Horne, Hail of Bullets, Dragonforce – Rock Hard Festival 2009