Like heavy progressive music ? Go to Cologne

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Like heavy progressive music ? Go to Cologne, Germany. Yes that is right , every year Cologne plays host to something special, The Euroblast Festival. Progressive music lovers from all over the world come down to the city and be a part of this massive festival featuring the best of the progressive rock and metal scene out there.

Euroblast is the brainchild of John Sprich and Daniel Schneider who along with their team, The Euroblast collective have pulled of nine huge Euroblast festivals. This year’s Euroblast marks the 10th edition of the festival and is panning out to be the biggest till date with the likes of SikTh , Tesseract , Vildhjarta , Animal as Leaders , Monuments, The Algorithm and a host of other great bands part of it. This year’s festival went the crowd funding way so that the organizers can continue building on their vision and have Euroblast continue to be on the pinnacle Progressive contemporary rock and metal scene, ‘The Crowdfunding is part of the event financing but relies mainly on Ticket sales and Sponsors. The crowdfunding is meant as a foundation for the Festival to create a finical basis for the Future. In that way it is a permanent crowd funding as people can support our concept 365 days a year. We will offer new and limited perks all year long for people that just want to further help our concept. Its the expansion of our great Team which we call “The Euroblast Collective“ on a global and easy to access way. You fund the project and become part of the whole thing.’ Said John.

The festival this year has moved away from the pre-party concept and has focused totally on the main event so that the attendees can enjoy the whole festival experience to the fullest.

Euroblast 2014 Lineup

We spoke to Hypno5e about their three step guide for Euroblast discover, play, have fun,
“The Euroblast festival is one of the biggest opportunities concerning new ideas from all over the world, it’s the festival with the ’forwardest’ view over music. What you hear there is different from other festivals, each band has its own personality, new visions of music are blooming on stage in front of you.We play saturday afternoon, just after the secret act , we’re going to have to focus and play hard for it is the last day of the festival and the audience will have swallowed so many things from the previous performances, we’ll have to be efficient and powerful, no mistake allowed. Last year we played with Max, our session drummer, this year we will play with the full new crew, freshly prepared and ready to blow the stage! Then it will be time for the aftershow party, since this gig will be the very last gig for the “Acid Mist Tomorrow” Tour we’re going to smash our brains to the wall, we’ve been touring and struggling for this album since February 2012, now it’s time to release the pressure and move on, destruction before re-construction. The event it’s all about discovery, bands that make you reconsider your conception of music, the Euroblast is one of those festival where staying backstage drinking booze is a loss of time. So we’ll just hang out about everywhere, and discover bands we’ve never heard of, and we’re sure to be amazed since bands would never play there without any new ingredient in their mixture.”

One of the acts the attendees are most excited about are, is The Algorithm. With his latest release OCTOPUS4 out Rémi Gallego has been busy supporting the new release,excited about the festival and what lies ahead for The Algorithm ‘I’m excited for the future as there are a lot of improvements happening in my life right now, good times! I’ve been working a lot on a few technical improvements and bonuses on the live set. I also started playing guitar and keytar on stage; I really like the idea of bringing something more organic into the project. The drums are already together, but I felt like live guitar was the missing link in the production value. This is going to look and sound better than ever.’

If you are wondering what are the essentials for this festival The Algorithm gives his pick of three things that are must for Euroblast attendees
– Alcohol
– Talking to me in German
– Mike Malyan

So make sure you grab your Kölsch beer and meet Rémi and greet him ‘Hallo Wie geht’s ’

The festival is expanding and there is plenty of interest to bring the concept to different continents of the planet. With the 10th edition already kicked off in Cologne the festival has turned out to be a permanent juncture in your progressive music lovers calendar. And if you are still wondering what have all the bands planned for this year festival , its safe to say that metallers BEAR sum it up ‘We come to put the DENT in DJENT’

Now go and snap your necks in the pit