Party-San is the Festival for Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore and Black Metal in West Europa. The biggest Fan’s of Extreme Metal - every Year around 10,000 - are coming out there to the Airstrip near Schlotheim in  Thüringen, Germany. Usually, August  is almost the end of the summer season, but this year it seems like in the middle of the summer time with around 34 degrees on Thursday and 38 degrees on Friday. In comparison to last year it was a little bit hard for the audience because of the high temperatures. The Party-San has only one main-stage and one tent-stage. On Party-san are not only playing great bands, but it's also the best time to hang out with your friends and meeting new faces of Metalheads. At the Party-San ground you can get many different kinds of food and also great beer and awesome mixed drinks, which are cheap priced and there is a Metal market too.

One nice thing on Party-San open air is that people are allowed to park the car next the to camping place and everywhere there are toilets, which are cleaned 2 times every day and there are also big shower rooms.

After we were done building our tents, we grabbed some beers and were off to visit some friends. On Wednesday no Bands are playing, but there is a Metal Disco at the tent-stage with a lot of different Metal Music - the right time to meet all the friends, whom you see only one time in year at Party-San.

Thursday

I was so happy to enter the Gate of Party-San ground, sure all the memories from last year rushed in. Only a few meters from the Gate is the main-stage.

After a few minutes break, comes the next Band MORBUS CHRON Death Metal from Stockholm, Sweden. There were some issues with the sound system, so the the show was delayed, it took nearly 30 minutes to fix that problem. Even at the first song, the sound is not quite good. Still the bring a great show up on the stage with melodic and dry guitar sound and also some old school Death metal drum beats which makes all the people enjoy the show. It was great to see them perform live on Party-San stage.

especially on the solo parts. They bring a lot of energy to the audience.

A few minutes Break NUCLEAR ASSAULT hit the stage with Thrash Metal from New York.  Awesome Speed Metal riffing which old school sound kind like Overkill. The Band formed after bassist Dan Lilker left Anthrax in 1984, also they have already 3 times broken up & reformed. Even on that day it was warm, but they performed a great show and brought a lot power into the audience.

SECRETS OF THE MOON from Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany, was the next band to hit the Stage. One of the oldest Black Metal Bands in Germany. From the name of the Band you already know that is a Black Metal / Doom metal Band, the atmosphere became perfect for the next act. It was the right time for them to hit the stage because it was getting dark. They had  a very heavy & melodic riff guitar and awesome song structures with a Female Bass Guitar-player . It made all the peoples come down and relax, because it was a more atmospheric approach this band took.

The Extreme Black Metal Band from Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany, RUINS OF BEVERAST was the next band after SECRETS OF THE MOON. The Black Metal Doom from Aachen was a project Band from ex-Nagelfar member Alexander von Meilenwald. We did not watch the whole show, because it was time to eat something, and getting fresh for Thursdays headliners.

After we are finished with our food we headed back to the Stage Pit, to watch PRIMORDIAL from Dublin. It was the band most of Metal fans were waiting for, the Band from Ireland was formed in 1987 they had already many Album out. Even if it is not my sound of music,  but they have a lot of power and transport a great atmosphere .

After long sound check and also some stage decoration, finally the Polish blackened death Metal / Black Metal BEHEMOTH hit the Stage, The Headliner Band day one on Party-San. I have seen them a few times perform life, they always have an awesome live show,  only the sound on that time was not that great , but there were soundproblems the whole day. But you could still hear clearly the character of Behemoth, after 2 songs I just left the Stage Pit to join my friends in front of the stage.  All of us was had a great time ,you cant even stand up there , the riffs of the songs brought your head band to the tunes. That was the awesome show on Party-San on Thursday.

After that, it was party time, we went to the party-tent ,  drunk lots of beers a met lots of friends. After that we went to our camp, sleep was needed.

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