SZIGET Festival has issued the following:

Metalheads can  start up this  year’s Sziget Festival (6-13 August 2012 – Óbudai Island, Budapest) with a day in paradise, as DIMMU BORGIR,  LACUNA COIL, HAMMERFALL, MOONSPELL, IGNITE and SUPERBUTT will all appear on the dedicated Metal Day of the event on August 7 in Budapest, Hungary.

Day  0  of  Europe’s  Best  Major  Festival  will  provide  a  dedicated  metal  event,  hosted  by  the Hungarian Main stage at the northern part of the island and presenting a quality international line-up, reaching out to many styles of the hardest and heaviest genre. All this from 2PM all the way until 11PM.

The Metal Day line-up starts with Hungarian rock-metal heroes Superbutt, a Budapest based five-piece  combo  that  has  already  released  five  full  length  albums  and  toured  all  across Europe. The next act  on stage  will be Californian  hardcore-punk group Ignite, playing their hard, but still melodic tunes with an unstoppable intensity.

Then  it’s  time  for  Portuguese  heavy  metal  stars  Moonspell,  well  known  throughout  the continent,  having  released  their  newest  double  LP  –  Alpha Noir / Omega White  – this  April, which is already the ninth full length album of the band. After them the stage will be ready for Oscar Dronjak’s legendary Scandinavian power metal act, Hammerfall. Last time they played at Sziget was in 2007 and since then released 2 studio albums. And if you know what they are up to, you know they will prevail! Producing great gothic metal is evidently not just a privilege of northern countries. This theory is clearly proven by Italy’s Lacuna Coil, who are also amongst the Sziget Metal Day bands. The  last  17  years  already  saw  them  selling  more  than  2  million  albums  world-wide,  also achieving huge successes in the United States.

And the night will be closed by Norway’s nr. 1 black metal act, the unbelievably strong and monumental  Dimmu  Borgir.  After  spending  the  last  20  years  on  stage,  they  belong  to  the elite of the Scandinavian scene, releasing dominant albums and playing on the biggest metal events all over the world.

Sziget nr. 20 starts strongly and plans to celebrate in style. See you in the mosh pit!

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