The venues and dates of zonal eliminations, Semi-final and Final for Metal Battle India, Road to Wacken Open Air were announced last week. Metal Battle is an annual countrywide competition for performing into Wacken Open Air, 23-year old annual metal festival takes place at Wacken,Germany every year. India was 27th country to take part in the competition. This competition is promoted in India by Infinite Dreams, Bangalore and this is competition’s 3rd edition in India.The winners of last two editions who represented India in Wacken Open Air were Eccentric Pendulum in 2011 and Zygnema in 2012.
Metal Battle, an annual metal band competition across the world chooses on Band from the country. Started off in 2004 with a view of road to Wacken Open Air, Germany. The competition was organized to support emerging metal acts in the world. Winner of the competition from each country gets chance to perform and compete against the band coming around the world at W.E.T. Stage, Wacken. Since inception, the battle has seen more than 40 countries registered for the competition. Here is the Dates and Venue from India Leg:
- June 16th 2013, East Zone Eliminations- DMD Pub, Guwahati
- June 22nd 2013, South Zone Eliminations- No Limmits Pub, Bangalore
- June 30th 2013, West Zone Eliminations- United 21 Pub, Thane,Mumbai
- July 5th 2013, Semi-Finals – Ion Bar and Kitchen, Bangalore
- July 6th 2013, WMB India Finals – Jeff Hanneman Stage, Bangalore Open Air 2013, Bangalore.
- July 31st 2013, Grand Finale – W.E.T. Wacken Open Air,2013
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