{"id":3582,"date":"2016-05-10T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livestagemusic.com\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2016-05-10T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:37:43","slug":"woa-metal-battle-2016-introduction-of-the-first-five-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"W:O:A METAL BATTLE 2016 \u2013 INTRODUCTION OF THE FIRST FIVE FINALISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In almost all countries around the world which are participating into the\u00a0<b>Metal Battle 2016<\/b>\u00a0the first preliminaries and also some finals rounds have taken place. Today we want to introduce you to the first five winner bands!<br \/>\nThose bands won the finales in Iceland, Central America, Luxembourg, the Caribbean and the Faroe Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with\u00a0<b>Iceland<\/b>:\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacken.com\/en\/bands\/bands-billing\/bands-billing\/audn-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Au\u00f0n<\/a><\/b>\u00a0from the small town of Hverager\u00f0i won the local finale with their dark melancholic black metal and will now proceed to the finale in Wacken!<\/p>\n<p>This years winners of the\u00a0<b>Central America<\/b>\u00a0finale comes from Honduras. The local finale at the so called &#8221;Megametal Festival\u201c was won by\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacken.com\/en\/bands\/bands-billing\/bands-billing\/crows-crown-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crows Crown<\/a><\/b>. And Crows Crown means death metal at it\u2019s finest!<\/p>\n<p>With death metal or more precisely melodic death metal we can proceed in Luxembourg. The local final round there was dominated by\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacken.com\/en\/bands\/bands-billing\/bands-billing\/miles-to-perdition-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miles of Perdition<\/a><\/b>\u00a0who managed to beat all the competition.<\/p>\n<p>With the\u00a0<b>Caribbean<\/b>\u00a0we have reached our newest member in the Metal Battle family. At the first ever final round of the Caribbean the band\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacken.com\/en\/bands\/bands-billing\/bands-billing\/lynchpin-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lynchpin<\/a><\/b>\u00a0from Trinidad\/Tobago won the Battle. With their awesome mixture consisting out of death core, groove metal and djent they convinced the local jury and will now be the first ever Caribbean ambassador of metal during the finale in Wacken!<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least we close our introduction with the winner of the\u00a0<b>Faroe Islands<\/b>. The band\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacken.com\/en\/bands\/bands-billing\/bands-billing\/989\/\" target=\"_blank\">Svartmalm<\/a><\/b>\u00a0which was just recently founded and played their first ever live gig at the Metal Battle won the battle. Despite their small repertoire of songs the band splashed out, convinced the jury of their qualities and won against 10 competitors!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all five bands. We are looking forward to see you live on stage and welcome you to the international finale here in Wacken! See you in August!<\/p>\n<p>The next\u00a0<b>Metal Battle<\/b>\u00a0dates are already around the corner:<\/p>\n<p><b>Denmark<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 14th May \u2013 Kolbing &#8211; Godset<br \/>\n<b>Poland<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 15th May &#8211; Torun &#8211; Lizard King<br \/>\n<b>South Africa<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 28th May \u2013 Gauteng &#8211; Rumors Lounge<br \/>\n<b>Belgium<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 28th May &#8211; Zingem &#8211; Volkskring<br \/>\n<b>Austria<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 29th May \u2013 Wien &#8211; Viper Room &#8211; Vienna<br \/>\n<b>Caucasian Rep<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 5th June \u2013 Tbilisi &#8211; Pavillon 5<br \/>\n<b>Japan<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 5th June &#8211; Shibuya\/Tokyo &#8211; Shibuya Ruido K2<br \/>\n<b>Canada<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 11th June \u2013 Toronto &#8211; Opernhaus<br \/>\n<b>Romania<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 23th June &#8211; Sibiu<\/p>\n<p>You can find the compete event calendar at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-battle.com\/dates\/dates0\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.metal-battle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned. Further Metal Battle news and finalists will follow within the next days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In almost all countries around the world which are participating into the\u00a0Metal Battle 2016\u00a0the first preliminaries and also some finals rounds have taken place. Today we want to introduce you to the first five winner bands! Those bands won the finales in Iceland, Central America, Luxembourg, the Caribbean and the Faroe Islands. Let\u2019s begin with\u00a0Iceland:\u00a0Au\u00f0n\u00a0from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}