Get ready for a major hard rock event, Global East Open Air Festival, to smash the Chayka Airfield for two days. The headliners are the toughest representatives of the genre: Motorhead, My Dying Bride, Kreator and Tarja Turunen.
Motorheard, started in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, became a cult hard-rock band in Great Britain. It reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s, when they performed extensively with their aggressive rock shows. Their concerts often turned into drunken debauches, and scandals surrounding the band soon became common news. However, Motorhead earned the fans’ respect not only for their lifestyle of crazy rockers with matted long hair and sex-drugs-rock’n’roll as part of their every day living, but also for their music that greatly influenced heavy metal as a genre. Their powerful guitar riffs, quick drumming and Lemmy with his inimitable style on bass guitar and his hoarse vocals still define heavy metal at its best. Moreover, Motorhead earned the title of the loudest band in the world from the Guinness Book of Records. While some might consider the band a thing of the past, Motorhead proved they’re still very much alive by releasing in 2008 their latest album “Motorizer.”
My Dying Bride – British doom metal pioneers have been playing together for almost 20 years and released their latest tenth album “For Lies I Sire” just this year.
Kreator spent the last 27 years playing trash metal with lyrics about suicides and serial killers, so their show is best suited for some heavy slamming. Trash is not so much about melody, but about rhythmic drums and guitar solos that sound somewhat like a working chainsaw.
Ex-member of Nightwish, singing dame Tarja Turunen holds the title of the “voice of Finland” awarded by the Finnish president himself. She performed in Kyiv last autumn and proved to everyone that she’s as good singing solo, as she was as vocalist of Nightwish. Turunen performs powerful symphonic rock with her strong vocals – some songs are acoustic, others – accompanied by her band of musicians.
Other “monsters of rock” playing at the fest are Kingdom Come, Swedish Deathstars playing industrial metal, synth-goths Diary of Dreams, leaders of German gothic movement Crematory, Sonic Syndicate with its death-metal and Dutch Epica and My Favorite Scar, and folk-metal band Ensiferum.
Chayka Airfield (Zhytomyrske shose, 15th kilometer, Zhytomyrska metro). August 1-2, 12:30 p.m. Tickets Hr 750.
