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Battle Rounds Announced For Wacken Metal Battle Canada 2016

One Band To Rule Them All!

2016 Trailer Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQcxqsxchkQ

WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA is proud to announce this year’s 2016 battle rounds and line up of over 100 bands competing across the country in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. This is WMBC’s fourth year showcasing Canada’s top independent metal talent to the world stage at Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany, which holds an attendance of over 80,000 metalheads from around the world. For the last three years that Wacken Metal Battle has been held in Canada, it has produced two world champions Vesperia (2015) and Crimson Shadows (2013) to triumph at the international Wacken Metal Battle beating out over 30 other representing countries from around the globe.

Live Video @ Wacken – 2015 – Vesperia – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lwkzc4zGUY

Live Video @ Wacken – 2014 – Mutank – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQrLaG8BPL4

Live Video @ Wacken – 2013 – Crimson Shadows – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prOdgG4OwQU

2016 Band Line Up & Battle Rounds:

VANCOUVER

ROUND 1 – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/635063959968057/

Mournir

Uncle Sid

Process

Sleepcircle

Aetherion

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ROUND 2 – SUNDAY, MARCH 20 – @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1101512513216489/

Meridius

God Said Kill

The Fall of Day

Drop Dead Fred

Majora

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ROUND 3 – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1018435674879841/

Exterminatus

The Mountain Man

Slaughterhauser

Saints of Death

Occasionally Dropped

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VANCOUVER FINAL – SUNDAY, MAY 1 @ Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards St.)

(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1547598565566749/

TBA

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EDMONTON

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1108318332519851/

ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, MARCH 11 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.)

Tales Of The Tomb

These Colours Don’t Run

Silent Line

Redskull Ritual

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ROUND 2 – SUNDAY, MARCH 20 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1148317895199905/

Mongol

Monarch Sky

Tessitura

Shadows Of Malice

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ROUND 3 – THURSDAY, MARCH 31 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.)

Van Halst

Tyrant

Tides of Kharon

Valyria

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ROUND 4 – SATURDAY, APRIL 9 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.)

Armifera

Tymo

Within The Ashes

Vehement Dissent

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EDMONTON FINAL – FRIDAY, APRIL 15 @ The Mercury Room (10575 114 St.)

(winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

TBA

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CALGARY

ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, JAN 29 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1687916461455533/

Sentient – WINNER

From The Wolves

Skymir

Awaken The Abstract

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ROUND 2 – FRIDAY, FEB 12 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/803400949806615/

Ripper Alley

Terminal Human Condition

Stenno

Statue of Demur – WINNER

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ROUND 3 – FRIDAY, FEB 26 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/934620566623312/

Nuclear Oath

Naraka

Concrete Funeral

Hrom

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CALGARY FINAL – SATURDAY, MARCH 19 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

(winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1722184731347263/

Sentient

Statue of Demur

TBA

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PRAIRIE FINAL – SATURDAY, APRIL 16 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)

Finalist – Calgary – TBA

Finalist – Edmonton – TBA

Finalist – Saskatchewan – TBA

Finalist – Manitoba – TBA

SASKATOON

ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, MARCH 11 @ Vangelis Tavern (801 Broadway Ave.)

(one band from round will move on to SK final)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/581089642067319/

Singularity

Maelstrom Vale

Corvathra

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REGINA

ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, MARCH 12 @ The Exchange (2431 8 Ave)

(two bands from round will move on to SK final)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/143528636030863/

Magnetic

Northern Fallout

Planet Eater

Scythra

Deadrot

Kelevra

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SASKATCHEWAN FINAL – FRIDAY, MARCH 25 @ The Exchange (2431 8 Ave)

(winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16 @ Distortion (3828 MacLeod Trail S.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1708636519405051/

TBA

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WINNIPEG

ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, FEB 27 @ The Windsor Hotel (187 Garry St.)

(two bands from round will move on to MB final)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716613095241054/

Angstrom

Cell

Commencing Human Desperation

Five Hundred Pound Furnace

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ROUND 2 – SATURDAY, MARCH 5 @ The Windsor Hotel (187 Garry St.)

(two bands from round will move on to MB final)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/949623465119194/

Ossific

Perilous

Speed Demon

The Void

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MANITOBA FINAL – FRIDAY, MARCH 18 @ The Windsor Hotel (187 Garry St.)

(winner will move on to Prairie Final in Calgary on April 16

TBA

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HAMILTON

ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, MARCH 12 @ This Ain’t Hollywood (345 James St. N.)

(winner will move on to semi-final in Toronto on April 16)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/469569299917747/

Lutharo

Profaner

Act of Sin

Full Dead

Death Perception

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LONDON

ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, APRIL 2 @ Call The Office (216 York St.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1720547758226695/

(winner will move on to semi-final in Toronto on April 22)

Bloodmoon Collective

Wind Cries Mary

Nothing Left For Tomorrow

Bloodless Child

Saudade

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TORONTO

ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, MARCH 4 @ Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen St. W.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/523617461148763/

Six of Swords

My Frost

Mental Circuit

Crawl

Python

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ROUND 2 – FRIDAY, MARCH 11 @ Rivoli (334 Queen St. W.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/178974922466916/

Pyramid Theorem

Vodnik

Slow Death Lights

Devilz By Definition

At Dawn’s Edge

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ROUND 3 – SATURDAY, MARCH 19 @ Hard Luck Bar (772A Dundas St. W.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/939941656119329/

On The Verge

Mirrelia

The Parallax

Odium

Milk Room

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ROUND 4 – FRIDAY, MARCH 25 @ Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen St. W.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1774098729476343/

Dawn Vally

Earth’s Yellow Sun

Blastomycosis

Cellphone

Door To Door Human Gore

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ROUND 5 – FRIDAY, APRIL 1 @ Rivoli (334 Queen St. W.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1395279340771063/

Astaroth

Strike the Storm

Out Of The Ruins

Phear

Centuries of Decay

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SEMI-FINAL – SATURDAY, APRIL 16 @ Hard Luck Bar (772A Dundas St. W.)

(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1713390422207967/

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SEMI-FINAL – FRIDAY, APRIL 22 @ Rivoli (334 Queen St. W.)

(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/457673247762353/

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OTTAWA

(winner will move on to semi-final in Toronto on April 22)

ROUND 1 – SATURDAY, APRIL 9 @ House of Targ (1077 Bank St.)

Ominous Eclipse

Diabholico

Scarecrowz

Signs of Chaos

A Scar For The Wicked

Chariots of The Gods

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MONTREAL

ROUND 1 – FRIDAY, FEB 26 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1680018885579008/

Seismic Breach

Chronolith

Ordoxe

Kruhl

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ROUND 2 – SATURDAY, MARCH 26 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/490543394469406/

Distorthead

CroMagnum

Devora

Meet The Mailman

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ROUND 3 – SUNDAY, APRIL 3 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/876334269151234/

Confined To Oblivion

Demise The Crown

Helpless

Thistolord

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ROUND 4 – FRIDAY, APRIL 8 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1683767418548839/

[Evertrapped]

Starlight Ritual

Requiomend

Smirking Revenge

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ROUND 5 – SATURDAY, APRIL 16 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/465233043687038/

Skeleris

Vantablack Warship

Distoriam

Sacrificed Alliance

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MONTREAL FINAL – SATURDAY, MAY 7 @ Piranha Bar (680 Rue Ste-Catherine O.)

(winner will move on to National Final in Toronto on June 11 @ Opera House)

TBA

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CANADIAN FINAL – SATURDAY, JUNE 11 @ OPERA HOUSE (735 Queen St. E.), Toronto, ON

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1526172981010202/

About:

Wacken Metal Battle Canada is part of an international competition where over a hundred band’s from across the country battle each other for one to be selected and join over 30 other countries for an international battle of the bands at the world’s largest outdoor metal festival Wacken Open Air, which has been taking place in Wacken , Germany for the last 26 years. Oshawa’s Vesperia (2014 winners – video at Wacken), Toronto’s Crimson Shadows (2013 winners – video at Wacken) and Montreal’s Mutank (2014 winners – video at Wacken) have had that honour playing in front of thousands. The 2016 festival will be taking place from August 4-6.

How it works:

Each city will hold their qualifying rounds plus city finals from the months of January to May 2016 selecting the top band to move forward to the national finals in Toronto, ON on June 11th at Opera House with one being selected to perform at the 27th edition of Wacken Open Air taking place from August 4-6. All bands will be judged during battle rounds by respected local music industry.

The finalists will be selected as follows by province.

1 finalist from BC

1 finalist from Prairies (AB, SK, MB)

2 finalists from Ontario

1 finalist from Quebec

Rules: http://metalbattle.ca/rules.html

Wacken Metal Battle Canada Promo Video: http://youtu.be/gQcxqsxchkQ

Wacken Metal Battle 2014 Canada Finals by Ondeschocs.com: http://youtu.be/RrOGyBtqwaQ

For more info on Metal Battle Canada, please visit these links:

Official Website: http://www.metalbattle.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetalBattleCanada

Twitter: @MetalBattleCAN

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/WackenMetalBattleCAN

For more info on Wacken Open Air, please visit http://www.wacken.com

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FACTOR – http://www.factor.ca/ (“We acknowledge the financial support of Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters”)

Pearl Drums – http://pearldrum.com/

Boonsdale Records – https://www.boonsdalerecords.com/

TicketFly – http://www.ticketfly.com/

Los Cabos Drumsticks – http://www.loscabosdrumsticks.com/

Dungeonworks – https://www.facebook.com/dungeonworksprods

The Invisible Orange – http://www.theinvisibleorange.com/

Concertworks – http://www.concertworks.ca/

Big Nate Productions – http://www.calgarymetalfest.com/

Rose Management – http://www.facebook.com/RoseManagement/

Indie Week – http://www.canada.indieweek.com/

Ibanez – http://www.ibanez.com/

Band-Brand – https://www.band-brand.ca/

Axe Music – https://axemusic.com/

Media Sponsors:

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Bucketlist Music Reviews – http://www.bucketlistmusicreviews.com/

Canadian Death Metal – http://www.facebook.com/CanadianDeathMetal

Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio – http://www.xtrememetalradio.ca

Chronic Aggression – http://www.facebook.com/ChronicAggressionRadio

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Ondes Chocs – http://www.facebook.com/OndesChocs

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Quebec-Metal – http://www.quebec-metal-archives.blogspot.ca/

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