News : Sonic Forge Festival announced

A true multi-stage, all day metal festival is something that Melbourne has been lacking for quite a few years. But no longer!

Sonic Forge Festival, featuring 32 of the best metal bands the Australian metal scene has to offer, will take place on December 4 at the Esplanade Hotel, run over 3 stages, and provide metal fans with 12 hours of endless metal of the highest quality! Whether you like your metal death, melodic, black, prog, grind, math, tech, core or other, there is something for everyone and it’s all for only $15!

In addition to supporting and promoting the many great metal bands this country has to offer, this event is also strongly centered around raising money for ‘The Center of Hope’, an orphanage in Haiti. Many of us here in Australia were overwhelmed at the destruction wrought upon this country when an earthquake on January 24 of this year resulted in the deaths of more than 230,000 people, injuries to more than 300,000 & 1 million more left homeless. This tragic event resulted in thousand’s of children being orphaned, and in the process worsened a problem that already existed, in what is one of the world’s poorest countries. Whilst much money has already been raised for general disaster relief in Haiti, this event focuses on trying to help a particular orphanage ‘The Center of Hope’, which is due to open it’s doors for the first time in the coming weeks. So in buying a ticket to this event you not only get to witness the biggest local metal festival held in Melbourne for quite some time, you will also be directly helping these orphaned children in Haiti & making a difference to their lives.

SONIC FORGE FESTIVAL – Full Line-up
Be’lakor
Ne Obliviscaris
Dreadnaught
Frankenbok
Double Dragon (SA)
Arcane (QLD)
Earth
Embodied
Death Audio
Eye of the Enemy
Meltgsnow (Singapore)
In Malice’s Wake
Contrive
Five Star Prison Cell
Truth Corroded (SA)
Aeon of Horus (ACT)
Hatchet Dawn
A Million Dead Birds Laughing
Helm (QLD)
Synperium (NSW)
Akaname
Dawn of Retribution
Divine Ascension
Teramaze
Okera
Internal Nightmare
Insidious Torture
Primordial Space
Elysian
In Exordium
Thrall
Phil Para & Band

Doors open at 3pm, and tickets only $15! That’s under 50c per band!!! On sale October 29th, 2010 from www.espy.com.au

For more information about ‘The Center of Hope’ Haiti, go to http://www.centerofhope-haiti.org/

This event is proudly presented by Welkin Entertainment and MetalObsession.net.

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