The 2007 edition of the Metalcamp festival (www.metalcamp.com) is scheduled for July 16th - 27th in Tolmin, Slovenia.

Organizers have issued the following festival news:

"Today, as promised, we present you the first confirmed bands. A delicious foretaste about the sensation that awaits you on the longest metal event of 2007 - look forward happily to the hottest metal-holidays!

Following bands will be live on stage:

BLIND GUARDIAN

With their new album A Twist In The Myth, Blind Guardian excelled themselves once more and finally lead the spearhead of the international metal-scene. Their grandiose bombastic and dramatic hymns are highly burst with energy and give power metal fans all over the planet an unforgettable and incomparable musical overindulgence.

IMMORTAL

The Norwegian black metal gods Immortal are finally back after a longer time of musical abstinence and will exclusively freeze the whole paradisiacal Metalcamp 07 area with their acoustic weapons of ice and frost. Besides bandleader Abbath and his fellows awake the impression to be more possessed, dynamic and passionate than ever… This show seems to become extremely valuable in relation to the metal-history.

DORO

She is the queen of heavy metal and knows the music and the culture as good as the back of one’s hand. Since more than 20 years the former boss of Warlock is one of the most important female heavy metal-masterminds in the whole scene. Nowadays Doro Pesch’s solo-career still stands for a true high-graded metal-essential.

SODOM

Sodom are part of the big, German thrash metal-triumvirat. The well-versed strike force about lead-singer and bass-player Tom Angelripper already care for intensive killer-sounds in the brute world of metal since the early 80ies. The band is still one of the most relevant and influential combos, not only for the thrash metal subculture.

THRESHOLD

Sophisticated song-structures and creative sound-variations, which are based on a hard, but melodic groundwork, are special trademarks of Threshold. The band belongs in tandem with acts like Queensryche or Dream Theater to the great “inventors of progressive metal/rock” and cause attention owing to their independent metal-interpretations.

DEW-SCENTED

Usually it happens that the German thrash-machinery Dew-Scented will compared with Slayer, because of their authentic and brutal form of expression and their metallic competence. This fact was demonstrated by the guys’ latest releases, in which they spent a lot of thrash / death metal enthusiasm.

GRAVEWORM

Since the existence of Graveworm, we know that the breath-taking myths and legends of South Tyrol can be caught in a dark sound-castle. The excellent mixture between gothic, melodic death & black metal and elements of classical music is always responsible for a special, dark atmosphere.

More bands will follow soon…

Stay heavy & prepare for Metalcamp 07!"