DARK FUNERAL, NEGURA BUNGET, INDIGEN

• Saturday, 17 December @ 18:00
• CHF 38.-
• Sounddock14 in Dietikon
• http://www.mehsuff.ch/konzerte/func,details/did,31/

ELUVEITIE, KORPIKLAANI, EXCELSIS, BLUTMOND, POWERWOLF

• Friday, 30th December @ 17:00
• CHF 53.90
• Volkshaus in Zurich
• http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165662486837803
• http://eluveitie.ch/?p=981

Should be a blast since Dark Funeral just got a new line up and Eluveitie wants to make this Folk Metal concert a regular thing. Other notable bands I think may go down well with people into this music would be:

• Amorphis: http://www.starticket.ch/0Numberofti...&ShowDetails=1
• Morbid Angel: http://www.starticket.ch/0Numberofti...&ShowDetails=1
• Marduk, Klataklysm, Triptykon: http://www.starticket.ch/0Numberofti...&ShowDetails=1
• Arch Enemy: http://www.starticket.ch/0Numberofti...&ShowDetails=1
• Iced Earth: http://www.starticket.ch/0Numberofti...&ShowDetails=1

I'll go to Arch Enemy & Eluveitiefest

Cool to know. I'm going to the Eluveitiefest too (and Dark Funeral).

Hey Xamarth, thank for this post.

I am new to Basel, and want to know about Metal concerts in the area.

Also, do you know a good place in Basel to buy Metal cds?

thanks for posting this, I don't know these bands but am a black metal fan

My current favourite genre is drone, my favourite band being Sunn o))) who draw some inspiration from black metal.

Earth, another top drone band, are playing Lausanne in March 2012

Hi Vinni and welcome.

You need to know about Z-7, just down the road in Pratteln.

http://www.z-7.ch/konzertkalender.php

They have a pretty good range of metal gigs, as well as rock, hard rock and other forms of music. They have a decent 4-day festival on in June too.

Every now and then there are very underground metal gigs in the basement of the Hirscheneck pub in Kleinbasel. These gigs are very small.

http://www.hirscheneck.ch/der-kalender.html

For metal all around Switzerland, check out this list.

http://www.metalfactory.ch/concerts/concert.htm

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PS And for CDs, I usually buy online, but Media Markt at the train station has some. For a better - and somewhat eclectic - selection in an interesting, chaotic environment, there's Atlantis records on Elisabethenstrasse, just down from the train station.

Hey Tantrum, thanks for your very useful reply!

I see that there is a cool show lined up at the Hirscheneck in April:

Sa 28.04.2012
Türöffnung: 21.00 Uhr / Beginn: 22.00 Uhr
Eintritt: 20,-/10,- (Kein Vorverkauf)
Master [USA/CZ]
Fleshless [CZ]
Total Annihilation [CH]

Also there are some good shows lined up at the Z-7.
I see that Amorphis is playing tomorrow night.
Only problem is that the site is in German and I don't see an option to change to English!
What does this note mean:

Info: Tickets nur noch über VVK-Stellen oder Abendkasse.

I will check out the cd stores that you mentioned.

As for online shopping, what sites do you usually use?

No, there's not much English on the website. The note means that you can no longer pre-order the tickets through the website. You can either get them from ticket outlets or from the ticket office at the door on the night. Here's the list of ticket outlets

http://www.z-7.ch/vorverkaufsstellen.php

Where it says "Kanton auswählen" at the top, choose "Basel-Stadt" and you can see some central places to get tickets. Unless there's some chance of selling out (and only Blind Guardian and Marillion have done so in the last year or so), you can get tickets on the night at the venue, where it costs about 6 CHF more than pre-purchase.

That Hirscheneck 28 April gig looks pretty good. I imagine I'll be there. There have been some good gigs at Z-7 the last couple of months (Symphony X, Morbid Angel, Orphaned Land, Destruction/Exodus), but I haven't yet seen anything in 2012 that I'll go to, other than the Metalfest and Obituary in June. Drop me a PM if you want to catch up at a gig sometime (I won't be at Amorphis though).

Hi all.
Just to add some more info about finding Metal shows - have a look at this website: http://www.starclick.ch/

I saw this website advertised in the Volkshaus when I went to the Eluveitie fest and it shows a lot of upcoming Metal shows such as Judas Priest, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Steel Panther, Mastodon, Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish) and if you like the more Rock/Nu-Metal scene then there is 3 Doors Down, Korn, Black Stone Cherry, and more.
Check it out!


ALSO!!!
Anyone into Metal should know about the Sounddock 14 club. It's a small club (but very intimate) in Dietikon with a lot of great band performing regularly and a generally good atmosphere. You can buy CDs, merch, and sometimes "Viking" stuff like honey wine, drinking horns, etc. outside. Keep up with it at:
http://www.sounddock14.ch/
http://www.mehsuff.ch/