"Beast Feast" Update

BEAST FEAST'S "EXTREME BEAST" PRE-SHOW SOLD
OUT!

TOKYO - All tickets have been sold out for Extreme Beast, a four-band pre-show event for Beast Feast, featuring SOILENT GREEN, SHADOWS FALL, CALIBAN, and CANDIRIA at Tokyo's Shibuya Cyclone on Friday, August 24.

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Those who were not able to secure tickets for Extreme Beast will also have the opportunity to catch all four bands at the Beast Feast, held August 25 and 26 at Yokohama Stadium in the neighboring city of Yokohama. "The idea of Extreme Beast is to offer a chance for fans to see some of the most extreme bands from Beast Feast in a more intimate setting," said promoter Geess Kosugi. "It will also get the audience pumped up for what's to come the next two days."

Beast Feast features SLAYER, SEPULTURA, STATIC-X, V.O.D., UNITED, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, RAGING SPEEDHORN, DEVIATE, SHADOWS FALL, CANDIRIA, CALIBAN, YELLOW MACHINEGUN, SUNS OWL, MINOR LEAGUE, and JIGOKUGURUMA on Saturday. PANTERA, MACHINE HEAD, ONE MINUTE SILENCE, BIOHAZARD, KITTIE, COCOBAT, MORBID ANGEL, SUCK DOWN, BAT CAVE, PULLING TEETH, SOILENT GREEN, SKINLESS, UP HOLD, UZUMAKI, and DIABLO will play on Sunday. Doors open at 10 a.m. each day and music begins at noon. Admission is JP9,800 Yen (1 day) and JP18,000 (2 days). To reserve tickets, visit the official Beast Feast website at www.beastfeast.net. The web site is in both English and Japanese.

In the midst of all the madness, another serving of metal will be offered up in Yokohama as Beast Feast takes over two local venues, Yokohama Arena Sound Hall and Yokohama Bells (about a five minute walk from each other), for all-night live music beginning at midnight and stretching to the wee hours of Sunday morning. Beast Feast Nightmare will be centered around local 20 Japanese bands, with performances also from non-Japanese bands like Korea's DIABLO, America's SKINLESS, and Belgium's DEVIATE. The entrance fee is JP1,800 in advance and JP2,500 day of show. One ticket allows repeated entrance to both venues.

Beast Feast will feature three stages operating in intervals to ensure constant live music. It will also have stalls featuring apparel, tattoo studios, music instrument makers, and record labels. Beast Feast is the largest festival of its kind to take place in Asia, and attendance is expected to reach 30,000.

The festival will offer a Mosh Pit Area - a rarity at Japanese shows due to Japanese fire codes requiring that "standing room only" shows furnish grids to cordon off and contain limited numbers of people to each area.

"We furnished the front block as the Mosh Pit Area so one can enter there and mosh whenever one wants to, but the Mosh Pit Area is limited in capacity," said Kosugi. "Japanese people are not quite as reserved as a lot of people may think. Music lovers are everywhere, and they go crazy just like in any other country. It's just that these restrictions at venues are suppressing the kids."

A Beast Feast commemorative 2-CD set, Beast Feast Admission, featuring tracks from the artists performing at Beast Feast is available through Howling Bull Records (www.howling-bull.co.jp). "In addition to the memories, we wanted to give fans something to tangible to remember Beast Feast," Kosugi said. "Japan has never experienced bands like this at a show of this magnitude."

Prior to the Beast Feast, Universal Records will host a special listening party for the new SLAYER album, God Hates Us All, at an undisclosed location in Tokyo on August 21. All the members of SLAYER will be present. Invitations to the party have been granted strictly by application over the Internet.

Unfortunately, ARCH ENEMY's appearance at Beast Feast has been cancelled, due to frontwoman Angela Gossow's sudden illness. All other bands and performing days are subject to change.

Source: Metal Edge