“See you,” says the clerk at the merch stand to the young man who has just bought a Bloodspot T-shirt from him. The man with a long blond mane, wearing a metal cowl and a beer mug, turns around again, laughs and says: “You see yourself, you hear yourself, you feel, you taste yourself, you smell yourself.” A look at the slightly sweaty men and women crowded in front of the stage busy getting the first small circle pits rolling shows that he is not entirely wrong with his statement.
Anyone who parked their tent last Friday at the Infernum meets Porkcore Fistevil campsite on a field near Büchold – somewhere in the middle of nowhere – agreed to live out their inner Metalhead to the full for two evenings and nights. The number plates on the neighboring parking lot indicated that some visitors had traveled a little further. Metal fans from Münster, Cologne, Brandenburg and Uelzen in Lower Saxony also traveled to see the 16 bands from various metal subgenres live on stage.
Black shirts and metal outfits dominate at Infernum meets Porkcore
No matter where the couples, groups of friends or families with children came from – musically they all seemed to have the same home. This was also reflected in the dress code: black. Apart from a stray costumed team of unicorns and dinosaurs, black shirts and cowls covered with sewn-on patches dominated the fashion scene. Barbara and Rolf from Ettlingen near Karlsruhe visited the festival for the first time: “We were always at another small festival that no longer exists. Then we noticed that the music played at Infernum meets Porkcore was exactly what we were playing at prefer,” says Barbara.
During the conversation backstage, Christian Behr and Patrick Pülb from the event team were satisfied with how things had gone so far. “We sold a few tickets shortly before the festival and are happy with the number of visitors. Unfortunately, we had to cancel two bands. I’ve now found a replacement for one,” says festival founder Behr. His colleague and friend Pfülb had been busy with the set-up since the previous Saturday, i.e. six days earlier. “The weather has really sucked in the last few days. It was unbelievably hot. But we were always on schedule and finished the final details this morning.”
Fleshless from the Czech Republic and headliner Parasite Inc. as highlights on Friday
The heavy rain that was still beating down on the festival field on Friday morning was long forgotten later in the evening. Czech deathgrind band Fleshless also enjoyed it, playing their set at 9.30pm under a starry night sky. Not only the parking lot and campground, but also the area in front of the stage filled up hour by hour. Nevertheless, one had the feeling that the 300 or so people in the infield were looking forward to the headliner Parasite Inc. in particular.
The four-piece melodic death metal formation from Aalen had planned something special for the rather small Infernum meets Porkcore, which was deliberately kept in a family setting: “At the beginning of August, our debut album ‘Time Tears Down’ turned ten years old. So we have an anniversary and play through the entire album for you today,” promised Lucien Mosesku, the band’s bassist since 2020. And the headliner of the first day of the festival kept his word. Parasite Inc. performed all twelve songs of their first disc from 2013 for three quarters of an hour.
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