Pain Of Salvation and Votum have just confirmed their appearances at this year?s edition of the Metal Hammer Festival in Poland. They will play alongside Katatonia, Opeth, Riverside, Votum and the headlining KoRn. One more band is still to be revealed!

Pain Of Salvation and Votum have just confirmed their appearances at this year?s edition of the Metal Hammer Festival in Poland. They will play alongside Katatonia, Opeth, Riverside and the headlining KoRn. One more band is still to be revealed! The event will take place on 27th August in Spodek Hall in Katowice, Poland.

Pain Of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterized by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense syncopation, and polyrhythmic experimentation. Another trademark of the band is that each album is a concept album. Some of the topics addressed in the band's albums include sexuality, war and its effect on family and humanity, environmental issues (such as nuclear power), the forming of the individual, and the nature of God, humankind, and existence. The band will promote their most recent album ?Road Salt One? released in May 2010. 

Current line-up: Daniel Gildenlöw (vocals, guitar), Johan Hallgren (guitar, vocals), Fredrik Hermansson (keyboards), Léo Margarit (drums)

Votum is a Polish prog-metal band that was formed in Warsaw in 2003.  Five years later the band released their acclaimed debut album entitled "Time must have a stop", which was distributed worldwide by Progrock Records. A great number of gigs that followed the release of the CD - touring with UnSun and Black River on BlackSun Tour, performing at the Artus Prog Festival, Jarocin Festival, Hunterfest and supporting such bands as VooVoo and Sabaton, just to mention a few - not only helped them gain popularity, but also to establish the band?s reputation as a great live act. Votum: ?Our main concern is not any particular style of music, but the atmosphere pouring out of it. We pay the utmost attention to every area of perception - bringing sound, stories, visions and concepts together - thus creating binding material for our compositions. The merging of music, lyrics, visual art, as well as emotional expression, has been the key to the creation of our work.?

Current line-up: Maciej Kosinski (vocals), Alek Salamonik (guitar), Adam Kaczmarek (guitar), Zbigniew Szatkowski (keyboards), Bartek Turkowski (bass), Adam Lukaszek (drums)

27.08.2010 - Metal Hammer Festival 2010

KORN (US)

Opeth (SE)

Katatonia (SE)

Riverside (PL)

Pain Of Salvation (SE)

Votum (PL)

+ 1 more band tba soon

Doors open: 12.45
start: 13.30

Ticket prices:
VIP seats ? 400 PLN / 450 PLN (doors)
Red sector H & J ? 275 PLN / 300 PLN (doors)
Red and blue sectors (seats 1-10) ? 170 PLN / 185 PLN (doors)
Blue sector (seats 10+) ? 140 PLN / 150 PLN (doors)
Standing floor ? 160 PLN / 175 PLN (doors)

For tickets go to: www.metalopolis.pl, www.ticketpro.pl, www.ebilet.pl, www.ticketonline.pl, www.ticketportal.pl, www.kupbilet.pl, www.eventim.pl, www.bileteria.pl