04/04/2024
proud supporters
Anyone else with post-festival depression? 😛
We are honoured by everyone's participation in Horns Up Festival 9 and very happy that we met many new and old friends once more. Together we witnessed part of Underground Metal History!
We are lost for words regarding the bands' performances, as everyone delivered top quality shows with perfect sound and great atmosphere!
This year we had a record of people attending from abroad and various places around Greece! Underground Metal is alive because of people like you, people with pure heart and spirit!
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Hosting for the first time ever so many bands from abroad and planning all the shows and activities has been an extremely difficult plan. Numerous obstacles appeared in our way, while some of them were such challenges that could knock any festival down.
We are grateful to anyone who helped in several ways to overcome any problems, thank you for your patience and co-operation!
Although we are exhausted, it seems that all the hard work resulted in one of the best versions of the festival ever! We already miss the vibe of the festival's planning and we are looking forward to any new adventures, after we give ourselves some time to recover.
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The bands...
We want to thank the artists from this year's line-up, who gave us a part of their soul and art:
(a-z):
- AmongRuins
- Burndrops
- Circle of Mushrooms
- Elegy.official
- Enthroned Serpent
- Glacier
- Head Cleaner
- HYPERBOREA
- Iron Kingdom
- Iron Void
- Junkwolvz
- Kev Riddles' Baphomet
- Minorfase
- Moribund Oblivion
- Nemesis
- Order of the Ebon Hand
- The Silent Rage
- TYTAN original nwobhm
- Wade Black's Astronomica
*Extra thanks to AmongRuins, Enthroned Serpent, Junkwolvz and The Silent Rage who assisted in the transportation planning of some bands from abroad.Your help is much appreciated!
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The venues / bars...
We would like to thank Cardinal Music Bar for the Opening Party, Rising Metal Bar for the Afterparties, Arapatta Bar for the Warm Up Show and Σουίτα Art Cafe for the Main Show.
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The sound / Equipment...
We would like to thank Nikos Bakovasilis and the sound engineering team: Milt Argyriou, Stefanos Staikos, Konstantinos Pappas for the best sound we ever had at the festival!
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Special thanks to Animal Farm Studio and Milt Argyriou for learning the Crimson Glory songs, rehearsing and performing with Astronomica! Miltos also provided help with regard to musical instruments.
Thank you: Dimitris Tourlakis, Antonis Grigoriou, Tolis Ioannou and Tzougi Moto for providing their Bass, Drums and guitars.
Graphics / flyers / posters: Nikos Tsiolis Artworks.
Reception of bands and audience: Fakfe Isbuk and Teo Kalchas .
Artists' accommodation: Mariah Ntou, Dimitris Kokkovas, Tomis Hoolio, Thanos, Fakfe Isbuk, Teo Kalchas, Panagiotis Maglaras and Dimitris Kolofikas.
Local transportation: Fakfe Isbuk, Dimitris Swanson, Nikos Tsiolis, Dimitris Kokkovas, Teo Kalchas
Bands' merch and text editing: Lila Gkatzioura.
City Tour: Fakfe Isbuk, Lila Gatzioura.
BBQ Party: Arapatta Bar / Achilleas Kokkovas
Catering: Ζωγράφος Παραδοσιακό Καφενείο
We thank Michalis Nochos for the co-operation about the Glacier show in Athens and Demons Gate Productions regarding the Elegy show.
We thank the tickets pre-sale spots: No Remorse Records (Athens), Sirens Records (Athens) Alma Music Productions (Thessaloniki), S***F (Larissa), Rising Bar and Cardinal Music Bar (Trikala).
We thank Vinylstore and Foivos Hatz for the help during our Metal Market.
We thank Stefanos / Image Print for the great quality of the merch and Albena for the great lighters!
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Our DJs...
Thank you:
- Wade Black (Astronomica)
- Jonathan "Sealey" Seale (Iron Void)
- Scott Naylor (Iron Void)
- Santi (Exordium Mors)
- HMRM! (Michalis Nochos)
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Many thanks to our Contributors:
- Rising Metal Bar
- Arapatta cafe music bar
- vinylstore.gr
- Τεχνικό Γραφείο Λεωνίδας Γ. Κώτσιος
- Speak UP
- Alma Music Productions
- Chronos International Shippers LLC (Florida)
- Γεώργιος Ζάχος
- Ζωγράφος Παραδοσιακό Καφενείο
- Cardinal Music Bar
- Magic Castle Entertainment
- Vergina Beer
- Τηγανιες Κ Σχαρες
- Alex Hair Design (Alexandros Doutsias)
- car audio XTREME
- editPC
- George Katsaros
- Animal Farm Studio (Milt Argyriou)
- Witchcraft Pub
- Βραχιολάκια Εισόδου & Lanyards - Freshlime
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The fans...
Once again, we would like to thank everyone for your excellent behaviour during your staying in Trikala, for the atmosphere you created, for respecting the nature during our excursions and for showing to those devoted to our music artists the amount of respect they deserve!
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Horns Up Festival 9 is dedicated to Matt Vinci from the Liege Lord family and our friend Elina Tsoulithra. Two very kind friends of our festival that will be missed.
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See you next year at Horns Up Festival's 10th anniversary!
Take care,
Horns Up Festival team
