Always aiming to put the smaller / less well known bands front and centre, welcome to our series featuring acts on the New Forces stage at this year’s Metal Days festival in Slovenia, as well as a couple of bands who are being featured for a second time having trodden the boards of that stage in earlier years. We’ll be there with them and hopefully will catch as many of them live as possible so we can tell you how good they are! Tickets for the five-day (plus warmup!) event are still available for around £135. It takes place in Tolmin, Slovenia, from July 21st to 28th.
What is your band’s name and where are you from?
We’re Fearancy from Styria, Austria.
When did you first find out about Metal Days?
I (Phil, guitars) have already been there three times, even back then in 2012 when it was still called “Metalcamp”.
How did you end up on the bill for this year’s festival?
Last year at the festival area, I signed up for the New Forces stage via handing out our first record. And some months later we got the confirmation mail that we would be part of this great line up in 2018, so here we are!
Is this the furthest you’ll ever have played from home and/or the biggest gig you’ve ever played? If so, what was the furthest/biggest before now?
It’s definitely the furthest we’ve ever played and also one of the biggest (depending on how many people are going to join us!), besides two gigs at Szene (Vienna) and our supporting gig for Pain at Explosiv (Graz) in 2017.
Which bands on the bill are you most looking forward to seeing?
Tough question… definitely Judas Priest, Kataklysm, Children of Bodom, Eluveitie, Soulfly… Awesome line up this year!
Other than bands, what are you most looking forward to about Metal Days?
The camping itself, the beautiful area, bathing in the warm rivers (*laughing*), breakfast in Tolmin, the lovely people… it’s the whole package that makes this festival so special to me
Before you hit the stage: Monster energy drink or Laško beer?
(*laughing*) Depends on which and how many drinks we’ve had before throughout the whole day. But I guess it’s gonna be one nice cold Laško!
We’ll see you there!
See you guys, we’re really looking forward to playing at Europe’s most beautiful metal festival!
