The festival based at Hildesheim has grown substantially since it\'s
recent beginnings in 2000 and is now a fixture on the European festival
landscape. The biggest European wave and gothic festival attracts
every year about 25.000 fans to celebrate a melancholic-dark weekend.
A fashionable outfit with a touch of middle-age in combination with
lacquer and leather is as popular as black colour or if necessary
white. The most fans show themselves in the same individual and artificial
way like the artists on stage.
A lot of the famous bands and artists of the wave and gothic scene
are mostly not for the first time at the M\'ERA LUNA FESTIVAL. A new
album release is not absolutely necessary for an appereance at this
festival. The audience often wishes their good known idols to whom
they feel close to but they also wait in suspense for unknown newcomers.
Lineup:
ANNE CLARK, BLOODPIT, CULTUS FEROX, DIORAMA, DIR EN GREY, DOWN BELOW, KRYPTERIA, MY DYING BRIDE, SCHANDMAUL, WELLE:ERDBALL