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IMPORTANT NEWS
Hi everybody, what's up?
Here's the lowdown on the Rise Or Die II...
After the cancellation of our headliner SSD we were confronted with presales problems and were forced to "trim-down" the festival to make sure we will not be brought to financial ruin. So, what did we do? We trimmed down the festival to just the touring bands and 1 opener. We would not want to put touring bands into a position where they have a cancelled show 10 days before the actual show happens and, ofcourse, we were not looking forward to cancelling the Festival as a whole, since we had an amazing first edition and are very eager to make this the second edition in a long line. We are very sorry that we had to cancel some great bands on the line up. Look for them on the next edition of Rise Or Die.

That means that we have a line-up (and running order) that looks like this right now:

15.00: Doors
15.30 - 15.55: SUPERIOR
16.10 - 16.40: WARBRINGER
16.55 - 17.25: SHIPWRECK
17.40 - 18.10: VERSE
18.25 - 19.00: FINAL PRAYER
19.15 - 19.55: HAVE HEART
20.10 - 20.55: ALL SHALL PERISH
21.20 - 22.00: SWORN ENEMY

Instead of 20 euro, the entrance has been changed to 15 euro. Everybody who bought tickets in pre-sale will get the 5 euros paid too much in pre-sale back at the door immediately upon showing the official pre-sale ticket.
If you don't wanna attend the festival at all anymore, please mail to the following address to make arrangements: riseordiefest@gmail.com
As off today prices at all the pre-sale addresses have been changed to 15 euro.
There are more than enough tickets available for the festival, so make sure you get yours today!

Also, don't forget to enter the Emily The Strange competition! Great prices to be won!

Last but certainly not least, Pete from TIMES OF GRACE Tattoo will be present at the festival again.
If you wanna get tattoed at the fest either just show up at Pete's room at the festival or make an appointment beforehand: peteXedge@gmail.com

See you the 16th!


BAND REQUESTS
Bands please do not send requests to be booked on Rise Or Die. We are currently working on a cool way to get booked if you are not asked directly. If we want to book you we will get in touch! Thanks.


THANK YOU!!!

Hey everybody,
We want to thank everybody for making the first edition of the RISE OR DIE Fest such a big success. We had a sold out house with all bands having awesome shows. The atmosphere was good and enough food and drinks for everybody. We had people from all over Europe there and bands from all over the world. we appreciate the support a lot! Thank you! Thanks go out, first of all, to all of you people attending the show. Furthermore we thank all the bands that played for making up an awesome line-up and everybody who helped out at the fest. Also a big thank you to the people at the JZE for being very helpful and flexible. Other than that we'd like to thank all of our sponsors; Fuze Magazine, Asice.net, Poisonfree.com, Legacy Magazine, Metal.de, Rocktribune Magazine, Vestal, Cargo, Green Hell, Suburban, Vibes Store, WTF Mailorder, Trashmark, Wildmarie, Filled With Hate Records, Demons Run Amok Records, Merchandise.nl, Sinner And the Saint Tattoo, Times Of Grace Tattoo, Streetready Merchandise Mailorder, Lifeforce Records, Goodlife Records, 24 Clothing, Reality Records, Mightyman 2007 and Block01.de.

RISE OR DIE Fest II
We are currently booking bands for Rise Or Die II happening at the 16th of August 2008 at the JZ Papestrasse in Essen: We are getting together an awesome lin-up at the moment so expect some good names very soon! Keep your eyes open for updates on the website and MySpace.

RISE OR DIE Streetteam
We are currently looking for more people to be part of our streeteam. So if you are up for distributing flyers at your local shows, metal/hardcore disco and your surrounding cities get in touch! We need you! You do your job, we'll make you a cool deal in return. Get in touch at: riseordiefest@gmail.com.

Last but not least check out some cool festival pictures done by www.facetheshow.com!

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
If you still wanna get your presale-tickets, make sure to check one of the regular ticket-offices in your town, online-tickets are no longer available. However, there's still enough tickets left at the door!


Times Of Grace Tattoo
Hey everybody, if you wanna get inked by Pete from TIMES OF GRACE TATTOO during the festival, make sure you arrange an appointment with him! You will find all infos here: TIMES OF GRACE


The story
GSR Music is organizing the RISE OR DIE Fest at the 16th of February (and every 6 months after that) in Essen, Germany. The festival is taking place in the JZE Papestrasse in Essen which has a capacity of 1200 people. With RISE OR DIE I, GSR call back in at the frontline we left a couple of years ago by putting events like the European Hardcore Party and Mid-Summer Hardcore Event, legendary in the European scene, on hold for a while. This time around, GSR has decided not to limit themselves to the Netherlands. In the near future events are planned in Belgium and, like in case of RISE OR DIE I, in Germany. One might know GSR Music as the record label that released bands like Knuckledust, Backfire, Sheer Terror, Madball, Born From Pain, The Setup, Bridge To Solace, The Setup, Zero Mentality and many more awesome bands over the past years. In GSR’s opinion the time has come for a hardcore festival with which the European scene can identify, support its bands and celebrate its greatness. Just like the European Hardcore Parties, RISE OR DIE is going to be exactly that festival. RISE OR DIE is not a festival that represents a certain sub-genre in hardcore or limits itself to it. Hardcore in all it’s shapes and colors have a place here. A fact conclusion that can be easliy drawn from this edition’s line-up. Undisputed continental heavyweights like Heaven Shall Burn and Backfire celebrate the release of their new albums at RISE OR DIE I, just like lesser gods Nasty, Misery Speaks and Make It Count. Besides the bands, RISE OR DIE I, tries to keep the connection to everything that is part of a hardcore lifestyle. Food for thought, vegan/vegetarian/non-vegetarian food, merch (Imperial Clothing) and cd distro (Green Hell) will be present to add more than just bands. Also, Pete (ex-BF29) from Times Of Grace Tattoos, will be taking appointments to put a nice tattoo on you right there and then.

RISE OR DIE is a festival for everyone who loves hard music and loves the underground the way it is; raw and untamed. See you there.