Anthem Festival

Hello to All,

We were to wait to bring you a full update on the rescheduled Anthem Metal Festival, but we feel right to take first the time to dispel the negative speculation going on through a statement of facts.

We've been receiving alot of e.mails since our announcement, most of whom are comments without any knowledge or credible informations. The true ongoing behind-the-scenes casualties are unfortunatly much more complicated then any negative speculation that we heard or read. One can easily point to how others have done things or how they themselves feel that they would were they in the same situations but without full knowledge of the various dynamics and circumstances involved, again these types of comments are uninformed, outside, generally useless and often hindering speculations.

We wanted the proper setup to what is the biggest metal event in Israel and attempt the best outcome for it, and we overcomed the endless and seemingly insanity of the obstacles faced by all the production staff, not withstanding the emotional challenge endured by everyone... but it has finally played out with unforseen complications that left us with no choice then postpone the date in order to have this festival being a potential every year event without seriously jeopordising our company and the ones who work for it. We take our responsibility to you seriously - we thought we had proven it with our past productions - and you are the ones that can make this happen. We will be explaining in a future release the exact details of this decision, but before doing so we need to solve those related issues.

As we feel it is obviously unfair to you that you wait any longer while having already payed, we are at this time working with the different stores and ticket outlets for you to get full refund starting next week. In this perspective, and once everything settled, all ticket holders will be able to contact their point of purchase to arrange refund. Those who ordered online tickets, the full purchase of your ticket fee will be refunded automatically to your paypal/credit card account.

For the future, we are now laboring to maintain the festival with some line-up changes and a new date. Once finalized and official you will be notified. We do hope you will stick with us and if not we hope you would feel free to take a break and we'll be more than glad to see you again later on other of our productions.

Last but not least, we would like to thank all of whom have sent us supportive e.mails and showed up to the three productions we've successfully achieved lately - Hatebreed, Machine Head, Obituary - we are determined to keep your trust.

Anthem Metal Festival Staff