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Twenty years in the rehearsal room, one day on stage
Bloodspot formed in Limburg in May 2006, out of a cover band, and they have rehearsed at the Altes Kalkwerk ever since. On Saturday, 14 November, they celebrate their twentieth year there, not with a concert night but with a whole day: doors at 13:00, first band at 13:45 in the Dorle-Schäfer-Halle.
Death/thrash with a hardcore edge
Bloodspot describe their music as death/thrash with an unmistakable hardcore edge. Their label Reaper Entertainment hears thrash, death, doom and punk with a DIY attitude. The EP "The Demon" (2009) was followed by the albums "Embrace The End" (2011), "By The Horns" (2013) and "To The Marrow" (2016), whose cover partly uses fans' X-rays. "The Cannibal Instinct" came out on Reaper Entertainment in 2021.
Singer Pete has been in the band since 2012 and always performs barefoot. The video for "Volcanos" from "By The Horns" passed a million views through a US YouTube channel.
The secret headliner: Dust Bolt
For a long time the tickets only said "secret headliner". On 18 October Bloodspot revealed it: DUST BOLT from Landsberg am Lech close the day. The two bands know each other well. In 2019 Bloodspot spent 15 nights on Dust Bolt's "Trapped In Chaos" tour. According to Bloodspot, it was Eugen of Pripjat and his "Riffing For Tolerance" initiative that brought the two bands together.
Pripjat themselves won't be there. The Cologne band cancelled at the end of September, their slot will not be refilled and the other bands share the time.
The rest of the day
The Prophecy 23 from Heilbronn bring their "Fresh Metal", a party mix of thrash, death and punk, most recently on "Mosh O'Clock" (2025, Massacre Records). They also played a few nights of that 2019 Dust Bolt tour. Plagueborne from Andernach play technical brutal death metal and co-host the day with Bloodspot. Their debut "A Blueprint For Annihilation" came out in 2021.
Left Betrayed from Hachenburg in the Westerwald mix groove metal and hardcore. WØR from Freiburg are the odd ones out: death crust and stenchcore, their current album is "Extro" (2025). And Guerilla Fist are the day's second Limburg band, active since 2017, with thrash, death and groove.
The exact running order hasn't been published yet. If you don't want to miss a band, be there at 13:45.
The Altes Kalkwerk
Lime was burned at the works on Schaumburger Straße until 1975. Today the Kultur- und Jugendförderkreis Diez runs the site on a volunteer basis without municipal funding, with rehearsal rooms, the Kakadu stage, a skatepark and the Kalkwerkfestival, which has existed since 1980. The Dorle-Schäfer-Halle is an old warehouse converted into a studio stage in 1996. Since 1999 it has mainly hosted music.
Tickets and info
The limited hardcover presale tickets are sold out. At the door the day costs 45 euros. Under-18s need a signed parental authorisation and an adult companion. And if you want a lasting souvenir: Danny Silva of Cabana Tattoo is doing old-school flash tattoos on site, your favourite band included.
All bands and the venue are in the KRACH app. Happy birthday, Bloodspot. 🤘
