Each year, a call rings out over the seedy streets of Auckland City and into the dark underbelly of the New Zealand music scene. Each year that call is heeded and the masses to whom it is directed make their charge towards an event like no other in Aotearoa.
An Audience with the Devil is New Zealand's premier festival of metal. First beginning in 2003, the event has showcased some of the best extreme local and international metal bands to an increasingly bloodthirsty and avaricious audience and has gone on to become one of the largest and most recognized underground metal festivals in Australasia. Now in its sixth yearly incarnation, An Audience with the Devil once more brings a pulsating night of the most extreme music in the world to the City of Sails, and the 2008 line-up promises to be more savagely dark and horrifying than any before it.
Tasmanian alternative death metallers PSYCROPTIC and blackended death tyrants RUINS will both make the trans-ditch journey to perform at An Audience with the Devil 6 as 2008's international headliners, in addition to a strong contingent of among the best New Zealand metal has to offer; with world exports DAWN OF AZAZEL and ULCERATE joining Aucklanders SINATE, FORCED TO SUBMIT, VASSAFOR and SUBTRACT, Wellingtonians ORNITHOLOGIST, MAGNUM OPUS and AETHEA, and Cantabrians VIXEN EXECUTION.
