Dear fans, ticket buyers, and partners, transparency and planning certainty are our top priorities. Due to the lack of official approvals this year for the lease agreement for the Bad Doberan racetrack, we have decided—with a heavy heart, but with our full focus on making the festival happen—to change the venue.
We’re moving to the harbor!
We’re thrilled to announce that the Artmusikfestival will now take place at the legendary M.A.U. Club Rostock, right on the banks of the Warnow River.
The wonderful team at M.A.U. Club / Zabrik e.V. is already working closely with us to ensure that the festival not only takes place but becomes an unforgettable experience. With this move, we can guarantee that the Artmusikfestival will take place again this year!
What to expect at the new location:
• Fully equipped: The venue offers everything your heart desires—top-notch sound and a great atmosphere.
• Parking & Camping: Not far from the club—right on the waterfront—parking and RV spots are available for a reasonable fee.
• Bad Doberan option: Anyone who has already made firm plans to use the public RV site at the racetrack can continue to do so.
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your understanding and loyalty. Together with the Mau Club, we’ll make the best of it and look forward to a fantastic festival weekend with you in Rostock!
LAZAR · GAGAMAN · THOUGHTS · GLASGOW COMA SCALE · MICHAEL DÜHNFORT · T aka DR. THOMAS THIELEN · STINKING LIZAVETA · PHALANX · BARON CRÂNE · JPH · WELCOME INSIDE THE BRAIN · CONFUSION MASTER · FRANK SCHÄFER · DIONYSOS WIZDOM THEATER · DJ TIDE
are young musicians who have been playing together for more than five years, first as a trio and now as a quartet. Their music is characterised by driving and changing rhythms and a full sound. Listeners will find rock and experimental passages, often alternating between powerful and harder phases, which are replaced by lyrical and quieter phases in the songs.
This Göttingen duo exudes a likeable DIY flair with their first album, because ‘Headless Chicken For President’ not only rumbles and clatters in an unpolished way, but also contains distinct indie and noise rock elements despite Gagaman's foundation in riff-based hard rock. The two protagonists call it ‘progressive post-stoner’.
are an instrumental metal band from Rostock, Germany, founded in 2021. The trio combines various influences such as Tesseract, Leprous and Meshuggah to create a unique blend of post-metal and progressive metal, taking their audience on a journey through sound and light.
are an instrumental post-rock/stoner rock trio from Frankfurt am Main, founded in 2011 by brothers Piotr (guitar, samples) and Marek Kowalski (bass). Their music combines atmospheric guitar textures with intense bass and rhythm layers, entirely without vocals, but with cinematic tension arcs.
plays high-energy blues rock with his band. The trio guarantees rousing live shows, brilliant guitar playing and authentic emotions. The songs range from hard blues to humorous, balladic to heavy boogie and rock shuffle, sometimes spiced with elements of light-hearted country style or earthy southern rock.
Thomas ‘t’ Thielen is back on stage! After working as a producer for Steve Hogarth (Marillion), the Cutting Crew and others, t is once again focusing on his career in front of the microphone. As the headliner of the Artmusik Festival on Thursday, the scene's most unknown top star according to Rolling Stone will bring ‘the best film you'll hear this year’ (Musikexpress) to the stage.
is a power trio from Philadelphia. MusicMight categorises them as ‘doom jazz’. Their debut album Hopelessness and Shame from 1996 was recorded by Steve Albini. Albini was so impressed by them that he took them to the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in 2004, which he co-curated.
Four instruments. One composition. 25 ideas. Fast. Extreme. Sophisticated. Every definition is a limitation. Hope without resistance. Development is the purpose of music; music itself is development, so music itself is the purpose. Every action has a reaction. Enchanting, therefore essential. Music is when you are musical.
In 2014, Baron Crâne emerged from the experimental, uninhibited flow of instrumental
jam sessions and has since synthesised his surprising stylistic associations in
various albums that stand out not only for their uniqueness in relation to the surrounding
underground scene, but also for the constant renewal of their formula.
The five lads from the Baltic Sea incorporate pretty much everything that comes to mind into their music. Catchy riffs and seemingly familiar sequences are bent and forged and enriched with their own material until it ‘fits’. They still leave room for improvisation, so that the songs are constantly reinventing themselves.
stand for psychedelic-inspired vintage prog music with influences ranging from The Doors to Frank Zappa. Enthralling guitar solos and ecstatic vocals merge with electric organ, double bass and old-school drums to shape the sound of the band, which formed in Leipzig in 2015.
CONFUSION MASTER infuse the original, melancholic warmth of doom with a healthy dose of British-influenced heavy psychedelic—somewhere between The Heads and Electric Wizard. That’s not to say, however, that the Rostock-based band isn’t capable of creating something entirely their own.
reads from ‘Nötes of a Dirty Old Fan’ and takes us on his dives into the leather-clad, studded, split-ended rock scene, letting us share in this wonderfully black-and-white yet highly complex, violence-glorifying yet peaceful underworld.
is a one-man band that juggles a variety of genres and pseudo-genres, including jazz rock, psychedelics, dark ambient, tribal elements, jazz elements, neo-prog, art rock, fragile, MYST-X, and even fragments of new music and minimalism.
The club opens at 4:00 p.m. · Live bands on stage from 6:00 p.m.
The club opens at 4:00 p.m. · Live bands on stage from 6:00 p.m.
The club opens at noon · Live bands on stage from 2:00 p.m.
Price incl. toilet, shower, parking, camping, visitor's tax, plus advance booking fee.
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Price incl. toilet, shower, parking, camping, visitor's tax, plus advance booking fee.
90 €
Price incl. toilet, shower, parking, camping, visitor's tax, plus advance booking fee.
65 €
Price incl. toilet, shower, parking, camping, visitor's tax, plus advance booking fee.
65 €
Price incl. toilet, shower, parking, camping, visitor's tax.
120 €
