Athens, Georgia-based melodic metal band Theocracy has been added to the line-up for the 36th. edition of Christmas Rock Night. The festival will be held on  December 11 & 12.  as usual in Ennepetal, Germany.

Other performing bands will be: Silent Planet (USA), Children 18:3 (USA) More names will be announced in the next months.

Theocracy recently announced that original drummer Shawn Benson will record the drums on their highly anticipated fourth album. The band are in the early stages of recording, and are excited to showcase Benson‘s unique style on their upcoming release, which will be their third on Swedish label Ulterium Records.

Theocracy recently returned from a brief tour in Scandinavia, including their first performance in Sweden, withHalcyon Way drummer Ernie Topran filling in on the drums.

Theocracy‘s latest full-lenght album “As The World Bleeds” was released in Europe on November 25th 2011 through Ulterium Records and in North America on November 21st 2011 through Nightmare Records. 

“As The World Bleeds” debuted at #40 in the Billboard Heatseekers Chart during the first week of release. Our review of “As The World Bleeds” can be found here.

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The two day winter-festival Christmas Rock Night in Ennepetal [Germany] has been very well known for many years in Europe, due to the unprecedented strong rock/metal-programming. A rising number of Dutchmen find their way to the festival. Ennepetal is located in the Ruhrgebied, two hours from Utrecht and about one hour of the border and so it is good to reach with the car.

Christmas Rock Night is a Christian music festival held annually during December in Ennepetal, Germany. The festival does not focus on particular styles of Christian music, but leans toward harder forms including metal and alternative.

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