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  • Last of the X-Mas tickets and the best wishes for the new year!

    The Dong cow counts the final hours of the year and thinks of all the beautiful things that happened in 2023. We wish you all the best for what’s left of this year – and a fantastic new year! You can do your part in paving the way for this by finalizing your plans for…

  • Merry Christmas

    Ho-ho-happy Christmas from the barn of the Dong Cow! Wishing you relaxing days with people you love! Enjoy the time, be kind to eat other, and look forward to the fact that the days are getting longer again. And how do you feed that anticipation? By looking forward to the long summer nights – on…

  • Early Bird tickets gone, 50 % of all tickets sold, X-Mas ticket available until Dec 31!

    The Early Birds have flown, but we do have an option for your thoughtful Christmas gifts this year: The X-Mas tickets! You can find the X-Mas ticket on dongopenair.de at the best price, which is valid until Dec 31, 2023! Of course, you can also get your beer vouchers, discounted youth tickets, as well as…

  • Dong Open Air 2024 tickets available now!

    Dong Open Air 2024 tickets available now! Where? At dongopenair.de. Today (and only today) you can get Early Bird tickets at the best price all day long! Of course, beer tokens are available, too, and youth tickets can be bought at a discounted price! So if you want to come to beautiful Mount Moshmore and…

  • Blind Guardian return to Dong – new video teaser!

    Now you all know the bards and their sooooongs. Sorry, 2022 was just so incredible, we couldn’t resist inviting Hansi Kürsch and his band to come back. So with our new video teaser it’s official: Blind Guardian are coming back to the Hill! A brief look back: Founded around 40 years ago, the band obviously…

  • Behemoth, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, The Night Flight Orchestra, and Wucan check in at Dong!

    Ladies and gentlemen! Four days to go until the pre-sale for D.O.A 2024 starts – and here are four more bands you can look forward to: Behemoth, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, The Night Flight Orchestra and Wucan! Behemoth are Poland’s metal flagship and internationally known as one of the most inspiring extreme bands of the last…

  • In Extremo, Equilibrium, and Deserted Fear set the Hill on fire!

    Dear Dong community, the time has come, here we go with the first bands for the 22nd Dong Open Air! In Extremo are back on the Hill! In 2017, the biggest medieval rock band of our time already blew us off Mount Moshmore with an impressive amount of noise and flame – And they are…

  • Ticket sale for 2024 starts on Dec 3!

    Dear Dong community, The pre-sale for the 22nd Dong Open Air starts on Sunday, December 3rd, as always in our shop on dongopenair.de and on metaltix.com The best part: The affordable early-bird tickets are no longer limited to a certain number! They will be available for the entire first day, i.e. until Sunday at midnight.…

  • Application phase closed!

    Dearest Underground, We always wonder: Who are you and how many? And your answer is always overwhelming. We have already received close to 500 applications. And we’re going to listen to them. All of them. So it is with a heavy heart that we need to close the application platform for this year at this…

  • Application phase kickoff for 2024

    Supporting Underground since 2001! But how do we find this underground? Straightforward answer: The underground ground finds us. Today, the annual application phase starts in our application platform. Who can apply? Any band that feels like playing Mount Moshmore sometime between July 11th and 13th 2024 and manages to provide at least three audio samples…