United We Rock !

That's right, its that time of the year again, where the build up to the Dubai Desert Rock Festival begins with the annual battle of the bands "United We Rock (formerly known as Shamal - Battle 4 DDRF )" 2009 is shaping up to be a pretty eventful year for the city's metal heads, on February 13th the almighty Iron Maiden makes a stop to play a show as part of their "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour ’" then on March 6th its the annual 2 day DDRF with a great line up so far Arch Enemy, Opeth, Chimaira, and August Burns Red (with more bands to be announced) are going to be a part of the 2 day festival.


The official United We Rock website was recently launched, and announced the 8 finalists that will get to compete for a spot at 2009's DDRF and also perform at Germany's With Full Force Festival, this is the first time the winning band will get to play at 2 major festivals, which will be a great push for the lucky head bangers, and also With Full Force will pick the best band from Germany to play at DDRF (awesome idea !).

The 8 finalists that you can now vote for on UnitedWeRockBattle.com are:

3PM (Saudi Arabia)
Abhorred (UAE)
Scarab (Egypt)
Bilocate (Jordan)
Beneath The Remains (UAE)
Perversion (UAE)
Sun King (UAE)
The Metaphysics (Iran)

Go check out the bands, vote for your favorite over at UnitedWeRockBattle.com, help spread the word and let the neck breaking begin !