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| December 25th, 2007 |
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| December 23rd, 2007 |
- MAROON issue massive touring update!
While MAROON’s newest slab of masterly executed modern metal “The
Cold Heart Of The Sun” (OUT NOW!) is receiving praise from media
and fans alike, the band is getting prepared for massive live activities
in the coming months. The band comments as follows:
“We are really happy to hit the road again to present you our
new album and will be supported by some killer bands that kick major
ass. So, be assured that we will be destroying a club near you soon…
stop crying and start dying!”
First up on MAROON’s tour schedule is a set of European shows
in November/December 2007 with Neaera, followed by another attack on
Europe’s stages in January 2008 with Bring Me The Horizon, Architects
and label mates Blessed By A Broken Heart. Thus, there is no way to
escape Germany’s metal powerhouse MAROON!
Furthermore, the video clip for the song “(Reach) The Sun”
has just been premiered at the band’s MySpace page. Also, don’t
miss a glimpse on the insanity of their release show October 20th. Watch
it now at www.myspace.com/maroonhate
See MAROON live at the following dates:
w/ Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn etc.
25.12.07 Leipzig (D), Werk
w/ Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Blessed By A Broken Heart
14.01.08 Trier (D), ExHaus
15.01.08 Hamburg (D), Knust
16.01.08 Berlin (D), Kato
17.01.08 Chemnitz (D), AJZ
18.01.08 Wien (A), Arena
19.01.08 Cesena (I), Vidia Club (w/ From Autumn to Ashes)
20.01.08 Trezzo d’Adda/Milano (I), Live Club (w/ From Autumn to
Ashes)
21.01.08 Luzern (CH), Sedel
22.01.08 Bochum (D), Matrix
23.01.08 Paris (F), Batofar
24.01.08 Martigny (CH), Les Caves du Maoir
25.01.08 Karlsruhe (D), Substage (w/ Misery Index, Despised Icon, Beneath
The Massacre, Man Must Die)
26.01.08 Hasselt (B), Muziek-O-Droom (w/ From Autumn To Ashes)
27.01.08 Tilburg (NL), 013
Visit MAROON @:
www.maroonhate.com
- DESPISED ICON premier new clip on MySpace!
Canadian death metal outfit DESPISED ICON has posted its stunning new
clip for “Furtive Monologue”, a song taken off their latest
crushing masterpiece “The Ills Of Modern Man”, at MySpace,
check it out @ www.myspace.com/despisedicon!
As previously reported, the band will start destroying European venues
in early 2008 with the mighty Misery Index as well as Beneath The Massacre,
Man Must Die (mainland Europe only), and Annotations Of An Autopsy (UK
only). So, have a look at the tour dates below and don’t miss
this awesome live package guaranteeing nothing but sheer brutality &
impressive technicality!
MISERY INDEX (headlining mainland Europe)
DESPISED ICON (headlining UK dates)
BENEATH THE MASSACRE
MAN MUST DIE
ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY
Presented by: Metal Hammer, Fuze Magazine, Legacy
25.01.2008 Germany - Karlsruhe @ Substage
26.01.2008 Germany - Essen @ Turock, Death Feast
27.01.2008 Belgium - Hasselt @ Muziek-o-droom
28.01.2008 UK - Brighton @ The Engine Room
29.01.2008 UK - Plymouth @ White Rabbit
30.01.2008 UK - Newport @ TJs
31.01.2008 UK - Manchester @ Music Box
01.02.2008 UK - Glasgow @ Soundhaus
02.02.2008 UK - Milton Keynes @ The Pitz Club
03.02.2008 UK - Leeds @ Rios
04.02.2008 UK - Nottingham @ Junktion7
05.02.2008 UK - London @ Underworld
06.02.2008 France - Dunkerque @ 4 Ecluses
07.02.2008 France - Paris @ Nouveau Casino
08.02.2008 Switzerland - Aarau @ Kiff
09.02.2008 Italy - Prato/Florence @ Siddhartha Club
10.02.2008 Austria - Wien @ Arena
11.02.2008 Germany - München @ Feierwerk
12.02.2008 Germany - Giessen @ MUK
13.02.2008 Germany - Berlin @ K17
14.02.2008 Germany - Hamburg @ Markthalle, MarX
15.02.2008 Holland - Tilburg @ 013
16.02.2008 Germany - Trier @ Exhaus
Booking: Avocado
Booking
www.myspace.com/despisedicon
www.centurymedia.com
- CELTIC FROST confirmed to headline Roadburn Festival 2008
Swiss avant-garde/metal pioneers CELTIC FROST have been confirmed as
the main headliner of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will
take place April 18-19, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Although CELTIC FROST are recognized as a pivotal influence on both
the extreme metal and gothic metal genres, Roadburn also considers CELTIC
FROST a seminal influence on the current stoner, doom and psychedelic
scene. Indeed, Roadburn feels CELTIC FROST merits notice alongside such
established pioneers as Hawkwind and Black Sabbath.
In celebration of this lesser-acknowledged side to the metal giants,
CELTIC FROST will perform a special one-off show at Roadburn, comprised
of a repertoire which will be slightly different from the tour repertoire
played in 2006 and 2007. CELTIC FROST will be playing on Saturday, April
19, 2008.
Vocalist/guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer comments:
"We are very proud to have been invited to headline Roadburn. Much
like CELTIC FROST, Roadburn follows an artistic path which deviates
slightly from the norm. We all think that Roadburn and CELTIC FROST
is a perfect combination, and we are looking forward very much to our
concert there."
Originally a spin-off of the Roadburn web site, the Roadburn Festival
has emerged as an event in its own right -- it was even nominated for
the prestigious “festival of the year” award in the Netherlands
this year. Roadburn brings together bands, fans and media from around
the world. Despite its international acclaim, Roadburn retains an underground
vibe and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values. Pre-sales
start at the end of November.
For more information, please visit www.roadburn.com
or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival
www.celticfrost.com
- THE AGONY SCENE new album “Get Damned” out in January
2008!
THE AGONY SCENE is firing on all cylinders on its inspired and lovingly
titled 3rd album, “Get Damned”, produced by Andreas Magnusson
(Black Dahlia Murder, Scarlet), which will hit European stores on January
21st, 2008. If you missed out on the first two albums, you’ll
want to hear this third, most mature and diverse offering from Tulsa,
Oklahoma’s finest purveyors of corrosive hardcore!
Featuring a new drummer (Ryan Folden), a new label home and a renewed
perspective, “Get Damned” is as highly charged and personal
a recording as you will hear from THE AGONY SCENE. The new album finds
the band fully embracing its sharper, more metallic elements, complete
with cutting riffs and just enough attitude to give it that recognizable
charm that has come to define THE AGONY SCENE.
A vicious new track, “Rapture”, was recently posted on their
MySpace page , so head over to www.myspace.com/agonyscene
to check it out now!
THE AGONY SCENE “Get Damned” track-listing:
1. Barnburner (03:05)
2. Predation (03:27)
3. Dances With Devils (03:01)
4. Adversary (03:28)
5. White Nights (04:15)
6. Rapture (03:21)
7. Deliverance (02:46)
8. Rattle Me Bones (02:29)
9. The Opposition (03:03)
10. Will To Bleed (03:08)
11. Old Scratch (04:29)
With a revitalized sound and spanking new record in their arsenal plus
an European tour with label mates Himsa currently in the works, expect
the unexpected when THE AGONY SCENE hits a town near you soon in support
of their best record yet.
- Magician posts sample of Prime Evil
- The power metal band MAGICIAN posted on their MySpace page a sample
of the song "Prime Evil", originally released in 2002, in
"Brief Magic Story" demo, which now has a new version, included
in the band's forthcoming album "Tales of the Magician".
The recordings of the new album were finished a few months ago, being
mixed and mastered in Germany by Arne Lakenmacher and the Gamma Ray
members Dirk Schlächter and Kai Hansen. The album will be released
in Brazil and Japan in the next months, as their video clip for the
song "Minstrel's Domain", which is actually being finished.
To listen the samples of the new Magician's album check www.myspace.com/magicianband
Magician
www.magician.com.br
www.myspace.com/magicianband
- THE FUNERAL PYRE offers update on a new record
Southern California's THE FUNERAL PYRE has issued an in-depth update
on the band's plans for 2008. Posted on the band's new blog page, fans
can check out a full update here.
"We'll be playing very select amounts of shows until the new year,"
writes the band's frontman. "But in January, we will be doing 9
shows with Book Of Black Earth from Seattle. So you can keep checking
back for the dates on that. After that, we'll be recording the new record.
So please do not ask us to play any shows for a while. We need a break.
Just keep checking back for the dates in January."
"The title I have been kicking around for this third record is
'Wounds'," he continues. "I'm not sure how you people will
react to this, but, it's not really bothering me. I feel that this title
sums up the lyrical content to a T...Which is what I am excited about.
We are finishing songs, playing them live and fine tuning what will
be the third installment in The Funeral Pyre career of metal. It's been
a long time already, to think that we're already on our third record!?
Nobody would have ever guessed we'd be here. I mean, we're not popular
or anything, but hey, I like to think that we've accomplished a lot!
If you have heard any of the new songs live, I'd really enjoy if you
could give us some feedback about what you thought of them. These songs
will be different than 'The Nature Of Betrayal' but yet the same...It's
a big cycle we go through, you hear the same music, but it sounds different.
How does that work? I'm not quite sure, but you will find out in 2008."
The band continues to support its Prosthetic Records debut, 'The Nature
of Betrayal' which saw a February 2007 re-release through a distribution
deal with Creator Destructor Records. THE FUNERAL PYRE recently returned
from tour with the Bay Area punk/metal band Apiary after a two week
tour of the West Coast.
www.prostheticrecords.com
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| December 14th, 2007 |
- IRON MAIDEN ANNOUNCE NEW JERSEY SHOW!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IRON MAIDEN announce a one off show at the Izod Center (formerly Continental
Airlines Arena), East Rutherford, NJ on Friday March 14th, 2008 as part
of the first leg of their ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’ World
Tour 2008.
The band will fly into the USA especially for this one show from Puerto
Rico the day before and depart for Toronto the day after on a specially
commissioned and customised Boeing 757, flown by Airline Captain and
Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson. The Astraeus 757, decked out in Maiden
and Eddie designs, will carry the band, road crew and other personnel
of around 70 people plus over 12 tons of equipment.
This first leg of the ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’ World Tour
opens in Mumbai India on Feb 1st, and continues through Australia and
Japan before arriving in LA. The entourage then fly to Mexico then the
band’s first ever concerts in Costa Rica and Columbia, and then
on to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rica and New York, before finishing
in Toronto, Canada, on March 16th. Over the 45 day period the it is
anticipated that Maiden will play to well over 400,000 fans in 21 cities
in 10 countries, flying close to 50,000 miles in the specially refitted
plane (full schedule below).
Comments Bruce Dickinson, “I have been flying commercial passenger
jets for Astraeus Airlines for a few years now and we are commissioning
an Astraeus Boeing 757. It will go in for overhaul, painting and conversion
in November which will then give us time to ensure we have all the necessary
safety documentation, especially with regard to fire safety. It also
means it could possibly be flying commercial air routes decked out in
Maiden colours for a couple of months before we start!
“Looking at the list of places we would like to play we have always
had problems joining up the dots. With sea containers in various places
it slows down the whole touring process, which is fine if you want a
holiday but not if you want to play. It’s great to see places
but we don’t want to sit around for a week waiting for gear to
get from, say, Australia to South America, so this way we can get to
more fans in more places en route in the same time period”.
To tie in with forthcoming 2008 releases on DVD of the classic ‘LIVE
AFTER DEATH’ concert video (full details coming soon) this tour,
aptly entitled ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’, will revisit the
band’s history by focusing almost entirely on the 80’s in
both choice of songs played and the stage set, which will be based around
the legendary Egyptian Production of the 1984-85 ‘Powerslave Tour’.
This will arguably be the most elaborate and spectacular show the band
have ever presented, and will include some key elements of their Somewhere
In Time tour of 1986/7, such as the Cyborg Eddie.
Steve Harris comments; “We made sure the tour stopped off in New
York, or to be more accurate, New Jersey, but to us Brits it’s
all a great arena to play with some of the loudest fans anywhere! We’ve
had so many memorable nights there over the years – both on stage
and off! - and played many different venues, including the Gardens and
the seven nights at Radio City with the original Powerslave show in
1984. But one of our favourites was always what we still call Meadowlands,
it’s always a great crowd there. l always loved the Powerslave
show which I think was arguably our most spectacular ever, so it will
be a pleasure to take it there. We’re all going to have a great
time with this tour!!”
The Iron Maiden fan club have arranged an exclusive first access pre-sale
for members to buy Tickets to the show on Tuesday November 6th, before
tickets go on sale to the public on November 10th.
To allow fans to be right up close to the band, the fan club will also
be running a special draw whereby 60 winners and friend at each show
will be given first access to the venue enabling them to be first to
the stage barrier. Full details can be found on www.ironmaiden.com.
The fan club are also arranging for two fan club winners to get up on
stage and join Maiden with the chorus of ‘Heaven Can Wait’.
Members of the public should tune into "Friday Night Rocks"
with Eddie Trunk on
Q104.3 (WAXQ FM) NYC from 11 P.M to 2 A.M Friday evenings for details
on their
chance to join them in this once in a lifetime opportunity to sing along
with
Iron Maiden live on stage at the Izod Center.
Tickets on sale for the Izod Center concert go on sale to the general
public beginning Saturday, November 10th at 10:00 A.M. Tickets: Reserved
($59.50, $49.50, $39.50) and General Admission Floor ($59.50) available
at Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com or charge-by-phone
at 201-507-8900 or 212-307-7171.
If tickets remain, they will be available at the Box Office beginning
Monday, November 12th.Full schedule for the first leg of 'SOMEWHERE
BACK IN TIME' World Tour 08
February
Fri 1st Mumbai, India Bandra Kurla Complex
Mon 4th Perth, Australia Burswood Dome
Wed 6th Melbourne, Australia Rod Laver Arena
Thu 7th Melbourne, Australia Rod Laver Arena
Sat 9th Sydney, Australia Acer Arena
Sun 10th Sydney, Australia Acer Arena
Tue 12th Brisbane, Australia Entertainment Centre
Fri 15th Yokohama, Japan Pacifico Yokohama
Sat 16th Tokyo, Japan Messe
Tue 19th Los Angeles, USA The Forum
Thu 21st Guadalajara, Mexico Auditoria Telmex
Fri 22nd Monterrey, Mexico Monterrey Arena
Sun 24th Mexico City, Mexico Sports Palace
Tue 26th San Jose, Costa Rica Saprisa Stadium
Thu 28th Bogota, Columbia Simon Bolivar Park March
Sun 2nd Sao Paulo, Brazil Skol Arena Anhembi
Wed 5th Porto Allegre, Brazil Gigantinho
Fri 7th Buenos Aires, Argentina Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium
Sun 9th Santiago, Chile Pista Atletica
Wed 12th Puerto Rico San Juan Coliseo
Fri 14th New Jersey, USA Izod Center (formerly Continental Airlines
Arena)
Sun 16th Toronto, Canada Air Canada Centre
The second leg of the Tour will take place mid May to mid June with
further concerts in North America, followed by the third leg European
Tour, extensively covering most of Europe in Stadiums and major Festivals.
In total the band are expected to play to well in excess of one and
a half million fans during the entire tour.HISTORY BEHIND THE POWERSLAVE
TOUR AND LIVE AFTER DEATH VIDEO
The band recorded and released their first five studio albums (Iron
Maiden, Killers,The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave)
one year after the next (1980 – 1984) and toured the world extensively
with each one.
The ‘Powerslave’ Tour of 1984-5 also included choice songs
from the first four albums, and was actually titled the ‘World
Slavery Tour’. It opened in Warsaw on Aug 9 1984, marking the
first time a major band from the West had played large arenas in Poland
at a time when the country was still very much “Behind the Iron
Curtain”. On top of this Maiden took with them their full spectacular
arena show, again a first as no one had ever done that before in Poland.
The tour continued through 193 concerts in 21 countries, including an
incredible 112 arena shows in the USA and Canada, in both of which the
album went Platinum, playing to over one and a quarter million fans
in North America alone.
The tour finally came to a (weary!!) end on July 5 1985 at Irvine Meadows
(now Verizon) Amphitheatre just South of Los Angeles, marking the longest
and most gruelling tour the band have ever attempted. The band and the
lavish Egyptian stage production generated stunning reviews and arenas
around the planet were sold out.
March 14, 15, 16, 17 saw the band play 4 sold out consecutive nights
at LA’s 13,200 capacity Long Beach Arena. Tickets went on sale
at 10 am on a Saturday morning with fans waiting overnight for the box
office to open. When the first show sold out almost immediately and
the second was being added some fans got rather restive as they felt
they may not get tickets and this led to the LAPD being called in and
LA press reporting riots! Tickets continued to sell and shows added
until after about 10 days the band called a halt at a record breaking
4 sold out shows - a record which still stands to this day.
It was during the 2nd and 3rd nights here that the band recorded and
filmed, in 35mm, what was to become the legendary LIVE AFTER DEATH album
and concert video, featuring tracks from their first five albums. This
was one of the first ever full concert videos with a worldwide release
and topped the new video charts everywhere.
It was these concerts that also inspired the idea for the birth of one
of the first specialist Metal Radio Station in America, KNAC, and certainly
the most successful. The originators could not believe that a band could
sell over 50,000 tickets in LA with no radio support EVER in the marketplace
and wisely reckoned that there must be a massive underground market
for this band and this music and went on to start a unique station which
has had great success ever since and became synonymous with Metal in
the USA.
Says KNAC founder Long Paul ; “The Iron Maiden shows were presented
by KLOS FM, now a classic rock format, and they were not playing the
band, nor was any commercial radio in the market at the time. KNAC at
that point was an alternative format radio station, the programmers
looked at string of sold out dates at Long Beach and thus was the catalyst
to make the decision to flip to rock/metal as Pure Rock 105.5 FM.”
A review of the concert is reproduced below to give some idea of the
show -
Heavy Rock Happenings
By Mark Hanser
Being both a headbanger and a history major, I must confess that any
metal act that concern themselves with my two pet historical periods
– Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe – are bound to receive
my rapt attention, particularly if they’re any good. In Iron Maiden’s
case, the band’s fantastic, even without their chronological fantasies.
Mystical and magical, cerebral and sonic, Maiden’s rivalled only
by Judas priest as metal’s greatest live act – something
they proved a thousandfold at Long Beach’s Arena for four ear-splitting
nights, starting Thursday the fourteenth.
Iron Maiden, it must be mentioned, don’t just put on a show –
they stage a spectacular. And, good God, what a spectacular it was!
Imagine, if you will, a stage lifted from the valleys of Luxor; with
pylons like pyramids and funeral pyres, or lighting scaffolds covered
with scarabs and runes, further arranged like a dragonfly’s wings.
Imagine, too, music so riff-laden and magnetic that each song erupts
into an eargasm – and with lyrics both clever and literary, no
less. Maiden, you see, dabble in mythology, not misogyny; so instead
of hearing singer Bruce Dickinson scream Kiss retreads, the Arena’s
ears heard such stuff as “The Flight Of Icarus” (you recall,
I trust, the tale of Icarus and Daedalus from your high-school primers)
and “Rime of The Ancient Mariner” – bassist Steve
Harris’ masterful reworking of the Coleridge classic, and the
piece de resistance of Powerslave (Capitol), their fifth and finest
studio recording. Entertaining, melodic and enervating, Maiden’s
music is like manna from Heaven in an age of Sammy Hagars.
Opening with “Aces High” – which segued into their
anti-nuclear anthem, “Two Minutes to Midnight” – the
Maidens set the stage afire with instrumental fury. The twinlead guitars
of Dave Murray and Adrian Smith became, and remained so throughout the
show, textbook examples of metallic transcendence; only Priest’s
Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing can match them in imagination, and not
always as artfully. Rhythmically, bassist Harris and drums-basher Nicko
McBrain are no less remarkable building aural tensions instead of aimless
boogies. And singer Dickinson, what with his air-raid siren screams
and cerebrally witty asides to the audience, is something else again.
Surely Ronnie Dio never had a more attentive pupil.
Nor was Dickinson any slouch as a showman, either. During the song “Powerslave,”
he donned a fearsome, Horus-like falcon mask, and pranced before a suddenly-blazing
pyre. It wasn’t Cleopatra, perhaps (nor was Elizabeth Taylor in
the front row this time for that matter), but it made for some wonderful
rock theatre all the same. If the singer was upstaged by anybody, it
was by Eddie the Ghoul, then band’s nine foot (and mummified,
this time) mascot, who dutifully appeared and danced before the knowing
masses. As a whole, the band played loud and (not unpleasantly) long,
with a (pleasant) minimum of soloing. They encored firstly with their
medieval battle-merch, “Run To The Hills,” and secondly
with “Running Free,” a relic from the now-ancient Killers.
Then Dickinson, as is his wont, bade the audience a safe journey home.
Such was the show, but such a show!
The Long Beach Union – March 25-31, 1985
Some recent background information : -
In the last year or so IRON MAIDEN have -
On September 2006 released A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH’, their
most recent and critically acclaimed 14th studio album.
* No 1 International Album in Billboard Magazine
* No 1 album in 10 countries. Top 10 album in 30 countries
* Top 10 in the USA, number 2 in Canada
* The highest placed rock album ever in India where it reached No. 2
, twice!
and played extensive shows around the world including being –
* The first metal band to put on a major concert in India playing to
a sold out 25,000 fans in Bangalore, apparently the biggest rock show
ever in India
* The first band to headline Download Festival in Donington UK for a
record breaking fourth time to 70,000 fans
* The first band to sell out Desert Rock Festival in Dubai to 20,000
fans.
* Record breaking sell out of Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden –
57,000 tickets sold in two and a half hours over 9 months in advance
of the date!
* 360,000 tickets sold across their 100% SOLD OUT European Tour in the
Autumn of 2006 with 28 arena shows including 40,000 tickets sold in
Stockholm over 3 nights, 30,000 in London, 25,000 in Milan and Helsinki
and 19,000 in Barcelona.
* Three Canadian shows SOLD OUT to 40,000 fans and 16,000 tickets sell
out weeks in advance of their Los Angeles Show in Oct 06.
* Played to 250,000 fans at their show in Rio. Brazil in 2001, plus
35,000 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 25,000 in Santiago, Chile
* 0ver 40,000 tickets sold in the first hour when the Australian arena
dates in Feb 08 went on sale recently, with Melbourne and Sydney shows
sold out in just 15 and 25 minutes respectively, leading to second shows
being added immediately in each city
For more information go to www.ironmaiden.com
- YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, FORBIDDEN Confirmed For Germany's BANG YOUR HEAD!!
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE and the reunited San Francisco Bay Area
thrashers FORBIDDEN have been confirmed for next year's Bang Your Head!!!
festival, set to take place June 27-28, 2008 at Messegelände in
Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:
SAXON
TRAMP'S WHITE LION
GREAT WHITE
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE
RAGE
GRAVE DIGGER
TANKARD
ENSIFERUM
ONSLAUGHT
FORBIDDEN
KORPIKLAANI
LIZZY BORDEN
AGENT STEEL
BREAKER
TYR
AGE OF EVIL
CONTRACRASH
For more information, visit www.bang-your-head.de.
AEA Zine
- CELTIC FROST To Perform Special Set At Holland's ROADBURN FESTIVAL
Swiss avant-garde/metal pioneers CELTIC FROST have been confirmed as
the main headliner of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will
take place April 18-19, 2008 at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Although CELTIC FROST is recognized as a pivotal influence on both the
extreme metal and gothic metal genres, Roadburn also considers CELTIC
FROST a seminal influence on the current stoner, doom and psychedelic
scene. Indeed, Roadburn feels CELTIC FROST merits notice alongside such
established pioneers as HAWKWIND and BLACK SABBATH.
In celebration of this lesser-acknowledged side to the metal giants,
CELTIC FROST will perform a special one-off show at Roadburn, comprised
of a repertoire which will be slightly different from the tour repertoire
played in 2006 and 2007.
CELTIC FROST will be playing on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
Vocalist/guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer comments: "We are very proud
to have been invited to headline Roadburn. Much like CELTIC FROST, Roadburn
follows an artistic path which deviates slightly from the norm. We all
think that Roadburn and CELTIC FROST is a perfect combination, and we
are looking forward very much to our concert there."
Originally a spin-off of the Roadburn web site, the Roadburn Festival
has emerged as an event in its own right - it was even nominated for
the prestigious "Festival Of The Year" award in the Netherlands
this year. Roadburn brings together bands, fans and media from around
the world.
Despite its international acclaim, Roadburn retains an underground vibe
and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values.
Pre-sales start at the end of November.
AEA Zine
- COMMUNIC Confirmed For UK's BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR
Norwegian progressive power metallers COMMUNIC have been confirmed for
the Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 15-17, 2008
at Catton Hall in Derbyshire England. Also scheduled to appear are the
Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR, the reunited AT THE
GATES, Finnish folk/pagan metal band MOONSORROW and the Finnish doomsters
SWALLOW THE SUN. Fan-filmed video footage of COMMUNIC's September 1,
2007 concert at Plato in Helmond, the Netherlands can be viewed below.
COMMUNIC recently toured Europe as the support band for U.K. progressive
metallers THRESHOLD. Also appearing on the bill were MACHINE MEN and
SERENITY.
COMMUNIC's sophomore effort, "Waves of Visual Decay", entered
the German chart at position No. 66 back in May 2006.
AEA Zine
- ICED EARTH To Tour U.S. Next Spring
According to a posting on ICED EARTH's official web site, the band is
planning on hitting the road in the U.S. in March/April 2008, to be
followed by tours in Australia, Canada, Japan and Russia, among other
countries. More details will be announced soon.
ICED EARTH's new song "Framing Armageddon" has been posted
on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new album,
"Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part I", which sold
7,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut
at position No. 78 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD is the follow-up
to 2004's "The Glorious Burden", which has shifted more than
70,000 copies in the U.S. to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
ICED EARTH's official web site, IcedEarth.com, has posted a 33-minute
minute audio interview it conducted with Jon Schaffer on September 24,
2007. Topics covered in the interview include the relevance of chart
positions in the Internet age, the impact of illegal music downloads
on the band's touring schedule, "Something Wicked Part II"
recording update, the upcoming November UK tour with HEAVEN AND HELL,
touring in 2008, and future plans for the "Set Abominae"/"Something
Wicked" storyline. The interview, in MP3 format (30 MB), is available
for download at this location.
"Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part 1" (cover artwork)
expands the "Something Wicked" storyline first introduced
in the trilogy of the same name appearing on the 1998 release, "Something
Wicked This way Comes". "Framing Armageddon" will be
followed in February/March 2008 by the band's ninth full-length studio
release, tentatively titled "Revelation Abomination - Something
Wicked Part 2" , continuing where "Framing Armageddon"
leaves off.
ICED EARTH will support HEAVEN AND HELL on a U.K. tour beginning on
November 4 in Newcastle.
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- AKASHIC's guitarist posts live video of Vittorio Monti's Czardas
- It's available on YouTube a video of Marcos de Ros, guitarist of the
progressive metal band AKASHIC, playing "Czardas", of Vittorio
Monti. It was recorded live in 2006, and with him played the musicians
Gustavo and João Viegas.
Czardas is a traditional Hungarian folk dance, which was popularized
by Roma music bands in Hungary and neighboring lands. Its origins can
be traced back to the 18th century Hungarian verbunkos, used as a recruiting
dance by the Hungarian army. Czardas is characterized by a variation
in tempo: it starts out slowly (lassú) and ends in a very fast
tempo. The best known "Czardas" is by Vittorio Monti written
for violin and piano.
Watch the video through the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAnyzL3FuA
More information and samples of Akashic' and Marcos de Ros' works are
available on MySpace at www.myspace.com/akashicrock
and www.myspace.com/marcosderos
Akashic Press
www.akashic.com.br
www.myspace.com/akashicrock
- MACBETH - UK TOUR!
SUPERANGELIC HATE BRINGERS UK TOUR 2008!
Italian gothic metallers MACBETH will embark on a tour through UK the
next spring. KatBGini from England will be the supporting act.
Here are the currently confirmed tour dates:
April 23 - MIDDLESBOROUGH - The Empire
April 24 - EDINBURGH - The Liquid Rooms
April 25 - PRESTON - The Venue
April 26 - NEWCASTLE Upon Tyne - Carling Academy
April 27 - LIVERPOOL - Barfly Club
April 29 - ASHTON Under Lyne - The Witchwood
April 30 - Mansfield NOTTINGHAM - The Mill
May 1 - SHEFFILED - The Boardwalk Live
May 2 - LEEDS - Rios
May 3 - MANCHESTER - Manchester Club Academy
Visit the official website www.macbeth.it
or the band myspace page www.myspace.com/macbethband
to see exactly where the online sales will start.
The Italian tour to promote the fourth album of the band just started.
“Superangelic Hate Bringers” will be released on November
the 16th.
- ROB ZOMBIE CONFIRMS JANUARY TOUR DATES
The long-awaited first live album from Rob Zombie Zombie - Live (Geffen
Records/UME)
OUT NOW
HOLLYWOOD (November 3, 2007) – Rob Zombie has confirmed his continued
tour support with Ozzy Osbourne as we enter 2008. Zombie will invade
North America with his legendary rock show and Ozzy in support of his
long awaited Zombie-Live album in stores now.
Come join the madness as Ozzy and Zombie take over North America ~
Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Zombie tour dates:
Sat 12/15 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts - ZOMBIE ONLY*
Sun 12/16 - Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena
Tue 12/18 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena
Thu 12/20 - Cleveland, OH - Wolstein Center at CSU
Fri 12/21 - Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall - ZOMBIE ONLY*
Sat 12/22 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
Thu 01/03 - Portland, ME - Cumberland County Civic Center
Sat 01/05 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center
Tue 01/08 - Worcester, MA - DCU Center
Thu 01/10 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Spectrum
Sat 01/12 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
Mon 01/14 - Quebec City, QC - Colisee Pepsi Arena
Wed 01/16 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
Sat 01/19 - London, ON - John LaBatt Centre
Mon 01/21 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
For more information www.robzombie.com
or www.myspace.com/robzombie
- Stigma Releases Artwork For Debut Album!
Italian deathcore act STIGMA has revealed the artwork (http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Stigmavlad/Cover2.jpg)
for their debut album, "When Midnight Strikes!" Recorded at
Db Studios with producer Ettore Rigotti (DISARMONIA MUNDI), the album
is slated to be due out in spring 2008 through Pivotal Rockordings.
STIGMA has been mentioned in RockSound Magazine as the “watch
out” band of the month."When Midnight Strikes" will
feature guest appearances from Tim Zlinsky
(THE CLASSIC STRUGGLE), Jacob Bredahl (ex HATESPHERE), Alberto Zannier
(SLOWMOTION APOCALYPSE), Ivan Odorico (SLOWMOTION APOCALYPSE), and Mike
Lunacy (DARK LUNACY). A video for the first single, “I Am Dracula,”
was filmed by WhereCloudsPart and features a cameo appearance from Belgian
break dancer Metal Girl. The trailer can be viewed on the band’s
myspace page at (http://www.myspace.com/stigmhc)
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