Primordial continue to promote their highly acclaimed latest studio album, Exile Amongst The Ruins, which was released worldwide via Metal Blade Records in 2018.
The band will therefore be embarking on a next, re-scheduled third leg of the “Heathen Crusade” across Europe in April and have furthermore confirmed various international festival appearances for 2021, also in celebration of Primordial’s 30th Anniversary since inception in 1991.
Due to a conflict of schedule, original co-headliners Moonsorrow won’t be able to join the crusade this time.
But we are proud to announce that Swedish Black Metal legends Naglfar will join our ranks to promote their new album “Cerecloth”, which was released via Century Media Records in May 2020.
Primordial vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga comments as follows: “What can we say? 2020 has been dark, we hope for a shard of light in 2021 and announce the Heathen Crusade once more for April 2021. Naglfar join us on the field of battle and Rome again will open! We hope you still have your will power and sanity left! Stand strong and we will see you all next year we hope!”
Andreas Nilsson from Naglfar also commented about joining the tour:
“Together with Primordial we have decided to embark on a sonic crusade across Europe. We have been eagerly awaiting this. The time has come to shroud the world in Cerecloth.”
Primordial’s Exile Amongst The Ruins album entered various international sales charts upon release as follows: Germany: # 9, Austria: # 26, Switzerland: # 27, Finland (physical album charts): # 6, Sweden (physical album charts): # 21, Sweden (metal charts): #5, UK (rock & metal album charts): # 18, UK (independent charts): # 39, USA Current Hard Music Albums: # 20, USA Top New Artist Albums: # 28, USA Record Label Independent Current Albums: # 61, USA Top New Artist Albums Consumption: # 104, Canada Top 200: #140 and Canada Hard Music Charts: #40.
Following the announcement of the UK dates, Michael Schenker Fest is pleased to announce mainland Europe tour dates. The band will be stopping off in Holland, Switzerland and Spain. We can also now announce a very special guest for the European shows! Ronnie Romero, who featured on the bands last studio release with his song ‘We are the voice’, will be with Michael Schenker Fest for all European gigs on this tour.
50 YEARS OF CLASS! This tour will be celebrating Michael’s Golden Anniversary in music, commencing with the exciting news that Michael Schenker Fest will be playing eight shows across UK./ Europe in April 2020. The tour is dubbed the ‘Revelation Tour’, so named after Michael’s killer new record released by Nuclear Blast.
Michael commented: “Michael Schenker Fest will be touring the UK / Europe to promote the brand new studio album ‘Revelation’ in April 2020, as well as celebrating 50 years of Michael Schenker. We will have a fresh set list and there could even be some extra special guests!”
To make things even more special Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons were confirmed as special guests on the UK tour. It’s perfect opportunity for Phil and his Bastard Sons to showcase tracks from his recently released solo album ‘Old Lions Still Roar’
After the successful release of ‘By Blood Sworn‘ in 2018, a full European tour and glorious festival shows all over Europe, the ROSS THE BOSS band returns to Europe in April 2020 to promote their upcoming new album on AFM Records:
‚We The Ross the Boss Band are really excited to announce this monster Euro tour. After working so hard this year on our new record Born of Fire, we are ready to unleash it. But dont worry, we are still playing all the classic tunes that WE ALL LOVE. Do not miss these shows. It’s an amazing package of unbridled metallic and RnR power!!!‘
Ross and his band are teaming up with the Swiss all girl metal outfit BURNING WITCHES and the UK Rock N’ Metal psychos ASOMVEL.
The Burning Witches will release their new album in March on Nuclear Blast Records:
‚Those are exciting news for us – of course we are big MANOWAR fans! So when we got asked to join ROSS THE BOSS on this European tour, we were thrilled & flabbergasted! It is a big honor to share the stage with such great & experienced musicians! This is a kick ass billing for Heavy Metal maniacs – we hope to see many WITCHES disciples out there next April!‘
And Ralph from Asomvel comments:
“If you think ASOMVEL is excited to be part of this Ross the Boss tour, come around & check our underwear!“
METAL HAMMER, Guitar, Metal.de, Tough Magazine, Kalle Rock & Dragon Productions present:
PRIMORDIAL and MOONSORROW return for their third Heathen Crusade!
14 years after their first European ‘Heathen Crusade’ and only 2 years after the second Crusade, Primordial and Moonsorrow will invade Europe again, bringing their double co-headliner brand to another 6 European countries during 9 days.
As very special guest they will bring the neo-folk one man act ROME to round up the tour package.
Moonsorrow guitarist Mitja Harvilahti states:
“Hark ye heathens!
The time has come for Heathen Crusade 3. We shall join forces with our brethren Primordial from the Republic of Ireland! We have toured together many times since 2006 and it’s about time we bring this package to some new cities as well as familiar ones. The age of gods has come to the age of man and this will be the last tour before the next chapter in Moonsorrow.”
While Primordial singer Alan Averill says:
“With great pleasure we can announce a further chapter to the Heathen Crusade Legacy with our brothers from Moonsorrow. Some different cities and
different countries we have never brought the Crusaders to! We will be playing a set of songs from the wilderness in our catalogue. Rarely heard 5nd obscure songs
that rarely get performed. We also add the neo-folk musical cutural phenomenon of Rome to the bill as something unique and different. See you all again soon”
The Canadian Heavy Metal Maniacs EXCITER will return to Europe for two weeks in November/December to annihilate stages in 7 countries across the pond.
These are very special shows as it will be the first proper tour of Europe since the 1986 “Easter Metal Blast” with Motörhead & Manowar. In fact, the maniacs will be hitting territories we haven’t played at all since that ’86 tour including England, Belgium, Switzerland, & Netherlands.
Vocalist/drummer Dan Beehler has a personal message for all the fans overseas:
“Maniacs – get ready for some oldschool punishment as we bring the EXCITER machine pounding through Europe – see you at the front, long live the loud!”
Joining EXCITER as special guest on these dates will be the UK’s ASOMVEL.
Tour dates listed below:
27.11.2019 ES – Zaragoza, Cívico Delícias*** 29.11.2019 UK – London, New Cross Inn 30.11.2019 DE – Hagen, Kultopia 01.12.2019 DE – Mannheim, 7er Club 03.12.2019 IT – Rome, Traffic Club 04.12.2019 IT – Milan, Slaughter Club 05.12.2019 CH – Winterthur, Gaswerk 06.12.2019 NL – Tilburg, De Nieuwe Vorst 07.12.2019 BE – Kuurne, Blast from the Past Festival 08.12.2019 DE – Hamburg, Bambi Galore *** – Only Exciter Presented by DEAF FOREVER, metal.de, & Dragon Productions
On September 6th, Finnish melodic metal titans SONATA ARCTICA will release their tenth studio album, called »Talviyö« (which means»Winter Night«),includingeleven new tracks. Today, the band proudly announce their “The Raven still flies over Europe” tour, that is going to kick off on November 11th in Stockholm. On the tour, SONATA ARCTICA will be accompanied by EDGE OF PARADISE and TEMPLE BALLS.
The band states:
‘After working our asses off since last summer with our new album, we finally got it done and now is the time to go back out on the road with some exciting new material and new shenanigans and what have you.
Last spring we had a really amazing time touring in Europe with the acoustic stuff and I’m sure it will be just as fun to come back once again and make some new memories together. We got a couple of killer support bands with us, so there’s definitely some great nights ahead for all of us. Cheers!’
The pre-order for the German tickets will start on July 11th on Eventim.de, on all other ticket seller pages on July 13th.
EMP, Metal Hammer, Musix, Rock It, Hardline, Metal.de, Nuclear Blast & Dragon Productions present SONATA ARCTICA The Raven still flies over Europe + Edge of Paradise + Temple Balls 11.11.2019 SE - Stockholm, Kraken 12.11.2019 NO - Oslo, Parkteatret 13.11.2019 NO - Trondheim, Byscenen 15.11.2019 SE - Trollhättan, Folkets Park 16.11.2019 DK - Aarhus, Train 17.11.2019 DE - Berlin, Bi Nuu 18.11.2019 DE - Mannheim, MS Connexion Complex 19.11.2019 DE - Leipzig, Hellraiser 21.11.2019 SK- Zvolen, Rates Arena 22.11.2019 RO - Cluj Napoca, Form Space 23.11.2019 BG - Sofia, Music Jam Club 25.11.2019 HU - Budapest, Barba Negra 26.11.2019 AT - Vienna, ((Szene)) 27.11.2019 CH - Pratteln, Z7 29.11.2019 IT - Padova, Hall 30.11.2019 IT - Milan, Live Club 01.12.2019 FR - Lyon, Le Ninkasi Kao 02.12.2019 FR - Paris, La machine du Moulin Rouge 04.12.2019 ES - Madrid, La Riviera 05.12.2019 ES - Barcelona, Salamandra 06.12.2019 FR - Limoge, Cc John Lennon 07.12.2019 BE - Izegem, Cultuurhuis De Leest 08.12.2019 FR - Pagney, Chez Paulette 11.12.2019 UK - London, The Electric Ballroom 12.12.2019 NL - Tilburg, 013 13.12.2019 DE - Hamburg, Markthalle 14.12.2019 DE - Bochum, Matrix
After
the release of their new album ‘A Prayer For The Loud’ last week and entering
the Danish charts at #1, D-A-D announce the European leg of ‘A Tour For The Loud’.
“This
will be the real thing” says D-A-D’s lead singer Jesper Binzer. “Playing
festivals is fine and dandy, but an hour of D-A-D is just scraping the surface
– shows in your local rock club will always be what Rock’n’Roll is all about –
a sweaty gathering of the loud… and that’s just what we’ll be doing! What
about you? Are you coming?”
New York City’s heavy metal warriors RIOT V announces ‘Armor of Light Tour 2019’ with UK classic rockers ASOMVEL and the Berlin metal punk phenomenon INDIAN NIGHTMARE.
RIOT V will perform at Sabaton Open Air, Turock Open Air and headline the traditional Trveheim Festival. In between, the band will be touring over selected club shows in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland.
NITROGODS are coming with their strongest Album to date “Rebel Dayz” on tour! 14 Tracks with the raw violence and power of their lieve shows, full dirtiness and Rock’n’Roll. Along with them are the Swedish Pioneers PSYCHOPUNCH and the Swiss Heavy Rockers MAXXWELL.
Henny from the Nitrogods states: With the new album, we are as close the live sound of Nitrogods as ever. We are eager to release this monster on humanity, and looking forward to the “Rebel Dayz” tour in the fall with our Swedish friends Psychopunch and the superb Maxxwell from Switzerland.
Jarmo from Psychopunch adds: With a new record label (Massacre Records) and a new studio album (release fall 2019), we just can´t wait to go on tour with our friends in Nitrogods. This package will ROCK and whatever you do…don´t miss out on the chance to be a part of this amazing and wild Rock´n´roll adventure! See you out there!
Dragon Productions & Rock Hard Magazine presents: “REBEL DAYZ TOUR 2019” Nitrogods, Psychopunch & Maxxwell 25.10.19 DE – Oberhausen, Helvete 26.10.19 DE – Andernach, JUZ 27.10.19 BE – Diest, Moonlight Music Hall 28.10.19 DE – Kassel, Goldgrube 29.10.19 DE – Hamburg, Bambi Galore 30.10.19 DE – Osnabrück, Bastard Club 31.10.19 DE – Husum, Speicher Husum e.V. 01.11.19 DE – Oldenburg, Cadillac 02.11.19 DE – Dresden, Chemiefabrik 03.11.19 DE – Nürnberg, Der Cult 05.11.19 DE – München, Backstage 06.11.19 AT – Salzburg, Rockhouse Bar 07.11.19 DE – Freiburg, Crashclub 08.11.19 CH – Burgdorf, Sägegasse 09.11.19 CH – Luzern, Schüür 10.11.19 DE – Mannheim, MS-Connexion
Van Williams states: ‘Ghost Ship Octavius are happy to announce that we will be working with Dragon Productions for European bookings. We are very excited to have them on our team and we look forward to getting GSO into a country near you! GSO or GTFO!’
With foundations in Progressive Metal, GSO are forging a fresh pathway
in the metal genre by exploring emotional and melodic writing firmly
founded in technical playing and memorable hooks with a common theme of
darkness, hope and ghostly imagery with chilling, arctic elements
throughout.
Legendary German guitarist Michael Schenker‘s MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST project has recruited drummers Simon Phillips and Bodo Schopf following the recent passing of Ted McKenna. Simon, who played on the MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP debut album, will return as the main drummer on the upcoming second MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST LP. Due to his schedule, he is unable to be the live drummer for the upcoming U.S. tour. This role will be completed by Bodo Schopf, who played on “Perfect Timing” and “Save Yourself”. With the sudden passing of McKenna, Bodo will be featured on the upcoming record but in a smaller role as he had the important job of preparing for the U.S. tour.
Michael states: “We are very grateful to Bodo for being a team player and working out with Simon what needs to be done in order for us to continue as smooth as possible and also to Simon for helping us to make it all possible. Bodo is the perfect choice to continue as the permanent drummer for MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST. It is a perfect balance between the musicians from the past. It includes everything as a family to continue MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST.”
Bodo comments: “I am very sorry that Ted had to leave us under these tragic circumstances and I’m proud to rock for him and all the MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST fans. RIP Ted.”
Following the release of its successful first album “Resurrection”, MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST is currently recording the follow-up, co-produced by Schenker and Michael Voss, which is tentatively scheduled to be released in August.
McKenna, who has also played with THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND, Rory Gallagher and Ian Gillan, died last month at the age of 68. He passed away from a haemorrhage during elective surgery.
Michael comments: “We are totally heartbroken to hear about Ted McKenna — our amazing drummer and dearest friend — passing away. It’s a massive shock and a huge loss to lose Ted so suddenly. He always had a smile on his face and was one of the most sincerely genuine people you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. One of the great rock drummers, he always played from the heart and his heart was music. Rest in peace, Ted. We will miss you.”
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST will kick off its U.S. tour on April 15 at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California. The trek will include performances in Vancouver, Chicago, and New York before concluding on May 18 in Austin.
So we welcome Swedish dark doom rock masters YEAR OF THE GOAT to the roster…
Formed back in 2006 they have released two full lengths and a handful of EPs with a new album ready to drop on Napalm Records over the coming months…..
Inspiration from the 60s and 70s sits side by side with traditional metal and classic nwobhm influences, mellotrons swirl, organs sound out alongside one of the most distinctive and soulful voices in modern metal! ….and the riffs? they have the riffs….majestic, retro, progressive but above all tunes that have staying power
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