Multinational Thrash/Sleeze/Glam band TORNADO has checked in with the following announcemente:
Ladies and Gentlemen! It’s time to lock your daughters in the attic and arm your sons as the Tornado gang is back in action! After packing up and leaving The Netherlands and relocating to Finland, I, Superstar Joey Severance have scanned this cold wasteland in search of the coolest cats to be found to finish what I’ve started! It is with absolute pleasure that I introduce to you on Guitars the Dynamic Duo of Tuomas Leskinen and Timo Ponni! On the Bass we have Henri Soisalo and rounding things off on the Drums with those sexy beats will be Jani Niemelä.
Our immediate plans are to enter the studio sometime next month to record some new music to release to the public as a preview of our next album which will be recorded sometime later in the year as well as gearing up to finally make Tornado a LIVE act. We hope to be ready to start devastating stages and cities as early as May. Thanks to everyone for the patience and support thus far. Let the madness begin!! \m/
TORNADO’s Official Youtube Channel has posted online a new KORPIKLAANI song “Predator’s Saliva” featuring Superstar Joey Severance Of TORNADO and also Pat Henry of SWASHBUCKLE. The song comes from the ENGLISH version of the new Korpiklaani album “Manala”. Check out the video below.
Amsterdam-based Thrash/Sleeze/Glam metallers TORNADO have posted online a new Compilation video from Zwarte Cross 2012 Festival in Holland. Music – “3 of 8″, check out the video below.
Holland-based Thrash/Sleeze/Glam band TORNADO has issued the following:
Dear friends, it is with great pride that after a very successful live debut opening up for Obituary that we can announce that Tornado have been invited to participate in the 2012 edition of the Zwarte Cross festival in Lichtenvoorde, Holland. Tornado are scheduled for Saturday July 21st at 1:45 til 2:30. The exact billing for the stage is as followed
Deadbeat Tornado Dog Eat Dog Textures Hell Lizzy Borden Doro Sonata Artica Kreator
Singer Superstar Joey Severance commented, “This is an absolute honor for me personally to be sharing the stage with Lizzy Borden and Kreator after being a fan for so long and also a huge honor for the band as we have waited quite some time now for someone, somewhere to give us a chance and put us on stage! We can’t thank the Zwarte Cross organization enough for this chance. Watch out!! This is not your brothers thrash metal!!”
Hello friends. Superstar Joey Severance here with some Tornado news. We are proud to announce 3 new members to the camp. Hein Willekens – Guitar, Tim Verheijden – Drums and Tim van den Eijnden – Bass. The change is something we had to do in order to keep Tornado a live playing entity! Unfortunately due to Daddy B, Johnny Wow and Starvin Marvin living so far away from us, playing live became impossible and live is where Tornado has to come alive so the changes were needed. Of course our Finnish crew are always going to be our family so there is no drama involved at all with this change.
Watch the “Introducing new Tornado members” -clip below.
In other news, our first recording with the new lineup will be a VERY SPECIAL cover recording which were not at liberty to discuss yet. Just know that if all the pieces fall into place, it’s going to be something that is very cool!! Fingers crossed! We hope to return to Abyss Studio in December with Peter Tagtgren once again producing our second full length for an early 2013 release!
Artist – Tornado Album – Amsterdamn, Hellsinki Label – Listenable Records Release Date – Aug 30, 2011
1. A Bolt Statement
2. Hate Worldwide
3. 3 of 8
4. Massive Extinction Impact
5. Eugenics
6. Ignorance Is Thy Name
7. Noora
8. Blue
9. Priesthood Pedophilia
10. Diva
11. Tunisia Uprising
12. Rise Diciples, Rise
Since the 2002 release ‘Triumph of the King‘ with Angular Records, Tornado has not only updated their label but they have been busy creating another powerful album “Amsterdamn, Hellsinki”. With a short overall run play time of 39:40 in comparison to the ‘Triumph of the King’ sitting at 56:02 you are given a quick blast of heavy metal from all directions. So, is it any good?
Into the very first song and we are given the very famous eastern scales combined with very fast thrash and neo-classical sweeping. Add to these very obscure lyrics and before you know it or would have thought it you in the second track with the very fast panning sequencing and fast riffs. The excellence in the soloing alone is enough to keep any guitarist that appreciates clever techniques hooked. With everything that is going on inside this album this would ideally suit someone that likes very fast thrash with obscure lyrics and licks to keep the brain amused for half an hour.
There is no stopping at any point in this album other than ‘Norra’ which almost tries to trick you into believing things may be calming down a little. However, once you’ve switched it on you are put on a rollercoaster of musical madness (well, genius perhaps?) The vocals don’t suit me at all but are very well placed and used with great expressions and articulations.
If you are a fan of crazy fast melodic power metal/thrash with high speed neo-classical shredding, tapping, and sweeping then this will definitely have you hooked.
A very good album and I can only hope to hear more from ‘Tornado’ in the near future.
Band:
Superstar Joey Severance – Vocals
Michiel Rutten – Guitar
Ben Varon – Guitar
Pekka Johansson – Bass
Juhana “Starvin Marvin” Karlsson
Produced by Peter Tägtgren
Mastered by Jonas Kjellgren
The metal year with monster horns upon the head, 2011 or better type 20\m/ is gone now, a year full of the good, bad and the sad news about the Heavy Metal world, many great albums were released, and some new stars appeared. But the important thing is that the METAL music was played loud throughout the world, from Japan to the Middle East from the Middle East to America and from the icy land, south, to the heart of the cold north, Metalheads and Metallers were united as ONE!
I asked the 3 most interesting questions about 2011 from some Artists, metal musicians and colleagues.You may like to know their opinions. You can read my questions and their answers below:
What was the most important news in the whole of the metal world in 2011 that impressed you the most?
Which metal band do you feel was the most successful in 2011?
Which are your top 3 albums’?
Tarja Virmakari (Chief Editor, METAL SHOCK FINLAND):
1) To pick up only one news, it’s nearly impossible… but maybe all these great artists that have passed this year, have been the news that have left me without words… it’s been a sad year in metal world in that way.
2) The most successful band… well, there are plenty of them, but I guess my reply just have to be Metallica… already for their 30 years’ of carrier. But then again IF you’d ask what is to my opionion the worst album of the year, I’d reply Lulu of Metallica and Lou Reed… but you didn’t ask it, so…
3)
In Flames – Sounds of a Playground Fading
The-Haunted – Unseen
Hypocrisy – “Hell Over Sofia”
Exo (lead Guitarist , Noctem)
1) Nergal finally recovering from Leukemia
2) Not talking about metal, just my fav. genre, extreme metal:
Fleshgod Apocalypse and Obscura, I choose both.
3)
Obscura: Omnivium
Decapitated: Carniva, is forever
Fleshgod Apocalypse: Agony
Rob Mancini
(Rob was in studio when i asked him to answer to my questions, so he answered them short. But i want to thank him here for giving me his time.)
1) That EMI sold its recorded music operations to Sony and Universal.
2) Hard to say, prob nickelback
3) Rob Moratti – Victory
Angeline – Disconnected
Sixx AM – This is gonna hurt
Axel Wiesenauer(Owner at Rock N Growl Promotion)
1) Reunion of “BLACK SABBATH”! I hope they doin the right. I’m curious to hear new songs and see them live in 2012.
2) Nightwish
3) Mystic Prophecy – Raven Lord
Andrea Rodella (Journalist, METAL SHOCK FINLAND)
1) Definitely the announcement of the Italian MetalFest bill: a new heavy metal festival!
2) Talkin’ about international charts position, probably Nightwish and Metallica (with Lou Reed), but in my heart there’s the place for Mastodon only.
3) The three most interesting albums in 2011, imho, are:
3-Opeth – Heritage
2-Hypocrisy – Hell Over Sofia
1-Mastodon – The Hunter
Joe Matera
1) As for news, it was the retirement of KK Downing from Judas Priest. It didn’t really impress me, it saddenned me as the twin guitar attack of Downing/Tipton is one of the most influential in metal. But on the other hand, it is impressive to make the decision to leave such an iconic band whom are still popular.
2) Successful metal band – Slayer because no matter what stuff they went through in 2011, they still hammered on and showed why they’re true metal warriors.
3) Top 3 metal albums of 2011:
The Hunter – Mastadon
Th1rt3en – Megadeth
Atomkraft – Cold Sweat (I know its an EP and also I’m biased since I play on title track, but this is my choice)
Ali Blackdiamond (DJ, Manager and Interviewer on FIREBRAND ROCK RADIO)
1) I’m sure there were lots of different news items that impressed me throughout 2011, but one that stands out was the news of a new Accept album to come in 2012.
Their last album Blood Of The Nations blew me away and I was lucky enough to see them live twice and meet them in 2011, so I really can’t wait to see what the next one will bring!
2) This is a hard question to answer as there were so many successful bands who released great albums and toured too.
I would say personally two for me, the first being Saxon as they released yet another album that will become a classic and it’s great to see them still going strong with no sign of stopping!
Also Wolf with their hard work as always, touring, including an awesome BOA show and delivering the best as always with their awesome album!
3)
1. Wolf – Legions of Bastards
2. Saxon – Call To Arms
3. Turisas – Stand Up and Fight
Joey Severance (Vocal, Tornado)
1) The most important news for me personally was when listenable got in touch and said they wanted to sign us!
2) Most successful metal band of 2011 had to be metallica. headlining the big 4, 30 year celebration in SF……yes, they are still metal and they still kick ass!!
3) my top 3 favorite albums of 2011 are:
Tornado- Amsterdamn, Hellsinki
D.A.D. – Dic.Nii.Lan.Daft.Erd.Ark
Symphony X – Iconoclast
* You read some answers up to now but before I give you the last one from an awesome Metaller and Vocalist, I’d like to give you mine as well.
My name is Mohsen Fayyazi and i’m the first booking and promotion manager and also the first Metal music journalist from Iran.I believe the news about the reunion of Black Sabbath was the most impressive of 2011 and the successful metal bands are all Metal bands around the world who kept Metal alive.
The top 3 albums that i enjoyed listening to are:
3. Turisas – Stand Up and Fight
2. Symfonia – In Paradisum
1. WOLF – Legions of bastards
Niklas Stalvind (Vocalist and Guitarist, WOLF)
1) I don’t read metal magazines, so I have absolutely no idea! Well, maybe then that Bruce Dickinson got fired from his airline company. I am very impressed how he can keep working as a pilot and be the Maiden front man, touring and recording – and be a family man. How the hell did he do it? I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a new employment at another airline.
2) Ghost and Graveyard has been very successful, at least here in Sweden. Especially Graveyard. I think that’s great, because for once it’s a band that I actually like that gets the success.
3) Graveyard. The first two would be Arch / Matheos and Ghos. When come to think of it, I don’t remember if Graveyard and Ghost released in 2010… They probably did, and I don’t read the metal magazines as I said earlier, ha ha! I have no clue! I just stay focused on Wolf.
* I also asked Nik if he and WOLF have any message for their fans, here you can read a message from WOLF:
“We want to thank our fans all over the world, for keeping the true metal alive! You are the best!“
Tracks
1. A Bolt Statement
2. Hate Worldwide
3. 3 of 8
4. Massive Extinction Impact
5. Eugenics
6. Ignorance Is Thy Name
7. Noora
8. Blue
9. Priesthood Pedophilia
10. Diva
11. Tunisia Uprising
12. Rise Diciples, Rise
Band:
Superstar Joey Severance – Vocals
Michiel Rutten – Guitar
Ben Varon – Guitar
Pekka Johansson – Bass
Juhana “Starvin Marvin” Karlsson
Produced by Peter Tägtgren
Mastered by Jonas Kjellgren
STORM IN A GLASS OF WATER
It is high time of out of the closet to patch, the flowery bermuda jacket and vintage Nike, proud screw cap on the crane and mosher as a fucking to break spinal: Thrash till’ to death!
This good old Thrash, friends of the disadvantaged, broken bottle cut propriety, primal scream, this proletaire sputum from the punk rock and new wave-heavy-metal, this skin of banana glided maliciously under the tags of the “Silver Glammers”, this Thrash arises again (and again and again…) and hammer its slogans without modesty or shame…
New entrants to the scene of the “NWOBA” (New Wave Of Bay Area), putative from not so “son era” (Thrash metal, remains the most honest, the musical of the ups and downs of our ossified societies and often bedridden comments), made of the non-changing speech, here the “American-Dutch-Finnish” TORNADO are therefore an ultra-tagged old school thrash, the old Wolf (me) is ecstasing once on Vio-lenceNuclear Assault or Death Angel, but this young hungry mad dog headbanguent will give valiantly a chance to this new furious band.
The aggressiveness of SLAYER to the fun of MOTLEY raw… hmm Hmm… step on that this head of gondola is ideal and fair.
Nothing revolutionary in fun (ANTHRAX has passed by here) and when to fury, the album gives a certain know-how (“Hate Worldwide” or” 3 of 8″) but unfortunately never nothing really transcendent to other upstarts such as Municipal Waste or rigorous Dekapitator, which already ravaged the globe with talent and success.
Not evident is the perpetration to a (noble) tradition without plagiarism and becoming a parody, (fortunately avoided the dangers) contract appears to be respected (texts such as “Priesthood Pedophelia” or “Tunisia Uprising”), although I must confess, it’s difficult to catch the compositions while they’re often substantial anecdotes.
Produced by Peter Tägtgren, well, the cd-cover is horrible (but trendy) and the interesting title “Amsterdamn, Hellsinski” provide a sense of contentment but much too short, however my experienced ears are choosing it instead of a “Bonded by Blood” or the last Metallica (and why not…?).
Sympathetic but too short for the expected disruption, this Album nevertheless make holes in the ozone layer…
Still better than the last Slayer…
TORNADO, the American, Dutch and Finnish thrash metal band has just finished the recordings of their debut album “Amsterdam, Hellsinki”, which will come out this summer, via Listenable Records. But who are Tornado? They surely have an extra portion of the force of nature… to describe the band I could compare it to the tornado, the weather phenomenon: “Wherever it hits the land, it always leaves a trace…”
Couple of days ago I had an interesting chat with Superstar Joey Severance, Tornado‘s frontman, just read by yourselves what I found out…
Hey Joey, welcome to Metal Shock! First of all, represent us Tornado’s project, members and their roles in the band… …and how you guys found each others?
We are Superstar Joey Severance – Vocals, Michiel “Big Maaaaan” Rutten – Guitar, Daddy B – Guitar, Johnny Wow – Bass, Juhana “Starvin Marvin” Karlsson – Drums. Continue Reading
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