The finest art of despair and melancholy put together with their supreme act of hatred, NOCTEM (ES) and COPROLITH (FIN) has devastated the grounds of Finland in December 2011. The Tour Report of this “To The Oblivion Tour” has been issued by Noctem’s Exo and Beleth. (English version, exclusively for Metal Shock Finland)
08/12/2011
16:15h of 8th of November and Noctem landed at Helsinki airport.
After some uncertainty about the arrival of our luggage there was everything. Suffering a brutal change of weather, from + 20º in the sunny Valencia to -10º in the snowy Helsinki; in the outside of the airport was a frozen bus full of several alcoholic drinks; we left to the center of the city where the first show would take place, the well known club PRKL.
Time for the arrival and meeting the rest of the crew, Timo (tour bus driver) and Jutta (merchandiser) and Coprolith (members of Cavus, who shared stages with us in our tour with Gorgoroth, in November of 2010), band which would share stages, bus and everything in this tour. The show started at 21:00, the local bands were opening the night for an expectant audience. Then it was the turn for Coprolith, who destroyed the stage with their old school black metal.
And finally we appeared, it was the debut for a new member, Vhert is our new drummer from a few months ago; blasting and blasting on stage until the end. It was late at night and after the show, the tour bus started the trip to Porvoo, a coastal town close to Helsinki. The second oldest in all Finland. There we would spend the night in home of the charismatic local promoter Jocke, a very particular home, because it was a boat on an iced river.
09/12/2011
The next morning and after a huge party in the boat, with several vikings sleeping in the ground, Coprolith guided us to what they call “Black Metal Sauna”, what basically is having sauna in 80º listening to loud Black metal and drinking Jaloviina, a typical potion from Porvoo which consists in a mix of whisky and vodka.
Next stop: Soho club, where we find the charismatic Turo, drummer of Cavus.
At 20:00 the show started with a really delivered crowd, some friends where there, also Ari, bass player of Cavus, all of them absolitely drunk. Hours later we went back to the boat house to another wild party.
10/12/2011
10.am and the tour bus started the long trip to Kokkola, a distant population in the north of Finland.
In the way we discovered some aspects of the finnish society. They never stop surprising you. Amazingly polite and charming people.
The Rock club had a brutal and defeaning sound, an absolutely drunk audience was there, never stop moving from one side to another, even breaking part of the Coprolith’s backline.
After the show we went to the accomodation place for that night, a big house in the snow, where we had the opportunity to enjoy another session of “Black Metal Sauna”; pure Suomi style, alongside to our viking brothers of Coprolith; where Helion finally made real his dream of creating an angel of snow, completely nude and under the effects of the Jaloviina.
11/12/2011
11th of December, after eating some poro-pizzas (reindeer meat pizzas) and really wasted, but it was the time for Turku. Klubi looked more like a labyrinth, full of corridors and stairs. After 21 pm the first bands started appearing on stage. Incredible crowd for being a sunday with a hellish snowfall. It was curious to see spanish people in the audience, which showed a national flag.
12/12/2011
Day 12, we could enjoy some sightseeing in Helsinki and prepare the way back to the sunny Spain. It is incredible in a country with just over 6 hours of light how much you can miss the sun.
Thanks to Ben Pakarinen, Coprolith, Toni de SSG Management, Jutta, Timo, Jocke, Turo, to all the sposors and the brutal audience from Finland.
Northern Fury conducted separate interviews with bassist Martin Mendez of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH and guitarist/co-founder Anders “Blakkheim” Nyström of Swedish dark rockers KATATONIA on October 16, 2011 in Portland, Oregon. You can now watch the resulting footage HERE. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Swedish metallers SABATON have set “Carolus Rex” as the title of their new album, tentateively due at the end of May via Nuclear Blast Records.
Commented the band: “We felt it was time for America to get something of a special show and this time the release party will be in Los Angeles, California [on May 23 at the Key Club in West Hollywood]. This show will be the only U.S. West Coast show and it will be the world premiere of new songs.”
SABATON will embark on a North American headlining tour in the spring. The “Swedish Empire Tour 2012” will kick off on April 10 in Tampa, Florida.
SABATON bassist Pär Sundström was forced to sit out several shows on the Canadian leg of the band’s most recent North American tour due to a knee injury.
“World War Live: Battle Of The Baltic Sea”, the first-ever live album from SABATON, was released on August 5, 2011 via Nuclear Blast Records. Source: Blabbermouth.net
IRON MAIDEN‘s official web site has been updated with the following message:
“Something of primal interest to all MAIDEN fans … Monday, January 2nd at 9 p.m. GMT [4 p.m. EST].”
IRON MAIDEN vocalist Bruce Dickinson told Daily Star last summer that the band will make “at least one more album” to follow 2010’s acclaimed “The Final Frontier”.
Dickinson revealed that the bandmembers often struggle during the songwriting process, explaining: “We try to keep things on an even keel. Being English, we still have some reserve when we’re communicating ideas to each other.
“[In the old days] we’d have a stand-up knock-down fight about anything. But we know each other better now and people do mellow.”
He added, “[When it’s time to write an album] we go off on our own, scribble ideas into our notebooks and come back to throw everything into the melting pot.
“We know the boundaries of what we can do musically.
“We’re not the kind of band who could say, ‘Hey, let’s do an album with Kanye West,’ because that wouldn’t interest MAIDEN fans at all.
“Things have been going a bit more prog-rock on our recent albums and the fans seem to love that.”
Legendary rocker Alice Cooper and his band performed on New Year’s Eve at Mala Wailea, the famous oceanfront restaurant that is lobby level at Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, in Hawaii, on a bill that included “Weird Al” Yankovic, Pat Simmons and Michael McDonald of DOOBIE BROTHERS and Bob Rock. Comedian Tom Arnold will act as emcee at the event, which benefits the Maui Food Bank and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
Joining Alice on stage for a performance of THE BEATLES classic “Come Together” was AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler. Tyler also sang AEROSMITH‘s “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way”.
Video footage of the “Come Together” performance can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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