Due to ongoing medical treatments for pancreatic cancer, with which Jon Lord was disagnosed last summer, the former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist will not be able to apppear in Hagen, Germany on July 6. He was set to perform his Durham Concerto and a selection of other pieces.
According to JonLord.org, Jon wishes to assure everyone that this is not a matter for concern, but it is a continuation of his regular treatment that has just taken longer than anticipated. He and the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra hope to be able to reschedule the concert for later in the year. He apologizes to everyone for any inconveniences this may have caused, particularly the wonderful people of Hagen, their terrific orchestra and all those who may have bought tickets, and he looks forward to seeing them all soon.
For ticket refunds, please contact Hagen’s Theaterkasse or your Eventim ticket agent.
Jon Lord is recognized for his Hammond organ blues-rock playing and unique sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms. He has most famously been a member of DEEP PURPLE, the band he co-founded in 1968.
Lord last year received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Leicester.
In a brand new interview with Niclas Müller-Hansen of Sweden’s Metalshrine, guitarist/co-founder Anders “Blakkheim” Nyström of Swedish dark rockers KATATONIA was asked about the band’s touring plans following the release of their new album, “Dead End Kings”. “We’re actually going out with OPETH again,” he replied. “A new U.S. tour after the one with DEVIN TOWNSEND [PROJECT] and PARADISE LOST. We’re gonna play some other territories with OPETH so we’re out for another month in October. Then we have four days off and then there’s a two-month tour of Europe as part of a package. Some very melodic bands.”
This September, KATATONIA and DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT will team up for the “Epic Kings & Idols Tour”, a co-headlining North American run featuring PARADISE LOST as direct support and STOLEN BABIES as openers (DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT and KATATONIA will alternate in headlining each show). The trek will kick off on September 4 in Seattle, Washington and conclude on September 24 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Toronto based death metal band HALLOWS DIE have announced they will be once again traveling across Canadian soil as they have arranged for over 30 shows spanning their home nation this summer 2012.
Beginning with a headlining appearance at the Touch of Death Festival on Canada Day weekend, the band will quickly make tracks through the Maritime provinces headlining shows before sharing the stage with the likes of KATAKLYSM and BLACKGUARD on July 6th. Late July and August will see the band venture right across the country to play a string of dates across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, including a three day stint on Vancouver Island before returning home. It will be the groups third time touring across their home country of Canada, and as 2012 is the apparent year of the Mayan apocalypse, this journey has been aptly titled End Of The World Canadian Tour.
The tour will also serve as the final pre-promotion shows for the band sophomore album, Masks, which the band has been rigorously working on for the past eight months. Once again employing the services of legendary producer Dan Swano, the album intends to break genre lines and combine an eccentric mix of different extreme metal genres. Barring any last minute delays, the full length album should be available in stores and online September 28th. A four track preview EP, titled Androids, will be available for purchase at all tour dates this summer.
Dates are as follows:
June
28 – Massey, ON – Amigos
29 – Sault Ste. Marie, ON – The Canadian
30 -Cochrane, ON – Touch of Death Festival
July
1 – Sudbury, ON – Antwerp Arena
2 – Ottawa, ON – Rainbow Bistro
3 – Fredricton, NB – Fusion Nightclub
4 – Falmouth, NS – Falmouth Community Center
5 – Halifax, NS – Spread the Metal Festival
6 – Saint John, NB – Pub Down Under
21 – Thunder Bay, On – Black Pirates Club
26 – Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre Café
27 -Regina SK – Gaslight Saloon
28 – Edmonton AB – Wasted Space
29 – Red Deer AB – The Vat
30 – Kamloops BC – TBA
31 – Williams Lake BC – The Limelight
August
1 – Port Alberni BC – Char’s Landing Point
2 – Victoria BC – Rehab
3 – Nanaimo BC – Headliners
4 – Vancouver BC – Funky Winterbeans
5 – Kelowna BC – Killkrist’s
6 – Calgary AB – Dickens Pub
7 – Saskatoon – Lepp’s
8 – Brandon MB – Elephant Room (Brandon University)
10 – North Bay ON -Granite Club
HARD ANGER OPEN AIR METAL FESTIVAL 2012 is a Norwegian metal festival which is scheduled for 31 August – 1 September 2012 in a beautiful place, Eidfjord, Norway. Some photos of this wonderful place can be seen on slideshow player below.
The line-up and festival program can be read below:
31/8/12 , Friday Gates will open at 14:00
15:15-16:00 Fjordfader (No)
16:30-17:15 66crucher (No)
17:45-18:30 Tharaphita (Est)
19:30-20:15 Neoandertals (Est)
20:45-22:15 Susperia (No)
22:45-00:15 Ensiferum (Fin)
01:00 End of first festival day
01/9/12 , Saturday Gates will open at 14:00 !
15:15-16:00 Skogen (Se)
16:30-17:15 Goddamn (No)
17:45-18:30 Leviathan (Ger)
19:30-20:15 Claymords (No)
20:45-22:15 Endstille ( Ger)
22:45-00:15 Disgorge (Usa)
01:00 End of the festival
* Photos by René Roverts, Carl David Stakseng and Ole M. Kvamme.
Festival information:
Location: Måbødalen, 5783 Eidfjord i Hardanger, Norway.
Public Transit: There will be official festival buses from the festival site, Måbødalen, to Eidfjord and back. Parking for festival guests at the festival place is not allowed.
Daveman of the 105.7 The Brew radio station in Columbus, Ohio recently conducted an interview with JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE singer Jack Russell. You can now listen to the chat below.
JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE is currently taking part in the “America Rocks” tour alongside FASTER PUSSYCAT, BULLETBOYS, PRETTY BOY FLOYD and LILLIAN AXE.
Regarding how the trek — which kicked off on June 15 at Avalon in Santa Clara, California — came about, Russell told DoneWaiting.com, “We’re all with the same agency. I talked to Chuck at Artists Worldwide and told him I wanted to do a package. He showed all the bands and I said, ‘Whyme don’t you talk to these guys and these guys and these guys, see if they want to get together and do a tour.’ I wanted something that was eclectic and solid and strong. The bands that are on here are all really good in their own right. It all just seemed to work out. It’s going to be a chance to see some old friends and make some new ones. I haven’t been on a tour bus on a real long tour since ’99 when GREAT WHITE did the POISON/RATT tour. The only part I’m not looking forward to is being gone from the Mrs. We’re really, really close and we’ve never really apart for more than a few days at a time. This is the strongest relationship I’ve been in with a woman. I hate to use the word ‘soulmate,’ but that’s what it feels like. I know it’s a word that’s overused at times but I really feel like that. It’s odd for me, I’m not used to that kind of connection with a woman.”
JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE is not to be confused with the other touring and recording version of GREAT WHITE, which features Mark Kendall (lead guitar), Scott Snyder (bass), Audie Desbrow (drums), Michael Lardie (guitar, keyboards) and Terry Ilous (lead vocals).
When asked if he has heard the new album, “Elation”, from the “other” version of GREAT WHITE, Russell said, “I haven’t. I have no need to. I know what it’s going to sound like, it’s not going to sound like what I’d want to hear anyway. It would just kind of make me feel bad because it’s not going to sound like GREAT WHITE. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s not going to be a GREAT WHITE album. . . You can’t take a lead vocalist out. That’s the one thing that distinguishes each band from another. Every guitar kind of sounds the same, every guitar player that is decent can play another guy’s riffs. There have been a couple of bands that have been successful after changing lead singers — like you look at VAN HALEN when they got Sammy [Hagar]. He’s a great singer and a friend, but I don’t want to hear him sing the songs of David Lee Roth. They should have changed the name of the band to VAN HAGAR. That’s the way I feel about any band. There’s been talk from some people that Ronnie James Dio went in after Ozzy and BLACK SABBATH was still great. Well, okay, great, he did but it still wasn’t BLACK SABBATH to me. . . . You can have a guy, like the guy that is now singing for JOURNEY. He sounds like Steve Perry, but it’s still not the same. Not everybody feels that way, but whatever they do, I wish them the best.”
JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE is:
Jack Russell – Vocals Robby Lochner (FIGHT) – Guitar Matthew Johnson (DOCTOR M, JACK RUSSELL) – Guitar Dario Seixas (FIREHOUSE, STEPHEN PEARCY) – Bass Derrick Pontier (GREAT WHITE, SAMANTHA 7) – Drums
Russell filed a lawsuit against his estranged bandmates in March claiming that they fired him and stole the group’s name while he was recovering from surgery to repair a perforated bowel. Named in the complaint were Kendall, Desbrow, Lardie and talent agency Bigg Time Entertainment. Kendall, Desbrow and Lardie responded with a 30-page counterclaim, filed on April 24 in a federal court in Los Angeles, accusing their former frontman of, among other things, “miss[ing] 80 performances in 18 months” before leaving the band; “irreparably damag[ing]” their “market reputation” by putting on performances that “are not up to the standard of GREAT WHITE; and misleading the public by stating that the musicians in Jack‘s new band “were once full members of GREAT WHITE.” They also accuse Russell‘s new bandmates of “profit[ing] from their wrongful affiliation with the GREAT WHITE brand.”
METALLICA‘s complete June 24th performance on Day 2 of Orion Music + More, which took place at Bader Field in Atlantic City, NJ, is now available for purchase at LiveMetallica.com here.
The band’s setlist on the night was as follows:
‘Hit The Lights’
‘Master Of Puppets’
‘Fuel’
‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’
– guitar solo –
‘The Shortest Straw’
‘The Struggle Within’
‘My Friend Of Misery’
‘The God That Failed’
‘Of Wolf & Man’
‘Nothing Else Matters’
‘Through The Never’
‘Don’t Tread On Me’
‘Wherever I May Roam’
‘The Unforgiven’
‘Holier Than Thou’
‘Sad But True’
– bass solo –
‘Enter Sandman’
Encore:
‘Blackened’
‘One’
‘Seek & Destroy’
As previously reported, on June 23rd – Day 1 of Orion Music + More – Metallica performed ‘Escape’ from Ride The Lightning for the first time ever. Check out the pro-shot footage below:
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
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