Bloodstock Radio ‘s Blackdiamond is going to present a special show featuring an exclusive live chat with British guitarist Kev Bower (HELL) on Tuesday February 19th, 2013 from 10 am (GMT).
An advert by Kev Bower asking metalheads to tune into the show can be heard on the Soundcloud player below:
Listen to Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem audio trailer:
The organisers at Bloodstock Open Air Festival have announced the following news today:
The Bloodstock Team are thrilled to announce the addition of occult metal overlords, HELL and Austrian death/black metallers, BELPHEGOR to the 2013 bill.
BELPHEGOR are celebrating their 20 year anniversary this year and readying the release of their tenth studio album this summer, via Nuclear Blast.
Bloodstock 2013 will be the first place you can hear some new material live.
BELPHEGOR’s Helmuth states: “To bomb the UK is always a pleasure for BELPHEGOR. We will celebrate Diabolical Death Musick, and visualize it with a special 20 year anniversary show, full of bones, flesh and blood! At the start of August, our new as-yet-untitled album will be released. The troupe can’t wait to premiere two of these tracks at Bloodstock. An honour – this horror!”
Meanwhile, HELL, who also have their second album scheduled for release later this year via Nuclear Blast, are also looking forward to the BOA weekend.
HELL’s axeman Andy Sneap comments, “We are thrilled to announce HELL have been added to the Saturday main stage bill at Bloodstock. HELL had such a great time at BOA in 2011, opening the main stage on the Sunday, so it’s an honour to be asked back, especially with the bill being such a strong line up. It’ll be a lot of fun catching up with some old friends and playing a longer set for the Bloodstock masses, this time at a slightly more reasonable hour.” Check out the ‘On Earth As It Is In Hell’ video from the current ‘Human Remains’ album on the Youtube link below:
Take a peek at what’s been going on in the studio with BELPHAGOR in the Youtube video below:
Source: Bravewords.com
“Over the last year and a half with HELL, we’ve always put on as much of a show as possible, but with limitations due to festival billings, Health and Safety and venue size”, says guitarist Andy Sneap. “We felt it time to unleash the band’s full potential to the UK as it’s something we feel is missing more and more.The theatrics and the bombastic stage productions of old remain with the Monsters of Rock, but is something a lot of the newer breed of bands seem to overlook whilst onstage staring at the floor.”
“The first headline show I ever saw was IRON MAIDEN on The Beast On The Road Tour at Derby Assembly Rooms. It used to be a regular Midlands show on every bands touring schedule when they passed through the UK and anyone frequenting the first couple of indoor Bloodstock festivals will know how great a venue for metal this is. We can’t wait to bring a full on, unashamedly over the top metal show back to the Assembly Rooms on Feb 23rd 2013.”
Tickets can be found here.
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Following the immensely successful “Human Remains” tour of 2011/2012 which saw the band gracing the stages of no less than 16 different countries across Europe and Scandinavia, legendary British occult metal act HELL has announced its only confirmed U.K. show of 2013 — on Saturday, February 23 at the Assembly Rooms, Darwin Suite, Derby. This gig will showcase the band’s biggest-ever stage production, featuring a 100-minute lunacy-fest of epic proportions — including fire-breathing, stilt-walking, a four-truss movable lighting rig, some astonishing new additions to the “Church Of Hell” stage set, along with their full-on (and previously unseen in the U.K.) firestorm and pyro show — all belted out through the biggest PA rig ever crammed into this venue. There will be a few additional surprises which are being kept under wraps.
HELL‘s concert at Assembly Rooms will see the band unveiling brand-new tracks from their forthcoming second album, and the whole show will be filmed/recorded for a live DVD release, so front-row looney-tune crowd surfers are even more welcome than usual. The venue, the Derby Assembly Rooms Darwin Suite, is the spiritual home of Midlands metal where Bloodstock all started way back in 2001. It provides the perfect combination of a big-stage production platform, but without losing the “up-close-and-personal” vibe which is so important to the band and fans alike. There will even be a special HELL beer for this event — a fabulously dark 6.66% ABV 5-malt real ale called “The Devil’s Deadly Weapon” created especially for this show by the band’s fans at the Northstar Brewing Company. This will be available at the venue both on cask and in commemorative bottles for you to take away and keep. Or drink. Support at the concert will come from WINTERFYLLETH and A THOUSAND ENEMIES, while the event will be compered by Bloodstock Open Air‘s very own Master Of Ceremonies Rob Bannister. Extremmetal‘s ace Swedish photographer Soile Siirtola will also be in residence, snapping anyone wearing a HELL shirt for inclusion on a commemorative photo wall which will appear within the DVD cover artwork.
HELL‘s last U.K. headline show attracted fans from a staggering 34 different counties of the U.K., along with a healthy scattering of overseas diehards from Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and even Brazil, so if you really want to make a night of it, the band has provided links which give a whole raft of low-cost accommodation in the area. Several of the listed hotels partner with the Derby Live organization, and offer special cheap rates (like £25 per person including full English brekkie at the Days Hotel) for gig accommodation if you mention “Derby Live” when booking.
A 10-minute video clip featuring highlights of HELL‘s July 21 performance at the Zwarte Cross festival in Lichtenvoorde, The Netherlands can be seen below.
HELL‘s latest album, “Human Remains”, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 46.
Cited as a huge indirect influence, and as one of the true founding fathers of occult metal, HELL formed in 1982 from the carcasses of U.K. metal bands RACE AGAINST TIME and PARALEX, whose “White Lightning” EP was listed by METALLICA as a favorite, and which was subsequently included on the Lars Ulrich, Geoff Barton “NWOBHM ’79 Revisited” sampler album.
Despite over five years of constant touring, the band was cruelly overlooked by the ’80s music press, who just didn’t get it. HELL were too different, too extreme, too musically intelligent and far too thought-provoking for all but the most enlightened to understand them. The final crushing blow came when their long-awaited 1986 album deal with Mausoleum collapsed as the label went bankrupt, followed by the tragic suicide of singer/guitarist Dave Halliday in 1987. The remaining members drew a line in the sand and stopped playing overnight.
A teenage Andy Sneap was a permanent fixture on the front row of almost every show HELL played and was also taught to play guitar by Halliday. He then went on to form SABBAT and become a renowned metal producer. Upon meeting again, the remaining members of HELL — Kev Bower (guitar/keyboards), Tony Speakman (bass) and Tim Bowler (drums) — talked with Andy about re-recording the old material to release in conjunction with the old demos. With Sneap replacing Halliday on guitar and David Bower on vocals, the band has recorded 10 HELL classics from the ’80s.
DJ Blackdiamond of Firebrand Rock Radio and Metal Shock Finland has recently conducted a very metal interview with British metallers HELL – guitarist and producer Andy Sneap and Keyboardist and guitarist Kev Bower, after they blasted Hammerfest IV with their masterpieces.
Some of this conversation can be read below:
“We haven’t had much press here (UK) and full credit to the UK metal fans, they have really got behind us and they are so loyal, it’s great.”
“Everything this band is and represents is done to a level of quality, rather than a timescale or anything artificial like that.”
Discussing about the accessibility of bands today, Andy Sneap said – “you couldn’t get near bands back in the day, you maybe saw a gig and their video. they probably went home after and did some plumbing, but we didn’t know about that.
Metal is missing a bit of the showmanship these days and that’s what we’re trying to bring into Hell.”
Blackdiamond commented about her conversation with HELL boys: “ I spoke with HELL’s vocalistDavid Bower prior to Hammerfest and he said how much he was looking forward to playing there. They did not disappoint! It was a pleasure to meet and chat with all the members of Hell after their show, I could see how much they enjoyed it and were really happy with the crowd reaction. They were all down to earth, cool and very metal!!”
You can listen to the whole of the interview on soundcloud below:
And also DJ Blackdiamond announces that she will present a special tribute show to HELL soon on Firebrand Rock Radio where she will include some other parts of her coversation with HELL members. Metal Shock Finland will keep you updated. Stay tuned!
DJ Blackdiamond and Mohsen Fayyazi of partner companies, FIREBRAND ROCK RADIO and METAL SHOCK FINLAND are going to present a special “HAMMERFEST IV” Show, tribute to the British Metal festival, HammerFest IV – The Hammer Of The Thor, featuring vocalist David Beckford from HELL and Somi Arian from MORTAD. Also many more bands featured in the show, which will be on March 13th at 9pm (GMT).
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