Organizers of Germany’s Summer Breeze Open Air – which will take place from August 15th to 17th at its usual location in Dinkelsbühl – have launched their annual advent calendar where a new band (or bands!) will be announced each day until December 24th. Today’s (December 10th) bands are FIREWIND and PRIMORDIAL.
Confirmed acts now include: AGNOSTIC FRONT, ALESTORM, AMORPHIS, BENEDICTION, THE BONES, DARK FUNERAL, DR. LIVING DEAD, DYING FETUS, EISBRECHER, ENSIFERUM, FEUERSCHWANZ, FIDDLER’S GREEN, FIREWIND, GRAVE, HATEBREED, IN FLAMES, KNORKATOR, LONG DISTANCE CALLING, MARDUK, MUSTASCH, NEAERA, NECROPHOBIC, ORDEN OGAN, POWERWOLF, PRIMORDIAL, ROTTEN SOUND, SABATON, SALTATIO MORTIS, SOILWORK, TIAMAT, WALLS OF JERICHO, WE CAME AS ROMANS.
Organizers of Germany’s Summer Breeze Open Air – which will take place from August 15th to 17th at its usual location in Dinkelsbühl – have launched their annual advent calendar where a new band (or bands!) will be announced each day until December 24th. Today’s (December 9th) bands are MARDUK and MUSTASCH.
Confirmed acts now include: AGNOSTIC FRONT, ALESTORM, AMORPHIS, BENEDICTION, THE BONES, DARK FUNERAL, DR. LIVING DEAD, DYING FETUS, EISBRECHER, ENSIFERUM, FEUERSCHWANZ, FIDDLER’S GREEN, GRAVE, HATEBREED, IN FLAMES, KNORKATOR, LONG DISTANCE CALLING, MARDUK, MUSTASCH, NEAERA, NECROPHOBIC, ORDEN OGAN, POWERWOLF, ROTTEN SOUND, SABATON, SALTATIO MORTIS, SOILWORK, TIAMAT, WALLS OF JERICHO, WE CAME AS ROMANS.
Organizers of next year’s sold out Wacken Open Air Festival – which will take place August 1st – 3rd in Wacken, Germany – have launched their annual X-Mas Calendar 2012 which will announce a band (or bands!) daily until December 24th. Today’s (December 9th) bands are AGNOSTIC FRONT, HENRY ROLLINS.
Wacken Open Air Festival 2013 band confirmations: AGNOSTIC FRONT, ALESTORM, AMORPHIS, ANTHRAX, ARCH ENEMY, ASP, BENIGHTED, BLACK MESSIAH, CALLEJON, CANDLEMASS, COPPELIUS, DEEP PURPLE, DEVILDRIVER, DEW-SCENTED, DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER, DIE KASSIERER, DORO, ESKIMO CALLBOY, HAGGARD, HATE SQUAD, SCOTT IAN, IHSAHN, LAMB OF GOD, LEPROUS, LINGUA MORTIS Featuring RAGE, MUSTASCH, NIGHTWISH, 9MM, PRETTY MAIDS, RAMMSTEIN, HENRY ROLLINS, SABATON, SOILWORK, SONATA ARCTICA, SUBWAY TO SALLY, BOB WAYNE.
SABATON bassist Pär Sundström is featured in a new interview with Mark Holmes at Metal Discovery. An excerpt is available below:
MD: I interviewed Joakim on the DRAGONFORCE tour back in 2009 and I think you’d just left your old label, Black Lodge, and it was announced during that tour you’d signed to Nuclear Blast. During those last three years your popularity seems to have soared so do you think the label had a big part in that or do you think Sabaton would have naturally become bigger anyway?
Pär: “Well, actually, Nuclear Blast has done a lot for us, especially in territories where we couldn’t do so much else ourselves. When we were with Black Lodge, we could do Sweden very well and we could do a little bit in Germany because we had good connections and good people working with us. But the rest were basically nothing. Of course, changing to Nuclear Blast with their international working promotional machine changed a lot, definitely, directly. For the UK, we have done step by step over time and we’re still growing. We still have a long way to go but we’re doing well.”
MD: Definitely. The latest album went gold in Sweden recently so is there a sense you’ve yet to peak with your popularity and you’re still growing the whole time?
Pär: “Oh yeah, yeah. We see that it’s growing all the time and the tour’s a very good example of that because everywhere, wherever we go, it’s better results than on the last tour. We see so many bands, and we’re told by promoters in everywhere we come that this band goes down, this band goes down and times are so hard now, times are shit but, for us, it’s growing.”
Sabaton recently posted a series of clips from one of the cameras filming for their upcoming Blu-ray / DVD:
“Big sorry for the terrible sound and a huge thanks to the fantastic crowd! This was an amazing night that we never will forget!”
The show was filmed on November 16th in Gothenburg, Sweden at Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden. The band hopes to release the DVD in 2013. Stay tuned for updates.
Organizers of next year’s sold out Wacken Open Air Festival – which will take place August 1st – 3rd in Wacken, Germany – have launched their annual X-Mas Calendar 2012 which will announce one new band daily until December 24th. Today’s (December 2nd) band is DEVILDRIVER.
Wacken Open Air Festival 2013 band confirmations: AMORPHIS, ANTHRAX, ARCH ENEMY, ASP, CANDLEMASS, DEEP PURPLE, DEVILDRIVER, DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER, DIE KASSIERER, DORO, ESKIMO CALLBOY, HAGGARD, HATE SQUAD, SCOTT IAN, IHSAHN, LEPROUS, LINGUA MORTIS Featuring RAGE, NIGHTWISH, RAMMSTEIN, SABATON, SOILWORK, SONATA ARCTICA, SUBWAY TO SALLY, BOB WAYNE.
Organizers of Germany’s Summer Breeze Open Air – which will take place from August 15th to 17th at its usual location in Dinkelsbühl – have launched their annual advent calendar where a new band will be announced each day until December 24th. Today’s (December 2nd) band is AMORPHIS.
Confirmed acts now include: AGNOSTIC FRONT, ALESTORM, AMORPHIS, BENEDICTION, THE BONES, DARK FUNERAL, ENSIFERUM, FEUERSCHWANZ, HATEBREED, IN FLAMES, KNORKATOR, NEAERA, NECROPHOBIC, POWERWOLF, ROTTEN SOUND, SABATON.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 