Pop Culture Madness conducted an interview with drummer Jon Larsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT on Thursday, January 26 at the opening show of this year’s Gigantour at the Susquahana Bank Arena, in Camden, New Jersey. You can now watch the chat below.
Guitarist Hank Shermann (MERCYFUL FATE) made his live debut with VOLBEAT at the Camden concert. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Sami Jarroush of the Rock It Out! Blog conducted an interview with drummer Jon Larsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT on Thursday, January 26 at the opening show of this year’s Gigantour at the Susquahana Bank Arena, in Camden, New Jersey. You can now watch the chat below.
Guitarist Hank Shermann (MERCYFUL FATE) made his live debut with VOLBEAT at the Camden concert. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT have tapped Hank Shermann of MERCYFUL FATE to play guitar on their their upcoming North American tour as part of “Gigantour”.
Shermann most recently shared the stage with METALLICA at one of four intimate shows which took place at the Fillmore in San Francisco as part of the week-long celebration of METALLICA‘s 30th anniversary as a band for fan club members only.
“It’s a true honor getting to work with Hank, whose guitar work has inspired all three bandmembers long before VOLBEAT was formed,” says VOLBEAT frontman Michael Poulsen. “I’m very thankful that Hank has the time to join us on Gigantour in his busy schedule.”
The multi-artist Gigantour bill — with metal heavyweights MOTÖRHEAD, VOLBEAT and LACUNA COIL all personally picked by Dave Mustaine of headliners MEGADETH — will kick off on January 26 in Camden, New Jersey.
Gigantour was founded by Mustaine in 2005 and was last in North America in May 2008. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Michael Poulsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT joined ICED EARTH on stage on December 3, 2011 at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark to perform the classic ICED EARTH song “Watching Over Me”.
A video message from Poulsen and ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer recorded shortly after the concert can be seen below. Also available is fan-filmed video footage of Michael‘s appearance at the gig.
In a September 2011 interview with Aux Portes Du Métal, Schaffer was asked what new groups he finds interesting. “VOLBEAT is a really cool band,” Schaffer replied. “I wish I had discovered them earlier… But they’re really excellent. It’s really fresh and inspiring to see a band that has so many different influences and still make their own thing. Michael and I are actually good friends now, we met at the Graspop [Metal Meeting] festival [in Belgium]. We had a blast, drank a bottle of whisky each that night. This guy has followed ICED EARTH since the beginning. He told me this story how the day our first album came out, he just had enough money to go the store by bus, buy the CD and go back home. He’s a great guy, and his music is really cool… This band is getting bigger and bigger and they totally deserve it.”
ICED EARTH filmed a video for the song “Anthem” at its December 7 concert at Essigfabrik in Cologne, Germany. The track comes off the band’s new album, “Dystopia”, which sold around 6,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 67 on The Billboard 200 chart.
ICED EARTH‘s 10th studio offering, “Dystopia”, was released in Europe on October 17 and in the U.S. on October 18 via Century Media Records. Two bonus tracks were also recorded for inclusion on special editions of the album.
ICED EARTH kicked off the European headlining trek on October 30 at Zeche in Bochum, Germany. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Michael Poulsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT joined ICED EARTH on stage on December 3, 2011 at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark to perform the classic ICED EARTH song “Watching Over Me”. Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Kati Rausch of Das Musik Magazin conducted an interview with drummer Jon Larsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT when the band played in Oberhausen, Germany on November 12, 2011. You can now watch the chat below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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