NEWSDESK, 15th September 2009
> THRESHOLD SNEAKY PEEK
Threshold have announced more details of their upcoming Essence Of Progression tour across Europe starting next month, including a sneak look at some of the songs on the setlist.
"It's great to be racing across Europe one more time before we start work on the new album" commented Threshold keyboard player Richard West. "It's going to be an epic set! Alongside our usual suspects such as Slipstream and Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams we're planning to add a lot of long tracks which don't often get played like Consume To Live, The Whispering and The Art Of Reason. What's more we'll be adding some songs we've NEVER played live before such as Fighting For Breath and our 13 minute epic Critical Mass (part 1-3). We'll also be performing a previously unreleased song from our new fan club album that will be on sale at the shows. We just can't wait to get out there again!"
Supporting Threshold are two of Europe's finest progressive metal bands, Serenity from Austria and Spheric Universe Experience from France (Serenity and Pythia to support at London show).
The tour dates are as follows:
29 Oct 2009: Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany
30 Oct 2009: Colos Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
01 Nov 2009: Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland
02 Nov 2009: Backstage, Munich, Germany
03 Nov 2009: Escape, Vienna, Austria
04 Nov 2009: Firlej, Wroclaw, Poland
05 Nov 2009: Bergkeller, Reichenbach, Germany
06 Nov 2009: Spirit of 66, Verviers, Belgium
07 Nov 2009: Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
08 Nov 2009: Relentless Garage, London, England
For more tour information visit http://www.essenceofprogression.com/
> EUROPE UK TOUR DATES
Sweden's biggest hard rock band Europe has just confirmed a nationwide 9-date tour of the UK in February 2010. Tickets go on sale Friday 18th September at 9am. All tickets are £17, with the exception of London (£18). Very special guest on all UK dates is Diamond Head.
Ticket hotline number for all shows excluding Manchester is 0844 477 2000. Manchester box office number is 0161 832 1111. Tickets can be booked online from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/. Manchester Academy 2 show can be booked via http://www.ticketline.co.uk/ and http://www.manchestercademy.net/.
Dates:
Leeds O2 Academy (Feb 18)
Birmingham O2 Academy (Feb 19)
London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (Feb 20)
Oxford O2 Academy (Feb 22)
Bournemouth O2 Academy (Feb 23)
Bristol O2 Academy (Feb 24)
Manchester Academy (Feb 26)
Newcastle O2 Academy (Feb 27)
Glasgow O2 ABC (Feb 28)
The tour follows the 14th September release of Europe's critically acclaimed new studio album Last Look At Eden which features the singles "New Love In Town" and the title track. Best known for their 1986 smash anthem 'The Final Countdown' the Swedish rockers have returned with a heavier bluesy, hip-shaking metal sound, and recently headlined the UK's Bloodstock Festival to rave reviews.
Metal Hammer recently praised Europe for their outstanding Bloodstock performance - "Europe's note perfect, slickly choreographed show, pulls together all ages and tastes for a feel-good finale that smells like total victory."
> HAZY HAMLET DETAILS
Classic, raw and punchy heavy metal is what can be found when listening to Hazy Hamlet. Vintage hard/heavy bands from the 70s and 80s serve as inspiration for its music, timbres, attitude; as does a great passion for valved amps. Its lyrical approaches are all about epic themes, death, war and praise to heavy metal itself.
Conceived in 1999 as a power metal band, in Maringa, Parana, south of Brazil, Hazy Hamlet has suffered some line-up changes having, by 2001, recorded and produced the demo-CD Hazy Tales. Even with a modest production this first material has granted good reviews in national and international territory. In 2003 the band released Revelation EP and, in 2005 - reduced to a quartet - an online single called Chrome Heart, material which kept granting excellent reviews from different places worldwide.
After some difficult years and another line-up change, Hazy Hamlet - composed of Arthur Migotto (V), Julio Bertin (G), Fabio Nakahara (B) and Cadu Madera (D) - has achieved a new important moment with its first full-length entitled Forging Metal. They can finally wave their banner triumphantly with the motif, "Proud to be Loud!"
Tracklisting: 1 - The Beginning of the End - part I, 2 - The Beginning of the End - part II, 3 - Black Masquerade, 4 - Metal Revolution, 5 - Field of Crosses, 6 - Funeral for a Viking, 7 - Chrome Heart, 8 - Chariot of Thor, 9 - Forging Metal, 10 - The Faces of Illusion
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