Delain Tour over Europe 2011. 19 Mai Hambrug Knust.

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Este es el anuncio oficial de la gira que estará comenzando la excelente banda Holandesa de Metal Sinfónico/Gotico Delain, lidereada por el Ex-Tecladista de Whitin Tempation Martijn Westerholt, la banda, para los que no la conocen cuenta entre sus filas con la Divina Charlotte Wessels como vocalista, la cual posee una voz maravillosa, aparte de bella es super agradable y siempre tiene un gesto amigable para con sus fans. Pero regresando a la gira, esta estará dando comienzo el día 29 de Abril en la cuidad de Manchester, teniendo como Teloneros para toda la gira (o casi) a otra muy buena banda que ya es bien conocida, me refiero a los Austriacos de Serenity y Lost In Tought  tenendo el acto de apertura como aliciente la presencia de una reina del Metal como lo es Lisa Muddelhauve (Xandria), excelente aporte. El tour se llevará a cabo durante todo el mes de mayo por europa y estará pisando esta tierra de Hamburgo ya casi para cerrar la gira, dicho concierto será el Jueves 19 de Mayo en el Knust de Hamburg, el costo del boleto tiene un precio de 16.80 Euros, el evento comenzará a las 20:00 Horas, una hora antes se abrirán las puertas, yo ya tengo mi boleto desde hace mucho, por lo cual ahí estaré disfrutando de la música de esta agrupación y de la deleitable presencia de Charlotte Wessels, la banda estuvo en Wacken el año anterior, pero no pude asistir a su presentación, me quedé con las ganas, por lo cual, ahora no me lo pienso perder. Más información del boletaje en Metaltix.

"Do you need special treatment?, Charlotte invites you here personaly, so what else do you need to join?"





"Charmy invitation to the people in UK, lucky them"





"And one more for Italy, very nice, Charlotte is an Heavenly Angel in Earth"

English

This one is the official flyer of the tour, which announce the upcoming dates in Europe from the great Symphonic/Gothik Metal Band Delain, the band is leaded by Martijn Westerholt and the incredible lovley and beauty Charlotte Wessels in vocals, this gorgeous woman has an very nice voice, her vocal performance is something enjoyable from the beginning to the end, thus that she is always so kind with her fans and she always has a sweet smile to offer. About the tour, it will begin the 29th of April in Manchester and almost at the end will touch place in Hamburg, more exactly the 19th of May, Delain will play here in Knust Hamburg, with Serenitybas the opening act for all the tour and Lost in Tought, here we could enjoy the lovley presence of  one metal Queen like Lisa Middelhauve (Xandia), excelent, right?.So if you are interested in this concert in Hamburg or in one of all the others over Europe you only have to go to Metaltix and get a ticket, very easy. At least i have mine since some months ago, i dont want to loose the chance to see Delain in concert and enjoy the Lovley presence over the stage of Charlotte, i love her for sure !!.

Charlotte Wessels from Delain in Wacken 2010

Attached you can find some videos from Charlotte Wessels inviting you to see the show in some of the diffrent places that Delain will be playing, and three clips from Delain for all those who come from other planter and doesnt know the band, you can enjoy it.

Cripper: The "70.000 Tons Of Metal" Story in Miami, Florida (USA) am 24.-28.01.2011

Tan solo hago un copiado y pegado de esta nota que publicaron la gente de Metal Glory Alemania, es una crónica del 700,000 Tons of Metal, llevada a cabo por la grandiosa banda de Thrash Metal Alemana, Cripper, durante su estancia en dicho evento. Al final publico la fuente original del artículo y el autor, de hecho les pedí autorización para hacerlo y no hubo problema tan solo poner la información original y la fuente, el texto se encuentra en inglés.

Cripper: The "70.000 Tons Of Metal" Story in Miami, Florida (USA) am 24.-28.01.2011

Metalglory.de extensively reported about the 70.000 Tons of Metal Cruise. And here is another Report. Written by Hannovers Thrash Hopefuls CRIPPER. Enjoy their very own Story about the Cruise....

Kick Off: Friday, January 21st
We can’t say that we really like to get up around 3 in the morning – but having Miami and an event like 70,000 Tons Of Metal in the offing makes leaving a warm bed fairly easy.
We all met at Britta’s place on January 21st, 4 am, grab all guitars, bass guitars, merchandise etc. and take a tram to Hanover Airport. From there we flew over to Miami with a stopover in Paris. Almost 24 hours awake, we arrived at our hostel in Miami Beach.

Here we had a few days to do all the things you must do in Miami: take an air boat ride at the Everglades National Park, renting motorcycles and ride down to Florida keys / Key West, go for a swim in the Atlantic Ocean or simply enjoy burgers at Friday’s.


Monday, January 24th
The Cruise starts on Monday, January 24th. According to the motto „hurry up to wait“ we take a taxi to the Port of Miami and wait hours in the sun before boarding the ship. Bit by bit other bands arrive: Fear Factory, Gamma Ray and Exodus are among the first to show up, before all of us line up behind the onboard securites and board the ship. Just like leaving the country everybody has to go through the metaldetectors. It’s a funny feeling with a long-time-no-see meet and greet on one side and a scanvenger-hunt-for-metal-striptease on the other.

Finally on board the ship the first thing we set our eyes on ist he luxury of the main entrance. A huge lobby with two glass elevators surrounded by open stairs. Stereotype thoughts run through our heads as we try to image how this place will look like after 2000 metalheads had the party of their lives...

Before we can go and see our cabins, Cripper has to host a wedding ceremony. They got invited by two fans a few weeks before the cruise. Alex and Kelly tie the knot onboard, the cruise is their honeymoon. Congrats again! All is held very small, only some relatives take part and all of them will leave the ship afterwards. Although it all happens very fast you discover some small tears in some of the Cripper members eyes. But a rockstar never cries, right? 

Afterwards it's free drinks for all so we hit the bar. After having received the message that Budwiser is out and the waiter is trying to offer a bud light, he is answered with a big laugh of the Cripper members. "Bud light? Come on you got to have something similar or harder... speaking of harder, just hit me with something harder, you know ANYTHING STRONG!" The waiter takes that literally an a new cocktail is born, the waiter comes back with a glass full of secrets and little grapefruit side taste.
The ceremony is held in the Viking Crown Lounge from were you can look down on the ship's pooldeck, there we can see the stage being set up.
Due to a massive traffic jam because of a parade for three shot Miami cops, the crane that delivers parts for the stages is about three hours late. Although the crew is working fast as hell the ship will leave the port with one our of delay which can cost up 10,000 dollars fort he ship. It’s a first timer for all of us.

The contrast of our high-class cruise ship cabins compared to the – let’s say very simple – accomodations of the hostel is expectedly enormous. Although quite small the cabins have a very nice ambience, air condition, a TV, a window and a bathroom with a shower. We are on deck no. 8, one of the altogether 12 decks of the Majesty of the Seas. The TV informs us what to do in case of an emergency, which will be quite usefull in next hour during the training.

Alltough they say that it is not allowed to bring beer to the emergency practice almost everybody has a beer in hand. Every alarm aignal from the ship is answered by 2,000 metal fans screaming „Hey“ in each pause. It seems like no cruise has had that much fun during a training like that and you can even see the ships crew smiling from time to time.
Still, waht will happen in case of a real emergency? We better don’t think about that.

The Windjammer ist the number one address on the ship to get food. It is located on the front of the ship and has a full view of the ocean – while your on it of course – it’s packed with all kinds of foods. From Mexican fajitas to steaks to fruits to Asian, there is nothing left to wish for. The only problem is to decide what to take!

After our bellies are hanging deep down between our feet we head to pool deck to have an excelent view of the skyline of Miami. The sun has already left us and we stare out into hundreds of little lights as the boat starts moving.

Time for Exodus! As one of the bands to set the party off, lots of fans gather in front of the doors of the ships theatre – the A Chorus Line Theatre. Waiters everywhere keep up the pace to serve each metalfan with cold beer before we spot Singer Rob Dukes walking through the waiting headbangers towards the doors. Yes, there really is no backstage!

100 beer and some bands later we hang out at the whirlpool, some of us leave for bed. Cripper have to be full of energy tomorrow since their show starts at 10 o’clock.
The back hits a comfortable matress and the thoughts in our heads all race around one important thing: I hope they have enough beer on the ship.


Tuesday, January 25th
Rrring! Wake up call at 7 in the morning. Totally unmetal, brother… Anyway – get your slobbery head out of your cabin bunk, grab corn flakes drenged in beer and focus on what’s up next: Cripper is going to enter the pool stage. Time is 10 a.m. and location is “Big Mama Of The Seas”, cruisin’ somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Wohoo, dude – we’re still living that dream from yesterday. It’s going exorbitant… 

Amazing – there's a waiting crowd on deck in the morning. Maybe there are still around? Cause the nights programm / karaoke show closed just a few hours before… Crazy shit. But even if it’s a morning after happening or not – Cripper’s show turns into a summer party with a big bunch of different nations and even more similing and banging people. Among other, we talked to guys from Costa Rica, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland. All nations under one flag: Oh boy, we’re soulless pirates!

We all meet again at the pool. What happens if you put some half-drunken metal maniacs into the salty water, then add a couple of free cocktails to it? These bastards invent new water games immediately. New discipline of today “Water Of Death”. Here we go with the rules. Two “athletes” jumping from each side into the pool, hitting each other in the middle with a hearty hug. And sinking down. Afterwards they are felicitated to their performance.
Kind of primitive? Maybe. And it looks like awkward crap. But funny? Yesss! Go on!

In the afternoon there was a thrashy signing session with Death Angel and Cripper at the meet and greet point. Lots of fan pictures were taken. CDs, shirts, nation flags, guitars were autographed and new friendships formed. Greetings to the hard rockin’ Frisco brothers and thanks again to the guys from Columbia for their tiny presents. – These souvenirs are still with us! 

Eh, what else… Let’s switch over to 11th floor, conquer that mighty dinner table and eat for a horse. Again.
ARRH, we are goddamn pirates (…and Running Wild is not, hihihi).

Wednesday, January 26th

One can’t tell, they didn’t warned us about that: When we had lunch on tuesday we got a paper of information saying what point of interests we would be able to see on our day at land, wednesday.
Each POI was rationed by the level of physical fitness required to visit the chosen place. We decided to join Cripper visiting a tequila factory in the middle of Cozumel, Mexico. The Royal Carribean (falls noch nicht vorgestellt, bitte einen Nebensatz einfügen) Travelers-Guide said that tour to be an easy going one, but warned us seriously that „there might be some steps“ on our trip.
Threatend by the possibility we might have to lift our knees more than 45 degrees, we decided to get us a taxi from the port of Cozumel to whereever the tequila was waiting for us. In addition the driver should get us to some other POIs whenever in reach. Cripper booked the driver and his bus for a whole day.
Obviously they thaught themself to be at the start of a Madonna-like career with all of its benefits. 

After arriving at the Tequila-Farm, our Tequila-Tourguide Paco, who introduced himself as Pancho (but had a nameplate with him saying his name is Francesco) first bought us some Margaritas and explained the differences between the various kinds of the booze and its effects on ones ability to „couchie-couchie“ (a nice word for having sex) afterwards. All in all some very nice pieces of information and there were no steps we had to be afraid of.

Our driver, who had introduced himself as „Charlie Brown“ (Mexicans seem to have a favor for nicknames not to comprehend in the first way) now drove us to what he was told by his managers to be „points of interests“. After visiting two of them we told him we wanted to see a nice beach in preference to see more souvenir-shops. And that’s what he got us to! Frightend we recognized that one could hit the beach only by taking some steps. But in prospective of hanging around there and listening to the waves we kept that shit going. A nice variety in sound compared to heavy metal and interesting insider informations about Mexico by Charlie Brown were the wages of our indescribable recklessness.

Because the Cripper-Guys had to play their second show this evening we had to say farewell to mexico way to soon. And after paying Charlie Brown from Chris’ and Bjoerns defiled bank accounts we got back to what we liked even more than tequila and waves: Lunch. And in addition to all this awesome experiences Cripper enjoyed a even more banging audience than the day before.

Thursday, January 27th 
Thursday morning feels really a lot early, even at 11 am. Having in mind that Cripper finished off with both sets and both luckily successful, we've had more than the usual amount of tasty alcoholic baverages.
We all meet for late breakfast at the Windjammer. There are a few interviews for Cripper on the schedule, e.g. one with US radio show "Metalopolis" and another one with German magazine "Stern". Last one is kind a big thing, since the magazine has nothing to do with metal in general at all.

The winnner of the day turns out to be Bass-T. He is one of the lucky metal celebrities to be on a photo shooting with the Captain of the Majesty of the Seas. Bloody hell! Together with Russ Bergquist (Dusk Machine), Simone Simons (Epica) and Chuck Billy (Testament) to name a few, they pose and do a real good job. They also get a short explanation how the brain of the ship works, while the crew eagerly tries to convince one rockstar to get back out of the captains chair. 

Britta now officially hates air condition. With hot summer temperatures outside, it is just too chill everywhere inside, be it on the plane, the hostel or on the cruise. It is understandable that the ac cannot be turned off, but for a singer it easily becomes a problem.

Unformtunately we cannot watch the belly-splash contest, but later in the evening Britta gets the chance to be on a picture with the winner, who is making her look quite... tiny

Since today is the last day on the cruise, we receive our schedule for leaving the ship. The baggage has to be ready and in front of our cabins by 12 pm at the latest. Which gives us as Germans a funny feeling again: you give your credit card to the waitresses and let 'em walk away with it, you leave your baggage somewhere unattended... seems to be quite common in the US.

According to the Cripper-shirt wearing metalheads popping up everywhere we can say that they sold extremely well onboard. Counting out with the girl from the merchandise prooves that, which is good, according to custom laws it is not really legal for Cripper to bring back their stuff to Germany.

Before we go over to the Chorus Line Theatre to watch Testament we are very happy to receive back our alcohol we bought in the duty free shops onboard and the nice Tequila farm in Cozumel. Yay, cheers.


End of the Story

The rats are finally leaving the sinking ship! It’s Friday, 8 am. Everyone is scheduled to go to deck four for debarkation. Due to heavy partying the night before, we compete with each other about the deepest eye circles.

We take a taxi back to our hostel where we will stay the last night before finally going back home. At around 2 pm we take the last opportunity to hang out at the beach and drinking some beers covered in nice brown paper bags.

After dinner we have to meet a real challenge. We bought a 3 l bottle of Jack Daniel’s in the ship’s duty free shoping area. Uff! After a week of party we must admit that our longing for alcohol excesses has seen better times. Nevertheless there are a few people left to take care of this issue and proudly present the empty bottle on the next morning. Hats off!

On our flight back we are lucky to have tailwind, which saves us more than an hour. The flight is at night, everyone is pretty much on his or her own, spending thoughts on important questions we will never have to ask ourselves again: What is Chuck Billy eating for breakfast? How would it sound if Rob Dukes sang YMCA at a Karaoke bar? Does Burton Bell know how to play Black Jack?

Instead we wonder where our voices have gone, if we have I smelled like this before, how many people peed in the pool, what is sunburn really good for and the most important question above all: How big are the balls of a guy that rents a fuckin’ cruise ship for a metal festival?

Horns up!


Fuente: Metal Glory, Das Metal Portal 
Liga: www.Metalglory.de
(c) Cripper, cripper.de
(c) Marc Hansen blizzard@metalglory.de

Zamak in W.O.A. Metal Battle México 2011.

Va esta publicación para comentar sobre la anexión de la banda de Violent Death Metal, Zamak, a la edición 2011 del Metal Battle México en la que el grupo ganador recibe como premio tener una presentación en vivo en la 22ava Edición del Wacken Open Air. La banda originaria del Distrito Federal ya había participado en dicho evento en su primera edición en el año 2009, en la cual fueron dignos finalistas; hoy, regresan por sus fueros, más maduros y con su tercer disco de larga duración bajo el brazo a buscar la victoria.

Zamak es una banda que tiene un estilo Death Metal muy a la usanza antígüa pero con mucha técnica y velocidad, lo cual le da un balance muy peculiar a su música, ellos cuentan ya con más de 10 años ondeando la bandera del metal en la subterraneidad del movimiento en México. El grupo cuentan con 3 discos de larga duración en su haber, "Fortress" del 2002, "Empire... The Violence" editado en el año 2004 y su más reciente trabajo denominado "Hate Dominion Revenge" en el 2009. Con lo que se puede ver que los chicos no son ningunos improvisados y su cartel de presentaciones habla por sí solo, han compartido escenarios con muchos de los grandes nombres del metal internacional en sus presentaciones en México, tales como, Obituary, Sadus, Arch Enemy, Napalm Death y próximamente estarán alternando por segunda vez con los dioses del Thrash Metal Alemán, Destruction.

Zamak, conformados por Antonio Ruíz (Guitarra), Rubén Ávila (Vocales), David Vázquez (Batería), José Luís Gutierrez (Guitarra) y Omar Rufino (Bajo), sin duda darán mucho de qué hablar en la Batalla y espero que al final sean los triunfadores y que en Agosto próximo estén pateando traseros en la Meca del Metal, sería un gusto verlos por este lado nuevamente pero ahora arriba del escenario de Wacken, evento al cual asistiré otra vez y que de acuerdo a mis planes, llegaré barriéndome justo el día 4 que comienza, otra vez buscando un camping de asilo, debido a que un día antes regresaré a tierras Germanas arribando desde México después de lo que espero sean unas cálidas y agradables vacaciones veraniegas por mi pais durante el mes de Julio. Desde aquí se les desea toda la suerte chavos de Zamak y nos estaremos viendo en un futuro.

Liga al Myspace de Zamak.

Version in English:

I write this post to let you know about the join of "Zamak", the Mexican Violent Death Metal Band to the Metal Battle Mexico version 2011, in wich one the winner will recieve the opportunity to play in the 22th edition of the Wacken Open Air in Wacken, a little town in North Germany. The band from Mexico City had been already participating in this event on the first edition in 2009 and they were one of the prouds finalist bands. Nowadays, they came back, more mature with their third long play behind the arm looking this time for the victory.

Zamak is a band in the Old School Death Metal style with many technique in guitarrs and fiercy speed. With this combination they get a very peculiar style in their music, the band have already 10 years raising the metal flag in the underground movement in Mexico. They have three long play recordings, "Fortress" from year 2002, "Empire...The Violence" in 2004 and the most brand new album "Hate Dominion Revenge" in 2009. With this we can see that they are not a naive young band and of course their gigs speaks from themselves, they had been on stage with many of the great international metal names when they come to México to promote, names like Obituary, Sadus, Arch Enemy, Napalm Death and soon for the second time with the Thrash Metal Gods from Germany, Destruction in the upcoming gig in Frebruary.

Zamak´s line up is Antonio Ruíz (Guitar), Rubén Ávila (Vocals), David Vázquez (Drums), José Luís Gutierrez (Guitar) and Omar Rufino (Bass), with any doubt they are going to do a great job in the Metal Battle and i hope at the end they rise up with the gold price and next August they will be kicking asses  in the Heavy Metal Mecca, that should be proud see this band again here in Germany but this time over the stage. From here i am sending you the best wishes to the Zamak pals and we will see us in the future.

Link to Zamak´s My Space.

Deutsche Version (mit Fehler).

Ich möchte hier teilen über die Angliederung von Zamaks Violent Death Metal Band zum Metal Battle Mexiko version 2011, deren Prämie ist in Wackens zwei und zwanzigsten version spielen kann. Das Band von Mexiko Stadt sind in version 2009 beteiligen, die Sie waren würdig Endspielteilnehmer. Heute zu Tage, Sie kehren reiflich und mit euren neue Platte unter den Arm zurück, suchen den Sieg.

Zamak ist ein "Old School Death Metal" Band in Stil, trotztem mit Reisegeschwindigkeit Technick davon, erreeichen eine besonders Balance in ihre eigene Musik. Sie haben schon zehn Jahren flattern die Metall Flagge in die Unterirdischemexikanerbewegung. Die Band haben drei Platten "Fortress" in 2002, "Empire...the Violence" editierte in Jahr 2004 und die ganz neue Aufnahme in zweitausendneun "Hate Dominion Revenge", damit können wir bemerken dass die Jungs nich erneut sind und Ihre eigene Vorstellungaushang sehr würdig ist. Die Band haben die Bühne mit Namen wie Obituary, Sadus, Arch Enemy, Napalm Death und  demnächst von zweite mal mit dem bekannte Deutsche Thrash Metal Gottes Destruction geteilt.

Das Formen von Zamaks ist Antonio Ruíz (Gitarre), Rubén Ávila (Sänger), David Vázquez (Schlagzeuger), José Luis Gutierrez (Gitarre) und Omar Rufino (Bassguitarre), ohne Zweifel Sie wurden in die Metall Bataille zum Ende kämpfen und ich würde gern Zamak die Gewwinner am Ende werden. Damit nächster August die Band fliegen zum Wacken können und viel Hintern zu treten in das Heavy Metal Mekka. Davon sehen uns gerne wieder, aber dieses mal auf die Bühne. Ich Drucke die Daumen darüber.

Der Link zum Zamaks Myspace.

Feliz Navidad y Éxito en el 2011

FELICES FIESTAS METALERAS PARA TODOS, NOS VEMOS EN EL 2011.

Frohe Metallweihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr 2011.

MERRY METAL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011.

Iron Maiden, Juni 2 2011, O2 World Arena, Hamburg.

AND GERMANY DATES...

Y esta nota me ha hecho el día y creo complicado que se me borre la sonrisa de la cara que ésta me ha generado, los Heavy Metaleros de la vieja guardia, los Ingleses de Iron Maiden, acaban de anunciar gira por europa para el 2011, entre las muchas fechas y paises por visitar, en esta ocasión han incluido a Alemania, la banda estará presentándose en 6 fechas distintas dentro del territorio germano, "Frankfurt", "Oberhausen", "München", "Stuttgart", "Berlín" y "Hamburg" serán las cuidades afortunadas que estarán albergando a esta formidable banda. Y en lo que a mi concierne, el día 2 de Junio estarán en esta cuidad de Hamburg en la Arena O2 World, como digo, me han hecho el día y por sobre todas las cosas estaré ahí, otra vez, presenciando a Iron Maiden, y es que quizá a muchos les parezca cualquier cosa, pero no para mi, no se cuántos años tiene que Maiden no viene a Alemania a dar un concierto en Gira, tan solo en el 2008 y 2010 en el Festival de Wacken, que aunque estuvieron muy chidos, no es lo mismo. En México han estado en el 2008 y 2009 con la gira del  "Somewhere Back In Time Tour" que trístemente me predí por no estar ya en mi pais, mientras por allá se presentaban, por estas frías tierras tan solo nos pintaban un "violín" por que no hicieron presentaciones, creo que desde el 2006 no vienen. Más abajo les dejo el anuncio oficial en el idioma de Shakespeare. Cabe señalar que las Arenas en las que se presentará Iron Maiden no son del tamaño de un Foro Sol por supuesto, son recintos con alrededor de 20 mil personas en capacidad, unas más otras menos, algo así como El Palacio de los Deportes en México, pero mejor adaptados para los conciertos.

IRON MAIDEN ANNOUNCE MORE EUROPEAN DATES INCLUDING AN ARENA TOUR IN GERMANY!

Published: November 18, 2010

IRON MAIDEN has now confirmed the following European shows as part of THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR 2011:

MAY

Sat 28 - Frankfurt, GERMANY Festhalle

Sun 29 - Oberhausen, GERMANY Kopi Arena

Tue 31 - Munich, GERMANY Olympiahalle

JUNE

Thur 2 - Hamburg, GERMANY o2 World

Fri 3 - Berlin, GERMANY o2 World

Tue 7 - Stuttgart, GERMANY Schleyerhalle

Wed 8 - Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS Gerledome

Mon 27 - Paris, FRANCE Bercy

The German, Dutch and French shows follow on from the band's recently announced 'Around The World In 66 Days' tour in Ed Force One, and denote the start of the European - and final - leg of The Final Frontier World Tour 2011 culminating with a series of arena dates around the UK which ends at the London O2 Arena in August. More shows around Europe are still to be announced so keep checking this website for updates.

As always we hope to facilitate "First To The Barrier" for our fan club members at as many shows as possible, details of these will be announced nearer the time on this website.

There will be an exclusive first ticket pre-sale for Iron Maiden Fan Club members next week, before tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday November 26th (The Netherlands) and Saturday November 27th (Germany and France).

Please keep checking this website for updates about ticket sales and further information about the special fan club pre-sale.

Ahí está el anuncio, Maiden de nuevo en Alemania, (Iron Maiden in Deutschland wieder), creo que se debe al éxito en ventas que ha tenido el último trabajo, el "The Final Frontier", al cual yo encuentro de gran calidad, al exigente público Aleman le ha gustado también, por lo cual la banda regresa a dar estos 6 conciertos. Ahí estaremos... UP THE IRONS !!!!

THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR - 2011
FEBRUARY
Fri 11 Tue 15 Thu 17 Sun 20 Wed 23 Thu 24 Sat 26 Sun 27	Moscow, RUSSIA SINGAPORE Jakarta, INDONESIA Bali, INDONESIA Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Sydney, AUSTRALIA Brisbane, AUSTRALIA Sydney, AUSTRALIA	Olympiski (on sale now) Singapore Indoor Stadium (on sale now) Stadium Utama Gelaro Bung Karno Senayan (on sale now) Garuda Wisnu Kencana (on sale now) Hisense Arena (on sale now) Entertainment Centre (on sale now) Showgrounds (Soundwave Festival) Eastern Creek Raceway (Soundwave Festival)
MARCH
Fri 4 Sat 5 Mon 7 Thu 10 Sat 12 Sun 13 Thu 17 Fri 18 Sun 20 Wed 23 Sat 26 Sun 27 Wed 30	Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Adelaide, AUSTRALIA Perth, AUSTRALIA Seoul, KOREA Tokyo, JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN Monterrey, MEXICO Mexico City, MEXICO Bogota, COLOMBIA Lima, PERU Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Rio De Janeiro, BRAZIL Brasilia, BRAZIL	Showgrounds (Soundwave Festival) Bonython Park (Soundwave Festival) Steel Blue Oval (Soundwave Festival) Gymnastic Gymnasium (on sale Nov 26) Super Arena Super Arena Banamex Theatre (on sale now) Foro Sol (on sale now) CEC Aposentos Club Sopo (on sale now) Estadio San Marcos (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Morumbi Stadium (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) HSBC Arena (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Nilson Nelson Parking Lot (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26)
APRIL
Fri 1 Sun 3 Tue 5 Fri 8 Sun 10 Wed 14 Sat 16 Sun 17	Belem, BRAZIL Recife, BRAZIL Curitiba, BRAZIL Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Santiago, CHILE San Juan, PUERTO RICO Sunrise, Florida, USA Tampa, Florida USA	Parque De Exposicoes (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Parque De Exposicoes (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Expotrade (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Velez Sarsfield (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Estadio Nacional (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Coliseo De Puerto Rico (on sale Nov 27 presale Nov 26) Bank Atlantic Center (on sale Dec 4, presale Nov 29) St Pete Times Forum (on sale Dec 4, presale Nov 29)
MAY
Sat 28 Sun 29 Tue 31	Frankfurt, GERMANY Oberhausen, GERMANY Munich, GERMANY	Festhalle (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22) Kopi Arena (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22) Olympiahalle (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22)
JUNE
Thur 2 Fri 3 Tue 7 Wed 8 Mon 27	Hamburg, GERMANY  Berlin, GERMANY Stuttgart, GERMANY Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS Paris, FRANCE	o2 World (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22) o2 World (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22) Schleyerhalle (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22) Gerledome (on sale Nov 26, presale Nov 24) Bercy (on sale Nov 27, presale Nov 22)
JULY
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Helloween - 7 Sinners (2010)

Dragnet/Sony Music

VÖ: 29.10.2010

Track List:

Where The Sinners Go 03:35

Are You Metal? 03:38

Who is Mr. Madman? 05:40

Raise The Noise 05:06

World Of Fantasy 05:15

Long Live The King 04:12

The Smile Of The Sun 04:37

You Stupid Mankind 04:05

If A Mountain Could Talk 06:43

The Sage, The Fool, The Sinner 04:00

My Sacrifice 05:00

Not Yet Today 01:11

Far In The Future 07:42

Helloween sind:

Andi Deris – Vocals

Michael Weikath – Guitar

Sascha Gerstner – Guitar, backing vocals

Markus Grosskopf – Bass

Dani Löble – Drums

Ésta es la portada y el Tack List del nuevo disco de Helloween, que está próximo a salir a la venta; como es normal, hay muchos medios a los que se les distribuye el producto para su evaluación y crítica, aquí les traigo una pequeña reseña del disco "7 Sinners" que publicó la revista especializada en música y conciertos "musix", el texto está en Alemán.

Auf  "7 Sinners" geben Deutschlands Vorzeigemetaller Helloween aber so richtig Gas und machen ihrem Ruf als melodische Speedster einmal mehr alle Ehre. Und die Tracks sind dabei nicht nur ziemlich schnell, sondern auch noch so richtig heavy und stellenweise ganz schön finster. Obwohl Helloween ja auch für ihren Humor bekannt sind ist der Sound alles adere als Happy Metal, wobei einem die starken Melodien und griffigen Refrains immer wieder ein (böses) Lächeln aufs Gesicht zaubern. Auch ungewohnte Soundeffekte und kleine Klangspielerein sorgen für (heftige) Freunde beim Zuhören. Was da teilweise an Instrumentalogien abgeht hat schon was.

* musix, das unabhange Konzertmagazin.

En resumen, no literalmente, lo que comentan sobre el disco de "7 Sinners" es que Helloween ha sabido darle buena potencia, velocidad y melodía a la música que han compuesto, las canciones no son sólo bastante rápidas sino que también lo suficientemente pesadas y de cierta forma, maravillosamente oscuras, si bien es cierto que Helloween es conocido por ser un grupo que hace "Happy Metal", las partes del disco que son más duras logran que el escucha sonría maliciosamente de satisfacción.  Todo el trabajo contiene pequeños efectos de sonido inusuales que son de resaltar y que le dan otra perspectiva a la música.

Al parecer el disco sin ser un regreso a sus raices, tal parece que es una obra de Power Metal Melódico bastante balanceada, con canciones alegres y a su vez rápidas, pesadas y un tanto oscuras, esperemos que en realidad así sea el disco, cuando menos sigan en una línea ascendente a lo que nos otorgaron con sus dos últimos trabajos, contando ahora con una alineación estable, que viene trabajando junta desde los dos últimos discos, podemos pensar que este puede ser una gran entrega del grupo. 

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Hago un paréntesis en este espacio, encontré una reseña bastante buena del disco en el sitio de www.perfectgentlemen.com, el antíguo sitio oficial de la banda, yo apenas lo estoy escuchando, y, aunque me suena bastante bueno, creo que no es lo máximo que ha dado Helloween.

Where the sinners go - Really like the riff, and the song is, altogether, pretty cool actually. The chorus is alright and the part where Andi goes "..where the sinners, sinners, sinners.." after 3.00 is awesome.

Are you metal? - Very good riff here, too. I like the melodies in the verses and the chorus is good, the only thing I dislike in this song is the transition between verse/bridge. Andi's screaming around 2.10 is great. Same goes for the ending.

Who is Mr. Madman? - My favorite. Fast, aggressive and melodic. Verses are really good, the guitarwork is awesome. Dani's drumming is excellent. Bridge is great and the chorus is a fucking masterpiece. Love the solo, too. Solo riffs are solid. Too much praise? Nah.

Raise the noise - Good opening riffs. Heavy. All in all not too catchy. It's not bad, it's just not very interesting. Having a hard time deciding if the flute is a superb addition or really lame. I used to play that sort of flute though, so I'm pretty disappointed no one gave me a call.

World of fantasy - The beginning sounds like a Swedish tune with lyrics going something like this: "I'm gonna give you a lick with my razor tongue". I hate that song, but hey. Heavy stuff after that. Sounds kinda like a schlager song, which doesn't really appeal to me all that much. Not a skipper, though. The part after 3.13 is really good, and so is the solo. The end is a huge piece of schlager crap.

Long live the king - Now we're talking. Great riffs, great drumming. Really like the chorus. Simple, fast, heavy. Don't know what to say about the scatman thing after 2.30, but that's ok. Haha. Very good song.

The smile of the sun - Cheeeeeeeeeeesy. Gets better, though. Somehow reminds me of "If I Knew", though that song's a lot better. But this is not a bad tune.

You stupid mankind - Opening riffs are good. Melodies are ok. Very different chorus, which I like. It's...a bit weird, but that's alright. Solos are good. Yep, I like this. Only thing I don't like is when the vocals go "unive-erse" and "e-earth".

If a mountain could talk - So they woke up the mountain back in the day and here we are..? The keyboard licks are a nice touch. Is this a follow up on Eagle fly free, Mission Motherland and Mankind, lyrically? Hehe. The chorus kinda gets me confused, it has potential but never really makes it. Kinda borders on cheesiness. And the lyrics may cover an important subject, but they're silly. The song definitely beats Raise the noise, World of fantasy and The smile of the sun.

The sage, the fool, the sinner - Opens nicely, sweet guitar stuff. Awesome Weiki vocal melodies. All over the nations, Salvation, The tune... Weiki delivers and I love it. The verses are the best part.

My sacrifice - Really REALLY like this. Dani's drumming is magnificent, his off-beat stuff is awesome. The vocal melodies give me a little musical orgasm. The intermission around 3.55 is great, and so is the rest of the song.

Not yet today - Waste of space and time (haha, see the word game? I rule). Sounds like a church service prayer that should be read instead of sung.

Far in the future - So, how's the disc gonna end? Apparently with pretty heavy shit, partly, but the song as a whole isn't that great. Kinda delivers highs and lows and will definitely not be a skipper. 
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Les dejo un video de la banda en la que hablan sobre el disco nuevo "7 Sinners", dicho video fue grabado a mitad de la grabación del álbum, en los estudios "Mi Sueño" en Tenerife España, propiedad  de Michael Weikath, en el cual Andi Deris comenta que para todos aquellos que no les gustó y maldecían el último disco "Unarmed", éste nuevo disco sería total y absolutamente Rápido y Duro, también que en este otro post que ya subí vienen las letras del disco, en la liga pueden ir al post. Letras 7 Sinners.

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