In cooperation with the german Metal Hammer magazine Finnish metallers NORTHER recently put up a well received cover artwork competition for their upcoming album “Circle Regenerated”. We got submitted an unbelievable amount of great art pieces and it was a really tough task to choose 10 out of them for the final round.
With the 10th edition of Pluswelt Fetsival in Northrhine Westphalia, the Hamburg-based concert agency relocates the prestigious event to the scene party city of Cologne, this time together with a strong new partner: Headline Concerts! Together they found an adequate location with Essigfabrik in Deutz, where the festival will be dealing with the harsher side of music this time around. The following bands are already confirmed:
The band around creative head Sascha Blach announces their fourth album ‘Pedestrians In The Sky’ for a release in February. The album’s closing up the elemental cycle with the subject “Air”. A digital single will be released in January as appetizer. More info to the single and the accompanying music video is following soon. ‘Pedestrians In The Sky’ is a hopeful, spiritual album full of energy between Widescreen Pop, Alternative Rock and Gothic. A taste of the album is already available as free download via http://www.transitpoetry.de/ with the song ‘Astronauts & Butterflies’.
Many festival fans already asked when the presale is going to start. That time has come now and the pre-sale for NCN 6 has started. Original tickets are again limited to 1.500 copies and can only be purchased through the festival shop at the following terms:
Last Friday, LAST DAYS OF APRIL released their new album ‘Gooey’ and now Karl Larsson and band will finally bless Germany with a tour again to excite their fans with their indie power pop:
23.01.11 Hamburg // Grünspan 24.01.11 München // Feierwerk 25.01.11 A-Wien // Rhiz 26.01.11 A-Graz // Forum Stadtpark 27.01.11 CH-Winterthur // Forum Stadtpark 29.01.11 Wiesbaden // Schlachthof 30.01.11 Berlin // Magnet
The first single ‘America’ reached the Top 100 of German Airplay Charts last week. A free download of the single can be found here.