In June of the last year, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from Madrid (Spain) earned much sympathy from fans of harder industrial rock sounds with their debut album "Crossing The Rubicon". After several gigs in their homecountry, the band is on the road now for some live gigs in Germany and Holland. With the 5- track digital EP "Contact", which will be released on 10/29/2010 on afmusic as free download, they also have the right appetizer on board. Beside the remix of "Greed" by Das Ich and the previously unreleased song "F.U.C.K. You", there are as a musical delight two interesting cover-versions of "Into the Groove" (Madonna) and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nirvana).
Swedish synth pop trio LOWE will go on their first ever North American tour, starting in New York City on November 24. After several successful tours in Central- and Eastern Europe, LOWE are now ready to take on the western world with their new Evolver Tour. The North American part of the LOWE Evolver Tour consists of 9 dates throughout northeastern USA and Canada.
On 3rd September 2011 it is time again for a blast of electronic sounds! With the E?tropolis Festival at the Columbia Compound Berlin another strictly electronic line-up of contemporary blockbuster-acts and interesting surprises is about to unfurl. While artists like WELLE:ERDBALL, HAUJOBB, ASCII.DISKO, FADERHEAD and FABRIK C have already been confirmed, we dragged the entertainment-screw even further in and again recruited three exciting acts, including the headliner:
In 2010, Israeli progressive folk metal masters ORPHANED LAND shared the stage with no one less than Metallica in their home town Tel Aviv and played Europe’s biggest summer festivals incl. Wacken, Summer Breeze, Gods Of Metal, Rock Hard and any more as well as a US tour with Katatonia. Now, ORPHANED LAND have announced the release of “The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR (Tour Edition)” on October 29, 2010 in Europe close to the kick-off of the band’s extensive European tour as direct support of Amorphis, which starts November 5, 2010.
Turisas has finished recording the upcoming, yet untitled third album (TBA). The new album was recorded between March and September 2010 at Sound Supreme Studio, Finland, and mixed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Paradise Lost etc.) at Fascination Street, Sweden. The album was produced by vocalist and main songwriter Mathias "Warlord" Nygård. The album is due to be released worldwide on Century Media Records in early 2011.