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FZW, Dortmund; Germany
13th April 2011
Love Amongst Ruin
It was in 2007 when on the PLACEBO website the departure of drummer Steve Hewitt was announced. But for Hewitt who has been involved in music for such a long time and who had played in various bands before this didn’t mean the end at all. It rather was the start of something new.
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Gloria, Cologne & Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany
4th and 10th April 2011
Polarkreis 18
With the highly regarded debut album in the back, the task to present a proper follow-up. But POLARKREIS 18 easily ignored all the pressuring and with ‘The Colour Of Snow’ presented a worthy sophomore full of rich textures and emotional urgency, holding the anthem ‘Allein, Allein’ which became a major hit for the group.
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Christuskirche, Bochum, Germany
9th April 2011
Die Happy
It’s just a few months back that DIE HAPPY have released their latest musical effort ‘Red Box’ to the public, earning everything from very positive to negative reception, just as it always is. On the album, the band is letting the walls shake and the hearts beating faster with highly energetic rock and balladry pieces.
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Self-styled “True Norwegian Balkan Metallers” TROLLFEST, who recently inked a deal with NoiseArt Records, as well as the booking agency Rock the Nation, have today previewed the artwork and track listing for the forthcoming album, “En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral”, which is due for release in April.
Commenting on the concept of the album and the artwork, the band, known for its exuberant live performances and whose members are drawn from bands such as URGEHAL, PANTHEON I, UNTIME, MELCH, SARKOM, HALLUCINATIONS and POWERSWORD, had this to say:
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DEICIDE still stand strong to this day, as one of the most influential and controversial metal bands ever. With a relentlessly brutal sound and uncompromisingly blasphemous lyrics, DEICIDE was an original pioneer of the brutal sound and imagery associated with death metal. In 1987, Glen Benton and Steve Asheim teamed to launch one of the most talked about and venomous crusades in metal history and have since risen to international notoriety and released two of the highest selling death metal albums of all time.
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