The dates of the North American tour have just been announced! You can view them by following the tours page of the site: North American Tour of Blind Guardian.
The opening bands for this tour are Holy Grail and Seven Kingdom!
At The Edge Of Time meanwhile continues to be hightly placed on the top of German chart, he was still in 4th place during the 32nd week and in 6th place in the 33rd.
The German magazine Metal Hammer and Blind Guardian are organizing a contest where you can win a number of October's Metal Hammer magazine and CD Sacred Worlds & Live In Wacken.
Sacred Worlds (Metal Hammer edit)
War Of Wrath (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
Into The Storm (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
Born In A Mourning Hall (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
Nightfall (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
Fly (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
Valhalla (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
The Bard's Song (In The Forest) (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
Mirror Mirror (Live @ Wacken 2007 - Metal Hammer edit)
To enter this contest simply fill out 3 conditions:
In addition to be the talented lead guitarist of Blind Guardian, Olbrich André has also enjoyed success as a child in the 70s. Indeed, his mother being a photographer, she took pictures of him that have served for a fashion catalog for kids!
André
Born into a family of artists, Andrew has quickly had a passion for hard work: "From my mother I inherited the inexhaustible energy to be creative. And my father gave me the musicality in the cradle." confides André.
Imagine a luxurious cruise to the Caribbean on a boat of dream with ... 2 000 metalheads!
You dreamed? 70 000 Tons Of Metal has done! 4 days of sound on a turquoise ocean with 40 bands to delight your eyes and especially your ears.
And that I think that is a first for Blind Guardian to participate in such an event! Our Bards will sail on the ocean the next 24 to 28 January on a luxury liner.
The price for such an event is the weak point, I'll let you judge for yourself on the official site for this extraordinary festival: 70 000 Tons Of Metal.
Who says new tour said necessarily new bootlegs that start to bloom everywhere on the net, for those who do not know what it is, I recall that the bootlegs are mostly unofficial live recordings made by fans and the sound quality is less good than a live.
The band is on tour, nothing really exciting is revealed at this time; Facebook's addicts can track their dates in real time via the group page but otherwise it's dead calm!
However, various interviews are given here and there and we'll relay them here even though there is nothing really new in these:
Hansi will appears on the upcoming DVD of Grave Digger, "The Clans Are Still Marching", and more specifically the song Rebellion. Remember, he was invited this summer to participate in their thirty years on stage at the Wacken Open Air (Hansi in guest-star of Grave Digger at Wacken Open Air!).
The concert has been filmed and will be released on DVD March 7, 2011. So here's the cover and the tracklist:
Santa Guardian and his band of dark elves would like to wish you a Merry X-mas!
Holidays are also arrived for Blind Guardian, the U.S. tour ended on December 22, our dear friends have gone home to enjoy the holiday season with their family for come back in better shape in January!
The clip of A Voice In The Dark, last single by Blind Guardian from the album At The Edge Of Time, will appears on the compilation "Nuclear Blast Clips - Vol. 1" to be released on January 28, 2011! On this DVD (or Blu-Ray) you will find 42 clips for more than 3 hours of metal! You'll also find bands like Accept, Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Rhapsody Of Fire, etc. ...
Here is the tracklist and the cover of this compilation:
Nuclear Blast Clips Vol.1
Accept - Teutonic Terror
Sabaton - Uprising
Blind Guardian - A Voice In The Dark
Dimmu Borgir - Dimmu Borgir
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Death Angel - Truce
Avantasia - Dying For An Angel
Sonic Syndicate - Turn It Up
Filter - The Inevitable Relapse
Soilwork - Deliverance Is Mine
Exodus - Downfall
Kataklysm - Push The Venom
Overkill - Bring Me The Night
Eluveitie - Thousandfold
Equilibrium - Der Ewige Sieg
Ex Deo - The Final War
Suicidal Angels - Beyond The Laws Of Church
Arsis - Forced To Rock
Mnemic - Diesel Uterus
Tarot - I Walk Forever
Indica - Islands Of Light
Callejon - Sommer, Liebe, Kokain
Scar Symmetry - The Iconoclast
Filter - No Love
All Ends - Generation Disgrace
Rhapsody Of Fire - Sea Of Fate
Decrepit Birth - The Resonance
Suffocation - Cataclysmic Purification
Nile - Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld
The confirmations for the summer festivals are beginning and it's for the Metalcamp that Blind Guardian has confirmed its coming.
The group has already participated in 2009 (the pictures of the show) and it's 2 years later and still in Tolmin in Slovenia they come back for 2011.
The festival take place from July 11-16, 2011 and a score of groups in addition to our bards have already been confirmed! For more information, visit the official website of the festival and you can already pre-order your tickets if you wish.
Hansi will appears on the upcoming album of german power metallers Solar Fragment. For next April, "In Our Hands" will be the second album from this young band formed in 2004 and the song where Hansi, who "wanted to join the boys to add extra flavor to the voice of Robert Leger" will appears is called Inside The Circle.
For more information about the band, you can visit his official website: Solar Fragment.
The first dates of the South American tour have been announced! For the moment there are only two dates in Chile and Argentina, but others are to be confirmed soon!
Note that these dates are for the end of the summer festivals so others will surely be confirmed also for the months of July and August!
Find all the Sacred World And Divine Songs Tour dates on the tour page!
The date of the gig in Istanbul has been changed from April 2nd, 2011 to May 4th, 2011. The venue remains the same. This show is 100% confirmed. The Guardians look forward to their return to Turkey in May.
Five more dates in South America will be announced on Tuesday. Keep an eye out for them.
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