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.
To enter this contest simply fill out 3 conditions:
Twenty lucky winners will be drawn randomly from all entries. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or announced on the official website. Good luck!
Little news to share, the group received a Metal Skull Award by the people of Wacken Open Air after their concert in Hamburg on 6 October.
And for those interested, you can see on the official site a few photos of the winners of the Meet & Greet contest.
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!
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.
We update our section with bootlegs of The Sacred Songs And Divine Worlds Tour and it's here that you can access: Bootlegs of The Sacred Songs And Divine Worlds Tour.
New bootlegs will be added as and when they arise so feel free to visit the page regularly!
We remind you that they are not propers albums and their audio quality could be very random. We certainly don't encourage you to buy them.
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 interviewed by Metal Assault:
Hansi interviewed by Metal Warzone:
Frederik interviewed by X-Plosive Metal
Regarding the site, the videography has been finally updated with information about A Voice In The Dark.
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:
And if you want a glimpse of the performance of the group and its guests, you can view the video posted on the site this summer.
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:
Bonus clips:
Bonus live clips
Feel free to pre-order this compilation on the shop of Nuclear Blast.
Blind-Guardian.fr presents to you and yours the best for 2011 :-)
Wishing you everything you could want for the new year but mainly full of Blind Guardian! We hope for many concerts during this year!
Again, Happy New Year 2011 to all of you dear bards!
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.
Like we announced previously, (First dates for South American tour announced!), here are some new confirmed dates in South America, particularly in Brazil but also in Uruguay, where the group will play for the first time in his career!!
New dates to follow very soon :-)
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