Accept announce new upcoming live release “Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017”, Terror announce new album “Total Retaliation”, Mayan announce new orchestra album “Dhyana”, Rise Of The Northstar reveal ‘Here Comes The Boom’ single.
The German heavy metal legends ACCEPT are experiencing more success than ever, and have hit their stride creatively! In the 10th year since the band’s reunion, the quintet can look back on four top 10 albums in Germany, including an unbelievable #1 with »Blind Rage« (2014) and a brilliant #3 with their latest album »The Rise Of Chaos« (2017).
Six months after the success that was »The Rise Of Chaos« world tour, ACCEPT will start their festival season on the 22th of June at Rockfels Open Air, and will play headline shows at legendary Bang Your Head!!! in Balingen as well as at Rock am Stück festival and at Rock am Härtsfeldsee. They will finish the tour leg on July 28th as special guests to the legendary JUDAS PRIEST in Vienna.
Over the past few months, the German band has been anything but passive, instead they‘ve been finalising their latest project, their upcoming live release »Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017«, which will be released on November 23rd via Nuclear Blast!
Fans can expect a unique, 2 hour ACCEPT show, shot on August 3rd, 2017 at the legendary W:O:A, where the band played the biggest and most extraordinary show of their career in front of 80.000 live fans at the festival, on top of thousands more fans watching via the live stream! The show was divided into three parts, showing the full creative power of ACCEPT: The first part hosted the premiere of new tracks ‘Die By The Sword’ and ‘Koolaid’, as well as some of their most popular songs, such as ‘Restless And Wild’ and ‘Pandemic’. The middle part hosted guitarist Wolf Hoffmann accompanied by a symphony orchestra, presenting the best-of from his recent solo album »Headbangers Symphony«, which includes metal versions of some of the world‘s biggest classical compositions (e.g. from Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi,…). And in the last but not least part, fans were able to bang their heads to ACCEPT anthems (also accompanied by the orchestra), such as ‘Princess Of The Dawn’, ‘Breaker’, ‘Fast As A Shark’ and ‘Metal Heart’, as well as to new songs like ‘Stalingrad’, ‘Shadow Soldiers’ or ‘Teutonic Terror’. The finale could be nothing less than an 8 minute version of their eminent hit ‘Balls To The Walls’!
“This was a mash-up of intensity and precision,” Wolf Hoffmann says about the fusion of Heavy Metal and classical music. “The fans are extremely open-minded,” continues Wolf happy, “but I was nervous ’till the last minute before the show anyway. After all it’s still a metal festival! But I think that, after many years of ACCEPT combining both worlds, fans have started to really accept this concept.”
By the way: What started as a world premiere in Wacken and caused quite a stir worldwide (thanks to the live streams) will be continued in early 2019. This means: ACCEPT are planning to tour across Europe with an orchestra in spring 2019! “I really hope we will be able to fulfill our dream – we are working hard on it!” tells Wolf Hoffmann with eager anticipation. “What I can already say now is that there will be lots of optical and musical surprises, that fans of ACCEPT have never experienced before. We want to multiply what we have achieved in Wacken and are happy about every bit of support we get. One thing is for sure: 2019 will be exciting!”
Los Angeles hardcore powerhouse TERROR have announced the title of their upcoming album. »Total Retaliation« was produced by Will Putney (THY ART IS MURDER, BODY COUNT, FOR TODAY, KNOCKED LOOSE) who is currently mixing the record and is set for release this Fall via Nuclear Blast (Europe only, Pure Noise Records for the rest of the world).
Today the band kicks off their European summer tour in Karlsruhe, Germany.
TERROR
+ ADDITIONAL TIME
21.06. D Karlsruhe – New Noise Fest
22.06. F Besançon – L‘Antonnoir
23.06. F Clisson – Hellfest*
24.06. CH Aarau – KiFF
25.06. D Nuremberg – Hirsch
26.06. D Jena – F-Haus
27.06. D Frankfurt – Das Bett
28.06. B Aarschot – De Klinker
29.06. NL Ysselsteyn – Jera on Air*
30.06. D Münster – Vainstream Rockfest* *SOLD OUT*
01.07. D Losheim – Reality Bites Festival*
*TERROR only
TERROR
02.08. F Paris – Petit Bain
03.08. F Nantes – Le Ferrailleur
04.08. F Albi – Xtreme Fest
05.08. F Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans – Sylak Open Air
06.08. I Paderno Dugnano (MI) – Spazio Polivalent
07.08. SLO Tolmin – Punk Rock Holiday
08.08. A Vienna – Arena
09.08. PL Poznań – u Bazyla
10.08. CZ Jaroměř – Brutal Assault
11.08. D Entenfang Torgau – Endless Summer Festival
12.08. D Hanover – Faust
Dhyana: the moment when the individual mind is absorbed by the heart and melts with the universal mind.
Through his musical contributions in EPICA, AFTER FOREVER and MaYaN, Mark Jansen has introduced another piece of knowledge, spirituality and mystery into the Dutch metal scene. For the third time since their inception in 2010, the now 10 piece symphonic death metal band has joined forces for a new album, and their latest opus »Dhyana« is set to lift them to an entirely new level.
The collective that is MaYaN has always had a profound love for movie scores, so it comes as no surprise that the next step in the band‘s career was to record a new album with a live symphonic orchestra. Turning their vision into reality, a crowdfunding campaign was started early 2018 to fund the recording of MaYaN‘s 3rd album with a live orchestra. With the tremendous support of fans across the world, more than €40,000 were raised and the band could finally approach the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra to record their new album with them. Being one of the world’s most renowned symphonic orchestras and famous for their work in cinematic features such as the »Star Wars« saga, »Hannibal« (2001) and »Arrival« (2016), as well as the orchestral parts of DIMMU BORGIR‘s »Death Cult Armageddon«, they were the perfect choice to join forces with MaYaN to create the monumental sound landscape for »Dhyana«. The crowdfunding campaign packages also included an exclusive EP called »Undercurrent«.
Mastermind Mark Jansen states: “We have worked with all our energy, efforts and passion to create a remarkable album. »Dhyana« (which means the moment when the mind gets absorbed by the heart) makes us all very proud and we can’t wait for it to be released. With the support of our loyal fans worldwide we were able to record the album with the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Because of this and also producer Joost van den Broek’s know-how and enormous motivational drive we were able to meet the high standards of the best productions of today. It’s needless to say that we are extremely excited!”
The concept of this third full-length release reflects on conceptual themes such as being self-aware of our thoughts and relinquishing our egos & self-conceited tendencies to finding out who we truly are.
Today, the band is giving fans an insight into the recording with the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in the first album teaser. Watch here to find out more.
»Dhyana« will enlighten your spirit on September 21st, 2018, with pre-orders starting next month.
The band will also celebrate their new offering with a “Dhyana Release Party” on September 22nd at De Helling, Utrecht, NL! They will be supported by ELYOSE and CARTHAGODS on this evening.
Europe’s biggest crossover band, RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR, have released the cover artwork and release date for the band’s brand new single, ‘Here Comes The Boom’. The single will drop on July 13, 2018 via Nuclear Blast.
Watch a short teaser video for the track here.
The song comes off the band’s impatiently awaited, as of yet untitled second album which is scheduled to drop this year. The album was recorded with GOJIRA‘s Joe Duplantier in his Brooklyn, NY-based Silver Cord Studios.
Over the course of the past 4 years, the internationally acclaimed band has become a household name for crossing 90s metal, rap, hardcore and japanese culture as well as brutal and intense live shows. After the release of their globally praised debut album, »Welcame« (2014), the band embarked on countless tours, leaving dropped jaws everywhere. With their new, crushing album in store, the Northstar will rise to unknown heights.
