http://www.metal-online.com/en The Heavy Metal blog Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:55:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Polish female-fronted band Unsun (featuring Ex-Vader guitar player Mauser) today announced three festival appearances for 2009. Besides the Summer Breeze Festival the band will play at the Wave Gothic meeting in Leipzig and at the Metal Female Voices Festival in Belgium. Unsun festival appearances 2009 29. May –1. June, 2009 - Leipzig ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/unsun-to-play-three-festivals/ Dragonforce will join forces with Turisas to conquer the world. Well at least Europa and Japan for the beginning. Ultra Beatdown World Tour - Round 1 European Tour 2009 Special guest: Turisas Wed 28th Jan - Netherlands, Tilburg - 013 Thu 29th Jan - Netherlands, Amsterdam - Melkweg Max Fri 30th Jan - Belgium, Hasselt - ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/dragonforce-to-kick-off-ultra-beatdown-world-tour/ The guys from Sweden's Wolf have posted the song Curse You Salem on the band's official MySpace page (where else?). The track is featured on the new Wolf album called Ravenous which will be released end of February in Europe through Century Media Records. Wolf will also shoot a videoclip for another ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/wolf-feature-new-song-from-the-upcoming-album-ravenous-at-myspace/ The Austrian metalheads from The Sorrow will support Sepultura on their upcoming European tour in February. To check out two new songs from the upcoming The Sorrow album called Origin Of The Storm check out their MySpace page. Sepultura, The Sorrow tourdates 06.02.2009 Sofia - Bulgaria : Blue Box 07.02.2009 Bucharest ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/the-sorrow-support-sepultura-for-upcoming-tour/ The Finnish band has posted the album cover for the upcoming live-album Made In Hong Kong (and in various other places) last week. The CD is supposed to be released in march, although I didn't find any information on the Roadrunner Records website (Roadrunner Records is the American record label ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/nightwish-made-in-hong-kong-cover/ Hello again my international readership. Well, I haven't touched the English part of my little Heavy Metal Blog for a long time. There was one simple reason for that: A complete re-worked German part of the website. Don't be jealous, in a few weeks the Englisch part will feature a video ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/welcome-back/ Finally AC/DC announce the first (and maybe only) UK dates for the Black Ice tour in 2009. The guys will be playing in London, Manchester and Birmingham. April 14th - London O2 Arena April 21st - Manchester M.E.N. Arena April 23rd - Birmingham LG Arena Tickets will be available from this Friday October 17th ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/acdc-uk-tour-dates-2009-announced/ As a big fan of Metallica I was positively surprised that Metallica are going to play a secret show on the day of the release (September 12th) of the tenth Metallica studio album Death Magnetic in Berlin, Germany. Like every fan in Germany I wanted to know where the guys are ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/metallica-to-play-o2-world-in-berlin-as-secret-show/ A few weeks before the 20th official Motörhead album Motörizer will be available in stores more and more details are available. This time Motörhead singer Lemmy announce that Poison guitar player C.C. DeVille and Alice In Chains bassist Mike Inez will be featured on the Motörizer album. ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/new-motrhead-album-to-feature-members-of-poison-and-alice-in-chains/ My current favorite band Trivium (the new album Shogun is a killer) just started working on a video for the song Down From The Sky. Guitar player Corey, who I met for a video interview about the new Trivium album Shogun, left a short message about the video. ... http://www.metal-online.com/en/trivium-start-working-on-a-video-for-down-from-the-sky/