2009-07-17 Summer Festivals report & New album Update!!
Still successfully supporting their latest studio album “The Premonition” as well as their live DVD/CD release “Live Premonition”, Greek metallers FIREWIND continue to make more and more friends on the road and stay busy through the Summer appearing at several festival events. Guitarist Gus G checks in with the following report:
“The past few months for us have been really great. We decided to do select shows and festivals in 2009, so that we can concentrate on writing new material.
So in May we embarked on a 6 date UK / Ireland tour together with Stratovarius and Eden’s Curse. All gigs were great and we already miss our UK fans right now…but we’ll be back in UK and Ireland in 2010 that’s for sure!
So, straight out of the final gig with Strato and into the festival mood we played a bunch of great festivals like Metal Days (Switzerland), Rock Hard (Germany), Graspop (Belgium) for the 2nd year in a row and Tuska (Finland). Then we played a very special show in Greece (and the only one for the rest of the year). We played with the Scorpions & Dokken @ Creta Festival which took place in the beautiful island of Crete. I’m sure all good tourists know where that is ;-)
Not only did we use special pyro for that show, but I also ended up joining my idols, Scorpions, on stage and played “Rock You Like A Hurricane”!!! This was beyond my imagination and I sure wasn’t dreaming! I thank the Scorpions for being so nice to us and for the once-in-a-lifetime invitation to play with them, I’ll never forget it!
We’re now ready to do the final 3 shows of the summer – Unirock in Turkey, Summer Breeze in Germany and finally Ilha do Ermal festival in Portugal. We’ll see u all out there!”
As previously stated, FIREWIND are currently working on a new studio album to be released early 2010 and here is the update from Gus regarding the upcoming recording session:
“So while we’ve been doing all these select shows this year, we concentrated mainly on writing new material. I can tell you right now that we have 12 great vocal songs and 2 instrumentals. While it’s too early to know what will end up on the album, all of us in the band are very pleased with the demos and pre-production we did and we are positive that we’re creating the best album of our career so far!
We’re planning to enter the studio this Autumn and looking into possibilities of who will be mixing our new album.
As for the material itself, I’d say it’s what our fans would expect from us. Powerful rock / metal anthems with cool riffs and memorable vocal lines from Apollo, but also some faster & more technical stuff is on there. We also wrote a very challenging instrumental song. It will have a fusion of styles and advanced playing from all of us. Needless to say the guitar will shred like never before! ;-)
Can’t wait? Neither can we!!!”
Here are the upcoming festival shows for FIREWIND:
July 19 - Istanbul, TR - Uni Rock Festival Aug. 14 - Dinkelsbühl, GER - Summer Breeze Festival Aug. 28 - Vieira do Minho, PT - Festival Ilha do Ermal
2009-06-27 Ticket link for Creta Festival (GR) online!
You can now purchase your tickets online for the Creta Festival in Chania (Crete), GR. The festival lineup features the legendary Scorpions, as well as FIREWIND, Dokken & Prassein Aloga.
2009-05-08 FIREWIND to play Turkey for the first time @ UNI ROCK FESTIVAL!!
FIREWIND is happy to announce their first show ever in Istanbul, Turkey @ the UNIROCK FESTIVAL! They will perform on Sunday July 19th. Other acts confirmed are Arch Enemy, Paradise Lost, Amon Amarth, LA Guns and their countrymates Rotting Christ among others.
Below you can see FIREWIND"s scheduled tourdates for the summer:
UK Tour w/ STRATOVARIUS:
May 15 - Wolverhampton, UK - Wulfrun Hall May 16 - Nottingham, UK - Rescue Rooms May 17 - Glasgow, UK - Cathouse May 18 - London, UK - Islington O2 Academy May 19 - Manchester, UK - Jilly"s Rockworld May 20 - Dublin, IRE - Button Factory
FIREWIND @ Festivals 2009:
May 22 - Pratteln, CH - Metal Dayz Festival May 31 - Gelsenkirchen, GER - Rock Hard Festival June 26 - Dessel, BEL - Graspop Metal Meeting June 27 - Helsinki, FIN - Tuska Festival July 11 - Chania, GR - Creta Festival July 19 - Istanbul, TR - Uni Rock Festival Aug. 14 - Dinkelsbühl, GER - Summer Breeze Festival
2009-05-07 Desktop Graphix and MSN icons Available Now!!
We have now made available FIREWIND graphix for your computer"s desktop background as well as various MSN icons!!
Designed by FIREWIND"s artwork master Gustavo Sazes (who has created the FIREWIND symbol, all artwork for "The Premonition" & "Live Premonition" releases, as well as websites)!!
Go to the MULTIMEDIA page and you"ll find it all there!
2009-05-04 New Merch designs coming for the UK dates!
We will be unveiling exclusive NEW t-shirts for the upcoming UK tour with Stratovarius & Eden"s Curse!!
Click the links below to see the new tourshirt and the new girlie shirt:
These will be limited prints ONLY, so make sure you visit the merch booth @ each venue and pick up your new FIREWIND t-shirt!!
2009-04-16 FireTV - New video lesson online from Bob Katsionis!
The 2nd Part of Bob"s instructional videos for FireTV (Firewind"s Official Youtube channel) is now online! Bob shows you some of his signature style licks as well as twin lead parts on both guitar & keyboards, as seen on Firewind"s live shows!!
Check out the video below:
Also, Bob recently released his 3rd solo instrumental album "NOEMON". You check out his latest videoclip "The Nightrager" from his solo album at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2igZ39A8Rs
