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Post by Stein on Jul 27, 2019 15:37:50 GMT 2
Rock the Night (cut)
Carrie (cut)
Carrie, Sign of the Times, Ready or Not, Rock the Night
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Post by Stein on Jul 27, 2019 11:04:43 GMT 2
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Post by Stein on Jul 27, 2019 11:01:31 GMT 2
TFC
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Post by Stein on Jul 26, 2019 12:31:14 GMT 2
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Post by Stein on Jul 26, 2019 11:51:25 GMT 2
www.loudersound.com/features/15-of-the-best-metal-bands-from-swedenEurope Yes, they’re the band that brought us The Final Countdown and yes, the ubiquity of that song has done a certain amount of damage to their reputation within the metal world, but a) The Final Countdown is awesome and b) Europe were simply one of the sharpest and smartest melodic heavy metal bands of the ‘80s. Listen to the Stockholm residents’ second album Wings Of Tomorrow for all the proof you need. Impressively, since reforming in 2003, Europe have reinvented themselves as a superlative bluesy hard rock band with several strong new albums under their belt. And they’re still fucking brilliant live.
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Post by Stein on Jul 25, 2019 21:21:57 GMT 2
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Post by Stein on Jul 24, 2019 19:06:48 GMT 2
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Post by Stein on Jul 24, 2019 13:00:03 GMT 2
www.rockunited.com/sauna2019.htmThe review covers the entire festival and here is the part about EUROPE: EUROPE have played a lot of shows in Finland over the last few years. Not quite as many as W.A.S.P., but they've been here almost every year since their comeback. Just like W.A.S.P., they also have a strong following here, and they were one of the most popular acts of the festival. The band is still touring in support of their latest album, "Walk The Earth" (2017), but the setlist featured only two songs from it. Wisely the band chose more familiar songs for this festival audience, including four from the classic "Final Countdown" album and three from "Out Of This World". A couple of even older tracks got an airing, "Wasted Time" and "Scream Of Anger" from the band's second album "Wings Of Tomorrow". Those were played in 2014 too, when the band was headlining South Park Festival in Tampere. Back then the setlist was heavy on songs from their then-current album "Bag Of Bones", but these days those have been dropped. Naturally the band doesn't sound or look like they did in the eighties, some keys maybe have been dropped and the poodle hair cuts cropped, but the band can still deliver. Joey Tempest's vocals don't soar like they used to, but he puts a lot of effort into his performance and he's still one of the more charismatic frontmen out there. The mike stand is still being twirled and the shapes are being thrown. John Norum's guitar playing is still fluid and his solos are melodic and beautiful. Highlights of the set for me were "Sign Of The Times", "Wasted Time", "Cherokee" and of course "The Final Countdown". I may have heard it a million times but it's still one of the songs that has shaped my musical taste.
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Post by Stein on Jul 20, 2019 21:30:40 GMT 2
R.I.P. Marcel.
Here's a video of him performing "Scream of Anger" with his band Talisman.
Marcel also co-wrote most of the songs on John Norum's first solo album, Total Control, and played bass on both the album and the following tour.
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Post by Stein on Jul 18, 2019 12:32:53 GMT 2
Some info regarding their plans for next year:
"We've decided to keep touring next year as well. We were gonna go in the studio beginning of next year, but we've started to think that we would like to tour one more year on Walk the Earth. Because we really want to walk the whole Earth with this album! So we have to cover every part of the planet."
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