Finnish traditional heavy metal band MANITOU, which features in its ranks members of OMNIUM GATHERUM, MALPRACTICE and KAIHORO, has issued the following update:
"MANITOU will reactivate and do a one-off 'comeback' X-mas gig next month in Kotka, Kairo venue at Kesto-Klubi event on December 20. So be sure to check this one out as the MANI gigs are rare event at the moment!
"We've been doing some new songs a bit and haven't got any hurry with this. We'll be demoing and pre-producing some new songs in the near future and we'll see if that leads to the new MANITOU album in some point when the time is right. We have also a new booking agency Firebox Agency, and Toni Peltola will handle our booking issues from now on, so we are going to do some gig action in the future for sure. But slowly going onwards.
"So, why it have been so quiet in MANITOU camp: Ismo (bass) and Markku (vocals) breed and got a little boy-kids to their families, Antti (guitar) have studied actively in the weekends so he should be coming a wise man little by little, Matti (drums) have been working and loving hard now and Markus (guitar) have been doing new albums and touring with his other bands OMNIUM GATHERUM and MALPRACTICE, and is heading again to play an European tour and some Finnish dates in January/February as a stand-in stunt guitarist for Finnish metallers DIABLO."
