FIREWIND ANNOUNCE "DEFIANCE OVER EUROPE" TOUR!

[Gus G.]

Hey there,

calling to all our European fans: We've just announced tourdates! check out the official press release below and hope to see you all out there!

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Freshly following up the release of their latest single "Embrace The Sun" as Digital Download and Videoclip, Greece's Metal shooting stars FIREWIND, can now proudly announce the dates for their much anticipated European tour for the "Days Of Defiance" album. The "Defiance Over Europe" tour will run throughout September of this year and feature FIREWIND's Swedish labelmates WOLF, who are about to release their newest album "Legions Of Bastards" on April 25th, 2011 via Century Medias Records, as the main support act. Here are all the exact dates for you to mark your metal calendars:

FIREWIND - "Defiance Over Europe" Tour 2011
Special Guest: WOLF

Presented by: Blackstar Amplification, Rock Hard (Germany), Rock Tribune (Benelux) and Lords Of Metal (Benelux)

FR 09.09. Southampton, UK - Talking Head
SA 10.09. Manchester, UK - Moho
SU 11.09. Glasgow, Scotland - Apollo 23
MO 12.09. Reading, UK - Sub 89
WE 14.09. Zoetermeer, NL - Boerderij
TH 15.09. Den Bosch, NL - W2
FR 16.09. Kerkrade, NL - Rock Temple
SA 17.09. Vosselaar, BEL - Biebob
SU 18.09. Cologne, GER - Underground
MO 19.09. Aschaffenburg, GER - Colos Saal
TU 20.09. Hamburg, GER - Knust
TH 22.09. Vienna, AUT - Szene
FR 23.09. Brunico, IT - UFO
SA 24.09. Pisa, IT - Borderline
MO 26.09. Paris, FRA - Le Nouveau Casino

TICKETS GO ON SALE MARCH 29th!!

FIREWIND have additionally confirmed to be appearing at the "2310 Festival" in their Greek hometown Thessaloniki on July 6th alongside JUDAS PRIEST and WHITESNAKE. Here are all upcoming festival dates announced so far:

FIREWIND @ European festivals 2011:

19.06.2011 Hellfest Open Air - Clisson, France / www.hellfest.fr
25.06.2011 Graspop Metal Meeting - Dessel, Belgium / www.graspop.be
01.07.2011 Basinfire Festival, Spálené Poříčí, Czech Republic / www.basinfirefest.cz
06.07.2011 2310 Festival - Thessaloniki, Greece (w/ Judas Priest & Whitesnake)
08.–10.07.2011 Sonisphere Festival – Knebworth, UK / http://uk.sonispherefestivals.com

More dates will be announced soon…

 

[Katie'Force]

Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See you all four dates!!! And Wolf!!!! That's amazing!!!

 

[K.F.D]

I wanna go so bad!!

I was going to go to Japan to see one of the shows, but had a death in the family and couldn't make it...My flight and hotel was set up for a week...Glad I didn't end up going!!!

Gus, will there be any North American dates coming?

 

[MetalCodd]

If I can persuade my sister to let me crash at her place, I might just make the Southampton date...

 

[Katie'Force]

Dooooooooooooo ittttttttttttttt!!!! I wanna meet as many of you guys as possible on this tour!

 

[Firewind Wiki]

i'm sooooooo going the guys are hitting my home town, btw is there a way i can meet some of you guys? because bob promised me a ibob t-shirt once and i really want one.

 

[Firewind Wiki]

Dooooooooooooo ittttttttttttttt!!!! I wanna meet as many of you guys as possible on this tour!

if you're coming to the kerkrade gig we can meet

 

[Katie'Force]

Ah sorry, I'm only going to the UK gigs I'm afraid

 

[Lt. Hellraiser]

YEESSSSS!!!! FIREWIND LIVE AGAIN!!!! CAN YOU FEEL THE POWER?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see no Swiss date???!!! Still in progress I think...

Well, if not, that would mean I will have to travel a bit to one of the EU-Shows. No Problem! K.F.D traveled like 10 hours (!!) to one of the Canadian dates.
I hope you guys are gonna play a similar setlist like the one in Canada? because that setlist is AWSOME!!!!
THANKS FIREWIND & WOLF!

 

[Katie'Force]

So I may not be going to Reading now, at over £100 for a train fare from Glasgow to Reading me thinks I can't afford it...

Gonna plan the rest of the trip tonight though! Who knows, maybe I can figure it out...

 

[Mack Addy]

Shit, only Europe? I might have to blow my extra financial aid money on plane tickets.

There are only four bands on this earth I will travel over an ocean for to go see live. Firewind is one of those bands. So this is tempting...REEAAALLLLYYYY tempting...

 

[Katie'Force]

Do it!!!!!!!!1 Firewind are more than worth it!!!

 

[forgottenglory]

How come there's no London dates?

 

[Katie'Force]

Because they did the one off London show in January I think.

Looks like I'm now only going to Manchester and Glasgow, train prices for Southampton and Reading are just ridiculous!!!

 

[Katie'Force]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypXjeYtJwTg&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

All very exciting!!!

 

[Lt. Hellraiser]

i will maybe go to one in Deutschland or to one of the Italian dates.

 

[Firewind Wiki]

Apollo can't make the tour and Gus has said in an interview that Michael is out of Firewind!!!! replcaements Mats Leven on vocals and the drummer of Nightrage
interview with gus also about Michael http://metalassault.com/Interviews/082911_Firewind.php

 

[K.F.D]

Apollo can't make the tour and Gus has said in an interview that Michael is out of Firewind!!!! replcaements Mats Leven on vocals and the drummer of Nightrage
interview with gus also about Michael http://metalassault.com/Interviews/082911_Firewind.php

Seriously?!?! WTF?

 

[Taccer]

Seriously?!?! WTF?

Ditto, Apollo's distinctive voice is one of Firewind's major merits.

 

[Katie'Force]

Ditto, Apollo's distinctive voice is one of Firewind's major merits.

Definitely!!! He's a big reason as to why I love Firewind, his voice is fantastic!! There are some power metal bands where I like the music but I can't stand the band because I hate that generic 'power metal voice'. Apollo isn't like that at all, he takes the incredible music and takes it even higher!