New EP of EDGUY "Superheroes" will be released in september. One of its 5 tracks will be sympho-song in the vein of AVANTASIA. Michael Kiske (ex-HELOWEEN) will sing in this song.

Also in september first DVD of EDGUY will out. It called "Superheroes - Heroic DVD Edition".

EDGUY’s new best of double album “Hall Of Flames” will be available in stores on 06/12/04 for the price of one CD through AFM!

The album contains all EDGUY hits, remastered in the Finnvox Studio in Helsinki by Mika Jussila, as yet unpublished material as well as videoclips, promo singles and japan bonus tracks. The total playing time is about 140 minutes!!!

Edguy's upcoming live album is currently set for release in April 2003. The guys are currently hard at work mixing the album. Of course, the booklet will be jammed packed with fun photos that the guys took on their journey across the world during the Mandrake tour.

ANGRA, EDGUY, SEVEN WITCHES, ROB ROCK and SILENT FORCE have been confirmed to appear at The Power of Metal 1 festival, scheduled to take place on November 18th at Tabu Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

The Power of Metal 1 festival marks the second U.S. appearance of ANGRA and EDGUY, following their U.S. debut at the ProgPower III festival at Earthlink Live in Atlanta, Georgia on November 15-16.

Due to the overwhelming demand at ProgPower III in Atlanta, Georgia and the fact that so many people couldn't get tickets, The Power of Metal 1 festival promoters felt that they needed to give metal fans a second opportunity. They also felt the need to bring their love for this type of music to the fans that support and love it too. They chose to hold this festival the same week as ProgPower III exactly for that reason — so that all metal music lovers out there could take advantage of the rare chance to see some of these bands play in the U.S. twice within the same week.

Susan Elder, The Power of Metal 1 festival promoter stated: "We hope that the fans of these METAL GODS that couldn't make it to ProgPower III in Atlanta, Georgia, will get a chance to come to The Power of Metal 1 festival in Orlando, Florida and have a blast!!!"

The Power of Metal 1 festival is being sponsored by Mars Music Center in Orlando. Florida.

WACKEN : OPEN : AIR - Part 13

01. - 03. August 2002

The following bands are confirmed yet (in alphabetical order):

- ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY - AMON AMARTH - BLAZE - BLIND GUARDIAN - - BRUCE DICKINSON - CANDLEMASS (Reunion) - CANNIBAL CORPSE - - CHILDREN OF BODOM - CRIMINAL - DESTRUCTION - DIMPLE MINDS - - DOMINE - DORNENREICH - DORO - DYING FETUS - EDGUY - EISREGEN - - EVERGREY - EXODUS - FALCONER - FLESHCRAWL - GREEN CARNATION - - HEATHEN (Reunion) - HOLLENTHON - HYPOCRISY - IMMORTAL - - IN EXTREMO - J.B.O - KREATOR - LOCK UP - MACABRE - MOB RULES - - MY DYING BRIDE - MЦRK GRYNING - NECROPHOBIC - NUCLEAR ASSAULT - - ONKEL TOM - PRETTY MAIDS - PRIMORDIAL - PUNGENT STENCH - RAVEN - - REBELLION - RED AIM - ROTTWEILLER - SINERGY - U.D.O. - - VICIOUS RUMORS - VISION DIVINE - VOMITORY - WARLORD - WIZARD - WOLF - and many more......

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CANNIBAL CORPSE and ROTTWEILLER are the latest bands to have been confirmed for this year's Wacken Festival, which is scheduled to take place on August 2-3 in Wacken, Germany. The full line-up of acts that are presently scheduled to partake in the festivities now looks like this:

AMON AMARTH
BLAZE
BLIND GUARDIAN
CANNIBAL CORPSE
CHILDREN OF BODOM
DESTRUCTION
DIMPLE MINDS
DORO
EDGUY
FALCONER
GREEN CARNATION
HEATHEN
HOLLENTHON
HYPOCRISY
IN EXTREMO
J.B.O
KREATOR
MACABRE
NECROPHOBIC
ONKEL TOM
PRETTY MAIDS
PUNGENT STENCH
RAVEN
ROTTWEILLER
U.D.O.
VICIOUS RUMORS
WIZARD
WOLF

On the 2nd of November Edguy will start their first European Headliner tour in Germany which will end at the 22nd of December in Portugal and probably set over to other continents in March 2002. For the European dates until the 10th of December Heavenly, Nostradameus and Lullacry are confirmed as support acts. Due to the fact that Edguy have been always supporting during the last years now they really wanna offer their fans something special to make their first headliner tour more than just a concert a real event. They will set off to the road with lots of fireworks and an own huge stage production, moving lights, special effects and of course a lot of bad jokes. And to answer the so frequently asked question: Yes, they will do some Avantasia material as well.

EDGUY "MANDRAKE" EUROPEAN TOUR

02.11.2001 D Fulda - Grьne Messehalle
03.11.2001 D Offenbach - Hafenbahn
04.11.2001 D Ludwigsburg - Rockfabrik

06.11.2001 D Bochum - Zeche
07.11.2001 D Osnabrьck - Hyde Park

09.11.2001 F Strasbourg - La Laiterie
10.11.2001 D Kaufbeuren - Zeppelinhalle

12.11.2001 CH Pratteln - Z7
13.11.2001 I Milano - Propaganda
14.11.2001 F Marseille - Jas Rod

16.11.2001 E Barcelona - Razzmatazz 2
17.11.2001 E Bergara - Jam
18.11.2001 E Madrid - Revolver

21.11.2001 F Bordeaux - Thйatre Barbey

23.11.2001 F Lyon - Transbordeur
24.11.2001 F Paris - Elysйe Montmartre
25.11.2001 F Lille - Le Splendid

27.11.2001 GB London - The Underworld (mit GAMMA RAY)
28.11.2001 NL Rotterdam - Baroeg

30.11.2001 B Vosselaar - Biebob
01.12.2001 D Hamburg - Markthalle
02.12.2001 S Gothenburg - Klaren

04.12.2001 SF Helsinki - Nosturi

06.12.2001 S Цstersund - Saga
07.12.2001 S Stockholm - Klubben
08.12.2001 S Lund - Mejeriet

German power metallers EDGUY have finished tracking their upcoming studio effort, entitled Mandrake, which is due for a September 24th release. Among the tracks that are scheduled to appear on the album are the following: 01. Tears of A Mandrake 02. Nailed to the Wheel 03. Heaven 04. Wash Away the Poison 05. Jerusalem 06. All the Clowns 07. Fallen Angels 08. Devil and the Savant 09. Golden Dawn 10. Pharoah 11. Wings of A Dream (a re-recording of the Kingdom of Madness song; to be issued as a possible bonus track). EDGUY vocalist Tobias Sammet recently commented on the album's musical direction by stating the following: "It's really hard to say in which way you have progressed. I really can't say. It's like when people personally progress in their minds with their years. It's really hard to say in which way you have progressed in the last year; what special way you have progressed in the last year. Sometimes you know you have progressed, but you don't know in what you have progressed. We have progressed in many ways, it's just hard to name it. It's not like it's something totally different. It's just 10 new songs, and you can hear that the band is 2 years older now. Its not like you listen to it and say, 'What is that? That sounds pretty strange; that is not EDGUY. Wow, what have they done now?' We have just added some new elements on this song or that song. For example, there will be an over-10-minute epic on the album as well ('Pharoah'), which has a very, very powerful dark mood. It sounds very, very dangerous and powerful. Its very, very dark. It's powerful, and it sounds a little bit evil. Also, it's not black metal, of course. It's not that heavy - it's no doom metal and gothic metal and stuff like that. It's typical EDGUY, but it's got some new elements to it! "We have got one ballad that is more into this dark-mooded thing," Sammet continued. "But still, everything is EDGUY. Then we have a couple of songs where it's really 130 percent of us. Some fast songs, some funny things. We have one song that has some Celtic elements ('Jerusalem'), influences. I think, what I can say that I know for sure, it is a typical EDGUY record. In every way you can hear from the very first listening that it's EDGUY, but we have some surprises. It's not a kind of big experiment that make people say later on, 'What did they do now?' I think, for me as a fan, and like I always said, I am our hardest critic and our biggest fan. Both in one person, 'cause only if you are a fan of that kind of music can you say what you like, how you want to hear it, and what you don't like...just as a fan you can do that. And me as a fan, I like it [the new album] very, very much, and I know how disappointed, for example, when I was listening to some bands that were known for something different that what they do today. I now how disappointed I was. I would've known as a fan from the very beginning even before those bands released those 'special' albums [that it was the] wrong decision [for them to change their direction in this way]." Source BLABBERMOUTH.NET