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Soon the waiting will be over: on February 2nd 2005,
German´s Metal-Band No. 1 of the next generation
will will strike again - with the release of their new
EP "King of fools". This masterpiece will
explain why so many independent- and major labels alike
have been fighting over Edguy in the last few months:
that is because not only insiders see EDGUY as the most
promising Metal band in the world - they already are
recognised as one of the greatest bands in their genre
worldwide! There is not enough time nor space to list
all the reasons for that fact, but it is amazing how
a bunch of very young, ambitioned and talented musicians
made their way from a school-band to one of the European
top-acts: with high positions in the charts accomplished
by their own hard work. This success speaks for itself!
They never followed any trends, they never got hyped.
The band has always been their own manager and producer
in unison.But still - or maybe because of that - the
band "secretly" climbed to the top of the
international Metal mountain.
It all started in Fulda (Hessen, Germany) in the year
1992 when four fourteen year old schoolfiends decided
to form a traditional Metal band at a time, when Grunge
music was at its peak. First they covered songs from
their favorite bands such as Deep Purple, KISS, AC/DC
and Iron Maiden. Soon they got bored by playing other
people´s songs, so they decided to write and record
their own songs to get record deal someday. But in the
beginning the plan would not work as hoped.
"Our schoolmates laughed at that kind of music,
unfortunately", says Tobias Sammet, singer of the
band, about those first steps to success, "of course
the record lables, too, did not see any future for our
kind music with eunuch-vocals, two guitars and an unbearable
kick-in-the-ass-joy-of-life! Well, the fact that we
were pretty bad at that time surely proved to be another
reason for our failure. The funny thing is: now all
these companies who rejected us in the past have offered
us a lot of money today. But now we can sit back, relax
and tell them "you´ve had your chance"
and decline their offers with a smile on our faces.
The turn of the tide went well for Edguy: after five
years of hard work, never ending visits to record companies
and countless failures at band-contests, the small label
AFM-Records took mercy upon the band and gave them their
first record contract. With AFM they released five studio
cd´s between 1997 and 2003 (Kingdom of Madness
1997, Vain Glory Opera 1998, Theater Of Salvation 1999,
Savage Poetry 2000, Mandrake 2001), the double live
album "Burning down the opera" in 2003 as
well as the two solo cd´s "Avantasia"
by Tobias Sammet parts one and two (Part one 2001, part
two 2002).
With every album the fanbase grew larger. The constant
touring helped the band to prove hat they are one of
the best and most entertaining live acts ever. Wherever
Edguy enter a stage you will find great entertainment,
great party and an over the top demonstration of their
musical talent. The fans could hear and see all this
on Edguy´s last year´s "Mandrake"
headlining-tour (the cd achieved top twenty status in
various European countries). Even the last doubter was
convinced after seeing Edguy live that their status
had been underrated so often. The tour went through
23 countries travelling around on 4 continents for more
than a year (Europe, Asia, Australia, South America,
USA) - and more than once they´ve played in front
of a full house.
Well, Edguy are a phenomenon - and a very likeable,
too. Even though some folks do not like or even hate
the band for their exotic and sometimes extreme (both
funny and strange) public appearances: you can not deny
they brought a bright and colorful new perspective into
the old fashioned and often "near death" metal
scene.Success paves their way: with powerful songs,
a great portion of humor, a chaotic but with no doubt
charismatic frontman and a great deal of freshness and
glamour they leave other bands far behind.
And now they are back!
First reactions from the magazines and newspapers confirm
what you may have hoped, but not necessarily may have
exspected: they succeeded in topping their last hit-record
"Mandrake" in every account! This is not just
an empty phrase. You will hear that the new material
is much stronger and mature than anything they have
released so far. They got to the edges of this type
of music - without getting lost in alien terrain. No
matter if you listen to Edguy-typical midtempo hmyns
like "King of fools", a heavy load like "Mysteria"
or a stakkato monster like "under the moon"
- everything sounds unmistakeably like Edguy! Even the
"Twisted Sister"-like party song "lavatory
love machine" returns to an all Edguy song in its
chorus and will be cherished as the Edguy fun-hymn.
Here you can see the extraordinary virtuosity of the
band.
No work was too hard, no price too high and so they
hired the "German film-orchestra Babelsberg"
for a couple of their songs, which recorded music for
bands like "Rammstein", "Scorpions"
or "Celine Dion" in the past - besides recording
original movie scores.
You will get more value for money than ever before,
when on February 2nd Nuclear Blast will release the
five track EP "King Of Fools" - including
four all new non-album tracks (and no second class material)
- and on March 15 they will release the all new album
"Hellfire Club", which will prove why the
Germans are on their unstoppable way to the top and
why fans carry them on their hands. On one hand it´s
all because they never forgot where they came from,
they never lost the ground beneath their feet and they
have always been there for their fans.
On the other hand it´s all because they are one
of the few bands of a new generation, who play this
sort of music for their young fans with such an authenticity
and on such a high level that they saved this type of
Metal in their own way into the new millenium.
THE NEW GENERATION HAS ARRIVED!!!
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