AHAB Guitarist To Sit Out Upcoming Tour, Replacement Announced
September 1, 2009, 14 years ago
German doom metal outfit AHAB - featuring MIDNATTSOL guitarist Daniel Droste on guitar/vocals and ex-Midnattsol guitarist Christian Hector - have issued the following update:
"Ahoi seamen,Unfortunately, we have to announce Chris (Hector / guitars) won't be able to make it to the German tour with DORNENREICH. It's just personal reasons. But nonetheless we recruited a great guitarist instead.
Our dear friend Markus Sailer will help out on the guitars during the ten German shows next week. He already learned all songs during the last months - so he's absolutely the right one to play the shows.
Normally he plays the axe in THE EXORIAL. Check them out here.
Chris will presumably attend the show in Stuttgart."
Cheerio,
Ahab
The band's tour schedule is as follows:
September
10 - Z-Bau - Nürnberg11 - Titans Of Metal Festival - Dresden
12 - Turock - Essen
13 - Kulturbastion - Torgau
14 - Markthalle - Hamburg
15 - Nachtleben - Frankfurt
16 - Exhaus - Trier
17 - Club Zentral - Stuttgart
18 - Metropolis - München
19 - KW70 - Bad Salzungen
As previously reported, BW&BK; recently caught up with Hector to discuss the band's new epic doom platter, The Divinity Of Oceans. An excerpt from the story is available below.
"We used some clean vocals on the first album," says Hector, "but Daniel (Droste / vocals, guitars) and me both wanted to have more of that on the new album. Our drummer was saying that when he heard the vocals for this album being recorded he realized that Daniel can sing (laughs). I think the sound comes from a personal wish on our parts and a natural development since the first record."Producer Markus Stock, also the guitarist and bassist for The Vision Bleak, was an asset to The Divinity Of Oceans in that Hector and Droste worked with him for Midnattsol’s second album, Nordlys. The positive experience of recording that album with Stock made him the clear cut first choice for The Divinity Of Oceans.
"It was the same as the Midnattsol sessions because Markus is very relaxed when he works," says Hector, who left the band in early 2008 for personal reasons. "On top of that, though, he’s more into extreme music; Midnattsol really isn’t his cup of tea. With Ahab he was quite curious. He’s not a doom fan, so to say, but he really liked the material, and he told us he was really fond of the song ‘O Father Sea’ because of the Oriental feel of it. That was a big compliment for us."Go to this location for the complete story.
