Heavy metal supergroup HAIL! bassist David Ellefson (F5, ex-MEGADETH) has issued the following update:

"We rolled into the small town of Jevnaker, Norway today, about an hour north of Oslo. The HAIL! global community of good will, and all things metal, expanded out to our brother Silenoz from DIMMU BORGIR, who joined us on guitar for three JUDAS PRIEST songs during the show. He’s a great dude and the songs sounded awesome with him playing on them. He and Andreas were great together and the crowd loved it!

Ripper also killed it on 'The Trooper' and tonight was the second time this week we delved into a little punk rock with 'Blitzkrieg Bop' by THE RAMONES, taking our cue from the audience who had a 'Hey, Ho, Let’s Go' sign waving high in the air. Very old school punk and being all things HAIL!, we had to tip our hat to the punk that influ enced us as kids. Plus Roy rocks that stuff.

Roy was in top form tonight as MAYHEM / Dimmu drummer Hellhammer is letting him use his own personal drum kit for the next few days, which is a righteous act of metal brotherhood on his part. Roy plays hard and has been leaving disheveled drum sets in his wake across the country for the past week. It seems Hellhammer’s weapons of choice in drums can finally handle the abuse and it makes the trip just that much cooler. Thank you Hellhammer, you are awesome indeed.

We also threw in some some other little gems like KISS’ 'Cold Gin', S.O.D.’s 'The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix' and ANTHRAX’s 'Got The Time'…..which was a good live tune and a chance for a bass solo!"

David

HAIL! is composed of Ellefson, Ripper Owens (ex-JUDAS PRIEST, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), Roy Mayorga (STONE SOUR) and Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA).

The band's Scandinavian tour schedule is now as follows:

September

6 - Feelgood - Halden, Norway
7 - The Rock - Copenhagen, Denmark
8 - Voxhall - Aarhus, Denmark
10 - Dante’s Highlight - Helsinki, Finland
11 - Wasteland - Gavle, Sweden
12 - Klubben - Stockholm, Sweden

The band continues to spread it’s word of metal unity to the farthest reaches of the globe. New tour dates for a December tour of Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Russia are being rumored and an announcement is expected soon.

Further updates to follow.