JON OLIVA'S PAIN - North American Release Date For New Album Confirmed, Live Show For Prague Announced
March 17, 2010, 14 years ago
JON OLIVA'S PAIN, featuring SAVATAGE legend Jon Oliva, have checked in with the following update:
"Jon Oliva's Pain has begun confirming fall tour dates in support if their new CD Festival, which was released in Europe/Japan in March. A U.S release date is set for April 12th. More show dates to be added and the band is currently working on U.S tour dates as well.Highlighting the fall tour will be the live DVD concert filming at the 013 in Tilburg, Holland on October 15. The live DVD has a tentative release date set for early 2011. This will be the first official live DVD release with Oliva handling all the vocal duties. It promises to be a once in a life-time show featuring an assault of Savatage classics and the four JOP CD's. Limited VIP ticket packages for the live DVD show will be offered in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for details.
Festival has received critical acclaim all over Europe with album of the month honors in many countries and cracking
into the German Media Control Charts (similar to Billboard Top 100) at #87 in just it's first week of reported sales.
The JOP summer festival season is also taking shape with Graspop, Bang Your Head, and Zwarte Cross confirmed. More festivals and summer shows to be announced as they happen."
The band has now confirmed a show in Prague, Czech Republic on September 30th, which will kick off their fall tour. Dates are as follows:
September
30 - Prague, Czech Republic - Exit ClubOctober
1 - Gunzendorf, Germany - Prog Metal Night2 - Essen, Germany - Turock
5 - Hamburg, Germany -New Ballroom
6 - Aschaffenburg, Germany -Colos-Saal
8 - Köln, Germany - Werkstatt
9 - Memmingen, Germany - Kaminwerk
10 - Ludwigsburg, Germany - Rockfabrik
12 - Colmar, France - Grillen
13 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
15 - Tilburg, Holland - 013 (DVD concert - no support act)
16 - Vosselar, Belgium - Biebob
As previously reported, the songs 'Lies', 'Festival' and 'Afterglow', taken from Festival, are now available for streaming at this location. More clips are due to be online soon. Festival will be released worldwide on February 19th via AFM Records.
The complete album tracklist is as follows:
'Lies'
'Death Rides A Black Horse'
'Festival'
'Afterglow'
Living On The Edge'
'Looking For Nothing'
'The Evil Within'
'Winter Haven'
'I Fear You'
'Now'