IRON SAVIOR vocalist/guitarist Piet Sielck has checked in with the following update:

"Back from Hammerfest; we'd like to thank all fans and friends for the great mood at the concert. Though the travel has been pure hell to us, we are glad that we were able to perform in the end. Took us an hour to get the rental car in Manchester. Leaving Manchester, we got stuck on the M56 with a flat tire. After fixing this we got stuck again in a heavy traffic jam without movement for over an hour. We finally arrived at Hammerfest at 6:45 pm, rushed directly to the stage, set up our stuff and started to play instantly. Though due to the stress upfront some mistakes happened, we played a fair show and got received by the audience very warm. Thank again to all of you and hope to come back to GB soon with a longer set under better conditions."

Hammerfest V takes place in Phwelli, Wales and runs from March 14th - 17th.

Sielck spoke with BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai in 2012 about the new Iron Savior album, The Landing. Following is an excerpt from the story:

With renewed interest in Iron Savior it’s doubtful that SAVAGE CIRCUS will be offering up new material any time soon. Launched in 2004, the project was viewed as a superficial endeavour by many due to the similarities to Iron Savior and BLIND GUARDIAN. Nobody seems to miss Savage Circus, Sielck included.

“Right now I don’t have any specific plans for Savage Circus; it’s on ice. The album was okay, but it also wasn’t that encouraging to be honest. I started up Iron Savior again and I want to do this 100%, so we’ll see what happens with Savage Circus. Iron Savior is what I feel that I want to do; Savage Circus was something that was, in a way, artificial. It’s not really the kind of music that I want to do. I can do it, I enjoy doing it, and it was challenging for me to write all the songs for it, but I feel closer to the more straightforward metal sound of Iron Savior.”
“I think one of the reasons The Landing is a bit different from the Megatropolis album, which was more rock-like, is because I pushed Iron Savior more to the rock side of things in order to put some distance between Iron Savior and Savage Circus. That wasn’t the case this time at all. I just wrote what I wanted. Sure, some of the new songs could have been Savage Circus, but I didn’t care. I had no expectations with this album at all, I was pretty much done with the music industry and being an artist. But, the songs and the album are here because I do in fact want to do this, I want to be here.”

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Iron Savior released the The Landing on November 18th, 2011 in Europe via AFM Records. The album was released in North America on January 17th, 2012.

The Landing tracklisting:

‘Descending’

‘The Savior’

‘Starlight’

‘March Of Doom’

‘Heavy Metal Never Dies’

‘Moment In Time’

‘Hall Of The Heroes’

‘R. U. Ready’

‘Faster Than All’

‘Before The Pain’

‘No Guts No Glory’