EDGUY Prepare To Hit The Studio
April 26, 2008, 16 years ago
Edguy are currently preparing to hit the studio to work on the successor of their recent album Rocket Ride.
Frontman Tobias Sammet comments: "People think that we are quite fast but that's not the truth. I completed the Avantasia album last autumn, the Avantasia song-writing itself was completed even way back in 2006. All the new ideas I've had since then could be taken for Edguy. In fact, this is a long time to refresh your creativity and gather new stuff. The material sounds very fresh, it embraces all the different trademarks of Edguy, I think it is a logical continuation of Rocket Ride and Hellfire Club. Maybe it doesn't come across as goofy as Rocket Ride, but I am sure if we have fun in the studio we'll have enough possibilities to ruin the day for notoriously bitter people, haha. Yet it's more bombastic and heavier, not too fast cause I really don't like pure speed metal that much anymore. I like 'Lavatory Love Machine', 'The Piper Never Dies', 'Mandrake' and 'Sacrifice'. There's three fast tracks, but they are all good, not 'just fast'! We'll enter the studio next week and work whenever producer Sascha Paeth and me come back from the Avantasia weekends."
Edguy will play three headline warm-up shows in North America this October prior to hitting the road with KAMELOT. The dates are as follows:
October
10 - Detroit, MI - Harpo's11 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House
12 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
The Kamelot / Edguy tour schedule is as follows:
October
14 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East15 - New York City, NY - BB Kings
16 - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
17 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
18 - Mokena, IL - Pearl Room
20 - St Paul, MN - Station 4
23 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
24 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
25 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
26 - Los Angeles, CA - Key Club
27 - Mexicali, MX - El Jardin Silencio
29 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
31 - San Antonio, TX - Scout Bar
November
1 - Houston, TX - Scout Bar2 - Ft. Worth, TX - Ridglea Theater