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

"Getting ready for our show this Saturday (January 5th) together with our friends from PARAGON. Today at 10:30am it's rehearsal time. Looking absolutely forward to our first live appearance in Hamburg in years. So if you can make over to the Knust this Saturday, we will give our best to rock the shit out of you."

According to Iron Savior's webmaster, "shortly before the turn of the year Piet sent a photo from their last gig in 2012 at Rock City in Valencia, Spain. Including this last gig the band had a great year 2012, enjoyed being on stage a lot and sends out their best wishes to you for 2013 and hopes to see you at some of the upcoming Iron Savior gigs in 2013. The first dates are already confirmed but more will follow of course. So check back later for more dates."

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’