NIGHTWISH's Marco Hietala Back On Stage With HAIL! At Sauna Open Air Festival; Photos, Video Available
June 16, 2010, 14 years ago
All-star band HAIL! - featuring vocalist Tim Ripper Owens (BEYOND FEAR, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ex-JUDAS PRIEST), guitarist Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA), drummer Paul Bostaph (ex-SLAYER, TESTAMENT) and James Lomenzo (ex-MEGADETH) filling in, in the wake of their bassist Paul Gray’s (SLIPKNOT) untimely death - have issued the following updates:
"If having DEATH ANGEL wasn’t enough – we also had Marco Hietala from NIGHTWISH/TAROT sing 'Neon Knights' with us again! We had a great time when Marco sang with us in Helsinki a few days ago and the dude can w(hail!). He’s a Finnish god so the crowd went bananas and he tore it up. It was an incredible night and everybody had a great time. What a wonderful way to say "see you later" to Finland - friends having fun together the Hail! way.A special thank you to Jukka and Hannu for taking excellent care of us and helping make this all possible, your efforts, kindness and support are super appreciated. Kiitos paljon!"
Check out more photos at this location. Video footage can be seen below.
Another update from Hail! reads: "The next time you see Andreas, buy him a beer and say thank you. This guy is seriously the ultimate road warrior – after our show at Sauna Open Air, he left at 3:00 in the morning, took a 2 hour car ride to Helsinki airport, flew to Zurich, Switzerland, drove 2 hours to play the Greenfield Festival with Sepultura at 3:00 in the afternoon, walked onstage after not seeing the guys for a month and tore it up!
…and his day was far from over as he then drove 2 hours back to the airport to catch a 2:30 AM flight to Madrid, got to the hotel at 10:00 AM and played with us at Rock In Rio Madrid (then flew to Frankfurt to grab a train to Saarbrucken to meet up with Sepultura for the next two months!). Never a complaint or bad word, Hail! Andreas Kisser!"
