Ravage to return with fresh EP and touring Europe July 2018

Sometimes things take a long time to come along but when they do they can be good and massive.

Such a thought came to my mind listening to a brand new track from Ravage. It's the first new music the band put's out in 9 years and it's a full blast of Speed Metal. Never thought that many band's would care about this genre too much these days so it hit me up even more massively.

The additional nice surprise is that the band will come to Europe in a few days. They will have their brand new EP "The Derelict City" in their pockets, a limited edition will be available as hardcopy silver disc so there's one more reason to go out and see them live. Here are the exact dates with LICH KING and SEAX.

July 3 - Rostock, Germany - Peter-Weiss-Haus
July 5 - Deinze, Belgium - Elpee
July 6 - London, England - The Dev
July 7 - Manchester, England - Aatma
July 8 - Tilburg, Netherlands - Little Devil
July 9 - Hasselt, Belgium - De Witte Non
July 11 - Paris, France - Le Klub
July 12 - Nantes, France - La Ferrailleur
July 13 - St. Etienne, France - Thunderbird Lodge
July 14 - Olten, Switzerland - Coq D'or
July 15 - Milan, Italy - The One
July 16 - Vienna, Austria - Arena Beisl
July 18 - Budapest, Hungary - Blue Hell
July 20 - Berlin, Germany - Tommyhaus
July 21 - Krakaw, Poland - Warzstat
July 22 - Warsaw, Poland - Poglos
July 23 - Wroclaw, Poland - Liverpool
July 25 - Zielona Gora, Poland- Wyspa
July 26 - Brande- Hornerkirchen, Germany - Headbangers Open Air

The new five song offering "The Derelict City" features four never-before-heard original tracks as well as a cover of a song from the band My Pet Demon.

Speaking of how the rest of the EP will sound like Singer Al Ravage has revealed the following:

"There are more or less traditional NWOBHM-type songs like "The Derelict City", Overkill and Kreator influenced thrashier material like "New Age Survivor" and this first single "Till Heaven Cries" which is a typical speed metal romp with a lot of guitar work I really like."

Ravage The Derelict City EP cover, (c) by Ravage, used with kind permission

"The Derelict City" will be released independently through the band's own label SWWR Recordings and will be distributed by CD Baby.

It will be limited to just 300 collectible eco-digipak CD copies worldwide and will be available for streaming and digital download. Make sure to have a look on their homepage on how to get your copy if you cannot make it to one of their shows.

Headbangers Open Air 2013

www.headbangers-open-air.de

Finally spring see's the day of light here in germany. With the sun coming out and the temperature rising I guess a lot of you people out there will think about the upcoming festival season with the chance to hear our beloved music under a open sky along with sharing this moments with other people that have
the same taste of music.

Besides the bigger and well known festival's out there we saw in recent years happily a coming up of festivals of a much smaller style often featuring young and new bands or smaller and not so well known bands. One of 'em just came to my attention through a friend of mine. I'm talking about the Headbanger's Open Air near Hamburg, Germany (exactly in in 25364 Brande) that will take place between 25th of July up to 27th of July 2013.

Why did it got my attention? It's a small festival focussing on providing you with great music but without all of the bigger bands to keep the ticket price as low as possible. The sensation in my eyes is that you only have to pay 48 Euro to be able to go in. These includes presale, camping directly at your car/van and the possibility to see all of the bands!

Nevertheless they managed to confirm Overkill, Metal Church, Vicious Rumors, Praying Mantis, Demon, Iron Saviour, Kissin' Dynamiteand Forte for 2013's festival line-up. These bands are the more known bands. Besides that a bunch of upcoming bands will add to the event such as Game Over, King Leoric or Heretic.

You can get your ticket and all additional information for the festival on the website. If you like stay some more time on the festival, then you might be happy to read that there's even a Warm up party organised on 24th July as well as a Aftershow Party on 28th July 2013. Sounds like this one could turn out to be quite a nice event in 2013 :-).