The 69 Eyes – headline

I Know What You Did Last Summer Tour 2013 I still know European tour

Baby Jane – support act

Kulturbolaget

Malmoe

9/3 – 2013

Review and live pics by: Anders Sandvall

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Accept

Stalingrad European Tour 2012

Amager Bio

Copenhagen

Denmark

30/10 – 2012

Reviewed an live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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U.S.: Nuclear Blast and Monte Conner announce U.S. partnership
EUROPE: Nuclear Blast launches U.K. office headed by Mark Palmer

NUCLEAR BLAST USA

Nuclear Blast owner Markus Staiger has joined forces with former Roadrunner Records A&R chief Monte Conner in the formation of a new U.S. partnership: Nuclear Blast Entertainment.

The new record label, which will share most major operations with the existing U.S. branch of Nuclear Blast, will announce its first signings in the coming months.

Conner recently departed from Roadrunner after a 25-year run that saw him sign most of the successful hard rock and metal bands on the label, including SLIPKNOT, SEPULTURA, MACHINE HEAD, TRIVIUM, FEAR FACTORY, STONE SOUR, TYPE O NEGATIVE, SOULFLY, COAL CHAMBER, LIFE OF AGONY, BIOHAZARD, DEVILDRIVER, DEICIDE, and most recently, RUSH and GOJIRA.

Plans are also underway to expand Nuclear Blast’s strength in the U.K. market and the label has now paired with former Roadrunner U.K. Managing Director, Mark Palmer. Palmer – who will open Nuclear Blast’s first U.K. office – had been with Roadrunner almost from the start and built the U.K. branch of Roadrunner into one of the most respected and successful local record company teams the metal world has ever seen.

Says Conner: “What Markus Staiger and his incredibly dedicated staff have built over the last 25 years is quite an achievement, and it has all happened almost concurrently with my time at Roadrunner Records. I am very pleased to align myself with a team of loyal, hard-working people and am looking forward to playing my part in the continued evolution and dominance of this worldwide metal powerhouse. I hope to both complement as well as expand on all the great things already happening at Nuclear Blast, especially when it comes to the U.S. market and Nuclear Blast Entertainment. I feel Markus and I can be an unstoppable force in metal and beyond, and with my long-term colleague Mark Palmer also now aboard in the U.K., this already feels like home to me.”

Palmer adds: “I am really excited at the prospect of working with the amazing staff at Nuclear Blast and putting together a new team to strongly develop their business and profile in the UK.”

States Staiger: “I am absolutely thrilled to welcome metal veterans Monte Conner and Mark Palmer to the Nuclear Blast team. I am continually striving to strengthen Nuclear Blast on all fronts as a worldwide force, and with the addition of Monte and Mark, I feel we just took major steps in two key territories.”

Nuclear Blast was founded by Staiger in Donzdorf, Germany in 1987. With offices in Donzdorf and Los Angeles and a worldwide staff of 150 people (including a thriving mail order business), Nuclear Blast is one of the biggest independent labels in the world. Some of the label’s current artists are MESHUGGAH, TESTAMENT, NIGHTWISH (Europe-only), CHILDREN OF BODOM, ANTHRAX (Europe-only), DIMMU BORGIR, ALL SHALL PERISH, EPICA, EXODUS, and ACCEPT.

Nightwish – headline

Imaginerium European Tour 2012 – first leg

Battle Beast – special guest

Eklipse – support act

Falconer Theater

Copenhagen

Denmark

11/4 – 2012

Live review and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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Hammerfall

Swedish Outbreak Tour 2012

Imminence – support act

Kulturbolaget

Malmoe

Sweden

11/3 – 2012

Reviewed and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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Supercharger – Lilla Sydsvenskan Stage

Hardcore Superstar – Headline Stora Sydsvenskan Stage

Entombed – Lilla Sydsenskan Stage

Posthusplatsen

The Malmoe Festival

Malmoe

Sweden

20/8 – 2011

Review and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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 Edguy

Age Of The Joker European Tour

Kottak – Special Guest

Fullforce – Support Act

Kulturbolaget, Malmoe, Sweden

September 23, 2011

Reviewed and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

Edguy launched their European tour at Kulturbolaget in Malmoe Sweden. I was there and saw the world premier of the new tour and it was amazing. Along with Edguy were special guests Kottak and the support act Fullforce. Read below and see what happened during the show.

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Doro Winter Tour 2011

Bai Bang (support act)

Kulturbolaget

Malmoe, Sweden

April 9th, 2011

Reviewed and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall

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Legendary German thrashers DESTRUCTION have just announced their return to the Nuclear Blast fold!

Comments mainman Schmier:

“Sometimes I really hate the business side of my job, we have been thru some very difficult decisions in the last couple of months. Now after some weeks of hard work, I can proudly announce that DESTRUCTION is back with NUCLEAR BLAST Records!

We really wanna thank AFM Records for the great co-operation in the last years! Cheers for supporting all our craziness, I know it wasn`t always easy folks!!

Going back to NB feels like coming back home now, working with old friends is one of the biggest achievements you can have in this music business known as a  “shark tank”! Almost eleven years ago, Markus Staiger and his label made it possible for DESTRUCTION to come back in a strong way,  those were some of the best years the band ever had!

Hopefully this will be the last label change of the band’s career,  we have returned to our home port again and it feels absolutely fantastic! We are working on a fast & furious new album that will kick ass in January 2011. Expect the roughest piece of THRASH you’ve  heard from DESTRUCTION in many years!”

And A + R manager Jaap Wagemaker:

“We are very stoked to announce that legendary German thrashers DESTRUCTION will be re-joining the nuclear family again! After a small stint with another label, the band around scene icon Schmier has made the decision to return to the their label home Nuclear Blast!

Everybody knows that Nuclear Blast was the label that brought back the band with a bang with their comeback album “All Hell Breaks Loose” and the following tour they did with Kreator and Sodom. “Hell comes to your town!” was a huge success for the band as well.

After releasing several more cds and dvds the band decided to try something new, but over the years we have stayed in contact with both Schmier and Mike.

When the time was right, we decided to sit around the table and realized that the future of both DESTRUCTION and Nuclear Blast should be a path we should walk together, and so DESTRUCTION is back home!! At the moment DESTRUCTION are hard at work to seal this deal with their most thrash sounding album for a long time! The future belongs to DESTRUCTION  - the mad butcher has returned!!”

www.destruction.de