SONATA ARCTICA announced new bass player!

Sonata Arctica with sadness announced that their bass player  Marko Paasikoski leaving the band.

Marko`s official statement ….

“I have come to a situation in my life where being a part of a touring band is not an option for me anymore and it’s time to explore other things. I wish to thank all the fans and my band mates for all the good times, great shows and adventures that we have had over the last decade.
The memories from this time will stay with me forever but at the moment I don’t have the motivation or the passion that is required to be in the band so it’s better for all parties involved that we go our separate ways. I wish all the best for the guys ! -Marko”

According to SA official announcement .. “We understand Marko’s decision and this is of course a thing that we have talked about during the last tour. We appreciate Marko being a stand up guy and finishing up the Stones Grow Her Name- World Tour. Thank you Marko for all these years and best of luck and fortunes with your future endeavors, we’ll miss you bro !!”

“Our new bass player is Pasi Kauppinen (Silent Voices, ex-Requiem, Winterborn). We’ve known him for many years and he has mixed both our DVDs as well as recorded parts of our last 3 studio albums. He will join the band starting with the upcoming album.”

Pasi Kauppinen

http://www.sonataarctica.info

Tim Ripper Owens UK shows

Tim Ripper Owens (ex Judas Priest)

Only two UK shows with awesome backing band :

Timo Kauppinen -guitar (Silent Voices,Jack The Frost),Pasi Kauppinen – bass (Silent Voices,Winterborn),

Atti Hokkala – guitar(Winterborn),Jani Hurula drums (Cain`s Offering)

TICKETS :

https://www.facebook.com/events/171815556333325/

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/162553443927756/

 

Tim Ripper Owens

Tim Ripper Owens (ex Judas Priest)

@ “Rockova Ostrava ” Festival 2013

Czech Republic

OMEGA – Happy Birthday János Kóbor – 70th birthday!!!

The frontman of the legendary Hungarian
band OMEGA celebrates his 70th birthday
on 17th May 2013.

After he had been a member of several student
bands since 1959, János Kóbor and the
keyboarder László Benkö founded OMEGA
1962 in Budapest. With his m multifarious
vocal style, his expressive rendition and
powerful presence on stage he significantly
shaped the character of the band.

It was mainly due to him that Omega soon
became an internationally renowned headliner,
who contributed to several chapters
of the history of rock music, who sold 50
million records and CDs world-wide and
became the most successful band in Eastern
Europe.

In connection with the 50th birthday of the
group last year, János Kóbor effectively implemented
his idea to record a studio album
of the most successful songs from the seventieth
and eighties with a classical orchestra.
In October 2010 the album “OMEGARhapsody”
was released, produced by
János Kóbor. Meanwhile it is available in 26
countries.

Just in time before the start of the jubilee
tour 2012 – which included three concerts
in Germany – they additionally released the
OMEGA-Symphony, a 30-minute orchestral
work of the band’s greatest hits. The live performances
of the OMEGA-Symphony and
the OMEGA-Rhapsody thrilled the audiences
of their jubilee concerts in 2012.

In appreciation of their 50th anniversary,
the band was honored with the most
prestigious national award of Hungary – the
Kossuth-Prize – in the Hungarian Parliament
on 15th March 2013.

Starting in June 2013 the band will again be
on tour with a symphony orchestra performing
“OMEGA-Symphony & Rhapsody”.

Majesty of Revival – New Album details revealed !!!

Ukrainian progressive/neoclassical-metallers MAJESTY OF REVIVAL have announced details of their second album – “Iron Gods” its due out later this year.

On the new album “Iron Gods”  they have also two guest  musicians:
Jouni Nikula (FIN) – Requiem, Jack the Frost, Altaria
Magnus Norhd (SWE) – Time Requiem, Majestic, Blind Faith

Silent Voices @ Bogiez Cardiff

 

http://www.silentvoices.net/

Constantine – New single & video

Constantine – Finnish melodic/progressive metallers just released a new single and video “World Undefined”

The whole video has been shot with a single hand-held Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone!!!

Finland based progressive metal band CONSTANTINE presents the first
music video ever shot with Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. The video introduces
the band’s new single “World Undefined” from their upcoming full length album
due to be released during Autumn 2013 via Palokka Records.

http://constantineband.net/

 

Silent Voices

Silent Voices is a Finnish progressive/melodic metal band also known as “the other band” of Henrik Klingenberg, the keyboard player of Sonata Arctica.

Announcing: New Silent Voices Album Details Unveiled!

The follow-up to the complex Building Up The Apathy is finished and the details about the new album have now been revealed. Their fourth studio album titled Reveal The Change features the quartet of Henrik Klingenberg, Pasi Kauppinen, Timo Kauppinen and Jukka-Pekka Koivisto as well as guest performances on lead & backing vocals by Mats Levén, Tony Kakko, Mike Vescera, Mike DiMeo and Teemu Koskela. The album has 7 tracks and one of them is an instrumental.

 http://www.silentvoices.net/

The band comments: “The entire band and all the people we are working with are very excited about this new album as well as playing the new material live. This new album takes Silent Voices to the next level and brings many new sides of us to the table. We’re still working out the details of who’s gonna release it and when (these things might take some time, unfortunately).”

Reveal The Change was recorded and mixed at Studio57 in Alaveteli, Finland and mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York, NY.

Tracklist:

1. The Fear Of Emptiness

2. No Turning Back

3. Reign Of Terror

4. Faith In Me

5. Black Water

6. Burning Shine

7. Through My Prison Walls

 

 

 

Maria Jordan

Maria Jordan is set to release her brand new single ‘What You Gonna Do’ on the 25^th February. Flying the British flag with her own blend of Alt / Americana country pop she has been steadily building a worldwide fan base with not only the country audience, debuting at No.4 on the hot disc chart, but has effortlessly found herself crossing over into the mainstream with ‘Better Than Nothing’ sitting on many mainstream radio station’s A playlist.

Recent support gigs has seen her play with the likes of The Script, Newton Faulkner and James Morrison as well as Paloma Faith and she has surrounded herself with a strong production and writing team in the likes of John Kettle and Robert Ellis Orrell (Taylor Swift / Reba MCEntire).

From her beginnings as a receptionist at one of Manchester’s biggest radio stations (Key103) to striding out on her own as an artist in her own right 2013 is the year to catapult Maria up the mainstream pop charts.

 

Sauerkraut Soup from Peter Lipa

Peter Lipa (born: 30.5. 1943) is the most important figure in the Slovak jazz scene. He was regularly in the top five of European jazz singers on the Jazz Forum magazine charts and today we can say that he has sang on every continent in the world…..

….his favorite dish,exclusive for K4M…

Ingredients: sauerkraut, garlic, black pepper, caraway seeds, cloves, nutmeg, bay leaves, dried mushrooms, onion, apples, pork, sausage, red pepper, paprika, sour cream

Prep Time: 1 hour

Sauerkraut Soup is by far my favorite Slovak dish. It is a soup made with sauerkraut, mushrooms, pork, sausages, and various spices. It’s really delicious and rightfully very popular. It’s traditionally eaten on Christmas, but you will find this soup offered in all Slovak restaurants year around. On Christmas, this soup is typically followed by fried fish with potato salad, and then by a variety of Christmas “cookies”. And finally, right after dinner is when we run to the Christmas tree to open presents.

Start by adding sauerkraut to a large pot. Add about a liter of water. I used a liter jar of sauerkraut from Whole Foods in making this recipe.Next take two cloves of garlic and do your best to turn them into a paste. I used a food processor to chop up the garlic, and then crushed the chunks in a bowl using a spoon. Add the garlic.Next add black pepper and caraway seeds.Then add two cloves and crushed nutmeg,two bay leaves and dried mushrooms.Then add an onion and two small apples. Also add pork cut into small pieces. Add more water if needed and let cook for about 20 minutes.Take some spicy smoked sausage and cut it into pieces. Sometimes you can find smoked Hungarian sausage that is very similar to what is used in Slovakia,but if not, then just use your favorite store-stocked brand.Depending on the sausage you use, you may want to brown it a bit to improve the taste. Add after the soup has cooked for about 20 minutes.Also add some crushed red pepper and paprika.Cover and let simmer for 30 minutes.If you like your soup light, you are done. However, this soup is typically thickened with sour cream.

Mix the thick sour cream available in US stores with about an equal amount of milk. Add a spoon of flour and mix well. Next add the mixture to the soup, and cook for about a minute. Stir as needed.

Enjoy with a slice of rye bread.

http://www.peterlipa.com/en/