Formed: 1999
From:
Gothenburg,
Sweden
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Dream Evil News
Below is our complete Dream Evil news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Note: We began associating news directly with bands in late 2003. Therefore, earlier band news may not be listed on this page.
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Headliners Confirmed For Bloodstock Open Air
The organisers of Britain's Bloodstock Open Air festival has announced that Finnish heavy metal outfit Children Of Bodom and industrial metal legends Fear Factory will be headlining the 2010 edition of the event.
Children Of Bodom's Alexi Laiho comments: "I'm really glad we're playing Bloodstock next year – it's the only UK show for us in 2010, and the crowd over there has been awesome for us lately!"
The lineup is now as follows:
Amorphis
Andromeda
Behemoth
Cannibal Corpse
Children Of Bodom
Doro
Dream Evil
Fear Factory
Gwar
Korpiklaani
Leaves' Eyes
Obituary
Rage
Ross The Boss
Suffocation
Devin Townsend
Dream Evil Reveals New Album Details
Swedish power metal band DREAM EVIL has revealed a brand-new studio album entitled “In The Night.” DREAM EVIL’s “In The Night” was produced at Sweden’s Studio Fredman (Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, HammerFall, etc.), which is owned by DREAM EVIL axeman Fredrik Nordström, and will be released via Century Media Records on January 25th, 2010 in Europe and January 26th, 2010 in North America.
The artwork was created by Gustavo Sazes (Arch Enemy, Firewind, Krisiun etc.). The tracklisting for “In The Night” is as follows:
01. Immortal
02. In The Night
03. Bang Your Head
04. See The Light
05. Electric
06. Frostbite
07. On The Wind
08. The Ballad
09. In The Fires Of The Sun
10. Mean Machine
11. Kill, Burn, Be Evil
12. The Unchosen One More...
Gwar And Korpiklaani Confirmed For Bloodstock
Bloodstock Open Air has confirmed a further two acts for next years festival. After being forced to pull out in 2009, the organizers have confirmed Gwar will be making an appearance. The Grammy-nominated Scumdogs Of The Universe will be flying in from Antarctica to unleash hell on all in attendance. Frontmonster Oderus Urungus warns us of the impending orgy of bodily fluids, nuclear waste and all manner of murder and vulgarity:
"Greetings people of Earth, it is I, ODERUS URUNGUS, lead singer of the Bloodiest band in metal history, the mighty GWAR! And it is with a sense of toe-curling delight and impending DOOM that I announce the addition of the GWAR to the mammoth BLOODSTOCK Open Air Metal Festival to be held this summer in England. Thats right, from the frozen depths of Antarctica, GWAR brings what BLOODSTOCK needs...BLOOD! Prepare yourself for the most colossal, disgusting, and completely politically incorrect show in metal history! We'll bring the swords, you bring the bodies, and together we shall turn the slam-pit into a seething mass of DEATH not seen in Europe since the fall of Berlin! GWAR is playing BLOODSTOCK...and may the Pope choke on it!"
Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani will also be bringing their band of merry metal to Derby this summer for their only UK appearance of 2010. The band commented: More...
Cannibal Corpse Confirmed For Bloodstock 2010
American death metal legends Cannibal Corpse has announced that they will be performing at next years edition of England's Bloodstock Open Air festival. Fans will want to be attending this event as it will be the bands only show in the United Kingdom in 2010. The festival will be taking place between August 13th and August 15th at the Catton Hall in Derbyshire.
Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz stated: "We are extremely excited to be playing Bloodstock! It will be our first ever festival appearance in the UK and we can't wait to tear it up for the masses!"
The lineup for the festival is now as follows: More...
Guillotine Added To SwedenRock Cruise Fest 2009
The lineup for the next edition of the SwedenRock Cruise has been announced. The cruise will tour the Baltic Sea. Party for 24 hours straight on 12 floors full of metal DJ’s, tax free-shops, bars and restaurants, relax in the pool and sauna or have fun in the game room in addition to checking out the six well known hard rock / metal bands that will perform onboard. The bands performing include:
Grave Digger
Entombed
Pink Cream 69
Dream Evil
Witchcraft
Guillotine
Kamelot Posts Spring Tour Dates
American power/progressive metal band Kamelot has just announced the following spring tour dates.
"The concerts for this spring are selling fast! Make sure you get your tickets early. Here is the concert listing for dates in 2009: More...
Dream Evil Launches DVD Trailer, New Song Online
Swedish melodic metal band DREAM EVIL released "Gold Medal In Metal (Alive & Archive)," their first live-release as DVD and CD earlier this year. The set includes a comprehensive bonus-CD compilation of more than an hour of quality rare and unreleased studio tracks. The band has now released a brand-new trailer for this release, which can be viewed below (after the jump).
Furthermore, the title track of this release, "Gold Medal In Metal," which is one of the many previously unreleased studio tracks included on the "Bronze Medal" disc has been launched on the band's MySpace page. "Gold Medal In Metal" was originally written and recorded as part of the sessions for the classic album "The Book Of Heavy Metal."
The double-CD, with a laying time of over 2 hours, and the special DVD version (playing time of the DVD is over 100 minutes and both audio CD's are included in this package as well) are a complete guide into the vaults of DREAM EVIL
Currently, DREAM EVIL is working on material for a new studio album and guitarist / producer Fredrik Nordström checks in with a short status report and end-of-the-year message:
"We are right now writing songs for the next album with the working title "In The Night". I believe that the release date will be before Summer of next year. As usual will we prepare approximately 30 songs and take the 15 best for recording. We will enter the studio on December 8th to start recording 4-5 songs and then continue in. Other than that, I can tell you that the DREAM EVIL camp now has 11 kids in total (MINI EVIL will start touring 2020, haha) and 2 of them are not even one year old, so we will have to wait some more before we can do longer tours again, but those who are waiting for some good stuff shall not remain waiting for too long. Consequently we are working on some shorter tours and festival appearances around the planet. So have a heavy metal fistmas and a sloppy new year!!!"
Expect more updates and activity by DREAM EVIL soon in 2009, as also the following live shows have already been confirmed: More...
Opeth Added To The UK's Hammerfest
Opeth has been announced as the headlining act for the first day of Hammerfest which takes place in Pontins, Prestatyn Sands, Wales on April 24th and 25th. The headliner on the second day will be Bullet For My Valentine. The festival promises a treat for fans of every genre of metal with the following bands confirmed:
Alestorm
Annotations Of An Autopsy
Bullet For My Valentine
Cathedral
Dream Evil
Evile
Exit Ten
Grand Magus
Hammerfall
Opeth
Sabbat
Saxon
Skindred
Trigger The Bloodshed
Tyr
Plus 35 more bands to be announced.
First Bands Announced For U.K.'s Hammerfest
Hammerfest, which is to be held in Pontins, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales on April 24th - 25th has announced their first batch of acts. The first bands confirmed for the festival are Saxon, Skindred, Cathedral, Bullet For My Valentine, Hammerfall, Sabbat, Dream Evil, Trigger The Bloodshed, Alestorm, Tyr, Exit Ten, Annotations Of An Autopsy and Grand Magus. More bands and details will be announced shortly.
Century Media Celebrates 20th Anniversary
2008 has become an extremely exciting year in the history of Century Media Records, one of the world's most respected independent homes for heavy music, as the label is celebrating its 20th anniversary!
The company's Anniversary year started off with an extremely successful, first-ever yard sale/party at the Century Media office in Dortmund (Germany) in June, where several hundred guests partied out on exclusive live shows by Angel Dust and Turisas. A video with impressions from the event can be seen at this location. A photo gallery for this event can be viewed here.
To further celebrate this anniversary Century Media Records will release the very special 2CD compilation "Covering 20 Years Of Extremes" on September 15th in Europe and on October 14th in North America. The various artists covers-release includes 32 mostly exclusive recordings and will be available in stores for the price of one CD. Sticking to the "keep it in the family" slogan, CM approached their artists about covering songs from other acts within the label's repertoire and the response from the musicians was overwhelming.
Some choices were obvious and homages to the bands that influenced them, others were inspired picks. This combination ended up leading to a heavily entertaining and truly special final result across all sub-genres of heavy music.
Here is the tracklisting: More...
Dream Evil Reveals DVD Details
Dream Evil has revealed the details behind their forthcoming 2CD & DVD retrospective package, "A Gold Medal In Metal" which can be viewed below.
Gold Medal In Metal (Alive & Archive) DVD+2CD:
Gold Medal Disc – DVD (100:45):
Live Maerd (67:45)
1. "United"
2. "Blind Evil"
3. "Fire! Battle! In Metal!"
4. "In Flames You Burn"
5. "Crusaders' Anthem"
6. "Back From The Dead"
7. "Higher On Fire"
8. "The Prophecy"
9. "Made Of Metal"
10. "Heavy Metal In The Night"
11. "Let Me Out"
12. "The Chosen Ones"
13. "The Book Of Heavy Metal"
14. "Chasing The Dragon"
15. "Children Of The Night" More...
Dream Evil Announce Tentative Album Title
Swedish metallers DREAM EVIL have scheduled the following dates:
May 29 - Camden Underworld - London, England
May 30 - Rio's - Leeds, England
Jun. 28 - Tuska Festival - Helsinki, Finland
Commented the band: "Hopefully there is going to be a South American tour in the autumn (our promoter is working on it). Right now we're working with the 'Gold Medal In Metal' DVD/CD and there is a lot of stuff which has to be finished, so still we haven't got a release date for it. We are also working on writing new songs for an upcoming studio album which we think is going to be called 'In The Night'."
Dream Evil Announce New Guitarist
DREAM EVIL has issued the following update:
"Hello Evil followers!
Finally we’ve got a new webmaster and our new site is up and running. It’s been totally quiet in the news section for a while, we’re sorry about that! We are not dead, only lazy old farts.
So what happened in the Dream Evil camp the last six months?
For family reasons our lead guitarist Mark Black unfortunately left the band and we now have a new (hairy & scary) axe swinger called Dannee Demon (aka Daniel Varghamne).
Dream Evil will release a CD with some new songs and some old songs (which earlier only have been released as bonus tracks in Japan) combined with a live DVD recorded November 25th 2006 in Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg. The preliminary release date is now set to March – April 2008
... The album will be called Gold Medal In Metal.
We are all working in our metal factories on making new splendid unbloody serious farmer metal anthems that hopefully will show up on our next studio album.
We also hope that the upcoming live shows section will be filled with gigs in the near future near You.
Hope to see you from the stage!
- Dream Evil"
Epica and Kiuas Added To Bloodstock Open Air 2007
Dutch Gothic Metal Band EPICA and Finnish Metallers KIUAS are the latest additions to the line up for this years Bloodstock Open Air. To recap, bands confirmed so far are:
In Flames
Lacuna Coil
Arch Enemy
Testament
Dream Evil
Korpiklaani
Rise To Addiction
Benediction
Wolf
Epica
Kiuas
Memfis
Beyond All Reason
Many more bands to be announced.
As previously reported, the open air leg of this year’s Bloodstock has moved from July 6-7 to August 16-18. The rescheduling also means that the annual indoor part, usually held in September will not be taking place this year. Despite the confusion and disappointment, the event which takes place at Derbyshire’s Catton Hall boasts its strongest line-up yet.
BOA Changes Dates, Indoor Fest is Cancelled
The open air leg of this year’s Bloodstock has moved from July 6-7 to August 16-18. The rescheduling also means that the annual indoor part, usually held in September will not be taking place this year. Despite the confusion and disappointment, the event which takes place at Derbyshire’s Catton Hall boasts its strongest line-up yet with Swedish royalty In Flames and Arch Enemy alongside thrash legends Testament and Italian goth metallers Lacuna Coil. Other bands confirmed are Dream Evil, Wolf, Korpiklaani, Memfis and Rise To Addiction.
Dream Evil Announce First U.S. Performance
On Dec. 13th, Sweden’s DREAM EVIL will make their first U.S. performance, when they headline the Century Family’s Third Annual Christmas Balls show at The Key Club in Hollywood. Tickets are on sale now. More performances will be announced in the coming weeks.
Peter Stalfors (bass) further conveys the band’s excitement over their first U.S. performance: “Ever since we released our first album, DragonSlayer, we hoped to have the opportunity to perform in the U.S. Over the years, we received tons of mails from fans all over North America, and now at last we have the opportunity to give at least some of you a chance to see us. We are really excited about this and look forward to see you at the Key Club in Los Angeles, when it's finally time to show the U.S. what we’ve got. We will play songs from our new album United, along with a ton of oldies as well, so we hope you are ready for a full-on metal onslaught.”
DREAM EVIL triumphantly returns with their fourth full-length album United, a ferocious larger-than-life assault that will leave anyone proudly screaming for vengeance. The group recently completed a new video for the album’s opening track, “Fire! Battle! In Metal!,” with renowned director Patric Ullaeus (Dimmu Borgir, Lacuna Coil). The video definitely lives up to its title; check it out here. More...
ex-King Diamond Drummer Named Therion Singer
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Snowy Shaw (MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL) has been named the new singer in THERION. The group's new album, "Gothic Kabbalah", was recorded and mixed in Stockholm by Stefan Glaumann (RAMMSTEIN, EVERGREY, EUROPE) will be released in January 2007 via Nuclear Blast Records. Snowy shares the vocal duties with Mats Lev?n (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, KRUX, AT VANCE) and two female singers. A full-blown European tour with GRAVE DIGGER and SABATON kicks off mid-January.
In other news, Snowy recently did session vocals on the debut album from Swedish doomsters ADONIZE VITA. Snowy has also joined forces with friends Kriss G?bel (FALCONER, DESTINY) and Michael ?berg (NOSTRADAMEUS) in cover band METAL F?R ALLE, performing gigs locally in the Gothenburg area covering the four decades of metal.
Shaw recently recorded produced three new songs for Swedish glam/sleaze act LOUD'N'NASTY, and he also played session drums on the recording. The band will play some Swedish dates (Gothenburg, Kalmar and a planned Glam XXX-mas in Stockholm) in December - their first with Snowy behind the kit.
Also on the Shaw front, Snowy worked with Patric Ullaeus (LACUNA COIL, WITHIN TEMPTATION, IN FLAMES, DIMMU BORGIR) and Revolver Film Company on the video for "I Was Made For Loving You" from MINI ROCKERZ (a.k.a. MINIKISS), a tribute band featuring little people (from 3-foot-11 to 4-foot-4 in height) covering KISS songs in full make-up while playing fake wooden guitars.
Snowy and Mats Levon will be the guest DJs at the Halloween Ball, arranged by Nocturnal Models, in Stockholm November 4.
Dream Evil Announces First U.S. Performance
On December 13, Sweden's DREAM EVIL will make its U.S. live debut when it headlines the Century Family's third annual Christmas Balls show at The Key Club in Hollywood. Tickets are on sale now. More performances will be announced in the coming weeks.
Commented Peter Stalfors (bass): "Ever since we released our first album, 'DragonSlayer', we hoped to have the opportunity to perform in the U.S. Over the years, we received tons of mails from fans all over North America, and now at last we have the opportunity to give at least some of you a chance to see us. We are really excited about this and look forward to see you at the Key Club in Los Angeles, when it's finally time to show the U.S. what we’ve got. We will play songs from our new album, 'United', along with a ton of oldies as well, so we hope you are ready for a full-on metal onslaught."
"United" was recorded at Sweden's famed Studio Fredman with DREAM EVIL guitarist and legendary producer Fredrik Nordström (ARCH ENEMY, OPETH, AT THE GATES). The limited-edition first pressing of "United" includes a bonus second CD containing five exclusive, brand new songs.
DREAM EVIL recently completed a video for the new album's opening track, "Fire! Battle! In Metal!", with renowned director Patric Ullaeus (DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL).
Dream Evil Shoot New Video
Two years after adding another epic chapter to The Book of Heavy Metal, Sweden’s DREAM EVIL return with United, a ferocious larger-than-life assault that will leave anyone proudly screaming for vengeance. United was recorded at the famed Studio Fredman with DREAM EVIL guitarist and legendary producer Fredrik Nordstrom (Arch Enemy, Opeth, At The Gates). The album carries on with the band’s tradition of stunning melodies, captivating vocals and bombastic guitar solos, all capped off with a bittersweet ballad approach and thunderous speed outbursts.
DREAM EVIL recently completed a new video for the album’s opening track, “Fire! Battle! In Metal!,” with renowned director Patric Ullaeus (Dimmu Borgir, Lacuna Coil). The video definitely lives up to its title, and will be posted online later this month. Check out an MP3 of the track at the link below. http://mp3.centurymedia.com/dreamevil/united/Dreamevil_FireBattleMetal.mp3
Ragnarok Festival Cancelled
The Ragnarok Festival, which was due to happen on November 4 in Perth, Scotland, has been cancelled, due to poor ticket sales. The bill was to include Doro, Gamma Ray and Dream Evil.