Legion Of The Damned
Formed: 2005
From:
Geldrop,
Netherlands
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Legion Of The Damned News
Below is our complete Legion Of The Damned 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.
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First Bands Announced For Graspop 2009
The first batch of bands for Belgium's premiere metal festival, Graspop has been revealed. The event will take place on June 26th-28th in Dessel.
The initial bands are as follows:
Heaven And Hell
Disturbed
Volbeat
Papa Roach
Blind Guardian
Anthrax
Trivium
W.A.S.P.
Sacred Reich
DevilDriver
Epica
Legion Of The Damned
Parkway Drive
God Forbid
Kataklysm
Firewind
Laaz Rockit
Keep Of Kalessin
Scar Symmetry
Samael
Dagoba
Taake
Negura Bunget
Wolves In The Throne Room
Eths
Amon Amarth And Obituary To Tour Europe
Swedish viking metallers Amon Amarth will be headlining a European tour next year which will also include death metal legends Obituary aswell as Legion Of The Damned and Keep Of Kalessin.
The tour dates are as follows:
Mar. 05 - NL - Heerhugowaard - Waerdse Tempel
Mar. 06 - DE - Erfurt - Stadtgarten
Mar. 07 - DE - Hamburg - Grosse Freiheit
Mar. 08 - BE - Antwerpen - Hof Ter Loo
Mar. 09 - UK - London - Forum
Mar. 10 - FR - Paris - La Locomotive
Mar. 11 - DE - Cologne - Palladium
Mar. 12 - DE - Saarbrücken - Garage
Mar. 13 - DE - Dessau - Hangar *
Mar. 14 - DE - München - Backstage *
Mar. 16 - DE - Stuttgart - LKA Longhorn
Mar. 17 - CH - Pratteln - Z7
Mar. 18 - IT - Bologna - Estragon
Mar. 19 - AT - Innsbruck - Hafen
Mar. 20 - AT - Linz - Posthof
Mar. 21 - AT - Wien - Gasometer
Mar. 22 - HR - Zagreb - Boogaloo
Mar. 23 - SI - Maribor - Stuk (Big Hall)
Mar. 24 - CZ - Prague - Abaton
Mar. 25 - DE - Hannover - Capitol
Mar. 26 - DE - Berlin - Postbahnhof
Mar. 27 - DE - Lichtenfels - Stadthalle
Mar. 28 - DE - Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle
Mar. 29 - NL - Enschede - Atak
Legion Of The Damned Posts New Video Online
Dutch metallers Legion Of The Damned has posted their new music video online for the song, "Cult of the Dead." You can check it out below. The song comes from the bands forthcoming album of the same name which will hit the shelves on December 19th. There will be three different versions of the album available including a digipak which will feature a bonus DVD of the band performing the whole album in their rehersal room aswell as interviews and a three disc version which includes the album, the DVD and a live album of the band performing at Germany's Rock Hard festival in 2006. More...
Amon Amarth, Brainstorm On Summer Breeze 2009
A number of bands have already been confirmed for the Summer Breeze 2009 festival. Those bands are:
AMON AMARTH
BRAINSTORM
CANTUS
BURANUS (Corvus Corax)
J.B.O.
LEGION OF THE DAMNED
SCHANDMAUL
UNHEILIG
VOLBEAT
Legion Of The Damned Announces New Album Title
Legion Of The Damned have posted the following update:
"Management and band decided to reveal the title of the upcoming new full length Legion Of The Damned album to be released in January 2009. The upcoming new album is entitled Cult Of The Dead. We are ready to announce the first confirmed titletracks: 'Solar Overlord', 'Fire Angel', 'Pray And Suffer' and 'Cult Of The Dead'."
Legion Of The Damned Book New Festival Date
Dutch metallers LEGION OF THE DAMNED have issued the following update:
"As we have mentioned the Leuven Festival in Belgium got cancelled. We have searched for an alternative and we succeeded. The festival will take place July 27th, one of the band's playing is EXODUS. Once we got more detailed information and everything is 100% confirmed, we will let you know. Beside that we want to congratulate our Manager Andy S. to his 40th birthday, and everybody knows life starts at 40, so hell he must be happy."
Legion Of The Damned Working On New Material
LEGION OF THE DAMNED vocalist Maurice Swinkels has posted this message on the band's official website:
"Greetings all male and female thrashers out there. I think it's about time to bring you an update on the LEGION OF THE DAMNED camp right here from the front. It's snowing outside right now, which brings no good feelings towards next week's shows we are going to do in Finland haha. It's probably fucking freezing there. But seriously, we are looking forward to play Finland and we can't wait. It's been months ago we've been on stage, and Finland will be the first to see our saved anger and rage unleashed. They can expect the BEST songs out of the LWGION trilogy: 'Malevolent Rapture', 'Sons Of The Jackal' and, of course, 'Feel The Blade'.
'Feel The Blade' has been released in January and it was a huge success, not only in Germany we entered the official album charts, but so did we in Finland, Norway and Austria! We wanna thank everybody out there - promoters, journalists and above all fans to make this all happen! You KILL.
But LEGION OF THE DAMNED is LEGION OF THE DAMNED, and that we decided not to play a lot this year and work on new material was a good decision. We are working very hard on new material and so far three songs are semi-ready. We even already know the album title, but in this stage we are not going to reveal anything. This shows that we are hungry and still have a lot of aggression inside to make absolute KILLER songs!!
Expect LEGION OF THE DAMNED at its best and with songs that hit you right in the face even before you have heard more than two songs. Has LEGION OF THE DAMNED ever let you down with this?
The new album, which will be released in 2009, will be our last for now and we will probably focus on a lot of shows.
All I can say is that everyone out there should prepare his or her headbanging skills, because the new album and concerts in 2009 will be a serious attack on your neck muscles."
Legion Of The Damned Enter German Charts
"Feel the Blade", a reissue of Dutch thrashers LEGION OF THE DAMNED's "Elegy for the Weak" CD (originally released under the band's previous moniker OCCULT), has entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 70. Released on January 4, 2008 via Massacre Records, the new version of the LP contains two new songs that didn't appear on the original "Elegy for the Weak" album, a new cover and a bonus DVD.
The band previously commented: "'Feel the Blade' comes from an album that OCCULT once released under the name 'Elegy for the Weak'. We as band strongly believe that this album belongs to the LEGION OF THE DAMNED category and since the album is hard to get we will re-release it. Of course there may always be people out there who were able to buy an 'Elegy for the Weak' copy for 10 or 15 euros, but we put so much effort into this new release that even if you own a copy of the 'Elegy for the Weak' album, this is still worth buying. It not only [has] the 'Elegy for the Weak' recording remastered but also two new songs and a cover song, plus a 127-minute-long bonus DVD."
LEGION OF THE DAMNED's "Sons of the Jackal" album entered the German national album chart at position No. 54 back in January 2007. The follow-up to 2006's "Malevolent Rapture" was recorded at Stage One studio in Bühne, Germany with producer Andy Classen.
Legion Of The Damned Announce Album Tracklisting
Dutch metallers LEGION OF THE DAMNED have revealed the tracklisting of their forthcoming album Feel The Blade, set to be released on January 4th, 2008. Songs are as follows: 'Nuclear Torment', 'Nocturnal Predator', 'Slaughtering The Pigs', 'Slut Of Sodom', 'Feel The Blade', 'Expire', 'Warbeast', 'Disturbing The Dead', 'Obsessed By The Grave', 'Reapers Call' and bonus tracks 'Last Command', 'Mask Of Terror' and 'Chronic Infection'.
Legion Of The Damned have confirmed the following 2008 live dates in Finland:
February
6 - Kuopio, Finland - Henry's Pub
7 - Jyväskylä, Finland - Lutakko
8 - Tampere,, Finland - Hellä
9 - Helsinki, Finland - Nightlife Rock
More Bands Confirmed For Hellfest
According to VSWebzine.com, CARCASS, MESHUGGAH, MINISTRY, AT THE GATES, FORBIDDEN and TESTAMENT are among the confirmed bands for next year's Hellfest festival, set to take place June 20-22, 2008 in Clisson, France. More than 60 bands will perform on 2 stages. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):
ANATHEMA
ANAAL NATHRAKH
ANGRA
AT THE GATES
BENIGHTED
BORN FROM PAIN
CARCASS
CULT OF LUNA
ELUVEITIE
FORBIDDEN
GHOST BRIGADE
LEGION OF THE DAMNED
MESHUGGAH
MINISTRY
MY DYING BRIDE
PARADISE LOST
SEPTIC FLESH
SHINING
SICK OF IT ALL
SONATA ARCTICA
TESTAMENT
THE OLD DEAD TREE
Legion Of The Damned Confirm Finnish Dates
Dutch metallers LEGION OF THE DAMNED have confirmed the following 2008 live dates in Finland:
February
6 - Kuopio, Finland - Henry's Pub
7 - Jyväskylä, Finland - Lutakko
8 - Tampere,, Finland - Hellä
9 - Helsinki, Finland - Nightlife Rock
More Bands Announced For Party .San Festival
OBITUARY, LIVIDITY, ENDSTILLE, DEADBORN and DEFLORATION have been confirmed for next year's Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 7-9, 2008 in Bad Berka, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:
OBITUARY
LIVIDITY
ENDSTILLE
DEADBORN
DEFLORATION
LEGION OF THE DAMNED
SKYFORGER
KAMPFAR
INSISION
Legion Of The Damned To Enter Studio In September
Dutch metallers LEGION OF THE DAMNED have checked in with the following update:
"Time for some update. Nothing new has happened. Just came back from playing Bloodstock in the UK along with ARCH ENEMY, TESTAMENT, SABBAT and IN FLAMES. Was absolutely a fantastic experience, and to the UK fans; thank you so much! we had a blast and we hope to return to the UK soon!
As said, nothing new has happened besides finishing up our two new songs for the upcoming Feel The Blade release. Still need to finish the lyrics for those songs ,so as soon as we got them, we will post the titles of the new tracks. We are also finishing up our Touring The Jackal tour which started already back in March. Still three shows to go.
November and December will be a rest for us, and some of us will go on vacation. We will keep you posted and updated as soon as we enter the studio with Andy Classen in September!"
Legion Of The Damned Confirmed For Bloodstock
Bloodstock have confirmed Legion Of The Damned are to grace the main stage at Bloodstock Open Air on Saturday 18th August 2007.
The band toured the European festival circuit heavily in 2006 playing at Rockhard festival, Summer breeze, Wacken Open Air, as well as touring the Netherlands. In the UK the band have gained a huge following & recently supported Celtic Frost & Kreator on a UK sell out tour. The band's latest album entitled “Sons of the Jackal” promises to be a must have album for all true Metal Heads for 2007. The bands appearance at Bloodstock Open Air will be their only UK festival show.
Celtic Frost Comment On UK Concert Curfew
Celtic Frost have released the following statement in regards to an imposed curfew on their UK tour dates:
"While already on the road on the European leg of the "Monotheist" tour, we were informed of strict curfews to our co-headlining shows with Kreator in the UK. These curfews have been imposed locally and are not a stipulation by either Celtic Frost or Kreator. As a matter of fact, we oppose these curfews explicitly, and we have informed both our management and our concert agency accordingly. There is little we can do, however.
Celtic Frost and Kreator and the bands' representatives have spent months trying to assemble an appropriate and exciting touring package of four bands that cover a wide variety of contemporary metal. We loathe the fact that we are now finally back out on the road - in Celtic Frost's case, for the first time in some 17 years - and have to discover that the local booker and promoters in the UK impose curfews so unrealistically strict that it is impossible to put on the regular performances by all four bands on the bill as played everywhere else in Europe. Apparently, some of the UK venues book two events during certain nights, i.e., in this case our tour and another event. This will yield twice the profits for them in one night, but it also means that the first event, namely our tour, will have to clear the venue at an unreasonably early hour, as early as 9:30 or 10:00pm.
There appears to be no proper solution to this situation. Both headliners are categorically unwilling to cancel the performances of either our opening act or special guest, Watain and Legion Of The Damned, in order to play full headlining sets. Just like us, Watain and Legion of the Damned have travelled thousands of miles and gone through great expenses to play all of Europe. The local booker and promoters in the UK are equally unwilling to extend their ludicrous curfews, even for a mere 30 minutes. The alternative, so we are informed, would be a cancelled concert.
Having all four bands play at least a semblance of a set means that the duration of all sets will be severely restricted. In case of Celtic Frost and Kreator, this means sets of 60 minutes, in case of Watain and Legion of the Damned, sets of 20 minutes. This applies to the following shows: Glasgow, Bradford, Wolverhampton, Cardiff, and Nottingham. All bands involved believe that playing a set is better than cancelling any show. That we all are extremely frustrated, if not to say furious, about this situation is obvious."
The tour dates are as follows: More...
Watain To Join Celtic Frost and Kreator On Tour
Watain have been chosen to join the European tour of metal legends CELTIC FROST and KREATOR. Dutch Legion of the Damned are also included in this tour-package, that will sweep through Europe in March and April.
These European dates will constitute the first ones on the FUCK THE WORLD TOUR, Watain's worldwide crusade to promote the new album "Sworn to the Dark". Tour dates - together with some other highly exceptional acts - are being scheduled for both North and South America as well
Here are the live dates: More...
Legion of the Damned Announce New Bassist
Dutch thrashers LEGION OF THE DAMNED (formerly OCCULT) have posted the following message on their official web site:
"During our last tour, bass player Twan Fleuren left the band because of family matters. After having spoken with Twan, we all decided that it was best for him to focus on his family and leave the band. Within no time we found a new member in Harold Gielen, who complements the band perfectly. He also plays the guitar in MANGLED and INHUME. Harold already joined LEGION OF THE DAMNED on the last day of the tour at the 013 venue in Tilburg and you'll definitely be seeing more of him in the future. We wish Twan Fleuren all the best in life and we welcome Harold Gielen to our line-up."
LEGION OF THE DAMNED's debut album, "Malevolent Rapture", was released in January 2006 via Boomer Entertainment/Massacre Records.
Psycroptic Reveal European Tour dates
Psycroptic post an update with tour dates on their Myspace site:
CANNIBAL CORPSE
KATAKLYSM
LEGION OF THE DAMNED
PSYCROPTIC
GRIMFIST
04.04.06 DE ESSEN @ ZECHE CARL
05.04.06 DE LUDWIGSBURG @ ROCKFABRIK
06.04.06 DE BERLIN @ FRITZ
07.04.06 DE GLAUCHAU @ ALTER SPINNEREI
08.04.06 CZ PRAGUE @ ABATON CLUB
09.04.06 AT WIEN @ PLANET MUSIC
10.04.06 DE MUNICH @ BACKSTAGE
11.04.06 CH PRATTELN @ Z7
12.04.06 FR STRASBOURG @ LA LAITERIE
13.04.06 DE FRANKFURT @ BATSCHKAPP
14.04.06 AT DORNBIRN @ SPIELBODEN
15.04.06 FR PARIS @ LA LOCOMOTIVE
16.04.06 BL ANTWERPEN @ HOF TER LOO
17.04.06 NL TILBURG @ 013
NILE
YYRKOON
PSYCROPTIC
20-04-06 GER Bastard Club, Osnabrück
21-04-06 GER East Club, Bischofswerda
22-04-06 GER Rockstation Halle, Saale
23-04-06 AUT Planet Music, Vienna
24-04-06 SLO Media Park, Ljubljana
25-04-06 HUN A 38, Budapest
26-04-06 CZR Black Pez, Praha
27-04-06 POL WZ Wroclaw, Poland
28-04-06 LIT Nooruse Maja, Tartu
29-04-06 LAT Salamandra, Riga
30-04-06 EST Nõmme Cult, Tallinn
01-05-06 FIN Nosturi, Helsinki
02-05-06 travel
03-05-06 NOR Blaest, Trondheim
04-05-06 NOR John Dee, Oslo
05-05-06 SWE Klubben, Stockholm
06-05-06 SWE Skylken, Linkoping
07-05-06 DEN Studenthuset, Aalborg
08-05-06 GER Markthalle, Hamburg
09-05-06 NLD Melkweg, Amsterdam
10-05-06 ENG Underworld, London
13-05-06 NLD Dynamo, Einhoven
Norther Added To No Mercy Festivals 2006
Finnish metallers Norther will be joining the No Mercy Festivals 2006 European Tour with Cannibal Corpse, Kataklysm and Legion of the Damned. Confirmed dates are as follows:
Apr. 04 Essen, GER - Zeche Carl
Apr. 05 Ludwigsburg, GER - Rockfabrik
Apr. 06 Berlin, GER - Fritz
Apr. 07 Glauchau, GER - Alte Spinnerei
Apr. 08 Prague, CZR - Abaton Club
Apr. 09 Wien, AUT - Planet Music
Apr. 10 Munich, GER - Backstage
Apr. 11 Pratteln, SWI - Z7
Apr. 12 Strasbourg, FRA - La Laiterie
Apr. 13 Frankfurt, GER - Batschkapp
Apr. 14 Dornbirn, AUT - Spielboden
Apr. 15 Paris, FRA - La Locomotive
Apr. 16 Antwerpen, BEL - Hof Ter Loo
Apr. 17 Tilburg, NETH - 013
Other Norther tour dates in Finland:
Mar. 09 Hki - Tavastia Klubi
Mar. 24 Tku - Palatsi
Jun. 15 Kouvola - TBA
Jun. 23 JoensuuI - losaari Juhannusfestivaali
Jul. 01 Helsinki - Tuska Festival
Jul. 08 Nivala - Tuiskurock
Finntroll Drop Off No Mercy Tour
Finntroll, who recently parted ways with singer Tapio Wilska, have posted the following message on their official website explaining their No Mercy Tour (which features Cannibal Corpse, Kataklysm and Legion of the Damned) cancellation:
"We are more than sorry to inform that we are forced to cancel the No Mercy - Tour. We are still searching for a new vocalist and we feel that it's only fair to the fans that next shows what Finntroll will do, will be with a new line-up, not with temporary replacements.
"We are at least as dissapointed as some of you for not being able to do the tour, but we'll hope that next opportunity to see you all along the road somewhere will happen really soon. Until then...Rot'n'Troll."