Blind Guardian Vocalist Issues Update

Blind Guardian singer, Hansi Kürsch, has posted this update on the band's official website:

Hello,

here is a short update about what is going on at the moment:
Frederik did some kick ass drum arrangements for the new songs and now Oliver Holzwarth has started working on the bass arrangements. At the same time André, Marcus and I are fixing final arrangement issues but basically we have finished the biggest part of composing. We are going to start the production for the new album somewhere during the last days of August. As you can imagine everyone is highly motivated, excited and of course ready to go.

This is a a very rough schedule for the next months:

• Late August - End of November:
  
  
  
  • Recordings Mixing of the first single
    
  • Videoshooting
  
  
• December - January:
  
  
  
  • Mixing
  
  
• February/March:
  
  
  
  • Promotion
    
  • Release of the first single
  
  
• April/May:
  
  
  
  • Release of the album and Warm up shows
  
  
• June - August:
  
  
  
  • Warm up shows
    
  • South America
    
  • Japan
    
  • Release of the second single
  
  
• September - October:
  
  
  
  • Europe
  
  
• November:
  
  
  
  • Japan
    
  • Australia
  
  
• December - February:
  
  
  
  • USA, Mexico and Canada

We will keep you informed.

Hansi

Source: Blind Guardian