METAL ICONS UNITE TO PAY HOMAGE TO THE GENRE OF METAL!
HAIL! is a global touring machine composed of a tight knit brotherhood of Metal’s most highly respected contributors to the genre.
The past year of touring has cemented a bona-fide worldwide presence for HAIL! and created a wonderful story of fan appreciation, good will, fun and growth. As part of our growth we have had the great fortune of sharing the stage with an amazing array of very diversified and talented players who generously supported us - musician friends that we respect and hold dear from our own position as fans.
It is now time to lend one of our own back to history (his-story?) and we proudly announce David Ellefson's long overdue return to Megadeth. We are obviously saddened by his temporary absence from HAIL!, but an exciting opportunity to expand and include even more friends into our brotherhood has now been created and HAIL! continues to thrive.
In other big news - we are pleased to announce that HAIL! will be playing the famed Rock In Rio Festival on Saturday, May 29, 2010, in Lisbon, Portugal. "Rock In Rio is an enormous event that started in Brazil but has blossomed all over the world and we are immensely proud to be a part of it!" announced HAIL!'s Brazilian guitarist, Andreas Kisser.
We will also be announcing a series of European and Asian tour dates very shortly so please stay tuned. Thank you to everyone for your support - we love you! HAIL!
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Some HAIL! history:
Bassist David Ellefson’s roots go back to the seed. Heralded as one of the original forefathers of the entire genre, David continues to embrace his metal heritage and champions HAIL! as a special tribute to the bands who made this all happen in the first place. “When I started playing there were very few metal bands even in existence – Maiden, Priest, Sabbath, Saxon, Scorpions, UFO, Motorhead and not much more. This whole movement was created by a handful of super fans from around the globe who published their own fanzines and traded live tapes with each other. There was no internet or MTV back then – there was a united group of soldiers who lived thousands of miles apart and although we would never meet, we shared a common interest and through that single thread we created a tribal community that encompasses the entire world today.”
Andreas Kisser, the riff-roaring axeman of Brazilian heroes, Sepultura, agrees: “I grew up in Brazil so I had no direct access to the metal scenes that developed in England, Germany, New York and San Francisco. We rarely could get metal magazines or records so we depended on those influential people who circulated demos and bootlegs to expose us to so many of these early bands like Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Possessed, Overkill, Mercyful Fate and Celtic Frost.”
Vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens (ex-Judas Priest, Beyond Fear, Yngwie Malmsteen) says “so much of my love for music comes from the excitement of those early years, it was something special and it will never happen again. I want to create that excitement in somebody and HAIL! has provided a unique opportunity to do that. In addition to playing songs from our own bands, we’re paying props to those bands that paved the way for all of us. These are the songs of our life and don’t forget, we’re fans too.”
HAIL! is about freedom. “A lot of times you get pigeon-holed into a place you can’t get out of but HAIL! has given us a really cool way to just have fun and jam on cool tunes for the Metal fans”, says Ellefson. Ripper continues “HAIL! is the best of everything because we don’t have any pressure – we can go wherever we want, whenever we want and play whatever songs we want. We are free to do whatever we want and that relief is very liberating. Freedom is fun!”
For up to the minute news on HAIL! and its members, please visit the band’s websites at http://www.myspace.com/hailofficial
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