 Photo by Mike Dann The first rounds of results are in! Perth's premier electro power pop sensation Voyager have won the Aussievision's Australia Decides 2022 public poll in their bid for Eurovision for the song "Dreamer!" The last two polls winners, Kate Miller-Heidke and Montaigne, went on to win 'Australia Decides!' The results can be seen HERE. In addition, Voyager was also ranked #1 by the official Aussievision podcast jury! The full episode and team review can be heard at THIS LOCATION. During the Opening Night Show on Friday, February 25, a jury of artists and industry experts will vote for their favourite performance. The Australian public are eligible to vote for their favourite performances via SMS from February 25 at 6:00 A.M. EST // 12:00 P.M. CET // 10:00 P.M. AEDT until February 26 at approximately 5:45 A.M. EST // 11:45 A.M. CET // 9:45 P.M. AEDT. The public vote makes up half of the overall vote. The artist and song that receives the most points overall will go on to represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in May. OPENING NIGHT SHOW + Jury Vote: Friday, February 25 @ 7.30 P.M. AEST (Not televised – Tickets available) (Jury Preview Show) Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre MATINEE SHOW: Saturday, February 26 @ 1.00 P.M. AEST (Not televised – Tickets available) Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre LIVE TV FINAL + Public Vote + Winner Announcement: Saturday, February 26 @ 7:30 P.M. AEST (Live exclusive broadcast on SBS – Tickets available) Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Eurovision – Australia Decides 2022 airs live and exclusively on SBS and SBS On Demand on Saturday, February 26. Broadcast times across Australia:
Voyager has also recently premiered the official music video for "Dreamer," which can be seen Here. "Dreamer" can be streamed HERE. For several years, Voyager has been petitioning to be selected as one of Australia's musical representatives in Eurovision - Australia Decides. After being shortlisted in the previous year's competition, the band has finally been tapped to represent Western Australia, making it the first time that the region has hope of winning the Eurovision title! The band will soon reveal the song that has been selected in the contest! Earlier this week, Voyager also announced their very own signature beer along with a very special contest! ‘𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙠𝙮' is a juicy IPA brewed by Bright Tank Brewery and will go on sale on February 23 at THIS LOCATION! The band and brewery have also partnered with Lumber Punk Axe Throwing for a very special contest. With every purchase of ‘𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙠𝙮,' fans can grab a chance to join the band for an axe-throwing session courtesy of Lumber Punks Axe Throwing, and then on to Bright Tank to drink beer and do a meet and greet with all members of Voyager! More info can be found HERE.
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 Lillasyster is once more in the competition to represent Sweden in Eurovision. In 2021 Lillasyster entered the Swedish take outs for Eurovision and since then their contribution "Pretender" has risen on the charts, peaking on the "Swedish Top 50" chart for over a month and soon streamed Platinum in Sweden. The bands contribution this year is the new "Till Our Days Are Over" and is written by Palle Hammarlund and Jimmy Jansson which have had several previous successes in the competition. "The song has a higher tempo than Pretender and is more straight on, and more Arena" says singer Martin Westerstrand.  Photo by Mike Dann Perth's premier electro power prog sensation Voyager have the distinct honour of taking part in the prestigious song contest, Eurovision - Australia Decides! A very special announcement from the band can be found HERE. For several years, Voyager has been petitioning to be selected as one of Australia's musical representatives in Eurovision - Australia Decides. After being shortlisted in the previous year's competition, the band has finally been tapped to represent Western Australia, making it the first time that the region has hope of winning the Eurovision title! The band will soon reveal the song that has been selected in the contest! Voyager vocalist and keytarist Danny Estrin comments: "Eurovision is the greatest show on earth, so getting a chance to represent Western Australia and to showcase our keytar driven brand of heavy music is one of the most exciting and surreal opportunities to ever come our way!! So thank you Australia for giving us the opportunity to take you on a Voyage with us in what has been a lifelong dream." In 2020, Voyager's music video for "Runaway" was exclusively premiered via 'Eurovision - Australia Decides!' Following an application via the Song Portal, the band finally received recognition for submitting a track and were paid tribute on the live television broadcast that aired on Saturday, February 8 on the Gold Coast. The can be seen at THIS LOCATION. The song was taken from Voyager's 2019 release 'Colours in the Sun,' which received a wealth of international accolades. Recently, the single "Brightstar" was the first place winner in the Rock / Alternative category of the USA songwriting contest! Last year, 'Colours in the Sun' was the winner of The Independent Music Award in the Rock/Hard Rock Album category. The record was released in November of 2019 and landed a coveted #1 placement on the Australian Independent Albums chart! 'Colours in the Sun' also debuted at #7 on Independent Label Albums as well as #27 on Official iTunes Australia. Line-up
 Finland are looking to repeat history as they eye up their second Eurovision Song Contest victory. Their entrant this year is Blind Channel, a band that have been sprinting past milestones and crushing their rival’s records with their enormous anthemic entry ‘Dark Side’. ‘Dark Side’ has become a #1 smash hit on the Finnish singles chart and has remained in the top 10 airplay charts for over 10 weeks, with the song now reaching platinum. Is metal going to bring Finland the gold yet again? Listen to the song here and watch the official lyric video here. It was written as a reaction to the global pandemic that forced the music industry to a grinding halt, synonymously crushing all the band’s 2020 touring plans. Frustration, isolation and depression gave birth to an anthem for the people, and the Eurovision Song Contest has proved to be the perfect vessel to spread their message. Niko Vilheim, one of the band's two vocalists shares his thoughts:- “What we really needed at that low point was an anthem for ourselves, a song that gives the finger to life itself. That’s how ‘Dark Side’ came into life. It really was an instant anthem. ’Dark Side’ is a song that’s meant to be performed together with an audience, as a kind of communal experience. Now we needed to find that audience, and we knew that there were lots of people out there who felt exactly like we did.”  After entering the track into the UMK (Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu = New Music Competition), the Finnish qualifying round for the Eurovision Song Contest itself, the sextet came away annihilating all their fellow competitors by achieving the highest score in the competition’s history and becoming the first UMK entry to hit the top of the charts. Now with their sights firmly set on the finish line, the band will be the 14th act to perform at the second semi-final on May 20th, and if successful on the night, will perform again at the finals on May 22nd. The competition finale will also feature performances from past winners of the competition, including Finland’s previous winning act and hard rock heroes Lordi who dominated the 2006 event with ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’. Finland has long been known for its love of heavy music, with international superstar acts such as Hanoi Rocks, HIM, Nightwish, Children of Bodum, Apocalyptica and The Rasmus all enjoying major global success. Now the world will be adding Blind Channel to that list. Blind Channel were formed in 2013 in the city of Oulu, way up in the North of Finland, by a group of five talented, determined and ambitious friends – vocalists Joel Hokka and Niko Vilhelm, drummer Tommi Lalli, guitarist Joonas Porko and bass player Olli Matela. This fivesome has stuck together to this day, in the spirit of the 2018 sophomore album Blood Brothers, each of them collectively responsible for the songwriting. Last year saw the addition of a new member, as long time friend Alex Mattson joined to play keyboard, samples and percussion and completes the current line up. Following the release of their 2020 album Violent Pop, ‘Dark Side’ is the band’s first taste of music from an upcoming album due for release early next year, working with renowned UK producer Dan Lancaster (Blink 182, Bring Me The Horizon, Don Broco). CONNECT WITH BLIND CHANNEL WEBSITE / SPOTIFY / YOUTUBE / FACEBOOK / INSTAGRAM / TWITTER  AWS have been invited to Wacken Open Air - one of the biggest European metal festivals - this summer! Wacken team ensured its support to AWS before as well as Germany's biggest metal festival posted a video message on their social media platforms according Eurovision Song Contest 2018. ► AWS - Wacken video message on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WackenOpenAir.official/videos/2003333269690258/ ►AWS - Wacken video message on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-tV6uwZXM ► AWS - Wacken video message on Twitter: twitter.com/Wacken/status/99423073483879628 AWS - a hard working, underground modern metal band did it again: after they won the local Eurovision Song Contest - with the support of the whole local scene from the major rock bands till’ the underground death metal fellows - they qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018. Sadly they did not win, nonetheless they delivered a powerful performance. ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Semi-Final, Lisbon) bit.ly/2wAQSvq ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (english and acoustic versions): bit.ly/2Ibhfxd ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (contest song and karaoke version) bit.ly/2Ka410j www.facebook.com/awszenekar www.facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary www.facebook.com/EurovisionSongContest www.facebook.com/pg/WackenOpenAir.official  AWS qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018 - vote for metal on saturday! AWS - a hard working, underground modern metal band did it again: after they won the local Eurovision Song Contest - with the support of the whole local scene from the major rock bands till’ the underground death metal fellows - they qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018. We would like to thank for all of your support so far! Every single post, encouraging word brought the boys one step closer to the success. A young, talented modern metal band coming from the depth of underground scene blasted the Eurovision stage yesterday and that is what we call magic. The magic of metal unity. Please help them with a share to make it happen! #voteformetal #voteforaws #metal #unity #esc2018 #eurovision So here’s the time to join our forces again! How to vote in the Grand Final? source: eurovision.tv/vote If you are in one of the 43 participating countries you can vote in the contest. After all songs have been performed, you can vote for your favourites for ±15 minutes. You can vote by telephone and SMS through the numbers shown on your screen, and via the official app. Rates and legal terms will be shown on screen. You can vote up to 20 times, but you cannot vote for the country you are voting from. Televotes make up 50% of the result, the other 50% are being determined by a professional jury in each participating country. The official Eurovision Song Contest app is your ultimate second screen tool during the live shows, available for your iOS, Android and Windows device. You'll get live information about the participants, shortlist your favourites and vote. After voting you get a special video message from your favourite contestant. The app also features the latest news, videos and backstage photo galleries, selfie filters and easy access to the songs.  AWS is unique not just because they are representing metal music and stage dives at ESC - also not afraid to shock the crowd - but presenting theirs song in Hungarian. All theirs behaviour is true to themselfs: pure feelings and acts from a nearly DIY band and a barefooted frontman. Please support the boys, support metal! ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Semi-Final, Lisbon) - bit.ly/2wAQSvq ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (english and acoustic versions) - bit.ly/2Ibhfxd ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (contest song and karaoke version) - bit.ly/2Ka410j www.facebook.com/awszenekar www.facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary www.facebook.com/EurovisionSongContest  For the first time Hungary has chosen a metal song to be the winners of "A Dal" (The Song), Hungary's national selection television show for the Eurovision Song Contest. The post-hardcore / modern metal band, AWS are going to represent their country with their emotional song “Viszlát nyár” (Eng.: Goodbye, Summer) performed in their native language in Lisbon this May. The band was founded in 2006 by Bence Brucker, Dániel Kökényes, Örs Siklósi, and Áron Veress in high school, who were later joined by current bass guitarist Soma Schiszler. Combining different elements of nu-metal, metalcore, post-hardcore and psychedelic rock, the band managed to produce 3 full-length albums, 3 singles and 7 video clips in the 12 years of their career. Following a decade of successful club shows and even major festival appearances from all over Hungary to Austria, Slovenia, Romania and the United Kingdom, the band was announced as one of the participants of A Dal in 2017. Winning live performance of “Viszlát nyár” in A Dal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWC7XOBZIE The well deserved victory came as a big surprise, although the band united the Hungarian metal scene like no band before. Musicians from all over the country encouraged their fans to cast their votes for AWS from popular rock musicians of bands like Tankcsapda, and Road, to members of death metal band Kill With Hate. Also, fellow competitor metal band Leander Kills asked their fans too to support AWS with their votes. A well-known name among lovers of heavy music in the underground metal scene, AWS was chosen from 8 entries who made it through to the final rounds of the show. These acts were judged by a four-member jury consisting of well-known figures of the Hungarian music and art scene. Unexpectedly, AWS sneaked into the super-final round in the company of 3 pop music acts to steal the show: in this final stage, people from all over the world were able to vote their favourite ones. This is what ultimately earned the band their triumph: AWS knocked pop music out of their way to claim the first place with the help of metal fans.  The dynamic winning song, featuring both clean and screamed vocals, was inspired by a family tragedy. Frontman Örs Siklósi comments: "<Viszlát nyár> was put together in a summer camp in the company of a few bottles of wine.The lyrics are originally about my father, who passed away recently. We tried to make the video a little bit different. We didn't want it to be only about my story, so other band members can relate to it as well. We've emptied all our family video archives to demonstrate the passing of time and to stress how important it is to look after our beloved ones, because nobody's got too much time here to mess around." “Viszlát nyár” Official Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQgurXKh42U The band also stated that they plan to perform the song unchanged with additional visual elements and the same intensity as they do in front of their fans. The world hasn’t seen a metal band winning the Eurovision Song Contest since Finland’s Lordi shocked the audience with their horror metal in 2006. 12 years passed, and now the chance to make the winds of change blow is here again. But if metalheads of the continent can unite once again to line up behind this band in 2018, if together we can make this competition not to be merely about pop music, that remains to be seen. AWS Facebook: facebook.com/awszenekar/ AWS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/AWSofficial AWS Instagram: www.instagram.com/awsofficial/ EDGE Records Facebook: facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary/  His giant project can't be pigeonholed: mystic, magic, rock and bombast meet with lush melodies and create spectacular, epic fireworks. The fans of the ESC have the chance to nominate one of the most internationally successful German musicians on February 25th for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm (German National TV ARD, 8.15pm CET, live from Cologne). With Avantasia, the most exciting rock opera phenomenon of our times, characteristic mastermind Tobias Sammet creates fantastic parallel worlds with every new release. Avantasia will compete with their current single 'Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose'. Watch the fitting lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjRq72ZBZxs Get 'Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose' digitally here: http://nblast.de/AvantasiaDownloads After he got the invitation to take part, Tobias Sammet thought about it for a while: "It seemed like a quite unusual idea to compete with anyone in art, to play music against someone. It's still weird anyhow, to play music against each other like in the Olympic Games. Anyway, who am I to get in the way of a great promotional opportunity?! Three minutes to show millions that we exist?" Tobias Sammet also can't complain about sparse international fame until now: He’s already played in more than forty countries all over the world, his last album, »The Mystery Of Time«, hit #2 in the German charts. The most famous musicians come in the studio for his projects: Alice Cooper, members of Kiss, Mr. Big, Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker from The Scorpions or, for his current project (Ghostlights, out: January 29th via Nuclear Blast), Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, Nightwish icon Marco Hietala, Ronnie Atkins from Pretty Maids, ex-Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske, Bruce Kulick (former Kiss and Meat Loaf) and Within Temptation power woman Sharon Den Adel. The upcoming Ghostlights world tour will take his project to England, Russia, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Brazil, Austria, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, USA, Canada, Mexico, Hungary, Slovakia, France, Japan and from March 4th also in ten German cities. Don't miss Avantasia at The Forum in London on March 8th. Tickets available here: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/avantasia-ghostlights-world-tour-london-08-03-2016/event/1F004EEE9AFB7B1B?new_edp=1 But before that, Cologne is calling for the Eurovision Song Conest preliminary round on February 25th. Pre-order album Ghostlights out January 29th now: http://www.nuclearblaststore.co.uk/shop/nuclearblast/products.php?cat=4543 Click here for a teaser with more song snippets of 'Ghostlights': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqqlJ7lkJM www.avantasia.net www.tobiassammet.com www.facebook.com/avantasia www.nuclearblast.de/avantasia |
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