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Norwegian Black Metal royalty Satyricon have been added to the bill of next year’s Bloodstock festival. (more…)

The brilliant new video for “Battle Metal 2008” has been launched now. It is high time to finally have an official video-clip for this battle hymn which is also a tribute to the band’s dedicated fans (without whom there is obviously no such thing as a crowd favourite). Watch Turisas – Battle Metal 2008 here

TURISAS maniacs take heed! Grab a pint of blood, black paint or shoe polish, put on something furry and get your warpaint in shape as a massive touring campaign by Finnish folk metal masters TURISAS has just kicked off in the UK! It will take your beloved, brave warriors first through UK/Ireland in September/October, then the US and Canada in November/December until the final leg of the tour hits mainland Europe in early 2009. The band will be direct support for Dragonforce, so get ready for one hell of a party!

Vocalist Warlord Nygard states: “Fresh from the first show in Oxford, we’re sitting here in backstage drinking the first beers! The gig was awesome, and we’re really glad to be on tour once again.

The summer was very busy – after having got used to spending our summers at festivals around Europe for years, we faced an exciting change as this summer with most of the festival shows taking place in our home country Finland. The whole summer was caught on film and the result is our new DVD: the festival performances, the behind the scenes material, and also some interviews and other summer activities around Finland.

We also made a re-recording of the track “Battle Metal” and did a video clip to it based on material our fans had sent us. If you want, you can keep on sending us links to what ever material you come up with and we’ll put them up on our site. Or if you want to send us something by snail mail, you can find the postal address on our site.

The audio version of “Battle Metal 2008” will only be available on the limited edition of TURISAS first ever DVD release “A Finnish Summer With Turisas”, which will be released in the UK on 3rd November

Details on the specific formats will be disclosed soon as well as a stunning DVD trailer!

DRAGONFORCE + TURISAS UK / IE Tour

Sep 26 2008, Academy, Manchester

Sep 27 2008, Academy, Birmingham

Sep 28 2008, Guildhall, Southampton

Sep 30 2008, Cardiff University, Cardiff

Oct 1 2008, Rock City, Nottingham

Oct 3 2008, Astoria, London

Oct 4 2008, Astoria, London

Oct 5 2008, UEA, Norwich

Oct 7 2008, Leeds University, Leeds

Oct 8 2008, Academy, Newcastle

Oct 10 2008, Academy, Glasgow

Oct 11 2008, Mandela Hall, Belfast

Oct 12 2008, Ambassador Theatre, Dublin

Oct 13 2008, Savoy, Cork

TURISAS headlining show

Oct 31 2008, (NL) Den Bosch @ W2