We communicate to all the customers of the Hellion Records and fans of the Metalium, Edenbridge and Steel Warrior that the True Metal Festival, that would be carried through in next Saturday, 26/10/2002, will be postponed for the beginning of 2003. The reason of the adjournment, determined in consensus with the producers of So Paulo and the South, if gave in virtue of high of the dollar and the consequent increase of the costs. We count on the contribution of that already they had bought its ingressions to change the same ones from day 28/10/2002, monday, for the value in money of the purchase, in the places where they had been acquired. We thank the understanding of all and wait new features!

The Direction Hellion Records

Phone: (11) 5539-7415, 5083-3077

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FINALLY !! Here they are: Pics of Lars Ratz' new baby !  

Click here to see howLars built the bass !



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After 12 years and more than 450 shows Lars' MONSTER-Bass 1 suffered so much (neck cracked more than 3 times akready) that he finally decided to build a new "MONSTER II"-Bass in July 2002 at Formentera / Spain. As most of you might know meanwhile Lars is always carving his own basses... Have a look under www.formentera-guitars.com You can see the complete developement of this instrument an following pages:

BRAZIL: www.soundsofbattle.com
ITALY: www.metallus.it
SPAIN: www.mariskalrock.com

Further in August / September following print magazines will issue the bass building report with picture and Lars' words:

SPAIN: METAL HAMMER

ITALY: METAL HAMMER

GERMANY: HAMMER

BRAZIL: VALHALLA MAGAZINE

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New Live October-Dates of BRAZIL and ITALY, NOW online in the TOURDATES-section
Part II:

ITALY: (METALIUM / DOMINE)

18.10.02   TBC (ITA)
19.10.02  Prato (near Florence),Siddharta (ITA)
20.10.02  Milano, Transilvania, TBC (ITA)


BRAZIL:(METALIUM / EDENBRIDGE)

23.10.02   Porto Alegre, Bar Opinio (BR)*
24.10.02   Curitiba, Moinho So Roque (BR)*
25.10.02   Belo Horizonte, Lapa Multishow (BR)*
26.10.02   Sao Paulo, Via Funchal (BR)*

Michael with his new chrome drums getting ready for the 2nd part of the tour

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First 2 festivals for 2003 are confirmed:

1. BLIND GUARDIAN Festival, 13/14.6. 2003 at Coburg, Germany

2. METAL DAYZ Festival, August 2002 at Pratteln, Swizerland

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The band is back from the HERO-NATION OVER EUROPE-Tour which ended at the GODS OF METAL festival in Milano. On the Festival-site the band was discribed after 1 day as the "SURPRISE OF THE DAY" by the most important italian critics. Thanks again to all our fan who supported us so well on this tour. Be sure to see some updates pics from the tour in the Gallery soon.

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The winners of the Metalium-competition are Sebastian Bismuth from Paris (France) and Janne Mattson from Sandviken (Sweden) CONGATULATIONS !!! Both Metalians will be visiting the band in Hamburg at the Tornado Studios and will support with their METALIAN-voices the shouts-choir at "chapter four" amongst other winners of a competiotion to come begining of next year.

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METALIUM have been at Frankfurt Music (March) 16 fair to meet their fans signing about 80 min autographs at the HAMMER (biggest German Magazine) booth



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METALIAN PUPPETS soon available !!

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TO HEAR SOME STUFF OF THE NEW CD, JUST CLICK THE COVER ! ! !





We have the first "press voices" to HERO NATION -chapter three- for you, here they are:

Rock Hard (Jan Jaedike):

HERO-NATION chapter three is METALIUM's masterpiece !
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Heavy oder Was?! (Peter Fischer):

With Hero-Nation -chapter three- METALIUM established themself at the top of Germany's True-Metal ligue !

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Hammer (Matthias Mineur)

It seems to me that the current line-up is the best of the bands history !

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Break Out (Tom Klaner):

With Hero-Nation Metalium became the world-wide positive example for teutonic metal, finally ...

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Metal Heart (Daniel Böhm):

A truely fantastic album which simply fullfills the native definition Power Metal - applause !

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EMP President (Felix Lethmate)

This production HERO-NATION chapter three you can discribe as very compact plus a world-class Henning Basse !
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Break Out (Chris Glaub):

With HERO-NATION-chapter three we got in 2002 even a lift-up

compared to the previous albums ... respect !"

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DON AIREY (former Ozzy O., Whitesnake, Rainbow...) and KEN HENSLEY (former Uriah Heep) were responsible for the incredible Keyboard work, using their most famous sounds from the old days ( ... yes, you got it, the "Mr. Crowley's spirit" is alive on Hero-Nation :-)))

Ken got "RATZalized" in Sweden ...seems that not only Lars is a "hot" one ;-)

Each song reflects the story of a tragic or historical person or spirit (the METALIAN-soul will be re-incarnated in this bodies) out of a different country or regions for each song.

Massacre LIMITED BONUS CD in Europe: Massacre will deliver limited edition of HERO-NATION chapter three (inluding 2 cd's) for only 1 EURO more than the regular version at Feb 25th !

The second cd will contain a full multimedia-package inluding:

- 1 Live Video
- 2 Live Songs
- Hero-nation screensaver for Windows PC
- Interactive parts
- Exclusive isolated sounds of each musician out of the production, including the guest musicians sounds
- wallpapers

screensaver.exe

( click for download brandnew screen saver !!     (2.900kb) )

So you better make sure to pre-order your copy at your local dealer TODAY and spread the word ... :-)

This way the new cd will be once more another VALUE FOR MONEY just as the DVD-Package which is lower in the price than any other dvd but bigger in the surroundings (comic, live cd, bonus track)



The cover artwork was once again done by Markus Mayer (a.o. Nightwish, Grave Digger, Blind Guardian. For the first time he designed the COMPLETE booklet and this won't be just a 16 pages as with the last CD's ,no, it became a 20 pages booklet in the end ...

Markus himself sais, that this is one of his best result of all works he has done so far ...

So the final tracklist will be following (it differs from the original planned list as Lars ERASED some "countries" by accident when he did he data-backup :-(

1- Source of Souls (Intoduction)
2- Revenge of Tizona (Spain - El Cid)
3- In The Name Of Blood (Italy - Nero)
4- Rasputin (Russia)
5- Odin's Spell (Scandinavia)
6- Accused to be a Witch (France - Jeanne D'Ark)
7- Throne in the Sky (Germany - Loreley)
8- Odyssey (Greece - Odysseus)
9- Fate conquered the power (South America - Inkas)
10- Infinite love (United Kingdom - Shakespeare's Romeo&Juliet)
11- Heronation (Finale)