Feeding The Armageddon...

Zion Club - Pecs, HUN - 5/11:
Third time to play in Pecs in some three years (if you count the Rockmaraton festival that is).

Traditional delayed get-in. Being at the venue some hours before time is usually a good idea on tour. Here, not so much. Whatever. Some hours late we are let in to set everything up. It is the smallest stage on the tour so far, but things turn out alright after Martin has practiced the Judas Priest basist position on soundcheck.

When SLYTRACT are gonna do their show, we again suspect that there is something rotten in the state of the bass rig. Fortunately, this time it was only the local support band who accidently kidnapped the speaker cables after their gig. Some pizzas and beers later we do our show, and the response is very good, most people being in Saturday night mode. The audience is supportive through the whole gig (except the annoying hippie in Suffocation shirt), moshing and banging, and it turns out to be our best concert in Pecs so far.

When leaving, our friendly promotor of the evening gave us some serious warnings about Budapest, Hanneman having been robbed by hookers and all that...

Can't wait!

Day-off - Budapest, HUN - 6/11:
Just some lame pictures that summarizes the day...

Joy outside the bus before a nice shower at a gym.

Markus enjoying a nice cold beer!

Hadderajjan!

Hadderajjan!

Hadderajjan!

Rocktogon - Budapest, HUN - 7/11:
The venue turns out to be right in the middle of the city, impossible to reach with the nightliner, so we park somewhere outside the centre, and the local personel come pick us and our gear up with some vans. The place is cool, and after the longest soundcheck in history of Death Metal, we are served some great hungarian food and doors open.

It is Johan's 40th birthday today, which is celebrated with some dessert and drinks and SLYTRACT bring some bottles that looks... tasty!

Palinka power!! Thanx again SLYTRACT!!

So far on this tour the response from the audience has been awesome, but tonight we suspect will be the first fail in that area, Monday night and no people at the time doors open. Luckily it turns out that people in Budapest just like coming late to the shows; by the time we play the audience is really good, and the gig turn out awesome.

The people attending also knows how to throw a good afterparty, which is appreciated by our team and management. Around 05:00 everybody are back in the bus, where half the team has been waiting since 01:00.

Widda taking a powernap backstage...

This is Buddha, and this is Pest. Who do YOU like best?

Randal Club - Bratislava, SVK - 8/11:
Back in Slovakia then! We start the day in good old fashin by fighting with some parking personel around the parking fee, and then walk the city or whatever.

Vomitory tourpackage.

The billing this Tuesday evening actually consists of two tours; our team + VOMITORY, PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT and SOLACE OF REQUIEM. We meet them at the above mentioned bus parking; needless to say they face the same issues we earlier did, and fuck off from there.

SLYTRACT open the evening and people start dropping in. After cool gigs by VOLTURYON and SOLACE OF REQUIEM, the flow really comes with PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT on stage. After them, we enter the stage, and the gig is really good, our best one in Slovakia probably. It was great seeing back people from gigs we did in other cities in Slovakia in the past, and also good to see our good ol merch guy Jackie back!

Vomitory blasting Bratislava!

After us, VOMITORY did a great gig, unfortunately the other tour decided to be a bit professional and leave right after the gig (we, not so much...). See you in Karlstad in december!

After some hours of post show duties, we fucked off towards Czech Republic.

We are Demonical and we play Death Metal.
 

Brooklyn - Brno, CZ - 9/11:
Short drive from Bratislava and arrival in Brno round 06:00 giving us a long day checking out the city drinking Czech beer. Our first time in Brno, but having played many times in Prague and at Czech festivals we still felt a good support here. The great promotor had fixed things very well, and when entering the stage the audience was in a very good flow this Wednesday evening. The concert turned out awesome. Old friends since a decade showed up and post show duties included more beer, white russians and hours of pole dance. Czech Republic rules as always!

March Of The Hordes supported us!!

No free Vodka for Demonical??!!

Ripping it up Romanian style!

Euphoria Music Hall - Cluj Napoca, ROM - 2/11:
Mr tour manager a stroke today. After he recovered he cleaned the whole bus on his own in order to avoid further damage to his mental state. Somewhere in the mess, he found Johan Volturyun's computer too; appearantly he didn't forget it at some bar, he just brought it into the bus by mistake. Johan's chances of still having a job after the tour just increased with at least 5%.

Cluj is the second biggest city in Romania - but maybe not a big-big city. Meeting Ms Elly who promoted the gig first thing she says is "I heard a rumour you guys did the city tonight?". Ok? Could be.

The Euphoria Music Hall is not what you would imagine the ordinary romanian concert hall to be, being new since one year and quite modern, almost in central Cluj Napoca. Everything was very well fixed with great catering waiting for lunch, great dinner etc. - thanks to the awesome crew of EMH and Hatework!

Volturyon ripping it up!

The gig was great, with very strong support from the metalheads of Cluj. We didn't use the backdrop today due to practical reasons - the club then took the chance to run some ciggarette commercials from a projector through our whole gig. Shouldn't we get at least some free Camel packages in return?

Since it was a Wednesday, most people attending to the show disappeared right after we stopped playing, leaving the tour people alone to handle the post show duties. Said and done, we packed the (cleaned) bus, continued there and the rest is history... Hope to be back in Cluj soon again.

Bus/road/back to normal...

Club Fabrica - Bucharest, ROM - 3/11:
Ok, everything is back to normal. The roads of Romania has thrown everything around in the bus again, tied to their places or not. Back to harmageddon, the huge popcorn-machine filled with vodka bottles, beer cans, shoes, towels, socks and anything else you can (and cant) imagine. Tour manager gets his second stroke, and to make it even better most of the people are for some reason sick. Martin, Pablo and Sverker are sick and Johan is Johan. The only healthy in the band is the youngster Freppa.

We start the day with pissing in the children's playground, then check out the venue and set things up. It's a cool place with breakfast waiting for us. The sound guy looks like a droogie but is doing an awesome job. Actually, our very good friend Costin is part-organizing the concert this evening, although the man himself had to leave Romania to do some art exhibitions in America during this period - well done man.

The security...

Our backstage room is guarded by a dead rat, that keep the ladies off our backs (they often become a problem without decent security). The concert this evening was a great one, with a very good audience supporting us. Things worked out good on stage, although half the band being sick. Unfortunately once again most of the people fucked off after the show, but we kept the flag high, and moved down to some bar to celebrate the victory. After having pissed in the children's playground again, we left Bucharest towards Sibiu sometime around 05:00...

Various things that could be thrown into the bus toilet: shit, piss, puke, toilet paper.

Things that maybe doesn't belong there?: paper rolls? socks??

And please don't piss in the children's playground.

Bohemian Flow - Sibiu, ROM - 4/11:
Arriving in Sibiu around 09:00 in a good bohemian flow or at least mood, the last personel finally throws in the towel. We were actually supposed to be at the venue at 11:00, so we are a bit early as always, but it's not until 17 that we are let in by the owner of the place (!).

Whatever, 6-7 hours here or there is not that much of a big deal over here. And it even gives us some extra hours of sleep, or check out the city, or whatever... Having realized that the concept of local guiding is a rather good one, judgeing from the Cluj Napoca experiences, we had some kind of equal set-up here too. Unfortunately things didn't turn out equally good this time.

The place is the smallest so far on the tour. After we set up the stage, we went off to eat some traditional romanian food and therefore unfortunately missed the support band EVERGREED. SLYTRACT did a good gig again, these hungarians are doing amazingly well every day coming in their van with no sleep (?), while we relax in the nightliner. Maybe it is the 200 beers a day that does it. Great shows anyway.

Martin "backstage"!

Slytract warming up!

When we played, the place was completely packed, and the bohemian flow on. We had some sound issues in the beginning (when a girl from the audience actually comes up on stage telling Sverker "don't play anymore until the sound is fixed" - then you know for sure that things arent top notch), but after two songs of kaos the pizza solved everything, and the show could go on.

Afterwards we stayed at the venue for some Friday night duties, and especially a half naked half crazy guy doing drum kareoke did a strong impression on all of us. But around 03:00 we had to fuck off to Hungary and say bye to Romania for this time, after some four awesome days.

Hadderajat, soplinca! (?!)

Hadderajjan deluxe...

Anaal fest + Halloween party!!??

Club Naozzay - Nitra, SVK - 31/10:
Nitra then. First time here, but we have good memories from other cities in Slovakia in the past so we expect the best. Concert went well, the new bass amp from Warsaw seem to hold up, and we continued the evening in Polish tradition also in Slovakia. Positive thing about these places is that you can bring your own (usually home-made) drinks to the clubs, something of course many trve DEMONICAL fans does (and of course want us to drink of - yummie)

After a steady warm-up in Baltikum and Poland, the tour finally starts flowing for real. After Club Naozzay closed, we were shown to some other place in the city. The street ladies outside made us think we walked into a bordel, but it turned out to be a hard rock club in there, many people from the concert was there too. A rough estimation of 100% of the people here would have been thrown out of any ordinary bar in Stockholm (bartenders included). 

Pre afterparty - mixing backup vodka at the parkinglot.

Då går vi på pöbben!!

Pablo is happy...

Lack of management...

Slovakian style...

Johan Volturyon decided that it was a good idea to bring his computer to the after party; needless to say he has no computer no more (and possibly no job).

Some time after 06:00 it was time to go back to the bus. A mob of 7-8 people waited for us outside to "beat long hair guys"; luckily Pablo the Ruthless scared them away on his own. The last persons managed to get on the tour bus around 10 minutes pre last call.

Management/window/byebye...bye.

Day-off - SVK/HUN/ROM - 01/11:
Leaving Nitra, some people went to bed, some not, and the kaos continues with people waking up and joining into after party pt II. The trip is kind of bumpier and slower than expected, people and junk flying around in the bus in somewhat of a rollin harmageddon.

Needless to say, we can't find anywhere to eat properly on this route. Finally in Cluj in the evening, the bus looks worse than ever. Janne is watching a documentary on her computer about people with some kind of braindisorder, making them unlable to clean their homes. The homes filmed looks quite a lot neater than our tour bus now.

Alex in Volturyon just woke up for the busparty!

A dozen scandinavian bums goes out in Cluj trying to get some food, as most people haven't eaten anything since dinner the day before... This project fails of course, and we wind up at McDonalds. People starts passing out, others goes out to check some bars. We actually got ourselves a guide in the evening (or two actually), taking care of some sightseeing for us (thank you Laura & Bogdan!). The only sight seen though was the Hard Cafe, a bar in another district of the city (if someone cares to find it, you just drive up the big hill with the hookers, and when there are no hooker no more, then you are there).

At our entrance they started playing some songs from our last album, making us feel welcomed. We also learn from some people that "hadderajan" in romanian means "train going off track". Actually makes sense.

The best conversation of the evening sounded something like this:

Waitress: "We will close at maybe four."
Fredrik: "Maybe we wanna stay, what then? How are you gonna throw this guy out?" (Fredrik looking at Sverker) "He is like two times as big as you are."
Waitress: "We have guns for that."
(..silence..)
Fredrik: "The best thing is that you are not even joking."
Waitress: "Yes, no joking."

We decided to leave the Hard Cafe when they wanted to close.

Bar/shit/pants/good fuckin night.

Polish breakfast...

Progresja - Warsaw, POLAND - 29/10:
Saturday night behind the iron curtain! Time to rip it up motherfuckers!

At Progresja a brand new bass amp waited for us, lets see if Martin's luck changes... The Progresja turned out to be a cool venue, having hosted many Death Metal gigs like DEICIDE, VADER, HYPOCRISY etc., and they welcomed us with great food and drinks.

Raider success!

The support act this evening was very cool, and our concert turned out awesome, Warsaw people being very supportive.

"Pizza" from Volturyon in drinking mode after the show.

Great afterflow in the Progresja bar...

We noticed that merch sold more than expected on the tour so far, but what about the cvlt cassettes?? Seems like the trve old school format is not too popular behind the curtain anymore? Good for the people coming to the last shows of the tour, I suppose...

Not much more to say, we left in the night with a bus full of cash - most of it on the bus floor. Win!

The 95% president for Rude Boy Club!

Rude Boy Club - Bielsko Biala, POLAND - 30/10:

Waking up outside the club, around 09:00 in the morning, the local crew and some bikers are still ripping it up since the day before. They invite us to the place and Sverker and Martin has a steady breakfast consisting of 95% alc booze shots. "Not drink, not play". Perfect way to start a working day, especially since we always thought booze tastes best around 95%<.

Quite some sweet scene, random speedfreak-chick running around talking randomly, bikers with their breakfast and people on the street going for lunch. Mr soundtech also had his share of breakfast, probably hadn't slept for some 2 years or so, and to help him out we decided to do an early soundcheck so he could go home and sleep some hours before the concert. (needless to say, this never happened)

A waiting beer before the nice dinner.

Around lunch time the biker guys finally realizes it's time to throw in the towel, so they take their cars and go home one by one... For obvious reasons the organizer didnt fix any food, so we get some cash to do the town ourselves instead. Luckily, the restaurant totally fuck up our orders, so we get a good adventure there.

Back at the venue SLYTRACT and VOLTURYON did good shows, and amazingly the sound engineer did a good job although his eyes starts rolling back a little now and then. When it's time for us to rip Rude Boy up the audience are warm, and the gig turned out very good, with good support from the people.

After the show, we are of course not allowed to drink anything but vodka. Everything else is "out", poor us...
 

It feels a bit lame having to leave Poland, but hopefully we will be back in a not too distant future.

Not drink, not play. Remember that kids!

The Rude Boy himself...

Unleashed In The East...

Propaganda Club - Vilnius, LITHUANIA - 27/10 2011:
Roads are getting bumpier, but clubs remain solid. Propaganda turns out to be some kind of old culture house from the Soviet era, perfect place to do our cultural deeds this Thursday. The place is rather big, with a very cool crew fixing the loadin and stage setup for us.

Fredriks double kick pedal broke down already after the soundcheck in Riga. Luckily he could borrow VOLTURYON drummers' pedal for the gig, but today he got to the biggest music store in Vilnius to get a new one. They had two pedals for sale; one home-made Soviet-style pedal, and one 200e Pearl-pedal. Life is good.

After a long soundcheck, we were driven to a restaurant for some "very serious food", and dozens of locally brewed beer brands to choose from. Back at the club the doors were already open. PARALYTIC from Vilnius did a good show opening the evening, and VOLTURYON had a great show too. After some interviews and more local beer, it was time for us to do our shit. (if you are from Vilnius and want to hear what Sverker sounds like dubbed to Lithuanian, you tune in FM104 on Monday)

Pro busdriver and drummer at Pöbben!

"Very serious food"

The show at Propaganda was awesome, the 130-140 ppl attending this Thursday really showed their support, with people banging and diving through the whole gig. Unfortunately Martin's bas rig kind of broke down (or at least started sounding less like an earthquake and more like a SIX FEET UNDER-guitar rig) but the show went on and we had to do many extra songs before the audience let us go off stage.

After the gig, we had to leave early to get Gdynia in time, so the good life continued on the bus. Thanks to the cool people in Vilnius for a cool evening, hope to get back there soon!

Rockz - Gdynia, POLAND - 28/10:
Long drive to Gdynia, bumpy roads and lithuanian headache... Finally there, had to set things early, for an early concert. Rockz is a smaller club than the previous ones on this tour, located in the city. SLYTRACT joined the tour from this gig, and they showed up already in "Tour Mode", so to speak...

Backstage area...

The backstage bar...

After some steady dinner, local band MANSLAUGHTER opened the gig early, followed by SLYTRACT. Also the cops showed up earlier than expected this evening, spending round half an hour on giving us a random 20 euro ticket. Snubbe.

The gig started well with a good support from the audience. Unfortunately Martin's bad flow continues, this time, the whole bass rig collapsed into the floor in the middle of the concert. After a short break fixing some kind of temporary solution, we continued playing, but could unfortunately not do the full set due to the curfew set by the venue. Next time, Gdynia!

Towards Warsaw!

Eastern Death Infernal tour is on...

Intro: 
First off... We didn't update the blog during the summer. We intended to do an update after the Summerbreeze weekend, but the member responsible to handle it decided to not give a shit. So no blog for the summer, but here we go with some pictures at least...

Big thanks to all the people visited our gig at Summerbreeze, it was an awesome concert (and weekend in general)... And all supporters that bought our stuff there, our label manager shit his pant of excitement when he got to know how many people that bought our shirts. Cheers!

Towards Riga... 25/10 2001:

The tour started well. Our bus arrived in Avesta in the morning, and the VOLTURYON guys came to hop on. Needless to say, they forgot to bring half of their equipment, and have to drive faster than a paycheck disappears back to Borlänge to get the rest of the stuff. Already a couple of hrs late, the bus went back to Stockholm, and the ferry terminal.

Traditional ferry trip then. We better not write anything about it at all, it is probably best for everyone. At least the material destruction wasn't too bad, only a couple of lost mobiles, some video cam and a couple of emptied bank accounts. Slow starters.

...that simply means Hadderajjan!!

White Russian vs Long Island Icetea

Melna Piektdiena - Riga, LATVIA - 26/10 2011:
You are gonna be burned out sooner or later anyway, so you may just as well be so from day one. A tour package stepping off the ferry looking like the tour has already been on for 2 months is never a bad start. We got to Riga rather early, and the venue was only a couple of km from the ferry terminal, leading us to an early load-in. The venue had some 3-4 people doing the loadin for us fast and smooth, giving us plenty of time to set things up for the first concert.

Stage ready for boarding!

Only two bands played this show (Demonical & Volturyon) and the show was really cool, with a strong support from the Riga people. The Melna Piektdiena turned out to be a very cool place for some 600 people with great food and good personel, so the tour got a good start in that field!

Borlänge Deathmetal!

We tried to introduce the Latvians to "lill-lördag", but having to leave Riga after show, the work continued in the bus with some bottles handed over by the MP crew. Looking forward to get back!

Eastern Death Infernal Tour 2011

The dates for the "Eastern Death Infernal tour 2011" have been revealed. We are thrilled to finally tour those territories and spread our Swedish Death Metal Darkness for fans & followers throughout Eastern Europe.

Demonical + Volturyon + Slytract
26.10 2011 LAT - Riga - Melna Piektdiena *
27.10 2011 LIT - Vilnius - Propaganda Club *
28.10 2011 POL - Gdynia - Rockz
29.10 2011 POL - Warsaw - Progresja
30.10 2011 POL - Bielsko Biala - Rude Boy Club
31.10 2011 SK - Nitra - Club Naozzay
02.11 2011 ROM - Cluj-Napoca - Euphoria Music Hall
03.11 2011 ROM - Bucharest - Club Fabrica
04.11 2011 ROM - Sibiu - Bohemian Flow
05.11 2011 HUN - Pecs - Zion Club
07.11 2011 HUN - Budapest - Rocktogon
08.11 2011 SK - Bratislava - Randal Club
09.11 2011 CZE - Brno - Brooklyn
10.11 2011 GER - Leipzig - Metal Schuppen
11.11 2011 GER - Berlin - Hof 23 (Stromgitarrenfest)
12.11 2011 GER - Emden - Alte Post (Ear Terror Festival)
13.11 2011 DEN - Copenhagen - The Rock
* without Slytract

Drummer Ronnie Bergerståhl has decided to sit out the upcoming tour due to other commitments. But rest assured, we have tapped Fredrik Widigs (Witchery live-drummer) to fill in behind the kit and with the help of this young, talented and dedicated skinsman we are ready to deliver our Swedish Death Metal Darkness with infernal precision and might. The black inferno awaits !!

Statement from Sverker Widgren: 

“We all have great memories from epic battles in the east so we decided it’s about time to do a full crusade behind the curtain, hook up with old friends as well as rip up new battlefields. We are looking forward to unite with VOLTURYON and SLYTRACT for three weeks of crushing death metal domination, see you people down there. Amen!”