Thank you, all you dear Piteåbor that showed up at Studio Acusticum. We had a most pleasant evening and would love to come back. A beautiful venue, a warm atmosphere (but really cold outdoors, brrrrr!) and a very much welcoming audience.
It´s quite easy to have a great evening with those circumstances.
We really do understand why the festival is called "... dansar & ler".
By the way. Picked up new and hand crafted posters today. They´re made by the local artist (he really deserves that title) Jonatan Sahlin. Each one unique, they come in a limited edition of 100 copies. Have a look here.
Brilliant!
New album available for pre-order
Jan 25.2012
Yeaah, finally the upcoming album Long Live Lounge is available for pre-order. You can get your copy right here!
The album, Long Live Lounge, was recorded in march last year. This was the last show with the old line up and the evening was shared with parts of the Gothenburg Symphonics. Most of the tracks are embedded in haunting symphonical arrangements.
Track list:
1. Seek & Destroy 2. The evil that men do 3. War Pigs 4. Heaven can wait 5. Sin City 6. Walk 7. Youth gone wild 8. School´s out 9. Run to the Hills 10. Skeletons of Society 11. 10 000 Lovers (in one) 12. I just want you 13. We´re not gonna take it
Hail to the GSO!
Piteå calling!
Jan 11.2012
The new year has started off real nice in the Hellsongs camp. We´re going to hit Piteå and the fabulous venue Studio Acusticum on the 4th of February. We´re very exited about going way up north and hope for lots of snow and that sweet northern accent (there´s not really any snow guarantee in Göteborg...).
If you want to check out Acusticum on FB, you find them here.
Bielefeld!
Dec 06.2011
And another german show added to the march road trip. We´ll play at Falkendom on the 31st of march. Hört sich ganz gut an huh? Falkendooooom!
More dates, Germany & Austria!
Nov 29.2011
So, now a second and a third leg of the Longe Live Lounge tour is planned. We´re very happy to see that this means we´ll revisit some old friends and also that it will take us to new places.
We feel like kids during Christmas Day, just getting presents all the time. And the best part, december hasn´t arrived, which means this isn´t over yet! More hopefully very nice things will be presented soon. Until then, have a look at the dates below.
HELLSONGS
“Long Live Lounge” Tour 2012
15.02.12 Osnabrück Glanz & Gloria - DE
16.02.12 Bern ISC - CH
17.02.12 Olten Coq D Or - CH
18.02.12 Zurich El Lokal - CH
19.02.12 Chur Werkstatt - CH
21.02.12 Stuttgart Röhre - DE
22.02.12 Karlsruhe Tollhaus - DE
23.02.12 Nürnberg Hirsch - DE
24.02.12 Marburg KFZ - DE
25.02.12 Aalborg Studenterhuset - DK
21.03.12 Hamburg Grünspan - DE
22.03.12 Bremen Tower - DE
23.03.12 Leipzig Moritzbastei - DE
24.03.12 Kassel Schlachthof - DE
25.03.12 Berlin Magnet - DE
27.03.12 Wiesbaden Schlachthof - DE
28.03.12 Saarburg Casino - DE
29.03.12 Köln Gebäude 9 - DE
30.03.12 Bochum Zeche - DE
17.04.12 Regensburg Alte Mälzerei - DE
18.04.12 Graz Postgarage - AT
19.04.12 Wien Haus der Musik - AT
20.04.12 Aflenz Sublime - AT
21.04.12 Linz Posthof - AT
22.04.12 Konstanz Kulturladen - DE
23.04.12 München Ampere - DE
Long live lounge tour, first tour dates!
Nov 25.2011
So, the first leg of next years tour is now written in stone (have a look at LIVE). We´re thrilled to once again meet you all out on the roads and this time we visit Germany, Switzerland and Denmark.
If you live anywhere else, don´t hang down your head and cry, more dates and countries will follow. A lot of interesting things are in that legendary pipeline right now. Looks like 2012 will be a very fun year indeed!
/Hellbender
Long live lounge!
Nov 21.2011
Those of you who have followed us closely, knows that 2010 was a turbulent year, with cancelled shows and extremely unexpected health issues. In the end of that year we decided that the line up had done it´s duty, it was time for a long period of anything else but Hellsongs. Now the time is here to shout Tally-Ho once again!
The last show with the old line up (at Stenhammarsalen together with parts of the Gothenburg Symphonics) was recorded and will be released in february 2012.
With the Long live lounge-album in our back, new and old songs on our tounges, Hellsongs will once again tour Europe. Vocal duties are now taken care of by mighty My Engström-Renman. Some of you might have heard her before, she sang on the tribute track that I recorded in may this year (Stand up & Shout) and piano is managed by David Bäck, one of the most well renowned musicians in Göteborg. What can I say but the fact that we´re looking forward to meet you all again on tour next year. More info will follow soon!
/Hellbender
New (Old) Video!
Oct 30.2011
Hi,
Unfortunate events made us unable to release this video after it was made back in 2008. But after a few years we can finally present it to the world. Special thanks to the film maker Anders Rune for making it public!
Tribute to Ronnie James Dio!
May 14.2011
On this day, one year ago, a legend sadly passed away. I got the news about this while we were recording what would become Minor Misdemeanors. One of the songs that we wrestled with in the studio was the classic Dio track, Stand up and shout.
We didn´t nail it that time and left it unfinished. Why? Don´t know really but that´s how working in the studio often works, some things go very smoothly, some tracks need more work to be perfected and some - well, you just don´t hit them properly.
Still, I always felt that it was a good one and just a while ago I felt a need to do something about it. So, I grabbed some mics, called my friend My Engström Renman up and recorded it. Mixing & postproduction was made by dear Petter Ericsson in Studio Epidemin. Here it is, please enjoy.
Ronnie James Dio - this one is for you!
/Hellbender
Show with the Gothenburg Symphonics
Feb 21.2011
Friends and lovers of Lounge.
We´ve been touring a lot the past years, we´ve released four recordings and we´ve been travelling a lot all over the globe.
This has meant a lot of great fun, meeting so many nice people out there, it´s really been a most fortunate position - thank you all!
It´s been loads of hard work behind it and a lot of extremely funny situations, which would never had happened without this band of ours. We´ve been doing this for a long time now and the time has come for us to do some other things.
We´re going to do one more show in our beloved hometown Göteborg, on the 11th of March, together with parts of the Gothenburg Symphonics. It´s going to be bombastic as Hell!
We will play two sets with songs from all records, together with a lot of friends on stage. So, what we´re trying to say is that this is going to be the last show for the three of us. We will continue playing music but in other ways. Hellsongs might show up again in the future, you never know, but if that happens it will most likely take a while and another shape.
Love and Lounge!
/Hellsongs
