IRON SAVIOR Recap "Hellish" Trip To Hammerfest V
IRON SAVIOR vocalist/guitarist
Piet Sielck has checked in with the following update:
"Back from Hammerfest; we'd like to thank all fans and friends for
the great mood at the concert. Though the travel has been pure hell to
us, we are glad that we were able to perform in the end. Took us an hour
to get the rental car in Manchester. Leaving Manchester, we got stuck
on the M56 with a flat tire. After fixing this we got stuck again in a
heavy traffic jam without movement for over an hour. We finally arrived
at Hammerfest at 6:45 pm, rushed directly to the stage, set up our stuff
and started to play instantly. Though due to the stress upfront some
mistakes happened, we played a fair show and got received by the
audience very warm. Thank again to all of you and hope to come back to
GB soon with a longer set under better conditions."
Hammerfest V takes place in Phwelli, Wales and runs from March 14th - 17th.
Sielck spoke with BW&BK scribe Carl Begai in 2012 about the new
Iron Savior album, The Landing. Following is an excerpt from the story:
With renewed interest in Iron Savior it’s doubtful that
SAVAGE CIRCUS will be offering up new material any time soon. Launched in 2004,
the project was viewed as a superficial endeavour by many due to the
similarities to
Iron Savior and
BLIND GUARDIAN. Nobody seems to miss
Savage Circus, Sielck included.
“Right now I don’t have any specific plans for Savage Circus; it’s
on ice. The album was okay, but it also wasn’t that encouraging to be
honest. I started up
Iron Savior again and I want to do this 100%, so
we’ll see what happens with
Savage Circus. Iron Savior is what I feel
that I want to do;
Savage Circus was something that was, in a way,
artificial. It’s not really the kind of music that I want to do. I can
do it, I enjoy doing it, and it was challenging for me to write all the
songs for it, but I feel closer to the more straightforward metal sound
of Iron Savior.”
“I think one of the reasons The Landing is a bit different from the
Megatropolis album, which was more rock-like, is because I pushed Iron
Savior more to the rock side of things in order to put some distance
between
Iron Savior and
Savage Circus. That wasn’t the case this time at
all. I just wrote what I wanted. Sure, some of the new songs could have
been
Savage Circus, but I didn’t care. I had no expectations with this
album at all, I was pretty much done with the music industry and being
an artist. But, the songs and the album are here because I do in fact
want to do this, I want to be here.”
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Iron Savior released the The Landing on November 18th, 2011 in
Europe via AFM Records. The album was released in North America on
January 17th, 2012.
The Landing tracklisting:
‘Descending’
‘The Savior’
‘Starlight’
‘March Of Doom’
‘Heavy Metal Never Dies’
‘Moment In Time’
‘Hall Of The Heroes’
‘R. U. Ready’
‘Faster Than All’
‘Before The Pain’
‘No Guts No Glory’