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Finnish battle metal legends Turisas have released a making of video for their hugely successful cover of the Boney M classic 'Rasputin' which can be viewed below.
As previously reported Turisas have announced that the band have been forced to hire a stand
in accordion player for the bands upcoming European and US Tours
following current accordion player Lisko breaking contact with the
band. Netta Skog has been announced as the stand in to replace Lisko on
all upcoming dates, although the band have said they will not name a
permanent accordion player at this time.
Commented the band "We hereby announce that we have been forced to hire
a step-in accordion player to replace Lisko on all announced upcoming
tourdates. We have an important show this Friday at Finnish Metal Expo
(FIN) and two lengthy tours in UK/Europe and USA just around the corner
- but no accordion player.
"The thing is, we played a cool show in Groningen, Netherlands on 11th
January and everything was cool. Then the next day, before the flight,
some of us decided to check out Amsterdam really quickly, by train.
Lisko had behaved in a bit hazy way during the trip, but it was nothing
that weird (considering he is Lisko); however, he never showed up back
at the airport. We got an interesting phone call, where he told that
due to "special" reasons he wouldn't fly in the same plane with us.
This alone was pissing us off a bit, but we decided he could do it on
his own expense. However, after returning to Finland, despite our
attempts, there has been practically no communication with the guy,
apart from a couple of interesting SMS's (so apparently he's alive): no
rehearsals, nothing. We don't even know if he's back in Finland at the
moment.
"This puts us in a difficult situation: with a lot of pre-arrangements
like flights and visas to be done, and with all our upcoming
responsibilities we have no other option than to release Lisko from his
duties for an undetermined time period, starting from today. Luckily
for us, we already managed to get a replacement for him on such a short
warning time: the step-in accordionist for Spring 2008 will be Netta
Skog, who also helped us out with the latest European tour in
October-November. No permanent accordion player will be added to the
current line-up at this point. TURISAS also wants to point out that NO
shows will be affected by the small change in the line-up."
Turisas' full tour schedule shapes up as follows:
15.02.2008 Finnish Metal Expo, Helsinki (FIN)
TURISAS UK & EUROPEAN TOUR 2008
Special guest: Norther (FIN)
Support on UK-leg: Alestrom (SCO)
Mar. 01 - Northampton, UK @ Soundhouse
Mar. 02 - Sheffield, UK @ Corporation
Mar. 03 - Aberdeen, UK @ Moshulu
Mar. 04 - Edinburgh, UK @ Studio 24
Mar. 05 - Liverpool, UK @ Academy 2
Mar. 06 - Norwich, UK @ Waterfront
Mar. 07 - Peterborough, UK @ Park
Mar. 08 - Leeds, UK @ Cockpit
Mar. 10 - Exeter, UK @ Cavern
Mar. 11 - Cardiff Clwb, UK @ Ifor Bach
Mar. 12 - Southampton, UK @ The Brook
Mar. 13 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
Mar. 14 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
Mar. 15 - Haarlem, Netherlands @ Patronaat
Mar. 16 - Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Doornroosje
Mar. 18 - Hamburg, Germany @ Marx
Mar. 19 - Karlsruhe, Germany @ Substage
Mar. 20 - Munich, Germany @ Metropolis
Mar. 21 - Winterthur, Switzerland @ Salzhaus
Mar. 22 - Bochum, Germany @ Matrix
Mar. 23 - Berlin, Germany @ Kato
Mar. 25 - Vienna, Austria @ Planet Music
Mar. 26 - Bratislava, Slovakia @ Randal
Mar. 27 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Rock Café
Mar. 28 - Lichtenfels, Germany @ Ragnarök Festival
Mar. 29 - Osnabrueck, Germany @ Tomahawk Festival
Mar. 31 - Malmö, Sweden @ KB
Apr. 01 - Gothenburg, Germany @ Musikens Hus
Apr. 02 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ The Rock*
Apr. 03 - Oslo, Norway @ John Dee*
Apr. 04 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Klubben*
Apr. 12 - Moscow, Russia @ Tochka *
Apr. 13 - St Petersburg, Russia @ Roks *
*) = Without Norther
PAGANFEST USA 2008 - North American Tour
With Ensiferum, Tyr and Eluveitie
4/25 - Toronto (CAN), ON @ Opera House
4/26 - Montreal (CAN), QC @ Medley
4/27 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
4/28 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
4/29 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
4/30 - Detroit,, MI @ Harpo's
5/01 - Chicago, IL @ The Pearl Room (Chicago Power Fest)
5/02 - St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
5/03 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
5/05 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
5/06 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
5/07 - Sacramento, CA @ The Boardwalk
5/08 - Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
5/09 - San Francisco, CA @ Fat City
5/10 - Long Beach, CA @ The Vault
5/11 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Cell Block
5/12 - El Paso, TX @ Chics
5/13 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
5/14 - Tulsa, OK @ Crush Lounge
5/15 - Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater
5/16 - San Antonio, TX @ The White Rabbit
5/17 - Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
5/19 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
5/20 - Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11
5/21 - Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
Komodo Rock's Krissy Elliott recently spoke with Turisas front man Mathias 'Warlord' Nygard. You can read the entire interview here.
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