Finnish gothic metal band
TO/DIE/FOR will play the
Big Bang Festival in Lebanon on August 24. According to a posting on the group's MySpace page, they will be joined at the event by
THE STROKES and
MOONSPELL, among other acts. A
TO/DIE/FOR signing session will also take place at the Virgin Megastore in Beirut.
TO/DIE/FOR recently spent time at the
Sonic Image Studios in Finland recording demos for its next album.
According to the group, the upcoming CD will include a cover song from either
THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH or from
DURAN DURAN. In addition, the band has just written a new song called
"Johnny the Vampire", which I said to be "a parody about a gothic boy."
In a recent interview with
Metalraw.com,
TO/DIE/FOR singer
Jape Peratalo stated about the group's current label situation, "Our contract with
Spinefarm expired and maybe there [was a] possibility to continue with them, I do not know. But we decided to start to looking for something new.
Spinefarm Records is OK. But it seems like they have no interest or time for band like we are. They have too many bands to handle. That's why we felt like we are not getting enough things like promotion etc. There are some labels who are interested in us, but this time we are not gonna hurry. We need a company who is ready to work for us with huge motivation. At the moment, I am writing new songs for
TO/DIE/FOR, also other guys are writing new stuff. We are gonna be alive in the future more than ever!"
TO/DIE/FOR's fifth album,
"Wounds Wide Open", was released in Finland in October 2006. The follow-up to 2005's
"IV",
"Wounds Wide Open" was recorded by
Samu Oittinen at
Fantom Studios and by
Jari-Jukka Nippala at
Sonic Image, and was mixed at Sweden's
Abyss Studios by
Peter TÃĪgtgren (
DIMMU BORGIR,
CELTIC FROST).
Nuclear Blast last year reissued
TO/DIE/FOR's
"All Eternity" (2000) and
"Epilogue" (2001) albums as a double-CD package. The cover art can be viewed at
this location.
(Thanks:
Siria /
www.konzi-tip.de)
