DETONATION: UK Shows Cancelled

January 15, 2008

Dutch melodic thrashers DETONATION have issued the following update:

"We regret to announce we have to cancel the UK dates that where scheduled for April. It's been a hard decision to reach since we've been looking forward to playing the UK again, but unfortunately the risks involved (from a business point of view) were too great.

"We very much appreciate the efforts made by Dark Balance Records, BOLTDOWN and all bookers involved to organise this tour, and are bummed not to be able to take part. We'd like to stress the cancellation is purely based on the situation DETONATION is in at the moment, and does not have anything to do with the bookers, venues or bands we're playing with. We hope to make up for it very soon.

"With ROMEO MUST DIE and BOLTDOWN there's still two great bands left on this tour, with one or two guest bands appearing every night, so be sure be visit those shows and support them!"

DETONATION will headline the Avalanche festival in Delhi, India on February 22. Avalanche is the heavy-music portion of the four-day cultural Moksha festival, an annual event organized at the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (N.S.I.T.).

Commented the band: "Up to now, India hasn't been the most obvious choice for metal bands to tour. Past few years, however, the Indian metal scene has been growing rapidly with a new breed a quality metal bands emerging, and with renowned international acts as MEGADETH, IRON MAIDEN and SEPULTURA announcing tours to India. We're very excited to be among the first wave of international metal acts to play Indian and very proud to be the first heavy Dutch act ever to do so".

DETONATION recently posted video footage of the band performing the song "Into Sulphur I Descend" live at the Heavy X-Mass Fest at 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands on December 23, 2007. View the clip below.

DETONATION's latest effort, "Emission Phase", was released on April 30, 2007. The CD was recorded with Split Second Sound's Jochem Jacobs (also guitar player for TEXTURES) and Bouke Visser. The cover artwork was created by Eliran Kantor.

"Emission Phase" is DETONATION's third and final album for French underground label Osmose Productions.

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