HELHEIM: Dark Essence Allegiance Tour 'Will Go On'

February 27, 2008

Norwegian black/viking metallers HELHEIM have issued the following update:

"The Dark Essence Allegiance Tour [with VULTURE INDUSTRIES and DARK FORTRESS] was very, very close to be cancelled due to a sloppy job done by our booking agency. But, since we are all fighters to the core, none of the bands gave up, and thanks to a great common effort by everyone, the tour will go on.

"We had to cut some costs, and are down to driving hired vans instead of a comfortable nightliner, but hey, this is metal, and this is touring how it is meant to be done. The biggest loss is that there will be no concerts in France or Italy, we are truly sorry about this, and we are commited to remedy this on our next tour.

"In England our boooking agent had already cancelled the show that was planned at The Underworld before we could tell them that we would go on by ourselves, and we were lucky to get a deal at such short notice at Purple Turtle instead."

Dark Essence Allegiance Tour dates:

March 07 - Zella-Mehlis, Germany - Klangbunker
March 08 - Aalen, Germany - Rock It
March 09 - Rotterdam, Holland - Barog
March 10 - London, UK - Purple Turtle
March 12 - Essen, Germany - Turock
March 13 - Ingolstadt, Germany - Paradox
March 15 - Salzburg, Austria - Spring Metal Fest
March 18 - Uster, Switzerland - Rock City
March 20 - Tilburg, Holland - Little Devil
March 21 - Lübeck, Germany - Treibsand
March 22 - Leipzig, Germany - Hellraiser
March 24 - Nürnberg, Germany - Metal Eggs Fest

HELHEIM recently made a new song, "Det Nørrøne Alter", available for download at this location. The track comes off the group's new album, entitled "Kaoskult", which is scheduled for release on March 17 in Norway and April 21 in the rest of the world via Dark Essence Records. Other songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Northern Forces", "Element", "Altered Through Ages, Constant In Time" and "Symboler Bakover Og Framover".

HELHEIM's fifth album, "The Journeys and Experiences of Death", was released in June 2006 via Dark Essence Records. The CD features guest appearances by ROOT vocalist Jiri Valter (a.k.a. Big Boss) on two songs and Marius Lynghjem from the Norwegian experimentalists CORVINE.

"The Journeys and Experiences of Death" was released as a double digipack featuring the unreleased "Helsviti" EP from 2001.

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