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EDGUY RETURNING TO GREECE!On March 8th Edguy will bring the Rocket Ride tour to Greece to play the Olympic Fencing Arena in Athens.NEW INTERVIEW WITH TOBI!RUDOLF SCHENKER ON TOBIAS' NEW ALBUM!EDGUY ON TOUR WITH AEROSMITH!EDGUY TO HEADLINE BANG YOUR HEAD FESTIVAL!Please help improve this article by adding reliable references.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany.Tobias Sammet, Jens Ludwig, Dirk Sauer, and Dominik Storch.The name "Edguy" was an affectionate epithet for Mr.Edgar Zimmerer, their math teacher at the time.After two demos the band received a contract with AFM Records in 1995.After another two albums it received a contract with the German label Nuclear Blast in 2004.Edguy toured with the well known power metal band DragonForce in early 2006 after the release of the latter's Inhuman Rampage album.In July 2006, Edguy played at the Metalcamp festival in Slovenia, where they played a joke on fellow Germans Kreator, who followed.Not only did the crowd do this, but they continued to sing this following almost every song played by Kreator, prompting Mille Petrozza to stop and ask, "Is this still about the Edguy thing?"Style
Edguy's lyrics are often metaphorical, alluding to metaphysical or social themes: conformity ("The Headless Game", "Mysteria", "King of Fools"), dictation by the church ("The Kingdom", "Theater of Salvation"), and dangers of modern civilization ("Navigator", "The Devil and the Savant").To express such themes, Edguy sometimes use esoteric and hermetic expressions."Das Reh", "Save Us Now", "Lavatory Love Machine", "Life and Times of a Bonus Track", "Trinidad").Edguy also employs lengthy and epic sections in almost every album.Hellfire Club revealed Edguy's interest in experimenting within music by integrating an orchestra into the production.The album featured a variation on Edguy's style, with a less grandiose, more traditional heavy metal approach being embraced.See Copyrights for details.The Edguy, Avantasia, and Everleaf Discussion Forums!The time now is 10 Jan 2008 18:18The Edguy, Avantasia, and Everleaf Discussion Forums!The Edguy Discussion Forum!Discuss Edguy's latest album, Rocket Ride, the ongoing World Tour, and all else that is Edguy!The Avantasia Discussion Forum!Discuss Tobias "Eggi" Exxel's newest band or visit their site, at everleaf.Savage Union Fanclub Community!The Ask Edguy Archive!Read your questions to the guys and the edguys' answers to them in this archive forum!Got something crazy to discuss?Tobias Sammet (keyboards, vocals), Jens Ludwig (lead guitar), Dirk Sauer (rhythm guitar) and Dominik Storch (drums) start the band Edguy and play their first gigs.Tobias quits playing keyboards and starts to play bass as it's better to have a bass guitarist in your band than a keyboard player.Edguy release their first demo tapes Evil Minded and Children Of Steel.Edguy sign their record deal with a small German label called AFM Records.In January the official debut album Kingdom Of Madness gets released.Edguy play a few live shows only and get first press reviews.Horst Odermatt ("who will pay a lot of money one day, to have the band headlining his Bang Your Head Festival", annotation of the band) predicts that Edguy will have no future.In January Edguy's Vain Glory Opera album gets released.For the first time Edguy plays the prestigious Wacken Open Air, being the opening act on the smallest stage.Theater Of Salvation gets released in January and for the first time Edguy show up in Germany's official album charts.The band tours for almost three months all over Europe, supporting Hammerfall, then Gamma Ray and then Angra in France.Edguy plays Wacken again, being the opening act on the main stage.This summer Edguy just focus on making festival appearances instead of a tour, a.Iron Maiden for some of their "Metal 2000" stadium shows.In January Tobias Sammet releases his first solo project Avantasia The Metal Opera part 1 which unexpectedly becomes a big hit and even gets Edguy the recognition amongst press and fans alike, the band had deserved for years.Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia.The second leg of the Mandrake tour climaxes in a prime time show at Wacken Open Air's main stage in front of more than 40.In late summer Tobias Sammet's second Avantasia album The Metal Opera 2 gets released and climbs up to 17 of the official album charts in Germany.With the double live album Burning Down The Opera Edguy part ways with their long time record label AFM records and sign with giant label Nuclear Blast Records.Babelsberg and containing two single hits King Of Fools and Lavatory Love Machine.In January the album Rocket Ride is being released and hits the charts all over the world again, peaking at 8 in Germany and Sweden.Edguy set off for their third consecutive world tour, their biggst to date; both: in terms of attendance figures and show elements.Edguy are still touring in support of their recent album Rocket Ride.We wish you a great 2008!!!WISHING YOU ALL THE SUCCESS IN THE WORLD WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL MUSIC..THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THE ADD.May 2008 bring you more success...Hi Men, sorry for late Happy New Year...Metal, Felix y Tobias you are my favorite!Have a great 2008 my frieds and please come again to Mexico this year!!!Thanks for the add and a nice week!David Bowie, Arcadia, Masami Tsuchiya, Japan, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Dolphin Brothers, Nine Horses, Furniture, The Associates, Billy Mackenzie, Metro, Scott Walker, Eyeless in Gaza,The Cure...You have an infernal sound, we love it.You are like a mirror for us.We hope you likes our music as much yours likes us.Sincerely your faithful fan.Hope to see you live in Montreal soon!Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Additionally, a 404 Not Found
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