“You’ve got to be strong enough to survive through periods of bleakness, times of no hope, where things look like they’ll never turn around,” NILE’s Karl Sanders says. “You just gotta keep believing in yourself and pushing forward. The strong will ultimately survive. The weak fall by the wayside. NILE has a new ethos: we’re not going to live in the past. That’s over and done with. Nostalgia has its place, but we’re virile now. We’re going to do something meaningful now. This ethos bears out on »Vile Nilotic Rites.« It’s not dwelling on the band’s past – it’s showing what the band is capable of now. We are here to conquer!”
If you follow 70000TONS OF METAL, the original, the world’s biggest heavy metal cruise on social media, you may have noticed that they are notorious for using the term “soon” when it comes to their festival announcements. This year, they really stretched the meaning of “soon”, with fans waiting in anticipation for the lineup and sale dates. Well, the new “soon” is already now!
2019-ben a Metallica társaságában turnézott a norvég stoner rocker BOKASSA, és még Slash is színpadra állt a zenekar “Who the fuck is Bokassa?” feliratú pólójában, idén novemberben pedig önálló turné keretében járják végig Európát. A “Riffs, Hooks, Breakdowns and Freedom” turné hazánkat november 27-én, a Dürer Kertben éri el, ahol az idén megjelent Crimson Riders című új lemezét mutatja be a zenekar. A turnéhoz csatlakozott az angol PUPPY, akik idén adták ki első, The Goat című nagylemezüket.
