Heavy!, metal.de, Rockstation Kiel & Talk-Heavy Radio present:

UNISONIC RELEASE PARTIES Germany!

Thursday, 29.03.2012, Hamburg – Knust, 20.00 h 

Friday, 30.03.2012, Bochum – Matrix, 20.00 h

Have a blast with band, fans and friends!

Get in: Buy the new CD for 15 € and get the party for free!

• Mini-Live-Showcase!
• Signing session with all band members!
• Listen to the new album!
• Special event T-Shirt and all CD/Vinyl formats avaiblable at location!

Ticket order Germany: Info will follow! At the moment there is no chance to order tickets in advance, but as soon as we have a connection we will let you know.

Info for fans outside of Germany: We understand that you don’t want to travel a long way ending up in front of a closed door. So we have a special service for you. If you want to join one of the release parties (only if you REALLY take part), please send an email to release-unisonic@suefish-promotion.de and leave the following info:

1. Your full name
2. Your complete address
3. The city you want to join (Hamburg or Bochum)

Only if this info is given, you will get the confirmation to have a reservation at the entrance of the location. To get in you urgently need your passport or a document to prove your identity! Without it there is no way to get in! Please do not use this email address if you are from Germany or to use it for other questions and info. It will not be replied.

29.03.2012 in Hamburg, Germany (Knust)

The music bar is located in St. Paul and delights its guests with a varied program of music and delicious food and drinks. The location has a capacity of about 550 people. Here is the address:

Knust
Neuer Kamp 30
20357 Hamburg, Germany

30.03. 2012 in Bochum, Germany (Matrix)

What is the Matrix?

The MATRIX. A building dating back to 1806, a labyrinth of corridors, stairways, halls and Sitareas. She is mysterious and bizarre. It is twisty and consists of 4 areas, which provide for (almost) every taste the right sound. The capacity of the location is below 1000 people.

Adress: Hauptstraße 200  44892 Bochum, Germany

The debut album of UNISONIC can already be pre-order at Amazon and EMP in Germany. EMP now offers an exclusive package of a Unisonic T-Shirt (Ignition Style) and the Limited Edition Album.

Here you can preorder this special package: http://www.emp.de/unisonic-unisonic-cd-t-shirt/art_230010/

Here are the othereditions of Unisonic’s debut album for preordering:http://www.emp.de/search/Unisonic/

The brand new album is available in the following three editions: standard jewel case, for all vinyl lovers, the LP + CD edition, and who cannot get enough of Unisonic the Limited Edition. The Limited Edition contains a high quality, illustrated 40-page booklet, with exclusive interviews and the history of all individual band members. The whole thing is prepared with rare images from personal photo albums of the band.

You already have the chance to preorder several versions of the upcoming full Unisonic album.

1. Here you will get the standard jewel case version

http://www.amazon.de/Unisonic/dp/B006VUPCHO/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1328182089&sr=8-6

2. Here you will get the limited edition with 40 pages booklet, exclusive interviews and pictures:

http://www.amazon.de/Unisonic-Limited/dp/B006VUPCEM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1328182089&sr=8-3

3. Here you will get the  LP + CD package:

 http://www.amazon.de/Unisonic-Lp-CD-Vinyl-LP/dp/B006VUPCBK/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1328182089&sr=8-10

Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen started the promotional visits on February 16th in France. The promotional visit was for 2 days (16th and 17th). They will do interviews for magazines, webzines, radios, etc… Thanks to Louis of Gentlemen Chronicles (http://gentlemenchronicles.com/) who did a video interview and some nice pictures with Michi and Kai.

First part of the interview with Kai:

GC: If you are again in a band with Michael Kiske, it is thanks to Tobias Sammet right?

Kai: In a way, yeah I mean is a kind of process being together again in a live stage and that opened up the door because we got the chances to feel the chemistry on stage it was still there, to feel the connection, to have time to talk about things in the backstage or traveling and it was one initial point of working together and doing this. If the tour would not been happened I’m not sure if actually we would be in that point now. So thank you Tobi.

GC: On your last shows you played “I Want Out” & “Future World”. Can we expect you to play old Helloween songs like “Twilight Of The Gods” or “I’m Alive”?

Kai: Absolutely, yes sure. I mean we will do more shows with Unisonic and of course and I have not only written those two songs in our Helloween times and Michael has written a few. We have a good pool to chose from, so we will not only play the same songs all the time, don’t worry.

GC: My Sanctuary reminds me on Time to Break Free

Kai: Ok, for me the end of “Never Too Late” reminds me of the chorus of “Time To Break Free” and Unisonic riff, which was not made by me, but when I’ve heard the riff, it was on some demo that Mandy did with some guys in Switzerland, and when I’ve heard the riff I said, fuck it sounds like “Into The Storm” of Gamma Ray.

Second part of the interview with Kai:

GC:You had a big success with Helloween during the Keeper era. Was it difficult to deal with it at that age?

Kai: It was difficult with the success. We got to a point, where I really couldn’t handle it anymore in some way. When I left the band we were getting too much into the girlie pop magazines, because metal was getting into this point. I felt kind of strange doing this. Now I wouldn’t mind these days, but at that time I really couldn’t get it. For me metal was always underground, it was against the stream, it was rebellion and all that. So and suddenly you get into something like Tokyo Hotel or Duran Duran.

Interview with Michael Kiske:

GC: What is the story told by your ballad “No one ever sees me”?

Michael: I had the idea when I saw an interview with an Indian father. In some countries they have some very inhuman traditions, especially women are not treated as individuals, like their father decides who they marry. I saw that on TV, he said: I have decided who she marries; she was around 10 or 11 years old; and if she doesn’t stop talking about love, I’m going to kill her with my own hands. I thought it’s unbelievable that a father talks like that about his daughter, that’s not love. You have this in Islamic countries, even in Germany, that certain Muslims kill their daughters or brothers kill their sisters, because they don’t respect the tradition. They decide whom they marry and when they marry someone they love which they really should, they kill her. I respect cultures, but I don’t respect inhumanity. I don’t care about tradition killing women or discriminating women in any way. This really hurt me that a father can talk like that. The lyrics of the song are from the females perspective. That’s what it is about.

GC: Will you make another solo album?

Michael: Kiske: I think so, not as much since Unisonic is the main thing now, but I do still have a contract running. I have to do it even if I have no head for it right now, have to do a new record the next year. I will do this with a friend of mine (Sandro), writing some nice tunes and then I would try to record live which is quicker, then it has a live feeling to it. It might be another Place Vendome album next year, the next year Kai will be more in gamma ray, one year this one year that. I will try to do as much as I can as long as I can.

GC: When you were younger, you had lot of troubles with labels..

Michael: Oh yes, with Helloween we were assigned to Noise and they screwed almost every band. It was a very sick situation, we were selling millions of records, we ruled on tour and venues were sold out. We were successful, but were going into minus. We had a shitty contract, 80 to 20 (20 for the band). And from the 20% they even stole something and we had to pay for everything.

GC: What kind of video games do play?

Michael: I love racing games, like Formula 1. I’m like a child, i have a kind of racing seat with a steering wheel.  Actually Tobi from Avantasia made me buy Fifa games, but never played. I wanted to play with him, but he is not really a gamer. In Playstation when you have added someone as your friend, you can see when someone was the last time online. He played the last time around a year ago. He didn’t turn on. He wanted to play with me and you need to spend some time in Soccer games, otherwise it’s too complicated. I would love to play with him, but he didn’t yet.

There are arriving new Unisonic interviews and here is the first one with Michael Kiske for Rockpages Greece:

http://www.rockpages.gr/detailspage.aspx?id=7016&type=1&lang=EN

Here you see an overview of available press ratings of Ignition Mini Album so far (Ratings for full album will follow soon):  click here

Finally we have more details about the full abum of Unisonic:

Release date in Europe/Rest of the World 30.03.2012 earMUSIC / Edel and in Japan 21.03.2012 Marquee / Avalon label

In Europe/Rest of the World there will be 3 different editions (1. Standard Jewel Case (11 tracks), 2. Limited CD digipack edition (11 tracks plus 1 bonustrack, mediabook of 40 pages, interviews, exclusive pictures) and 3. Limited LP + CD edition)

In Japan there will be 2 different editions (1. Standard Edition and 2. Limited Digipack Edition with 1 bonus track exclusive for Japan)

Pre-orders can be made in Amazon.com , Amazon.de and EMP.de

In Japan you can do pre-orders at the following places cdJapan and Amazon Japan

Track-List:

1. Unisonic  03:27

2. Souls Alive  05:15

3. Never too Late  04:29

4. I’ve Tried  04:55

5. Star Rider  04:19

6. Never Change Me  03:44

7. Over the Rainbow  (Bonus Limited Edition)

8. Renegade  04:38

9. My Sanctuary  04:17

10. King For a Day  04:10

11. We Rise  04:40

12. No One Ever sees Me  06:16

There are also some more tour dates confirmed for Europe and festivals during the summer:

Festivals 2012:

12. July 2012: Masters of Rock Festival in Vizovice

21. June 2012: Gods of Metal Festival in Milan, Italy

27. May 2012: Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

European Tour 2012 with headliner Gotthard (First dates for Spain, more countries will follow):

13. October 2012:  Sala Totem, Villava, Pamplona – Spain  order tickets here:

12. October 2012:  La Riviera, Madrid – Spain    

11. October 2012:  Sala Apolo, Barcelona – Spain

Here you can read the first impressions of the listening session of the full Unisonic album (8 songs) at Powermetal.de.and from French magazine Gentlemenchronicles (English translation). click here:

Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen of Unisonic will make a promotional tour in Madrid organized by Top Artist Promotion, during February 21st and 22nd 2012. In their visit, they will share with the Spanish national press all about the mini album and the whole album that band will release in March of 2012. All press and media interested in make interviews or exclusive promotional events with those legendary artists and essential inside the European metal, should notify by email to info@topartistpromotion.com since February 20th.

Link: http://topartistpromotion.com/2012/01/detalles-de-la-gira-promocional-de-unisonic

There will be more promotional dates later in France. So stay tuned for up-to-date information.

The first dates of Unisonic’s European Tour 2012 with headliner Gotthard are available for Spain

13. October 2012:  Sala Totem, Villava, Pamplona – Spain order tickets here:

12. October 2012:  La Riviera, Madrid – Spain

11. October 2012:  Sala Apolo, Barcelona – Spain.

read more:

Here you can read information about it from Rafabasa.com:

http://www.rafabasa.com/2012/02/gotthard-unisonic-fechas-y-ciudades-de-la-gira/

Release date: 21.03.2012  in Japan: Avalon/Marquee

Release date: 30.03.2012 in Europe: earMusic/Edel

Editions:

In Europe /Rest of the World:

1. Standard Jewel Case

2. Limited Edition Mediabook Version with 40 pages booklet (looks like a real book) incl. exclusive interview and pictures   with 1 bonus track)

3. Vinyl + CD Version Package

In Japan:

1. Standard Jewel Case

2. Japanese Limited Digipack  (with 1 bonus track exclusive for Japan)

Here you can read more information: click here