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News : Paradise Lost to replace Dragonforce at Soundwave 2012

By on January 16, 2012

Soundwave regrets to announce that DRAGONFORCE will not be performing at Soundwave this year due to album commitments. The as of yet unnamed new DragonForce album will be available in Australia this spring via 3Wise Records. – www.3wiserecords.com

DragonForce guitarist Sam Totman comments:

“It’s bitterly disappointing for us not to be able to play our debut Soundwave in 2012 because we were so looking forward to it and were going to kick off the World Tour there. The problem is we’ve only just finished the actual recording of the new album and now have the mastering, videos and a ton of worldwide promo to do.

The album recording was already running late when Marc (Hudson, new singer) contracted laryngitis a couple of months back which meant he couldn’t finish his vocals in the studio on time and pushed the album release date back even further. Australia has always been great to us and we can 100% assure our Aussie fans that we will be touring there at some point in 2012, we just have to move our touring plans around a little to accommodate the delay. The good news is the album is sounding awesome and we are all eager for our fans to hear it and we hope everyone has a great Soundwave!”

 

No need to despair, folks! UK Goth metal pioneers PARADISE LOST and Grammy award winning Christian rock group SWITCHFOOT have been selected as worthy replacements and are the final two bands to be added to the already monstrous Soundwave 2012 lineup.

Check out the music clip ‘Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us’ from Paradise Lost’s 2009 album of the same name.

For more information, head on over to www.soundwavefestival.com

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