Zaterdag 11 februari 2012

Zaterdag 11 februari vindt alweer de 11e editie van Meester Metaal plaats. Met optredens van Emerald, Ear Danger en The Troopers.



Emerald:

One of the crown jewels of the Holland
Heavy Metal scene! 



We have to go back to the mid 70s to find the origin of Emerald. In this time a
demo is recorded under the name “Warrior”. It takes until ’84 when the name
changed to Emerald and a 4 track demo is released. Bert’s unique voice and the
Randy Rhoads style playing of Allard Ekkel are quite remarkable, Megaton boss
Bram Kloos gets interested and so it happens that on the 24th of January 1985
the band signs a deal with Megaton.



When later that year the album ”Down Town” is released, Emerald got a huge live
reputation and is called ‘The best Heavy Metal band from the East’ (of Holland
that is). The LP gets a lot of good reviews in heavy-metal zines worldwide.
Unfortunately soon after the release Megaton becomes bankrupt and the band is
on the streets again. They replaced drummer Gert Slot for Rudy Marissen
(ex-Revenge)



In ’86 a gig is recorded by Radio East, It proves Emerald only got better after
the album. But the band didn’t get a new deal and at the end of the 80s the
band splits up. It takes till 1998 when the German That’s Metal magazine do an
interview with Emerald. It puts the band back in the spotlights. 



One year later ‘D-Day’ from the Down Town LP appears on the 1st HM Maniacs
compilation CD. Iron Glory Records from Germany released the album "Down
town "on CD. They changed the artwork and renamed the c.d. ‘Iron on Iron’.



In ’99 the CD gets released and gets very good reviews in several magazines.
The band is honored by all the attention and decides to answer all the begging
to do a reunion gig. So it happens that in 2002 Emerald appears on the HM
Maniacs festival followed by a number of gigs in Germany. Around this time the
band added Paul van Rijswijk (ex-Hammerhawk, ex-Goddess of Desire) as 2nd
guitarist.



Most memorable gigs are the Keep It True festival Germany 2005 and the
spectacular show in Athens Greece at the Up the Hammers festival 2009, the
crowd gets totally nuts and sings along with every song word by word!



The band is still alive and kicking and records one new track for the
Headbanger magazine compilation CD.

April 2010 Emerald played for the second time at the Keep it True festival
Germany in front of more than 2500 of the best headbangers!!

This show is also released on the official K.I.T. DVD in 2011.

June 2011 Emerald played at Sweden's best metal-festival Muskelrock, and
started working on new material. 

November 2011 Emerald played a hell of a show in Madrid Spain.

Januari 2012 a kickass show in Athens Greece where also the new release of the
first album on vinyl including new tracks and artwork was celebrated.



New shows for 2012 also include : Germany,Italy and a few in The Netherlands.

2013 Emerald will be playing at the Metalmorphosis Fest in Cyprus !



Line up:

Bert Kivits : Vocals

Allard Ekkel :Guitars

Paul van Rijswijk: Guitars

Essie Zagers : Bass

Rudy Marissen : Drums

Ear Danger:

Ear Danger is opgericht in Rotterdam rond 1981, ze waren 1 van de grote namen in de nederlandse Heavy Metal scene. Ze kwamen niet verder dan het opnemen van een paar nummers voor hun mini-EP. 20 jaar later komen ze terug met nieuwe nummers, mede dankzij de toewijting en passie van de bass gitarist Matt Verschoor.



Act of State:

De leden van de profressieve metal band Shadow Of Eden en old-school thrash metal band Damnator hebben de handen in 1 geslagen waardoor de band Act of State is ontstaan. Met hun liefde voor zowel de tradionele als de eigentijdse metal hebben ze zichzelf uitgedaagd om een compositie te maken die niet onder 1 subgenre valt te beschrijven. Veel verschillende invloeden komen uit de heavy, power, progressieve en thrash metal.

deur open: 19:30 // entree: € 5,- // Belangrijk: Neem je ID mee