prologue:
It should happened in September 2006: our first European Tour, which we accomplished with ELUVEITE from Switzerland. Onstage and behind – they turned out to be truly worthily companions. The tour was organized and realized with the support of EINHEIT PRODUKTIONEN and the Dutch label FEAR DARK and we experienced this time as two
of the most beautiful weeks of last year.

they were involved:

With the delay of the bus we had also a good start. Due to the lost time the bus driver could not collect us in Schmalkalden and we tried to get our complete equipment to Bad Salzungen somehow.
There finally arrived we discovered immediately the Swiss, as well as Ingo our bus driver, who evaluated in the next two weeks without partiality the consumption of alcohol both of the bands. We must also mention, that the already tour experienced Ingo is also a musician. He plays bass-guitar in his own band which is strangely named: “THE SHIT EATING MOTHERFUCKERS AND THE TITTY TWISTING CHILI PUSSIES”.

The opener of the first evening was PESTIS, a local Black Metal Band from Thuringia.
In front of approximately 200 good-humored guests, our actual bass-player Manuel give its only concert of the tour and during the encores and in the following evenings he was acceptable replaced from the GERNOTSHAGEN guitarist Maik, who helped us out short-dated. The atmosphere was good for all involved people, the catering excellent and the thirst was not to allay. For this reason we walked decadently after door conclusion of the KW70 to a closed-by Techno discotheque.

Unfortunately this was the last still open and alcohol promising location, what us simplified the heavy decision to visit such an establishment. For some of us the first evening ended with high-standing sun in the small hours…

The third day led us into the German capital, where we already arrived at the early afternoon. Most used the possibility to visit the city or kill the time until the sound-check in a cafe. NEITHAN, a Black Metal Band from Berlin, took over the support in this evening.

Meanwhile we stayed in the small but from FOLTER RECORDS well filled backstage room and suspicious we observed how Kelly decimated the beer provisions. First time on tour both bands had a great sound on stage and we played in front of approximately 100 happy guests. After the concert our every evening odyssey led us into the few hundred meters away located JAILBREAK, a Metal Pub which had to endure us till the gates closed.

However Kelly, Veit, Anna, Stickel and Merlin did not have enough yet and discovered their true paradise. At 7 o'clock a.m, when the twins Rafi and Sevan – also well known as brothers „terrible“- made themselves on their way to the “Brandenburger Tor”, the last of us wobbled then finally in.

Before the journey continued towards Stavenhagen, we unfortunately could not leave Berlin in time, since the bus had a breakdown and had to be repaired. To late arrived at the TANKHAUS, a beautiful but in solitude lying club, we offloaded our equipment quickly, so that the sound-check could done in time.

Like we supposed, only a few listeners traveled on a Monday evening into this wasteland, whole 34 paying visitors arrived and the evening starts with the really mysterious MYTHOS NORD. Despite the small number of visitors the evening was a pleasure because of our present sword brothers from Torgelow, some other friends and the welfare service of the two organizers Jub and Ded. Particularly the aftershow party remained in our memory because Simes birthday gave us a good reason to thin out again our mead provisions and to destroy the beer crate, which Philipp oppressed out from the barmaids.

The first and meanwhile really necessary day off was directly used to wandering around culture historical megalithic tombs. More infos!

For Thursday originally a gig in the HELVETE in Dortmund was planned, which unfortunately fell out. We used the second day off to relax again and decided to visit the North Sea Coast.

Whereas some of us drove to Leeuwarden for a city-stroll, the remainder set with a ferry over to Ameland to enjoy a bath. With us in the Thuringian party “ugly” was again the renegade Swiss Simeon, which turned out soon as a worthy “replacement Thuringian”. In the evening we met us all in the town again, still stayed in some taverns, before we slept in an area outside of the city.

After all had a good sleep, we drove back again into the city and spent a few hours to hang around and in Internet cafés.
By the way, we have to attest that there are the most beautiful girls on their way in this town.

As we started to play, we loss the monitors on stage and tormented ourselves in a blind flight through our set-list. Afterwards we were astonished not badly, as the Swiss again played a great gig, despite the terrible PA system.
After we reloaded the bus, we still drove in the night to Belgium. On the strength of the general exhaustion, it was a relatively calm evening.

From the very first we jested about one thing, that should be on this day. After the breakfast at a motorway restaurant we went on carelessly, till after many kilometers Philipp was frightened asking “Where is Kelly?”.
We searched for him in the whole bus, but were not able to find our normally immense light-engineer.

We drove back to the roadhouse, collected the forgotten one and went on to Hasselt and should find the smallest club we ever played in.
The mixer was approximately half as large as the stage, but the owner insured us its enough space for 200 guests in the DE WITTE NON (the white nun) - really unbelievable. Also there was no backstage, we changed our clothes on the road and instead of a meal we got five drinks for free. The heck with it!
With sauna like temperatures the Swiss start to play without support band and the sweat seeped from the ceiling. We and the wild celebrating fans are not troubled by the enormous heat, but our guitars decided to strike. During the first song one of Stickels guitar strings ripped and already with the next song Fix had the same problems and required the backup guitar, which just today stayed in the bus because of the lack of space.

During the breaks we calmed down the fans with mead, which we poured in their dry throats and even though the violin turned out also, it was a great concert and once more a beautiful evening.

The local band THRONAR, which by the way formed the term “Battle Metal” as first, opened the evening with good sound and a amazing show.
After ELUVEITIE stirred up the well filled club, we were in turn.

For the first time during the tour we played Bathory´s “Man of Iron” as addition and said good-bye to the great guests.
After that we packed our equipment into the bus as fast as possible, because we had planned to drink with our friends of HEIDEVOLK in their local STÖRTEBECKER.

All together we placed ourselves behind Kim, which told the organizer that this was not provided in the contract. After the melee we left this place without paying the inactive guy.
Nothing like away from here!

After a long journey to Switzerland finally again a great location! In contrast to Tuesday expected us a pleasant organizer, excellent catering, clean showers, amazing sound and great fans.
Without support band we started our show in front of a inspired and inspiring Swiss audience.

Back in their homeland and seeing again their friends, ELUVEITIE also doing their best and the hairs flew till the last tone. Because we had to celebrate the birthdays of Kai and Merlin we had a good reason to pass the night waking. All in all a evening to remember.

On the next day we traveled through the mountains. After we arrived in St. Maurice, we walked around in the small city. High mountains and fine sunshine all around us, really beautiful.
Only the communication was extreme difficult, because we stayed in the French speaking part of Switzerland.
Despite of the small number of guests it was a great evening and after we enjoyed the “all inclusive bar” the organizer drove with us to a nearby disco.

In return during ELUVEITIE Maik played the mandola on “Aidu”, while Natalie sang together with Meri. Gian, which once recorded the “Ven” mini-album as vocalist, blared his part at “Uis Elveti” and Kim and Stickel supported the Swiss during “The endless knot”.
As addition nearly both bands together performed the IRON MAIDEN cover “Run to the hills”, the last highlight of a great tour and a crowning conclusion.

Unfortunately some of the Swiss had to go past of the show and after a last group photo the first eyes were filled with tears.
The remainders inebriated themselves with mead and beer and we banged our heads during the metal disco in the TITANIC CITY.