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BLIND GUARDIAN Release Date Pre-Order Start Live Beyond The Spheres uu 07/07/2017 uu 26/05/2017

uu available as 3-CD DIGIPAK uu available as ultimate 4-LP black vinyl box uu advertising in many important music magazines MAY/JUNE 2017 uu advertising in festival magazines summer 2017 uu reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Europe’s MAY/JUNE 2017 issues Price Code: CD01 uu song placements in European magazine compilations JUNE 2017 NB 4013-0 3CDDIGI uu Spotify playlists in all European territories uu retail marketing campaigns uu festival tour in summer 2017 with signing sessions uu instore decoration: poster A1, 1 x 2m banners available uu radio commercials in several countries uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and Price Code: CD17 display networks, Bing ads and Gmail ads (tbc.) NB 4013-1 4LP (black in BOX uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on YouTube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids Territory: World uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images and a background on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings to targeted uu Tracklists: audiences in support of the release DIGI: CD1 01. The Ninth Wave the tour. Let’s see if we will also use the rest of the material 02. ABSOLUTE in the future. We’ve got a lot of rough diamonds in our live 03. Nightfall 04. Prophecies archives!”. 05. Tanelorn 06. The Last Candle PERFECTION An endless story 07. And Then There Was Silence CD2 to quote Hansi: “It sounds colossal!” Above all, Hansi is still a perfectionist: “In general I would 01. The Lord Of The Rings say that we’ve had a really good run throughout this tour and 02. Fly that nearly every show was perfect. But when you listen to 03. Bright Eyes are one of those unique and special bands 04. Lost In The Twilight Hall that stand for absolute perfection, creativity and passion since the live-recordings in the studio you realise that almost every 05. Imaginations From The Other Side they formed in 1984. Delivering a fascinating mixture of op- evening, at least one member of the band had a bad day. We 06. Into The Storm 07. Twilight Of The Gods ulent bombast, progressive complexity and symphonic beau- switched constantly”, laughs Hansi. “At the end of the day, 08. A Past And Future Secret ty. BLIND GUARDIAN established their style a long time ago after every one of us had checked through every single song 09. And The Story Ends but have never stagnated – always remaining open-minded and concert of those 30 shows again and again, there was CD3 01. Sacred Worlds and adventurous. This is why BLIND GUARDIAN are always only something like two or three versions of each song that 02. The Bard’s Song (In The Forest) ahead of the times! were suitable to be used for an album. We then had to decide 03. Valhalla between those final versions; which one the most impressive 04. Wheel Of Time 05. Majesty »Live Beyond The Spheres« one was. This was a nearly endless task!” 06. Mirror Mirror Now, there is some big news coming from BLIND GUARDIAN: “Sometimes there’s something at a show, let’s 4LP BOX (33 RPM) The Progressive pioneers are incredibly pleased Side A to announce the release of a new 3-CD package which will be call it magic…” 01. The Ninth Wave entitled »Live Beyond The Spheres«! This release will include Regardless of those challenges, the effort was all worth it be- 02. Banish From Sanctuary cause the final chosen songs have such an incredible energy, 03. Nightfall material from numerous shows recorded during their Europe- Side B an tour in 2015 – it will include old classics, recent tracks as “Those small mistakes seemed to be unimportant in the final 01. Prophecies well as songs that are very rarely played live. “I’m completely evaluation”, explains the charismatic vocalist. “As soon as 02. Tanelorn 03. The Last Candle satisfied with the songs we’ve chosen and with the way we’ve you listen to the songs, you will know what I mean.” Everyone Side C presented the album in sound and technique”, reflects vocalist who knows BLIND GUARDIAN knows that this band creates 01. And Then There Was Silence Hansi Kürsch: “Even though we compiled »Live Beyond The magical moments. “Sometimes there’s something at a show, 02. The Lord Of The Rings Side D Spheres« with songs from more than ten different shows, the let’s call it ‘MAGIC’, that gives us all a shiver up our spine. 01. Fly result sounds really uniform. This has been a long journey but You can’t forecast such moments and they’re not restricted to 02. Bright Eyes certain songs”, reflects Hansi. In the end, he sums up: “We are 03. Lost In The Twilight Hall the effort was all worth it. Our fans will love it!” Side E really satisfied when people sing along with us, have a good 01. Imaginations From The Other Side Rough diamonds time and go back home happy.” So there’s nothing more to 02. Into The Storm add except that one should look forward to the most monu- 03. Twilight Of The Gods During the European tour in 2015, 30 shows were record- Side F ed in total, with an average length of 2 hours, 15 minutes mental live experience of the whole year – to quote Hansi: “It 01. A Past And Future Secret per show. “In addition to that, there is also the same amount sounds colossal!” 02. And The Story Ends 03. Sacred Worlds of concerts we recorded afterwards during the worldwide Side G shows”, reflects Hansi. “This was a really hard task because 01. The Bard’s Song (In The Forest) we already had ten recordings from the European tour which 02. Valhalla Style: 03. Wheel Of Time you could release as high-quality bootlegs. Those recordings Side H were all already nearly perfect. This high quality was the de- Progressive/ 01. Majesty 02. Mirror Mirror cisive reason for us to only use songs from this first part of www.blind-guardian.com · www.facebook.com/blindguardian · www.nuclearblast.de/blindguardian GMBH · OESCHSTRASSE 40 · D-73072 DONZDORF · GERMANY · PHONE +49-7162-9280-13 / -20 / -25 · FAX +49-7162-24554 uu www.facebook.com/nuclearblasteurope · www.twitter.com/nuclearblasteu uu LINKS: uu Nuclear Blast Video Clips · Nuclear Blast Bands on Tour · Nuclear Blast in the Charts · New Songs on Spotify uu www.nuclearblast.de New Release Information uu July

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Line up: Hansi Kürsch | Vocals André Olbrich | Guitar Marcus Siepen | Guitar Frederik Ehmke | Drums LIVE 16.06...... D...... St. Goarshausen - RockFels 05.08...... S...... Rejmyre - Skogsröjet Festival 28.06...... IL.....Tel Aviv - Reading 3 10.08...... E...... Villena - Leyendas Del Rock 30.06...... GR....Chania - Chania Rock Festival 11.08...... UK....Derby - 02.07...... I...... Milano - Battlefield Metal Fest 12.08...... A...... Graz - Metal On The Hill 08.07...... D...... Ballenstedt - Rockharz Open Air 25.08...... PL.....Straszecin - Czad Festival 02.08...... H...... Székesfehérvár - Fezen Fesztivál 26.08...... D...... Dresden - Alter Schlachthof 03.08...... SK....Bratislava - Majestic Club

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