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Price Code: CD03 NB 4744-0 CD-Digi BEAST IN BLACK Release Date Pre-Order Start (incl. 2 bonus tracks) From Hell With Love uu 08/02/2019 uu 30/11/2018

uu Digi & 2LP include 2 bonus tracks! uu 30.11. digital Single “Sweet True Lies” uu advertising in many important music magazines DEC/JAN 2019 uu album reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Europe’s DEC/JAN 2019 issues uu song placements in European magazine compilations uu spotify playlists in all European territories uu instore decoration: flyers, poster A2 uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and display networks, bing ads and gmail ads uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock Price Code: LP17 websites all over Europe NB 4744-1 2LP (black in gatefold) uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on You tube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images and a back- Territory: ground on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com World uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings - South America to targeted audiences in support of the release

ever. The summer saw BEAST IN BLACK playing several festival BEAST IN BLACK FREE gigs, many of which were in Finland. To worthily close the uu Tracklists: »Berserker« live chapter, the band returned to where their live DIGI: THEIR HELLHOUNDS career had begun back in 2015 - supporting Finnish symphonic 01. Cry Out For A Hero “The BEAST is back, the BEAST IN BLACK!” Haunting words re- metal giants NIGHTWISH in front of several thousand fans in 02. From Hell With Love calling »Berserker«, BEAST IN BLACK’s debut album, which was November & December 2018. Despite their extensive touring 03. Sweet True Lies 04. Repentless finally released in November 2017. Although it never actually schedule, the BEAST managed to achieve something else in the 05. Die By The Blade felt as if the BEAST had been away entirely. Right after the de- past few months… 06. Oceandeep parture from his former band BATTLE BEAST, BEAST IN BLACK’s 07. Unlimited Sin founder Anton Kabanen recruited new companions in the way of 08. True Believer The band secretly forged 11 hot new tracks which comprise their 09. This Is War high-pitched vocalist Yannis Papadopoulos (WARDRUM), bassist highly-anticipated sophomore record »From Hell With Love«. 10. Heart of Steel Mate Molnar (WISDOM), guitarist Kasperi Heikkinen (U.D.O.) The album was once again recorded in Anton’s own Sound 11. No Surrender and last but not least drummer Atte Palokangas (THUNDER- Request Studio, and true to the motto “Never change a winning Bonus: 12. Killed By Death STONE), who officially replaced Sami Hänninen in early 2018. team”, the cover artwork was created by Roman Ismailov who 13. No Easy Way Out worked on »Berserker« as well as the first record Kabanen wrote Continuing with the same style of songwriting that he started under the banner of BATTLE BEAST, »Steel« (2012). Although with BATTLE BEAST, Kabanen crafted a new host of addictive BEAST IN BLACK’s new tunes musically fit into a similar vein as 2LP (33 RPM): Side A songs that excite with their use of relentless energy and power. their debut album, the lyrics haven’t only been inspired by the 01. Cry Out For A Hero Especially the album’s first single, ‘Blind And Frozen’, that blew aforementioned »Berserk«, but also by other movies and TV 02. From Hell With Love the roof off and set the bar very high by achieving several mil- series Anton is a huge fan of, as well as personal experiences 03. Sweet True Lies lion YouTube views in just a year. To cut it short: »Berserker« was 04. Repentless once again. For example, ‘Cry Out For A Hero’ is based on Side B very well received by both new and old fans of Anton’s work, another Japanese manga and anime series called »Fist Of The 01. Die By The Blade as well as fans of the anime series »Berserk«, which Anton drew North Star«. Fans of »Berserk« have nothing to worry about as 02. Oceandeep inspiration from. A number of well-known musicians have also with the help of Anton’s Italian friend Paolo Ribaldini the record 03. Unlimited Sin Side C praised the record such as NIGHTWISH’s Tuomas Holopainen still delves deep into Anton’s favourite series! 01. True Believer (who said that “you have to be mentally insane to not love this 02. This Is War album”), HELLOWEEN / GAMMA RAY’s Kai Hansen and many »From Hell With Love« delivers everything that made fans love 03. Heart of Steel more. Side D Anton’s work in the first place. A slew of fast-paced tracks like 01. No Surrender the opener ‘Cry Out For A Hero’ and ‘Repentless’, hymnic songs 02. Killed By Death (bonus) Additionally, »Berserker« not only allowed BEAST IN BLACK ‘Unlimited Sin’ and ‘This Is War’ and one of the band’s speciali- 03. No Easy Way Out (bonus) to enter the hearts of many people all around the globe, but ties, mid-tempo smashers that only BEAST IN BLACK can deliver also gave them the keys to the gates of the world’s stages! The are back and represented on the new disc by the lead single uu Line up: accompanying touring cycle kicked off in October 2017 in ‘Sweet True Lies’ and the album’s title track. There’s one thing the form of a few European shows supporting the legendary that all of these tracks have in common. Each and every song Yannis Papadopoulos | vocals W.A.S.P. - one of Kabanen’s musical idols next to JUDAS PRIEST, catches the listener with irresistible melodies, taking residence in Anton Kabanen | guitars ACCEPT among others - followed by select shows opening for the listener’s mind from the moment they hear it. Kasperi Heikkinen | guitars Germany’s BEYOND THE BLACK. If you’d have thought, that it’s Mate Molnar | bass impossible to top such an amazing beginning, you would soon With their very first European headline run, Finnish gigs and Atte Palokangas | drums be proved wrong. The BEAST started 2018 with two sold out even a few festival appearances already being announced, headlining gigs in Finland, the homecountry of Anton, Kasperi everything’s set for the BEAST to continue on its unstoppable and Atte. But there was no rest for the wicked, as the group path to the pinnacle of today’s metal scene from February 2019 joined Italian symphonic metallers RHAPSODY Reunion on their onwards... There’s simply no way to escape its claws! As JUDAS extensive »20th Anniversay Farewell Tour« across Europe, where PRIEST already knew in their hit song ‘Nightcrawler’: “Beware the band visited a number of countries and cities for the first time the BEAST IN BLACK…” You better do! www.beastinblack.com · www.facebook.com/beastinblackofficial · www.nuclearblast.de/beastinblack Style: Heavy Metal

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Tour: 02.03. B Vosselaar - Biebob 10.03. D Leipzig - Hellraiser 20.02. FIN Turku - Apollo 03.03. F Paris - La Maroquinerie 11.03. D Berlin - Columbia Theater 21.02. FIN Jyväskylä - Lutakko 04.03. D Frankfurt - Batschkapp 29.03. S Stockholm - Fryshuset Klubben 22.02. FIN Tampere - Pakkahuone 05.03. D Saarbrücken - Garage 30.03. S Gothenburg - Sticky Fingers 23.02. FIN Helsinki - The Circus 06.03. CH Pratteln - Z7 31.05. - 02.06. 27.02. D Hamburg - Markthalle 07.03. D Nuremberg - Hirsch CZ Pilsen - Metalfest Open Air 28.02. D Bochum - Zeche 08.03. D Munich - Backstage (Werk) 05. - 08.06.S Sölvesborg - Sweden Rock 01.03 NL Amsterdam - Melkweg (OZ) 09.03. D Stuttgart - Im Wizemann 11. - 13.07.D Balingen - Bang Your Head!!!

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