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      <title>Ticket info...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><span><span class="fsl">here you can find direct links for tickets!!!<br /> <br /> 22.03.2013 AT - Wörgl / Komma<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.komma.at/programm/komma-events/serenity"><span>http://www.komma.at/</span><span>programm/komma-events/</span>serenity</a><br /> <br /> 23.03.2013 DE - Köln / Underground<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.eventim.de/cgi-bin/serenity-Tickets.html?affiliate=BIT&amp;doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&amp;fun=artist&amp;action=tickets&amp;jumpIn=yTix&amp;key=747817%242470663&amp;xtcr=9173"><span>http://www.eventim.de/</span><span>cgi-bin/</span><span>serenity-Tickets.html?affil</span><span>iate=BIT&amp;doc=artistPages%2</span><span>Ftickets&amp;fun=artist&amp;action</span><span>=tickets&amp;jumpIn=yTix&amp;key=7</span>47817%242470663&amp;xtcr=9173</a><br /> <br /> 24.03.2013 NL - Roermond / ECI<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.ticketmaster.nl/event/107373?brand=nl_ecicultuurfabriek"><span>http://</span><span>www.ticketmaster.nl/event/</span><span>107373?brand=nl_ecicultuurf</span>abriek</a><br /> <br /> 25.03.2013 UK - London / Boston Music Room<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/serenity-tickets/32439"><span>http://</span><span>www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/</span>serenity-tickets/32439</a><br /> <br /> 26.03.2013 BE - Bruxelles / Magasin 4 (+special guest: Skeptical Minds!!)<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.ticketnet.be/en/manifestation/idmanif/8249/"><span>http://www.ticketnet.be/</span><span>en/manifestation/idmanif/</span>8249/</a><br /> <br /> 27.03.2013 DE - Aschaffenburg / Colos Saal<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.reservix.de/reservation/plan_reservation_back.php?PHPSESSID=3dbb346f14370b16125a74e857d48e24&amp;eventID=358373&amp;eventGrpID=93145&amp;presellercheckID"><span>http://www.reservix.de/</span><span>reservation/</span><span>plan_reservation_back.php?P</span><span>HPSESSID=3dbb346f14370b161</span><span>25a74e857d48e24&amp;eventID=35</span><span>8373&amp;eventGrpID=93145&amp;pres</span>ellercheckID</a><br /> <br /> 28.03.2013 FR - Paris / Glazart<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.glazart.com/events/130328serenity/"><span>http://www.glazart.com/</span>events/130328serenity/</a><br /> <br /> 29.03.2013 FR - Lyon / Mjc O Totem<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="https://www.weezevent.com/widget_billeterie.php?id_evenement=26130&amp;code=23559&amp;cas=1"><span>https://www.weezevent.com/</span><span>widget_billeterie.php?id_ev</span><span>enement=26130&amp;code=23559&amp;c</span>as=1</a><br /> <br /> 30.03.2013 CH - Pratteln / Galery<br /> <a rel="nofollow nofollow" href="http://www.z-7.ch/konzertkalender.php"><span>http://www.z-7.ch/</span>konzertkalender.php</a></span></span></span></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New singer Clementine Delauney!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>“War Of Ages”, upcoming record of SERENITY to be released March 22nd, will introduce a major change in the band’s music and line-up.</strong></p> <p>Since their second album, SERENITY did add female voices to its songs, had different guests to perform them live and among them was Clementine Delauney. </p> <p>Going on tour together, the band realized her voice, personality and stage performance was bringing something special to the band’s universe and thought she should be present on the new record. </p> <p>The idea evolved with time… why not having a permanent female voice in the band? And it seems they had found the perfect one both on professional and personal levels. So it came up somehow naturally that Clementine should not be considered “guest” anymore…</p> <p><strong>Please welcome Clémentine Delauney as officially a full member of SERENITY!</strong></p> <p>Thus “War Of Ages” welcomes Clementine’s voice on lead, backing and choir parts, completing the music with a constant feminine presence.</p> <p>The band has the will to make its music richer on the vocal side; this is a start of a new approach! SERENITY will explore and use the unlimited musical possibilities of those two outstanding voices, to start with, and “War Of Ages” is the perfect transition record between what SERENITY was and what it will become in the coming years!<br />We hope you share our excitement!</p> <p>More to come very soon!</p> <p>YOURS SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>SERENITY - War Of Ages</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>After a year of composing, writing, producing, designing and  recording SERENITY is extremely proud to share first details on the  upcoming album "War Of Ages" due out on March 22nd EUROPE and  March/April USA &amp; Asia<br /></strong></p> <p>A bunch of new symphonic melodic metal tracks is awaiting you!<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong>Tracklist:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Wings Of Madness</li> <li>The Art Of War</li> <li>Shining Oasis</li> <li>For Freedom's Sake</li> <li>Age Of Glory</li> <li>The Matricide</li> <li>Symphony For The Quiet</li> <li>Tannenberg</li> <li>Legacy Of Tudors</li> <li>Royal Pain</li> <li>Fairytales (ballad version - LTD bonustrack)</li> <li>Love Of My Life (LTD bonustrack)</li> </ol> <p>While staying true to all SERENITY trademarks such as symphonic  orchestras, heavy rhythms, amazing melodic vocals &amp; bombastic  choirs we also brought in some new elements in form of various new  sounds in the SERENITY universe and a constant implementation of female  vocals supporting outstanding singer Georg Neuhauser. More on that in a  couple of days...</p> <p>The amazing artwork was produced by Seth Siro Anton, who was already  responsible for the arts of the bands debut album. It likely is his best  work to date and the whole cover figurine is just as impressive as the  LTD close up.</p> <p><img title="tl_files/newsimages/figureshopFINAL.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/newsimages/figureshopFINAL.jpg" alt="tl_files/newsimages/figureshopFINAL.jpg" width="492" height="500" /></p> <p>After Death &amp; Legacy the band decided to work with Oliver Philipps on Arrangements &amp; Orchestration - again.</p> <p>SERENITY's 4th full length release was again mixed and mastered by  Jan Vacik at Dreamsound Studios. Punchy and fabulous sounding as modern  melodic metal can be.</p> <p>More news regarding this metal masterpiece are just around the corner. </p> <p>Let the war begin!!!</p> <p>YOURS SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Mario Hirzinger quits SERENITY</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>With great mourning we have to tell you all that our dear friend, keyboardist, song &amp;&nbsp; lyrics writer as well as founder of SERENITY leaves the band as of now...</strong></p> <p>We already knew his decision for quite some time and fully understand Marios wish for something new. Though we hoped to change his mind especially with such a great experience like PP USA, which was always planned as Marios last appearance with SERENITY. Well - we made him change his mind twice already - but not this time (more on that in his statement) ;-)</p> <p>The Departure of Mario is a fact now and as a result we've been reconstructing SERENITY throughout the year already. We also have fixed arrangements with Marios successor who will be announced at a later date.</p> <p><strong>Mario, we honestly thank you for a great, never forgettable time, lots of cool and funny tour stories, lots of (great) work too,... We will see us for a drink or two ;-)</strong></p> <p>You can also read Marios statment below!</p> <p>Yours SERENITY</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Dear friends and fans! It took me a long time to think about it and now it’s on me to explain my decision – well, to sum it up even if it may sound strange: I’ve got to move on. At very first let me tell you it’s got nothing to do with any personal issues, the guys still are and always will be some of my closest friends; I’m very thankful for every single minute I could spend with them in the recent years on stage, on tour, in the rehearsal room, visiting great places all over Europe as well as here in Austria! Of course there sometimes had been moments of tension and serious discussions, every band knows that, but most of the time we just had great, occasionally quite silly fun, knowing we were a strong team of different characters working together and spending times off work in a meaningful way.</em><br /><br /><em>The main point is, symphonic metal is not my favourite genre – never has been – and my music taste in general has changed in recent times. This year there had been a couple of happenings showing me I’ve got to seriously change some things in my life and leaving Serenity is the first one. To be honest, it was not the first time I thought about that. The moment feels right to me now, I will continue creating music and lyrics on my own, also with other people, but without any business pressure or other limitations. Just for fun, just to see what’s there ‘hidden’ in me and waiting to be set free. Even if I liked touring and being on stage with Serenity a lot, I cannot carry on pretending I totally dig this sound and the whole business. I want to be an honest guy and don’t want to back something if I’m not really into it. And everyone, especially the fans, deserves honesty here.</em><br /><br /><em>I will move and most probably, if everything works out well, I will begin to study something – at least that’s my plan so far, I have the strong feeling that I’m not at the end of my possibilities in life. Leaving the band will also give me some ‘space’ for all that. Yes, I’m one of the founding members, I gave the band its name back in 2001 and yes, it had been an absolutely great time. But somehow I think I’ve seen it all now and that chapter should be closed to give way for another one. With all those remarkable impressions and great memories – our September gig in Atlanta as ‘climax’ – I don’t quit with a bad feeling. And I won’t miss things like driving vans hundreds of kilometres by night and day, fast food on the road, broken backstage showers and toilets, half full beer cans left behind on a table in the nightliner, dropping off on bumpy roads, all those strange unwritten ‘business laws’ and the … hm, let’s say not really exemplary behaviour of some people in that business. The adrenaline rush right before a show, the cheering of the crowd, the first cold beer after the show, great backstage dinners with all the crew, funny and interesting conversations, getting to know new, sympathetic people, seeing a lot of impressive places especially on off-days, the ‘wall of sound’ when the on-stage sound mix is just awesome, the cozy tourbus bunk and feeling like in a cradle in there when travelling by night … these are things I certainly will miss. But one thing I won’t have to miss is the friendship with Clèmentine, Georg, Tom, Fabio and Andi which is highly important for me! And I know I’m very lucky to have these great people in my life. So, my dear gooooiiiis ;-), I wish you all the best for the future of Serenity and all your upcoming plans – hold on to your dreams! I’m already looking forward to some crazy tour stories being told while having a beer or a coffee together!</em><br /><br /><em>Mario</em><br /><br /></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Shows cancelled...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>SERENITY wants to inform you that we had to cancel all shows for Nov/Dec 2012 in the Netherlands as support to the dutch band DELAIN.</p> <p>Please believe us that this was a really hard decision for all of us as there is no worse case scenario than cancelling a show.</p> <p>But to keep close to our tight time schedule for the upcoming album there - disappointingly - was no other way as release dates are already fixed. More on that very soon...</p> <p>In conjunction with the release of the next album we will tour all over Europe again. PROMISED... Also therefor a lot of dates are already fixed and we will release all info as soon as ALL DATES are fixed.</p> <p>We know that a lot of people have been looking forward to our shows with DELAIN. We will do everything to give you a new chance to see us. So please keep close to our website and our facebook channel as we announce tourdates for 2013 in the coming months...</p> <p>YOURS, SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>PP USA... Overwhelming Response!!!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>ProgPower USA was just amazing and therefore SERENITY says THANX to all of you!</p> <p>ProgPower USA was just an amazing time for SERENITY and a huge step forward into a new era!<br /><br /> Glenn Harveston - manager and founder of ProgPower USA - helped to bring  SERENITY to new shores. Also with the help of fan submissions the band  was able to not only reach out to a new audience, but turned Center  Stage into a melting pot.<br /><br /> A venue full of high expectations, questions about the performance, the  setlist,... But it seems SERENITY caught everybody attending PP USA 2012  by storm.<br /><br /> Reactions during and after the gig have been phenomenal. Standing  ovations, neverending applause and fascination among the crowd as one of  a few bands, including Nightwish or Symphony X, put smiles upon each  bandmember.<br /><br /> But that wasn't all...<br /><br /> People from all over the US got in touch with Georg (lead vocals),  Clementine (guest singer), Thomas (guitars), Mario (keys, vox), Fabio  (bass, vox) and Andi (drums, vox) during their attendance of other bands  performances.<br /><br /> This was topped by a huge line during the 30min (actually planned)  signing session which took the band more than an hour to work off.  Without even taking photos!!!<br /><br /> Still, there's more...<br /><br /> Days after SERENITY's slot at the festival the internet, especially  facebook is going crazy. All topped by an online poll for "best band of  PP 2012" on the offical ProgPower forums. Of course this can change -  but today/right now SERENITY is leading in front of bands such as EPICA,  SYMPHONY X, AMARANTHE, PRETTY MAIDS,... See for yourself:<br /><br /> <a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/progpower-usa/832067-poll-favorite-bands.html">http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/progpower-usa/832067-poll-favorite-bands.html</a><br /><br /> THE WHOLE BAND IS OVERWHELMED BY THE REACTIONS AND PAYS KUDOS TO THE  AMERICAN FANS OUT THERE, WHO MADE THIS ONE OF THE BEST SERENITY  EXPERIENCES SO FAR!<br /><br /> YOURS, SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>ProgPower incoming...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>We are really looking forward heading over to the USA and will bring along a bunch of awesome songs for our live performance on Friday 14th of September 2012 from 7pm to 8pm.</p> <p>We will also attend a special signing session on Saturday evening. Don't miss it!</p> <p>The band will also stay in the venue most of the time attending the other band's concerts. Especially Nightwish, Kamelot &amp; Symphony X are a must see for us ;-) </p> <p>So make sure to train our songs as we need all your voices for singing along and having a great time!</p> <p>More infos on <a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.progpowerusa.com">http://www.progpowerusa.com</a></p> <p>cu, SERENITY</p> <p>PS: News on the upcoming album soon after ProgPower!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Support To Jethro Tull</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>SERENITY will support music legend Ian Anderson with his band Jethro Tull tomorrow 5th of July 2012 in Kufstein (Austria). The fortress of Kufstein is an awesome open air location - probably the most unique concert area all over Austria.</p> <p>We look forward to this unique experience... Maybe one or the other can join us...</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Don't miss out...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Don't miss our upcoming shows this week in Pratteln (Thursday), Cardiff (Saturday) and London (Sunday)!!!</p> <p><strong>Thursday, 22.03.2011 Pratteln Z7 Galery Music Bar (Switzerland)</strong></p> <p><strong>Saturday, 24.03.2011 Cardiff Bogiez Rock Bar &amp; Nightclub (UK)</strong></p> <p><strong>Sunday, 25.03.2011 London The Underworld Camden (UK)</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We will have some rehearsals on tuesday and wednesday and are looking forward to see you on the road!</p> <p>Yours SERENITY</p> <p>PS: Songwriting is progressing and we already have some fantastic songs for the next release.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Next Album - Work In Progress</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi everybody,</p> <p>I want to give you some insight in what is currently going on within SERENITY. Our plans, current work, etc.</p> <p>First of there is to say that we have started working on our next release. We have tons of ideas and we try to figure out what is worthy of being released on the next album. So on basis of lots of ideas from me (Tom), some stuff of Georg and also Mario and Fabio, we meet eachother on a weekly basis (the first time we are doing this since Fallen Sanctuary) to work on structures and vocal lines especially. Fabio disappointlingly is not part of this finalizing process as he is just too far away from our place here in Tyrol/Austria.</p> <p>2 songs are already finished in structure, musical arrangement and even orchestration from Oliver Philipps (who else...). Already sound fantastic in their preproductional rough mix version. But we still need to work on the vocal lines and so some changes may still find their way into the final version. Codenames are "Oriental Dream" (honestly we have a slightly different internal codename I simply cannot tell you ;-)) and Electro. Those names have nothing to do with lyrics or anything else. We always give strange codenames to our songs. "Spatzl mit Kraut" (austrian food) or "Schmelzest" (similar to melting) just to name two??</p> <p>Oriental Dream can be imagined as something you would expect from SERENITY. Heavy riffing leading into a dreamy verse, midtempo chorus, heavy orchestration and arrangement in general, acoustic guitars, some oriental elements,... All in all an upper midtempo song with lots of cool heavy melodic moments. Quite compact -- something we try to keep in mind for the whole album.</p> <p>Electro is quite young. The idea is my latest work but I just felt this was what we needed to get some more variety and a little modern touch. This one is also finished with all arrangements in terms of music. Again... we are still finalizing the vocal lines to make them a little more interesting and even catchier than they are now. Final words: easy listening with a stunning dreamy pop'y vibe!</p> <p>The next 2 songs we will be working on are "XXX" and "WhiteWhiteWeg" (==FarFarAway). Cool names - hmmmm? XXX currently is a quite heavy and modern song which resembles a lot of our own trademarks such as double bass parts, heavy orchestration, cool rhythm changes, powerful vocals,... If you can imagine a mixture of lets say "To Stone She Turned", "All Lights Reversed" and "Far From Home" or "Circle Of My 2nd Life" you get at least an idea of this one.</p> <p>WhiteWhiteWeg is our speed output so far. Very much like "Far From Home", "New Horizons", "Engraved Within",... I love this one for being a very compact melodic metal hymn and having some stunning melodies. I can only imagine how this one will sound with Oli's orchestral arrangements. Mine are - lets say - "close" to his, but maybe not that massive and well arranged ;-)</p> <p>Other ideas I am almost certain of making it into the final product include a ballad from Georg (by the way - we never had so many ballad ideas for one album - next to this one there are 2 other ones from me and another one from Georg), "Trip To Hawaii" from Mario (promising chorus! different vibe in general!), something from Fabio, and 2 harder songs named "Godzilla" - based on a very cool riff and a cool chorus - and "Eurasia" - some kind of heavy march from me.</p> <p>We have a whole lot of song ideas and parts for this release. The question now is what to work on and what to dismiss immediately. And this process is not that easy anymore as it was in the past when we worked on almost everything and those songs also made it onto the album. But nowadays I think we are more concerned about overall quality as ever before. Which honestly puts us under some serious pressure. </p> <p>But I am confident that we will overcome this songwriting task again. Somehow at least ;-)</p> <p>We are already looking into the cover design for this one too. But haven't found a perfect match so far. We will see...</p> <p>cu, tom and SERENITY</p>]]></description>
      <link>http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/newsarticle/items/next-album-work-in-progress.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New Booking Agency</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p class="uiStreamMessage"><span class="messageBody">We  are very happy to announce our new booking agency - TWISTED TALENT! No  one else than Jörg Michael (Stratovarius, Running Wild, Saxon, The  Devil's Train,...) will be our new booker! With his company, together  with Gerald Wilkes from Continental Concerts (Amon Amarth, Children of  Bodom,...), he takes care of bands like Accept, Stratovarius, Van Canto,  Ensiferum, Mystic Prophecy and many more! The meeting with Jörg was a  great experience and he really believes in SERENITY! So we're looking  forward to work with him in the future! </span></p> <p class="uiStreamMessage"><span class="messageBody"><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.twisted-talent.de">www.twisted-talent.de</a><br /></span></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Merry X-MAS to all of you...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>We wish you a merry X-MAS! Thanks for your support over the years and have some beautiful days with your beloved ones... Yours SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>X-Mas Sale &amp; Free Shipping &#40;UPDATE&#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Don't forget to order your christmas presents during our X-MAS SALE on our webshop!!!!!</p> <p><strong>Christmas incoming... Therefore we reduced all our merch prices and all orders with a total amount of € 20 and higher are shipped for free within Europe (€ 30+ free all over the world)!!!</strong></p> <p>There are some new things in our <a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/serenityshirts.html">STORE </a>such as SERENADE OF FLAMES shirts from the Out Of The Dark Festival tour as well as some SERENADE OF FLAMES hoodies!</p> <p>Also some left Death &amp; Legacy LTD albums are in our <a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/serenityshirts.html">STORE </a>now as well as more sizes to our Death &amp; Legacy T-Shirts....</p> <p>And remember: ALL PRICES REDUCED (TO NOTHINGNESS...) -- well, almost ;-)</p> <p><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/serenityshirts.html">Get your christmas present right here in our shop as long it's available....</a></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Get ready for a massive fire attack... Our new music video for the song "When Canvas Starts To Burn" will be officially released on Monday, the 14th of November 2011 on all our channels as well as on the official Napalm Records Youtube channel, and everywhere else you can think of.</p> <p>To give you a small glimpse of what to expect from us (basically nothing less than the best ;-) I give you some hard hard HARD FACTS...</p> <p><strong>Song: </strong><br />"When Canvas Starts To Burn" or "Fight Fire With Fire..." (you will see what I mean)</p> <p><strong>Band:</strong><br />Ahhh.... what are they called ;-)</p> <p><strong>Location you see in the video:</strong><br />MORDORRRRRRRRRRRRR...... No... actually a sunny, shiny, cosy and warm place in Tyrol. Don't you see the cows in the screens...</p> <p><strong>When did you shoot the video:</strong><br />Some time ago... Exactly 4 days before the DELAIN tour kickoff! Took some time to get it done...</p> <p><strong>Where did you shoot:</strong><br />In a film studio in Innsbruck/Tyrol/Austria in front of a pink video wall. Actually was green, but pink would have been perfect...</p> <p><strong>Who shot the video:</strong><br />This was a collaboration of 3D imaging &amp; game development company LIVING LIQUID (the guys rule!!!) and film company ARTFABRIK - both situated in Innsbruck/Tyrol/Austria</p> <p><strong>How long did you work on the video:</strong><br />1 day of shooting, several days of preparation, months of editing and years of 3D imaging (poor LIVING LIQUID guys). I think we need to bring them some cookies...</p> <p><strong>Why "Canvas":</strong><br />We wanted to show another part of SERENITY. We can also play metal - you see, you hear, you feel ;-)</p> <p><strong>What's this song about:</strong><br />The song is about Andi, our drama drummer. He looks like Albrecht Duerer and so the idea came up to our mind...</p> <p><strong>What else... </strong><br />Ducky McCool didn't make it into the video as he was born shortly afterwards...</p> <p>And here are some screens directly taken from the video's release candidate... Enjoy!</p> <p>All the best -- tom &amp; SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi everybody... </p> <p>I know it is quite late to tell you that, but all within SERENITY knew from the very beginning that I won't make it on this tour due to job and family reasons.</p> <p>The long tour in April/May of this year led to a lack of holidays and so Chris from VOA will take my place for this tour.</p> <p>I just came back from the final rehearsal together with Chris. Basically I was only there to answer some of his questions regarding some riffs and notes. Rest assured that he will do a good job!</p> <p>I am really sorry, but that's just the way it is... </p> <p>Hope to see you in the future - rock the house!!</p> <p>Tom</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>"After our sad cancellation of Metal Camp we have some good news to tell  you as well: we'll headline the "End of Summer Festival" in Willofs  (nearby Kaufbeuren - southern Germany) on the 9th of September. So  expect a nice headlining set with pyros and video wall....AND a special  guest!!<br /><br />We are very happy to announce our new female guestsinger  for our upcoming concerts. It's the voice from French symphonic metal  band WHYZDOM - Clementine Delauney!!! She is a  fantastic singer and fits perfectly to our songs!<br /><br />Cheers, yours SERENITY..</p> <p>...and in the next months we'll have some more great news for you!!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Due to an injury of keyboardist Mario Hirzinger the band is forced to cancel the long awaited gig at Metalcamp 2011!</p> <p>Mario on his injury and the cancellation:</p> <p><em>On Sunday afternoon while playing with my girlfriend’s dog barefooted on a riverside sandbank I cut the sole of my left foot badly with a sharp edged stone hidden in the sand. The long and deep cut bled like hell and had to be washed aseptically and sewn later in the hospital. I'm off work for at least a week, have to wear a cork half-cast and must not step on the foot which means I have to use crutches to move around. That sucks big time as I really, really was looking forward to play Metalcamp and visit the beautiful festival area in Slovenia for the first time! I’m very sorry for every single fan that planned to see us there on stage!</em></p> <p><strong>Also the rest of the band feels really sorry therefor but sees no chance to play without Mario as his live performance cannot be replaced in such a short amount of time!<br /></strong></p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Fabio D'Amore, bassist for SERENITY, FAIRYLAND &amp; PATHOSRAY, signs bass-guitar endorsement deal with polish high quality manufacturer MAYONES GUITARS, known from bands &amp; artists such as WITHIN TEMPTATION, PARADISE LOST, LIMP BIZKIT, TRISTANIA, PAIN OF SALVATION, DARK TRANQUILLITY and much much more. Fabio decided to go for a standard Slogan 5 Classic model.</p> <p>Fabio on his bass: <em>"Being a musician for several acts and projects and working in studio as sound engineer/producer brought me being in touch with several instruments and several brands.</em></p> <p><em>When I first got to know Mayo instruments I was immediately impressed by their absolute versatility and warmth. I thought myself, that’s the kind of instrument I want! Nothing would have been better for me than picking-up a Slogan 5 classic, with its Bartolini Soapbar pick-ups and the stunning Aguilar OBP-3 active preamp. This combination with Ebony Macassar top, gave me the perfect playing sensation I was searching for years.</em></p> <p><em>Be sure that it won’t be my only Mayones instrument!!!"</em></p> <p>Check out highest quality customizable guitars &amp; basses on <a href="http://www.mayones.com">www.mayones.com</a>!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<h3>Leave's Eyes Tour 2011</h3> <p><strong>Friday, 22nd of April</strong><br />Georg and Mario sort out merchandise early in the morning and drive from Tyrol to Munich to pick up the van for all dates with Leave's Eyes - yesss - we have to drive on our own. Andi and Tom still have to work... Fabio is on his way to Austria. At about 2 o'clock the big load in begins. How the hell shell all this fit to that van??? Tetris level 9 --&gt; and we managed to do it. Andi got the wrong train and makes a little sightseeing tour in Salzburg (about 2 hours away from the place where he was supposed to be ;-) and we all are happy that there is no show today. We could not have made it with Andi!!! <br />So we meet Andi at half past 5 in Rosenheim (Germany) and make lots and lots of jokes on him. So lets head to Bielefeld, Lisa Middelhauve's home and our tour 2011 headquarter. lWe have lots of fun in the car but we arrive quite late at half past 2 in the morning. Ahhhhhhh.... we are crazy.... So let's get to sleep....</p> <p><strong>Saturday, 23rd of April</strong><br />So today the tour really starts with the first show in Enschede (NL) supporting Leave's Eyes. We have to travel for about 2 hours which is no problem at all. We left some merch at Lisa's place but still, the van is stucked!!! At the venue Atak we immediately meet the guys and girls from Midnattsol -- they are really really nice people (luckily!!). Soundcheck and everything gets a bit late - more some kind of a line check and we have to start the show half an hour earlier than it was announced. So 5 people in front of the stage -- later about 150... Still we had fun. The worst thing was to drive to Rotterdam till half past 3... Lots of bad dirty nasty talking in the car - as always!!!</p> <p><strong>Sunday 24th of April</strong><br />We stayed at a friends place, got some sleep and we only have 10 minutes to the venue in Rotterdam. The show today already starts at 3 in the afternoon! Normal sunday show in the Netherlands!!! We wathched some funny stuff on Youtube (Hey Apple... What is it...) and are discovering new stuff in an awesome CD collection (3000+). Now let's move...</p> <p><strong>Monday 25th of April</strong></p> <p>The venue was well known to us from our first tour with Morgana Lefay. And all fears became true... Small stage, technical limitations, no backstage, no place for setting up our stuff,... However - it turned out to be a cool show then! Lots of SERENITY fans singing along our songs, wearing our shirts,... This was more like a short headlining gig refering to the audience. Thanx to everybody!!! Special thanks to everybody from the dutch fanclub - again! Was great to see you again. We had some plans to go to a pub in Den Haag. But the show was delayed and it took us much much longer than expected to finish everything and load in the van. So we had to change plans and directly got back to our friends place. Got something to eat and had a cool chat all together. Couple of hours sleep and right now we are preparing to leave for Frankfurt. Long drive - about 400km - but we have fun always. So I am really curious on what we will speak today. Lots of jokes expected ;-)</p> <p><strong>Tuesday 26th of April</strong></p> <p>Ok... well... ahhhhhh... was special today....&nbsp; Crowd was ok, but the size of the stage as well as the backstage situation of the venue was just crazy! No backstage room, no room for setting up our stuff, no space on stage,... Georg stepping on my (Tom's) stuff, I touch all cymbals all the time, Fabio just is amused,... how the hell shell Lisa join us on this crowded stage... Somehow we manage to do everything! Right now we discuss our gig and are happy that we will enter the nightliner later this week. This will be a whole different story! However we enjoyed the performance just as always -- we really love our fans, our music,... So hope to see you on the DELAIN tour!!!!!!!!!!!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>DELAIN TOUR 2011</h3> <p><strong>Wednesday 27th of April - Day Off In Bielefeld (GER)</strong><br /><br />After a hard car drive throughout the night, today we have the possibility to rest a little bit in Bielefeld, at Lisa’s place, and (gladfully) make some laundry :D<br />The weather is not the best one to let us do some sightseeing and so we decide to stay inside, sort out our clothes and check emails, internet work and various stuff.<br />In the afternoon we decide to take a look at the Underground Shop, sort of alternative &amp; gothic clothing shop downtown, where we can buy some interesting stuff for the upcoming tour! Especially Georg and Tom had to buy new shoes as their old ones were a “bit” smelly ;-) This makes life easier for the rest of the band!<br />We end our relaxing day at the pub where Lisa is working, and we have a beautiful dinner and party - the tour starts ;)<br /><br /><strong>Thursday 28th of April - Leaving For The Tour!</strong><br /><br />We wake up and finally the sun is shining again! That would let us pack our stuff outside Lisa’s place smoothly than during a German spring storm :D<br />The tourbus will pick us up around 14.30 and we have to be ready with all our equipment outside a supermarket parking place. That makes it easier for the bus driver.<br />For SERENITY it’s really exciting hitting the road once again! The plan is to load all our stuff into the bus bay and trailer, then go straight away to The Netherlands to pick up DELAIN!<br />At 7 o’clock we enter the parking space nearby DELAIN’s rehearsal room and meet the band and the crew.<br />All nice and beautiful people! Sensation is that it’s gonna be a great tour all together.<br />After some technical issues during the loading of all the equipment (a lot!!) we take a pic of the whole crew together, and we can finally join the bus! The tour has officially started!<br />Next stop : Manchester, UK! During the passport check in Calais we encounter, that not everybody is happy about the royal wedding as an officer stated: "Fuck up this bloody wedding"<br /><br /><strong>Friday 29th of April 2011 - Academy3 - Manchester, UK</strong><br /><br />We reached Manchester earlier than excpected as we got onto an earlier ferry, and the weather is really good once again! A bit windy maybe, but that’s the UK :D<br />When we stop the bus aside the Academy3, some fans are already waiting for us! That’s so crazy :P<br />It’s gonna be challenging tonight : the stage is definitely really small!<br />We finally meet the support band for the whole tour, LOST IN THOUGHT. Very nice guys and such talented musicians! We’ll all share the dressing room and have some nice time together!<br />First tour day is always a bit messy, and there’s no time for us to soundcheck or linecheck before the show, that’s rock‘n’roll;)<br />During LOST IN THOUGHT show, we’re all excited and we can’t wait to enter the stage. We can hear that the crowd is going crazy and that makes it way easier for us all!<br />Now it’s time to load all our stuff and prepare the show.<br />People are incredible! 450 (sold-out show) They sing along all songs and they would definitely want more! (as you can hear them screaming :D)<br />But unfortunately our set is over soon and we have to leave the stage to DELAIN.<br />We’re all happy about our&nbsp; first gig and that’s definitely a good start for the tour!<br />After loading all our equipment back to the trailer and bus bay we can finally meet all our fans at the merch table, talk and take some pics with them. The response is absolutely stunning!<br />Then we can finally party the success in our tourbus, and leave Manchester with a big smile on our faces! London calling XD<br /><br /><strong>Saturday 30th of April 2011 - 02 Islington Academy - London, UK</strong><br /><br />Once again we arrive quite early, and what a beautiful day! We have some time to do some shopping and have a cup of tea in a bar close to the venue.<br />Also here, some crazy fan are already waiting for us outside! We sign some booklets and take some pics, although we do not look so great in the morning :D<br />Charlotte, Lisa and Nicole (our merch girl for the tour) decide to have some girlie shopping (of course!!) and me (Fabio) Tom and Georg take a look to the CD &amp; media store, while the others are still sleeping in the bus.<br />Around 14.30 we can finally start loading all our stuff inside the 02 Academy and take a first look to have an idea how it looks like.<br />The stage is definitely bigger than yesterday and that should let us have a better performance. <br />During DELAIN’s soundcheck we all check our emails, guest-list and several stuff, thanks to the Wi-fi connection on the basement.<br />The UK have some weird rules concering fire exits, backstage areas and we still need to get used to that. Looks a bit messy!<br />Great news : Rich from Threshold will come to see us, togheter with his wife. During soundcheck our A&amp;R manager from Napalm Records entered the venue – we were quite surprised to meet him here...<br />It’s time for LOST IN THOUGHT to enter the stage, even if it’s quite early (around 19.00), but today the curfew is stricht to 22.00.<br />We start preparing our show : crazy equipment all around and luckily some nice guys from the venue’s crew help us a lot (before and after the show). The crowd is impressive : nearly 800 people and we enter the stage to perform our setlist. The show goes on smoothly and response is once again incredible! But again, too soon we need to leave the stage for DELAIN.<br />Take some rest on our dressing room and we suddenly start packing all our equipment downstairs.<br />After DELAIN’s show we can meet all our fans, even if the security staff doesn’t let them even take a look to our merchandise! That’s crazy! But rules need to be respected, somehow...<br />After the usual loading onto the trailer and bus bay we can finally party! Today is Joyce’s birthday (DELAIN light technician) and we decide to prepare a lil surprise for her. We have a birthday cake and some delicious donuts – and of course – Andi and Georg perform their Austrian traditional jodling song (The “Kuatuttn-Jodla” – sang by farmers while milking their cows – Otto from DELAIN was an awesome cow ;-)), so that we can all laugh of :P <br />Next stop : Glasgow!</p> <p><strong>Sunday 1st of May 2011 - Cathouse Club - Glasgow, UK</strong></p> <p>We've already been here with KAMELOT in 2009 and we don't have very good experience with this club as it is in the middle of the town, the venue on the 2nd floor without lift, only 1 backstage room for the main act, very small stage, -10 degrees and cloth changing on a fire ladder outside of the club,... And we had to cancel the rest of the tour because Georg got ill. So we are happy to find a new backstage room only for SERENITY and Lost in Thought -- very small, but hey: At least it is a backstage room... We have to start our show without soundcheck and gained lots of technical troubles. Nobody at the monitoring desk, signals missing, no cables and mices left in the venue,... somehow we managed to do the job and people seemed to be satisfied. God thanks... After the gig we again chat with fans, sign albums,... And we had to carry our stuff to the tourbus across the above named fire exit!!!!!! </p> <p><strong>Monday 2nd of May 2011 - The Assembly - Leamington, UK</strong></p> <p>We enter the venue quite early and it is indeed a very cool place. Looks like an old church - a bit cheesy, but cool. Big stage (finally),... The speciality for today: Charlotte Wessels finally sings "Serenade Of Flames" with us and we have a real soundcheck for the first time. So the "rehearsal" with Charlie is awesome and we look forward to the gig. Somehow Lost In Thought's guitar amp was broken and so their guitarist uses Tom's Diezel Herbert for today and is stunned by the sound on the PA -- "fucking warpig"!!!<br />During the daytime most members of DELAIN &amp; SERENITY do some washing internet work and so on in the huge backstage lounge. </p> <p><strong>Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 - Travel Day To Strassbourg (FRA)</strong></p> <p>This day basically had nothing of real interest as the bus trip took till 9pm. So most of the time everybody was sleeping, working on laptops, chatting,... Finally at the venue we decided to find a restaurant for dinner. So DELAIN, the crew and SERENITY had a "not so cheap" steak. Then some of us had a party in a Karaoke bar whearas Georg, Fabio, Mario and Tom returned to the bus for some sleep and work. </p> <p><strong>Wednesday 4th of May 2011 - La Laiterie - Strassbourg (FRA)</strong></p> <p>Entering the venue finally we had a great catering. The PA is not that great with lots of top end but missing bottom end. Harsh sound overall for all of us... The gig then was awesome with a very enthusiastic crowd, a huge stage, etc. We also signed a lot of flyers, albums, made lots of photos with fans,... Cool! After a highly appreciated shower we leave for the bus.</p> <p><strong>Thursday 5th of May 2011 - Marche Gare - Lyon (FRA)</strong></p> <p>After loading our stuff to the venue and bringing some money to a bank (be sure that we spend all money left into the band again) we rest in the backstage area. We also received new merch from the german company ARTWORX -- they managed to print new shirts and deliver them within only 1 day!!!!!! We are really happy about that!!!! So for the moment we are discussing lots of things, working on our computers, doing SERENITY business, etc.</p> <p><strong>Friday 6th of May 2011 - Salamandra 1 - Barcelona (ESP)</strong><br /><br />Finally visit Spain again - especially Fabio enjoys his first time in this counry. We’re gonna play close to Barcelona, Hospitalet for being precise, in a place called Salamandra1.<br />There’s a very good weather when we wake up, 22 °C and a bit windy. We decide to take a small tour around the hood and have a lunch together before load-in and soundcheck. The venue looks cool, even if the space for 3 bands on stage is always limited. Pre-sales are OK, but the Spanish crowd knows how to warm us up, and the gig flies out just perfectly! Meet &amp; greet with fans after Delain’s set is just amazing, and let’s say, funny ;) The weather after the gig is turning into bad, and we don’t expect a sunny day in Madrid tomorrow. Muchas gracias Barcelona!!<br /><br /><strong>Saturday 7th of May 2011 - Sala Caracol - Madrid (ESP)</strong><br /><br />During our journey to Madrid (about 600 km) we have to stop in the middle of our path due to a tourbus technical problem. Seems that the engine can’t get air and something is wrong with the compressor. Gladfully we’re able to fix it in about 1 hour, thanks to 2 good mechanics (and Fabios horrible Spanish/Italian) that lets us understanding each others. In the end we got to know that a pipe was blown up and the breaks were effected. Luckily nothing special happened to all of us!! We obviously arrive Madrid really late and it’s even a bit cold outside. There’s no backstage or dressing room so the venue looks like a big container full of equipment, personal stuff and so on. Pre-sales look a bit better than previous day in Barcelona but never the less we get on stage and perform an awesome show! Reaction at the merch table is still great and we have the feeling we are (slowly but progressively) increasing our fanbase...tomorrow is gonna be challenging!!<br /><br /><strong>Sunday 8th of May 2011 - Poste a Galene - Marseille (FRA)</strong><br /><br />Today it looks like the most difficult day of the whole tour, for everybody : there’s a huge distance to drive (about 1200 km!), smallest stage ever and really really tiny venue, without backstage and dressing room for us.<br />Unfortunately Lost in Thought have been canceledl the show and due to the size of the stage, we’re gonna use few equipment, sharing with Delain’s one. <br />We also arrive really really late (we even had to MOVE SOME CARS ON THE ROAD, so that the tourbus can pass by --- we've never seen or done something -- definitely not possible in Austria!!!!!). We have to set-up all our stuff and help Delain to be faster than ever and make the show possible (for us, at least). We finish our line-check (or kind of...) when the people are already inside the room. We are also forced to cut our set-list, and we play only 30 mins, with disappointment of the crowd but being at least happy that we did it.<br />And it seems those who came liked it!! We have a hotel room just for shower and we go downtown (in 2 rounds) to refresh a bit. The driver was driving like crazy -- fasten your seatbelts ladies and gentlemen... Afterwards we enjoy some lasagne that the staff cooked for us and we all go to sleep. Next stop : casaaaaa! Milano!! (yes Fabio wrote this!!!)</p> <p><strong>Monday 9th of May 2011 - Alcatraz - Milano (ITA)</strong></p> <p>Ah, yes! Today I (Fabio) am at home and we’re gonna also have a day off here! Couldn’t have been better than playing in fantastic Alcatraz, the place where every Italian musician (but I’d say, not only) would like to play! The venue is just big, and amazing, the backstage and dressing rooms have room enough for the 3 bands and that makes it easier for everyone. Plus, if you add enjoyable Italian catering, what would I ask for more?<br />Our Italian fans from Serenity Italia official FB page are here and wait for us at the entrance, early in the afternoon. There’s nothing better than being welcome by fans before a show. It gives a special charge and can definitely make your day!<br />After Delain’s soundcheck we set up all our stuff, together with our buddies Lost in Thought, and soon we start to line-check and (finally) also sound check! <br />Pre-sales are not the best ones of course, it’s a Monday, and Italians really hate this day! But I guess also all others...<br />By the way, the day seems to run really smoothly and the show is scheduled earlier than other shows we had so far, due to the fact of being in the middle of the city, so curfew is 10.30 pm.<br />It’s time to get on stage and adrenaline flies high on me. Even if it’s not sold-out the Italian crowd really impresses us and it comes out a great show, with lots of funny moments with people and singing along the songs!<br />After the show an interiview with my long time friend Romano Depolo is scheduled and I can finally enjoy my dinner. This was definitely one of the best nights of the tour so far for me, and maybe, also for the other guys! We’ll be back soon! <br />The day after we can finally rest a bit. We’re really busy anyway, cause we have to wash lots of clothes and starting counting our merchandise, to be able to have a full picture of the actual situation. The day flies on fast and we can have some sightseeing and good food only late in the afternoon. We get to visit Milan’s centre and Duomo : impressive! (For those who never visited) and feels like a summer day! We can all have an Italian pizza for dinner and enjoy the rest of the night with some ice-cream and few drinks before getting back to the back and sleep. Tomorrow Switzerland!!<br />EDIT - the band: luckily Fabio was happy - even though he does not  understand our behaviour. We also don't get his one a lot often ;-)) And there are more  beautiful places (like Austria!!!!! ;-))</p> <p><br /><strong>Wednesday, 11th of May 2011 - LUZERN (SWITZERLAND)</strong><br /><br />We woke up in the middle of the lakes surrounding Luzern and what an incredible landscape! Feels like home in Tyrol... We arrive and suddenly the crew seems to be really nice and helpful, the catering area and the food are just amazing! Everything is clean and calm (of course) and most of us take a small tour into the city, unfortunately really short – we have to be back for the soundcheck. Not many pre-sales for today (it’s a working day) but we’re sure we will rock the stage anyway! The sound was really great on the monitors and despite a very difficult crowd (sorry!) we did a great show and we enjoyed the time with fans after the gig at the merch area. We had definitely the best backstage so far : kind of place you can find at the seaside, sitting outside, with sand and torches, absolutely amazing! We stay till late in the morning...<br /><br /><br /><strong>Thursday, 12th of May 2011 - STUTTGART (GERMANY)</strong><br /><br />The club looks nice, sort of bunker from the 2nd World War – but big and nice dressing room upstairs. Alex (guitarist of Midnattsol) reaches us in the late afternoon and we talk about nice memories we had touring together (and with Leave’s Eyes) some weeks ago. Chris and Birgit&nbsp; (drummer &amp; bassist from Midnattsol) will also reach us later on. So nice to meet them again! The show goes really smoothly we didn’t even imagine! The crowd is superb! We didn’t expect such reaction from the German fans! Amazing! At midnight will also be Charlotte’s birthday and we prepared an aftershow party for her downtown, in a beautiful place. The trip over there was a bit tricky as most passengers told us the wrong way... However -- Very nice evening indeed! Next stop : Aschaffenburg<br /><br /><strong>Friday, 13th of May 2011 - ASCHAFFENBURG (GERMANY)</strong><br /><br />We have already been here before, during the tour with Threshold and S.U.E. The Colos Saal is a cool venue. When we wake up we have to immediately do the load-in, since the bus can’t stay stuck in front of the venue, cause it is located in the very center of the town. The weather is still also kind with us and after loading all inside, we have the time to have an ice-cream and walk through the beautiful park, right beside the venue.<br />Again, amazing catering and such helpful people of the local crew. And, last but not least, the show is yet great! People are so warm over here and still unexpected! Nice hearing some positive reactions after the show – being here before definitely worked out!! Tomorrow, closest place to home : Munich!!<br /><br /><br /><strong>Saturday, 14th of May 2011 - MUNICH (GERMANY)</strong><br /><br />Once we woke up the location suddenly looks a bit weird : there was a rap/hip-hop meeting out there, and first thing we thought was : are we in the right place?! Never the less, after a couple of hours we’re able to enter the place. Once again we've been here before, together with Threshold and we hope to have some old fans coming again. Catering area is upstairs and there’s enough place for everybody to relax and spend some time checking internet and stuff, before soundchecking. Unfortunately the weather (for the very first time!) is not good : it starts raining and we’re forced to do the load in (and then, the load out) under a flood (not good for merch cardboard boxes!). When we enter the stage we have quite the feeling of being the headlining act tonight : the crowd is really crazy! The show is just incredible and we had the time to play one more song (When Canvas Starts to Burn) and people go crazy again!<br />Thnx everyone, really! One of the best gigs we had so far...and awesome spending some time with our fans after the show, that’s always the thing we mostly look forward!<br /><br /><strong>Sunday, 15th of May 2011 - BUDAPEST (HUNGARY)</strong><br /><br />We've been to Hungary twice before. Still - when we enter the venue we have to admit we didn’t expect such great catering, comfy (and big) dressing room/backstage, nice room/stage and still, great local crew. It’s so great to meet so many kind and great people all around the world while touring! We have some typical meal for lunch (made of&nbsp; scrubbled eggs and onions) and a spicy soup – superb! We will enter the stage soon, and still we can’t believe such a beautiful place we are having some relaxing time – that’s why we (and Delain) decide to leave a message to local crew, thanking them for the luxury they prepared for us. Incredible!<br />The stage is really cool and people amazing - Budapest = cool!! The perfect thing is : tomorrow day off here!! Yeah!! So we have once again the possibility to visit the city.<br />The following morning we divide in 2 groups : some of us will go to spa/therms having some relax, and the others will have an afternoon downtown, with our sweet local guide (and fan) Timea. We have such amazing time together, first lunching with typical dishes and visiting some parts of the city. Also some shopping was needed – great stuff indeed! (Fabio bought a pare of new shoes for the stage, finally...) – Too soon is time to say goodbye to our friend and beautiful Hungary. See ya really soon, on June 3rd @ Metalfest!<br /><br /><strong>Tuesday, 17th of May 2011 - WARSAW (POLAND)</strong><br /><br />It’s really sad today : we won’t have our buddies Lost in Thought for the rest of the tour, due to a van accident they faced, on their way to Slovakia...please, support them and send them best wishes... Chris has a double broken leg and has to stay in Hospital in Bratislava for about a week. That's really sad... That also shows us what could have happened during our former tours we did on our own with vans and mobile homes...<br />The tourbook says that’s the biggest room/capacity of the whole tour – but we didn’t expect that big! Everything is just perfect here at Stodola, stage, sound, delicious catering and, what a big backstage area!! Pure luxury! That’s what we can really call a perfect venue ;)<br />Can’t wait to play the concert and enter such a big stage. The band has been to Poland only once, so obviously we can’t expect that much from the fans. But anyway, everything seems to fly smoothly and we had again an extremely positive reaction!<br />Thnx Poland!!</p> <h3>Last part of the blog starts just here!!!</h3> <p><strong>Wednesday, 18th od May 2011 - BERLIN (GERMANY)</strong><br /><br />After the beautiful experience in Poland we’re back to Germany. Berlin is definitely a big city! The sun is shining high today and we take some time to walk across the streets, before soundchecking. Once again we find impossible being in the European Community and not being able to transfer our merch money onto our bank account in Austria :) The venue doesn’t look bad at all, even if the backstage is located in another building, at the 4th floor :P Let’s be sure not to forget anything :D<br />Catering is delicious!! Let’s say we’ve been really lucky during this tour!<br />There’s not a big help by the “local” crew tonight, we have the feeling that we’ve got to work our asses off even more ;) But let’s make it anyway!<br />The crowd sounds really Northern German :) But we played a good gig and people loved it! After meet &amp; greet with fans and packed our stuff, guess what we did?! Kebab!! :D<br /><br /><strong>Thursday, 19th of May 2011 - HAMBURG (GERMANY)</strong><br /><br />We’ve been told today conditions won’t be the best for us supporting bands. Doesn’t matter! Once awake we realized we don’t have any dressing room or backstage so once again, the bus will be our area ;) Soundchecks can’t start before 17.00 today so, there’s plenty of time to visit the huge music store building in front of the venue! Yay :)<br />Today support act for the show is My Inner Burning : a modern-melodic female fronted metal band, and we immediately realize they’re great musicians and great people as well! They will play with us tonight and tomorrow as well. Highly recommended!<br />We’ve got a table reserved for dinner in a lovely place in front of our tourbus. Yummy! And very nice locals! The stage doesn’t look that good tonight – there is no space for movements and coreo, so we will be really limited. We can’t even go off stage after the intro starts and we have to start playing immediately. Not very lucky with electricity as well! As second time on this tour, we have a lack of power just before starting “Far from home” and so we’re kinda forced to go for “Fairytales” :) We don’t have much time left encores tonight so we end our gig with a lot of applause (but where were those people after Delain’s show?? :P). Let’s forget bad happenings with a huge burger at the Reperbahn/Kietz :P<br /><br /><strong>Friday, 20th od May 2011 - COLOGNE (GERMANY)</strong><br /><br />Cologne! Most of European musicians know this beautiful city for the mighty Music Store, biggest store in Europe (eheh-sad but true!). Guess what plans we have for today?? Trying to visit the store of course, what else! Yes, trying...because our oddyssey starts with losing the first train for the centre of the city, and we have to check for the next one. We finally get downtown, and what a great cathedral. It’s huge and impressive! But unfortunately there’s no time to stop : we want to get to the store before it’s too late (and actually already is late!). The scenario gets unbelievable : a writing on the store’s windows says a new (and bigger) building was just built up in another area of the city and most part of the equipment was already moved there! BUT – looks like there’s a shuttle that goes there, every 30 mins...10...15...20...30...45...the bus doesn’t arrive! :( With big disappointment we are forced to go back to the venue for soundcheck, without memories! What a pity!<br />We then get back to the venue : it’s gonna be sold out tonight! But the stage doesn’t look better than yesterday tho... technical issues again (Tom's amp break down during soundcheck) but we can make it anyway! A lot of fans tonight are outside way before the show and the entrance of the venue looks like a party place, full of seats and tables outside! Feels like summer! Show goes smoothly and many fans wait for us at the merch stand! Sadly tomorrow last stop : Paris, France<br /><br /><strong>Saturday, 21 of May 2011 - PARIS (FRANCE)</strong><br /><br />Tonight is the last gig, where everything ends for this tour. General feeling is enthusiastic, from one side, there’s is the willing to play a stunning last performance, but really sad from the other side, since we’re gonna be back home and miss a lot of beautiful friends and fans.<br />Alhambra looks like an awesome place : big venue with a first ring place with sits at the fiirst floor. Looks perfect as last venue! We wanted to visit a bit of the city, but unfortunately, there is absolutely no time for it, lot of things to do today.<br />Our opening act for tonight is Whyzdom, from France, great musicians and friends! Catering downstairs is awesome again, and we have the feeling this night will be one to remember...<br />Usually last night on stage bands fool each other but this time we are convinced (who knows why) that Delain going to shoot some important clips tonight and probably is not really a good idea! But we will regret that...ehehe...cause the guys (and girls) from Delain are instead preparing a cool joke for us! Check it out somewhere on YouTube, if you were not at the show ;)<br />Can’t wait to go on stage! So many fans tonight! We know also some people that flew directly from the States to see us, that’s absolutely incredible...we have to deliver an ultimate show!<br />And I think somehow we did it...!! What great time on stage and can’t believe it’s over!<br />After Delain’s (and Georg’s performance once again with them) we all go on stage, as well as Simon &amp; Greg (+ Johnathan and Adam) from Lost in Thought who visited us, to say goodbye to this beautiful crowd in front of us and invite hard-core fans to our afterparty downtown.<br />After packing our stuff onto the bus again (for the last time moving those f*****g suitcases!) we can’t wait to reach the pub for the afterparty and have fun all together, until we are sane :P Goodbye Paris, and goodbye tour – now the journey back home starts – around 12.00 we should reach The Netherlands...<br /><br /><strong>Sunday, 22th of May 2011 - TRAVEL DAY / BACK HOME! (THE NETHERLANDS-GERMANY-AUSTRIA)</strong><br /><br />Sadly, for the first time after one month, we’re not driving to a place where we have to play. This time the routine we were used to is different. We’re going back to Holland and bring back Delain crew and all the equipment, and even if it’s hard, saying goodbye. It was a great time all together, and we will miss you!! We have to leave soon to Germany (which comes a bit unexpected - we thought we would make another stop over night somewhere in NL), so that we can load out all our equipment from the tourbus and rent a van that will let us reaching Austria. Arrived in Bielefeld we also have to say goodbye to Lisa that did a great job for us during the last month!! We pack everything inside this van (as you will see, another Tetris level!) and before driving all the way to Tyrol (approx. 7-9 hours) we decide to have a good dinner at a Japanese restaurant. After this deserved meal we have to hurry up and drive to Austria. We arrive early in the morning about 4 a.m., load out, go back to Germany to deliver the van, back to Wörgl and we have the last breakfast all together before everybody is leaving to his place (Georg and Andi head to Innsbruck by train, Mario back home, Fabio takes a rest at Mario's place and leaves for Italy later, Tom takes a rest in the rehearsal room before he is being picked up by his family).<br />We want to thank EVERYONE of you that took part of this incredible journey. Delain, Lost in Thought, My Inner Burning, and Whyzdom, and all people that visited our show!</p> <p>THNX!!!</p> <p><strong>What we learned so far... UPDATED!<br /></strong></p> <ul> <li>Turkish people are our best friends as they run their Döner Kebab grills all through the night...</li> <li>You can never get enough water on tour</li> <li>But there's always enough beer ;-)</li> <li>After 2 weeks the bus becomes a living thing (smelly, muddy,....)</li> <li>Nightliner toilets after 2 days are AMAZING.... and... disgusting</li> <li>Sitting on the nightliner-toilet lets you keep your breath as long as apnoe divers -- at least 4 minutes!!!!</li> <li>Dutch is similar to Tyrolean dialect</li> <li>Nöken = fucking -- don't know if that's written that way</li> <li>Andi is not dead --- cite: "Take me out for a walk, I am getting better"</li> <li>Wales is not England</li> <li>Monty Python is just as crazy as Austrian cinema ("Muttertag", "Hinterholz 8", "Poppitz")</li> <li>Soundchecks are becoming shorter from day to day...</li> <li>Mario falls asleep at a certain time - no matter what he is doing.</li> <li>He is also the first one up - eating, talking, moving,...</li> <li>Fabio is Italian! +1 +1</li> <li>Naked men will never be beautiful!!!</li> <li>Lisa even speaks while sleeping ;-)</li> <li>Welcome to the European Union --&gt; "No sorry, we cannot transfer your money to Austria!!!!"</li> <li>Austria is not Australia!!! No Kangaroos...</li> <li>The "Hoos Mich" is everywhere!</li> <li>Once more... Turkish people are our buddies...</li> <li>Some special sites work everywhere ;-)</li> <li>We need to buy Yoda or Darth Vader voice for our TomTom!!! mrrhhhh....</li> <li>Tyrol is beautyful!!!</li> <li>We are masters of Tetris level 9 (loading our vans!!!)</li> </ul>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>The limited digipack edition of "Death &amp; Legacy" is sold out!!! That means that no shop all over Europe will get new shipments with the LTD edition! If you see any left in your CD store and don't already own it -- pick it up immediately!!!</p> <p>We are lucky to bring a limited amount of digipacks along on tour. The last ones shipped by our label Napalm Records. But I fear we won't have enough for everyone out there...</p> <p>Even Amazon.de only has few copies left! So if you think on purchasing the LTD edition including 2 bonus tracks, make sure to do it NOW!! </p> <p>The only thing that's left to say is: <br /><strong>THANX TO EVERYONE OUT THERE FOR PURCHASING THE LTD DIGIPACK OF DEATH &amp; LEGACY!!!!</strong></p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>We are happy to announce that Lisa Middelhauve (ex-XANDRIA) will join SERENITY for our upcoming touring activities in 2011!</p> <p>Lisa on this issue: "Being a SERENITY fan it is like a dream becoming reality. Think of your idols offering you to tour with them... That's crazy! I am so excited about this cooperation and look forward to join the band within the next days!"</p> <p>Lisa will do all upcoming shows with SERENITY as support to LEAVE'S EYES, EPICA &amp; DELAIN. Also the "Death &amp; Legacy" release party this week on Friday 18th in Wörgl/Austria will be enforced by Lisa Middelhauve as well as all other shows (despite Vienna)!</p> <p><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/tour-2011.html">SERENITY TOURPLAN --&gt;</a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikroschnepfe"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikroschnepfe">Lisa Middelhauve on Myspace --&gt;</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Middelhauve/48294212372">Lisa Middelhauve on Facebook --&gt;</a></p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>The official <a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/serenityshirts.html">SERENITY ONLINE SHOP</a> is now completed as the new shirts have been added and can now be purchased. The shirts will be available on the 4th of march 2011 but can be ordered already!</p> <p>We always try to make sure to get the best quality and so we again are producing our merchandise products very carefully with highest quality shirts and prints! </p> <p>Tip from the band: Zippers are quite limited and will be out of stock soon (at least we think so).</p> <p><strong>Here is a list of the new stuff: <br /></strong></p> <table border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2"><strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/product-details-shirts/product/death-legacy-t-shirt.html">Death &amp; Legacy T-Shirt | € 18,-</a></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontdeathlegacy-343dcd5b.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontdeathlegacy-343dcd5b.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontdeathlegacy-343dcd5b.jpg" alt="SERENITY Death &amp; Legacy T-Shirt" width="100" height="121" /></a></td> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/tshirtbacktour-f619053d.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtbacktour-f619053d.jpg" alt="SERENITY Death &amp; Legacy T-Shirt" width="109" height="121" /></a><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><strong><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/product-details-shirts/product/serenade-of-flames-t-shirt.html">Serenade Of Flames T-Shirt | € 18,-</a></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg" alt="SERENITY Serenade Of Flames T-Shirt" width="100" height="121" /></a><br /></td> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/tshirtbacktour-f619053d.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtbacktour-f619053d.jpg" alt="SERENITY Serenade Of Flames T-Shirt" width="109" height="121" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><strong><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/product-details-shirts/product/serenity-coat-of-arms-t-shirt.html">Coat Of Arms T-Shirt | € 14,-</a></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" alt="SERENITY Coat Of Arms T-Shirt" width="100" height="79" /></a></td> <td>&nbsp;no back print!<br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><strong><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/product-details-shirts/product/coat-of-armsdeath-legacy-girlie.html">Death &amp; Legacy/Coat Of Arms Girlie | € 18,-</a></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" alt="SERENITY Death &amp; Legacy Girlie" width="100" height="79" /></a><br /></td> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/girlback.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/girlback.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/girlback.jpg" alt="SERENITY Girlies" width="100" height="79" /></a><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><strong><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/product-details-shirts/product/death-legacy-zipper.html">Death &amp; Legacy Zipper | € 35,-</a></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" alt="SERENITY Death &amp; Legacy Zipper" width="100" height="79" /></a></td> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontdeathlegacy-343dcd5b.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontdeathlegacy-343dcd5b.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontdeathlegacy-343dcd5b.jpg" alt="SERENITY Death &amp; Legacy T-Shirt" width="65" height="79" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><strong><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/product-details-shirts/product/serenade-of-flames-zipper.html">Serenade Of Flames Zipper | € 35,-</a></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/zippergirliesfront-c66467f8.jpg" alt="SERENITY Serenade Of Flames Zipper" width="100" height="79" /></a></td> <td><a rel="lightbox[multi]" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg"><img title="tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/shop/tshirtfrontserenade-7613c627.jpg" alt="SERENITY Serenade Of Flames T-Shirt" width="65" height="79" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a href="http://www.serenity-band.com/index.php/serenityshirts.html"><strong>GO TO THE SHOP!!!</strong></a></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>By the end of next week we will have the new merchandise available! All Shirts, Zippers, Girlies,... will be added to the online shop as soon as possible!</p> <p>We are happy to announce some more tourdates! SERENITY will be <strong>opener for Leaves Eyes &amp; Midnattsol</strong> at the following concerts! Be sure to get your tickets!!!</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">22.04.2011 -- NL -- Sneek -- Bolwerk <strong>(cancelled --- SERENITY was dismissed from this show)</strong></span><br />23.04.2011 -- NL -- Enschede -- Atak<br />24.04.2011 -- NL -- Rotterdam -- Baroeg<br />25.04.2011 -- GER -- Frankfurt -- Nachtleben<br />26.04.2011 -- GER -- Nürnberg -- Z-Bau</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>&quot;The Chevalier&quot; music video revealed!!!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>"The Chevalier" music video featuring Ailyn from norwegian band SIRENIA can now be seen on Youtube and on www.serenity-band.com of course. Next to this release also a teaservideo for the upcoming download single "Serenade Of Flames" (out on Jan 28th) was released a couple of days ago!</p> <p>Make sure to check them out!</p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53EMv7yvLj8">"The Chevalier" official video featuring Ailyn from SIRENIA</a></p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFdER_geRPg">"Serenade Of Flames" teaservideo featuring Charlotte Wessels from DELAIN</a></p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>First Death &amp; Legacy Reviews &amp; Listening Sessions</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>First "Death &amp; Legacy" reviews and listening session reports are coming in! The first review was written by "That Devil Music" and the album earned a rating of 9.5 out of ten. Well... that's a start - isn't it??&nbsp; See for yourself on the following sites!!! </p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://thatdevilmusic.blogspot.com/2011/01/devils-review-serenity-death-legacy.html">That Devil Music "Death &amp; Legacy" review 9.5/10</a></p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.darkscene.at/index.php?m=special&amp;i=34&amp;PHPSESSID=103998704517d9567136bc7f0105191d">Darkscene Listening Session (in German!!)</a></p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://stormbringer.at/specials.php?id=111">Stormbringer Listening Session (in German!!)</a></p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" href="http://www.metal.de/stories.php4?was=story&amp;id=2094">Metal.de Listening Session &amp; Interview (in German!!)</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Thomas Buchberger Signs Endorsement Deal</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Thomas Buchberger, guitarist &amp; composer for SERENITY, signs guitar endorsement deal with polish high quality manufacturer MAYONES GUITARS, known from bands &amp; artists such as WITHIN TEMPTATION, PARADISE LOST, LIMP BIZKIT, TRISTANIA, PAIN OF SALVATION, DARK TRANQUILLITY and much much more. Tom decided to go for a slightly customized REGIUS 7 model in the end of 2010.</p> <p>Tom on his guitar: "<em>Perfect  appearance, the best sound I’ve ever got out of my Diezel Herbert,  playability like I&nbsp;never played something else…</em><em> the best guitar I’ve ever played…&nbsp;</em>"</p> <p>Check out highest quality customizable guitars on <a href="http://www.mayones.com">www.mayones.com</a>!</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Serenity At Metalcamp 2011 &amp; Metalfest Hungary 2011</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>SERENITY will perform at Metalcamp 2011 in Slovenia. The festival will take place from 11.07.2011 - 17.07.2011.</p> <p>SERENITY was also fixed for the Metalfest Hungary 2011 taking place from 03. - 05.06.2011.</p> <p>The exact dates of the SERENITY live shows will be announced as soon as the whole schedules are fixed!</p> <p>The band is still working on a lot of promotional activities including the music video for "The Chevalier". Stay tuned for more infos on everything SERENITY on www.serenity-band.com!</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Ailyn from Sirenia on Death &amp; Legacy</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>SERENITY found the perfect female counterpart to leadsinger Georg  Neuhauser for a song called "The Chevalier" dealing with Giacomo  Casanova. AILYN from famous norwegian band SIRENIA sings this duett and  will also star as a main character in the upcoming SERENITY music video,  ready to launch in January. </p> <p>On the album Ailyn is joined by Charlotte Wessels from dutch band  DELAIN and Amanda Somerville, fairly well known for her appearances on  AVANTASIA, EPICA, KISKE,... All of them have absolutely beautiful voices  and bring a new nuance to this all new SERENITY experience.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Here it is, the all new SERENITY website! Only a standard homepage???? NO!!!</p> <p>This is the first ever launched SERENITY full web2.0 based platform for every fan's &amp; the band's pleasure. </p> <p><strong>The most important features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>All important content imported &amp; updated from our old website (bio, history, members, galleries,...)</li> <li>NEW! Leave your comments in every each entry</li> <li>NEW! Integrated improved Youtube channel</li> <li>NEW! Fully working shop system (shirts area will be finished within the next couple of days)</li> <li>NEW! Several technical improvements &amp; new site structure &amp; navigation</li> <li>NEW! Contact &amp; booking form</li> <li>NEW! Completely revamped newsletter system</li> <li>NEW! New design (of course)</li> <li>NEW! Interactive magazine style startpage, all important things at first sight</li> <li>NEW! Eventcalendar with all upcoming shows!</li> <li>NEW! MP3 integration in the MEDIA &amp; RELEASES areas!</li> <li>...and lots more!</li> </ul> <p>As you can see, this was a whole lot of work, but absolutely worth it! </p> <p>The Youtube, Facebook, Twitter,... channels will be overworked in the days to come!</p> <p>tom &amp; SERENITY</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi folks....<br /><br />Let me just tell you some things about our current status!<br /><br />- Everything is done...<br />- Napalm Records is starting the promotion machine<br />- Videoshooting is done - in the postproduction right now<br />- First listening session with magazines done - reactions are stunning<br />- Tracklist, cover artworks &amp; release date by the beginning of next week (a small hint... AMAZON)<br />- new homepage, new shop and&nbsp; facebook, twitter, myspace profiles on their way<br />- The whole band is now concentrating on our upcoming live performances and promotion, promotion, promotion...<br /><br />more in a couple of days... tom &amp; SERENITY </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Sale Sale Sale</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi metal heads!<br /><br />Let me tell you ...<br /><br />... it’s time again for a ‘Christmas special’ in our shop! We’ve reduced the prices of all the items, just have a look (available sizes in brackets):</p> <p>Fallen Sanctuary T-Shirt (M,L,XL) € 10,-<br />Words Untold &amp; Dreams Unlived Girlie-Shirt (S) € 5,-<br />Girlie-Shirt silver logo (XS,S,M) € 5,-<br />Fallen Sanctuary Girlie-Shirt (XS,S,M,L) € 10,-<br />Words Untold &amp; Dreams Unlived Longsleeve (M,L,XL) € 5,-<br />Fallen Sanctuary Longsleeve (M,L,XL) € 10,-<br />CD ‚Words Untold &amp; Dreams Unlived’ € 9,-<br />CD ‘Fallen Sanctuary’ € 11,-<br />CD ‘Fallen Sanctuary’ limited edition € 12,-<br /><br />Attention! Special prices for packages! Get our two CDs for € 18,- for example! And we’ll sign your copy if you want us to, of course …<br /><br />To learn more about the items and see pictures go to ‘shop’ on our website. Prices are valid until December 24th, please write a mail to me: mario.hirzinger@gmx.atThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Looking forward to your orders!<br /><br />Mario &amp; SERENITY </p>]]></description>
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      <title>Simon Holzknecht leaves Serenity</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>In SERENITY's history, this is the first truly sad message we have to publish. Simon Holzknecht - bass guitars - quits SERENITY due to personal reasons.</strong><br /><br />Within the last couple of years Simon was a constant and important part within the band and his bass playing completed our releases (Words Untold &amp; Dreams Unlived, Fallen Sanctuary) as well as our live performances. We have a lot of great memories to share from our weeks and weeks on tour, in studio, rehearsing or simply having fun with each other. We know hoch much effort and idealism is needed for a band such as SERENITY and so we fully understand and back up his decision. Of course we wish him the best for his future career - no matter in which direction it may lead. Simon stated that he will not join another band immediately -- what the future holds... we will see (or better hear). <br /><br /><strong>Be assured that this will have absolutely no effect on our upcoming release or our live gigs! Bass guitars for our upcoming release "Death &amp; Legacy" were already recorded by Tom Buchberger (guitars, songwriting).</strong><br /><br /><strong><a title="Fabio D'Amore" rel="lightbox" href="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/bio/fabio.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" title="Fabio D'Amore" src="http://www.serenity-band.com/tl_files/bio/fabio.jpg" alt="Fabio D'Amore" width="147" height="220" /></a>And here are the good news! Fabio D'Amore (Pathosray, Fairyland) will join SERENITY for all future live performances </strong>starting with our ProgPower Europe (NL) gig on the 1st of October 2010. Fabio plays in several bands and runs his own studio in PORDENONE (IT). The fact that his other bands only perform some single shows a year made it quite easy to get him on board our battleship cruiser. He is fully addicted to music and we are looking forward to a whole lot of new touring experiences as well as gorgeous "Austrian-English-Italian-translations" (this will be pain in the ass ;-))! If Fabio will become a full SERENITY member is a decision to be made by all of us in the future to come...<br /><br />SERENITY<br /><br />By the way... The new album is in the mixing process!!! </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>As some of you may have realized (via some newsentries spread all over the web), SERENITY will tour all over Europe in April/May 2011 together with Dutch female metal band DELAIN!<br /><br />SERENITY will be the main support on all shows! So be prepared to see the band performing several songs from their upcoming album "Death &amp; Legacy". <br /><br />Let there be said that the whole band cannot wait to get on tour again and wants everybody to join in!! Don't miss it, this will be awesome!<br /><br />And here are the tourdates ...<br /><br />Apr. 29 - UK - Manchester - Academy 3<br />Apr. 30 - UK - London - O2 Islington Academy<br />May 01 - UK - Glasgow - The Cathouse<br />May 02 - UK - Leamington - The Assembly<br />May 04 - FRA - Strasbourg - La Laiterie<br />May 05 - FRA - Lyon - CCO<br />May 06 - ESP - Barcelona - Salamandra1<br />May 07 - ESP - Madrid - Sala Caracol<br />May 08 - FRA - Marseille - Poste a Galene<br />May 09 - ITA - Milano - Alcatraz<br />May 11 - SWI - Luzern - Schüür<br />May 12 - GER - Stuttgart - Röhre<br />May 13 - GER - Aschaffenburg - Colos-Saal<br />May 14 - GER - München - Backstage<br />May 15 - HUN - Budapest - Diesel<br />May 17 - POL - Warsaw - Stodola<br />May 18 - GER - Berlin - K17<br />May 19 - GER - Hamburg - Knust<br />May 20 - GER - Köln - Underground<br />May 21 - FRA - Paris - Elysee Montmartre </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi there,<br /><br />our upcoming album "Death and Legacy" is still progressing! Slowly but it is progressing...<br /><br />We have so much work to do right now (not only SERENITY), which makes it quite hard to find enough time for recording this album. But let there be said, that a whole lot of the work is already done!<br /><br />Finished so far:<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Drums<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Bass<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Rhythm guitars<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Acoustic guitars<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * About 50% of solo guitars (working on the rest right now)<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Orchestrations, pianos &amp; keyboards<br /><br />Still to be done:<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * vocals<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * 50% solo guitars<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Mixing &amp; Mastering<br /><br />We hope that you will love this album just as much as we do. And we also hope, that all this huge amount of work that is needed to do such a release will be worth it! This is defenitely the most ambitious SERENITY release so far! It's epic, it's metal, it's melodic, symphonic and much much more.<br /><br />By the way... Cover artwork is finished too! Looking awesome and representing our concept just perfectly!<br /><br />We will keep on going for the weeks (or better - weekends) to come! As said I am currently finishing work on solo guitars and Georg will enter Lanvall's place in the very beginning of August!<br /><br />Please stay patient. It will be worth it!!! Tom &amp; SERENITY </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>We're performing on Wednesday!<br /><br />... and Wednesday is the 12th of May!! There'll be a special Napalm Records label night and we're sharing the stage with ARTAS, SVARTSOT, VAN CANTO, TYR and SALTATIO MORTIS, our stage time - according to the schedule - will be 18:45 to 19:30. Thanks a lot to Peter of 'Circle Of Serenity' for giving me a hint to publish these news!<br /><br />Hey, we had a great time yesterday at 'Building A Force'-festival, we hope you did so as well! Thanks to the promoters and the whole team and thanks to our German fan club and all our fans for showing up! We're looking forward to come again to BW! Here you can read a live report with some pictures from yesterday's show by Peter from 'Circle Of Serenity'.<br /><br />Mario &amp; S. </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Studio Message</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Here is a little video report directly out of our studio! </p> <p> <object width="480" height="385"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D3txB8IZH9I?fs=1&amp;hl=de_DE" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D3txB8IZH9I?fs=1&amp;hl=de_DE" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Update On New Songs...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>I've been working on the last couple of songs for about 3 days now and I have to admit that I underestimated how much work is left only on structures, chords and so on. So it will take me another 2 days I guess for completing everything in terms of music.<br /><br />Georg will be here the upcoming weekend to finish his guide vocals. I think we can handle that in 1-2 days due to most vocallines being written already.<br /><br />Some words on the songs I am working on:<br /><br />Song 7: Some kind of midtempo track with a modern pop feel meeting Serenity metal. It's got a headbanging pop touch chorus, a dreamy verse, badass instrumental parts and an awesome acoustic part. Georg and I defenitely like this song - some kind of unexplored terrain for us. Music finished so far...<br /><br />Song 8: This is already the 3rd version after overworking some chords, vocallines, structure,... by Georg. I felt that the song got a little bit too soft after we dismissed some harder parts due to a "that's not good enough"-feeling. So I added some new parts, changed structure again, raised the pitch,... Now Georg and I feel the right "vibe" in this song. So an overlook... Choir intro, modern (slightly oriental) riffing, Serenity style verse, one of the best bridges we've ever written, a perfect singalong mid tempo chorus, and much much more. We look forward to this song with all the orchestration!!! Music finished so far...<br /><br />Song 9: A song that is based on Georg's ideas (meaning vocallines specificly). After programming all drums I did'nt really know how this song could turn out catchy but not too cheesy. I think after giving this song a different pitch and quite hard guitar and drumwork this will turn out great in the end. I am still up on this one and will hopefully finish this one tomorrow. Still Solopart and some instrumentals,... missing. I also want to change some things on the current vocals as I have some cool ideas in my mind that will give the song even more appeal. You can think of a true metal hymn with punchy stuff in it.<br /><br />Song 10: Today I wanted to check out some ideas on the computer and started working on a completely new song. Something quite fast with eary melodies. I realized that some parts from a dismissed idea would fit perfectly (dismissed because of missing parts to complete those ideas). I integrated thouse parts in my new song and added new stuff to it. It has a lot of different parts - vocal parts as well as instrumentals. I already love hearing this song with all orchestrations and Georgs guide vocals (most of them already in my mind). Think of... well -- I can't think of any song like this. Maybe some kind of a mix between some of our favourites - being Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Iced Earth, Allen vs. Lande,.... Music finished so far...<br /><br />Song 11: Causes me most trouble right now. It's an oriental touched song by Mario. I added new drums to it and already tried some guitar work that could fix the melodies. So far no success... I think I have to do a new instrumental riffing part and change the bridge completely. That's beside some other new parts that need to be added. Verse and Chorus are stunning - at least I think that it will turn out great. But there's a lot of work to put into this song. Maybe I have a good flow tomorrow. I'll see...<br /><br />Song 12: A ballad by Georg - the way I know him this will be another "Fairytales" kind of song. Haven't heard it right now - but I think there won't be much work to put into this one. Ballads are Georg's speciality!! Hope to receive the material within this week to finish the music, reprogram drums,...<br /><br />So here are my final words for today: I will finish the music for probably 2 songs tomorrow. So only the ballad remains untouched. And by the end of the upcoming weekend I will transfer all missing songs to our producer Oliver for his final work on orchestrations.<br /><br />It's not been fixed whether the album will include 8, 9,10 or more songs. But the way it is right now I guess we will have at least 10 songs ready for it. Playtime wise it would not be much of a problem with only 9 songs -- most of our songs are very long...<br /><br />Out for today, tom </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Finishing Songwriting</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi everybody ...<br /><br />In the next two weeks we will finish the last few songs for our next big release "Death &amp; Legacy". Unluckily these last songs took a lot longer than expected ... however, after sorting out a lot of ideas they seem to be in their final stages.<br /><br />From Friday till Sunday this week I won't see much daylight as I will lock up myself in my little tomb (actually my homestudio) to finish those songs, change something here and there, improve vocal lines, structures, also have to check out one song of Georg and overwork another one of Mario.<br /><br />Then Georg will come over to my place for one last time to sing the guide vocals for our producer and masterchief Oliver Philips (EVERON) so he is able to do all orchestrations on those last songs!<br /><br />So we finally need to fix studio time for drum recordings - git/bass/keys will be recorded in my home studio, vocals in Linz by our friend Lanvall (EDENBRIDGE). Just the way we did with "Fallen Sanctuary"!<br /><br />I hope I will be able to publish a little video these days to give you some insight of how I work here in Austria.<br /><br />cu, Tom<br /><br />P.S.: I will check out some new guitars at the Musikmesse Frankfurt next week ;-) ("I feel sunshine in my head,...!!") </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Thank You Rock It Readers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>SERENITY was ranked #28 out of 40 in the reader's poll of German magazine "Rock it!" (issue No. 55)!! That's really not bad, considering the huge amount of bands who are around these days to rock our lives;)! A big "thank you" from everyone in the band!<br /><br />Mario &amp;&nbsp;&nbsp; S e r e n i t y </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Serenity In Guitar Hero</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Simply awesome or the way Georg said it "I scheiß an Kropfn" -- please don't ask for translation ;-) </p> <p> <object width="480" height="385"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZmEUEbpqPdE?fs=1&amp;hl=de_DE" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZmEUEbpqPdE?fs=1&amp;hl=de_DE" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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