Exactly one month before Belgian thrashers BLIKSEM are hitting the Mainstage of the well known GMM-Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel-Belgium where they play alongside with bands like Volbeat, Slayer, Ghost, Bullet For My Valentine, Halestorm, the band is releasing a new single-video from their second album Gruesome Masterpiece – August 28th (Iron Will/Roughtrade). Check the second single Out of the Darkness.
“Once upon a time hardrock and metal bands didn’t just focus on writing heavy riff orientated songs to bang your head to and go nuts. No, from the genre’s pioneers – Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath – in the 70’s, to Bay Area thrashmetal inventors Metallica Testament and Death Angel in the 80’s and 90’s, there was once in a while an urge to transfer their deepest personal emotions via a classical, melodic ballad. However popular, in the 80’s and 90’s the ballads seemed to disappear and metal bands were expected to solely express their anger and hatred, or escape in worlds of fantasy or occultism. Not so Belgian’s metal band BLIKSEM, known for their powerful melodic thrash metal. Going against the grain, frontlady Peggy Meeussen, for whom Janis Joplin was and still is a great inspiration, dares to reveal her personal life in this classical, almost forgotten subgenre within heavy music. Out of the Darkness…..Into the Light.”
LIVEDATA 11/06 Retie Rockt, Retie (BE) w/ Peter Pan Speedrock, Death Aley and many more 18/06 Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel (BE) w/ Volbeat, Slayer, Ghost, Bullet for my Valentine and many more 24/06 Dokk’m Open Air, Dokkum (NL) w/ Testament, Doro, Primordial and many more 20/08 Tattoofest, Nijverdal (NL) w/ Diablo Blvd and many more 24/09 Female Metal Fest, Eindhoven (NL) w/ Arch Enemy, Kobra The Lotus and many more 01/10 Rocktoberfest, Lier (B) w/ Izegrim, Distillator and many more 29/10 Kraken Metal Fest, Soignies (B) w/ Dagoba and many more