2006-now
2006-now
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2006
Deuteronomium came back together for one re-union show at OHM-Fest in Keuruu in June 2006. They were the main act at the festival and played around 90 minutes for more than 500 people. The show was recorded and filmed with plans of a live-DVD release. Maanalainen Levykauppa released a new version of Street Corner Queen -album with the same bonus tracks that were found on the digipak-version.
Well, the gig went very well and while rehearsing for it, the band members solved out all the old disagreements and everyone enjoyed playing together again, so…
On December 24 they gave their fans and friend a Christmas present on their website by announcing that the band is alive and kicking again!
2007
On May 19, Deuteronomium played their first gig after the comeback at Immortal Metal Fest in Nokia .
The next show at True Attitude -fest in Heinola on August 17 proved that the band is really back: For the first time in 8 years they played a new song, Fields Of War .
During the year they also worked with songs for their next album, which is shceduled to be recorded in spring 2008.
On November 16 Deuteronomium played at Maata Nakyvissa -festivals again, and the setlist included a new song again, 3:16 .
2008
The band started the new year with pre-production of their comeback album. In January they recorded a demo of 12 songs to help with the final arrangements of the songs.
On March 10 they entered the studio again, starting the recordings of the new album. After 5 days of hard work at Drumforest Studio, Viitasaari, on March 14 all the drums and some of the bass tracks were recorded. The recordings continued on April 1 at Studio Watercastle with two-week sessions. After finishing the recordings, Deuteronomium played their first-ever show in Switzerland, at the Elements of Rock -festival on April 26. The album was mixed between April-June, 2008 at Watercastle, and then mastered at Chartmakers by Svante ForsbДck.
During the summer of 2008 Deuteronomium played a couple of shows, one in Finland in June, and two more in August: Freakstock in Germany and Flevo in Holland, both bringing many new friends for their music.
9 out of the 12 recorded songs ended up to the album that got named “From the Midst of the Battle”. It was released on Bullroser Records on August 13 as two different versions: a normal CD in super jewel box and 12-page full color booklet, and a special edition CD+DVD digibook. This handnumbered edition is strictly limited to 500 copies, and besides the album, it includes totally different artwork compared to the normal version, 20-page full color booklet, and a bonus DVD featuring a full gig plus studio diary and documentary from the band’s trip to Switzerland. This one is a real collector’s item!
After it’s first week in stores, FTMOTB made it to #11 on Finnish top40 album list on week 34. The official album release show took place on August 23 in Ristirock, Tampere.
In the end of the year Deuteronomium played 14 gigs around Europe, starting from their home field in Helsinki, continuing at Nordic Fest in Oslo, Norway three days later. And in December they headed for their first real European tour together with another finnish melodic death metal band Immortal Souls. 14 days with 12 gigs in 7 countries: Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany, Holland, France, Belgium and Switzerland. The experience was really great, and their bandwagon, Manu’s old Chevy Van rolled 11,000 km around Europe within two and a half weeks! With tons of unforgettable experiences gained, new fans and friends made, lots of old ones met, we would call this tour a success!
2009
The new year started for Deuteronomium in February with a Helsinki Metal Meeting -gig at legendary rock club Tavastia in Helsinki, in a concert that was part of the Finnish Metal Expo. A couple of months later the band played at Immortal Metal Fest in Nokia, Finland. That gig was supposed to be the release show for their new vinyl-EP ”Retaliatory Strike”, but since the things didn’t work out as planned (how surprising!), they could release the EP only as digital downloads on that date. It turned out to be a couple of months more before the vinyls really came out from the czech factory… But after all the EP turned out to both look good and sound great, so it was worth waiting for.
The main focus for this year was to concentrate on writing new material for the band, and the plan was also to record the new album during 2009. However, due to some hard situations in the personal lives of some band members, the making of new album had to be postponed. The material for the new album, however, got written during 2009, so now it would only be a question of finding the right time to record the new album.
During the summer 2009 Deuteronomium played only 2 gigs, but they were very special ones:
in the beginning of June they played at a big finnish metal festival Sauna Open Air, along with such bands as Motley Crüe, Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Amorphis, Stratovarius etc. And in early August they played at another big finnish rock festival DBTL in Turku, with some of the most popular finnish rock bands like Maj Karma, Viikate, Kotiteollisuus, Apulanta, CMX etc.
During the autumn they played a couple more gigs in Finland, as well as Brainstorm festival in Holland. And in the end of the year they got to fulfill one of their dreams as they headed for their first tour outside of Europe: they played 9 shows around Mexico in November 2009! The experience was very exotic, exciting and interesting! And the mexican fans were really great! A perfect way to end this year when it comes to band activities…
2010
For Deuteronomium, the year started with a band meeting in January, and as a result of that, J-J decided to take a year-off from the band activities in order to concentrate more on other things in his life. Due to this, the band would need to find a session drummer to play the drums for their 4th studio album. After spending some time wondering who would be a perfect guy for the job, they decided to ask if a really great musician, the original drummer for the christian metal legends Mortification; Jayson Sherlock would be interested. It turned out that Jayson was very interested in doing the job, so now it was time for the band to record decent demos of the songs for him…
Well, as you may know, things don’t always work out as planned. That’s just how it went with the plan to record the new album with Jayson. He just couldn’t get it fit into his calendar after all, so the recordings of the new album just had to be delayed for a while…
Meanwhile, Deuteronomium played a couple of gigs in the fall, one at Night of Metal in Assen, Netherlands, and another one in Finland.
2011
Another year has started, and it’s finally the time to seriously get into the making of the new album. During the first two months of the year the band is making the final arrangements for the songs and rehearsing them. In March it’s the time to hit the studio and start the recordings. Good news is that J-J is still in the row and will be playing the drums for the new album after all!
Stay tuned for the story continues…