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TOUR 2011 !!!!

HIM | Deathless — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:56:57 +0000

Dear Fans,

We are very excited to make this announcement. As you know, we have been very busy working on our new album in the past year. It isn’t finished yet, but we’re getting there! We currently have the album scheduled for the beginning of 2011 and of course we will be touring soon after the album release! We’re returning to the European stages in February and March for the first part of the tour and head straight into the festival season after that.

We will be sending special links out to our fan club members starting Wednesday July 28th, so they will be able to take part in an exclusive pre-sale for fan club members only. Check www.thesilentforce.com to see the details on Wednesday. General presale will start on Friday July 30th unless otherwise mentioned on our tour page. Check back for all the exact pre-sale links. There will be Twitter-tags for all the shows. If you mention them in your Twitter-messages, you will be able to see who else is going to the same show as you and communicate with them! Here are the dates of the first part of the tour, we hope to see you there!!

25-02-2011 Heerhugowaard (NL), De Waerdse Tempel
27-02-2011 Tilburg (NL), 013
28-02-2011 Amsterdam (NL), Paradiso
06-03-2011 Groningen (NL), Oosterpoort
09-03-2011 Stockholm (S), Annexet
10-03-2011 Oslo (N), Sentrum Scene
11-03-2011 Copenhagen (DK), Vega
13-03-2011 Hamburg (D), Docks
14-03-2011 Berlin (D), Columbiahalle
15-03-2011 Warsaw (PL), Stodola
17-03-2011 Dresden (D), Schlachthof
18-03-2011 Vienna (A), Arena
20-03-2011 Munich (D), Tonhalle
21-03-2011 Zürich (CH), Volkshaus
22-03-2011 Milan (I), Alcatraz
24-03-2011 Barcelona (E), Razzmatazz
25-03-2011 Madrid (E), La Riviera
27-03-2011 Paris (F), Le Bataclan
28-03-2011 Cologne (D), E-Werk
30-03-2011 London (GB), Shepherd’s Bush Empire
31-03-2011 Brussels (B), Ancienne Belgique
01-04-2011 Esch/Alzette (L), Rockhal
02-04-2011 Kerkrade (NL), Rodahal

More news about the album and more touring plans will follow a.s.a.p.

All the best,
WT

New live acoustic album "An acoustic night at the theatre" out now!

Nightquest — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:12:38 +0000

WT's new live acoustic album "An acoustic night at the theatre" is available from now on! You can find it at your local CD store, online through various webstores, or on iTunes. It features some of WT's hits played live and acoustic on their theatre tour last year.

New single Utopia out tomorrow October the 23rd!

Nightquest — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:11:42 +0000

WT's new single Utopia will be available tomorrow the 23rd of October! You can either buy a hard copy if you live in the Benelux or order it through an online shop if you're not living in the Benelux. Otherwise you can buy it "digitally" from Itunes or whatever!...

Utopia music video!

Nightquest — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:00:48 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEIvlihb2Ms&feature=player_embedded

Check out the new music video (online since September 28th) of WT's next single named "Utopia" and coming out October 23rd. This single will be on their next live album "An acoustic night at the theatre" which is coming out October 30th and that features WT hits played live and acoustic and the previously mentioned single!

Hand of Sorrow Competition

HIM | Deathless — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:52:25 +0000

To celebrate our Black Symphony release we have created a unique competition. A new website www.blacksymphony.nl is now online, where you can download unique video footage of our ‘Black Symphony’ concert. These are various camera shots of our track Hand Of Sorrow, bonus fragments of our entire concert, exclusive backstage and tour material and other spectacular visuals that were shown during the concert. You can also find out about the background of Hand Of Sorrow, how we were inspired to write this song and what the lyrics are.

With these unique fragments we offer you the possibility to direct your own personal ‘Hand of Sorrow’ music video! Create your own video and enter the ‘Hand of Sorrow’ music video contest!

The winning video will be chosen as our new official ‘Hand Of Sorrow’ music video! But there’s more...the winner will be invited (from anywhere in the world!) with a friend to visit our exclusive seated show in Haarlem on November 27th. He/she will have lunch with Robert & Sharon in a first class restaurant, have VIP tickets during the show, have a get-together with the whole band after the show and will receive a complete WT merchandise package! He/she will spend two nights at a 4-star hotel in Haarlem and of course the winner will be transported from and to the airport as well as the venue.

The second prize is a Panasonic Blu-ray player and a signed ‘Black Symphony’ Blu-ray disc. And we will be giving away 10 packages containing a T-shirt (men’s/girls design) & a signed ‘Black Symphony’ Special Edition DVD box.

So, make your own ‘Hand Of Sorrow’ video and have a chance to win one of these great prizes! Information on how you can create your own video and how to join the competition can all be found on www.blacksymphony.nl !

Belgian TMF Awards

HIM | Deathless — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:50:06 +0000

We have been nominated for the Belgian TMF Awards in the category ‘Best Live Act’! Of course, we need your vote to win this great award. You can go to ‘nominee vote’ to place your vote.
http://awards.tmf.be/08/nomineevote

Here's a small list of translations;

Volgende categorieen = next categories

stemmen = to vote

zangeres = vocalist

artiest = artist

nieuwkomer = upcoming artist

je gegevens = your personal information

voornaam – first name

naam = name

straat= address

Huisnr = number

postcode = zipcode

geboortedatum = date of birth

geslacht = gender

woonplaats = city

telefoon = phone number

nieuwsbrief = newsletter

Tel/GSM = mobile phone number

Verzend = send

MTV VMAs !

HIM | Deathless — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:45:12 +0000

Great news! Our video "The Howling" has been put on the shortlist of 2 categories of the MTV Video Music Awards. All you have to do now is vote for us, so we will 'officially' be nominated. We are listed in the categories of "Best Rock Video" and "Video Of The Year".

Go to the MTV VMA website and vote for us. Here are the links:
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2008/best-rock-video/a-z.jhtml?chars=w
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2008/video-of-the-year/a-z.jhtml?chars=w

Black Symphony Trailer!

HIM | Deathless — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:20:40 +0000

Hi everyone,

Black Symphony
While being in the middle of cruising around Europe, playing at all kinds of great festivals, we’re very excited to be able to show you a clip off of our new DVD “Black Symphony”. We chose Our Solemn Hour because we know it’s one of your favourite tracks and we wanted to show you what a great DVD this is going to be! You can view the clip by going to our website,or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxb8FwhzK8
DVD
As we announced earlier, we’ll be releasing this concert on September 22nd, on 2DVD, 2CD and Blu-Ray Disc. Exact release dates and configurations might vary depending on what country you live in, but we will keep you updated on this. This special concert with the Metropole Orchestra, the PA‘dam choir and guest singers (Keith Caputo, George Oosthoek and Anneke van Giersbergen) was one of the best shows we’ve done so far. Next to the footage of this concert, recorded in High Definition by 14 camera’s, the DVD will also contain lots of extras. We will unveil the tracklistings very shortly!
Kerrang Awards
Vote for the Kerrang! Awards and have a chance to win your own table at the awards show. The British Kerrang! Awards are on the horizon and it’s voting time again. Of course we would appreciate your support for us. There is a chance to win a table at the award ceremony on August 21st at secret location in London. Here you need to register first and then you’ll be able to vote for all categories.
www.kerrangawards.com/kerrangawards/
Hopefully see you there- good luck!

Cover Black Symphony DVD

HIM | Deathless — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:14:13 +0000

We proudly present to you the cover of the Black Symphony DVD that will be released on double-DVD, double-CD and Blu-Ray disc on September 22nd. As mentioned earlier, it will contain the full concert we did at the Ahoy Rotterdam together with the 60-piece Metropole Orchestra and a 30-voice classical choir, as well as on-stage stilt performers, costume changes, and an array of stunning pyrotechnic, lighting effects and a 400m2 video screen with great WT visuals. The DVD will also contain a lot of extra footage from the show in Beursgebouw, amongst other bonus materials. More info on this will follow soon!

Touring Touring!

HIM | Deathless — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:53:27 +0000

As you already knew, we are doing quite a lot of European festivals this summer. We have just added a few more and there are still a few to be added. For example, we will be playing at Rock en France with Metallica on August 14, Pukkelpop on August 15, 2 festivals in Germany, our first show in Greece, etc. etc. And for all our fans in the Ukraine, we will be playing two shows in September: in Kherson at the kRock n Maybutje festival and a show in Kyiv at the CKM NAU. And there are still tickets available for our Dutch theatre tour in November. There are three shows already sold out, so be quick! Check our schedule for more summer festival dates.