"It’s not the fight
between x, y, and z bands,
but a battle between two sides:
Underground quality music
and the plastic mainstream stars"
(Atilla "Crow" Varju, Wendigo band, Hungary)
Dear Friends in Metal,
as many of you know the year 2006 has brought the first victory of metal at the Eurovision
Song Contest, by the band Lordi from Finland.
This year, 2007, has brought to us 2 participating entries that can be classified as hard
rock / traditional heavy metal, by Eirikur Hauksson from Iceland and band Kabat from Czech
Republic.
Eirikur Hauksson aka Eric Hawk is the most
famous Icelandic heavy metal vocalist and former member of the bands Drysill and Artch. At the Eurovision 2007 he
presents song "Valentine Lost" written by Sveinn Runar Sigurdsson and Peter
Fenner
Listen to the song here
Watch videoclip: here
Watch live performance (in Icelandic) here
Read more: http://www.ruv.is/heim/vefir/english/ http://esckaz.com/2007/ice.htm
A tiger trapped inside a cage/An actor on an empty stage./Come see the show!/
Rock ‘n' roll will heal your soul/When broken hearts lose all control.
Band "Kabat" is the most
successful heavy metal band in Czech Republic active from the year of 1983. Their Best Of
album still is the most sold item in the country in any genre of music. At Eurovision 2007
they present song "Mala dama" (Little Lady).
Watch live performance here
Read more: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ http://esckaz.com/2007/cze.htm http://www.kabat.cz/
S touhle bych zemrel v jedinej den / A jestli Vam to
nestaci
Kdyby tam stala stovka zen / Vyzvu ji k tanci a to netancim
Thus, both entries will need your
support on the night of the semifinal, 10th of May 2007 (Eirikur is 5th in running order,
Kabat are 16th) and hopefully on the night of final, 12th of May 2007. Eurovision will be
broadcasted by most of the European national broadcasters with voting opportunity, for
more details check www.eurovision.tv - official website of competition, and your local TV
listings on the date of contest. Feel free to spread the news around and
Stay Metal!
Heavy Metal Eurovision will be back in
Summer of 2007!
Heavy Metal Eurovision - 4rd edition (June 2006)
4rd edition of the Heavy Metal Eurovision is
finished.
Please find results below. Congratulations to the
winners and good luck to all bands and voters.
We're planning special 5th edition sometime in Autumn. Stay tuned for the
announcements.
Additional clarification: Ladies and Gentlemen! We once
again underline that this contest is FAN BASED and UNOFFICIAL. In should
be NEVER mixed with Eurovision Song Contest organized by EBU which is live event. Heavy
Metal Eurovision is organized within the regular frames of such type of internet contests.
There are dozens if not hundreds such contests in the other musical styles in the web, and
as this is first attempt to organize such contest in heavy metal style, it is rather new
for the audience, and we need to clarify and emphasize on the fact that participating
bands ARE NOT directly involved in the contest. Some of them are not even
informed about their participation, and result in this fan contest can not affect them at
all. No prizes are distributed as well. It is simple GAME, the one you
can play, or can ignore, or can invent your own one with your favourite bands and
different rules. Purpose of it is to promote heavy metal bands from different European
countries among us, heavy metal fans. Stay metal!
Also, we'd like to congratulate Finnish band Lordi for winning real Eurovision Song
Contest, the event our main site www.esckaz.com/
devoted to. Lordi in 2006 and Wig Wam from Norway in 2005 brought rock feeling into main
Eurovision, and hopefully more to follow next year.
Prior to their participation in Eurovision we've talked about our "Heavy Metal
Eurovision" with Mr. Lordi, lead singer of Lordi, and he reacted on our project
saying "That's cool!". So we've got rock-n-roll angels blessing! :)
Main rules:
Participating countries - active and associate members of European Broadcasting
Union. Few countries may be in and out from one edition to another if no suitable bands
are located for respective country. There is no official relegation for the countries and
participation depends only on availability of the suitable entries. Few countries may be
granted exclusion, like Kazakhstan, which takes part in the contest as special guest
country. As per request, we'd like to explain the fact that for example Malta, Latvia,
Lithuania and some other countries which took part in previous editions are missing now -
we were not able to locate suitable (that means heavy but not death/hardcore band) from
those countries. It doesn't mean there aren't any but getting audiofiles from them
appeared to be problematic. We hope this countries will get back in the next edition and
rely on you - please if you know any bands in the missing countries - send us your
suggestions! Attention: since the 6th edition of the contest we may start allowing
associate members of EBU to participate, at least it is discussed. Among associate members
are USA, South Africa, Canada, Australia and others. For more information on active and
associate membership read website ebu.ch. We're planning special 5th anniversary edition
later this year.
Requirements for participating bands: page at www.metal-archives.com, official website with
mp3 files available for download in decent quality. Priority is given to active power
metal and prog metal bands.
Preselection: Is run by organizers, but any voter may suggest his
nominations which will be properly considered.
Nominations should be sent to organizers at metal@esckaz.com/ or published
at the discussion board which is located at Metalism
records messageboard. Voter can nominate only bands (not songs).
The main voting is done with judging all participating songs in 1-10 scale
and votes should be sent to organizers at metal@esckaz.com
or published at the discussion board which is located at Metalism
records messageboard. Before the voting you should download and listen properly to all
of the participating entries (about 40 songs). For voters residing in Almaty, Kazakhstan
all entries can be given out on mp3 CD if requested. In case download link fails to
function and no alternative will be available - organizers will take the decision whether
to upload file themselves or to disqualify the entry. To get better quality mp3 - buy
original CDs and if they are not available use sharing programs as E-Mule & Soulseek.
When voting try to judge not quality of recording and not quality of mp3 (because
they may differ from country to country), but quality of the music, potential of the band
and lyrics of the song.
Deadlines for voting are set by the organizers, in general voting period is
one month. The contest is approximately 5 editions project scheduled to run every quarter
of the year.
Participation in nominations and the main voting is open for everyone, but
voter should mention his name, e-mail and city of residence when voting. One can vote for
his own country, but all votes will be checked to prevent multiply voting. Please do not
vote by giving 10 points to your country and 1 point to all others. This votes will be
simply disregarded and your adress blocked from futher voting. Only correspondence in
English or in Russian will be accepted. Attention: No mp3s to be sent via e-mail!
Disclaimer: Heavy Metal Eurovision is not real life contest, it is fan based
event taking place in the internet. Purpose of it is to promote heavy metal bands from
different European countries. Data and recordings used in this contest remain property of
the bands and other copyright holders and are used by the organizers for the promotion
purposes only. Heavy Metal Eurovision is not associated with Eurovision Song Contest which
is registered trademark of European Broadcasting Union.
Organizers hold the right to change the rules at any point of the competition or to
cease the event completely.
We also kindly thank following band representatives for their interest in the
project and wish them good luck in the contest and success in the future:
Amala, Arkenstone, Defect, Magister, Otrazhenie, Power Quest, Privateer, 7 thorns,
StormCrow,
Black Abyss, Black Horsemen, Crusader, Emerald Sun, GloriaN, Mercury, Phoenix,
Salamandra, Secret of Dawn, Steel Tormentor, Sweet Sorrow, Thunderbolt, Tyr, Worth;
Before Silence, Blynd, Eleftheria, Gaia Epicus, Gone, Eternal Flight, Manticora,
Mindfeeder, Old Season, Tuzmadar;
Altair, Armageddon, Desert, Distant Light, Dyslesia, Emerald, Holy Dragons,
Offertorium, Persefone, Rosebourg, VII Gates, Symbolic.
Eirikur Hauksson aka Eric Hawk is the most
famous Icelandic heavy metal vocalist and former member of the bands Drysill and Artch. At the Eurovision 2007 he
presents song "Valentine Lost" written by Sveinn Runar Sigurdsson and Peter
Fenner
Band "Kabat" is the most
successful heavy metal band in Czech Republic active from the year of 1983. Their Best Of
album still is the most sold item in the country in any genre of music. At Eurovision 2007
they present song "Mala dama" (Little Lady).
