News
... and once again we need your support
Hey Folks,
we are nominated again for one of the "Metal Female Voices Awards" -
this time in the category "Best Artwork". So, if you like the artwork
from our album Nordlys as much as we do, be fast and vote for us - you have got time until the 30th of june.
Thousand Thanks!!
New Forum
Hi Folks,
We have announced some time ago, that we had many problems concerning
our forum. For some time, nobody could sign up for the forum anymore.
It took us a good while, with lots of coffee, alcohol and nervous
breakdowns until we finally achieved our aim. With a lot of kind help,
we now proudly present our updated forum. You will see the effect of
our work immediately, because of a great new look.
There is only one small problem left - all allready signed up users
could have password-problems. So if you cannot log in, please use the
"I forgot my password" function. If this does not work, write an E-Mail
with your username to
one of the Admins. They will send you as fast as possible a new one.
So - all of you, who are not on the Midnattso-forum yet - it´s up to you to make it interesting again.
Enjoy the forum!
Midnattsol
We need your support!
For The Metal Female Voices Awards
Incredible! We are nominated for the very
first "Metal Female Voices Award" in the category
"Best Band having performed at MFVF". We are already ever so pleased
about the nomination. But it would be really awesome to get this award.
Because the MFVF is something very special for us. There we allways
meet great people, who share our enthusiasm for music und who are
therefore not only faithful fans for us, but much more. To perform for
them is a highlight every year. And to get an award because of them,
would be a milestone for Midnattsol. Only you can make this dream come
true for us. Simply by voting for us.
You only can vote a rather short time - so be quick!
Of course, you can vote for us, wether you have already seen us there or not.
Thousand thanks for your support - we are looking forward to meet you in Wieze!
A good reason for bad news!
You might probably know it already: we cannot play at
the Ragnarök Festival this year. But we have a wonderful reason
for this. Midnattsol will soon have a new member. In fact, Fabz becomes
a daddy soon. And because he does not want to miss the birth of his
child, he cannot travel this far for the next weeks, of course!
But there are also some other news in the Midnattsol world: we have a
new band room and we are looking forward to work there on our next
album.
Beautiful pictures and unpleasant news!
we have some awesome new livepics of our performances in Kerkrade and Lübeck for you:
Sadly we have to inform you, that the promoter of Secrets of Soest
has cancelled the festival on 13.06.2009, so that we won´t be
able to see you there. Too bad....
But maybe it will be some comfort for you, that you can find an
interview with Midnattsol, that was made on the last Summerbreeze
festival, on the website of Carpe Noctem (at least for all of you, who haven´t seen it until now).
Hi Sols!
we want to thank all the new and old fans fort he
great support in Lübeck (Treibsand), Osnabrück (Winternoise)
and Kerkrade (Rock Temple). This way it is fun to rock the place!!!
Especially we want to thank also the great staff of the fabulous clubs
Treibsand and Rock Temple, who really did a great job to let us feel
absolutely well. And „Wow“ for the Kerkrade Crew –
the club is now so amazing and we wish you all the best for the future!
Also we are really happy that we will performance this year again on the Metal Female Voices Feston 17.10.2009.
You can also find Midnattsol in the following magazines:
Happy Holidays
We from Midnattsol wish you all a wonderful festive
season and all the best for the next year!!! We are looking
forward, to see you again next year on concerts and we promise to work
hard on our next cd!
Until then: Enjoy yourself!
Great news for your christmas shopping!
From now on you can order Midnattsol-shirts, longsleeves, jackets, wallets and much more at In Ur Face
online! Some of the products are already online, the rest will follow
as soon as possible, so santa clause will not have to wait too long. We
are looking forward to a good team work with In Ur Face. We hope you will like the great stuff as much as we do! Enjoy your mulled wine!
A lot of news...
Hello Midnattsols – we have some new information for you!
- The Midnattsol-concert on 25.01.2009 at Uden BE / Club: De Pul was moved to Kerkrade (NL) The Rock Temple
- Here is a new information about the concert on 13.06.2009 at Soest.
At the „Secrets of Soest Festival“ Midnattsol will share
the stage among others with „Tyr“ and
„Alestorm“. You will find more information here.
- Lately the Midnattsol-Fans have the opportunity to buy the
Japan-release of the Limited Edition of Nordlys on ebay on the german
site of Amazon.
- New Endorsement: Our bassist Birgit has got a new endorsement of bass-straps of the company: Texas guitar straps.
All of you, who are interested in these straps will find more information here:
Guitar Products.
- We are glad to have found a great and reliable partner, who will be
responsible for the sales of our merchandise stuff. More information
about this will follow soon.
Pics from Enschede "Club Attak"
are now online. Have fun!
New Endorsement
Hey Folks!
Fernandes Guitars teamed up with Fabz. Among others Lerry King, Steve
Vai and Rob Trujillo are Fernandes endorsers. Fabz is now playing
Vortex and Revolver models exclusively. The Guitars come with the
"Sustainer". In a few weeks you can purchase
them in germany!
If you need more info visit the Fernandes or the german distributor ahead-music.
You can already check a couple of models at the Session Guitars Store in
Wiesloch/Walldorf.
Female Voices Fest gig cancelled
We
apologize to all of you, who would have liked to see us playing at the
Female Voices Fest, for the cancelled gig. We ourselves are absolutely
sad, that we couldn’t perform anymore. We will try our best, that
in the future no higher forces, in this case a complete motorway block,
will keep us from doing what we like most: to rock for you on stage!
Despite all this we want to thank all of you, who have been there and
had a chat with us, for the great support. You are amazing! Thank you,
thank you, thank you!!!
Watch out for our statement from the Female Voices Fest on video soon.
Lottery
Hi Folks,
As you probably know the Metal Female Voices Fest is not far away. For all of you who have no tickets we have really good news!
We raffle 2 tickets (to one person) for the Festival!
All you have to do is to answer 3 Questions:
o Where does the Metal Female Voices Fest takes place?
o What is the day of birth of our newest Bandmember?
o Which is the first song on our new CD Nordlys
Please write us the answers together with your full name until the 5th October to lottery@midnattsol.com.
(If you see this lottery too late – this would never happen again if you would subscribe to our Newsletter).
New Endorsement
We
are proud to announce a new alliance between our drummer Chris
and the German ROHEMA PERCUSSION company. Chris got his own signature
stick. He is looking forward to the work between Rohema and him. Chris
can`t wait to birch the new songs of Nordlys with his new signature
sticks.
Furthermor Chris will play the Ludwigsburger Trommeltage
event for the 3.rd time. He plays on Sunday 12.10.2008 on the
mainstage. Besides Chris, there are playing drumheroes as Mike Terrana
(Tarja / Masterplan / Ex-Rage) and Marcel Bach (Ex-Samsas Traum). Our
drummer will play exclusively news songs from the current album Nordlys.
Pics from the Summer Breeze Festival
Are now online! Enjoy!
Concert at November
We
will play a Gig at November near our home. Together with Coronatus
(and Eigensinn) we will rock the "Schwimmbad Music Club" in
Heidelberg. Date ist the 14th November. We will see you there!
14.11.2008 Heidelberg / Schwimmbad Club
New Midnattsol Member
Hallo Folks,
It is a great pleasure for us to announce that we have finally found a
new guitarist for Midnattsol. We have been having a good feeling about
it for a while now, but latest after our gig on the Summer Breeze
Festival it was clear:
We welcome Fabian Pospiech in the Midnattsolfamiliy!!
We are sure that Fabian is the right new guitarist for Midnattsol, he
certainly gives the band a lot through his amazing musical skills and
his cheerful personality.
Thanx a lot to everyone who applied for this position, we got so
impressed by the fact that guitarists from the whole world were sending
us their applications! We are very sorry if we haven`t got the chance
to thank each of you individually, so on this place: Thank you all so
much for your application and your interest in Midnattsol, it means a
lot to us!
Last but not least: Let it be a great time with Fabian!
Rock on!
Forum Update
Hi Folks,
a few of you will already recognized it: At the moment we are not able
to get new forumuser into the Midnattsolforum (it was our only method
to avoid a scores of spam robots entering our forum). Because of this
we will update our forum next weekend (first weekend at September). We
hope everything is going to be allright, but to have security we ask
all forumuser to save all your important facts an private
messages.
New song online
We have another song from our new album Nordlys online. It was a hard decision which song we want to introduce you and maybe it was the anticipation to the Summer Breeze Festival who brougth us to the decision. It is another song in norwegian language and it really rocks! So go to the audio section an listen to Skogens Lengsel!
Sessiongitarrist on Summer Breeze 2008
We
are really glad that so many people are interested to become a part of
Midnattsol as our new guitarist. Thanks to everybody who applied for
this position! But because of the huge amount of interested guitarists,
we did not make it to look through all the applications so far. For
this reason we will be supported by Fabian Pospiech (Respawn Inc./
R:I:P) on the next Summer Breeze Festival 08.
So far the rehearsals have been succesfully and the whole band can`t
wait to present their new songs live. MIDNATTSOL will play the 15th
August 2008 at the PAIN STAGE from 12:05 am to 12:35 am.
On the same day, there are also two signing sessions of MIDNATTSOL at the Summer Breeze Festival 2008.
From 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm at the METAL.DE stand on the festivalground
From 2:55 pm – 3:25 pm at the METAL HAMMER stand on the festivalground
New concert confirmed
MIDNATTSOL
confirm a new concert in Octobre. They will play with the labelmates
Visions of Atlantis and Edenbridge (+ local support) on 17th. Octobre
2008 in Enschede (NL) at the “Attak” club.
17.10.2008 (NL) Enschede / Attak
Midnattsol around the world
We are pleased to tell you, that Midnattsol is at the moment present in magazines around the world.
Japan
Sweden
France
England
Hungary
Portugal
USA
Current Interviews
At the moment we are present in the following magazines:
In the current issues of the magazines Gothic an Sonic Seducer are interview with
Midnattsol. For all of you who want to knwo more about the musical
preferences of our bassist Birgit we recommend the current issue of the
magazine Metal Hammer. There you will find her opinion about current CD releases in the Soundcheck category.
Have fun!
Midnattsol on Gothic Spirit 7 Sampler
According
to Gothic Spirits, their new Volume, GOTHIC SPIRITS 7 is the
heaviest Volume ever - even though 7 is a symbol for peace.
Including bands like: Nightwish, Amorphis, Midnattsol, Lacrimas Profundere, Atrocity, Crematory, Dark Princess,
The 69 Eyes and many more!!!
Midnattsol search for new guitarist!
After the leaving of our guitarist Christan Hector, as
announced a few days ago, we are looking for a motivated, dedicated and
party capable musician, who wants to assume the open position on the
guitar!
If you are interested in it and if you want to find out more about what
will expect you next to the forthcoming live gigs (Summer Breeze Open
Air, Metal Female Voices Fest, Ragnarök Festival, etc.), just
write to:
new-guitarist@midnattsol.com
After that, you will receive all the relevant information concerning
rehearsals and rehearsal room, way of working, etc., as well as a
little questionnaire to you and your musicial activities.
Metal on!
MIDNATTSOL
Christian Hector leaves Midnattsol
Hello Midnattsol folks,
three days ago we got a bad message. Our guitarist Christian Hector has
decided to leave Midnattsol. Christian describes the reasons for this
step in the following statement:
Ahoi Midnattfolks,
it's been some years since Carmen and me started out forming
Midnattsol. Now it's time for me to move on and experience new musical
directions. My decision is due to the musical development of the band,
the lack of time for family and friends and last but not least my
second band AHAB. I'd like to focus on the work along with my dear
friend Daniel Droste and Cornelius Althammer. Nonetheless, I still call
everyone in Midnattsol my dearest friends, too! And I guess we'll have
too much beer together again quite soon ;-).
So - as you see - this decision is not born from quarrels, controversy
or dispute with Chris, Birgit, Carmen, and the two Daniels. It's just,
my musical way will be a different one, now.
I enjoyed being part of this for the last five years and I guess, I'll
probably join one or the other of Midnattsol for some other musical
projects in the future. May it be folk, rock, metal or whatever. We'll
see.
I wish Midnattsol good luck with NORDLYS and the best for their further career.
Farewell, proud men and women!
Christian Hector
We really regret his leaving of the band after 6 common
Midnattsol-years. It was a great time and we have gone through many ups
and downs together. Without him Midnattsol surely would not have gone
the way where we are today – for this reason we have prepared a
slideshow with some of the nicest scenes of Christian`s time at
Midnattsol. Thank you very much for the wonderful time and all the best
for the future!!
Carmen, Birgit, Daniel D., Daniel F., Chris
Christian
Hector´s time by Midnattsol 
Photosection revised
We have revised our Photosection. We´ve uploaded already some new Pics - more Livepics will follow soon.
Metal Hammer winning auction:
(in the actual metal hammer magazine
(GER))
For drummers, there`s a cool winning auction in the german metal hammer
magazine:
Midnattsol drummer and his cymbal endorser company orion
cymbals
are proud to have some giveaways for the metalheads out there. You have
the chance to win a Revolution Pro 8" Splash or a 20" Rage Bass Ride
cymbal. There is also a pair of Midnattsol Signature drumsticks to win.
So have a look and good luck!
New Endorsement
Midnattsol are proud to announce a new
alliance between their drummer Chris and the Brasilian RMV company. He
will be endorsed with drumheads of RMV.
For all who are interested in these drumheads, check out:
kalango
(german dealer)
RMV
(Brasil Homepage)
Release
Today is the release of our new Album
"Nordlys" in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden (release for the
rest of Europe on 31th march). We hope for your support and wish you a
lot of fun with the new Album.
For all of you who want more information, Midnattsol appears with an
interview in the following printzines:
See you on tour!
New Homepage Online
We are proud to present you our new
Homepage. Finally there is an english version online! Feel free to give
us a review to webmaster@midnattsol.com
More Updates are coming - so visit this site again soon!
New Homepage is in the works!
At the moment we work hard at a complete
new Homepagedesign. We are proud to say, that there will be an englisch
version of the site too!!
The site will go online in a few days, so visit this site soon
NEW MYSPACE-SITE DESIGN!
Hey Midnatt-folks,
the new Midnattsol Myspace Site is online.
There you will also find a whole song-edit: Listen to "En Natt I Nord",
a song completely in norwegian, inspired by a norwegian film.
Visit our Myspace - Site!
Report over the Listening Session
Session from Midnattsols new album Nordlys. For all of you who
cannot wait until the release Date. Sonic Seducer has the new Song
"River of Virgin Soil" enclosed.
Enjoy!
First Tourdates!
Now the first tourdates for 2008 are
confirmed.
We are looking forward to see you there:
Summerbreeze
Metal Female Voices Fest
Nordlys - order in advance!
Be one of the first! You can
order the new Midnattsol album Nordlys in advance right now.
EMP
Nuclear Blast
Listening Session for Nordlys
Last Saturday a few journalists met
Midnattsol in a charming place (Inning am Ammersee) to listen to and
talk about our new album Nordlys. We are quite confident of
it´s being a success – but see for yourself the
first review on bravewords!
We will keep you informed, so look out for further information!
Merry Christmas!
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Keep on rockin!