Keeping Time...

The Hatecrew has been nominated to the Emma Awards for best Finnish Group, Best Metal Album and Best Finnish Artist. The Emma’s are their equivalent of the Grammy’s in North America. The band had previously received an Emma in 2005.

Priest, Testament and Megadeth are ploughing through Europe with the Priest Fast Tour, watch a 10 minute interview with Dave HERE, where he talks about the new album… (spoiler warning: possible names!)

Speaking of Megaman, Dave was recently invited by Bruce Dickinson to his BBC radio show, which will be airing on March 13th. Check out the Bruce Dickinson Show HERE

Keeping it constant, The Beast was just presented with a Brit award for best live act…however is not the award what caught my interest (really, we know they are better than that!) but it was THIS and THIS!! Too bad the closest Maiden is coming to North America is Ft. Lauderdale Fla, for a show on April 2nd, then back home for the summer...

Here's Maiden's Brit Award speech:

More Motorhead dates have been announced over the past few weeks. Lemmy and the boys will be touring through South America before making their way back to Europe for the summer. Check the website for updated show dates! (They just keep on coming!)

Nightwish will be hitting the road soon, starting on March 11 at the Brixton Academy in London, and rumour has it that they will be doing some filming for a DVD at that show…. Speaking of Nightwish and DVD’s, the trailer for their ‘Made in Hong Kong’ DVD was made public earlier this month, and the release date for the DVD is set for March 11 of this year… if you don’t want to wait you could always pre-order it HERE

Great news for Sonata Arctica fans! Rehearsals for their new album started about two weeks ago according to Henka’s blog, in which he hints at a tour coming for the fall of 09, as well as the new album, beyond that not much has been said but check the band’s website for more details.

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On a more personal note, I’d like to apologize to all of you for being absent for nearly a month, however it has been beyond my control. It all started with my sound card, and quickly spread around to the rest of the system (sounds like some decease) leading my computer to suffer (yes, suffer :P) a bad case of ‘idunowhatitwas’ and forced me to whipe clean my hard drive not once by twice so far. The problem is NOT a virus, (I’ve taken my sick pc to a few places to have it looked at) but due to the nature of symptoms I suspect it might be that the hardware is starting to kick the bucket bit by bit. For now I have moved Don’t Panic HQ to my laptop, and we’re going to play it by ear until I can either fix my desktop OR get a new machine… wish me luck!