2019 was an epic year for us and Methane! We released Thin The Herd , the first single and music video off our upcomming album ‘Kill It With Fire‘. The single was released on Sweden’s Big Balls Productions. We also got to come meet alot of you guys on tour in Berlin, Estonia, Lativia , here at home in Sweden and an Amazing tour on the West Coast in the U.S. with Incarnit. Methane started a Metal Vlog on Youtube ( Check it out here) and have searched high and low for a solution to our very own Spinal Tap drummer situation. Big specail thanks to Juuso Laukanen (Intact) for destroying drum skins with us live and Jonas Arnberg (Fimbutyr) in the studio.
2020 is already getting exciting, we have plans for new releases and booking tours and festivals that we will announce very soon. We thank everyone of you who have supported us on social media, who have come to shows, shared our music, bought a t-shirt or just threw up your horns, we are truely greatful and wish everyone a Happy New Year , lets blow 2020 up!
Tim, Jimi and Markus have made thier own Top lists from 2019 with tour memories to share with you metalheads. We would love to hear your Methane memories from 2019 please give us a comment with a photo or memory we shared together.
Tim’ Best 10
Best drink – Redwine and Fireball
We created an awesome drink on the boat to Estonia. We are still trying to come up with a name for it, but it definatly is a new Methane mainstay on our ferry rides across the Baltic sea.
Mosh Pit Of The Year
We had some good pits but the The Girl mosh Pit om Halloween at the 5 Star Bar was priceless. A group of girls ran on to the floor while we were playing dressed up for Halloween, they were brutal AF, it was amazing.
Best discription of Methane
While on tour in the U.S. , Sam from Big Balls Productions who had never met us asked the guys in Incarnit about what we were like. William Fossheim who was playing bass in Incarnit replied “Its like touring with pirates.” . I think that was a complement.
Coolest Castle – Rakvere Castle, Rakvere Estonia We get to sight see while we are out driving around looking for the next club. In Estonia we hit up 2 really cool castles a castle in Narva on the border of Russia and an amazing castles ruins in Rakvere. The gig in Rakvere at Kära Kants Rock Club was also an incredible night.
Dance moves of the year – Juuso’s Robot Dance Juuso was getting jiggy with it all year with his robot dance. He is a master of moves, he broke out the robot dance first at Blackland in Berlin and it followed us everywhere! In Riga, even a robot mosh pit broke out. Thrashtards for life!
Biggest Hole Visted – The Grand Canyon Like I said we do get see some awesome things on the road. Even some big holes in the ground, we saw Window Rock on the Navajo Rez, an old haunted cave in 2 guns Arizona but the biggest most impressive was ofcourse The Grand Canyon. I guess you can say Arizone is “Holy” .
Best gig food –Burritos in San Diego . Probably one of the most important things when we are out is getting something to eat. Some promoters really think of thier artists and feed us. Julie Knight Zucker from Knight Time Entertainment is one of those amazing music people. She hooked us up with some bad ass burritos in San Diego.
Latest After Party – Greeley Colorado. Well I’m not 100% if it was the latest but maybe more the strangest. We went back to Draghoria’s rehearsal studio after the gig with members for the band and Incarnit. Things got a little crazy to say the least.
Grumpiest On Tour – Dylan. Markus wasn’t able to follow us out the states on this last tour, but fortunately we got original founding member Dylan Campbell to jump in and play with us. He gets my grumpy award, because he wasn’t super happy when I would scream while he was sleeping.
Coldest Beer – Burning Run Fest Berlin. Not sure if the beer was cold or just because it was a warm outdoor fest. But good times were had and beer was involved with our brothers in Edge of Ever.
Jimi’s Top 10 of 2019
Srangest Gig – Los Angeles in Alley Studio
Funnest gig 2019
Blackland Berlin Germany
Moxi Denver USA
Kära kants Rakvere Estonia
Rockbar Karlstad Sweden
Mosh pit of the year
Moxi Denver
5 stat bar Los Angeles girl mosh
Rockbar Karlstad
The grumpiest sound engineer
Tucson
The drunkest boat trip
The ferry Stockholm- Tallinn
Best promoter, food and love…
Regena Dungan Srackangast of Decibel of Reign in Tucsin AZ.
Drink of the year
Redwine – Fireball
The oh no I can’t follow you guys home I forgot my passport and I am stuck here award.
Tim couldn’t leave Germany when he left is passport somewhere.
Markus’ Top Ten of 2019
10. Driving the car from Narva, Estiona having no idea how the speeding cameras were looking like. Got busted, however the ticket fee was not too bad, luckily.
9. Narva, Estonia as a city. Probably one of the stranges places I have been to on this planet. Estonia on one side of the river, Russia on the other side. Also, if there are 70 000 people living in Narva, where were they?
8. One of the best places we visited in 2019 was definitly Berlin. What a wonderful city. I would love to go back there again soon.
7. During the shooting of “Thin the Herd” I was so hungover. Worst shooting day ever, but the result was amazing.
6. The stage we played on at one of the shows in Berlin was slightly tilting towards my side, making it impossible to move without almost falling. Also, the feeling of everything on the stage would fall towards me due to the tilting. Scary stuff.
5. Moshpit in Karlstad. The moshpit that occured during our show in Karlstad, Sweden was absolutely nuts. The hade to clean in front of the stage after the show because there were so much beer and broken glass. That is how to have a thrash metal gig.
4. Old man mosh pit in Rakvere, Estonia. I’m not kidding when I say that there was a man, must have been over 50 or 60 years old having a fucking great show. He was moshpiting with himself for about 30 minutes. That made me so happy, and a little bit scared too.
3. When we played in our hometown and started the song “thin the herd” I have an important role in the intro. When i was starting to play it on the guitar the sound was gone. I was looking on my guitar and my ampifier but everything looked fine. After about 7 seconds (when the intro was totaly ruined), I saw that my tuning pedal was turned on, which makes the guitar muted. That was so embarrasing.
2. Live in Riga, Latvia. Tim did something so funny on stage that I started laughing loud. I could not stop. I was litterally louging for 4 minutes, non stop while trying not to screw up on guitar. Loved it.
1. Girl moshpit in the USA? I could not attend to that tour unfortunatelly. I saw a video when the band was playing in Los Angeles i think. I was wathcing the band playing, sounded good and everything semmed to be in order. Suddenly, the camera was turned away from the band and started filming the audience. There was I think 4 or five girls (cannot remeber exactly) that started a moshpit. I looked wuite violent too. They were not really dressed as “Metalheads” either. It all semmed so strange. But, I laughed so hard. I cannot think how the gyus felt when that happened, Must be no.1 strangest and best thing happend in 2019.
