METHANE (groovemetal/thrashmetal) is now on tour in Europe supporting our The Devil’s Own Album released on Sony / Dark Star Records. With Eyes Wide Open (SWE) and Edge of Ever (DE) Tour Dates here. Methane has just completed its Baltic leg of the tour which included Finland, Sweden and Estonia and will be in continental Europe stating this Thursday in Hamburg Germany. the tour will last untill May 5 ending in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Methane has also recently confirmed a proformance at Metallsvenskan Festival in Sweden which will include WASP, Satyricon, Exodus and Entombed AD to name a few.
We are pleased to announce that METHANE will be playing the METALLSVENSKAN Festival 2018.The Festival will be held att Bollspelaren Idrottsplats in Norrköping Sweden, on June15-16. Tickets available here
WASP , EXODUS, SATYRICON , RIVAL SONS are among a feast of amazing metal bands to play this 2 day event. Hope to see you there. See all Methane tour dates here.
METALLSVENSKAN started in 2009 , combining metal and soccor. There you can see your favorite bands fight it out on the soccor field and on stage on the same day. The festival recently moved from Orebro, Sweden to Norrköping, Sweden after taking a 1 year hiatus.
Our small rural region in Sweden is well known for its music scene and the bands that it has fathered. Hypocrisy, Dark Funeral, Pain and Sabaton are only a few of the well known bands who were procreated in the midst of the snow driven forests and dairy farms. Our city of Borlänge ,about 40,000 people strong, has been a large contributor to that music scene and that music scene is a large part of Borlänge’s identity. On April 7, 2018 a book “Dancing the Whole Way Home ” was released culminating 70 years of music in our town.
METHANE is very proud to be a small part, to even be mentioned among the thousands of musicians who have been spawned here Dalarna County. Jimi Masterbo (Methane guitarist) has been a staple in the music scene here for a long while and his formeer metal band Hell Patrol ,along with Christopher Säterdal and Jonas Arnberg of Viking folk metal band Fimbultyr and Stephan Pizza Eriksson who later would go on to play bass in Volturyon and Civil War, has a full 2 page feature in the Swedish language Publication.
Don’t miss Jimi and Methane on tour in Europe this spring.
Official Music video by Methane performing “72” from the 2017 album, The Devil’s Own, on Dark Star Records/Sony Music. Filmed live in Borlänge, Sweden, September 19, 2017 at Liljans.
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Wednesday March 21st VQM RADIO What’s New With Voodoo will be doing a split screen Facebook video interview with Tim Scott from Methane at 3:30PM CST / 4:30PM EST / 21.00 Stockholm (GMT+1) with Yvonne Loveland so tune in and find out what is happening with METHANE!
Yvonne Loveland is the CEO of Voodoo Queen Management (VQM) and avid supporter of undergorund music. Managing bands like Methane, SkinBound, Conquest and many more.
February 21, 2018 we gave us off to Estonia from our rural town in the heart of Sweden. The weather was a typical mid-winter Scandinavian bone chilling cold. We packed up our “Tour Bus” a Renault station wagon and drove off twords Stockholm, where we would catch the ferry to Estonia. See all tourdates here
When we came to the port in Stockholm, we drove the Methane-mobile (which would become our cramped halfway house on wheels) on to the ship and found our room. The Baltic Sea was cold and full of ice that previous ships have broken, and like many times before we found ourselves on the 24 hour party boat on our way to metal clubs in a new country.
After a little celebrating on the boat we arrived in Tallinn around 10 AM, loaded our tired asses in to the car and drove off to meet up with our friends StoneSoul. We had played with StoneSoul before in Finland last year and have kept contact with DC and the guys ever since.
DC HARI (StoneSoul with Tim and Jimi (Methane)
Then off to the first gig : Tartu, Estonia @ Underground. Where we would later meet up with our tour mates in INTACT. Undergound is a small basement club with a real “underground” feeling, setting the stage for a great 3 day tour.
Day 2: Valga, Estonia @ Rockiklubi. We woke up feeling like we deserved for partying with the bands and our new friends we met in Tartu, and made our way to Valga. Valga is a city divided by the borders of Estonia and Latvia. Rockiklubi had a feeling of being a squat, it was BYOB and spray paint on the walls. But an awesome crowd made for an awesome gig.
Day 3: Tallinn, Estonia @ Club Rockstar’s. Our last night was in INTACT’s home town and capitol of Estonia. THe 24th of February, the night we played, was also Estonia’s 100 year celebration. The city was in party mode. Rockstar’s looks and feels like a medievil dungeon which is fitting for the world’s most preserved medievil city Tallinn, built by the Tuetonic Knights and listed on UNESCO World Heritage preservation list.
Tallin was not good by just “see you again soon”. This March Intact will be here in Sweden playing a gig in Ludvika and and a show with METHANE in Mora at Lilla Helfvetet on 24 March. Its been a year since we played in Mora and can’t wait to come up again. We hope to see everyone come out supporting metal music and discover Intact’s heavy grooves, unique sound and great stage show, Presented by KILLAHEAD. INTACT on Facebook
INTACT Live at Rockiklubi Valga, Estonia
Thank you everyone involved! Untill next time!
Next month, April METHANE will be starting a new leg of our Signed In Blood tour, supporting our friends in Swedish EYES WIDE OPEN ! We will be kicking off in Gävle on 14, April at Rack N Roll before floating over to Finland 19 April (Lahti) 20 April(Vantaa) then meeting our good friends in Edge of Ever in Hamburg. See you in the pit \m/
Methane has just kicked off its Signed In Blood European Tour on February 2 in its hometown of Borlänge, Sweden and now is releasing dates for this winter and spring. The groove metal quartet will be starting off in Estonia with Estonian metallers Intact and Finlands Stonesoul. On the second leg of the tour, Methane will be supporting Sweden’s Eyes Wide Open in Finland, Sweden and being joined with Edge of Ever in Continental Europe. Methane was last out touring for its The Devil’s Own album in the summer of 2017 with Brazilian thrashers Nervosa. See all confirmed dates here
“We are stoked to let everyone know that we have also confirmed a profromance at Berlin’s PROGRESS BEGINS FESTIVAL”
“We are stoked to let everyone know that we have also confirmed a profromance at Berlin’s PROGRESS BEGINS FESTIVAL” on April 28, 2018. Eyes Wide Open will be headling the event. The Progress Begins Festival is a gathering of up-and-coming progressive and alternative Metal bands. It will take place for the first time in 2017 in the Maschinenhaus of the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, Germany.
“We are writinging new material and hope to hit the studio as soon as possible when we get home. The new material is really killer , great thrash riffs, killer southern metal feeling and a huge groove. I think our metalhead friends are going to really be surprised in a good way.” -Tim Scott
Tour Dates
03.02 Borlange Sweden
22.02 Tartu Estonia
23.02 Valga Estonia
24.02 Tallinn Estonia
24.03 Mora Sweden
14.04 Gavle Sweden
19.04 Lahti Finland
20.04 Helsinki Finland
26.04 Hamburg Germany
27.04 Essen Germany
28.04 Berlin Germany
01.05 Zurich Switzerland
03.05 Nijmegen Netherlands
05.05 Seigburg Germany
Special PRE_SALE tickets are now available for 2 of this years monster EYES WIDE OPEN tour gigs featuring METHANE and EDGE OF EVER. More tour dates will be announced soon , but for now you can secure your spot in the crowd in Essen and Seigburg Germany . FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW
METHANE’s Metal Merch online store is has 20% off 2 or more items on Methane merch and all other Heavy Metal shirts and accessories in the shop fromJanuary 24-28. Rediem your discount at checkout by writing LOVE2 in the coupon box at checkout. Have a Metal fuckin’ Christmas. Thrash Shirts, Death Metal, Black Metal , Baphomet, Satan ,Serial Killers, Big sizes, Childrens sizes…. TOO THE SHOP
