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\nFinnish metal act BATTLE BEAST have parted ways with vocalist Nitte Valo, who suddenly left the band via email on August 19, 2012. The band announced her replacement as Noora Louhimo. In addition, the band will tour Europe this fall with Sonata Arctica. The full announcement reads:<\/p>\n
“Let\u2019s start with the real beef: Nitte Valo has left the band.<\/p>\n
“August 19th Nitte sent the rest of the band an e-mail stating that she was leaving the band, effective immediately. As the reason for her leaving she recited her will to focus on her family life. As this happened without any prior notice, the rest us were slightly disappointed.
\nBut what\u2019s done is done, and we\u2019re thrilled to announce the new BATTLE BEAST vocalist with a voice and character to take the band to heights of glory.<\/p>\n
“Ladies and gentlemen, we give you NOORA LOUHIMO<\/p>\n
“This young singer is already experienced in performing some of the most demanding rock songs in existence and is now ready to take her big step into the metal world. With lungs of leather and a voice to order gods with, Noora possesses all the requirements to deliver the kind of power needed for performing BATTLE BEAST\u2019s music. Don\u2019t believe us? Hear her ripping through \u2018Iron Hand\u2019 in the video attached. See what you think after that. Noora will also be performing all the lead vocals on BATTLE BEAST\u2019s second album set to be released early 2013.<\/p>\n
“With Noora in the band, BATTLE BEAST is ready to take itself and its music to the next level. The whole band is now burning with newly found energy and motivation and hell bent on conquering the entire metal consuming planet.<\/p>\n
“World conquest, you ask? Well, that leads us to our second topic.<\/p>\n
“We feel honoured to announce that BATTLE BEAST will be supporting their fellow Finns SONATA ARCTICA on their European tour this November. The tour will span a total of 20 shows in 11 countries. Needless to say, we are absolutely psyched! See the complete list of dates on the video and our website, and get your tickets now!<\/p>\n
“To all our fans everywhere in the world, a big thank you for showing your undying support for the band! See you in a couple of months!<\/p>\n
“Justice and Metal!”<\/p>\n
Tour dates with Sonata Arctica are as follows:<\/p>\n
03.11.12 PL Warsaw – Progresja
\n04.11.12 D Berlin – Columbiaclub
\n06.11.12 D Hamburg – Markthalle
\n07.11.12 D Cologne – Essigfabrik
\n08.11.12 B Antwerpen – Trix
\n09.11.12 NL Tilburg – 013
\n11.11.12 D Bochum – Zeche
\n12.11.12 D Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal
\n13.11.12 F Lille – Le Splendid
\n14.11.12 F Paris – Bataclan
\n16.11.12 E Madrid – La Riviera
\n17.11.12 E Barcelona – Razzmatazz
\n19.11.12 F Lyon – Le Transpordeur
\n20.11.12 D Stuttgart – LKA Longhorn
\n21.11.12 CH Pratteln – Z7
\n22.11.12 I Milano – Alcatraz
\n24.11.12 CZ Zlin – Winter Masters of Rock
\n27.11.12 D Munich – Backstage Halle<\/p>\n
A video of the announcement can be seen HERE<\/a>. Finnish metal act BATTLE BEAST have parted ways with vocalist Nitte Valo, who suddenly left…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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