Greece's FIREWIND belong to the most impressing and hard-working melodic metal bands of our time and their brand-new album "The Premonition" is sure to reinforce the band's unstoppable rise to the worldwide top within their scene!!!

While currently touring North America as part of the "Tyranny & Bloodshred" tour alongside labelmates Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity and Divine Heresy, FIREWIND have already announced their return to European stages directly upon returning from the North American trip, as they have now also been confirmed to appear on the famous Download festival in Donington (UK) - which among others features acts such as Kiss, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Disturbed or Kid Rock on its 2008 edition - as well as several other European festivals:

FIREWIND Summer festivals 2008:
13.06. UK, Donington Park @ Download Festival www.downloadfestival.co.uk
26.06. GER, Hechingen @ Discothek WOM / www.bang-your-head.de/warmup.p hp
27.06. BE, Dessel @ Graspop Metal Meeting / www.graspop.be
19.07. SWE, Kilafors @ Rockweekend Festival / www.Rockweekend.se
25.07. POR, Algarve @ Lagoa Burning Live Festival / www.lagoaburninglive.com

Furthermore, FIREWIND is also confirmed for a comprehensive UK headlining tour in September! Here are the dates:

FIREWIND UK Tour 2008:
18.09. Nottingham @ Rock City
19.09. Glasgow @ Cathouse
20.09. Leeds @ Rios
21.09. Wolverhampton @ Little Civic
22.09. Dublin @ Fibber Magees
24.09. Manchester @ Jilly's Rockworld
25.09. London @ The Scala
26.09. Milton Keynes @ The Pitz
27.09. Peterborough @ The Park

The most recent FIREWIND album, "The Premonition", was recorded with Fredrik Nordström at the famous Fredman Studio (Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, etc.) in Sweden and besides massive media acclaim, the release reached a fantastic position #11 in the official Greek album charts and has spent a good 8 weeks in the Top 30!!

Beware the Greeks!