SOUND STORM European Tour - 22th Dec: FRANKFURT

Frankfurt, last date of this spectacular tour: sadness and melancholy filled the air. The last soundcheck, the last live, the last day together...the venue, Batschkapp in Frankfurt is huge and modern, the dressing room shared with Coma very spacious, super catering, with a great breakfast waiting for us.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 21th Dec: LEEUWARDEN

The journey from London to Leeuwarden in the Netherlands was quite long, but we made a very good sleep after the previous sleepless night: rain welcomed us together with a super venue, a great center of music and culture including a theatre.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 20th Dec: LONDON

Finally esterday I had the opportunity to be in London: we played at the O2 Academy Islington , the best live music club of the city. We left Paris at 1am and we went to bed at 4...damn, at 7 we had to wake up for a control at the British border before taking the Eurotunnel. We showed documents and we got back on the tourbus that was loaded on a train that transported us through the submarine tunnel in awhile...I was a bit afraid but it was easy!

SOUND STORM European Tour - 19th Dec: PARIS

Le Trabendo in Paris was unfortunately far from the city center and we had not a chance to visit something:  club is located in the Parc de la Villette, one of the largest parks in the city designed by Schumi (memories from university :D) with the most famous live clubs of the city like the Zenith.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 18th Dec: PRATTELN

Here we are at Club Trabendo in Paris. Yesterday we played one of the best clubs in Europe, Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland. We arrived right on time at about noon and a large sweet and salty breakfast was waiting for us. Spectacular venue, a big stage and a huge hall, sounds and light really amazing, a cute backstage with showers and also washing machines.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 16th/17th Dec: ITALY

Here we are at Club Z7 in Pratteln Switzerland, one of the best clubs in Europe, after two days spent in Italy. On monday after the date in Lausanne we arrived in Italy for the day off:  tourbus stopped at Milan Malpensa Airport, and from there we said goodbye to Heavenshine who finished their part of the tour, while some of my Sound Storm went back to Turin to meet their girlfriends.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 15th Dec: LAUSANNE

Me, Christopher from Therion, Anton and Masha from Arkona

Yesterday it was the turn of Lausanne: we left from Eindhoven at 2 am and it was a really long trip, also because we stopped 2 hours at the border with Switzerland...we arrived very late at the venue Les Docks, it was 3 pm and because of the delay was not possible for us Sound Storm do the soundcheck.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 14th Dec: EINDHOVEN METAL MEETING

Sound Storm + Heavenshine dinner

Yesterday our tour made a ​​stop at the most important indoor metal festival in Europe, Eindhoven Metal Meeting. In the bill of our day played great bands like Arcturus, Coroner, Impaled Nazaren, and also Italian Aborym and Elvenking, whom I had the opportunity to meet on May 3 2013 with my Evenoire when we shared the stage at Honky Tonky near Milan.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 13th Dec: JENA

F -Haus, Jena, East Germany: looking out from the windows of the tourbus I immediately realized that this town must be really characteristic. There was a really rich buffet this morning, during breakfast Thomas Vikstrom and his daughter Linnea sang traditional Norwegian songs dedicated to Saint Lucia. You know, in Norway, in honor of Santa Lucia are big celebrations, but also in Cremona we celebrate her, when I was a child she brought me gifts with her donkey :)

SOUND STORM European Tour - 12th Dec: BRNO

Today it was the turn of Brno, in Czech Republic! The venue Semilasso is a beautiful theater made ​​by wood: the concert hall when we arrived was full of tables, in fact at 2pm there was a traditional Christmas Fest with dances and music performed by children for grandparents....I took a look and it was really fun to watch the traditional dances and listen to music performed by very young but highly trained interpreters! 

SOUND STORM European Tour - 11th Dec: WIEN

Today we came back to Wien, this time on the stage of Club Szene: after the great venues of East Europe here the backjstage is small and also the hall is not huge as the previous clubs.
The morning began with a stop at a gas station where I drank a chocolate that tastes like dirty water.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 10th Dec: BUDAPEST

Yesterday it was the turn of 202 Club in Budapest, we arrived quite early and we had the chance to make a walk in the city center, and it was not easy to figure out how to reach it, because no one spoke English! 

I must say that the downtown is really nice and we also found Christmas markets, full of traditional food and stalls. We also went to Hard Rock Cafè to buy some t-shirts and then came back to the venue: this is a very particular club, all made by wood and it's great for sounds.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 09th Dec: Day off in WIEN

9th December

In front of the Opera House in Wien

It's 2 am , tourbus is parked in the suburbs of Wien , and here we have just found a concert of the American thrash metal band Havok. Today we had a day off , and tourmanager decided to go to Wien. We arrived this morning around 9 am, while Arkona took a van and left for Romania, where they had a gig tonight, they will join us tomorrow in Budapest. 

SOUND STORM European tour - 07th/08th Dec: WARSAW & WROCLAW

9th December 2013

Photo from first live in Krakow

I am in Vienna, today we have a day off in the beautiful Austrian capital after three dates in Poland. After Krakow we reached the Klub Stodola in Warsaw,  in snow and frost. I was impressed by the huge backstage divided into several floors, with several relaxation rooms, catering, bathrooms with showers , wifi ... I'm honest , I've never seen a backstage so beautiful, really amazing! The concert hall was larger than Krakow, already crowded when we went on stage: another positive gig, with an audience initially a bit calm but then they reacted very well to our concert.

SOUND STORM European tour - 06th Dec: KRAKOW

We arrived in Krakow at about 2 pm, you can't imagine the excitement for this first date of the European tour together with Sound Storm. The journey from Berlin to Krakow was really long, but we left at 4am and had a good night's sleep; in the meantime we met some component of the Russians Arkona. After had crossed Poland we finally arrived at Klub Studio.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 05th Dec: the long trip to BERLIN

5th December

Here we are in Krakow, ready for the first date of the tour! Yesterday morning we had an appointment at 9 am at our hotel in Dusseldorf with tourmanager that came to catch us with the tourbus... we were still sleeping when at 8 am Valerio's phone rang : "Guys get ready in 45 minutes". The tourmanager anticipated the roadmap, so we jumped out of our beds and quickly we got ready.

The European tour with SOUND STORM started!!

And finally this new adventure started, my first European tour, together with Sound Storm. At the moment I am at the Air Hotel Wartburg in Dusseldorf, Germany: we left from Turin, Italy this morning at 11am, we arrived here at about 11pm after traveling for 12 hours in the van. Tomorrow morning we are going to take the tourbus that will take us around the Europe for 15 dates together with Therion and Arkona.

EVENOIRE - Day 2 and 3: drums done!!

The second day of drums recordings here at Dreamsound Studios in Munich was very intense, Daniele recorded 4 more songs, we were in the studio from 10 am to 9 pm, but a good work is coming out. Dejan Djukovic works with big precision, and I'm sure that it's gonna be a great record! 
Today it's sunny, we are still in the studio in order to finish the last song and the bonus track, in the afternoon Daniele should have finished everything, then we will sadly take the way home...but a European tour is waiting for me :) 

EVENOIRE - Day1: drums. And then Christmas market and HB!

The first day of recordings is gone, Daniele goes on fast and recorded the first four songs, sounds are super and everything is going well . The atmosphere here at Dreamsound Studios is friendly as always, Dejan Djukovic and Daniel Rehbein, the guys who take care of the production, are really smart and work with great professionalism and experience, but we already knew that from the recordings of "Vitriol ", we are happy to work with them again. 

EVENOIRE - Time to come back in Munich and record a second album!

A pic from the new photosession - Photo by Luca Pozzaglio

Official news here: http://metalitalia.com/articolo/evenoire-entrati-studio/
http://www.truemetal.it/cont/news/evenoire-al-via-le-registrazioni-del-nuovo-album/66560/1.html

Yesterday it was finally the time to come back in the studio with my Evenoire, after one year and an half since the release of first album "Vitriol". We chose to record again at Dreamsound Studios in Munich (Germany), the last time we had a great time and the result sounds exactly like we want.

Recording sessions start with drums and I decided to go with Daniele for his drums session.

A magic collaboration with MATERDEA

MATERDEA are a band that immediately transmits you a sense of magic and sweetness. Their music with Celtic atmospheres and folk influences gives you a sense of peace and transports you to arcane places. The idea of ​​a collaboration came this summer, when they invited Evenoire to play at the first edition of Elffest, on the prestigious stage of Colonia Sonora in Turin. 

SOUND STORM: A European tour is calling

Soun Storm line up for European tour - Rehearsals in Turin

One month ago my phone rang and Valerio Sbriglione from Sound Storm asked me: "Lisy, do you want to join us for the upcoming European tour with Therion and Arkona in December?". I needed a few minutes to realize what he told me. Therion is one of my favourite metal bands and I saw them live two times, in 2010 for Sitra Ahtra tour and in 2012 for Flowers of Evil tour.