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After the well known recent events, including Jon Schaffer in "first battle lines", expected response has followed from his long-time Demons & Wizards companion Hansi Kürsch. Hansi revealed a brief statement that he has officially decided to leave Demons & Wizards project.

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Demons & Wizards present new music video for the group's most recent single "Wolves In Winter", taken from the forthcoming new record III. The latter will be out in one week, on February 21st. The video clip was directed by Ivan Čolić and produced by iCODE Team.

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Demons & Wizards have just unleashed a second new song off their upcoming studio album, III. The song is called "Midas Disease", and can be listened below. The highly anticipated new outing will be out on February 21st.

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Demons & Wizards have released a video clip for their first single off their highly-anticipated new album, III. The video for the song, called "Diabolic", was directed by Ivan Čolić and produced by Stanimir Lukić Staća. III is set for a worldwide release on February 21st, 2020.

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Demons & Wizards are proud to announce February 21st, 2020 as the worldwide official release date of the group's highly anticipated new studio album, simply entitled III. A 65-minute long record consists of 11 tracks and will be the first one in 15 years.

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Demons & Wizards have just finished up their first ever North American tour. During their final stop in NYC, 'Heavy New York' sat down with Hansi Kursch and Jon Shaffer to talk about their new album. The band confirmed that they plan to release the album in February, 2020. As for the music, it will be something completely different from the previous albums while still maintaining their trademark sounds. The new album will not be a concept, but instead it will have a big dynamic range and will "take people on a journey".

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While the upcoming, long-awaited Demons & Wizards' album is in the works and will be out next year, the band has been quite busy touring this summer around the Europe and North America. One of the stops was also performance at the Wacken Open Air, which was filmed in its entirety. The band share the clip for one of the songs, "The Gunslinger", now available for streaming.

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After the recent signing with Century Media Records, legendary duo in Demons & Wizards officially announce first ever North American tour. Dubbed 'A Magical Encounter With Demons & Wizards', the band will hit the road starting August 17th in Los Angeles, CA and will be wrapping with their sold out show on September 7th in Atlanta, GA (ProgPower USA). Supporting them on this headlining trek will be special guests Lizzy Borden and Týr.

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Century Media Records is pleased to announce the signing of legendary metal band Demons & Wizards for a worldwide collaboration. Currently, the band is busy recording the highly anticipated yet untitled third studio album, which is scheduled to be released in early 2020. Prior to the release of the new studio album, Century Media Records will release Demons & Wizards' sold out first two albums as reworked special editions. Remastered by Zeuss (Iced Earth, Queensrÿche, Sanctuary), these two releases will be out on June 7th, 2019.

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Iced Earth mastermind Jon Schaffer announced that he will be touring with his other project, Demons & Wizards (part of which is also Blind Guardian's vocalist Hansi Kürsch). The band confirmed couple of club shows prior to summer festival season, when they will be performing all over Europe.

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Metal duo Demons & Wizards will play at next year's ProgPower USA festival, set to take place on September 6-7, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. The band is working on new songs, but not much more is known so far about a possible new album. Check out the festival's killer line-up below.

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Riff master Jon Schaffer, more known for his work in Iced Earth, has confirmed that he and vocalist Hansi Kürsch from Blind Guardian are working on a new Demons And Wizards album. The band released two albums so far, 1999's self-titled and later Touched By The Crimson King in 2005. The good news is that they are writing new songs but it might take some time to complete.

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Demons & Wizards, the project featuring Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth and Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, have set "Touched by the Crimson King" as the title of their sophomore album, due June 27 via SPV Records.

The follow-up to the group's 2001 self-titled CD, "Touched by the Crimson King" will feature the following track listing:

01. Crimson King
02. Beneath These Waves
03. Terror Train
04. Seize the Day
05. The Gunslinger
06. Love's Tragedy Asunder
07. Wicked Witch
08. Dorian
09. Down Where I Am
10. Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin cover)

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A Happy New Year to everyone! Though you have not heard a lot from us during the last months we have not been lazy at all. There are a lot of things going on at the moment. Just to mention a few: the Demons and Wizards production is making good progress and the same can be said about the songwriting for the next Blind Guardian album which is at a very important point.

André and I have completed 5 songs for the new album and 10 songs for the orchestral project. Yesterday, we had a meeting with Charlie Bauerfeind (who is going to produce both albums) during which we have set up a rough schedule for the next months. We definitely will start the production within the year and it won't take as much time to accomplish it as it did with "A Night at the Opera".

With regards to the next Demons and Wizards album I am happy to tell you that 5 songs have been mixed for it already and that there are 7 more to go. How many of them we are going to use for the regular album and how many we will use as bonus material I can ´t tell you right now. There are 11 Schaffer/Kürsch songs and one cover tune. We will be done with everything mid February. The album surely will be released in late spring, or early summer. I am very pleased with the songs and so is Jon. My favourite tune at the moment is called "Touched by the Crimson King". We have not spoken about an album title yet but have to make a decision rather soon. I will let you know.

Hansi

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Acording to a update posted in his website Bobby Jarzombek was working on the new Demons & Wizards as well with Roc Rock, here are his words:

"Hey all,
We're already two weeks into the New Year - high time to fill you in on what's been cooking and what's in store for the immediate future.

Last month I flew out to Tampa, Florida to record my drum tracks for the new Demons & Wizards CD. This was my first time recording at the famous Morrisound Studios and it was great working with Jim Morris. He's an excellent engineer/producer and gets some KILLER drum tones. Jon (Schaffer) and Hansi (Kuersch) wrote some real cool songs for this one. No release date as of yet though. Another album I recorded drums for a while back, Rob Rock's AFM debut "Holy Hell", should be out in April. My Halford band mate Roy Z co-wrote the tunes, produced and plays guitar on it so you know it's gonna rock!

Speaking of recordings, I recently did an interview with the 'Brazil Under Ice' Iced Earth fansite where I commented on several of my favorite CDs that I played on. Here's the link: http://www.icedearth.com.br/novidades05.php

For those of you that don't know, I released my drum video "Performance & Technique" on VHS a year and a half ago. Well, after a year of shooting new footage, editing, authoring, contract negotiations, etc. - it's finally done: My instructional drum DVD "Performance & Technique" has just been released by Warner Bros. Publications and will be making its debut appearance at the NAMM show this week in Anaheim, California from (Thur.) Jan. 20th - (Sun.) 23rd. "P&T" will be getting heavy rotation on the TVs in the Warner Bros. Publications booth (#3500) - so stop by and check it out.

The DVD version of "Performance & Technique" contains footage not included in the original VHS version including 4 bonus segments and PDF transcriptions for DVD-ROM. I will update my website in a couple of weeks with complete descriptions of the new segments and a link to order the "Performance & Technique" DVD.

Last but not least, I will also be making a couple of personal appearances at the NAMM show. I'll be at the Vic Firth Sticks booth (along with a few other drummers) at 3:00pm on Saturday doing a signing session and I'm also performing a drum solo at the Pearl Drums booth at 10:00 on Sunday morning. See you there!

Later,

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